In 5.6, bWarningsAsErrors does not work with clang

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Sep 20, 2025

In 5.6, many warnings and errors specify their command line arguments to the compiler with these new C# attributes:    [WarningsClangToolChain(["-Wno-date-time"], ["-Wdate-time", "-Wno-error=date-ti ...

Ray tracing scene doesn't reflect WPO with instance custom data

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - Sep 19, 2025

When custom instance data is used to calculate WPO in a Material and applied to an ISM the WPO value in the Lumen scene (ray tracing scene) is different than the visible scene resulting in incorrect ...

Nanite Skeletal Meshes Invalidate VSM

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Nanite - Sep 17, 2025

Nanite Skeletal Meshes will always invalidate VSMs, even with their Shadow Cache Invalidation Behavior set to Rigid. This does not match the behavior of non-Nanite Skeletal Meshes. ...

Controller::OnPossessedPawnChanged broadcasts (Pawn->null) but not (null->Pawn) during AGameModeBase::RestartPlayer()

UE - Gameplay - Sep 17, 2025

Context AController has a blueprint assignable delegate that fires when the possessed pawn changes. This should fire in both singleplayer and networked games. The bug is reproducible in single play ...

Hovering items at bottom right of Content Browser does not display tooltip and causes cursor flicker

UE - Editor - Developer Usability - Sep 17, 2025

When hovering over items located at the bottom right corner of the Content Browser while the Editor is maximized, the tooltip is not displayed. It seems that the tooltip would extend beyond the edge ...

Switching modular control rig to FK mode breaks pose of controls that have been baked to rig

UE - Anim - Rigging - Control Rig - Sep 14, 2025

From the licensee:We have built a modular Control Rig in Unreal 5.6, and while IK to FK matching works correctly inthe rig, but we are facing an issue when applying mocap animation to the characters ...

SkyLight Leaking does not affect reflections when the SkyLight is static but static lighting is disallowed

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Sep 10, 2025

Reflections do not receive SkyLight leakage contribution from a static SkyLight when static lighting is disallowed. This is caused by the function UpdateSkyIrradianceGpuBuffer checking if the SkyLig ...

Importing FBX that contains a socket from Blender to Unreal, the socket gets rotated by 90° and is scaled by 100

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - FBX - Sep 9, 2025

Context: Sockets are attach points that can be placed on a Static Mesh to attach an object to the static mesh. Problem: Importing an FBX that contains a socket from Blender to Unreal, the socket ge ...

Lumen Translucency lighting vs opaque mismatch is larger than expected

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Lumen - Sep 5, 2025

The licensee's VFX team has been struggling with getting their Niagara systems with translucent materials to fit into the environments they are being used in. In a project with default settings, the ...

Cook non-determinism when serializing UObject pointers pointing to garbage

UE - CoreTech - UObject - Aug 25, 2025

There's a cook determinism issue in the way UObject unversioned serialization handles UObject pointers pointing to garbage. Depending on GC timing, it can either be skipped (as a property matching C ...