Welcome to the Developer Update for 25 July 2024! Today’s thumbnail features 真夏、往時の如し by 夏至邱芜. Our last Developer Update was back on the 11th! Did you miss it? Go check it out here! Announcements Summer Music Jam is Still Open!! Submissions are still open – they’ll remain open until August 2! You still have time to submit a world or avatar! Check out the full list of requirements here! About That “Security Update” Last Week… Last week, we released a very small patch that only had two lin...

About That “Security Update” Last Week…

Last week, we released a very small patch that only had two lines in the notes:

Safety and security improvements. The camera had a bug where the menu buttons zigged when they should’ve zagged. We’ve rectified the situation. So… what was that first one about?

This was a change that we rolled out specifically to combat avatar ripping.

We now validate much more strongly that only a verified VRChat client can download avatar bundles, and only when it is in an instance with somebody wearing that avatar. This allows us to determine when a download is coming from an unauthorized source and block it. This has been highly successful, and many ripping methods now fail entirely.