It’s been nearly four weeks since we saw the release of Godot 4.7, which has given our team ample time to prepare for its first maintenance release. This progress was made in tandem with Godot 4.8, whose first development snapshot released last week, and will hopefully see its second snapshot later this week. But for those sticking with the rock-solid foundation Godot 4.7 provided, only iterating on critical regressions/crashes reported by the community in that time, you need look no further than today’s maintenance release: 4.7.1-stable!

Maintenance releases are expected to be safe for an upgrade, but we recommend to always make backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.

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Changes

42 contributors submitted 78 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.7-stable release.

This release is built from commit a13da4feb.

  • 2D: Improve 2D editor dropping code (GH-119418).
  • 3D: Fix closed Curve3D first/last point missing in/out control point (GH-120684).
  • Animation: Make animation folding access cfg only at save/load project time (GH-120403).
  • Assetlib: Set the Asset Store’s default sorting to highest scored (GH-121112).
  • Editor: Guard against non-main-thread emission of EditorFileSystem changed signal (GH-115083).
  • Editor: Wrap long project title (GH-119580).
  • GUI: Don’t automatically open virtual keyboard when popup menu shows (GH-120768).
  • GUI: Fix crash in Tree::_get_item_focus_rect (GH-120538).
  • GUI: Fix scene tree drag-n-drop regression on touchscreens (GH-120456).
  • GUI: Fix visual glitch with connections lines in GraphEdit (GH-120488).
  • Input: Android: Fix EditorSettings not instantiated error when running game (GH-120723).
  • Input: Fix backspace being unable to delete pre-existing text in any input field when using a soft keyboard on Android (GH-119798).
  • Navigation: Fix navigation agents unconditionally getting added to avoidance simulation after pause resume (GH-120249).
  • Network: Set inited=false on CookieContextMbedTLS::clear to avoid accidental double destruction (GH-120371).
  • Rendering: Fix flickering lighting on mesh-instances with non-uniform scale (GH-119784).
  • Rendering: Fix orthographic camera directional shadow culling (GH-120711).
  • Rendering: Fix previous transform getting remembered for 2 frames after the instance stops moving (GH-119941).
  • Rendering: Seek past skipped shader variant payloads to avoid reading incorrect data (GH-119792).

Known incompatibilities

As of now, there are no known incompatibilities with the previous Godot 4.7 release. We encourage all users to upgrade to 4.7.1.

If you experience any unexpected behavior change in your projects after upgrading to 4.7.1, please file an issue on GitHub.

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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