Many core team members are heading to the Game Developers Conference next week (see our past announcement, and the line-up of games we’ll be showcasing), and preparing for this event in parallel to working on the upcoming Godot 4.3 release has kept us really busy!
So maintenance releases for 4.1 and 4.2 users fell through the cracks temporarily, but we’re getting back on track with a new set of release candidates for both 4.1.4 and 4.2.2.
Since the previous RC 1 snapshots, we’ve merged a lot of additional important bug fixes, which warrant a good amount of testing. So please give it a try on your projects, and let us know if you run into any problem!
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.
Jump to the Downloads section, and give the new releases a spin right now, or continue reading to learn more about improvements. You can also try the Web editor (4.1.4 RC 2, 4.2.2 RC 2) 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.
The illustration picture for this article comes from The Last Seed, a submission to Global Game Jam 2023 by bitbrain, Andrea Baroni and Lucia La Rezza. bitbrain is also working on an untitled RPG with Godot, and maintains a number of open source plugins you may be interested in.
Highlights of 4.1.4 RC 2
33 contributors submitted around 73 improvements for this release. You can review the complete list of changes with our interactive changelog, which contains links to relevant commits and PRs for this and every previous release.
- Audio: Fix audio crackling issues on Windows using certain DACs due to incorrect WASAPI buffer size (GH-89283).
- C#: Fix duplicate key issue on reload (GH-87838).
- Export: Fix reporting exit code when command line export fails (GH-89234).
- GDScript: Allow LSP to process multiple messages per poll (GH-89284).
- iOS: Enable Storyboard launch screen by default (GH-89336).
- Rendering: Significantly improve the speed of shader compilation in compatibility backend (GH-87553).
- Thirdparty: Update mbedtls to upstream version 2.28.7 (GH-87738).
- Lots of documentation improvements!
This release is built from commit fbc4a7e3a.
Highlights of 4.2.2 RC 2
84 contributors submitted around 204 improvements for this release. You can review the complete list of changes with our interactive changelog, which contains links to relevant commits and PRs for this and every previous release.
As usual, everything in 4.1.4 RC 2 also made it into 4.2.2 RC 2, but 4.2.2 RC 2 has a number of additional changes.
- Android: Update target SDK to API level 34, and other related dependencies (Gradle, Kotlin, etc.) (GH-87346).
- C#: Fix possible deadlock when creating scripts during a background garbage collection (GH-87669).
- C#: Bump
Rider.PathLocator nuget version, which provides a fix for detecting Rider installations (GH-88544). - Core: Fix
ResourceLoader.load_threaded_get_status returning [0] constantly in exported projects (GH-87711). - Editor: Fix editor profiler script function sort order (GH-87661).
- Editor: Fix spurious error when using VS Code LSP due to
line_number_gutter not being calculated yet (GH-84907). - Export: Fix issue where shader parameters are not saved in headless export (GH-87392).
- Import: Fixed multiple issues with mesh compression (GH-88738).
- Particles: Fix early activation of particle trail sections (GH-89042).
- Rendering: Fix Camera2D frame delay (GH-84465).
- Rendering: Fix Volumetric Fog VoxelGI updates (GH-86023).
- Thirdparty: Update ThorVG to 0.12.7 (GH-89337).
- Windows: Force ANGLE on all pre GCN 4th gen. AMD/ATI GPUs (GH-85273).
This release is built from commit c61a68614.
Downloads
Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.
.NET 6 build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.
Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.
.NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.
- .NET build requires .NET SDK 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0 installed in a standard location.
- To export to Android, .NET 7.0 or later is required. To export to iOS, .NET 8.0 is required. Make sure to set the target framework in the
.csproj file.
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
There are currently no known issues introduced by these releases.
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 no longer works).
Support
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