Castle Model Viewer for Android version 2.8 has been released! This brings: Support for IFC format right in our mobile viewer. Small UI improvements: better button order (left-most changes model), show more built-in files. Opening ZIP files underneath doesn’t create temp directory on your device. Internally, this is achieved by using to open ZIP files. …

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The weekly pace of beta snapshots returns with a bang! While the overall number of changes might be smaller, that’s simply a logical consequence of a much tighter scope on what can be integrated at this stage, with even generic bugfixes given a higher scrutiny. Regression fixes are our number one priority as we grow closer to the end of the beta period, and our contributors have been putting in the work to make that happen; shoutouts to everyone who’s lent a hand!

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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The cover illustration is from Maze Mice, a bullet heaven roguelite where time only moves when you move! You can buy the game on Steam or itch.io, and follow the developers on Bluesky.

Highlights

For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.5, have a look at the highlights for 4.5 beta 1, which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 4 and beta 5. This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 4 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

• 2D: Rename Camera2D set_position_smoothing_enabled parameter (GH-109147).
• 3D: Fix missing 3D gizmos (GH-109029).
• Audio: Fix AudioListener3D not tracking velocity for doppler (GH-108051).
• C#: Fix Quaternion(Vector3, Vector3) constructor when vectors are the same (GH-109281).
• Core: Ensure that threads only process one pump task (GH-108697).
• Core: Fix translation remaps incorrectly falling back (GH-103838).
• Documentation: Add search keywords for CheckButton and ButtonGroup (GH-109089).
• Editor: Fix inconsistent thumbnail width (GH-109199).
• GUI: Deactivate orientation gizmo on window exit (GH-108374).
• GUI: Fix ColorPicker linear mode sliders color (GH-108328).
• I18n: Disable auto translation of flag names in the inspector (GH-109294).
• Import: Prevent generating Editor 3D scene preview in headless mode (GH-109116).
• Input: Fix the usage of udev and dbus with SDL joystick input driver (GH-108373).
• Navigation: Fix path post-processing edgecentered (GH-109196).
• Physics: Revert “SoftBody3D: Support physics Interpolation” (GH-109265).
• Rendering: D3D12: Fix shader model check, initialization error handling (GH-108919).
• Rendering: OpenGL: Fix crash at startup with “Thread Model” set to “Separate” (GH-109057).
• Thirdparty: Update access-kit to 0.17.0 (GH-108924).

Changelog

43 contributors submitted 66 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the previous 4.5-beta4 snapshot.

This release is built from commit c81fd6c51.

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 4.5. 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 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.

We did a few moves and renames to our Lazarus packages. After upgrading to the latest engine version, be sure to run again “Register Lazarus Packages” button (from the “Preferences -> FPC and Lazarus” in our editor, as documented in our Lazarus docs). Note that the existing applications will continue to work even without you …

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Presenting a big batch of engine improvements done last ~month. Lots of small things. Everyone, pick what you like 🙂 Upgrade to the latest engine version and enjoy them all! If you like what you see, we appreciate your support on Patreon (we also have other ways to donate). We added a new documentation page …

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It’s been a bit since our last snapshot, as our team has been quite busy knocking out some critical release-blocker and immediate-blocker issues. Thankfully, we’re back at the point where we can comfortably deliver our latest 4.5 pre-release candidate. As a refresher: the beta period means that the project has entered feature freeze, so the only changes you’ll be seeing are bugfixes and addressing regressions.

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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The cover illustration is from DOGWALK, a title we had the pleasure of showcasing in a dedicated article. You can download the game for free on Steam, itch.io, and the Blender Studio website.

Highlights

For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.5, have a look at the highlights for 4.5 beta 1, which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 3 and beta 4. This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 3 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

• Animation: Remove PropertyTweener start warning (GH-108410).
• Buildsystem: Android: Update the maven publishing configuration following the deprecation of the OSSHR service (GH-108393).
• Buildsystem: Web: Fix Emscripten for WebXR and update minimum version (GH-107460).
• C#: Fix thread deadlock when using a worker thread to load a script with a generic base class (GH-99798).
• Editor: Fix main editor title after changing language (GH-108396).
• Editor: Fix ScriptEditor inline colors float handling (GH-107904).
• GDScript: Fix autocompletion issues with nested types (GH-94996).
• GDScript: Fix lookup symbol for super() (GH-108306).
• GUI: Code Editor: Fix “Pick Color” menu option replacing multiple color items (GH-108431).
• GUI: RTL: Add method to get visible content bounding box (GH-108466).
• GUI: RTL: Add option to scroll follow visible characters (GH-108399).
• GUI: TextEdit: Draw guidelines under the text and caret (GH-108599).
• Multiplayer: Fix node cache errors on nested MultiplayerSpawners (GH-101416).
• Porting: Windows: Add SSE4.2 support runtime check (GH-108561).
• Rendering: Always perform color correction and debanding on nonlinear sRGB values (GH-107782).
• Rendering: Fix crash when creating voxel GI data (GH-108397).
• Rendering: Fix underculling of occulusion culling (GH-108347).

Changelog

79 contributors submitted 168 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the previous 4.5-beta3 snapshot.

This release is built from commit 2d113cc22.

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 4.5. 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 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.

(Yes, it’s a 3rd news about Castle Game Engine in 3 days. More to come — we have a backlog of things to announce! Brace yourselves 🙂 ) We introduced an algorithm to detect 2-manifold scenes better, meaning that all scenes that are really 2-manifold (even if not all shapes inside are 2-manifold) are automatically …

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