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. What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

Beta 52

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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. It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. and included in this beta are: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

We already had two betas , and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. Other changes.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

We published a first beta a few weeks ago, and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 The fix made in the 3.2

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0

Alpha 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nevertheless, other contributors have kept working in the meantime, and some of the Godot Sprint attendees also did some welcome bugfixing, so we have enough content for a new beta 4 build. beta 3 and 3.1 This beta is built from commit 17809ca. GH-25839 : Visual Shader compile error with CanvasShaderGLES2 (fixed in master ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

Beta 52

Beta Bug Debug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). If you already reviewed the changelog for beta 6, you can skip right to the differences between beta 6 and RC 1.

Mesh 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. See Fabio's various progress reports to know more about the rationale, use case and implementation details: first prototype , second prototype , beta version , release candidate , Progressive Web App. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. New CPU lightmapper.

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