PR prepares release 0.12.18

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 # Changelog
+## v0.12.18 - 2026-06-01
+### 🐞 Fixes
+- [Patch] Added occlusion debug viewer (36160da…)
+- [Patch] Hierarchy-aware tile culling (5a47bb2…)
+- [Patch] Added ancestor walk to hierarchy occlusion (49fd65b…)
+- [Patch] Use a closest-point to parent AABB (43a84b6…)
+- [Patch] Implemented kd-tree partitioning (06fcc75…)
+- [Patch] Improved per-cascade shadow distance (0645690…)
+- [Patch] [Patch] Fix hierarchy culling ID format and replace hard-skip with penalty (dcd21ba…)
+### 📚 Docs
+- [Docs] Updated the docs (07c55ed…)
 ## v0.12.17 - 2026-05-30
 ### 🐞 Fixes
 - [Patch] Fixed stream profiler (abd8e4b…)

README.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Clone the repository and launch the demo:
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/untoldengine/UntoldEngine.git
 cd UntoldEngine
-git checkout v0.12.17
+git checkout v0.12.18
 swift run untolddemo
 ```
 

Sources/DemoGame/AppDelegate.swift

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     @MainActor
     final class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
         private enum Constants {
-            static let appVersion = "0.12.17"
+            static let appVersion = "0.12.18"
             static let defaultWindowSize = NSSize(width: 1920, height: 1080)
             static let minimumWindowSize = NSSize(width: 640, height: 480)
         }

Sources/Sandbox/AppDelegate.swift

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     @MainActor
     final class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
         private enum Constants {
-            static let appVersion = "0.12.17"
+            static let appVersion = "0.12.18"
             static let windowSize = NSSize(width: 1600, height: 900)
         }
 

Sources/UntoldEngine/Renderer/UntoldEngine.swift

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ public class UntoldRenderer: NSObject, MTKViewDelegate {
             BatchingSystem.shared.applyRuntimeBatchingTuning(.macOSBalanced)
         #endif
 
-        Logger.log(message: "Untold Engine Starting. Version 0.12.17")
+        Logger.log(message: "Untold Engine Starting. Version 0.12.18")
     }
 
     public func initSizeableResources() {

docs/API/GettingStarted.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Clone the repository and launch the demo:
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/untoldengine/UntoldEngine.git
 cd UntoldEngine
-git checkout v0.12.17
+git checkout v0.12.18
 swift run untolddemo
 ```