Here’s the final round of release candidates for Godot 4.1.4 and 4.2.2, which I aim to release as stable in a few days.
The previous RC 2 builds were already fairly solid, but GDC 2024 and Easter holidays delayed the stable release a bit. And since a few more important bug fixes were merged in the meantime, I decided to do a final batch of cherry-picks and thus a third release candidate to validate them.
These builds should be exactly what the stable release would be, so please give them a try with your current projects (and maybe give 4.2.2 RC 3 a spin during this weekend’s Ludum Dare 55 ;)). I won’t wait too long this time to release the stable builds, so I need any potential regression to be reported in the coming days.
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 3, 4.2.2 RC 3) 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.
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Highlights of 4.1.4 RC 3
20 contributors submitted around 32 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.
- Android: Add
POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission to the list of permissions available in the Export dialog (GH-90377). - Animation: Fix setting animation save paths on import breaking on Windows (GH-90003).
- C#: Fix
Transform3D.InterpolateWith applying rotation before scale (GH-89843). - Thirdparty: mbedTLS updated to version 2.28.8 (GH-90209).
This release is built from commit bb5ea0d24.
Highlights of 4.2.2 RC 3
45 contributors submitted around 66 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 3 also made it into 4.2.2 RC 3, but 4.2.2 RC 3 has a number of additional changes.
- Animation: Fix AnimationPlaybackTrack seeking behavior overall (GH-89794).
- C#: Use
get_instance_binding instead of set (GH-84947). - C#: Fix return type hint for methods (GH-86972).
- Core: Fix
ResourceLoader.load cache with relative paths (GH-90038). - Editor: Don’t abort loading scenes when
ext_resource is missing (GH-85159, GH-90269).- This should work around some types of “corrupted scene” errors when opening scenes after moving files around.
- Editor: Fix same-name (sub)groups interfering in Inspector (GH-89631).
- Editor: Fix duplicated folder reference in Godot Editor after changing filename case (GH-90280).
- iOS: Fix adding static libs to the Xcode project (GH-90379).
- macOS: Fix issue with moving maximized window (GH-90101).
- macOS: Fix menu bar & dock stop appearing after closing sub-window (GH-90131).
- Physics: Fix separating axes for 3D cylinder-face collisions (GH-89960).
- Rendering: Fix OpenGL
_shadow_atlas_find_shadow error when light instance is freed (GH-90233). - Rendering: Fix missed light clusters when inside clipped lights (GH-89450).
- Rendering: Fix mobile renderer RID leaks (GH-89531).
- This caused some new errors to be printed which will be fixed for 4.2.2 stable (GH-90458).
- Thirdparty: ThorVG updated to version 0.12.10 (GH-89591, GH-90243).
- Windows: Fix exporting as ZIP when console wrapper and/or embedded PCK is enabled (GH-89511).
- XR: Add fix for TAA passes rendering black meshes on XR (GH-88830).
This release is built from commit 16a8334b8.
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
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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).
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