Last Wednesday saw the release of our first Release Candidate build of Godot 4.6. As a reminder, we release RC builds once we think the engine has stabilized and is ready for release. It is your last chance to report critical regressions before we release the stable version.

Today, we’re excited to produce our second snapshot, which addresses the handful of critical regressions that cropped up in testing since then. Unless reports of any show-stopping regressions come from the changes made in RC 1 or RC 2, a stable release is just around the corner.

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

We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.6 in the previous 4.6 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.6 release.

Especially if you’re testing 4.6 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 the most relevant changes made since the RC 1 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

• Core: Don’t strip data in ClassDB::class_get_method_list (GH-114893).
• Editor: Fix TileMap Dock button placement and errors (GH-113594).
• Editor: Fix viewport rotation gizmo aligned axis reversing (GH-101209).
• GUI: Remove clip ignore from Tree background (GH-115074).
• Platforms: Android: Fix XR build regression when vendor plugin overrides the same feature (GH-115148).
• Platforms: macOS: Process system events during boot splash wait time (GH-115118).
• Platforms: Wayland: Allow non-interactive window resizing (GH-114082).
• Rendering: Do not store SPIR-V in memory unless pipeline statistics are used (GH-115049).
• XR: Allow setting a specific version of OpenXR to initialize (GH-115022).

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. 19 contributors submitted 37 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.6 RC 1. You can also review all changes included in 4.6 compared to the previous 4.5 feature release.

This release is built from commit 78c6632eb.

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. 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 on their free time, as well as a handful of part or 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.

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At last, Godot 4.6 arrives at the Release Candidate stage. All of our planned features are in place, and the most critical regressions have been resolved, so we can confidently say our product is ready for production use. A new editor theme, inverse kinematics, standalone library support, and more await in this feature-packed update!

With that said, this comes with the same caveat that all of our release candidate builds come with: we can only truly ratify this claim through extensive testing by the community. So while Godot 4.6 is now suitable for testing on existing projects, we’re eager to hear how it fares and whether any new major issues have gone unnoticed until now. As always: making a copy/backup before upgrading is strongly recommended, ideally with version control!

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

We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.6 in the previous 4.6 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.6 release.

Especially if you’re testing 4.6 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 the most relevant changes made since the beta 3 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

• Animation: Fix Skeleton3D edit mode usability issues (GH-114752).
• Core: Auto-release static GDTypes at exit (GH-114790).
• GDScript: Don’t clean up other scripts (GH-114801).
• GUI: Automatically Resample CanvasItems in Scene Editor (GH-114200).
• Import: Fix importing projects with PNG assets freezes Web Editor (GH-114410).
• Network: Make HTTPRequest 301 and 302 Redirects Standards-Compliant (GH-91199).
• Network: Normalize IP parsing, fix IPv6, tests (GH-114827).
• Platforms: Android: Fix ANRs when shutting down the engine due to the render thread (GH-114207).
• Rendering: Fix MSAA crashing Mali GPUs when using subpasses (GH-114785).

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. 48 contributors submitted 100 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.6-beta3. You can also review all changes included in 4.6 compared to the previous 4.5 feature release.

This release is built from commit 481f36ed2.

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. 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 on their free time, as well as a handful of part or 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

Happy new year, everyone! While most of our contributors were taking time off these past few weeks, there were still quite a few issues and regressions addressed in that time. As such, let’s welcome in 2026 with a brand new build: 4.6 beta 3 has arrived! This iterates upon the relatively-stable 4.6 beta 2, so it won’t be much longer before we’re ready for the release candidate stage.

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

For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.6, have a look at the highlights for 4.6 beta 1, which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 2 and beta 3, which are largely regression fixes:

• Core: Improve determinism of UIDs (GH-111858).
• Editor: Correctly handle discarding of saved redo (GH-112597).
• Editor: Improve interaction feedback in modern theme (GH-114571).
• Editor: Validate Resource type when pasting property (GH-112386).
• GUI: Add non-public {Line,Text}Edit::_set_text() to fix text_submitted signal emission on Web (GH-113461).
• GUI: Improve the look of inner tabs in modern theme (GH-114392).
• Rendering: Create new pools when they become fragmented on Vulkan (GH-114313).
• Rendering: Fix VoxelGI glossy reflection artifacts (GH-113334).
• Rendering: Implement workaround for GPU driver crash on Adreno 5XX (GH-114416).
• XR: Android: Handle YUV_420_888 strides correctly in CameraFeed (GH-110720).

Changelog

60 contributors submitted 133 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.6-beta2. You can also review all changes included in 4.6 compared to the previous 4.5 feature release.

This release is built from commit 76dda5c6c.

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 beta stage, we focus on solving both regressions (i.e. something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.6. This list is dynamic and will be updated if we discover new showstopping issues after more users start testing the beta 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 platform managed by Godot Foundation. There are also several alternative ways to donate which you may find more suitable.

Donate now

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Happy holidays! We’ve just released Panda3D 1.10.16, available now on the download page or via pip install –upgrade panda3d. This release focuses on stability and correctness, fixing several bugs that could cause crashes or hangs. We recommend all users upgrade….

What’s Changed

Android 16kb fix by @joliver82 in #2573
solve issue #2571 (RendererException with hw skinning disabled) by @stephengold in #2574
Improve memory efficiency and speed of gltf importer by @riccardobl in #2553
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As 2025 winds to a close, so too does our team for the holiday season. Before we head off, let us leave you with a parting gift: the final development build of the year, 4.6 beta 2!

We’ve already discovered and tackled a fair number of regressions since 4.6 beta 1, which we’re hoping will lend itself to a quick release cycle. However, there’s still further bugfixing and testing to be done, so users are encouraged to report whatever new issues crop up this release.

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

For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.6, have a look at the highlights for 4.6 beta 1, which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 1 and beta 2. This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 1 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

• Editor: Disable tool button for multiple nodes (GH-113944).
• Editor: Fix shader editor minimum size (GH-113916).
• Editor: Show file when FileSystem is searched with UID (GH-102789).
• GUI: Fix TextEdit does not auto scroll properly on certain vertical sizes (GH-113390).
• Platforms: iOS: Automatically enable iphone-ipad-minimum-performance-a12 if project is using Forward+/Mobile renderer (GH-114098).
• Platforms: Linux: X11: Fix input delay regression (GH-113537).
• Rendering: Update Mesa NIR to 25.3.1 + Make each SPIR-V -> DXIL conversion thread allocate from its own heap (GH-113618).
• Rendering: OpenGL: Split the ubos for motion vectors into separate uniforms to fix Adreno GPU crash (GH-114175),
• Thirdparty: Replace minimp3 with dr_mp3 (GH-96547).
• Thirdparty: SDL: Update to 3.2.28 (GH-113968).
• Translations: Sync with latest Weblate, new 4.6 strings are now available to translate.

Changelog

64 contributors submitted 198 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.6-beta1. You can also review all changes included in 4.6 compared to the previous 4.5 feature release.

This release is built from commit 551ce8d47.

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 beta stage, we focus on solving both regressions (i.e. something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.6. This list is dynamic and will be updated if we discover new showstopping issues after more users start testing the beta 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.

• XR: Motion vectors are currently broken in the compatibility renderer, causing geometry to predominantly render as black (GH-107438).

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 platform managed by Godot Foundation. There are also several alternative ways to donate which you may find more suitable.

Donate now