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Xbox Live Helper library release notes

The Xbox Live Helper library is available on NuGet.org.

Note

Support for the XDK and Windows 7 platforms ended on August 1, 2023. No new PlayFab Party library updates are available for these platforms. The PlayFab Party networking and voice services continue to operate without interruption for titles that use Windows 7 or XDK versions of the PlayFab Party library.

1.2.17

May 20, 2026

Improvements

  • Upgraded the build toolchain from Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) v142 to v143 for security compliance.
  • Applied additional binary security hardening, including SHA-256 source hashing and linker flag improvements.

1.2.16

February 26, 2025

Improvements

  • Updated various build flags for internal compliance.
  • Made diagnostic improvements.

1.2.15

January 29, 2024

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes the following changes:

  • Switched to new internal build and release infrastructure. No functional changes.

1.2.14

October 20, 2023

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes the following changes:

  • Improved internal diagnostics.

1.2.12

July 21, 2022

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes the following changes:

  • Improvements to memory management so that all memory is now released as part of PartyXblManager::Cleanup().
  • Developers interested in where time is spent in internal library functions can now configure optional method entrance and exit callbacks to hook into their preferred high-performance instrumentation method. For more information, see PartyXblManager::SetProfilingCallbacksForMethodEntryExit. In this release, the callbacks are only supported for Windows, Xbox One XDK, and Microsoft Game Core platforms.

1.2.9

April 12, 2021

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes the following changes:

  • Fixed a bug where the async operation started by PartyManager::GetEntityIdsFromXboxLiveUserIds() might crash on failure.

1.2.5

June 26, 2020

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes the following changes:

  • Fixed a small memory leak.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some heap allocations from flowing through the memory callbacks set in PartyXblManager::SetMemoryCallbacks().
  • PartyXblManager::CreateLocalChatUser() no longer asynchronously fails if Xbox Live services can't be queried. In the event of service failures, PartyXblLocalChatUser::GetAccessibilitySettings() returns an empty PartyXblAccessibilitySettings struct and PartyXblLocalChatUser::GetCrossNetworkCommunicationPrivacySetting() returns PartyXblCrossNetworkCommunicationPrivacySetting::Disallowed.

1.2.0

February 18, 2020

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library includes support for the updated chat permission options in version 1.3.0 of PlayFab Party. For a full list of Party and Party Xbox Live Helper library version compatibility, see the Party Xbox Live Helper Library overview.

1.1.0

January 23, 2020

GetEntityIdsFromXboxLiveUserIds API

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library introduces the PartyXblManager::GetEntityIdsFromXboxLiveUserIds() API and associated completion state change, PartyXblGetEntityIdsFromXboxLiveUserIdsCompleted. This API allows titles to query the PlayFab Entity IDs corresponding to a given list of Xbox Live User IDs. For more information, see overview.

1.0.1

October 29, 2019

LoginToPlayFab API

This release of the Party Xbox Live Helper library introduces the PartyXblManager::LoginToPlayFab() API and associated completion state change, PartyXblLoginToPlayFabCompletedStateChange. This API provides equivalent functionality to the PlayFab SDK LoginWithXbox API. For more information, see overview.