The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we’ve been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC).

This new RC 3 build fixes a couple recent regressions. It’s now considered release-ready, so unless new regressions are reported in coming days, we plan to release 3.2.2-stable in a day or two.

Notably, Godot 3.2.2 is going to add 5 major features:

If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub, ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue.

How to test

It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x. It’s of course always advised to use a version control system or backups in case you want to go back to the previous version.

Note: If using C#, the .csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 and 3.2.1. A backup of the file will be generated upon conversion so that you can revert to older releases if need be.

C# support for iOS

C# support for iOS should work similarly to exporting a GDScript project for iOS. Note that the export needs to be done from a macOS system to use the included AOT compiler for iOS arm64. If you run into any issue with the export process, please also test the export of a simple GDScript project to verify if the issue relates to the new C# support or to the iOS export pipeline in general.

GLES2 2D batching

The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Our main batching architecture lawnjelly has already done a lot of groundwork to implement the batching in GLES3 too, but we will start evaluating these changes for the 3.2.3 release.

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. You can turn it off or configure advanced settings in the Project Settings (note that settings used until 3.2.2 beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request). Please see this dedicated issue for more details and to share your own testing results (we’re interested in all feedback, whether you gained a lot of performance, lost some or didn’t notice any change). Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect, text rendering, etc.), but we plan to include more primitive types once this has been well tested.

New Android plugin system

Godot 3.2 came with a brand new Android plugin system already, and notably the possibility to build custom APKs from your project folder with any additional plugins/modules that your project needs.

Fredia had done a lot of work back then to improve Juan’s initial custom build system, which led him to notice many things that could be modernized to be better suited to the current Android ecosystem. Notably, he re-architectured the plugin system to leverage the Android AAR library file format.

This new plugin system is backward-incompatible with the 3.2/3.2.1 system, but both systems are kept functional in future releases of the 3.2.x branch. Since we previously did not version our Android plugin systems, this new one is now labelled v1, and is the starting point for the modern Godot Android ecosystem.

See this Pull Request and the updated documentation for details. Fredia has already started helping some plugin authors to update theirs to the new v1 system, feel free to ask if you need help too.

DTLS support and ENet integration

Fabio’s work on DTLS support was nearly done by the time 3.2 was released, but came too late to be thoroughly tested. Testing has happened since then both in the master branch and in the pending 3.2 Pull Request, so we’re now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing.

See the dedicated devblog for usage examples.

Fix for the dangling Variant bug

If you were running into this bug, it would typically be in situations where you’d check is_instance_valid() on what you expect to be a freed instance (which should give False), and it would actually return True and lead you to access a method or a property of a different object (causing an error if the object’s class does not include this method or property).

The fix made in the 3.2 is only done on debug builds for performance reasons, so make sure to fix any error reported by the editor or debug builds before shipping a release build to your players.

Other changes

Apart from those major features, there are over 750 cherry-picks (beta 1, beta 2, beta 3, beta 4, RC 1, RC 2, RC 3) for bug fixes and enhancements which have been merged since Godot 3.2.1. Here are some highlights:

  • 2D: Expose the cell_size affecting VisibilityNotifier2D precision (GH-38286).
  • 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders (GH-38432).
  • 2D: Implement skew in Node2D (GH-38394).
  • Android: Re-architecture of the Godot Android plugin (GH-36336).
  • Android: Add signal support to Godot Android plugins (GH-37305).
  • Android: Fix LineEdit virtual keyboard issues (GH-38309).
  • Android: The GodotPayments plugin was moved to an external first-party plugin using the Google Play Billing library (GH-39034).
  • AStar: Implements estimate_cost/compute_cost for AStar2D (GH-37039).
  • AStar: Make get_closest_point() deterministic for equidistant points (GH-39409).
  • Audio: Fix volume interpolation in positional audio nodes (GH-37279).
  • C#: Add iOS support (GH-36979).
  • C#: Sync csproj when files are changed from the FileSystem dock (GH-37149).
  • C#: Replace uses of old Configuration and update old csprojs (GH-36865).
  • C#: Allow debugging exported games (GH-38115).
  • C#: Revert marshalling of IDictionary/IEnumerable implementing types (GH-38141).
  • C#: Fix inherited scene not inheriting parent’s exported properties (GH-38638).
  • C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector (GH-38940.
  • Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize (GH-37373).
  • Core: Fix dangling Variants (GH-38119).
  • Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system (GH-37863).
  • Core: Fix leaks and crashes in OAHashMap (GH-38828).
  • CSG: Various bug fixes (GH-38011).
  • Debug: Add a suffix to the window title when running from a debug build (GH-33148).
  • Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport (GH-33098).
  • Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings (GH-37989).
  • Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor (GH-37293).
  • Editor: Account for file deletion and renaming in Export Presets (GH-39434).
  • Editor: Allow duplicating files when holding Control (GH-39307).
  • Files: Improve UX of drive letters (GH-36639).
  • GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms (GH-38799).
  • GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress (GH-38288).
  • GDScript: Fix object leaks caused by unfulfilled yields (GH-38482).
  • GDScript: Various bugs fixed in the parser.
  • GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items (GH-37349).
  • GLES2: Avoid unnecessary material rebind when using skeleton (GH-37667).
  • GLES3: Add Nvidia draw_rect flickering workaround (GH-38517).
  • GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures (GH-36342).
  • GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation (GH-37815).
  • HTML5: Implement audio buffer size calculation, should fix iOS Safari audio issues (GH-38816).
  • HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code (GH-39298).
  • HTML5: Use 2-phase setup in JavaScript (GH-39538).
  • Image: Fixing wrong blending rect methods (GH-39200).
  • Import: Fix changing the import type of multiple files at once (regression fix) (GH-37610).
  • Import: Respect ‘mesh compression’ editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers (GH-39134).
  • Import: Add support for glTF lights (GH-39428).
  • Input: Various fixes for touch pen input (GH-37756, GH-38439, GH-38484).
  • Input: Fix joypad GUID conversion to match new SDL format on OSX and Windows (GH-39060, GH-39172)
  • Input: Add keyboard layout enumeration / set / get functions (GH-39502).
  • Language Server: Switch the GDScript LSP from WebSocket to TCP, compatible with more external editors (GH-35864).
  • macOS: Ignore process serial number argument passed by macOS Gatekeeper (GH-37719).
  • macOS: Enable signing of DMG and ZIP’ed exports (GH-33447).
  • macOS: Fix exports losing executable permission when unzipped (GH-39700).
  • Networking: DTLS support + optional ENet encryption (GH-35091).
  • Object: Add has_signal method (GH-33508).
  • Particles: Fix uninitialized memory in CPUParticles and CPUParticles2D (GH-38346, GH-38378).
  • Physics: Make soft body completely stiff to attachment point (GH-36048).
  • Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D (GH-39399).
  • Physics: Normalise up direction vector in move_and_slide() (GH-39590).
  • RegEx: Enable Unicode support for RegEx class (GH-39454).
  • RichTextLabel: Fix alignment bug with [center] and [right] tags (GH-39164).
  • RichTextLabel: Add option to fit height to contents (GH-33235).
  • Shaders: Add shader time scaling (GH-38995).
  • Skeleton: Fix IK rotation issue (GH-37272).
  • UWP: Renamed the “Windows Universal” export preset to “UWP”, to avoid confusion (GH-39678).
  • VR: Fix aspect ratio on HMD projection matrix (GH-37601).
  • Windows: Make stack size on Windows match Linux and macOS (GH-37115).
  • Windows: Fix certain characters being recognized as special keys when using the US international layout (GH-38820).
  • Windows: Add tablet driver selection (WinTab, Windows Ink) (GH-38875).
  • Windows: Fix quoting arguments with special characters in OS.execute() (GH-38856).
  • Windows: Do not probe joypads if DirectInput cannot be initializer (GH-39143).
  • Windows: Fix overflow condition with QueryPerformanceCounter (GH-38958.
  • API documentation updates.
  • Editor translation updates.
  • And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

See the full changelog on GitHub (beta 1, beta 2, beta 3, beta 4, RC 1, RC 2, RC 3) for details.

Godot 3.2.2 RC 3 is built from commit 1468c0b4d4592406502c7e4eaa2121f1d0a7e5f6 (June 22, 2020).

Downloads

The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform:

  • Classical build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).
  • Mono build (C# support + all the above). You need to have MSBuild installed to use the Mono build. Relevant parts of Mono 6.6.0.166 are included in this build.

Bug reports

As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.2.2 RC 3. 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 3.2.1 no longer works in 3.2.2 RC 3).