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 ==See also==
 * [https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/recent-releases Recent Releases] - on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''

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This article showcases news, blog posts, and updates that VRChat published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.
==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''.

<br>Patch notes for VRChat ''Builds released in 2019<ref>[https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/patch-notes-2019 'Patch Notes - 2019' on Creator Docs; retrieved September 6, 2024.]</ref>'' can be viewed [https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/patch-notes-2019 here].
{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="white-space: nowrap" | All developer updates for 2019.
|+
!Date
!Build
! Format
!Implemented
!Reminders
!Announced
|-
|December 2
|2019.3.2p2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/featured-avatar-row-submissions-open-68d3456b155c "Featured Avatar Row Submissions Open!"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated December 2, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Public Avatars|Public avatar]] submissions, rules about submitting a public avatar
|N/A
|-
|November 12
|2019.3.2p2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/spookality-2019-winners-934e23e2eed2 "Spookality 2019 Winners!"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated November 12, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2019|Spookality 2019]] winners, [[Special:myLanguage/Spookality Hub 2019|Spookality Hub 2019]] [https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_7195b53a-1959-4ca8-bd7d-a4c17eceb15a/info Link], [[Merchandise]]
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|November 8
|2019.3.2p2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-unity-2018-networking-ik-udon-and-more-445688972335 "VRChat: Unity 2018, Networking, IK, Udon, and More"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated November 8, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Unity 2018 LTS Open Beta, networked IK upgrades
|Backup projects, test content if it breaks on migration, Writing bug reports<ref>[https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/ "How to Write a Good Bug Report"] on ''[https://softwaretestinghelp.com softwaretestinghelp.com]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Unity 2018 LTS upgrade, upcoming UI menus HUDs, interfaces, Udon, Avatars 2.0, and Expression, Unity Package Manager, Progressive Lightmapper
|-
|October 1
|2019.3.2p1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/1602642307648098008 "VRChat 2019.3.2"] (Build 860) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated September 18, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-spookality-2019-f96ab4a0b2e "VRChat Spookality 2019"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated October 1, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/3703573540160269442 "Spookality 2019"] on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated October 15, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Spookality 2019|Spookality 2019]] jam submissions, October 1 - October 23, prizes
|-
|September 5
| 2019.3.1p4<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813108 "VRChat 2019.3.1"] (Build 840) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated August 22, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-partners-with-htc-and-makers-fund-to-close-10m-series-c-50ea04d5ca23 "VRChat Partners with HTC and Makers Fund to Close $10m Series C"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated September 5, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|$10 million Series C investment from Makers Fund<ref>[https://www.makersfund.com/portfolio " Portfolio - Maker's Fund"] at ''[https://makersfund.com makersfund.com]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>, HTC<ref>[https://www.htc.com/us/ "HTC United States"] at ''[https://htc.com htc.com]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>, Brightstone VC<ref>[https://brightstonevc.com/ "Brightstone Venture Capital"] at ''[https://brightstonevc.com brightstonevc.com]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>, and GFR Fund<ref>[https://gfrfund.com/company-highlight-vrchat "Company Highlight: VRChat"] at ''[https://gfrfund.com gfrfund.com]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|July 31
|2019.2.5<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813229 "VRChat 2019.2.5"] (Build 825) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated July 31, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-the-sound-of-progress-3c4ab4fb5472 "VRChat — The Sound of Progress"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated July 31, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Upgraded Oculus Native Spatializer, removed Voice Prioritization, VRC_SpatialAudioSource<ref>[https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/components/vrc_spatialaudiosource "VRC Spatial Audio Source"] on ''[[creators.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>, VRC_PlayerAudioOverride components, fall-off audio
|N/A
|Upcoming SDK tools
|-
|June 28
|2019.2.4<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813347 "VRChat 2019.2.4"] (Build 800) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated June 18, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-roadmap-stability-security-and-sdk-f3f7296b13ac "VRChat Roadmap— Stability, Security, and SDK"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat Medium]''. Dated June 28, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|Upcoming vital improvements on stability and security, making public instances safer, and integrating Udon; secondary focuses for audio systems, discoverability, user expression, avatar expression
|-
|June 11
|2019.2.3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813465 "VRChat 2019.2.3"] (Build 791) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated June 5, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/avatar-performance-stats-and-rank-blocking-1ae0feddc775 "Avatar Performance Stats and Rank Blocking"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated June 11, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2025.</ref>
|Performance ranks introduced in 2018.4.4<ref name="AvatarPerfRankSys"/>, changes to performance ranks on Oculus Quest
|N/A
|"Minimum Displayed Performance Rank" setting, to block avatars on performance in 2019.2.4
|-
|May 31
|2019.2.2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-valve-index-support-and-the-gesture-toggle-system-742ec3ae016e "VRChat Valve Index Support and the Gesture Toggle System"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated May 31, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|Valve Index, SteamVR bindings, gesture overrides, gesture toggles, object interaction and controller mapping
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|May 21
|2019.2.2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/post-2019-2-2-fixes-and-patches-e61ab4126f15 "Post-2019.2.2 Fixes and Patches"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated May 21, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|Utilize [[Special:MyLanguage/Quality Assurance|Canny]] for bug reports!
|Acknowledgement of networked IK regressions, comparing to local IK, upcoming fixes for VRC_SyncVideoPlayer, and AnimationSync
|-
|May 16
|2019.2.2<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813570 "VRchat 2019.2.2"] (Build 772) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated May 16, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhmxiE2j0I "VRChat Stream - Past, Present, Future"] on ''[https://www.youtube.com/@VRChat YouTube]''. Dated May 16, 2019. Published to YouTube on June 12, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/425809731 "VRChat Stream - Past, Present, Future"] (Broken URL) on ''[https://www.twitch.tv/vrchat Twitch]''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|Quest, Valve Index, Security, Optimizations, SDK, [[Special:MyLanguage/Community Labs|Community Labs]], Udon
|-
|May 13
|2019.2.1p5
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/welcome-to-your-new-home-and-hub-139e06e0dea8 "Welcome to your new Home (and Hub)"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated May 13, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|[[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat Home|VRChat Home]], and [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat Hub|VRChat Hub]], cross-platform interaction
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|April 23
|2019.2.1.p4
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-quest-avatar-creators-get-your-avatar-into-the-featured-row-54361c661f44 "VRChat Quest Avatar Creators: Get your Avatar into the Featured row!"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated April 23, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|Quest port of VRChat, VRChat Quest avatars<ref>[https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/quest-content-optimization/ "Quest Content Optimization"] on ''[[creators.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>, cross-platform content<ref>[https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/cross-platform-setup/#section-uploading-content "Cross-Platform Setup"] on ''[[creators.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTl4sIjA1sR2aD8-NpT6AqwfXdTuU6N2RpLKVa-Xc0bbE9616cPene9fRJV1lC7h4QOzCkXwtq7xgBw/pub "Oculus Quest Quick-Start Guide" for Creators], slideshow on ''docs.google.com''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|-
|April 17
|2019.2.1p2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-downtime-post-mortem-3b956fee8c3e "VRChat Downtime Update"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated April 17, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|N/A
|DDoS attacks, Cloudflare, and WebSocket misconfiguration, ReCAPTCHA issues
|Security measures
|-
|April 11
|2019.2.1<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813686 "VRChat 2019.2.1"] (Build 746) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated April 10, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-community-labs-stage-2-b35c450f9b82 "VRChat Community Labs — Stage 2"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated April 11, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Community Labs|Community Labs]] "Stage 2", automatic world graduation
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|March 22
|2019.1.3<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297813914 "VRChat 2019.1.3"] (Build 721) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated March 12, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-performance-dynamic-bone-limitation-system-26b1798fb659 "VRChat Performance — Dynamic Bone Limits System"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated March 22, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/developer-blog-websockets-b5f0b424d379 "Developer Blog - Websockets"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated March 22, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|2019.1.4 Open Beta, limit dynamic bones and colliders, updated video helper binaries, implmentation of Websockets (response time to notifications and overall [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat API|VRChat API]])
|Avatar performance<ref name="AvatarPerfRankSys">[https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/ "Performance Ranks"] on ''[[creators.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 16, 2025.</ref>, [[Special:MyLanguage/PhysBones|Dynamic Bone]] limits<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190331141441/https://docs.vrchat.com/v2019.1.4/docs/avatar-dynamic-bone-limits "Avatar Dynamic Bone Limits"] Archived via ''[https://web.archive.org Archive.org]'' on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''. Dated March 31, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>, Affected Transforms, Collision Checks
|N/A
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|March 7
|2019.1.2
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-community-labs-73e150ea500f "VRChat Community Labs"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated March 7, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|2019.1.3 Open Beta, Implementation of [[Special:MyLanguage/Community Labs|Community Labs]] worlds, exploration, and reporting Community Labs worlds
|Utilize world optimization documentation<ref>[https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/submitting-a-world-to-be-made-public/ "World Creation, Optimization, and Community Labs Tips"] on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|Community Labs: Stage 2
|-
|March 4
|2019.1.2<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814024 "VRChat 2019.1.2"] (Build 715) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated February 26, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2026.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/attention-vrchat-creators-unity-editor-vulnerability-and-mitigation-7411b15e4cfe "Attention VRChat Creators: Unity Editor Vulnerability and Mitigation"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated March 4, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
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|Unity Remote Code Execution flaw, users encouraged to download the Unity Mitigation Tool<ref>[https://unity.com/security/mitigation "Mitigation Tool"] on ''[https://unity,com Unity.com]''. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref> (outdated)
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| January 15
|2019.4.4p4<ref>[https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/patch-notes-2018 "Patch Notes - 2018"] on ''[[docs.vrchat.com]]''. Dated January 31, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view/5318144537297814268 "VRChat 2018.4.4 - Avatar Cloning, Chairs on Avatars, Avatar Performance UI, and more!"] (Build 681) on ''[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/438100/view Steam]''. Dated December 21, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2026.</ref>, Video<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6olLs-BfGa4&ab_channel=JesseJoudrey "VR Developer Chat with Palmer Luckey- June 25, 2014"] on ''[https://www.youtube.com/@JesseJoudrey YouTube]''. Dated June 26, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|Text<ref>[https://medium.com/vrchat/celebrating-5-years-of-vrchat-ffa0e8116929 "Celebrating 5 Years of VRChat"] on ''[https://medium.com/vrchat/@vrchat Medium]''. Dated January 15, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2025.</ref>
|VRChat's 5-Year Anniversary, a look back into VRChat's past - Sunday meetups, Gunter's Universe, and other parties
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==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/2018 in VRChat updates|2018 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]]
==References==
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2019 in VRChat updates - Revision history

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