Weekly Recap: October 6 - 10, 2025

[Ozamanthus (Ozzi)]

Key highlights, news, and updates from October 6 - 10, 2025

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Hi Everyone!

Another round of announcements and updates. Let’s get into what we had going on.

Quick remember - we keep information at a high level within these recaps. For more information or to leave feedback, please comment on their official announcements linked below.

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Announcements

[Early Access] Server Authority

• We’re opening up Server Authority through our new Early Access release program. Simply respond to this post, and we’ll get you added.

Build More Immersive Experiences: Text-to-Speech API Full Release

• We’re excited to announce the full release of our Text-to-Speech API! This updated version has higher rate limits and observability dashboards.
• Text-to-Speech enables you to instantly create narration and NPC dialogue for step-by-step tutorials or game announcements, allowing you to launch voice-enabled experiences rapidly and without traditional production costs or complex audio production workflows.

[Potential Action Required] Update for HumanoidDescription APIs

• We are changing the default behavior for Humanoid:ApplyDescription and Players:CreateHumanoidModelFromDescription to automatically enable server-side checks on avatar assets.
• This change will prevent potential security vulnerabilities that may negatively impact your experience. For most experiences, especially ones that only use these APIs to load Avatar Assets (e.g. shirts, pants, accessories), no action will be required from you.

[Potential Action Required] An Update to Memory Tracking: Introducing MemoryTrackingEnabled API

• We are disabling memory tracking by default for most users to improve performance and introducing the MemoryTrackingEnabled API so you can check if memory usage data is available before calling related APIs.
• The changes will be rolled out in 3 phases over the next month for the memory tracking of android devices. In preparation, please update your code to use this new API if you are collecting custom telemetry data.
• If you explicitly enable the MicroProfiler, memory tracking will be enabled automatically for your next application session. This will allow you to see memory counters in both the MicroProfiler and DevConsole.

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Updates

Avatar Auto-Setup Now Supports User-Guided Setups of Body and/or Clothing Only

• You can control the placement of joints by providing 15 pre-partitioned body mesh parts that follow R15 character naming convention.
• Partitioned bodies can be used in conjunction with other inputs, such as rigged bodies and heads.

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Release Notes

• Release Notes for 694

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Deprecated Web Endpoints

Official List of Deprecated Web Endpoints

• We are depreciating one Translation History public API endpoint starting October 21, 2025.

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Community

RDC 2025 Youtube Playlist

• Missed RDC 2025 or just want a peep at what’s to come? Take a look at our RDC playlist on Youtube for our Keynote, RIA Winners, and other talks if you haven’t already.

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[enzogamer123vv (8800GTX)]

emissive maps and custom flipbook rahhhhh

[airilauz (AlexLikesTrains)]

Roblox has done it, the text to speech is finally released this week. I can’t finally use text to speech tool to make announcements.

[VastMajorPie]

Please

Feature Request - No Reason IsMutedForCapture should be Roblox Script only

Feature Request The “new” VideoCaptures API allows experiences to record the screen for up to 30 seconds. During the recording, some audio assets may be muted due to copyright, restrictions, or for other reasons. Roblox scripts use the read-only IsMutedForCapture property (found on Sound/AudioPlayer Instances) to determine wether the audio should be muted. There is no reason this should be only for Roblox Scripts. Players can still find out the value of the IsMutedForCapture property by jus…

[2Doggo4 (DogerDoggo)]

Yay server authority is here! Can’t wait to see it in games.
How long is it going to be in early access?

[Eidan_playz]

finding the right thread to post this in took me long

are you fr?

[FishermanWWK]

Wait that’s actually insane, why has this not been brought up in any announcement posts?

[CaterSuper (Cater)]

Can we please get a comment about the ongoing enforcement ban wave that’s banning multiple innocent people?

Enforcement Ban System Wrongly Terminating Innocent Accounts

[image] There’s a growing issue within Roblox’s moderation system known as “Enforcement Bans”, this type of ban occurs when an account is terminated and other unrelated accounts that have any form of shared data or connection with it such as IP addresses, device, billing info or email information are automatically flagged and permanently banned as well. This can happen with very limited contact as far as we the community know, such as: Logging into Roblox on Public Wifi or shared network ( sc…

[WinterStorm_Meow (Winter)]

This week was pretty nice.

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My rating: 38/40

My favorite announcement this week was “Server Authority” as it seems very promising.

The [Potential Action Required] is a little worrying but things do need to change.

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Topics I feel should be mentioned:

1. Add Instance As a Valid Attribute
2. Drop-Shadow effect for UI elements
3. A new Tool Actor class is needed
4. Sharpness, Fisheye, Renderscale, and Chromatic Aberration shaders

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See you next week, Robloxians!

[5Scll1 (5Scll)]

It would be very nice I like it RDC 2025

[HollowAurelius (Hollow)]

Having just been accepted into the new server authority early access release program, it would be great to have a play with this and the Text To Speech API, but unfortunately myself and dozens of others have been hit with an erroneous banwave that Roblox is yet to address, as mentioned above.