April 2025 Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK) release notes
Introduction
Welcome to the April 2025 Microsoft Game Development Kit release. You can use the GDK to develop games that can be certified and approved for release on Windows 11 PCs and Windows 10 PCs.
About this document
We have organized this document into the following sections.
- What's new
- Release notes:
- Documentation
What's new in the April 2025 Microsoft Game Development Kit
- The GDK is released in two types: Major (focused on features, two times a year) and Updates (focused on fixes, as often as needed).
- To view the full What's New section, see the online version of What's New.
April 2025 GDK
Notifications
Networking
The version of Microsoft PlayFab Party that's included in the GDK has been updated to v1.10.5. You can view the release notes at PlayFab Party Release Notes - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn.
Documentation
Offline documentation for the April 2025 release of the GDKX is installed on your development PC by the GDKX Setup program. After running Setup, the Help file for the GDKX (gdk.chm) is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft GDK\Documentation.
- The online GDKX documentation is at http://aka.ms/gdkonline.