It’s been a while 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.

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.

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While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.

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).

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