In the two weeks since the release of 4.8 beta 1, our team has made great strides in ensuring the detection and resolution of nearly 150 regressions. This blog post covering the beta snapshot, and however many more are to come, will be lighter than the dev snapshots as 4.8 is considered feature-complete at this stage. Nonetheless, there’s still a fair bit to test, so we welcome you to try our newest release for yourself: Godot 4.8 beta 2.

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Highlights

For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.8, have a look at the highlights for 4.8 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:

  • Animation: Fix collapsing the time of a bezier track with box scaling creates incorrect undo data (GH-124433).
  • Assetlib: Set the Asset Store’s default sorting back to most relevant (GH-124749).
  • Buildsystem: CI: Bump minimum Python version (3.9 → 3.10) (GH-122597).
  • C#: Enable Optimize for GodotSharp Debug builds (GH-124391).
  • Core: Nest Instruments signpost zones under a single interval name (GH-124831).
  • Editor: Disable CanvasItem manipulation for native debug builds (GH-124549).
  • Editor: Fix evaluator does not run inside static functions (GH-107791).
  • GDScript: Apply COMPLETION_DECLARATION to for variables (GH-124885).
  • GUI: BaseButton: Check visible viewport rect when handling touch events (GH-123008).
  • Import: Fix bug in insertion of lightmap caches into unwrap_cache (GH-122494).
  • Particles: Change default curve range for particle angles to [-1, 1] (GH-123959).
  • Rendering: Fix multiply blending being too dark in Compatibility (GH-124838).
  • Thirdparty: Update various Unicode-related files to version 18.0.0 (GH-123567).
  • XR: Improve error message when using a Camera3D on an XR viewport (GH-124680).

Changelog

59 contributors submitted 144 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.8-beta1. You can also review all changes included in 4.8 compared to the previous 4.7 feature release.

This release is built from commit cafc17a19.

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  • .NET 10.0 or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from .NET 8 to 10.

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 4.8. 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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