It’s been nearly four weeks since we saw the release of Godot 4.7, which has given our team ample time to prepare for its first maintenance release. This progress was made in tandem with Godot 4.8, whose first development snapshot released last week, and will hopefully see its second snapshot later this week. But for those sticking with the rock-solid foundation Godot 4.7 provided, only iterating on critical regressions/crashes reported by the community in that time, you need look no further than today’s maintenance release: 4.7.1-stable!

Maintenance releases are expected to be safe for an upgrade, but we recommend to always make backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.

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Changes

42 contributors submitted 78 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.7-stable release.

This release is built from commit a13da4feb.

• 2D: Improve 2D editor dropping code (GH-119418).
• 3D: Fix closed Curve3D first/last point missing in/out control point (GH-120684).
• Animation: Make animation folding access cfg only at save/load project time (GH-120403).
• Assetlib: Set the Asset Store’s default sorting to highest scored (GH-121112).
• Editor: Guard against non-main-thread emission of EditorFileSystem changed signal (GH-115083).
• Editor: Wrap long project title (GH-119580).
• GUI: Don’t automatically open virtual keyboard when popup menu shows (GH-120768).
• GUI: Fix crash in Tree::_get_item_focus_rect (GH-120538).
• GUI: Fix scene tree drag-n-drop regression on touchscreens (GH-120456).
• GUI: Fix visual glitch with connections lines in GraphEdit (GH-120488).
• Input: Android: Fix EditorSettings not instantiated error when running game (GH-120723).
• Input: Fix backspace being unable to delete pre-existing text in any input field when using a soft keyboard on Android (GH-119798).
• Navigation: Fix navigation agents unconditionally getting added to avoidance simulation after pause resume (GH-120249).
• Network: Set inited=false on CookieContextMbedTLS::clear to avoid accidental double destruction (GH-120371).
• Rendering: Fix flickering lighting on mesh-instances with non-uniform scale (GH-119784).
• Rendering: Fix orthographic camera directional shadow culling (GH-120711).
• Rendering: Fix previous transform getting remembered for 2 frames after the instance stops moving (GH-119941).
• Rendering: Seek past skipped shader variant payloads to avoid reading incorrect data (GH-119792).

Known incompatibilities

As of now, there are no known incompatibilities with the previous Godot 4.7 release. We encourage all users to upgrade to 4.7.1.

If you experience any unexpected behavior change in your projects after upgrading to 4.7.1, please file an issue on GitHub.

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).

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As distance from the Godot 4.7 stable release grows, so too does the amount of spotted regressions and subsequent regression fixes. We don’t have quite as many fixes to share compared to 4.7.1 RC 1, but there’s still enough to go around to warrant a second release candidate for this maintenance cycle.

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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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Highlights

This section covers all changes made since 4.7.1 RC 1, which are largely regression fixes:

• 2D: Improve 2D editor dropping code (GH-119418).
• 3D: Fix GridMap editor cursor starting at the wrong position (GH-120595).
• Animation: Fix Abort on Reset functionality in AnimationNodeOneShot (GH-120478).
• Core: Cherry-picks for the 4.7 branch (future 4.7.1) – 3rd batch (GH-120917).
• Editor: Clean Up x position calcuation of the AudioStream filename in the Inspector (GH-119995).
• Editor: Fix .godot file icon saturation in editor file dialogs (GH-120376).
• Editor: Fix crash in Project Settings when an autoload has been freed (GH-120874).
• Editor: Fix debugger call stack not selecting nodes in remote scene tree (GH-94096).
• Editor: Fix incorrect non-unique resource indicator (GH-120886).
• Editor: Fix ownership issues when pasting as replacement (GH-119790).
• Editor: Fix possible freeze when running project with floating script editor (GH-119614).
• Editor: Fix scene not requesting save for Load as Placeholder (GH-120823).
• Editor: Fix scene tab titles not updating on language change (GH-120554).
• Editor: Guard against non-main-thread emission of EditorFileSystem changed signal (GH-115083).
• Editor: Make Instant Preview work for first selection after being enabled (GH-116651).
• Export: Fix incorrect per-instance shader parameters when exporting in headless mode (GH-120794).
• GUI: Add empty icons for file dialog menu to the default theme (GH-120449).
• GUI: Don’t automatically open virtual keyboard when popup menu shows (GH-120768).
• GUI: Range: Don’t use min for snap offset when it’s too big (GH-113380).
• GUI: Set SpinBox’s internal node’s use_parent_material to true (GH-120714).
• Import: Fix extracting materials without a per-material override (GH-120870).
• Import: GLTF: Use p_state parameter directly (GH-119071).
• Network: mbedtls: Update to 3.6.7 (GH-121055).
• Physics: Fix crash when assigning more than 2047 MiB to Jolt temp buffer (GH-120895).
• Physics: Fix crash when clicking via the Game view API created collisions (GH-120826).
• Rendering: Fix hint_default_transparent used with sampler2DArray (GH-120433).
• Rendering: Fix orthographic camera directional shadow culling (GH-120711).
• Tests: Crypto: Add sign/verify and encrypt/decrypt tests (GH-120903).
• Tests: Crypto: Add tests for AESContext (GH-120847).

Changelog

24 contributors submitted 29 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7.1 RC 1. You can also review all changes included in 4.7.1 compared to the previous 4.7 feature release.

This release is built from commit d6096250e.

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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 4.7.1. 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.

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 in 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.

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