Last week, we released our first Release Candidate snapshot for 4.6.2, and have since backported even more critical bugfixes. While we normally only need a single pass for maintenance releases, sometimes enough changes are integrated to warrant a second pass. So, once more for good measure: Godot 4.6.2 RC 2 is ready for general testing!

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What’s new

25 contributors submitted 29 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.6.2-rc1. You can also review all changes included in 4.6.2 compared to the previous 4.6.1 maintenance release.

This section covers all changes made since 4.6.2-rc1, which are largely regression fixes:

  • 3D: Fix 3D focus selection for subgizmos (GH-116972).
  • 3D: Fix DirectionalLight3D property list (GH-117189).
  • Animation: Deselect bezier keyframes when switching animations (GH-116953).
  • Animation: Fix visual shift of animation editor keys during selection (GH-117290).
  • Buildsystem: Add UTF-8 encoding to SVG file open in platform_builders.py (GH-117454).
  • Buildsystem: CI: Bump JavaScript actions to Node 24 (GH-117428).
  • Buildsystem: ScrollBar: Fix compilation with precision=double (GH-117224).
  • Buildsystem: Update CODEOWNERS (GH-117674).
  • Core: Fix String::split_ crash on empty string (GH-117353).
  • Core: Fix editable children state when duplicating instantiated nodes (GH-117041).
  • Core: RingBuffer: Fix T read() method reading empty buffer (GH-117388).
  • Core: RingBuffer: Fix overreading on methods that take an offset as an argument (GH-117151).
  • Editor: Set accessibility name on Tree inline cell editor when editing (GH-117135).
  • GDExtension: Add missing GDVIRTUAL_BIND(_get_supported_extensions) on MovieWriter (GH-117479).
  • GUI: Fix “Custom” anchor preset being ignored if the parent isn’t a Control (GH-117488).
  • GUI: Fix RichTextLabel drag selection not working after double-click (GH-117201).
  • GUI: TextEdit: Fix clipping of last character due to right margin rounding (GH-116850).
  • Import: Blender attempts should be incremented to avoid endless loop (GH-116589).
  • Platforms: Apple Embedded: Fix static .a/.xcframework library loading in open_dynamic_library (GH-117469).
  • Platforms: Fix macOS Steam time tracking lost when opening a project (GH-117335).
  • Platforms: iOS: Propagate VC UI preferences to SwiftUI hosting controller (GH-116633).
  • Platforms: macOS: Enable wake for events if Magnet is running (GH-116524).
  • Platforms: Windows: Set current driver when ANGLE init fails (GH-117253).
  • Plugin: Android: Fix java.util.HashMap handling (GH-114941).
  • Plugin: Fix EditorDock not reopening (GH-117340).
  • Rendering: Fix Tangent decoding detection when computing vertex skinning (GH-117401).
  • Rendering: macOS: Force ANGLE (GL over Metal) when running in VM (GH-117371).
  • Thirdparty: libpng: Update to 1.6.55 (GH-117564).
  • Thirdparty: Update access-kit to 0.21.2 (GH-117433).

This release is built from commit 638b2f1e9.

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Known issues

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