While we initially anticipated our next snapshot to begin release candidate phase, we left open the possibility of another beta pass if any significant blockers persisted. And while the overwhelming majority have since been handled, this extra pass is to ensure debug symbols are supported for Android platforms. While this was always something that could be done when building from source, a long-term goal is official access to debug symbols, making this something we want to get right out of the gate.

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 4.5, 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 6 and beta 7. This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 6 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

  • 3D: Create an undo/redo action when pinning a SoftBody3D point in the editor (GH-109828).
  • Audio: Web: Fix AudioStreamPlayer.get_playback_position() returning incorrect values for samples (GH-109790).
  • Core: Revert “Prevent crashing if max_threads is zero.” (GH-110003).
  • Documentation: Document ClassDB not storing information on user-defined classes (GH-109747).
  • Editor: Allow extending previously-non-abstract scripts that became abstract (GH-109903).
  • Editor: Don’t start editor as unsaved (GH-109825).
  • Input: Revert “[Web] Disregard touch events in pointer callbacks” (GH-109936).
  • Porting: Android: Fix safe area regression on older Android versions (GH-109818).
  • Rendering: Treat missing variants as normal cache misses during shader cache lookup (GH-109882).

Changelog

29 contributors submitted 47 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the previous 4.5-beta6 snapshot.

This release is built from commit 4ebf67c12.

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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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