Godot 3.6 was released in September last year, and it has been mostly stable, although there have been a few more important bugs which warrant a maintenance “patch” release (3.6.x).

As well as bug fixes, this release also contains some cherry-picks from 4.x to update libraries. Let us know if you spot any regressions.

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As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release.

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Major bugs fixed

Grid snapping + ruler in editor

A small change to Range::set_value unfortunately led to a major regression in grid and ruler behaviour when zoomed in (GH-98466).

We decided on balance the safest course of action in 3.x was to revert the change.

  • GUI: Revert changes to Range::set_value (GH-100459).

Performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start

Users noticed a drop in performance in 3D scenes with DirectionalLight in Godot 3.6 compared to 3.5. We tracked this down to the introduction of the fade_start property, which made some changes to the shader.

We were able to fix this up with some modifications.

  • Rendering: Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start (GH-99536).

Changes

Here are the main changes since 3.6-stable:

2D

  • Make selected tile in TileSet more visible through red outline (GH-105439).

3D

  • Physics Interpolation - fix client interpolation pump (GH-102184).

Audio

  • Initialize pa_buffer_attr.maxlength to -1 (GH-102069).
  • ResourceImporterWAV: Detect if data chunk size is larger than the actual size (GH-107694).

Buildsystem

  • Fix VS project generation with SCons 4.8.0+ (GH-94117).
  • CI: Update Linux runners to Ubuntu 24.04, but keep 22.04 for Linux builds (GH-98896).
  • Improve cache handling (GH-98992).
  • Windows: Rename PKEY_Device_FriendlyName to avoid duplicate symbols with newer MinGW SDKs (GH-99036).
  • embree: Fix invalid output operators raising errors with GCC 15 (GH-102023).

C#

  • Mono: Move MonoGCHandle into gdmono namespace (GH-106578).

Core

  • Object::call() prevent debug lock accessing dangling pointer (GH-96862).
  • Fix parsing of 4. in Expression (GH-96891).
  • Cache results for TranslationServer.compare_locales() (GH-98234).
  • Fix error when non-ASCII characters in resource pack path (GH-98843).
  • JavaScript: Don’t cache emsdk (GH-99037).
  • Prevent inlining error printing functions (GH-103621).

Documentation

  • Document Timer autostart in tool scripts (GH-99048).
  • Document radial_center_offset bounds for TextureProgress (GH-99869).
  • Docs: Add description for BitMap.opaque_to_polygons method (GH-102684).

Editor

  • Cancel tooltips when the mouse leaves the window (GH-95978).

GDScript

  • Backport “Cleanup function state connections when destroying instance” for Godot 3 (GH-97464).

GUI

  • Fix button click detection when Tree is rotated (GH-98300).
  • Fix PopupMenu margin and separation calculations (GH-98452).
  • Fix Button not listing hover_pressed stylebox (GH-98511).
  • Improve TextureProgress.set_radial_initial_angle() by removing loops (GH-99434).
  • Show TextureProgress radial center cross only when editing the scene (GH-99870).
  • Revert changes to Range::set_value #65101 (GH-100459).
  • [3.x, RTL] Track external changes in the custom fonts set by BBCode / push_font (GH-105266).
  • Revert “Fix Button not listing hover_pressed stylebox” (GH-107696).

Input

Physics

  • Fix physics platform behaviour regression (GH-97316).

Porting

  • Disable Nahimic code injection (GH-99388).

Rendering

  • Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start (GH-99536).
  • Hide last DirectionalLight shadow split distance property when using PSSM 3 Splits (GH-99554).
  • Physics Interpolation - Add editor warning for non-interpolated PhysicsBody (GH-103355).

Thirdparty

  • certs: Sync with Mozilla bundle as of Oct 19, 2024 (GH-98855).
  • Update the Thirdparty section of CHANGELOG.md (GH-99692).
  • mbedtls: Update to upstream version 2.28.9 (GH-100013).
  • mbedTLS: Update to version 2.28.10 (GH-104580).
  • certs: Sync with upstream as of Apr 8 2025 (GH-106615).
  • Fix unzSeekCurrentFile not resetting total_out_64 (GH-106872).
  • libwebm: Fix double free in mkvparser ContentEncoding (GH-107781).

Changelog

21 contributors submitted around 45 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 3.6 release.

This release is built from commit b1ba98fce.

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UWP (Universal Windows Platform)

Unfortunately after hitting some build snags with UWP, we’ve taken the difficult decision to drop it from the pre-built release templates. Current demand seems very low (one of the last remaining use cases was UWP builds with Xbox One) and UWP has already been dropped for Godot 4.x. Note that it is still supported via compiling from source with MSVC.

Bug reports

As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.6.1. Please check first the existing issues on GitHub, using the search function with relevant keywords, to ensure that the bug you experience is not known already.

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 3.6 or earlier 3.5.x releases no longer works in 3.6.1).

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