Hi Creators,
We’re excited to share our first update to the Creator Roadmap of the year! Since we last updated the roadmap, we’ve shipped over 45 features, including significant updates to Studio, Assistant, discovery, our voice safety classifier, Cube 3D/Mesh Generation API, and the Text Generation API, which we announced at GDC last month.
After hearing your feedback on Ads Manager, we shipped a significant update including custom 16x9 images and the ability to optimize for maximum plays. Also, as part of our goal of making experience discovery transparent and actionable, we launched improvements to the Recommended for You Algorithm.
On Creator Hub, we launched the Data Stores Manager, which allows you to review a complete list of your Data Stores plus usage, and we launched the ability for you to reorder Badges. We also recently opened up the bug reporting category in DevForum to all creators, and as a result, we’ve closed over 2,000 bugs since our last update, more than ever before.
These are just a few awesome highlights of what we launched since our December update. You can find a full list near the bottom of this post.
Upcoming roadmap
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Looking ahead, we’ve got some big updates that we’ll be launching over the next few months. Providing you with more customization and control of what you can build on Roblox, opening up new genres, enabling fair and competitive gaming, supporting new ways to customize your UI, and much more.
Here are some highlights of some upcoming launches that we hope you’re as excited about as we are:
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Server Authority (Beta): The Server Authority beta is coming this Summer, to designate the server as the single source of truth for game actions, logic, and data. This is a huge effort, and we want to make sure we get this right, but our goal is for a full release by the end of the year.
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Custom Matchmaking: Last week, we announced early access to Custom Matchmaking, allowing you to adjust the weights of our existing matchmaking signals and add your own custom signals. We’re planning on extending it to all creators this summer.
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UI Styling: We’re introducing Stylesheets that will allow you to change the look and feel of your UI with one click. We aim to launch a beta of this feature in the next couple of months.
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Asset management & privacy: Currently in beta, our new Asset Manager will soon be fully released. We’ll provide more control to choose who has access to you and your Groups’ assets across asset types.
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Revenue reporting: We’re working to make all creator finance reporting centralized and reliable, all in one place.
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Group-to-Group experience ownership transfer: We’ll soon enable group owners to shift ownership of experiences from one group to another.
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Range limit for lights: We’re increasing the range limit for lights to 120 studs.
We’ve added 16 items to the roadmap, most of which we’re aiming for a release through mid-2025; you can find the full list below!
One last reminder! The legacy chat system is being removed on April 30th; you can learn more about how this might impact your experience(s) and how to migrate to TextChatService here.
New roadmap items
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Creator Hub is your key to success
Collaborate more efficiently as a team
Overhauled navigation (Mid 2025)
As Creator Hub continues to grow, the navigation needs to ensure that everyone can find what they need, quickly. We will be overhauling the experience-level, and top-level navigation to better highlight the right things to the right people at the right time.
Group revenue reporting (Mid 2025)
With the migration of Transactions and revenue reporting pages to Creator Hub, we will also improve the feature set so you can more easily manage your Group’s financial reporting.
Group-to-Group experience ownership transfer (Mid 2025)
You can already transfer ownership of your experience from your account to a Group. This adds the ability to shift ownership between Groups.
Create however you want
Studio & Engine Performance and Stability
Find All/Replace All optimization (Mid 2025)
Speed up finding and refactoring in Studio, eliminate a well-known hang and optimize memory usage, contributing to overall Studio Stability and usability.
Generative AI accelerates creation
Assistant scripting workflow improvements (Mid 2025)
Assistant, integrated with Code Assist, delivers a more accurate and productive AI scripting experience
Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
Studio Luau file sync release (Mid 2025)
This release includes better script sync support for editing large code bases (folder sync), utilizing language server features and opening files in an external code editor.
OpenCloud Developer Product Management APIs (Mid 2025)
We will be launching OpenCloud APIs with API key auth support to allow creation and management of DeveloperProducts, enabling you to manage your virtual economy resources with your own preferred workflow.
More OpenCloud APIs usable from the Engine (Mid 2025)
As we alluded to in the January Creator AMA, we’ll be expanding the set of APIs you can use directly from game servers and plugins. We’re starting with select Groups, Inventory, and Creator Store Search APIs.
Improved Context Action Service (CAS) (Mid 2025)
We’re rewriting CAS to create a platform agnostic, data-driven action map to streamline cross-platform development. This will make it easier for developers to write custom actions with better default inputs, while also providing a visual interface for customization.
glTF export beta (Mid 2025)
glTF export enables creators to export their 3D files for further editing in their tool of choice. The first milestone, glTF Beta, enables creators to export their own (uploaded) assets. Future milestones will enable creators to export other assets they may have access to.
Enabling higher fidelity experiences that scale across devices
Range limit for lights (Mid 2025)
We’re increasing the range limit for lights to 120 studs.
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Roblox Cloud helps you scale
Data Stores Manager (Beta) (Mid 2025)
Easily gain understanding and insights of how you are using your Data Stores.
Data Stores Access Observability Dashboard (Mid 2025)
Updated Data Stores Access dashboard allows you to see your usage against the new limits.
Memory Stores Extended Services (Mid 2025)
Ability to purchase additional MemoryStore usage above the default free platform limits.
Universe navigation ‘Back’ & ‘Forward’ UI (Mid 2025)
New default navigational UI to allow your players to navigate back and forward between universes you teleport them to
Accelerate creation through community-generated assets
OpenCloud Creator Store Search API (Early 2025)
We will be launching an improved Creator Store Search API on OpenCloud, replacing the legacy endpoints and adding API key auth support, so that you can automate and integrate with search over Creator Store assets more easily.
Grow and engage your audience
Empower immersive communication and expression
Community-level keyword blocklist (Mid/Late 2025)
We will provide Community Owners a customizable keyword blocklist to filter unwanted words and phrases from their community.
Delayed roadmap items
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As always, we want to be transparent when items on our roadmap slip past their original date or are put on hold. We want to make sure we’re thoughtful in what we launch, hold ourselves to a high-quality standard, and constantly adjust our roadmaps to focus on the highest priority issues. When something slips, we may have pushed its launch date to meet our quality standards or we may have prioritized a more important and urgent feature.
Estimating completion dates of new features can be challenging, and we appreciate your patience as we make sure what we’re building is ready for prime time.
Here’s what has been delayed and our updated timeline for each item:
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Automatic translation for experience icons & thumbnails (Early 2025 → Late 2025)
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Support for language variants (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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Forums (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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Groups owning Groups (Mid 2025 → Late 2025)
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Community-created learning content (Mid 2025 → Late 2025)
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Properties revamp (Early 2025 → Late 2025)
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Photo to avatar (Early 2025 → Mid/Late 2025)
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Improved physics solver (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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New voxel light grid (Early 2025 → Mid or Late 2025)
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3D Import Queue - Full Release (Late 2024 → Mid 2025)
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Third-party interoperability for images and meshes (Mid 2025 → Late 2025)
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Dragger improvements (Early 2025 → Mid/Late 2025)
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DragDetectors for UI (Early 2025 → Mid/Late 2025)
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Custom logging (Early 2025 → Mid/Late 2025)
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UI styling (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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Player script packages (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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Sell models on Creator Store (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
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Badges Enhancements (Late 2024 → Late 2025)
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Improved Data Stores (Beta) (Early 2025 → Mid 2025)
Features launched since the last roadmap update
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Grow and engage your audience
We’re constantly building features that will help your experiences reach and engage more people on Roblox. Whether it’s making localization easier, introducing new discovery tools, or introducing new places for your experiences to be highlighted.
We’ve recently launched 19 features in this category:
We also fully translated documentation for 95% of creators, unified our search result page, and added a hold button shortcut to make it easier to launch experiences on console.
Create however you want
Since December, we’ve made some big improvements in helping you build the types of experiences you want to build; we’ve launched 22 new features in this category since our last update including:
This also includes the launch of Team Create Assets, type inference during native compilation, improving output performance for large places, and decreasing team create join time.
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
We’re always looking for ways to support the creator ecosystem on Roblox, and we’ve recently launched a few much requested features expanding our cloud capabilities, and new opportunities to earn on the platform including:
Creator Hub is your key to success
We launched several new insight-focused products, to give you new ways of keeping track of how your experience is performing and how you might make adjustments. Our launches here include:
Sunsetting legacy features & tools
We recently added a ‘Sunsetting’ category to the roadmap to keep you posted on our plans on when we’ll no longer support specific features or functionality. Since our last update, we sunset support for:
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Sunsetting support for Windows 7 and 8.1 (Dec 20, 2024)
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Team Chat is being removed from Studio (Jan 30, 2025)
FAQs
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Why did you launch something that wasn’t on the roadmap?
- The Creator Roadmap is not a comprehensive list of everything Roblox is doing (it’s hard to summarize what 2000+ people are working on!). Some examples of reasons why products may not show up on the roadmap are:
- User-facing products that require no action from creators
- Products that require us to coordinate or integrate with third parties, for example, Meta Quest and 17+ experiences. This can result in uncertainty in our ship dates or we may not be able to communicate in advance until the other party is ready.
- Products we’re holding to announce at RDC
- Products we aren’t sure are going to be impactful or have enough funding to hit their dates
Why did a feature slip past its target date?
- We do our best to forecast realistically, but sometimes features take longer to ship than anticipated or other features take precedence. As some of you may know, software scheduling estimation is an imprecise art.
Why is an item that was shipped no longer on the roadmap?
- To keep this roadmap forward-looking, we remove features from the roadmap that shipped over 6 months ago. This is not an indication that the feature is no longer being supported, but rather to keep the roadmap a reasonable length. You can always review past updates on the DevForum to catch-up!
Why is something on the Creator Roadmap site and not included in this DevForum post?
To keep this post short, we only include items on the roadmap that have changed; if they’ve been added, shipped, or delayed. You can always check the full roadmap on the site which we keep up to date.
Did I miss the annoucement or some information about it?