Ever since the release of Godot 4.7 just over a week ago, our team has been working nonstop in two critical areas: ensuring a strong initial development cycle for Godot 4.8, and polishing up the current stable release’s foundation for an upcoming maintenance release. We weren’t entirely sure which would end up coming to light first, but it’s now clear that the latter will be taking an early lead with our first 4.7.1 release candidate. We’d like to thank everyone who diligently reported on any showstopping bugs that weren’t present in Godot 4.6; your continued testing is making this process especially expedient!

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Highlights

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

  • Animation: Make animation folding access cfg only at save/load project time (GH-120403).
  • GUI: Fix crash in Tree::_get_item_focus_rect (GH-120538).
  • GUI: Fix scene tree drag-n-drop regression on touchscreens (GH-120456).
  • GUI: Fix visual glitch with connections lines in GraphEdit (GH-120488).
  • Input: Android: Fix EditorSettings not instantiated error when running game (GH-120723).
  • Input: Fix backspace being unable to delete pre-existing text in any input field when using a soft keyboard on Android (GH-119798).
  • Navigation: Fix navigation agents unconditionally getting added to avoidance simulation after pause resume (GH-120249).
  • Network: Set inited=false on CookieContextMbedTLS::clear to avoid accidental double destruction (GH-120371).
  • Rendering: Fix flickering lighting on mesh-instances with non-uniform scale (GH-119784).
  • Rendering: Fix previous transform getting remembered for 2 frames after the instance stops moving (GH-119941).
  • Rendering: Seek past skipped shader variant payloads to avoid reading incorrect data (GH-119792).

Changelog

27 contributors submitted 41 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.7 stable release.

This release is built from commit 17e2686e0.

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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 4.7.1. 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.

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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.

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