Release candidate: Godot 4.3 RC 3

Third time’s the charm! A few more regressions have been found and fixed thanks to our previous two Release Candidates for Godot 4.3, so we are now going for a third round to validate those last minute fixes.

All issues and PRs which were still on the 4.3 milestone but not critical have now been retriaged and postponed, which means the release should be good to go! Of course we haven’t fixed all known bugs in the engine, but we believe we’ve addressed the ones that could prevent users from having a better experience in 4.3 than in the current 4.2 stable branch.

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Jump to the Downloads section, and give it a spin right now, or continue reading to learn more about improvements in this release. You can also try the Web editor 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 cover illustration is from Pixelorama, an increasingly popular open source pixel art editor made with Godot by Orama Interactive and contributors. They just released their 1.0 version, and Pixelorama is now available both on itch.io and on Steam, where you can purchase it to support developers. And of course, the full source code is available on GitHub.

Highlights

We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.3 in the previous 4.3 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.3 release.

Especially if you’re testing 4.3 for the first time, you’ll want to get a condensed overview of what new features you might want to make use of.

This section covers changes made since the previous RC 2 snapshot, which are mostly regression fixes, or “safe” fixes to longstanding issues.

Here’s a selection of the some of most relevant ones:

• Animation: Snap current position to the edge on animation finished (GH-95023).
• Animation: Fix crash on reimport scene with animations (GH-95084).
• Animation: Make Skeleton3D bone simulator an internal child (GH-95239).
• Core: ResourceLoader: Add check to prevent double free crashes (GH-95186).
• Editor: Various fixes to the project manager create/import dialogs (GH-95062, GH-95086, GH-95245).
• Editor: Don’t drop PackedScene as property (GH-95090).
• GDScript: Fix unnecessary calls to remove_parser (GH-95115).
• GUI: PopupMenu: Increase mouse button release timeout and reset it from post_popup (GH-95232).
• Import: Fix performance issue reimport file reload scene (GH-95225, GH-95264).
• Input: X11: Use motion event button state instead of async state (GH-95008).
• Input: Windows: Reject WM_POINTER(UP/DOWN) messages for non pen pointer type (GH-95155).
• Multiplayer: ENet: Better handle disconnected peers in DTLS server (GH-95067).
• Multiplayer: Avoid error spam in relay protocol when clients disconnect (GH-95192).
• Multiplayer: Fix relay protocol routing with negative targets (GH-95194).
• Network: WS: Fix set_no_delay on Windows (GH-95233).
• Porting: Windows: Check if transparency is enabled in the project setting before applying DWM blur (GH-95009).
• Porting: macOS: Attempt to terminate process normally before using forceTerminate (GH-95191).
• Porting: macOS: Load OpenGL.framework by path to avoid issues with non-Latin executable names (GH-95235).
• Rendering: D3D12: Avoid cases of redundant render target clears (GH-95064).
• Rendering: D3D12: Avoid crash on exit (GH-95074).
• Rendering: Fix LightmapGI causes crash when using --headless (GH-95103).
• Shaders: VisualShader: Reduce size changes of nodes when connecting/disconnecting (GH-95061).

Changelog

18 contributors submitted 40 improvements for this new snapshot. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.3-rc2 snapshot. You can also review all changes included in 4.3 compared to the previous 4.2 feature release.

This release is built from commit 03afb92ef.

Downloads

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Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.

.NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.

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If you want to test the new Windows ARM64 builds, you will now find them listed in the usual download page.

Known issues

During the Release Candidate stage, we focus exclusively on solving showstopping regressions (i.e. something that worked in a previous release is now broken, without workaround). You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.3. This list is dynamic and will be updated if we discover new blocking issues after more users start testing the RC snapshots.

With every release, we are aware that there are going to be various issues which have already been reported but haven’t been fixed yet, due to limited resources. 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, but no longer works in this snapshot).

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