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Phaser v4.0.0

After years of development, Phaser 4 is here. This is the biggest release in Phaser's history - a ground-up rebuild of the WebGL renderer with a completely new architecture, while keeping the API you know and love.

Highlights

• New Render Node Architecture - The v3 pipeline system has been replaced with a clean, node-based renderer. Each render node handles a single task, WebGL state is fully managed, and context restoration is built in. Faster, more reliable, and much easier to extend.
• Unified Filter System - FX and Masks from v3 are now a single, powerful Filter system. Apply filters to any game object or camera with no restrictions. Ships with Blur, Glow, Shadow, Pixelate, ColorMatrix, Bloom, Vignette, Wipe, ImageLight, GradientMap, Quantize, Blend, and many more.
• SpriteGPULayer - Render a million sprites in a single draw call, up to 100x faster than standard rendering. GPU-driven animations on position, rotation, scale, alpha, tint, and frame.
• TilemapGPULayer - Render an entire tilemap layer as a single quad. Per-pixel shader cost means up to 4096 x 4096 tiles with no performance penalty. Perfect texture filtering with no seams.
• Overhauled Tint System - Six tint modes: MULTIPLY, FILL, ADD, SCREEN, OVERLAY, HARD_LIGHT. Color and mode are now separate concerns.
• New Game Objects - Gradient, Noise (Cell 2D/3D/4D, Simplex 2D/3D), CaptureFrame, and Stamp.
• Improved Lighting - As simple as sprite.setLighting(true). Self-shadows, explicit light height, works across most game objects.
• Shader and TileSprite Improvements - Cleaner config-based Shader API, #pragma GLSL directives, TileSprite now supports atlas frames and tile rotation.
• AI Agent Skills - 28 comprehensive skill files included in the repository covering every major Phaser subsystem, plus a dedicated v3 to v4 migration skill. Point your AI coding agent at the skills/ folder for deep Phaser 4 knowledge.

Install

npm install phaser

Links

• 📖 Full Changelog
• 🔄 Migration Guide (v3 to v4)
• 📚 API Documentation](https://docs.phaser.io)
• 🎮 Examples
• 💬 Discord

Thank You

Phaser wouldn't have been possible without the fantastic support of the community. Thank you to everyone who supports our work, who shares our belief in the future of HTML5 gaming, and Phaser's role in that.

Happy coding everyone!

Rich and the whole team at Phaser Studio

Phaser v4.0.0 Release Candidate 7

New Features

• Actions.AddEffectBloom allows you to quickly set up a bloom effect, using several filters, on a target Camera or GameObject.
• Actions.AddEffectShine allows you to quickly set up a shine effect, using a new Gradient and filters, on a target Camera or GameObject.
• Actions.AddMaskShape allows you to quickly add shapes to a target Camera or GameObject as Masks. Blurred edges and inversion are supported.
• Actions.FitToRegion transforms an object to fit a region, such as the screen.
• Display.Color: several helper methods now support modifying an existing Color object instead of creating a new one.
  • HSLToColor
  • HexStringToColor
  • IntegerToColor
  • ObjectToColor
  • RGBStringToColor

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Phaser Change Logs

Phaser 4

Document	Description
4.0.0 Changelog	Full changelog for Phaser 4.0.0
Migration Guide	Guide for upgrading from Phaser 3 to Phaser 4

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Phaser 3

You can find the exhaustive Change Logs for all versions of Phaser 3 below.

Version	Name	Release Date
3.90	Tsugumi	23rd May 2025
3.88.2	Minami	13th February 2025
3.88.1	Minami	12th February 2025
3.88	Minami	11th February 2025
3.87	Hanabi	14th November 2024
3.86	Aoi	11th October 2024
3.85.2	Itsuki	17th September 2024
3.85.0	Itsuki	5th September 2024
3.80.1	Nino	27th February 2024
3.80	Nino	21st February 2024
3.70	Yotsuba	10th November 2023
3.60	Miku	12th April 2023
3.55.2	Ichika	27th May 2021
3.55.1	Ichika	26th May 2021
3.55	Ichika	24th May 2021
3.54	Futaro	26th March 2021
3.53.1	Anastasia	8th March 2021
3.53	Anastasia	8th March 2021
3.52	Crusch	14th January 2021
3.51	Emilia	5th January 2021
3.50.1	Subaru	21st December 2020
3.50	Subaru	16th December 2020
3.24.1	Rem	14th July 2020
3.24	Rem	13th July 2020
3.23	Ginro	27th April 2020
3.22	Kohaku	January 15th 2020
3.21	Senku	22nd November 2019
3.20.1	Fitoria	15th October 2019
3.20	Fitoria	11th October 2019
3.19	Naofumi	8th August 2019
3.18.1	Raphtalia	20th June 2019
3.18	Raphtalia	19th June 2019
3.17	Motoko	10th May 2019

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• 60f5590 Update package-lock.json
• f379bee 4.0.0 build
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