It’s been just over two weeks since the release of Godot 4.5, and the overwhelmingly positive community response has been an absolute treat to behold! Our hard-working contributors have taken this energy to kick-start the development phase of Godot 4.6, resulting in our first snapshot coming out earlier this week.

In saying that, the main focus was always going to be hammering out newly reported regressions encountered in the 4.5 release, and integrating any fixes deemed too risky to merge at the time. As such, we’ve already prepared a healthy number of regression fixes for a 4.5.1 maintenance release. This release candidate is intended to validate the fixes in an environment isolated from the new enhancements and features that 4.6 is already boasting. Your testing is crucial to detect and squash any new issues that weren’t present in 4.5-stable, in order to ensure that this hotfix is as clean of an upgrade as possible.

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What’s new

31 contributors submitted 33 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.5-stable release.

  • Audio: Add one padding frame to QOA buffer for short streams (GH-110515).
  • Buildsystem: Windows: Migrate godot.manifest to platform/windows, include as dependency (GH-110897).
  • Core: Avoid repeated _copy_on_write() calls in Array::resize() (GH-110535).
  • Core: Check for NUL characters in string parsing functions (GH-110556).
  • Core: X11 input: prevent non-printable keys from producing empty strings (GH-110635).
  • Documentation: Clarify that velocity doesn’t need delta multiplication in CharacterBody documentation (GH-109925).
  • Documentation: Document the interaction between Light3D cull mask and GI/volumetric fog (GH-110423).
  • Documentation: Document typed dictionaries and arrays in the class reference (GH-107071).
  • Documentation: Fix Basis.determinant() doc: uniform scale determinant is scale^3 (GH-110424).
  • Editor: Correct the order of Diagonal Mode in Add Property (GH-109214).
  • Editor: Fix typos in BlendSpace2D editor’s axis labels’ accessibility names (GH-109847).
  • Export: Android: Ensure proper cleanup of the fragment (GH-109764).
  • Export: Metal: Fix Metal compiler version inspection (GH-110873).
  • GDExtension: Fix --dump-extension-api-with-docs indentation (GH-110557).
  • GUI: Fix LineEdit icon positon in right-to-left layout (GH-109363).
  • Import: Material Conversion Error Handling (GH-109369).
  • Navigation: [Navigation 2D] Fix sign of cross product (GH-110815).
  • Navigation: Make navmesh rasterization errors more lenient (GH-110841).
  • Physics: Fix bug in ManifoldBetweenTwoFaces (GH-110507).
  • Physics: Fix CCD bodies adding multiple contact manifolds when using Jolt (GH-110914).
  • Porting: Workaround X11 crash issue (GH-106798).
  • Rendering: Compatibility: Fix backface culling gets ignored when double-sided shadows are used (GH-109793).
  • Rendering: DirectX DescriptorsHeap pooling on CPU (GH-106809).
  • Rendering: Disable unsupported SSR, SSS, DoF on transparent viewports (GH-108206).
  • Rendering: Fix d3d12 stencil buffer not clearing (GH-111032).
  • Rendering: Fix OpenXR with D3D12 using the wrong clip space projection matrix (GH-110865).
  • Rendering: Increase precision of SpotLight attenuation calculation to avoid driver bug on Intel devices (GH-110363).
  • Rendering: Move check for sky cubemap array back into the SkyRD initializer (GH-110627).
  • Rendering: OpenXR: Fix ViewportTextures not displaying correct texture (OpenGL) (GH-110002).
  • Rendering: Sort render list correctly in RD renderers (GH-111054).
  • Rendering: Windows: Try reading GPU driver information directly from registry (GH-109346).
  • XR: Fix late destruction access violation with OpenXRAPIExtension object (GH-110868).

This release is built from commit c834443ef.

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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 4.5.1. This list is dynamic and will be updated if we discover new showstopping issues after more users start testing the RC snapshots.

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