Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 beta 2
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 19, 2023
beta 1 release, we introduced fixes for a number of bugs reported by the community, which are now ready to test in beta 2. After last week's 4.2
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Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 19, 2023
beta 1 release, we introduced fixes for a number of bugs reported by the community, which are now ready to test in beta 2. After last week's 4.2
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 23, 2022
betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What's new.
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Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2023
beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). Bug reports. See the list below. What's new.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 1, 2022
has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some big changes in this beta: Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). GDScript: Loads of follow-up improvements to recent fixes in beta 5 and 6. Bug reports. What's new.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
has been in beta for a little over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. This beta 6 includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: GDScript cyclic reference issues begone! beta with their Scatter addon. What's new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 20, 2023
Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Fixes to CanvasItem draw methods to better handled lines of different widths and filled rectangles ( GH-41239 , GH-71623 , GH-71679 ). With the first Godot 4.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 27, 2023
The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 10, 2023
beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we'll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 19, 2022
has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Bug reports. specifically.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 25, 2023
The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Add support for Unicode identifiers in GDScript and Expression ( GH-71676 ).
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 9, 2022
has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Bug reports. specifically.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 17, 2023
Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: SkeletonModificationStack3D has been removed, with the 3D inverse kinematic API being more or less reset to the state of Godot 3.x. With the first Godot 4.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 23, 2022
betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What’s new.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. Bug reports.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2023
beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). Bug reports. See the list below. What’s new.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 10, 2023
beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 19, 2022
has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Bug reports. specifically.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Bug reports.
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 14, 2022
beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 14, 2022
beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
beta 1 two weeks ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here's beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 1, 2022
has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some big changes in this beta: Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). GDScript: Loads of follow-up improvements to recent fixes in beta 5 and 6. Bug reports. What’s new.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
has been in beta for a little over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. This beta 6 includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: GDScript cyclic reference issues begone! beta with their Scatter addon. What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Bug reports.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2022
So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Bug reports. have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 9, 2022
has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Bug reports. specifically.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 15, 2022
beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).
Mircosoft Game Dev
APRIL 15, 2022
stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 7, 2021
This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Moreover, there have been many fixes to features introduced in previous betas, so make sure to test this build and ensure that everything works as you'd want it. CSG: Various bug fixes.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
beta 1 two weeks ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here’s beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 30, 2022
stable release with a third beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! You can also review the changes between beta 2 and beta 3.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 3, 2022
stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). Bug reports. We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 11, 2020
This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Additionally, beta 4 adds support for MP3 loading and playback ! and included in this beta are: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. CSG: Various bug fixes. Highlights.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we’ve been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. Bug reports.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. This update also re-adds UWP templates which we missing in beta 1 and beta 2 due to a temporary buildsystem issue. beta 3, only classical build for now). CSG: Various bug fixes.
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 21, 2020
It focused mostly on fixing bugs and therefore we were somewhat conservative on what could be merged before the release. This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. CSG: Various bug fixes.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2021
With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. and included in this beta are: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. CSG: Various bug fixes.
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 5, 2020
This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 22, 2020
release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 We already had two betas , and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. and 3.2.1.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 7, 2020
release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 We published a first beta a few weeks ago, and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ) ( added in 3.2.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 3, 2020
Right, yet another beta build, but this one is so much closer to the release candidate ;). More seriously, we are quite happy with the current state of the master branch and a lot of important bug fixes have been made since the previous beta 4. For changes since the last beta build, see the list of commits. Bug reports.
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