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Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 12 January 2023

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.2 RC 2

While all contributors are on the deck working to finalize the Godot 4.0 release, some of us are still backporting important bugfixes to the current stable branch, Godot 3.5. We're getting ready to release 3.5.2, now with a second Release Candidate available for testing.

Max Hilbrunner Max Hilbrunner  - 11 January 2023

Godot 4.0 Documentation Sprint

We're starting a docs sprints to get the documentation ready for Godot Engine 4.0 release! Together, we can improve everyone's experience using the new version.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 10 January 2023

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

First snapshot of the year, Godot 4.0 beta 11! We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we'll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

Juan Linietsky Juan Linietsky  - 31 December 2022

2022: A Retrospective

The year 2022 was very special for us. We reached a lot of milestones within Godot and also in the community. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 23 December 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Happy holidays! After 3 months of frequent beta builds, we're taking a short break for the end of the year - and we leave you with 4.0 beta 10, with notable improvements to Animation, Navigation, Rendering, GDScript... a well-rounded snapshot for the holidays!

Clay John Clay John  - 20 December 2022

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Godot 4.0 will ship with an OpenGL-based renderer designed for older and low-end devices, but it won't be totally feature-complete at the time 4.0 is released.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 19 December 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Another weekly beta snapshot for Godot 4.0! Notable changes: String/StringName unification, out of order member resolution in GDScript, OpenGL 3 renderer selectable in the Project Manager, and with improved performance and compatibility on lower end devices.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 15 December 2022

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.2 RC 1

While all contributors are busy finalizing Godot 4.0 for a stable release in the near future, we're still updating the current stable 3.5 branch with relevant bugfixes. This is the first Release Candidate for an upcoming 3.5.2 maintenance release.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  -  9 December 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Another weekly beta snapshot for Godot 4.0! And on a Friday, because that's the best day for releasing software!

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  -  1 December 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Another weekly beta snapshot on the road to Godot 4.0! Includes Android GLES3 support, Z index and Y sort are now available in Controls, and both C# and GDScript got a ton of fixes.

Clay John Clay John  - 29 November 2022

Release Management: 4.0 and beyond

We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 23 November 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

After biweekly Godot 4.0 beta snapshots, we've decided to accelerate the cadence to release a new snapshot every week, to get even faster feedback on our bugfixes and potential regressions. Beta 6 fixes infamous issues around cyclic dependencies in GDScript, as well as other nice goodies!

Emi Emi  - 21 November 2022

See you in San Francisco!

We are excited to announce that the Godot Engine will attend the 2023 Game Developers Conference (March 20-24).

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 16 November 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Another beta release on the way to Godot 4.0, with a lot of interesting changes! Undo/redo history dock, many GDScript bugs fixed with inner classes, SVG support in OpenType fonts, a lot of rendering fixes and new OpenGL3 features, and a first very early usable version of the Web editor!

Hugo Locurcio Hugo Locurcio  - 14 November 2022

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to new use cases such as architecture visualization and cutscene rendering.

Silc Renew Silc Renew  -  7 November 2022

Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0

Godot 4.0 comes with an animation retargeting system to allow for easy sharing of animations between similar models.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  -  4 November 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

We're now at 4.0 beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas.

Juan Linietsky Juan Linietsky  -  1 November 2022

Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation

Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.

Clay John Clay John  - 17 October 2022

Emulating Double Precision on the GPU to Render Large Worlds

One of the problems with developing games with large game worlds is that objects start to jitter and teleport around as you move away from the world origin. This post is about how we overcame one challenge in particular and what we did.

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 14 October 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Progress continues on Godot 4.0 development while the community is busy testing our beta builds and reporting bugs. This is now the 3rd beta release, fixing a lot of bugs reported in the previous releases and continuing the implementation of some key features.

Emi Emi  -  6 October 2022

Announcing the Godot 2022 showreels!

We bring you three brand-new videos showcasing what the Godot Engine can do: desktop/console games, mobile games, and tools!

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 29 September 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

We released Godot 4.0 beta 1 two weeks ago! That was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release. But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, so we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here's beta 2!

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 28 September 2022

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

We released Godot 3.5 in early August, and like any release, there are few rough edges to iron out which warrant making maintenance releases (3.5.x), with a focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. The first release is that series is out, Godot 3.5.1!

Rémi Verschelde Rémi Verschelde  - 21 September 2022

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

We released Godot 3.5 in early August, and like any release, there are few rough edges to iron out which warrant making maintenance "patch" releases (3.5.x). This is the second Release Candidate to validate the upcoming 3.5.1 stable release.