Mutable COIs built from ChildCustomizableObjects are engine only but do not denote that in anyway.

UE - Anim - Mutable - Aug 10, 2026

When creating a Mutable setup with nested Child COs, COIs can result with Editor-Only references, which will cause the COI not appear in the build manifest and the appearance to now spawn in game. ...

Notifies placed on the first frame of a montage using root motion don't fire

UE - Runtime - Animation - Aug 10, 2026

This is a regression in 5.8 caused by 47265321. It's because we now perform the montage update and dispatch the queued notifies via CharacterMovementComponent::TickCharacterPose.  But that all hap ...

Mover: based movement is unsupported/unsafe on async kinematic backends

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Mover - Aug 7, 2026

Root motion extraction fails on blendspaces with bShouldMatchSyncPhases set

UE - Runtime - Animation - Aug 7, 2026

There’s a bug with the bShouldMatchSyncPhases codepath in UBlendSpace::TickAssetPlayer. That codepath calls ResetBlendSamples to give a deterministic output when advancing time on the animations ow ...

Editor crashes when overriding Texture Collection in Material Instance

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Aug 6, 2026

When a Material uses the DefaultTextureCollection and a Material Instance overrides it - or vice versa - the Editor will crash. Note: bindlessconfiguration=Minimal or higher must be enabled to use ...

Unreal 5.7 Trace server not working on Rocky 8

UE - Platform - Linux - Aug 6, 2026

UnrealTraceServer built on a Rocky 8 machine yields a binary that depends on versions of glibc and glibcxx higher than the 2.28 version provided by Rocky 8.$ ldd UnrealTraceServer./UnrealTraceServer ...

Incorrect rendering result on some geometry and materials in grouped components in SKP imports

TM - Interoperability - Aug 5, 2026

Reported in SF [Link Removed] In Twinmotion 2026.1, when importing certain SKP files with grouped components, materials may render incorrectly on some grouped components and will appear with a dark ...

FEvaluateActorReferenceChannels don't run on GameThread

UE - CAPT - Sequencer - Aug 4, 2026

When playing back sequences on a character that is bound users will sometimes run into an ensure from FEvaluateActorReferenceChannels. ...

Shadows become disabled for Datasmith imported lights on resync

TM - Interoperability - Aug 4, 2026

Reported in SF [Link Removed] For Datasmith models containing lights, resynchronizing the model after any changes will cause any lights that had shadows enabled prior to the sync to have that setti ...