Not even two weeks after the release of Godot 4.6, and the reception to the release has been nothing short of delightful to take in. Thank you to everyone who took to social media and shared their favorite changes! Similarly, as development of 4.7 is already well underway, we’re excited to show off some of our favorite changes as well!

However, that’s for a (slightly) later date. Today’s all about 4.6; specifically: a 4.6.1 maintenance release. This is because there have been a few showstopping issues reported by various users, and squashing those bugs has been a top priority for our team. Your testing will play a crucial role in detecting and addressing any issues that weren’t present in 4.6-stable, ensuring as clean of an upgrade as possible from this hotfix.

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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, the XR 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 illustration picture for this article comes from Turnbound, an auto-battler where inventory management and experimentation are key to escaping a haunted boardgame. You can buy the Early Access game on Steam, and follow the developers on Bluesky.

What’s new

25 contributors submitted 34 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.6-stable release.

This section covers all changes made since the stable release, which are largely regression fixes (critical fixes highlighted in bold):

  • 3D: Change orbit snap shortcut with navigation scheme (GH-115298).
  • 3D: Fix Skeleton3D Edit Mode bone buttons have priority over transform gizmo (GH-115608).
  • 3D: Fix viewport orbit snap defaulting to always snapping when shortcut(s) are set to none (GH-115002).
  • 3D: Increase float precision in the editor inspector for Quaternions (GH-106352).
  • 3D: Register zoom shortcuts to match preset Godot navigation scheme (GH-115290).
  • Animation: Fix LookAtModifier3D / AimModifier3D forward vector (GH-115689).
  • Animation: Fix use-after-free in Animation Blend Tree (GH-115919).
  • Animation: Fix use-after-free in AnimationTree (AHashMap realloc) (GH-115931).
  • Buildsystem: Fix missing lib with builtin_glslang=false (GH-93478).
  • C#: Revert “Improve performance of CSharpLanguage::reload_assemblies” (GH-115759).
  • Core: Fix ClassDB class list sorting regression (GH-115923).
  • Core: Fix the NodePath hash function to not yield the same value for similar paths (GH-115473).
  • Editor: Fix NodePath EditorProperty using the wrong scene root (GH-115422).
  • Editor: Fix create dialog recents (GH-115314).
  • Editor: Fix Rename option for instance roots (GH-115575).
  • Editor: Fix Unique Resources from Inherited Scenes (GH-115862).
  • Editor: Fix wrong base type when creating script (GH-115778).
  • Export: Load translation files to check locale for ICU data export (GH-115827).
  • GDScript: LSP: Add godot to known language ids (GH-115671).
  • GDScript: LSP: Handle clients that do not support CompletionContext (GH-115672).
  • GUI: Fix current line highlight not extending into gutter (GH-115729).
  • Input: Update editor shortcuts when changing 3D navigation scheme (GH-115289).
  • Physics: Fix transform updates sometimes being discarded when using Jolt (GH-115364).
  • Platforms: Android: Fix Bad file descriptor in SAF/MediaStore in long term access (GH-115751).
  • Platforms: Android: Fix plugin type mismatch regression (GH-115685).
  • Platforms: Fix crash in StorageScope.kt on Android (GH-115515).
  • Platforms: Wayland Embedder: Fix FD leak with inert objects (GH-115823).
  • Platforms: Windows: Disable MSVC control flow check on IAT hooks (GH-115430).
  • Rendering: Avoid reading from sky pointer when rendering background without sky (GH-115874).
  • Rendering: Ensure that uv border size is passed in to sky rendering functions (GH-115606).
  • Rendering: Pick the sample closer to the camera when resolving 2x MSAA (GH-115124).
  • Rendering: Update re-spirv with more derivative operations (GH-115921).
  • Rendering: Use sky’s corrected camera projection for combined_reprojection (GH-115292).
  • Thirdparty: libpng: Update to 1.6.54 (GH-115714).

This release is built from commit 7bfffc846.

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

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.

  • macOS builds are not signed this release; this will be resolved by the time 4.6.1-stable comes out.

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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