Release candidate: Godot 4.7 RC 3
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the release candidate stages of Godot 4.7! As a result of widespread adoption and testing, we were able to unearth and squash a handful of critical regressions that very nearly got overlooked. So while we hope to have a stable version out sooner than later, these fixes alone warrant at least one more snapshot, for good measure.
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Highlights
We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.7 in the previous 4.7 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to check out the main new features added in the 4.7 release.
Especially if you’re testing 4.7 for the first time, you’ll want to get a condensed overview of what new features you might want to make use of.
This section covers all changes made since the RC 2 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:
- Animation: Fix stretch mode in
custom_timelineonAnimationNodeAnimation(GH-120241). - Assetlib: Fix assets with license type of “Other” not showing up (GH-120120).
- Assetlib: Fix incorrect release order for items in the asset store (GH-120239).
- Assetlib: Fix some issues and crashes in the asset store (GH-120164).
- Assetlib: Improve version label visual in the asset dialog (GH-119751).
- Core: Revert “Fix a deadlock in WorkerThreadPool” (GH-120250).
- Documentation: Docs: Add platform support notes to window flags (GH-120313).
- Documentation: Document the expected format for the project settings override file (GH-120252).
- Documentation: Link to 3D lights and shadows tutorial in AreaLight3D class documentation (GH-120198).
- Documentation: Update Tree reference to explain new drop sections (GH-120108).
- Editor: EditorPropertyArray clipping fix (GH-120261).
- GUI: RTL: Do not add zero-width space to last line without content (GH-120116).
- GUI: RTL: Fix indent / list level not taken into account (GH-120104).
- Particles: Fix leftover particle data when updating particle buffers (GH-119631).
- Physics: Jolt: Fix gravity scale not updating when set from code (GH-120258).
- Physics: Jolt: Remove forced area event queuing during body exit (GH-120243).
- XR: Fix a crash when spatial entity marker trackers are detected (GH-120300).
Changelog
As we’ve tightened our policy on what kind of changes can be merged leading to the release candidate stage, there aren’t a lot of changes in this snapshot. 12 contributors submitted 17 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7 RC 2. You can also review all changes included in 4.7 compared to the previous 4.6 feature release.
This release is built from commit 645638db9.
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Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.
.NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.
While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.
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 a workaround). You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.7. 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.
- Adreno 660 devices running Vulkan have geometry errors when using
LightmapGI(#120299). - Editor UI container layout breaks when Editor Scale is set below 1.0 (#120272).
- Large
AreaLight3Ds don’t receive voxelGI global illumination for a portion of the light (#120178). - Programmatically updating gravity vector currently fails (#120279).
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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