A month and a half has passed since our initial release of Godot 4.7, which was then followed up with the Godot 4.7.1 maintenance release nearly three weeks ago. While we stand by the stable foundation of our maintenance releases, that doesn’t mean we’re ready to stop giving support to our most recently released version. In fact, thanks to the amount of work put into the in-progress 4.8 builds, the amount of resolved issues and regression fixes has only gone up! As such, we’re eager to deliver yet another maintenance release in the near future, starting with this initial release candidate: Godot 4.7.2 RC 1!

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Highlights

This section covers the most relevant changes made since the 4.7.1 maintenance release, which are largely regression fixes (critical changes highlighted in bold):

  • 3D: Fix 3D ruler tool tooltip (GH-120890).
  • Assetlib: Asset Store: Fix image width on different Editor Scales (GH-121470).
  • Core: Fix crash when failing to open log file for writing (GH-121926).
  • Core: Forbid negative weights in RandomPCG::rand_weighted (GH-120004).
  • Core: Make it impossible to have more than one main thread, and don’t release unnecessarily (GH-121161).
  • Core: Update DirAccess::create_temp to not fail on empty prefix parameter (GH-121315).
  • Editor: Fix Visual Profiler cursor not appearing when graph is partially filled (GH-118294).
  • GUI: Fix BaseButton input when enable_long_press_as_right_click is true (GH-120962).
  • Input: Fix performance issues when moving the mouse with high polling rate on Windows (GH-109639).
  • Input: Fix simultaneous shift release (GH-120327).
  • Input: Wayland: Fix IME popup position under fractional scaling on KDE Plasma (GH-121571).
  • Multiplayer: Fix peers stopping replication on deleting node they spawned with MultiplayerSpawner (GH-109864).
  • Navigation: Fix debug NavigationRegion3D colors not updating until project re-start (GH-120939).
  • Network: mbedTLS: Always use Godot’s OS as entropy source (GH-121759).
  • Rendering: Fix PCSS shadows using shadow range begin in the wrong space (GH-120774).
  • Thirdparty: Update AccessKit to 0.22.3 (GH-121393).

Changelog

37 contributors submitted 43 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.7.1 maintenance release.

This release is built from commit 36a04fe52.

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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 4.7.2. 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.

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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