This Monday featured the release of our first Release Candidate build of Godot 4.7. As a reminder: RC builds are when we believe the engine has stabilized and is ready for release, so it’s the last chance to report critical regressions before the stable version drops.

Today, we’re excited to produce our second snapshot, addressing a small handful of critical regressions that revealed themselves in that time. Unless reports of any show-stopping regressions come from the changes made in RC 1 or RC 2, a stable release is just around the corner.

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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.

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Highlights

We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.7 in the previous 4.7 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to check out the main new features added in the 4.7 release.

Especially if you’re testing 4.7 for the first time, you’ll want to get a condensed overview of what new features you might want to make use of.

This section covers all changes made since the RC 1 snapshot, which are largely regression fixes:

  • 2D: Fix first tile not being randomized (GH-120085).
  • Animation: Add null check for root_animation_node in AnimationTree (GH-120106).
  • Buildsystem: Fix IndexError caused by debug_tag_stack.pop() with new error messages (GH-119808).
  • Buildsystem: Fix download scripts and build in the MSYS2 environment (GH-120007).
  • Core: Don’t flush the message queue before a MainLoop is iterating (GH-120111).
  • Core: Fix a deadlock in WorkerThreadPool (GH-120072).
  • Documentation: Link to Multiple Windows demo project in Window class documentation (GH-120117).
  • Documentation: Use generic description for experimental flag on DrawableTexture2D methods (GH-120092).
  • GUI: Editor: Fix SceneTreeEditor drop (GH-120102).
  • Thirdparty: Update D3D12 download script to use current release (GH-120025).

Changelog

As we’ve tightened our policy on what kind of changes can be merged leading to the release candidate stage, there aren’t a lot of changes in this snapshot. 7 contributors submitted 10 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7 RC 1. You can also review all changes included in 4.7 compared to the previous 4.6 feature release.

This release is built from commit 3df26a02c.

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While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.

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 a workaround). You can have a look at our current list of regressions and significant issues which we aim to address before releasing 4.7. 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.

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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