While Godot 4.7 is enjoying its beta period, work continues on ensuring 4.6 is as stable as possible. So we’re continuing our streak of maintenance releases with Godot 4.6.3, whose first release candidate builds are now ready for testing!

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What’s new

31 contributors submitted 56 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.6.1-stable release.

This section covers the most relevant changes made since the 4.6.2 maintenance release, which are largely regression fixes:

  • 2D: Update layer selector when modifying the TileMap in the inspector (GH-117256).
  • 3D: Fix wrong rotation of cells while being pasted in the GridMap editor (GH-116683).
  • Animation: Fix SplineIK crash cases (GH-117959).
  • C#: Prevent SourceGenerators from becoming a transitive dependency (GH-114868).
  • Core: Debugger: Rather than looping infinitely on data read errors, drop the connection (GH-113905).
  • Core: Fix race in RefCounted::unreference() (GH-118678).
  • Core: Improve thread-safety of Object signals (GH-117511).
  • Editor: Don’t print UID errors when cache is not initialized (GH-118527).
  • Editor: Fix game speed UI not resetting when game is restarted (from editor) (GH-116568).
  • Export: iOS: Fix one-click deploy with Xcode 26 (GH-118559).
  • GUI: RTL: Fix character click offsets after the table (GH-117011).
  • Import: Copy scene unique ID when replacing imported instance (GH-118522).
  • Input: Fix incorrect reading of joypad UTF8 raw_name in Input.get_joy_info() (GH-115218).
  • Physics: Fix over-removal of area overlaps when using Jolt (GH-118285).
  • Rendering: Fix GLES3 batching skipping rendering all items on specific buffer sizes (GH-117725).
  • Rendering: Select relevant 3D lights per mesh on GLES3 and Mobile renderers (GH-107234).

This release is built from commit 6357d9e4c.

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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 4.6.3. 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.

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