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{{Template:Navbox/Developer Updates}}{{Noticebox/Official}}
This article showcases news, blog posts, and updates that VRChat published between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.
==History==

Since 2016, VRChat's developer updates have been posted on several outlets, and have also gone through different names. Former developer updates have been called ''Developer Blogs'', ''Community Updates'', and ''Town Hall Meetings''.

''See [[Special:MyLanguage/2018 in VRChat updates|2018 in VRChat updates]] for all detailed information.''
<br>Patch notes for VRChat ''Builds released in 2018''<ref>[https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/patch-notes-2018 "Patch Notes - 2018"] on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>'' can be viewed [https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/patch-notes-2018 here].
{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="white-space: nowrap" | All developer updates for 2018.
|+
! Date
!Build
!Format
!Implemented
!Reminders
!Announced
|-
| December 14
|2018.4.3p1
|Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJC3yS_1XxA "VRChat Stream - Welcome Oculus Users!"] on ''[https://www.youtube.com/@VRChat YouTube]''. Dated December 14, 2018. Published to YouTube on June 12, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>
|Oculus Quest, Quest SDK
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|December 11
|2018.4.3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814366 "VRChat 2018.4.3 - Unity 2017.4!"] (Build 668) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated December 11, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-2018-4-3-unity-2017-4-and-the-oculus-store-31913ca0cf3b "VRChat 2018.4.3, Unity 2017.4, and the Oculus Store"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated December 11, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|2018.4.3 released, Unity migration to 2017.4 complete
|Migrating from 5.6 to 2017.4 guide<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181212031547/https://docs.vrchat.com/v2018.4.3/docs/migrating-from-56-to-20174 "Migrating from 5.6 to 2017.4"] Archived via ''[https://web.archive.org Archive.org]''. Dated December 12, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWLPw4RE9Ig VRChat - Create Share Play trailer], Oculus Store<ref>[https://www.meta.com/experiences/pcvr/vrchat/997678176960598 "VRChat"] on ''[https://meta.com Meta Store]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|-
|December 3
|2018.4.2p1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814467 "VRChat 2018.4.2"] (Build 660) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated November 20, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-service-interruption-nov-28-dec-3-818231ceb51b "VRChat Service Interruption Nov 28 - Dec 3"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated December 3, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|DDoS attacks, between November 28 and December 3, server misconfiguations,
|-
|November 16
|2018.4.1p3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814672 "VRChat v2018.4.1"] (Build 651) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated November 6, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-upgrade-to-unity-2017-4-90727844522a "VRChat Upgrade to Unity 2017.4"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated November 16, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814572 "VRChat Upgrade to Unity 2017.4"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated November 17, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|N/A
|Re-uploads for worlds and avatars with certain components are very likely required
|Upcoming migration to 2017.4.15f1 LTS, new features in Unity 2017.4, since 5.6<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181120012656/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ob0G6IYJdUZuLGkV6SUherQJmiLkNICqMdc7LXtis5A/edit "New Features in Unity 2017.4, since 5.6"] Archived via ''[https://web.archive.org Archive.org]''. Document on ''[https://docs.google.com Google Docs]''. Dated November 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|-
|October 30
|2018.3.3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814775 "VRChat v2018.3.3"] (Build 642) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated October 16, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2018.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/spookality-2018-contest-winners-4b3e2c7500c0 "Spookality 2018 Contest Winners"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated October 30, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2018|Spookality 2018]] winners
|-
|October 2
|2018.3.2<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814997 "VRChat 2018.3.2 - The Trust and Safety System"] (Build 635) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated October 2, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-v2018-3-2-is-live-fa011c47a8e0 "VRChat v2018.3.2 is Live!"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated October 2, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|2018.3.2 released, [[Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety|Trust and Safety]], and [[Special:MyLanguage/Trust Ranks|Trust Ranks]] system fully implemented
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|September 29
|2018.3.1
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/legacy-animations-update-5906df811183 "Legacy Animations Update"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated September 29, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Legacy Unity Animations on avatars uploaded or modified after September 1, 2018 removed, due to security reasons
|Utilize non-legacy animators
|N/A
|-
|September 26
|2018.3.1
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/vrchat-safety-and-trust-system-changes-and-feedback-a3a9e54ec572 "VRChat Safety and Trust System: Changes and Feedback"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated September 26, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Tweaks to Trust and Safety systems, Safety Modes renamed to Shield Level, [[Special:MyLanguage/Removed Features|Veteran rank removed]], Friend rank added, shader fallback and remapping system tweaks
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|September 22
|2018.3.1
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/win-prizes-in-spookality-our-2018-halloween-contest-242b5ac9038 "Win prizes in 'Spookality', our 2018 Halloween Contest"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|Winners for [[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2017|Spookality 2017]] and runner-ups, [[Special:MyLanguage/Haunted Hub|Haunted Hub]]
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2018|Spookality 2018]] contest, submissions from October 22 to October 24, and prizes; upcoming [[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2018|Halloween 2018 Event Hub]]
|-
|September 20
|2018.3.1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815101 "VRChat 2018.3.1"] (Build 625) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated September 4, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2018.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/vrchat-safety-and-trust-system-4073f05ab602 "VRChat Safety and Trust System"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety|Trust and Safety]] (shield levels) system, and [[Special:MyLanguage/Trust Ranks|Trust Ranks]] system, colored [[Special:MyLanguage/Nameplates|Nameplates]] (launched October 2, 2018)
|-
|August 30
|2018.2.3p1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815208 "VRChat 2018.2.3"] (Build 620) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated August 27, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/while-our-engineers-have-been-busy-hammering-away-at-the-app-gunter-has-been-working-on-something-1652c29d81a7 "VRChat Store"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated August 30, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Threadless [[Special:MyLanguage/Merchandise|Merchandise]] store launched
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|August 17
|2018.2.2p1
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/security-update-web-panels-4699fa0be103 "Security Update: Web Panels"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated August 17, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815310 "Security Update: Web Panels"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated August 17, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Web panels globally disabled, due to security exploits, and does not affect SyncVideoPanel or SyncVideoStream
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|June 26
|2018.2.2
|Text<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815417 "VRChat 2018.2.2"] (Build 570) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100 Steam]''. Dated June 26, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/custom-shaders-and-the-amd-bug-7f5c7c129404 "Custom Shaders, and the 'AMD Bug'"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated June 26, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>, Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sst9GZAZBDU "VRChat Developer Update #4"] on ''[https://www.youtube.com/@VRChatYouTube]''. Dated June 26, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.]</ref>
|<small>Favorites, Recent Worlds, Sync Video Stream, VRChat Home Kit, [[Special:MyLanguage/Udon]]<ref name="NodePlaymakerSoon">[https://medium.com/@vrchat/vrchat-node-graph-playmaker-and-soon-1a958672688d "VRChat 'Node Graph', Playmaker, and Soon™"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated June 26, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>, Invert Mouse, Mouse Sensitivity, World File Size on UI, Avatar Particle Limiter System<ref>[https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/avatar-particle-system-limits "Avatar Particle System Limits"] guide on ''[[creators.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>, IK improvements</small>
|Upgrade graphics drivers for AMD GPUs, to prevent issues with custom shaders<ref>[https://github.com/cubedparadox/Cubeds-Unity-Shaders/ "Cubed's Unity Shaders"] on ''[https://github.com/cubedparadox GitHub]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|-
|June 20
|2018.2.1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815517 "VRChat 2018.2.1"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam'']. Dated June 20, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref name="NodePlaymakerSoon"/>
|Node Graph closed beta
|N/A
|Integration of "Node Graph" (Udon), and deprecation of Playmaker
|-
|June 11
|2018.1.3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815621 "VRChat 2018.1.3"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815621 Steam]''. Dated May 29, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/account-security-16be982332 "Account Security"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated June 11, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|Do not share your VRChat account or password with anyone, for any reason.
|N/A
|-
|May 12
|2018.1.2
|Text<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815713 "VRChat 2018.1.2"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated May 12, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>, Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRfCGFH708 "VRChat Developer Update #3"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated May 12, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>
|Camera v2, Menu Rendering, Avatar [[Special:MyLanguage/Stations|Stations]], Favorites, Recent Worlds
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|May 4
|2018.1.1
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/trust-systems-content-gating-9e501de487fa "Trust Systems — Content Gating"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated May 4, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Trust Ranks|Trust Ranks]] in development, and 'Content Gating' (rank limit to upload worlds and avatars)
|-
|April 25
|2018.1.1
|Text<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815820 "VRChat 2018.1.1"] (Build 553) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated April 25, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>, Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D7kXvZWR1A 'VRChat Developer Update #2"] on''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated April 25, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>
|[[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat Home (Legacy)|VRChat Home (2018)]], [[Special:MyLanguage/Camera|Camera]], Vive Controls, Avatar volume slider, [[Special:MyLanguage/HUD|HUD]]/nameplate toggle, [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat SDK|VRChat SDK]] IK Follower Script, Favorites, Recent Worlds
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|April 18
|0.12.0p15
|Text<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297815933 "VRChat 0.12.0p16"] (Build 532) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated March 7, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>, Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te1FRAiOMQs "VRChat Developer Update #1"] on ''[https://youtube.com/@VRChat YouTube]''. Dated April 18, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref>
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Safety|Safety]], Playmaker, [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat Home|VRChat Home]] (2018), Vive Controls, Coldfront
|N/A
|N/A
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|January 18
|0.12.0p4
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/security-alert-a345dc5840ba "SECURITY ALERT"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated January 18, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|Modified VRChat clients are installing malware, and users installing modified clients will be permanently [[Special:MyLanguage/Bans|banned]]
|Pending safety and security upgrades
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|January 9
|0.12.0p4<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297816660 "VRChat - Patch 0.12.0p4 - Bundling Worlds & Avatar Pedestal Optimizations"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated January 6, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/@vrchat/an-open-letter-to-our-community-1b7aa5d9026f "An open letter to our community"] on ''[https://medium.com/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated January 9, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297816557 "An open letter to our community"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|Use the mute and block buttons<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDOtvWuUbhQ "VRChat Tutorial - User Interaction"] on ''[https://youtube.com/@VRChat YouTube]''. Dated October 6, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Spike in community growth, shoutouts to various VRChat streamers and community influencers
|}
==See also==
* [https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/recent-releases Recent Releases] - on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Developer Updates|Developer Updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2016 in VRChat updates|2016 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2017 in VRChat updates|2017 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2019 in VRChat updates|2019 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2020 in VRChat updates|2020 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2021 in VRChat updates|2021 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2022 in VRChat updates|2022 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2023 in VRChat updates|2023 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2024 in VRChat updates|2024 in VRChat updates]]
** [[Special:MyLanguage/2025 in VRChat updates|2025 in VRChat updates]]
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