Unreal Engine 5 was announced in mid-May 2020, with plans for a late-2021 release. Alongside this announcement, Epic released its Epic Online Services, a free SDK toolset for online matchmaking and other similar cross-platform play support features based on Fortnite. Epic further waived all Unreal license fees retroactively for games up through the first US$1 million in revenue, regardless of how they were published, retroactively starting from January 1, 2020.[74]