---
title: "Phaser CE 2.7.4 Released"
subtitle: "After several months of hard work, with loads of new features and updates, we have published the latest version of Phaser Community Edition."
date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2017/03/phaser-ce-274-released
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Phaser CE 2.7.4 Released

*After several months of hard work, with loads of new features and updates, we have published the latest version of Phaser Community Edition.*

![image](phaser-ce-274-released.png)

After several months of hard work by the community, we have published Phaser CE 2.7.4. This version introduces new features, updates and bug fixes. It has been released on GitHub and npm, with the CDNs to follow in due course.

The new features include:

* New method Phaser.Math.hypot() calculates the length of the hypotenuse spanning two given lengths
* Added copyBitmapData function to Phaser.Bitmap
* Added noPause logic to src/input/Pointer.js
* Added timeStep parameter pass to state.pauseUpdate call at src/core/Game.js
* Added tileOffset (Phaser.Point) property to Phaser.TilemapLayer. This allows offsetting layer positions in a way that plays well with the camera and Arcade physics. Also, the offsetx and offsety properties are now read from the layer properties of Tiled maps.

And updates include fixes to FireFox image caching, a new yarn lock file, a travis build script, lots of TypeScript defs updates, new Text fixes, JSHint fixes and loads more.

You can get the release from GitHub right now.

[Read More](https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser-ce)

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## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
- **Expansion packs** (https://phaser.io/packs): 358 packs in 20 families (163 free, 195 Pro) that every game is built from, on the Phaser AE kernel (https://phaser.io/kernel).
- **Credits** (https://phaser.io/credits): what the desk's tools spend. Bought in packs, with no plan needed.
- **Pro** (https://phaser.io/pricing): $20 a month for every pack, 8,000 credits a month, new packs early, and bonus credits every time the user tops up (only Pro subscribers get them). Nobody needs a plan to start: credits can be bought as they're needed. Or Pro for 30 days for 8,000 credits, without subscribing. Teams, for studios, is on its way: https://phaser.io/contact?about=teams.
- **An account**: sign in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft at https://phaser.io/login. Games made on any plan can be published and sold.

Read any page of this site as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL (the home page is https://phaser.io/index.md), or by asking for `text/markdown`. The index for agents is https://phaser.io/llms.txt. On the site's pages, the browser's Web MCP also offers `phaser_ae_guide`, `read_page_as_markdown` and `open_phaser_ae`.