PoE 2 patch notes, summarized

How these summaries work

• Newest update first; every summary links to the full notes on the Path of Exile forum
• A summary is our own short reading of the notes, not a copy of them
• The 1.0 notes get a summary on the day they are published, and a push to subscribers
• Hotfixes are grouped under the patch they belong to, with the date of the first one

When will the PoE 2 1.0 patch notes come out?

Not announced yet. What we have is a pattern: the 0.4 notes went up on December 4, 2025 for a launch on December 12, and the 0.5 notes on May 21, 2026 for a launch on May 29 — 8 days both times. Counting 8 days back from December 11 gives about December 3, 2026. The 1.0 reveal at ExileCon on November 6 comes first; the notes usually follow the reveal rather than arrive with it.

The day the notes are posted, this page gets a short summary of the biggest changes and a link to the full notes, and subscribers to launch notifications get one push about it. The countdown on the home page shows how long is left until the start itself.

Latest: 0.5.5 Forbidden Rites and its patches

0.5.5 is an event league, Forbidden Rites, launched on September 4, 2026. Its patch notes came out on September 2, two days before the start. In short: Ritual encounters in every campaign area, boss rituals and eight challenges with their own rewards; a Trial of Chaos overhaul for the whole game; and the Runes of Aldur content of 0.5 moved into the core game. The Duelist is not part of 0.5.5.

Follow-up patches: 0.5.5b on September 11, 0.5.5c on September 17, 0.5.5d on September 27 and 0.5.5e on October 5, 2026 — the last one added a texture quality setting for graphics cards with little video memory and faster loading in some areas. A hotfix to 0.5.5e followed on October 28.

0.5.1 to 0.5.4: the patches after Return of the Ancients

0.5.1 (June 4, 2026): 24 new Atlas passives and more Atlas points, a new Lineage support, 40 elemental passives near jewel sockets, elemental Attunement supports that also work with non-attack skills, and weaker elite Abyss monsters.

0.5.2 (June 11): a reworked Atlas Master tablet option, a keystone for Azmeri Spirits, less tough Delirium fog enemies and better Runes of Aldur rewards in tier 14 and higher maps.

0.5.3 (June 18): reworked Grand Expedition rewards, 50% less experience from re-attempted maps and a Delirium rebalance; nine hotfixes and a restart followed.

0.5.4 (June 25): a Runes of Aldur Atlas passive tree, map modifiers on Grand Expeditions, skill-granting uniques that scale with level and new Orb of Sacrifice currencies from Atziri's Vault. Smaller patches, 0.5.4b to 0.5.4f, followed between July 2 and August 12.

0.5.0 Return of the Ancients in short

Launched May 29, 2026, notes posted on May 21: an endgame overhaul with the Origins of Divinity storyline, the Arbiter of Divinity boss, an Atlas tree of more than 300 nodes and Masters of the Atlas; reworked Delirium, Breach and Ritual; two new ascendancies, Martial Artist for the Monk and Spirit Walker for the Huntress; about 42 new uniques and 30 new maps; and the Runes of Aldur league built around rune crafting. No new class. The Atlas and its passive tree were reset for existing characters, with a free passive refund.

0.4.0 The Last of the Druids in short

Launched December 12, 2025, notes posted on December 4: the shapeshifting Druid (wolf, bear and wyvern forms) with the Oracle and Shaman ascendancies, a third Sorceress ascendancy, Disciple of Varashta, more than 30 new support gems, Abyss as a core mechanic and the Fate of the Vaal league, where players build Vaal temples and face Queen Atziri. Ten hotfixes followed in the first three days.

0.3 and 0.2 in short

0.3 The Third Edict (August 29, 2025): Act 4, three Interludes in place of Cruel difficulty, sprinting, asynchronous trading, a reworked support gem system and the Rise of the Abyssal league, the first with its own mechanic. No new class.

0.2 Dawn of the Hunt (April 4, 2025): the Huntress class with the Amazon and Ritualist ascendancies, spears and bucklers, three more ascendancies — Smith of Kitava, Tactician and Lich — and the first temporary league with a fresh economy. Wikipedia's article on Path of Exile 2 gives a short history of the game; the full notes of every patch stay on the developer's forum.

Patch, letter patch or hotfix: reading the numbers

A version ending in .0 — 0.4.0, 0.5.0 — is a content update: a new league, new systems and the long notes. Numbers after it — 0.5.1, 0.5.2 and so on — are later patches to the same version, mostly balance changes and fixes, each with its own notes on the forum. A letter after the number, as in 0.5.4b or 0.5.5e, marks a smaller follow-up patch.

Hotfixes are the small, fast fixes in between, posted under the patch they fix. They come in bursts right after a launch: 0.4.0 had ten hotfixes in its first three days. Some patches are applied without a server restart — the developer labelled 0.5.4e “restartless”.

PoE 2 content updates and their patch notes

Dates are UTC days of the developer's forum posts. The 1.0 entry is an estimate from the 0.4 and 0.5 launches, not a published date.

Every Path of Exile 2 0.5 patch so far

UTC days of the developer's patch-notes posts on the Path of Exile forum. Hotfixes are not listed.

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