Woohoo! v69 is starting to roll out!

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of September 5, 2024 and will be pushed to Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 headsets.

Required update for Meta Horizon social experiences

Beginning in October, v69 will be required for those enjoying Meta Horizon social experiences such as Horizon Worlds, Horizon Workrooms, and co-presence. Those who have not yet upgraded will be prompted to update to v69 before they can access these experiences.

“Hey Meta” wake word on Meta Quest

We’ve introduced a new way to invoke Meta AI by using your voice. When you turn on this feature in Meta AI Settings, you can say “Hey Meta” to engage with the assistant. Learn more about Meta AI assistant.

Window layout

In v67, we announced a new window layout for Meta Quest that was accessible from the Experimental Settings. Now in v69, this window layout will be turned on for everyone.

Spatial audio for windows

Audio from select windows will sound like it's coming from those windows' locations around you, which can provide richer and more realistic audio. This does not affect audio within fully immersive apps.

Remove apps from Library

Take care of visual clutter in your library with the ability to completely remove unwanted apps and worlds, including leftover apps that you’ve already uninstalled. Select “Remove from library” from the app or world’s library menu and make it easier to find and access your content.

Bluetooth quick pairing

You can now quickly pair supported Bluetooth devices like headphones, keyboards, mice, and gamepads when they’re in pairing mode and near your headset. Turn on [Get nearby device notifications] in your Bluetooth settings to get notified when a nearby device is available for pairing, and select the notification to pair.

Seamless multitasking

You can now multitask more effectively by keeping the universal menu and up to three windows open during immersive experiences. This can be used to look up information, watch videos, or chat with friends while staying engaged with your immersive games and apps. Seamless Multitasking can be enabled in Experimental Settings.

Content-adaptive backlight control

Improves contrast and battery life by adjusting the backlight of your headset based on the content you’re viewing.

Boundary improvements

Your boundary is more dynamic now with frictionless access to Meta Horizon Home. By automatically placing you into a stationary boundary when you visit your Home, you’ll no longer have to repeatedly find or create a room scale boundary. You’ll still be asked to create a room scale boundary when you open immersive experiences that require them.

Head tracked cursor interaction improvements

Improves the behavior of the head tracked cursor to stay hidden when it’s not wanted, such as watching a movie or using 2D apps, and appears when you need it.

Permissions history

You are now able to view the last 7 days of sensitive permission access by installed apps through a new panel within your Settings.

Privacy settings updates

We are making privacy settings easier to use with Meta Horizon Worlds, and simplifying settings for everyone in a few ways:

• Control your privacy across Meta Quest and Horizon Worlds in a more unified way.
• Control your visibility and status from the social tab.

Stylus support

Tracked stylus devices including Logitech MX Ink can now be used to interact with the universal menu. You can learn how to use it, configure its button mapping, and adjust its pressure sensitivity in Stylus settings.

Horizon Home: Oceanarium

Escape to the Oceanarium, our latest Horizon Home. Immerse yourself in an underwater world filled with seaweed and anemones that flow with the gentle ocean currents. Get up close and personal with sea turtles, manta rays, and even a majestic whale while you experience the beauty of the ocean like never before.

• In White Balance, a shot is added to History as a step automatically when using Embedded Previews
• The synchronization feature incorrectly marks photos as missing
• The keyboard shortcuts for selecting the Spot Removal tool and flagging photos as picks are incorrect.
• The metadata tooltip only appears on the first hover in Grid View
• The naming conventions for Photoshop Beta and regular versions need improvement on Windows
• Lightroom Classic fails to launch Photoshop after uninstalling a Beta version
• Hovering over a folder no longer displays the complete path.
• The History panel in Lightroom Classic uses the old term “Heal” instead of the new term “Remove"
• Lightroom Classic crashes with the error code “8237847"
• Lightroom Classic crashes with the error code “8883038” on Windows
• Polish language translation errors exist in Lightroom Classic 13.3
• Some strings are missing translations in the Polish version of Lightroom Classic 13.3
• The string “Save More Labels” is not localized in all locales.
• The “Last Exported Date” field in the metadata panel doesn’t display with the correct localized date format
• There are translation errors in the Polish version of Lightroom Classic (LR 13.3)
• Localization errors and inconsistencies in Help for keyboard shortcuts in LR 13.3 (except Develop Heal))
• Help documentation for keyboard shortcuts in LR 13.3 (except for Develop Heal) contains errors and inconsistencies
• Lens Blur brush refinements are not copied when using Sync Settings or Copy/Paste Settings
• Invoking “Update AI Settings” on a photo with a Sky mask and Generative Remove causes Lightroom to hang indefinitely
• The tool tip for “Remove > Next Variation” appears garbled in French on Windows
• The hour file-renaming token doesn’t work correctly in Polish or Russian
• Cmd/Ctrl + drag doesn’t show new heal/clone circular spots when the overlay is off
• Exporting or publishing a video with a post-process plugin present results in an error
• Changes to collection names in Lightroom Classic are not properly synced.

PhpStorm 2024.2.1 is now available

PhpStorm 2024.2.1 is a minor update, and it includes a host of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Here are the most notable changes and bug fixes in this build:

• Fix: Cannot create & open a project in "This window" via the "New project from existing files" [WI-77464]
• Fix: Unsupported log file looks better with the Ideolog plugin disabled [WI-78357]
• Fix: There is no dedicated settings for sticky lines for Twig templates [WI-78000]

The full list of changes in PhpStorm 2024.2.1 is available in the release notes.

• Download PhpStorm
• Tweet us
• Report bugs to our issue tracker

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2.1 is out. This release adds Java 23 support and introduces a host of noteworthy fixes and improvements:

• The IDE no longer crashes on macOS when the terminal is open. [IJPL-157074]
• The IDE no longer fails to start when non-ASCII characters are present in the installation path. [IJPL-156417, IJPL-35364]
• The IDE now correctly recognizes java-test-fixtures as generated test sources. [IDEA-353172]
• The IDE now saves projects more quickly upon closing, resolving the issue of occasional delays. [IJPL-148614]

Get more details in our blog post.

WebStorm 2024.2.1 is now available!

What's fixed:

• We've fixed the issue with detecting the version of Node.js installed through the Volta tool manager (WEB-67800).
• We've fixed the issue with WebStorm quitting unexpectedly when running npm scripts on macOS 14 (IJPL-157074).
• We've fixed the issue with starting WebStorm when the installation path contains non-ASCII characters (IJPL-156417, IJPL-35364).

For more details, please see the release notes.