generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: https://docs.worldviz.com/vizard/latest/highlights.htm
name: Vizard Release Notes
description: >-
  WorldViz publishes a dated "What's New in Vizard 8" page in the Vizard documentation. It is
  the only dated release log WorldViz publishes; there is no separate developer changelog,
  because there is no web API to version.
subject: Vizard VR development toolkit (desktop software), not a web API
url: https://docs.worldviz.com/vizard/latest/highlights.htm
http_status: 200
scheme: semantic-ish MAJOR.MINOR[.PATCH]
current_version: 8.3.1
current_version_source: >-
  Documentation build stamp on every docs.worldviz.com/vizard/latest/ page reads 8.3.1.
python_runtime: 3.13.5
breaking_change_guide: https://docs.worldviz.com/vizard/latest/Upgrade_guide.htm
version_history_evidence:
  url: https://docs.worldviz.com/robots.txt
  http_status: 200
  note: >-
    The documentation robots.txt enumerates every archived Vizard documentation build, which
    is the fullest public record of the release lineage: 3.18.0002, 4.10.0005, 5.0 through
    5.9, 6.0 through 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.2, 7.2.1, 7.3 through 7.7, 8.0-dev2.1, 8.0-dev3,
    8.0, 8.1, 8.3, 8.3.1. Archived docs for each version remain served but are excluded from
    indexing.
entries:
- version: '8.3'
  date: '2025-12-05'
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - Orthographic view mode in Inspector
  - Flythrough navigation mode in Inspector
  - Cascaded Shadow Maps support in Inspector
  fixes:
  - Updated bundled Python to 3.13.5
  - Debugger was not displaying local variables correctly
  - Updated vizmatplot to work with newer versions of matplotlib
- version: '8.2'
  date: '2025-02-04'
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - OpenXR support for HTC passthrough and eye tracking extensions
- version: '8.1'
  date: '2024-12-23'
  breaking: false
  fixes:
  - Package Manager search updated to work with the latest version of PyPI
- version: '8.0'
  date: '2024-11-11'
  breaking: true
  breaking_notes:
  - Bundled Python moved from 3.8 to 3.13
  - Vizard 8 requires Windows 10 or above
  - PIL/Pillow is no longer bundled and must be installed via the Package Manager
  additions:
  - Vizard updated to Python 3.13
  guide: https://docs.worldviz.com/vizard/latest/Upgrade_guide.htm
window: >-
  Vizard 8 series only. Release notes for the 3.x through 7.x lines live in the archived
  per-version documentation builds listed in the version_history_evidence note above.
gaps:
- No RSS or JSON feed of releases.
- No 8.3.1 entry on the What's New page even though the docs build stamp reads 8.3.1.
- Release notes are prose inside the product documentation, not a machine-readable feed.