It’s been nearly two months since the initial release of Godot 4.6, and three weeks since the 4.6.1 maintenance release. In that time, we’ve had a steady chain of development snapshots for 4.7—the latest of which came out last week—and the number of resolved issues from bugs/regressions have only increased since then. In fact, we’ve received so many fixes that we’re preparing for yet another maintenance release: Godot 4.6.2!

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Jump to the Downloads section, and give it a spin right now, or continue reading to learn more about improvements in this release. You can also try the Web editor, the XR editor, or the Android editor for this release. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds.

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What’s new

43 contributors submitted 86 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.6.1-stable release.

This section covers the most relevant changes made since the 4.6.1 maintenance release, which are largely regression fixes:

• Animation: Check playback_queue existance after emit animation_finished signal (GH-116676).
• Editor: Fix build profile generator creating bogus profiles (GH-115410).
• Editor: Fix mute button after pausing and stopping (GH-116537).
• Export: Android Editor: Copy keystore to temp file during export (GH-116161).
• GUI: TextServer: Ignore language of embedded object replacement spans when updating line breaks (GH-116197).
• Physics: Jolt Physics: Make MoveKinematic more accurate when rotating a body by a very small angle (GH-115327).
• Physics: Jolt Physics: Rework how gravity is applied to dynamic bodies to prevent energy increase on elastic collisions (GH-115305).
• Physics: Jolt Physics: Swapping vertices of triangle if it is scaled inside out (GH-115089).
• Platforms: Android: Fix FileAccess crash when using treeUri in Gradle-built apps (GH-117131).
• Platforms: iOS: Add UIScene lifecycle events (GH-116395).
• Rendering: Apply fixed size properly for mono/stereo rendering (GH-115147).
• Rendering: Fix accidental write-combined memory reads in canvas renderer (GH-115757).
• Rendering: Fix viewport debanding not working with spatial scalers (GH-114890).

This release is built from commit 257ac3532.

Downloads

Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.

.NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.

Known issues

During the Release Candidate stage, we focus exclusively on solving showstopping regressions (i.e. something that worked in a previous release is now broken, without workaround). You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.6.2. This list is dynamic and will be updated if we discover new showstopping issues after more users start testing the RC snapshots.

With every release we accept that there are going to be various issues, which have already been reported but haven’t been fixed yet. See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

• macOS builds are not signed this release; this will be resolved by the time 4.6.2-stable comes out.

Bug reports

As a tester, we encourage you to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Please check the existing issues on GitHub first, using the search function with relevant keywords, to ensure that the bug you experience is not already known.

In particular, any change that would cause a regression in your projects is very important to report (e.g. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x releases, but no longer works in this snapshot).

Support

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If you’d like to support the project financially and help us secure our future hires, you can do so using the Godot Development Fund.

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As the development cycle leaves the early stages, so too does the comparatively constrained scope of changes. Some changes are so big in fact, that they’re being distributed in small increments, rather than all at once. This is admittedly a bit awkward from a blog post perspective, as not everything is in a position to be showcased just yet, but rapid integration for the sake of early testing will always be a top priority. Besides, there’s still plenty of goodies ready to be shown off in the meantime!

Please consider supporting the project financially, if you are able. Godot is maintained by the efforts of volunteers and a small team of paid contributors. Your donations go towards sponsoring their work and ensuring they can dedicate their undivided attention to the needs of the project.

Jump to the Downloads section, and give it a spin right now, or continue reading to learn more about improvements in this release. You can also try the Web editor, the XR editor, or the Android editor for this release. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds.

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Highlights

Editor: Add support for copy/paste of section/category properties

Raphaël Daubelcour is starting this off with a bang, as their work in GH-111469 brought a highly-requested feature for the editor to light: the ability to copy and paste data from entire sections and categories! Now instead of copying the data from individual segments of a given property and pasting them piece-by-piece, this process is now handled in a singular action.

Editor: Use monospaced font for code names in UI

The editor got quite a lot of QOL love this snapshot, as Malcolm Anderson delivered yet another highly-requested feature in the form of monospaced code names (GH-112219). You’d be surprised by just how much the readability of the UI improves when code-like data (methods, signals, properties, etc.) is represented in a font representing their context, especially when coupled with a standard font for all other information.

Animation: Collapse groups in animation track editor

Malcolm isn’t done yet, as the animation track editor got some love in GH-113479, enabling users to collapse groups. This simple change should immediately resonate with users dealing with the absurd sizes animation trees can reach, though the benefits can be felt at all sizes.

Apple: Support HDR output

As you might recall from the previous development snapshot, our intention during the 4.7 cycle is to roll out HDR support across all supported platforms. Windows already got their initial implementation; now, it’s Apple’s turn. Stuart Carnie delivered full support for EDR display to all Apple platforms (GH-106814). Documentation is still in the works for HDR, as there’s quite a lot of ground to cover, but you can expect a proper deep-dive into the concept come next snapshot!

And more!

There are too many exciting changes to list them all here, but here’s a curated selection:

• 2D: Add a scene painter tool (GH-109360).
• 3D: Add “Follow Selection” in the 3D editor by using Center Selection twice (GH-99499).
• Buildsystem: SCons: Enable wasm64 support on web builds (GH-102378).
• Editor: Show custom class name in the remote inspector (GH-108208).
• GUI: Add script editor join_lines keybind (GH-111547).
• GUI: Improve the table in RichTextLabel (GH-116277).
• GUI: Support tiling AtlasTexture in TextureRect (GH-113808).
• Input: Add device IDs to keyboard and mouse input events (GH-116274).
• Input: Add support for SDL3 joystick input driver for iOS (GH-114316).
• Plugin: Android: Add support for plugins gradle platform dependencies (GH-115888).
• Rendering: Editor additions for MipMaps and rd_textures (GH-109004).

Changelog

105 contributors submitted 248 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7-dev1. You can also review all changes included in 4.7 compared to the previous 4.6 feature release.

This release is built from commit 778cf54da.

Downloads

Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.

.NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.

Known issues

With every release we accept that there are going to be various issues, which have already been reported but haven’t been fixed yet. See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

There are currently no known issues introduced by this release.

Bug reports

As a tester, we encourage you to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Please check the existing issues on GitHub first, using the search function with relevant keywords, to ensure that the bug you experience is not already known.

In particular, any change that would cause a regression in your projects is very important to report (e.g. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x releases, but no longer works in this snapshot).

Support

Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, as well as a handful of part and full-time developers hired thanks to generous donations from the Godot community. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed their time or their financial support to the project!

If you’d like to support the project financially and help us secure our future hires, you can do so using the Godot Development Fund platform managed by Godot Foundation. There are also several alternative ways to donate which you may find more suitable.

Donate now