It’s been a couple of weeks since we saw the release of 4.7 beta 1, and in that time we’ve managed to detect and resolve over 100 regressions! There’s still plenty of work to be done on the testing front, so users are encouraged to report whatever new issues crop up this newest release: Godot 4.7 beta 2.

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 4.7, have a look at the highlights for 4.7 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:

• 3D: Add undo/redo support for Pilot Mode camera movement (GH-119349).
• Animation: Rename various signal parameters called ‘name’ (GH-119316).
• Core: Fix a race in ResourceLoader::load_threaded_request() (GH-118824).
• Documentation: Link to tutorial and add platform notes to HDR output docs (GH-118692).
• Editor: Fix editor screenshots with HDR enabled (GH-119013).
• Editor: Improve ‘Clear Output’ button position (GH-118954).
• Export: Remove experimental warning from Use Gradle Build option on Android (GH-119172).
• GDExtension: Deprecate GDExtension’s object_cast_to and classdb_get_class_tag, in favour of is_class casts (GH-119254).
• GUI: Make internal children of built-in nodes use their parent’s material (GH-115637).
• Rendering: Fix behavior of window_is_hdr_output_supported for Wayland and adjust warnings (GH-117913).
• Rendering: HDR: Implement checking if surface supports HDR output (GH-119091).
• XR: Update default OpenXR action map (GH-118975).

Changelog

74 contributors submitted 153 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7-beta1. You can also review all changes included in 4.7 compared to the previous 4.6 feature release.

This release is built from commit 777579205.

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 4.7. 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: The Godot editor will crash upon quitting a XR project on macOS (GH-119146).
• GUI: Popup menu tooltips don’t show up when the search bar is enabled (GH-119407).

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

The official GodotCon returns to Boston for the second US edition. For this edition of the event, we teamed up with SceneTree to help us organize it and make sure that everything runs smoothly.

Information

📅 Dates	21st, 22nd of July 2026
🕑 Time	09:00 – 18:00
🇳🇱 Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
📍 Venue	Microsoft NERD Center. 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States
🌐 Website	https://conference.godotengine.org/US/2026/

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➡️ Call for submissions, Deadline: 1st of June 2026

We are also actively looking for sponsors to support GodotCon Boston. If you or your company would be interested in learning more about sponsorship opportunities, feel free to reach out to president@scenetree.org.

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An event like this only happens thanks to passionate people like you who are willing to help behind the scenes. If you want to contribute to making GodotCon Boston 2026 a welcoming and smooth experience for everyone, we are currently looking for volunteers to help us manage different aspects of the conference, from stage managers to photographers.

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While Godot 4.7 is enjoying its beta period, work continues on ensuring 4.6 is as stable as possible. So we’re continuing our streak of maintenance releases with Godot 4.6.3, whose first release candidate builds are now ready for testing!

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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What’s new

31 contributors submitted 56 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 4.6.2 maintenance release, which are largely regression fixes:

• 2D: Update layer selector when modifying the TileMap in the inspector (GH-117256).
• 3D: Fix wrong rotation of cells while being pasted in the GridMap editor (GH-116683).
• Animation: Fix SplineIK crash cases (GH-117959).
• C#: Prevent SourceGenerators from becoming a transitive dependency (GH-114868).
• Core: Debugger: Rather than looping infinitely on data read errors, drop the connection (GH-113905).
• Core: Fix race in RefCounted::unreference() (GH-118678).
• Core: Improve thread-safety of Object signals (GH-117511).
• Editor: Don’t print UID errors when cache is not initialized (GH-118527).
• Editor: Fix game speed UI not resetting when game is restarted (from editor) (GH-116568).
• Export: iOS: Fix one-click deploy with Xcode 26 (GH-118559).
• GUI: RTL: Fix character click offsets after the table (GH-117011).
• Import: Copy scene unique ID when replacing imported instance (GH-118522).
• Input: Fix incorrect reading of joypad UTF8 raw_name in Input.get_joy_info() (GH-115218).
• Physics: Fix over-removal of area overlaps when using Jolt (GH-118285).
• Rendering: Fix GLES3 batching skipping rendering all items on specific buffer sizes (GH-117725).
• Rendering: Select relevant 3D lights per mesh on GLES3 and Mobile renderers (GH-107234).

This release is built from commit 6357d9e4c.

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 4.6.3. 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.

Donate now

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