Changelog

A brief history of Yarn Spinner for Unity.

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Pardon our dust! Docs for Yarn Spinner for Unity 3.2 and Yarn Spinner for Godot C# are on docs.yarnspinner.dev (the old docs site). Docs for Yarn Spinner for Unity 3.3 (pre-release, out ASAP), Yarn Spinner for Godot GDScript and Yarn Spinner for Unreal Engine (work in progress) are on /docs/ (the new docs site).

Changelog

Yarn Spinner Timeline

  • v0.9 was released in October 2015, the first public release;
  • v1.0 was released in January 2020;
  • v2.0 was released in December 2021;
  • v2.1 was released in February 2022;
  • v2.2 was released in April 2022;
  • v2.3 was released in July 2023;
  • v2.4 was released in November 2023;
  • v2.5 was released in December 2024;
  • v3.0 was released in May 2025;
  • v3.1 was released in November 2025;
  • v3.2 was released in March 2026.

Yarn Spinner 3

Yarn Spinner 3 came out in May 2025, adding new features to run content only once, enumerations, smart variables, and storylets and saliency!

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The Yarn Spinner 3 launch video.

If you’ve got a Unity project that already uses Yarn Spinner 2, see Upgrading from Yarn Spinner 2.

Yarn Spinner 2

Yarn Spinner 2 debuted in July 2020, adding markup support, dialogue views, and lots lots more!

Yarn Spinner 1

After being developed for Night in the Woods, and staying in early-release for several years, Yarn Spinner 1 was released in January 2020!

Get started Upgrading from Yarn Spinner 2 Learn about updating a Unity project to use Yarn Spinner 3 when it's already using Yarn Spinner 2.