Asset Inventory Changelog

All notable changes to this package will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[4.6.0] - 2026-07-12

• Add semantic search for indexed assets, using local embeddings and asset metadata to find results by meaning
• Add code search for project scripts and indexed package scripts, including saved searches, scope controls, and paged results for large codebases
• Add per-package controls for semantic indexing and code indexing, so large libraries can limit which packages are included in the new search indexes
• Add a first-class No Index package flag for skipping future indexing work without hiding existing results. Existing package noindex tags migrate automatically, and subpackages inherit the flag from their parent package.
• Add custom file type shortcuts to the search type menu, with advanced settings for editing reusable extension groups
• Add optional package list columns for backup counts, package rules, and No Index state
• Improve hierarchical tag selection with clearer parent and child rows, hierarchy-aware filtering, and full tag paths in tooltips
• Show assets and packages from child categories when filtering by a parent category
• Automatically reconcile duplicate Asset Store package entries that point to the same cached package, and add a maintenance repair for existing duplicates
• Skip Shader Graph files that explicitly target a different render pipeline during preview recreation, avoiding Unity import stalls while indexing can continue
• Improve code search stability and readability with safer chunking for long shader lines, bounded page sizes, cancellation handling, and clearer result layout
• Fix Code Search’s Index scope so it includes current-project files already stored in the code index
• Improve semantic search scalability, file-type filtering, and ranking behavior
• Keep semantic and code search indexes inactive when their update actions are disabled, preventing unnecessary setup or maintenance work
• Reduce redundant catalog loading when Asset Inventory restores after a domain reload
• Improve safety around canceled or restarted package and archive indexing, including safeguards for misconfigured extraction caches inside the Unity project
• Improve bulk package update and download state reporting
• Improve compatibility with Unity’s Fast Enter Play Mode
• Fix custom package and additional folder indexing scope issues
• Fix package import wizard selection gating
• Fix the hidden statistics horizontal scrollbar
• Fix audio autoplay in search list view
• Fix Asset Inventory drag import feedback
• Fix database access on network drives by automatically falling back from WAL journal mode when required

[4.5.1] - 2026-06-17

• Improve MySQL search performance by around 10x
• Improve SQLite search performance in some cases by 3x
• Improve database performance in many cases
• Add glTF and GLB model indexing with local glTF sidecar dependency handling, custom model previews when enabled, and a guided Unity glTFast install prompt
• Allow Khronos UnityGLTF as an alternative glTF importer for glTF and GLB previews and Add to Scene
• Add light and dark themes to static HTML exports, with automatic system theme detection and a manual toggle
• Improve static HTML exports with safer package/file text rendering, fixed parent package links, and clearer data-loading warnings
• Skip macOS metadata and unsafe file names while extracting archive caches
• Fix MySQL issues
• Fix preview render-pipeline validation reporting mixed-color previews as incompatible when pink pixels are not the visible majority

[4.5.0] - 2026-06-15

• Faster domain reloads when tool is not open
• Initialize only when main window is shown
• New search scope: Index (visible and selected by default, searches only the database index without scanning the local project)
• Add include mode for hide content rules
• New validator: Unneeded previews for hidden files
• Show search field in maintenance window
• Show partial dependency results as well
• Support additional folder asset roots that would otherwise be ignored (e.g. assets in folders starting with .)
• Allow setting new location for custom packages
• Do not close package edit dialog automatically anymore for Asset Manager assets
• Allow hiding right side inspector in packages list
• Hide warnings during uninstall if dependencies are also uninstalled
• Improve previews for particle effects and VFX
• Allow setting minimum playback duration for effect previews
• Add more file types to be excluded per default from search results
• Max backups custom metadata field per package
• Detect more dependency types
• Show storage requirements estimate in setup wizard
• Reduce memory consumption
• Handle invalid directories gracefully
• Defensive asset details parsing
• Honor file exclusions in project search
• Fix asset origin for packages with special chars in their name
• Fix dependency calculation for binary serialized prefab variants
• Fix preview pipeline shader graph conversion
• Fix preview conversion for custom particle shaders

[4.4.0] - 2026-06-02

• Wizard for media folders including preview of to be created packages
• Unity AI MCP integration: Search, Import, Download, Custom actions, Export
• Rework Ollama to not require any third party DLLs anymore
  • Improve setup wizard to setup AI caption infrastructure correctly
  • No more separate enablement step
  • No more potential conflicts with Unity AI Assistant & Unity Login
  • Small performance improvements
• Current project mode
  • Show “Where Used” list for assets inside current project
  • Local search: Search through your current project using most of the same tools you know from Asset Inventory already, without the need to index it
  • Allow filtering search to results from current project only or merge into overall results
• Allow dragging model files and audio directly to scene and hierarchy
• Support removing individual files with all dependencies again quickly
• Show all actions also when package is not downloaded yet and download on-demand automatically
• Hide Search Results
  • Ability to hide individual files, folders or extensions from search results
  • Dedicated “Hide Content” UI on package level
  • Hide directly from search via action or context menu
  • New “Hidden Files” filter to show hidden files again
• Many performance improvements
  • Much faster asset usage calculation in 2023+
  • Background activity
  • Reduce resource consumption during downloads
  • File IO, especially on Linux
  • Database activity
  • Indexing and detail updates
• Usability
  • Use custom URP converter per default
  • Improve converter settings UI
  • Support automatic tag assignment also for media folders
  • Show links in descriptions and release notes
  • Provide initial sample saved searches for assets and packages
  • Provide sample custom action
  • Hide saved search dropdowns when not in advanced mode
  • Show hint that indexing can be interrupted and resumed at any time
  • Show action to open an additional folder in the file browser
  • Add missing package customization blocks
  • Tab bar styling
  • Persist list column widths
  • Improve resize to fit list algorithm
  • Hide indexed files count for individual files on reporting page
  • Reset filters when clicking a selected saved search again
• Show special tags (noindex) separately for direct selection
• New custom metadata type: List
• New package filter: Purchase Date
• Store database and config in better default folder and not Home anymore (customer contribution, thanks a lot!)
• Show info in freebies scanner that open source browser plugin also exists
• React better to just changed custom cache directory
• Handle invalid paths events gracefully
• Fix download package button sometimes not being visible
• Fix pipeline conversion not running for all items in a big batch recreate
• Fix package tree selection potentially lost on grouping or filter changes
• Fix cases where existing meta files could be changed during indexing
• Fix a case where existing prefabs could be changed during indexing
• Fix preview validation done for image files in some cases
• Fix switch over from automatic to interactive import causing endless progress bar
• Fix dragging starting unexpectedly on packages page
• Fix broken sort descending icon
• Fix force details not updating all assets potentially
• Fix category shown differently to what the asset store shows potentially
• Fix having extracted folder on network drive throwing errors
• Fix inconsistent display of what is “Indexed”
• Fix URP conversion for internal assets

[4.3.1] - 2026-05-07

• Ignore preview state filter for files that cannot have previews (scripts, documents…)
• Fix custom actions not running at project setup anymore
• Fix constant scene save popups during URP conversion

[4.3.0] - 2026-05-05

• Context menu entry to convert an asset retrospectively to current render pipeline using selection-only custom converter
• Reworked Ollama pipeline
  • Switch to OllamaSharp
  • Reduce amount of needed third party libraries and potential to collide with other assets
  • Support batching (multiple caption requests in parallel)
  • Reduce network and image preparation overhead
• Support cancelling AI captioning in-process
• Speed up bulk selection processing
• Timeout support for AI caption generation
• Allow configuring browser to use when opening links
• More defensive asset handling
• Warn before opening many package locations at once
• Fix custom prompt being not persisted anymore
• Fix memory leak when processing audio
• Fix grid click/double click scroll issue (customer contribution, thanks!)
• Fix alt+double click not working anymore in search results

[4.2.0] - 2026-04-21

• Unity 6.4, 6.5 & 6.6 compatibility
• Allow excluding directories in additional folders
• Improve verification/detection of pink preview images
• Highly improved URP pipeline conversion mechanism
• Use custom converter also on import
• New About dialog
• Fix package update filter before/after not working reliably
• Fix captioning error on outdated preview files

[4.1.1] - 2026-03-25

• New main toolbar button to open the tool from there
• Support anim previews for humanoid animations without an avatar reference
• Significantly enhance URP conversion logic inside preview pipeline
• Convert materials on full package indexing
• Reduced false positives when detecting empty previews (thin objects)
• Suggest installing Text Mesh Pro + Essentials for preview regeneration
• Fix asset loading performance issue
• Fix single file reporting selection not working

[4.1.0] - 2026-03-17

• Custom Actions & Export
  • New action step: Export CSV
  • FTP upload improvements and faster uploads through parallelization
• UI
  • Maintain package grid selection when adding tags or switching from tree view
  • Render nicer tag chips in package views and show tag colors in filter dropdowns
  • Shorten overly long tag names in tag lists to the available space
  • Add a toolbar to the additional folders list for faster selection changes
  • Ask for confirmation before deleting additional folders
  • Auto-heal invalid grid state
  • Show hint when custom target folders for Unity Packages are not possible in the current Unity version
  • Fix duplicate selection issues in grid view and prevent negative selected package counts
  • Fix play all animations button in Unity 6.3+
• Performance
  • Significantly speed up loading assets
  • Significantly speed up MySQL/MariaDB adapter
  • Drastically reduce performance penalty of the project view overlay system
  • Improve search performance through SQL tuning
  • Make backups run in the background and not block UI anymore
  • Delete cache asynchronously
• Previews
  • Better preview restore and preview failure handling and reporting
  • Exclude audio from preview recreation per default
  • Allow excluding type groups in preview exclusions
  • Improve texture cache sizing
  • Make preview wizard rescheduling confirmations optional
  • Recommend installing Shader Graph when it is needed for preview generation
  • Use backups if available for current version to recreate preview images instead of redownloading package
  • Fix animated previews not showing
  • Fix animated FBX preview edge case where objects would animate around the rest pose
  • Fix animation previews not shown for renderless avatars
  • Fix restore previews not handling missing files or errors well enough
  • Detect and discard empty previews that contain only background color
• Packages
  • Delete the cache folder when deleting a package to reclaim more space
  • Delete also cache when clearing full database
  • Option to toggle between synchronous and asynchronous asset details fetching
  • Fix URP conversion not working if SRP support packages are missing
  • Workaround for Unity disabled import path rewriting to at least continue importing normally
• Import
  • New setting to skip the ProjectSettings folder during automatic package import to prevent accidental project settings override
• Reporting
  • Automatically resolve ambiguous file origins using path-matching heuristics
  • Improved identification of unidentified files
• Database
  • Introduce upgrade timeouts and make timeouts configurable in MySQL connections
• Platform & Path Handling
  • Fix case-sensitive directory clashes on Linux
  • Fix Linux path handling in several asset and preview workflows
  • Fix an edge case in asset cache path handling

[4.0.1] - 2026-03-03

• Scanner for soon deprecated assets moving to Chinese Asset Store

[4.0.0] - 2026-03-02

• Custom Preview Pipeline
  • Create high-res, beautifully lit, previews for nearly all asset types: Prefabs, FBX animations, Anim (partially), UI, Particles & VFX, Fonts, Video, Materials
  • Show previews also directly in Unity Project window after import, even animated
  • Indicator on static preview if animated version exists
  • Extensive settings in new custom previews UI with previews for all supported types
  • Ensure video previews show interesting shot (not black, faded etc…)
  • Encode frame count into animated preview images to make them stable to configuration changes
  • Allow showing FBX animations with Unity avatar or custom bone visualization when no other avatar is available
  • Allow automatically installing VFX graph for preview generation
  • Allow scheduling previews by file extension
  • Preview recreation does not block other actions in the UI anymore
  • Don’t fallback to Unity on incompatible SRP
  • Empty image detection
  • Support one-sided previews facing into wrong direction
  • Support disabled previews and very thin objects
  • Use pangram for default font preview
  • Fix fonts in HDRP being too dark
  • Fix fonts silently not creating previews in unsaved scenes
  • Fix edge cases where downloads in preview pipeline would fail
• Performance
  • Image processing on Mac now uses native functions, speeding up resize operations (former bottleneck) by 10-20x
  • More intelligent image resize pipeline, improves thumbnail creation performance for small images
  • Introduce dependency caching
  • Dramatically faster preview generation when many files of the package are affected
  • Support thousands of dependencies in dependency UI list view
  • Faster duplicates maintenance calculation
  • Utilize much more requests to fetch updates from Asset Store
  • Detect network drives and don’t parallelize IO there (should result in actual performance increase)
  • Switch Official State in database from string to enum
  • Faster folder and archive indexing due to parallelizing more
  • Much faster wav, aiff & ogg duration determination
  • Improve UI rendering performance
• AI
  • Support LM Studio as a new AI backend
  • Improved default AI captioning prompt
  • Allow manually entering, editing and deleting single AI captions
  • Allow bulk deletion of AI captions
  • Make Ollama URL configurable
  • Add new qwen3-vl:8b to list of suggested AI caption models
  • Run first caption of each model in model tester twice to not measure model loading times
  • Support variables in AI prompts
  • Supply filename and path as additional context during AI captioning
• MySQL/MariaDB Support
  • Support MySQL as an alternative to SQLite
  • New Third Party: MySQLConnector
• UI
  • Less blocking: Allow non-critical actions even if actions are run in the background
  • Show current cache size always if cache limiter is active
  • Allow to use workspaces also in normal mode
  • Allow searching inside long dropdowns
  • Allow adjusting grid font size
  • Allow reordering search & package list columns
  • Beautify error pane when tool cannot start
  • Allow viewing all issues in Maintenance UI in a searchable list
  • Many alignments and beautifications throughout
  • Improve editing of hidden extensions list in search settings
  • Align FTP dialog with other UI patterns inside project
  • Fix ctrl+a & shift select not working in grid views
• Dependencies
  • Do not block UI anymore during dependency calculation
  • Dependency chart showing relations between items graphically and hierarchically
  • Allow calculating dependencies for multiple files in parallel
  • New script dependency options: Extended code analysis, All scripts
  • C# files will now be parsed for dependent scripts and related asmdef files, creating a very high probability of having a fully working prefab after importing
  • Wrap long dependencies in package dependency view
  • Detect texture dependencies in FBX files without GUIDs (e.g. archives)
  • Support mtl materials for obj files (SketchFab)
  • Improved SRP support package detection
  • Support additional legacy material references in FBX files
  • Fix not all dependencies necessarily available already during folder and archive indexing
• Indexing
  • Remove orphans after indexing a package (finally solves the “File is not contained anymore” error message)
  • Support additional folder package assignment based on subfolder structure
  • Support renaming additional folders
  • Store additional data for FBX files (vertices, mesh count, bones, triangles, materials)
  • Store additional data for anim files
  • Improved support for (older) packages using binary meta files
  • Automatically mark packages for reindexing if encountering unresolveable files
  • Automatically recreate previews also for sub-packages after indexing
  • Guard against malformed pathname files
  • Fix media indexing always starting again
  • Fix state set to done although folder or archive indexing was cancelled
• Search & Import
  • Rework algorithm that brings in files into the project, eliminating sporadic errors and improving performance
  • Optional hierarchy viewer for current search result on the left-hand side
  • See packages, categories, folders etc. for the current search results and filter/unfilter quickly
  • Audio editor to extract parts and trim down audio before importing
  • Ability to import a single C# file with all dependencies
  • Support alternative list mode view in search results
  • Adjustable search list row height
  • Support drag and drop into scene and hierarchy view without importing first
  • Allow filtering for free or paid assets
  • Allow filtering by vertex count
  • Support reorganizing assets on reimport
  • Support Alt+Left/Right for search results pagination
  • Add to scene will now use the currently selected object as the parent
  • Remove previews when deleting individual asset files
  • Fix animated preview sometimes not starting
  • Fix scripts still needing a refresh after importing
  • Fix preview animation not stopping to play upon new search results
  • Fix “all” in SRP filter not working
  • Fix AM import potentially failing due to invalid guid replacement
  • Fix tool not handling broken URP converter gracefully
• Packages
  • Saved searches for packages
  • Allow uninstalling Unity packages
  • Highlight if files to be deleted are used by other assets
  • Support hierarchical tags
  • Support tags with slash in name and create hierarchy automatically
  • Conversions options for existing tags with slash inside tags UI
  • Support BIRP support packages
  • Show indicator if indexing is required
  • Version selection for assets from backup
  • Bulk package deletion dialog
  • Allow filtering packages programmatically
  • New package filters: Date updated, Unity compatibility, Package size, Tag, Publisher, Category, Price
  • Support package tokens also in package search
  • Use first preview of media folder as package preview
  • Provide media entries for directory packages
  • Properly run bulk metadata refresh as a background task which also works for thousands of items
  • Add “Forget Content” to package deletion options
  • Auto-update usage calculation when filter is active and changes happen
  • Add Digger to custom folder exclude list
  • Show clickable asset store link also for sub-packages
  • Support editing package data for all kinds of packages
  • Simplify package data editing by allowing to select from existing values
  • Close package edit dialog only if saving succeeds
  • Upgrade Asset Manager support to 1.10.0
  • Add reindex now to package context menu
  • Alternative to fully excluding, by adding a “noindex” tag to packages that should not be indexed
  • New option to select custom packages in duplicates list
  • Fix materialized state not shown correctly in package list
  • Fix incorrect asset list in bulk refresh
  • Fix registry packages missing when filtering for “in current project” after domain reload
  • Fix package indexer stumbling across too deeply nested paths on Windows
  • Fix custom packages linked to Asset Store not updating metadata anymore
  • Fix sort by Unity Versions in package list not working semantically
  • Fix packages showing as unindexed if sub packages are scheduled to be reindexed
• Reporting & Export
  • Show identified files in reporting
  • Show unidentified files in reporting
  • Show file info in reporting inspector when selecting a file in the tree
  • Improve double click behavior of reporting tree
  • Support specifying additional folder where HTML templates can be stored
  • Ask before finally deleting custom templates
  • Handle complex FTP paths better
  • Support backing up the tool database and configuration automatically
  • Fix orphaned packages validator reporting custom packages incorrectly
  • Fix backup creation always handling a small subset of files each run again in case newer backups already exist in target
• Custom Actions
  • New action step: Load Assets (determining set of assets to use in subsequent steps)
  • New action step: Reveal Folder
  • New action steps: Load Files, Add File Tag, Remove File Tag, Add Package Tag, Remove Package Tag
  • Allow excluding directories in FTP Delete step
  • Lazy loading of slower action step value lists improving performance after domain reload
  • Ensure run action step always awaits
  • Support conditionally visible parameters in action steps
  • Allow setting force flag for internal actions in Run Action step
  • Fix action value lists not updating when new elements were added (ftp, templates…)
  • Fix action execution not stopping upon parameter validation errors
• Internal Rework
  • Require Unity 2021.3 or higher, simplifies coding in many places dramatically
  • Many parts of the tool have been reorganized, moved around, refactored
  • File structure changed significantly (remove old installation first!)
  • Significant simplification of reorderable lists
  • Correctly stop further tool activation if configuration or database connection is broken
  • Safety check if older version of tool is used with database upgraded by newer version
  • Simplify programmatic search interface
  • Unity 6.5 compatibility
• Maintenance: Detect also duplicates that have the identical location
• New validator: Orphaned media packages without a corresponding additional folder spec
• Allow force deleting relative mappings
• Fix relative location transformation accidentally adding two slashes in edge cases

[3.6.0] - 2025-12-09

• Custom Actions
  • New action step: Set Text Variable and allow referencing variables via $varname later
  • Support predefined variables in custom actions: Application, SystemInfo, Environment, Config, DateTime, PlayerSettings, EditorApplication, BuildTarget, QualitySettings, Screen
  • SFTP support for FTP Upload Action
  • New action step: FTP Delete Folder
  • Support aborting custom actions upon errors
• HTML Export
  • Do not export sub packages via HTML template
  • Add third party dependency: SSH.Net
  • Allow cancelling FTP uploads
  • Fix HTML export action not working if first template is selected
• Searching
  • Allow searching also in group names in package search
  • Support variables inside asset search to reuse and easily parameterize saved searches
  • Support overriding saved searches with current search setup
  • Support combining tag tokens in search via and/or/not
• Minor UI fixes
• Fix media size not stable while loading
• Fix sort by asset rating and review count
• Fix new method for fetching asset details failing in newest Unity 6.3

[3.5.0] - 2025-10-21

• New asset details update method, greatly reducing time needed to fetch updates
• Automatically update asset details in the background regularly, making sure available updates are showing up quickly
• Performance
  • Greatly improve texture memory management
  • Greatly improve memory consumption and performance of indexing and previewing audio assets by activating streaming
  • Speed up dependency analysis using render pipeline flags to identify support packages
  • Dramatic media loading and memory consumption improvements by loading full media only ondemand
  • Small performance improvements all over
  • Improve cache limiter performance and error handling
• Custom Actions
  • New action steps: Compress Folder, Extract Folder
  • New action step: Export HTML template
  • New action step: FTP Upload
  • Allow Delete Folder action step to also delete folders outside current project
  • Allow running also predefined actions in Run Action step
  • Incompatible change: Actions using Run Action need to be resaved
  • Running custom actions now show progress
  • Handle custom action deletion issues gracefully
• HTML Export
  • Automatically embed original previews back into Previews folder when exporting to HTML
  • Treat HTML package search the same in grid and list view
  • Create Previews folder on the fly if missing in HTML export target directory
  • Fallback to cover image in HTML export if there are no media images available
  • Align rendering of stars in HTML to be identical in static and dynamic search mode
  • Show only media in HTML export carousel that is viewable
  • Fix media carousel not being shown in html export
  • Fix HTML search always showing “Searching…” when no files are present
• Previews
  • Improve downloading during preview pipeline
  • Allow showing all affected assets for specific preview states directly from preview wizard
  • Make wait time for Unity previews configurable
  • Add has-preview filter to search integration and API
  • Allow deactivating preview error logs
  • Automatically clean-up corrupted preview files that cannot be loaded from Previews folder
  • Support custom archive & package preview icons through a png file next to the actual package
  • Show scheduled previews broken down by types
  • Allow removing specific types from the preview queue
  • Confirm preview rescheduling for selected types
  • Clean preview queue of items that accidentally got in and cannot yield results (script files, documents…)
  • Skip preview recreation for items in support packages incompatible to the current render pipeline (hdrp packages in an urp package and vice versa)
  • Fix downloads not working reliably during preview recreation
• Search
  • New setting to exclude packages in asset search not matching current SRP (on by default)
  • New validator: Set correct render pipeline compatibility flags for sub-packages
  • Improve formatting of durations to cover long audio lengths
  • Detect more support sub-packages correctly leading to better dependency resolution
  • API search example
• Media
  • Many media column customization options
  • Use rounded corners for media images and allow setting for search results as well
  • Remove flickering of media images when selecting items in the packages list
  • Allow setting corner radius of media images and search previews
  • Allow copying media URL to clipboard when right clicking external media
  • Fix media section getting hidden when scrolling selected item out of view with media column visible
• New management UI under Settings/Locations to configure FTP connections
• Additional items added to exclusion list which can only be imported into the root (5 total now)
• Improve package deletion with a dedicated deletion UI
• Allow excluding extensions also in archives
• Support foreign Id in override files
• Improve error logging for downloads
• Cleanup failed downloads
• Reduce locking of files by the tool, enabling more concurrent usage
• Handle insufficient disk space gracefully
• Set a sensible min size for tag management UI
• Unity 6.4 compatibility
• Fallback to legacy asset details refresh if new method does not work (Unity 6.4a)
• Fix incorrect materialization of dependencies from additional folders during previews creation leading to locked files
• Fix SQLite not finding columns in case of spelling differences
• Fix downloader trying to download sub, outdated or abandoned packages
• Fix download error message spam appearing on Mac
• Fix seldom file access race condition in copying assets to project
• Fix parallel calls to dependency analysis resulting in potentially corrupt analysis

[3.4.0] - 2025-09-26

• New package list column: Media (showing screenshots of the package right in the table)
• Bigger package icons and wrapped names when media images are displayed
• New shortcut to import + add prefabs directly to scene in one go
• Integrations
  • Context menus for search results and packages view
  • Integrate into main toolbar (Unity 6.3+)
  • Unity Search integration
• Previews
  • Preview enhancement for small image files in additional folders: Use directly as preview without copying, saving time and space
  • New validator: previews that can be deleted and originals used instead
  • New validator: Previews that should be cached instead of using the original only
  • Show validators based on current configuration
  • Reset AI caption after preview recreation
• Exception list for assets that need to be in the project root (due to hard coded paths etc)
• Show welcome dialog
• Allow specifying sub-second breaks for AI processing
• Support for programmatic search through API
• New validator: Outdated in cache
• Improve about page layout
• Reorder package actions for better clustering
• Spelling fixes
• Add multiple missing UI customization blocks
• Align UI customization colors for sections
• Make deleting packages not abort when file access is denied
• Disable bulk selection in programmatic search mode
• Disallow selecting root folder as database location
• Recover gracefully if UI state got lost during recompilations
• Fix seldom appearing UIStyle initialization issues (lazy initialize now)
• Fix endless details refresh for deleted packages in inspector
• Fix dependency import failing if dependency is materialized in a package already

[3.3.2] - 2025-09-10

• Faster persistence of asset purchases
• Fix directory/cache deletion sometimes not working
• Fix dependency scan hanging upon files that cannot be copied

[3.3.1] - 2025-09-08

• Tiny fix for AM integration

[3.3.0] - 2025-09-08

• Setup Wizard
  • Show what to expect with the tool
  • Fetch purchases already in background
  • Assist with first time installation
  • Explain advanced UI
  • Perform only short initial indexing to show user what to expect after full run
  • Show recommendation to use empty project
• Dependency Analysis
  • Allow cancelling dependency analysis
  • Much more memory efficient and faster fbx dependency scan
  • Support dependency analysis for Unity scenes
  • Support dependency analysis for preset files
• UI
  • Highlight main buttons for better UX
  • Reorganize package list header
  • Align package grid selection behavior with tree (switch to Inspector)
  • Allow seeing list of excluded packages directly from statistics list
  • Allow quick import with dependencies in advanced mode as well
  • Leave selected item in inspector open after downloading update even if it is removed from the package list
  • Show currency selection in package settings
  • Icon and customization UI improvements
  • Many small UI improvements
• Previews
  • Recreate missing package previews directly after indexing
  • Handle multiple preview recreations in parallel
  • Automatically download missing packages during preview recreation
  • Load previews to be recreated per package, dramatically reducing memory needed
  • Much faster preview creation if file is already imported into current project
  • Ability to clear preview queue again
  • New example search query to find all previews scheduled for recreation
• Keyboard navigation inside grid views
• Auto-refresh asset store purchases regularly
• Allow changing between original and current/discounted package price
• Some actions like fetching purchases and details are now non-blocking, allowing to use the UI normally
• Run URP converter after package import
• New maintenance filters: Marked for AI, Not Marked for AI
• Allow jumping from Backup and AI settings to maintenance
• Show more package options for default package (-no attached package-)
• Allow also specifying config file directly in environment variable
• Support search tokens containing spaces
• Export only selected subset from reporting tab in case of bulk selection
• Don’t reset etags anymore
• Do not process sub-packages during media folder update
• Catch database corruption and show repair wizard
• Rename libgit url file for Perforce compliance
• Remove accidentally indexed library folders from database
• Ignore library folders during indexing
• Ignore .plastic folders from indexing
• Ensure multiple calls to ExtractAsset will not result in race conditions
• Do not get stuck anymore if verifying preview images fails
• Abort AI captions with meaningful message if Ollama is not yet enabled
• Eliminate erroneous “File does not exist anymore” errors
• Fix color indexer potentially never marking files as done
• Fix deleted packages being left in inspector potentially
• Fix Indexing hint needlessly shown on Settings if packages are excluded
• Fix package image not shown for sub-packages in search
• Fix media files being encoded with wrong file format

[3.2.5] - 2025-07-27

• Performance
  • Cache config location significantly reducing lookup time
  • Various UI rendering performance improvements
  • String & List rendering performance improvements
  • More minor performance improvements
  • Fix search being run multiple times potentially
  • Fix search needlessly performed when adjusting tile sizes
• Search in same fields in in-memory search as configured for normal search
• Shorten package tab section texts to make all four fit in non-expanded mode
• Wrap too long lines in dependency ui
• Move package search option (text and/or description) to package settings
• Support adjusting tile margins and aspect ratio in settings
• Allow disabling menu entries in Assets menu
• Improve Maintenance UI
• New validator: Scheduled Preview Recreations
• New validator: Suspicious backups
• Improve HTML template to handle missing data nicer
• Update Tutorials framework to 5.0.0
• Catch potential exception when creating packages list
• Unity 6.3 adaptations
• Fix incorrect preview image link in HTML template
• Fix selecting non-animated search result after an animated one will override preview image
• Fix grid display sometimes showing horizontal scrollbar
• Fix initial selection not working going from search to packages in grid mode
• Fix extraction of guids in edge cases or manually rewritten meta files
• Fix dependencies too wide in not-expanded mode
• Fix search result not showing in some cases initially
• Fix package selection in grid mode not working for sub-packages
• Fix search results being incomplete if database contains null values
• Fix export not considering media folders
• Fix video previews generation getting stuck on specific video codecs with invalid seeking behavior
• Fix grid selection
• Fix bulk selection broken when switching to different result page
• Fix first element incorrectly selected in in-memory mode when switching page
• Fix tag assignment via hotkey sometimes not reacting

[3.2.1] - 2025-07-16

• Fix GUI errors in console when selecting unextracted search results

[3.2.0] - 2025-07-15

• Asset Browser, Saved Searches & In-Memory Mode
  • High-Speed in-memory browsing mode
  • Show saved searches on top of search bar
  • Store Saved Searches in the database (existing ones will be upgraded)
  • Allow editing saved search name, color and setting an icon
  • Highlight currently active saved search
  • Dedicated Asset Browser window only containing search
  • Introduction of Workspaces as a way to limit which saved searches should be visible (e.g. for a GameJam, 2D or 3D games…)
• Performance
  • Improve cache by also adding version, leading to much better cache utilization and fewer package extractions
  • Upgrade existing cache to new format
  • Allow most actions for not-downloaded items if they are cached already
  • Reduce UI hickups by extracting in the background
  • Allow DB to use more memory for caching
  • Optimize database even better by forcing planner to analyze indices
  • Search performance increase due to faster preview image load termination
  • New search setting: Search without input, allowing to skip initial search when displaying the window leading to much faster loading times
  • Add index collation to tags and metadata
• AI
  • Experimental Plain English Search: formulate what you want to find and the AI will translate it into a search phrase
  • Allow refreshing Ollama detection if it was previously inactive
  • Warn if AI model is probably bigger than available memory
  • New AI setting for max caption length
• Tags
  • Significantly speed up bulk tag assignment
  • Support assigning and removing tags via hotkey
  • Show hotkeys in tags dropdown
  • Add confirmations when deleting tags or metadata in management UIs
  • Allow changing capitalization of tags
  • Disallow / in tag names
  • Allow specifying multiple tags to add in additional folders settings
• Show tile size slider under search results
• Delete unneeded cache directories in the background
• Ability to cancel some first extraction actions
• Allow playing/stopping audio previews while extraction is in progress
• Allow exporting selected files from search page
• Option to show package details sections also in compact mode
• New settings tab in package view to group settings in instead of hidden buttons
• New export option to flatten the directory structure and copy all files into the root
• New maintenance option to select all older/newer duplicates, or items without relative location
• Ability to run only quick maintenance checks
• Move optional tutorials installation to help section
• Warn when opening or revealing many files at once
• Support .NET Standard on Windows (Unity 6.1+)
• Show warning that image processing is slower on Windows without .NET Framework
• Change order of initialization to reduce chance of data corruption
• Use smaller buttons for view settings instead of tab
• Detect custom asset cache location in 2022.1 already instead of only 2022.2
• Show indicator on top if UI customization mode is active
• Improve packages and reporting list size calculation to not overlap inspector or other areas
• Don’t show missing audio length validation again after clicking fix
• Fail gracefully if export target is locked by another application
• Suppress treeview warnings in 6.2
• Fix search field text not reflecting true value due to repainting issues
• Fix single-file-extraction not working anymore
• Fix package needlessly extracted for dependency scan although selected file does not have dependencies
• Fix type column containing invalid entries for files without extensions
• Fix target folder in export cleared incorrectly again during export
• Fix double-clicks in grid view detected outside grid as well
• Fix warning for unmapped relative location being shown although mapping was not used
• Fix preview validator getting stuck
• Fix hidden packages from Asset Store not appearing anymore in package list
• Fix update link pointing to 2.x version of asset

[3.1.0] - 2025-06-15

• Ollama support as a new AI backend
  • Select from top-tier models, better descriptions
  • Much easier to install, support for AMD GPUs, faster, more efficient
  • Allow to explicitly enable or disable Ollama support
  • Improved error handling
  • Interactive model tester with sample images
  • Configurable prompt
  • Upscale caption images to min size required
  • Allow model download cancellation
  • Warn before deleting models
  • New third party: Microsoft AI
  • New third party: OllamaSharp
• Improved preview handling
  • Auto-detect invalid previews (default Unity icons) packaged with assets instead of real previews
  • Automatically active during indexing (new setting “Verify Previews”)
  • Much better search experience
  • Run verifier after preview creation
  • New Verifier: Incorrect Previews which will cause rescheduling
  • Detect pink shader previews and mark them erroneous
  • Allow using preview wizard also on not downloaded packages
  • Report back if preview could not be recreated
  • Warn when preview recreation is run on wrong render pipeline and don’t persist incorrect previews then
  • New option to set the Keep Cached flag on packages automatically whenever an audio file from that package is played
• New image manipulation backend
  • GDI+ based System.Drawing is only used on Windows (performance), Mac and Linux now use ImageSharp
  • New third party dependency ImageSharp, supports not only Windows but also Mac and Linux on Unity 2021.2+
  • Many indexing shortcuts and performance improvements now also on Non-Windows
  • Better resizing algorithm, better memory consumption
  • Dimensions shown for tga images
• Packages
  • Big performance boost extracting unity archives
  • Upgrade SharpCompress to 0.40 and use it for tar as well on Unity 2021.2+
  • Allow triggering downloads from sub-packages
  • Allow activating AI captioning automatically for new packages
  • Support uninstalling packages of a feature with one click
  • Use create date as purchase date for custom assets and archives
  • Add package media support for additional types (vimeo, soundcloud, attached etc)
  • New package columns: ModifiedDate, ModifiedDateRelative, ReleaseDateRelative, PurchaseDateRelative, UpdateDateRelative
  • Support handling embedded packages in bulk removal
• Make search grid selection react much more reliable to clicks
• Support dependency analysis for VFX assets
• Support UNC targets including long paths on Windows
• Greatly improve performance of updating only a single asset’s metadata, e.g. upon click on packages list
• Remove think tags from captions
• Allow to cancel validators
• Support dependency analysis for override controllers
• Create stable package details links in HTML export using asset store ids where applicable
• New template environment setting “internalIdsOnly”
• New custom action step: Uninstall feature by name
• Allow entering multi-line text in debug and messagebox action steps
• Ensure UI sections are always initialized
• Show error that moving database to different drive is not currently supported and should be done manually
• Allow disabling drag and drop to optimize selection behavior
• Do not start indexing sub-packages if already aborted
• Auto-heal preview state for broken textures
• Alternate background colors in actions and additional folders for better usability
• Improve asset cache location working also in threads
• Improve initial dimensions of setup wizard
• Add action tooltips
• Show informative warning when selecting custom asset cache location
• Fix import into selected folder throwing errors if selection got lost
• Fix custom folder selection in Import UI not working on some systems
• Fix incompatible download shown for patch version differences
• Fix persistent package cache calculation
• Fix dates inside package data getting lost upon script reload

[3.0.0] - 2025-05-12

• Performance Improvements
  • Optimized SQLite column lookup for a major performance boost.
  • Indexed colors in parallel for a 10–20× performance improvement.
  • Faster hue calculation.
  • Removed unnecessary directory IO checks.
  • Optimized UploadId column type.
  • Parallel download of the next item during indexing.
  • Automatic metadata fetch upon selection if not already done.
  • Faster processing of package headers and image dimension calculation (PNG/JPG).
  • Fewer DB operations when calculating dependencies and faster regex dependency scanning.
  • Improved database settings for quicker access and larger cache.
  • Various smaller speed‐ups.
• Custom Actions
  • Install packages, manage folders & files, set project properties, and more with a single click.
  • Create start‐up actions that run when installing the tool into a new package.
• Custom Metadata
  • Define additional data to be stored with packages.
  • Support for multiple data types (text, date, URL, bool, list value).
  • Restrict metadata to specific asset types and sources.
  • Add custom metadata as list columns.
• Export
  • Wizard explaining the different types of export options.
  • Less visual clutter in follow up segments.
  • Included a high-quality, performant HTML template (serverless, in-memory).
  • Export packages and contained files with support for multiple configurations (e.g., local & remote) and customizable data/image paths.
  • Template development mode (preserve data exports, local server, reduced work, directory monitoring).
  • Option to not export images into the HTML file search.
  • Remember the selected export configuration and offer a package-only template.
  • Template inheritance (move/delete via descriptor).
  • Support for Python start on Mac.
  • Publish, copy/extend, enumerate, and delete templates.
  • Extract template content into a dev folder.
  • Documentation for the export feature.
  • Support template export even when included via package.
  • MD (Markdown) format export template with many export UI enhancements.
  • Allow creating new templates directly from the UI.
  • Ability to select files to override in template from UI.
  • Ability to add additional fields to package and files json export.
  • Auto-reload template descriptors in development mode during export to make testing changes even easier.
  • Concept of Sample templates to show specific extension concepts.
  • Added Scriban as a third-party dependency.
  • Package template supports filtering by category.
  • Templates now support custom parameters.
  • Support entry paths in templates.
• Search
  • Support inline tag conditions via ft & pt tokens.
  • Add a convenient way to search AI Captions alongside other fields.
  • Show live Unity preview in search view if the object is already imported.
  • Jump directly into sub-packages from search results.
  • Maintain current filter tab when navigating between sub/parent packages from the search view.
  • Support optionally searching also in package names.
  • Support SRP resolution also from display names allowing scenarios where sub-packages are not named in a way to allow automatic SRP resolution.
• Packages
  • Add “Comments” as a pre-provided metadata field.
  • Propose installing a vector graphics package for SVG previews.
  • Export enhancements for CSV (Asset Store link column, ForeignId column, and quick filtering for visible columns).
  • Handle multi-part RAR archives correctly.
  • Improve audio type detection for in-editor playback and preview generation for incorrectly named files.
  • Ensure package view column headers display the correct sort state.
  • Detect Synty file naming schemes to derive the name, Unity version, and package version.
  • Support long folder paths within Unity projects.
  • Skip unreadable parts of archives instead of aborting extraction.
  • Automatically remove erroneous 0-byte preview files while reading textures.
  • Add support for creating sub-folders in the backup folder and moving assets there.
  • Bulk removal of packages with a new removal progress UI.
  • Support overrides for Asset Store packages.
  • Show package size also for registry packages and media folders.
  • Ensure downloader will always use root asset instead of sub-packages.
  • Support Asset packages that install as embedded packages.
  • Support uninstalling embedded packages.
• Settings & UI
  • Cleaned‐up settings page with all locations adjustable from a single section.
  • Introduced a cache size limiter that prevents disk space exhaustion by removing long-unused items.
  • Automatically run the cache limiter in the background while obeying the “keep extracted” flag.
  • Support excluding extensions in media folders and custom preview folder locations.
  • Flatter inspector design with less visual clutter.
  • Moved search tab filters and settings—and packages tab overview—into right‐hand side inspectors.
  • Indicate when search or package filters are active.
  • Automatically switch back to the inspector tab upon item selection.
  • Converted the separate search query samples window to a popup.
  • Getting Started Tutorials right inside the editor.
  • Allow easy installation of tutorials package right from welcome screen.
  • Support installing tutorials package from advanced settings.
  • Improved menu integration in Unity 6.
  • Display the Asset Manager link under Settings.
  • Show the “recreate previews” button only for files that support previews.
  • Improve grid calculation to avoid horizontal scrollbars and allow customizable tile spacing.
  • Enhance error text readability in the Maintenance UI.
  • Displayed “free” instead of €0.00 for better readability.
  • Logical, readable category filter display and improved grouping by categories in Packages View.
  • Allow custom ordering of UI sections in package details.
  • Allow moving the database into a non‐empty directory by moving related folders instead of copying.
  • Move backups along with the database.
  • Do not delete the entire storage folder after moving.
• Action‐Based Update & Internal Renewal
  • Switched to an action‐based update method with the ability to trigger each action individually.
  • Improved control, transparency, and progress insights.
  • Major internal refactoring.
  • Enforce type-safety for asset groups in the API.
• New validator: Orphaned cache folders.
• New validator: Find deleted asset files in media folders.
• Documentation
  • Improved getting started documentation.
  • Documented feature restrictions regarding specific minimal Unity versions.
  • Added a Freebies section to the documentation.
  • Extended AI documentation to cover macOS.
  • Added a Discord link on the about page.
• Introduced LibGit2Sharp (MIT) for future Git functionality (work in-progress).
• Fixes
  • Fixed reg packages not showing up after a domain reload when filtering for in-current-project.
  • Fixed the import UI not automatically closing after an automatic import.
  • Fixed toolbar icons becoming huge in Unity 6.
  • Ensure navigating to reg dependencies become visible in tree.
  • Don’t delete cache for items in process.
  • Fix inaccessible packages incorrectly marked as not owned sometimes.
  • Fix setting custom import path sometimes not being accepted.
  • Fix updates sometimes not showing directly after importing older version
  • Fix incorrectly wrapped long tag names.
  • Fix missing check in validator.
  • Fixed asset access taking extremely long (e.g., preview generation) when files are missing.
  • Corrected preview generation spelling error (“genreration” → “generation”).
  • Fixed potential white-only preview generation for sprite images.
  • Fixed memory leaks in ColorIndexer and Preview Generator.
  • Fixed search not updating automatically during initial indexing.
  • Fixed archives aborting extraction on invalid paths instead of skipping files.
  • Fixed prefiltering in package view not showing results immediately when automatic search was deactivated.
  • Fixed category grouping in Packages View incorrectly treating sub-packages as folders.
  • Fixed incorrect package download counts and price sorting in package view.
  • Wrapped versions in the package version dropdown when they are too long.
  • Fixed errors while determining FBX dependencies.
  • Added a confirmation prompt before executing larger destructive operations.
  • Introduced a new internal preview state to prevent previews from showing when “Only without previews” is selected.
  • Fixed tree view columns reappearing after being hidden.
  • Fixed preview excludes using an incorrect extension list.

[2.7.0] - 2024-11-04

• SRP Support
  • Replace dependencies with entries from SRP support sub-packages
  • Support SRP replacement also for main file
  • Support complicated SRP replacement scenarios and make sure to traverse packages correctly
  • HDRP Support
  • Store render pipeline compatibility information for packages
  • Add render pipeline columns to package view
  • Support filtering for render pipeline
  • Allow setting render pipeline in Package Data editor
  • Support exporting, filtering, overriding and editing render pipeline flags
  • Show SRP information in package details
  • Support heuristic to select correctly versioned SRP bundle first
• Dependencies
  • Support more cases when calculating shader dependencies
  • Support for named spaced custom shader editors
  • Improved dependency resolution of shader include scripts
  • Support analysis of cross-package dependencies (e.g. level design assets referencing other packages)
  • Display cross-packages in Dependency UI
  • Improved dependency UI to split dependencies by package
  • Support files with .asset dependencies better
  • Make auto-deleting unresolveable files from the database optional
• AI Captions
  • Allow to display AI caption as tile text
  • Ability to recreate AI captions directly from search window
  • Support bulk recreation of AI captions
  • Handle unexpected AI caption results gracefully
  • Allow to AI captioning to continue on empty results
• Performance
  • Improvements to asset loading, data preparation, GUI redraw
  • Use faster preview image file loading method
  • Load multiple preview images and package icons in parallel (up to 20 times faster)
  • Speed up shader dependency calculation significantly in complex scenarios
  • Hide filterable file extensions per default from type list for performance (use showExtensionsList to reactivate)
  • Add performance tips section to documentation
  • Remove lag when adding tags in search view
• Upgrade to Unity Cloud Assets 1.4
  • Speed up resolving of assets
  • Improved tagging support
• Previews
  • Support previews for fonts
  • Generate preview image for videos
  • Animated search preview tiles (for now for videos)
  • Unify preview logic between Media indexer and Preview recreation
  • Automatically mark previews as missing if they could not be loaded anymore
  • Extended validator to also cover animated preview images
  • Make preview recreation more reliable
  • Fix single preview recreation deleting cache folder again
  • Fix NA preview state not being set
  • Fix restoring to original preview images not covering sub-packages
• Allow filtering for fonts
• Allow filtering videos by width, height and length
• Extract width, height and length from videos
• Support long paths on Windows
• Ability to temporarily exclude certain extensions during media and archive indexing from creating previews
• Add hint that downloading assets will revoke easy return permission
• Move C# sample out of AssetInventory namespace for more realistic use-case
• Lots of internal refactoring
• Reduce API exposure to meaningful methods
• Use more async FileIO in Unity 2021.2+
• Correctly handle issues with too long paths while calculating dependencies
• Do not index .git folders anymore
• Reduce some log spam
• Fix download visibility for sub packages
• Fix assets with / not being able to filter for in search
• Fix “return” not working in manual search mode
• Fix double clicking on -no attached package- in Package view not filtering correctly in search
• Fix cases of missing UI customizability

[2.6.0] - 2024-10-07

• Preview Wizard
  • Shows detailed breakdown of current preview state
  • Rework preview recreation flow to queue mode which can be started, stopped and continued at any point
  • Support single package, bulk or whole database
  • Introduce new preview state for previews where custom images are not applicable (e.g. documents)
  • Include explanations how preview images work, where they come from and what issues there can be
  • Allow reverting custom preview images to those supplied with the package
  • Easy shortcut to open folder with preview images for current selection
  • Fix preview images disappearing in search when scheduled for recreation
  • Fix multiple cases of incorrect preview states when recreating previews encountered error situations
• Support many additional columns in package view
  • Allow sorting by pressing column headers
  • Support many additional sorting options (by all possible columns)
• Additional dependency detection
  • Support shadergraph dependencies to referenced sub-graphs
  • Detect referenced textures in FBX as dependencies
  • Make FBX dependency scan configurable
  • Show dependencies from Asset Store packages (where specified)
  • Option to not calculate dependencies upon selection in search view (active by default for performance)
• New search filter “Image Type” to quickly find normal, metal, emission and other maps
• Exclude packages the user has hidden on the Asset Store automatically
• Close import window automatically if all imports succeeded
• Show which media is selected in package view
• Allow toggling between tabs and list view directly in package details view
• Ensure downloads are triggered from the main thread
• Search assistant showing different ways to search with examples
• Gracefully handle issues when current build platform cannot be determined
• Mark packages for reindexing when fixing missing audio length
• Put packages to be extracted into a queue with progress monitor
• Support exporting also meta files
• Show menu entry also under Window/Asset Management
• New validator: Missing preview files
• New validator: Wrong dimensions in preview files (compared to intended dimensions from Settings tab)
• New validator: Check for database corruption
• Focus searchfield again after adding field from dropdown
• Allow excluding sub-packages in search view
• Reuse existing editor login for Asset Manager connectivity
• Show Asset Manager login information and login option
• Show sub-packages correctly in Exclude maintenance view
• Don’t report items in temp folder as existing in project anymore
• Improve audio detection and preview for files with incorrect extension (causing FMOD errors)
• Show if a downloaded package is potentially incompatible to the current Unity version
• Allow redownloading if there are compatible packages
• New maintenance views: Incompatible Packages, Fixable (by redownloading) and Unfixable
• Sub-packages inherit last update date from parent package
• Ensure additional package data (file count, reindex all capability) is available for sub packages in search
• AI
  • Allow selecting which packages and content types to create AI captions for
  • Switch AI GPU support to pull request 8
  • Allow to bulk change AI captioning
  • Show number of activated packages in AI settings
  • New option to log newly created AI captions to the console
• Upgrade SQLite to latest bug fix release
• Auto-create new relative mappings for additional folders containing unknown keys (self-healing after DB reset)
• Remove “Installed” maintenance view that is superseded with “In current project” capability
• Clear package filters when navigating to other packages
• Make ping after import configurable
• Significantly reduce sluggishness of package view UI when doing an automatic meta-data refresh in the background after selecting packages
• Show hints how to change the individual locations as tooltips in the Locations section
• Ability to override journal mode for database for more conservative settings (dbJournalMode)
• Handle issues more gracefully when copied paths are too long for the operating system
• Support versions with commas instead of dots
• Use better method for asset deletion that should result in less internally incorrect state and artifacts
• Fix potential duplication of packages on initial index run
• Fix potentially wrong version of an asset being downloaded not appropriate for current Unity version
• Fix indexed files from archives being stored with absolute paths making it impossible to use from other systems
• Fix previews not being generated correctly when files already exist in project
• Fix preview generator not deleting temporarily cached assets anymore filling up disk
• Fix folder wizard causing exception if some directories are not readable
• Fix upscaled preview images appearing very dark in newer versions of Unity
• Fix additional folder wizard leaving trailing slash when selecting root folder under Windows, breaking subsequent usage
• Fix media folders and archives not honoring request to fix missing sub-packages
• Fix endless import loop when interactively importing complex assets like Corgi that bring package dependencies and act as a full project
• Fix “Reindex Now” option missing for packages

[2.5.0] - 2024-08-20

• Asset manager integration
  • See projects as packages, collections as sub-packages
  • Load project icons if available
  • Create and delete collections
  • Detect and sync deleted collections and assets
  • Use most features available like import, bulk import, preview, dependencies etc.
  • Deep links directly to org, project and asset web views
  • Show file state and version
  • Upload files (single or complex dependencies) to projects and collections
  • Upload preview images if existent
  • Import, upload and sync tags
  • Delete assets
  • Bulk upload, delete and remove
• UI Customization
  • New maintenance action: Reset UI customization
• Package handling
  • Add quick action to navigate to parent package from within search view
  • Sort sub-packages into separate list in package filter dropdown
  • Show Unity features as sub-packages
  • Show change log link behind package version of installed packages
  • Use display names instead of technical names in package selector dropdowns
  • Support switching package details between tabs and vertical list
  • Show built-in registry packages as well
  • Trigger registry package refresh when updating index
  • Support installing package dependencies while importing Unity packages to custom locations
  • Ability to restrict package search to name matches only
  • Show indirect dependencies in darker color in reporting view
  • Show shortcut “Install Indexed” button for git packages without need to use version dropdown
  • Make suggested downgrades of packages clearer in UI
  • Show delete package without advanced visibility if package is outdated
  • Properly support updating and reimporting packages to custom locations
• Automatically capture project dependencies for initial package list without indexing
• Load purchased items and details from Asset Store much faster
• New search setting to also search through sub-packages when filtering for a specific package
• Allow collapsing package statistics
• Better styling / indentation on Settings tab
• Hide and ignore width/height/length filters if not applicable to search type
• Advanced setting to hide package field parsing errors
• Disallow triggering package actions during indexing
• Classify more known types as scripts
• Improve texture memory management
• Honor existing already imported files
• Correctly support override scenario for imported files
• Warn if using older version of Asset Inventory with database from newer version
• Fix not all registry packages appearing without scanning package cache
• Fix certain git dependencies not being stored correctly
• Fix safepublisher for packages potentially containing special characters
• Fix package samples alignment
• Fix deactivated sub-package indexing not always considered
• Fix store metadata not updated if download details could not be fetched
• Fix sub packages accidentally being requested online
• Fix list widths when scaling window very small

[2.4.0] - 2024-07-08

• Ability to filter packages by used in current project only
• Much faster identification of used assets in project
• Show 100% identified packages in bold in reporting
• Support Unity 2023+ asset origin to perfectly identify used packages
• Support asset origin in all four package import scenarios
• Delete sub-packages when reindexing a package
• Toggle in toolbar to switch Advanced mode visibility
• Auto-refresh package metadata upon selection in package view
• Add asset origin information to single files being imported into the project (independent of Unity version)
• Support automatically exporting license information to a thirdparty.md file
• Automatically start and stop file system watcher to reduce consumed CPU time to a minimum if not needed (configurable)
• New folder type: Dev Packages
• Support local packages, indexing and importing through file reference
• Show file count in folder wizard depending on if folder is a Unity folder or not
• Configurable double-click action in search results (open or import) with alternative via ALT
• Use file date for custom packages without last release date to enable sorting by last update
• Upgrader to add missing release dates to custom packages
• Auto-download also packages with scheduled non-indexed sub-packages
• Support sub-packages in reporting view
• Add license column to reporting view
• Show used licenses in reporting
• Show number of paid packages in reporting
• Exclude current project from being reported as used source if indexed as additional folder
• Upgrade SQLite & SQLite.net
• Improve database indices
• Better search performance
• Reduce memory allocations
• Collect packages to index in background to not stall the main thread
• Optimize initialization time, time taken after recompile steps and between switching tabs
• Ability to specify height of tag selection window
• Allow deletion of unindexed packages
• Improve indexing packages multiple times if sub-package to another package parent
• Jump to page 1 when opening package in search view
• Gracefully handle undeletable files during backup
• Support GPU and bulk processing for AI captioning
• Show date of last index update
• Ensure upgrade window has a scrollbar to indicate the action is further down
• Enlarge grid tiles per default
• Ensure assets are reloaded after index update
• Remove no longer needed third party await extensions
• Handle two cases where illegal characters in file paths can cause issues
• Allow deactivation of audio preview features via define symbol to allow embedding into projects containing incompatible JD audio tools
• Don’t show exr files anymore under “Images”
• Handle complex expert search queries containing multiple likes with underscores correctly
• Fix scrolling in search results triggering drag and drop operation
• Fix programmatic search not switching to search tab
• Fix missing refresh to reflect latest changes in packages after long upgrade process
• Fix Backup folder “Open” command not working on Mac
• Fix identification of files in sub-packages in reporting not knowing they are in a sub-package
• Fix console error when bulk selecting package tree
• Fix outdated in cache info box not appearing for packages with available updates
• Fix safe categories stored incorrectly for custom packages breaking filtering for these
• Fix drag and drop blocking scene view
• Fix drag and drop not working twice in a row

[2.3.0] - 2024-05-27

• Allow to switch package view between list and grid display
• Ability to enlarge or center grid or hide text below a specified tile size
• Support new package override format to specify package metadata already during indexing
• Ability to set only search phrase of a saved search leaving all other filters untouched
• Package data editor for custom unlinked packages
• Ability to set custom preview images for custom packages and archives
• Significant performance optimizations after recompile
• Multiple significant performance optimizations when reloading asset list
• Allow installing incompatible package versions using advanced option
• Allow export of archives
• Create better readable display names for archives
• Speed up validator for unindexed sub-packages and don’t reindex whole package just to add missing sub-packages
• Ability to deactivate Asset Store live updates
• Highly improved package import
• Fix Unity progress bars overlaying interactive import window
• Fix import getting stuck on packages that are already imported due to missing Unity event
• Retry cancelled imports upon manual restart
• Show sub-package count in bulk selection info
• Initial AI caption generation with fully local and free tooling
• Ability to search in AI captions
• Support editing package license and description
• Periodically recommend database optimization
• Disallow importing into package folders
• Persist selected tab in preferences
• Much improved package download support (pause, resume, abort)
• Slight Unity 6 UI adjustments
• Do not search and filter inside sub-packages, just consider root and always show all sub-packages
• Validator for unprocessed sub-packages
• Render license location as link if set
• Better captions for Fix button in maintenance wizard
• Advanced option to disable some error logs
• “What will happen” explanation under “Update” button
• Handle case of incomplete asset data when fetching from Asset Store
• Fix DB upgrade on new DB being triggered every time potentially
• Fix package preview icons missing on scene change
• Fix missing registry package icons in Unity 2019
• Fix import not resuming with next in queue after completion in Unity 2023+
• Fix indexable asset calculation also considering excluded packages now
• Fix filtered package list not showing a result in some cases with sub-packages
• Fix constant multi-select when advanced UI is always visible
• Fix some progress index off by 1 issues
• Fix edge case of grouped package list with sub packages not displaying
• Fix import button visible although target path not valid
• Fix CTRL to deselect not possible in package list

[2.2.0] - 2024-05-06

• Sub-Package support (packages in packages, archives in packages, packages in archives, recursive)
• Display sub-packages as tree under package
• Support rar & 7z archives
• Support dependency analysis for shaders, hlsl and cginc files
• Support dependency resolution for old Unity package formats
• Support adding Unity projects as additional media folders (will only scan /Assets folder)
• Support importing prefabs from media folders
• Support for installing and removing package samples
• Hide common files defined in search settings only when returning all results
• Scan all files in media folders when selecting -All- instead of only media files
• Introduce new default folder type “All Media” which has old behavior of only scanning for audio, images and models
• Store Asset and Package cache references in relative fashion, making it much easier to reuse the same database on multiple devices out of the box
• Store all paths (assets, files, additional folders) with forward slashes
• Index media folders faster
• New validator: Orphaned Packages
• New validator: Missing parent package
• New validator: Orphaned preview folders
• New validator: Orphaned tag assignments
• New maintenance view: Packages with Sub-Packages
• New advanced option to extract only single files when previewing audio clips
• Support importing full archives
• Better indicator if something is already in the project
• Ability to turn off extension filtering in search settings
• Allow ignoring excluded extensions temporarily when no search results exist
• Change import structure default (keep original structure and import into ThirdParty sub folder)
• Improve package delete dialog to include an actual cancel
• Remove also tags, media and previews when deleting a package
• Show detected Unity project in folder wizard
• Show download progress even if total size is not known
• React more gracefully when database is locked
• Allow to reindex archives instantly as well
• Show last update date also for archives
• Timeout and auto-cleanup of temp files for downloads that are stuck after 30 seconds
• Make sure extraction cache supports identically named packages in different locations (will invalidate existing cache)
• Make Asset Store refresh cycle configurable
• Order dependencies view by path and not type
• New optional default setting to keep new packages extracted
• Better report unresolveable dependencies
• Slightly improve performance of package indexing
• Fix package list previews disappearing after entering play mode
• Show indexed file count in package details
• Wrap long publisher names
• Use icon for custom packages
• Optional tile size slider directly under search window
• New package sort options: Rating, #Reviews
• Better indication of indexable packages by changing package count display a bit
• Show number of abandoned packages and sub-packages
• Align statistics on packages and settings tab
• Allow turning off additional folders indexing completely
• Introduce versioned configurations and config upgrader
• Small UI improvements
• Improve “Reindex Now” behavior to start much quicker and don’t index items twice in edge cases
• Reduce cache monitoring resource consumption
• Don’t ping assets in temp folder
• Fix case of version comparison with qualifiers not working as expected
• Fix packages not being indexed on Reindex Now
• Fix registry package state not reflected immediately when uninstalling
• Fix tag search being case-sensitive
• Fix auto-downloads still happening after setting limit if size is not determined yet
• Fix media folder caching not working when patterns were used
• Fix incorrect dependency state for disappeared files
• Fix edge case of sub progress bar disappearing
• Fix persistent cache size calculation
• Fix hotness parsing
• Fix edge case of stopping indexing not working

[2.1.1] - 2024-04-09

• Handle edge case of asset cache directory not existing
• Show download size in package view next to download button
• Report file details when fmod encounters an incompatible audio file
• Spelling and some more label wrapping
• Show package to be downloaded before download starts
• Have auto-downloads react to exclude flag
• Fix selected UI refresh issues
• Fix files without dependencies being imported into sub folders anyway
• Fix opening media images on Mac in system app showing only -50
• Fix lossless not being visible on Mac to force lossy preview upscaling
• Fix indexed files reporting not being available anymore
• Fix moving database showing error state

[2.1.0] - 2024-04-08

• New Maintenance Wizard to consolidate all clean-up and fix operations
  • New validator: Orphaned asset file clean-up
  • New validator: Duplicate Media Indexes
  • Much faster orphaned preview image clean-up
• Show lossless upscale only on Windows
• Don’t mark preview erroneous during recreation if original preview still is available
• Handle config syntax errors and show UI to guide user where to fix
• Use included package preview file in case resized preview could not be created
• Support CTRL + A in search view to select all tiles
• Allow limiting auto-downloads by size
• Upgrade sharplib to eliminate experimental dependency
• Better handling of local packages
• Install support for Git URL packages
• Handle deserialization errors due to reconfigured json converters
• Fix edge case of resize error thrown when creating preview images
• Fix opening media images on Mac in system app showing only -50

[2.0.1] - 2024-03-25

• Support specifying custom Package cache folders
• Add package maintenance view: Downloaded
• Fix incorrectly detected URP converter capability
• Fix edge case where indexed media files point to the same location

[2.0.0] - 2024-03-22

• Greatly improved update flows
  • Solve incorrect display of update information
  • Use live version instead of package version if local info file exists, fixes incorrect display of updates available
  • Incorporate multiple ways of version correction
  • Store additional metadata from Asset Store
  • Support capitalization changes in cache paths (without asset duplication)
  • Improve asset attribution logic in database and more intelligent fallback chain
  • Support multi-version assets from Asset Store under same cache location (e.g. Curved World)
  • Correctly show download state of identically named and stored packages from different Asset Store listings (e.g. Curved World)
  • Show currently downloaded version and allow switching to other listing
  • Better explanations and update highlighting for packages that can be updated automatically and which can’t but are still an older version
  • Option to toggle visibility of updates for custom packages
  • Detection of changed media files through size check (potentially slower)
  • Show version information and last update also for linked custom packages
• Much improved registry package support
  • Show and also persist all available registry packages reported from Unity without need for cache scan
  • Install and remove packages easily from the package list
  • Package updates now also appear in the update list
  • Per package an update strategy can be defined (latest, latest stable, recommended, manually)
  • Support registry packages listed on Asset Store (e.g. Meta XR)
  • Improved reaction of the UI to events from the package manager
  • Easily see which packages are currently installed in which version
  • Cleaned up package actions and added new special purpose actions
  • Removed backup flag from registry packages
  • Registry packages now have an icon
  • Package version selection UI only enables versions to install which are compatible
  • Package version selection UI shows more explanations in case a version list is unavailable
  • Remove not really useful “Preferred Version” workflow
  • Bulk update registry packages
  • Show target package version in import UI
  • Show hint that version of indirect packages is managed through dependency
• Multi-select in search results window (Windows only right now, Mac has one more issue left)
  • Bulk add/remove asset file tags
  • Bulk recreate previews
  • Bulk import individual files
  • Bulk drag & drop from search onto project view
  • Bulk delete- Add option to filter by asset store packages only
• Performance improvements
  • Faster DB operations
  • Faster meta file access
  • Dramatically faster image handling
  • Dramatically faster media files update check
  • Dramatically faster bulk selection handling, effortlessly supports many thousand packages now
  • Switch from polling to eventing for file system monitoring
  • Faster storage of purchases information
  • Speed up preview recreation by a lot
  • Speed up fetching of asset details
• New image processor on Unity 2021.2+
  • Dramatically increase indexing performance since it does not need to go through Unity
  • Upscale images already during package and media indexing
  • Introduce lossless preview upscaling mode, which provides higher preview resolutions where easily applicable, e.g. image files, but leaves existing preview images unscaled
  • Read dimensions also from gif, bmp and tif files
• Additional Package view enhancements
  • Package type quick selectors to package view
  • Search also through description during package search
  • Show package screenshots and YouTube links
  • Load package thumbnails from the web if not available yet
  • Show Load Metadata button in case no metadata was fetched yet
  • Show pricing information
  • Excluded packages don’t appear in asset tree anymore now
  • New maintenance view: Excluded
  • More flexible search like in search view supporting fuzzy search and +-~ operators
  • Button to reset package filters
  • Show icons for archives and directories
  • Package action to force refreshing metadata from Asset Store
  • Cache package preview icons leading to much faster rebuild of package list and less disk IO
  • Speed up switching to Package list or Settings tab
  • Show package version also if no release date is available
  • Show publishers as links to publisher page if data is available
  • New package sort option: current hotness
  • New package sort option: by file path (location)
  • Group packages by location
  • Optional Expanded Mode for Package view to see description, release notes and dependencies
  • Show purchase date in package view
  • Show supported Unity versions in package view
  • Support hiding indirect package updates
  • Add Expand All feature when grouped view is active
  • Support setting package versions manually if missing
  • Show file and package names in multiple lines in inspectors
  • Maintenance view for deleted custom Unity packages
  • Filter late by package type in package view maintenance to allow searches like “Duplicate but Show custom packages only”
  • New package action to reindex only images again
  • Show hints for deleted custom Unity packages
• Additional Search view enhancements
  • Setup Wizard for most important settings before indexing
  • Support audio scrubbing during preview
  • Automatic material conversion to URP
  • Support material dependencies inside FBX files
  • Ability to resolve dependencies for many additional types
  • Show size before extracting
  • Allow hiding details pane in Search view
  • Consider search filters also when filter bar is collapsed (use filterOnlyIfBarVisible to restore legacy behavior)
  • Show search result is limited hint when no results are shown
  • Drag and drop to Scene view or any field accepting dragged objects (for items already imported in the project, which can be done with just one prior click)
  • Simplify file import button and show additional options only on CTRL
  • Show correct actions and a warning if local directory, custom package or archive was deleted
  • Add some missing file extensions for video, audio, document and model filters
  • Add more file extensions to ignore list in search for better usability
  • Show hint before importing that dependencies need to be scanned first
  • Support dependency analysis for terrain layers
  • Allow filtering for files and/or packages without tags in search results
  • Allow more package actions also for directory packages
  • Sort packages by size
  • Show Recreate Preview if it is missing
  • Store date of last refresh in directory packages
• Additional Settings view enhancements
  • Allow to open cache paths directly from Settings page
  • Dedicated UI flow to support custom asset cache locations
  • Additional folder setup wizard
  • Show deprecation warning if asset cache folders are still in additional folders
  • Automatic detection of configured asset cache location
  • Disallow to add asset cache folders to additional folders
  • Show package cache location as well
  • Consolidate all settings, move preferences into main settings section
  • Show “keep auto-downloads” setting in UI
  • Hide some advanced settings behind extended CTRL visibility
  • Allow to enter more than 10 backup versions
  • Shortcut to open backup folder
  • Make hiding advanced UI optional
  • Auto-focus URL field in Asset Connection dialog
  • Show additional folder locations under settings and move to separate section
  • New maintenance function: reindex audio files with missing length
  • New media folder property: Check Size to update files upon changes
  • Limit checkbox widths
• Make search window reusable from other assets
  • Automatically add a script define symbol to detect the tool from other integrations
  • Initialize AI also without any UI showing
  • Show only search tab, no actions visible
  • Multiple modes: return on grid selection or explicit Select button
  • Automatically materializes assets into project
  • Optional search type lock and initial search phrase
  • Optional hiding of asset details pane
  • Returns asset location
  • New API ResultPickerUI.ShowTextureSelection() which will automatically identify adjacent textures (normals, ao, metallic…) for the current selection and materialize all
  • Add example scene how to open the search from a Third Party asset
• Add quick start document
• Restart initial index automatically one time to incorporate all online changes
• Use defined import path in Import dialog if set
• Adapt styling to new font sizes in 2023.2+
• Set better minimum window sizes for windows
• Ability to adjust table row height, media and thumbnail sizes via advanced settings
• Handle custom database location not existing anymore (revert to default)
• Skip _MACOSX folders
• Download assets on demand is now active per default
• Auto-remove files from index that are not contained in package anymore
• Switch texture loading operations to async
• Make preview generator resilient against inaccessible files
• Introduce advanced settings on settings page to have less interaction with json config directly
• Make web request timeout configurable and reduce default to 20
• Handle many additional semantic versions
• Omit letters like “v” in first component of backup version
• About page button is a toggle now allowing to easily go back
• Ensure previews are still visible after scene change
• Reintroduce workaround for unsupported characters in audio file names
• Many small UI improvements and more tooltips on many actions
• Handle Unity 2022.2+ deprecation warnings
• Add SQL Viewer link to documentation
• New logo
• Hide potential connection error when checking for updates
• Automatic force rescan of local packages after upgrade
• Don’t delete cache during indexing if cache entry was already there
• Remove incorrect fields from DB
• Show warning during export if package is not downloaded and no auto-download is active
• Unload unused memory regularly during indexing to avoid out of memory issues
• Fix auto-download of packages failing prematurely
• Fix newly cached assets not being registered in case identical custom package was already indexed
• Fix potential deletion of original asset files during preview creation
• Fix double click import not waiting until dependencies are calculated
• Fix reindexing single package would trigger indexing twice
• Fix package import state getting lost when package view is refreshed
• Fix bulk preview recreation not working sometimes
• Fix previews not reverting to default immediately if missing
• Fix dependency state not instantly updated when quick-importing
• Fix publisher and category not filterable for non-purchased but linked custom packages
• Fix state flickering of packages between downloading and downloaded
• Fix left and right key when editing search preferences causing paging
• Fix package preview texture loading error causing issues downstream
• Fix new tags not immediately showing after importing archives
• Fix indirect registry packages not shown
• Fix updates sometimes not shown when identical package was available in a newer version as custom package
• Fix resetting search filters not resetting conditions
• Fix custom packages being incorrectly attributed as Asset Store Packages when also purchased
• Fix unicode characters not being supported in audio file names
• Fix being able to accidentally trigger update download twice
• Fix asset duplication edge cases
• Fix attributing incorrect version in case of mismatching local cached files
• Fix backup not working with relative paths
• Fix asset type in search not being saved immediately and forgotten on recompile
• Fix text being cut off if all setting sections are collapsed
• Fix error when package search result is empty
• Fix potential out of memory error by regularly freeing up unneeded editor resources

[1.11.0] - 2023-10-01

• Export assets!
• New All-In-One export UI (meta data to CSV, assets to external folder, HTML catalog (coming soon))
• Single or bulk package export, filterable by file type
• Optional auto-download assets for export if not cached
• Support looping audio preview
• Support packages with duplicate names in search (names have [ID] appended now)
• UI hint to remind users that CTRL will show additional options
• Support exporting tags into CSV
• Minor UI adjustments for 2023.1+
• Fix downloads not being tracked correctly if custom asset cache location is set
• Fix audio continuing to play when switching tabs

[1.10.1] - 2023-06-23

• Make “Extracting…” label better readable
• Speed up parsing of audio files where filenames contain special characters
• Support unity packages containing audio on network shares
• Fix grouped package view making editor unresponsive
• Fix edge case where dependencies could not calculated if package contained identically named files in multiple directories
• Fix another case of invalid paths causing UI to break

[1.10.0] - 2023-06-06

• Cross-device reuse of the same database: Ability to store index in a relative fashion!
• Show other device mappings, create mapping, select mapping to restore, delete mapping
• Store current device info in DB for later use
• Allow sorting packages in package view (if not grouped)
• Persist purchase date and make sortable in packages view
• Make packages clickable in Reporting view, show package details for identified packages
• Multi-select in Reporting view for bulk operations
• Show also number of identified packages in reporting tab
• New search preference to specify field to search in (Full Path or File Name)
• Support automatically adding tags to packages and archives in additional folders
• Remember selected search type
• Fetch asset details of new or outdated items first
• Format numbers with regional settings
• Support backup also for auto-downloaded packages that get automatically deleted again
• New KeepAutoDownloads property which will not automatically delete downloads again after indexing
• Play audio only if selected by user
• New action to open archive location
• Simplify dependency display a bit
• Make it clearer in the UI that zip archives will be treated as a package
• Allow activating/deactivating preview generation for archives
• Make preview generation much more reliable at the cost of a bit slower creation
• Give better hints if asset was not downloaded and details were not fetched yet
• Updated documentation with many additional scenarios and details and updated screenshots
• Show performance hint before initial indexing
• Show interstitial after some imports
• Add an easy way in the Info section to write a review for the asset
• Handle failing to save config due to locking gracefully
• Fix broken online import for edge cases when Unity API returns no categories
• Detect and handle invalid paths in UnityPackages gracefully
• Fix “Open in package manager” not working anymore from 2022.2+
• Fix “Show in package view” not working when view was never open before
• Fix “indexed” icon in package view not really visible in light theme
• Fix settings page not fully updated on DB switch

[1.9.0] - 2023-02-06

• Auto-Download packages from Asset Store during indexing!
• Ability to jump to specific page in search results
• Ability to upscale preview images (simple resize for now)
• Play available audio previews even during extraction
• Show view settings button also when there are no search results
• New maintenance view: Indexed packages
• Support setting cache folder path
• Ability to specify custom global config location through environment variable
• Support removing single files from search results
• Support target folder selection on import also in 2023.1+
• Add bigger result sizes in drop-down
• Stop audio preview when entering play-mode
• Show scroll bars on packages detail pane if necessary
• New asset category: Animations
• Show registry updates only if installed in project and compatible to current Unity version
• Show number of excluded packages in Package statistics
• Document basic API usage
• Extend tool diagnostics for support purposes
• Improve download feature to work more consistently and reliably
• Allow to jump to search and manage reindexing even if local package does not exist anymore in cache
• Improve deletion of local package cache files
• Recover from externally deleted package cache files
• Fix length not being filterable for fractions of a second

[1.8.0] - 2022-12-14

• Allow to create a new package for each media folder where indexed files are attached to instead of all being under -no attached package-
• Media Folders have a setting now to remove orphaned files from the index that don’t exist anymore in the directory!
• Support materializing imported files from UnityPackages and archives into their original folder structure!
• Settings for import destination and structure
• Allow to keep original structure of individual assets during import
• Support custom fixed target import folder
• Special rule to materialize files without dependencies during drag and drop directly into target folder
• Allow marking new packages for backup automatically
• Consider ASSETSTORE_CACHE_PATH for default asset path if set
• Improved and extended hard disk space usage overview
• Show available updates for registry packages
• Expose Hue field for export
• Allow marking packages to be always extracted for faster access
• Delete old cache entry for always extracted packages when encountering new version to index
• Remove redundant preview information from database (size reduction + performance improvement of ~10%)
• Maintenance function to remove orphaned preview images
• Change “Open in Explorer” to “Open in Finder” on Mac
• Backup excluded assets as well
• Remove another unneeded preview field from the database
• Consolidate more settings into the Settings panel
• Continue indexing even if default asset cache could not be found
• Support special case of Unity packages that are not zipped
• Improve color importer to mark missing preview images correctly
• Dramatically reduce set of files to go through in Color indexer if audio indexing is disabled
• Handle packages correctly where seat has been revoked after initial indexing by switching them to custom packages until they reappear in the purchases
• Fix package previews not showing in all cases
• Fix metadata sometimes not getting updated during online refresh if package indexing is running in parallel
• Fix warnings throw by compiler
• Fix temporary extraction for archives not getting removed again after indexing
• Fix folder size calculation error if Extracted folder does not exist

[1.7.0] - 2022-11-15

• Support drag and drop from search to project browser!
• Ability to recreate previews! (individually, per package, per database)
• Custom UI to visualize dependencies, showing total size & grouping by file types
• Dependency view now shows which assets are already in the project
• Materialize dependencies when recreating previews (enables prefab and material preview generation)
• Automatically remove missing scripts from prefabs for improved dependency calculation
• Search view option to show only with or without available previews
• New search mode: individual words do not need to appear in that order anymore, except if search starts with ~.
• Search can be told that words must not appear in the result by prefixing a word with “-”
• Export Data wizard
• Ability to turn off auto-search
• Structure preview images into sub-folders
• Show upgrade wizard if needed when updating tool
• Allow reimporting individual assets even if they are already in project
• Improve color detection by switching to hue
• Faster color indexing, reduced DB size
• Match colors by custom range (advanced setting directly in config json)
• Don’t extract package for sound preview if file is already inside project
• New shortcut to select same package from search view in package view
• Auto-mark missing preview images to be redone and reset internal state
• Backup only selected packages
• New bulk action: enable/disable backups
• Make auto-hiding view settings configurable
• Format configuration JSON for easier editing
• Treat DLLs as script dependencies
• Improve dependency recursion detection
• New maintenance view: marked for backup
• Make reporting asynchronous, show progress and allow cancellation
• Scroll back to top when changing search result pages
• Configurable hard-limit when selecting to see -All- search results to keep Unity responsive in case of giant result sets
• Work-around Unity issue that deleted assets are still reported as existing in project (fixes reimport & missing dependencies on second import)
• Limit current search quickly to selected package
• Add tip to documentation to use empty project for initial indexing
• Add advanced configuration section to documentation
• Skip audio files per default during color indexing
• Remove warning in 2023.1
• When sorting by color only return indexed items
• Hide more dangerous maintenance functions initially
• Don’t fail indexing when there are extraction errors
• Abort texture loading in asset tree when entering play-mode
• Ensure preview images are reloaded when existing play-mode and tool is docked
• Don’t accidentally mark packages as done when cancelling indexing
• Catch cases when local package list is not available
• Fix potentially wrong package getting selected when going from Package view to Search view
• Fix edge case of preview images sometimes not being created
• Fix edge case of cache directory not being able to be deleted
• Fix case of search returning no results if it was on a sub page before
• Fix long lists of dependencies not being able to visualize
• Fix Asset Store packages manually stored in different folders being marked as outdated
• Fix files with multiple . not being able to be previewed
• Fix import with dependencies failing when asset file ends with a space
• Fix Ping not selecting asset correctly if project view was not visible before

[1.6.0] - 2022-11-02

• Support indexing zip archives!
• Support determining dependencies of binary serialized files (but without scripts)!
• Index colors & Search/Sort by color (default inactive as it takes a while to index)
• Expert search with input validation and field picker
• Support updating individual packages to newest version
• Support bulk-updating individual packages to newest version (experimental)
• Easy mode: Update everything in one go with only one button
• New deduplication workflow
• Treat storage location of packages as main differentiator
• Support having the same package multiple times in multiple locations
• Update metadata of all duplicate packages
• Handle “outdated” calculation much better
• Remove old asset splitting logic
• More efficient and faster update of Asset Store metadata
• Ability to open package in Package Manager
• New maintenance view: “Duplicate” showing packages pointing to same Asset Store asset
• New maintenance view: “Updates Available”, with newest updates shown first
• New maintenance view: Not Downloaded
• Improve display of ratings (no empty stars)
• New bulk action: Open Package Locations
• Retry failed web requests one time (solves Curl error shown every now and then, error will still occur though)
• Ensure local package header data is preferred to new online data to represent the actual indexed truth
• Page through search results with arrow keys
• Jump to first and last search result with page up/down
• Show if a package is disabled/abandoned
• Show update available info only if newer update is not yet downloaded in a duplicate asset
• New setting to exclude newly added packages per default
• Reinclude packages automatically when triggering manual reindexing of package
• Optimize database maintenance command
• Allow hiding search results without preview image
• Rename long source url files to consistent short form
• Allow creating a debug report for easier support
• Hide Reindex button if it is not applicable
• Fix incorrect version stored in duplicate bundles
• Fix indexing failing if cached assets are deleted in between
• Fix preview images sometimes not getting generated
• Fix SemVer parsing errors in edge cases
• Fix icons not displaying tooltips
• Fix “goblin” bug: duplication of packages due to identical package filename
• Fix end of package download not correctly updating package location data

[1.5.0] - 2022-10-17

• Allow adding tags to individual files!
• Download assets into cache right without using the package manager!
• Bulk-Download assets
• Support downloading assets from the Import UI
• Optional backup of assets allowing to keep multiple versions (Custom backup folder, SemVer based)
• Filter by package and/or file tags
• Intelligent tile text selection option auto-selecting title on tile size
• Allow grouping packages by state
• Read package metadata directly from asset package files
• Persist downloaded/cached version
• Show more meaningful data earlier in the indexing process
• Show phase information when updating Asset Store details
• Add version column in package list
• Show indicator if there is a newer version of an asset available
• Allow instantly reindexing single package
• Allow triggering package download from search page
• Ability to activate cooldown during indexing for hard disks that more easily overheat
• Trigger import optionally by double-clicking onto search results
• Show advanced features when pressing CTRL key
• CTRL + Local Update will force updating all assets with the local package metadata
• CTRL + Asset Store Update will force updating all asset details of all assets
• CTRL + Import Package will open file location of package
• CTRL + Delete Package will immediately delete the cached package
• CTRL + Delete Packages will remove cached files for all selected packages
• Major performance increase when rescanning media folders
• Seal classes for performance
• Stabilize media indexer in some edge conditions
• Fix assets now correctly removed again after media indexer run
• Fix dependency extraction sometimes failing if GUIDs appear in multiple packages
• Fix packages in package browser not detecting immediately if local cache was deleted
• Fix potentially old preview images shown when clearing or switching database
• Fix package details sometimes being updated again all the time

[1.4.0] - 2022-09-13

• Package Support! Use asset packages and registry packages side-by-side completely transparently. Select preferred versions. Import single or in bulk. Automatically adds scoped registries if needed.
• Ability to index packages coming from the Unity or other registries
• Support local tarball packages
• Support embedded packages
• Support git URLs for packages
• Support offline mode in case packages are temporarily not available or Internet is down
• Fail gracefully if packages contain malformed manifests
• New settings to enable/disable content indexing
• New additional filter in search: all packages, asset packages, registry packages, custom packages
• Optionally use package keywords as tags
• Extract author data from packages
• Maintenance filter to show all installed registry packages
• Maintenance view to see packages with custom registries
• Show registry packages also in reporting view
• Show package size in bulk view
• Show minimal Unity version for packages
• Show license of packages
• Allow Open in Search only if there are files indexed
• Add missing preview icons for images
• Show tag creation hint also in tag UI
• Store Guids also for media files if meta files exist
• Restrict media indexer to only create previews for media files (since CS and asmdef would interrupt import process)
• Split local update to store package metadata first and then go into indexing
• New package grouping option: by publisher
• Connect free-floating asset packages to Asset Store
• Allow breaking asset store connection again
• Import also small and icon package image locations into database
• Gracefully handle invalid package manifests by only omitting the incorrect fields
• Maintenance view: see all manually linked packages
• Maintenance view: show disabled by Unity
• Link to changelog in package version selection if a link exists (e.g. all Unity packages)
• Added dedicated filter side-bar in package view
• Show/Hide deprecated packages
• Show outdated assets in Asset Cache
• Support deleting files from cache while deleting package from database
• Regularly refresh Asset details online
• No-Sort option in search to dramatically speed up browsing and searching (Assets are typically sorted by asset path in the DB initially)
• Additional minor performance optimizations when searching
• Show update hint when new version is available
• Component for semantic versioning comparisons
• Add safe-guarding timeout to package metadata resolution
• Make search input delay configurable
• Link to Asset Store page
• Correctly handle outdated packages in Unity Asset Cache: Split into two assets, unlink old one from store
• Add timeout to preview image generation
• Only show asset store link if there is actually still a linked asset
• React gracefully when hard drive is full
• Fix tags not being sorted correctly when mixing upper and lower-case
• Fix initialization not being done in edge cases when tool is docked
• Fix media properties extraction aborting if encountering files with very long paths
• Fix preview generator aborting indexing if files cannot be removed temporarily
• Fix bulk import not continuing when script files are imported
• Fix guid extraction stopping indexing when encountering too long paths

[1.3.0] - 2022-08-29

• Saved Searches! Save and restore any search easily
• Bulk package import! New import wizard allows to easily import multiple packages at once
• Integration with Package2Folder! Allows importing packages into arbitrary sub-folders
• Move all additional filter options into new filter bar for a much cleaner UI
• Allow import from search also if a file inside the target dir is selected and not the directory itself
• Allow deletion of packages from database
• Bulk action to force reindexing multiple packages at once
• Bulk include/exclude of packages
• Bulk deletion of packages
• Search inside packages view
• Use default icons when previews are missing
• Properly support deprecation of assets
• Bring index and Asset Store update buttons into one section
• Use progress bars for better visualization
• Remove package exclusion on-demand
• Speed up package importer dramatically in case of many excluded packages
• Big performance increase when scanning for package updates
• Integrate folder settings into list
• Make gathering extended media attributes optional
• Make copying preview images optional
• Make showing icons instead of empty previews in search optional
• Make indexing package contents optional
• Global settings sections
• Allow to reset additional filters quickly
• Renamed Index to Settings
• Show better hint how to create new tag
• Improved administration of additional folders
• Split package update process into two steps: create packages in database and index content to show asset results faster
• Hide collapse button if no grouping is active
• Handle correctly if asset store purchases could not be retrieved
• Fix “Reindex Asset” deleting the asset losing all metadata
• Fix accidental spill-over of data between live and deprecated versions of an asset
• Fix 0-byte packages causing import to fail
• Fix corrupted packages causing import to fail

[1.2.0] - 2022-08-22

• Media Indexer! Index and search through arbitrary media files, not just those in unity packages, e.g. for instant unified access to a sound library, texture folder, models downloaded from the web
• Tagging! Tag assets, import tags from Asset Store, group assets by tag, create/rename/delete tags, set tag colors, bulk add/remove
• Multi-select in asset tree
• Reporting tab will display identified asset of currently selected item in Project View
• Show asset ratings with stars
• Replace custom folder list UI with standardized reorderable list, with more functionality out of the box and allowing to influence the import order
• Ability to jump from asset view to filtered search view (button & double click)
• Exclude assets from search and indexing
• Exclude files from search by extension
• Show & Consider deprecated assets
• Show asset icons in asset browser
• Allow limiting search to specific file sizes
• Stop all sounds when tool window is closed
• Cleaner UX inside dropdowns on Search tab
• Support Linux
• Create less garbage during UI refresh
• Link to Asset Store from asset details
• Rename Assets to Packages for more clarity
• Make About tab into an Icon to save space
• Exclude more files per default from search results
• Optional grouping of long dropdowns in Search tab
• Big performance improvements when navigating between tabs and switching from and to play mode
• Fix asset metadata sometimes not being displayed
• Fix custom folder enablement state not being saved immediately
• Fix asset tree collapsing and expanding seemingly randomly
• Fix filenames with extension only throwing errors (e.g. .wav)

[1.1.0] - 2022-08-08

• Ability to move cache database to different location, use other existing database or create a new database
• Support global (default) and project-specific configurations
• Support sorting
• Filter by image dimensions or audio length
• Asset grouping by category
• Unify display of path slashes
• Don’t immediately search while typing
• Option to reindex individual assets
• Allow direct import of package from asset list
• First preview version of Reporting feature listing all detected assets in a project
• Auto-upgrade database
• Improved asset view, grouping, details pane, UI alignment
• Add more supported file types for type clustering
• Add 2022.1 hint
• Support different Asset Store cache locations through custom folders
• Officially support 2019.4
• Prepare for future bulk import of packages
• Show ratings for assets if available
• Show last updated date of assets
• Disable paging arrows when no further pages are available
• Customizable search view: Tile size, Tile titles, Auto-Ping on select
• Improved search field UX
• More tooltips all-over
• Switch to first result page after different search
• Show version in About
• Extent documentation with installation and configuration guide
• Calculate guessed display category during package import if asset store data was not finalized yet
• Fix audio preview not stopping
• Fix incorrect _ escaping in search when other conditions are used as well
• Fix audio preview causing duplicate extraction
• Fix sound files with # or + in their name not being able to be played
• Fix massive performance degradation with many files in the database
• Fix long break between asset imports
• Fix UI becoming very slow if search term was not found

[1.0.0] - 2022-07-26

• Initial release