In 2017, Unity Technologies announced that they would shift the version of the Unity game engine from an incremental number to the year of release. So the major release in 2017 was version 2017, and, since then, all minor releases in that year followed semantic versioning.
Semantic versioning is a formal software versioning convention that uses a three-part version identification schema: major.minor.patch.
The actual first release of 2017 was as 2017.1 in July, 2017. Here are some of the major features introduced with Unity 2017:
- Timeline—a visual tool for creating cinematic content
- Cinemachine—an advanced camera system
- Post-processing—functionality where you can apply filters, controls, and more
- Unity Teams—a new cloud-based ...
