We entered the Release Candidate stage in the Godot 4.3 development cycle a week ago with 4.3 RC 1, which means that all features are in place, the most critical regressions have been tackled, and we’re confident that it’s now ready for general use in the vast majority of cases. Release Candidate 4.3 RC 1 A lot of users have been testing the RC 1 snapshot, reporting issues, many of which could be fixed. In the meantime, we’ve kept working on a few known bugs which we were still hoping to resolve for 4.3 - and by now most have been fixed! Godot is a big piece of software and it’s hard for contributors and even unit tests to validate all areas of the engine when developing new features or bug fixes. So we rely on extensive testing from the community to find engine issues while testing dev, beta, and RC snapshots in your projects, and reporting them so that we can fix them prior to tagging the 4.3-stable release. Please, consider supporting the project financially, if you are able. Godot is maintained by the efforts of volunteers and a small team of paid contributors. Your donations go towards sponsoring their work and ensuring they can dedicate their undivided attention to the needs of the project. supporting the project financially 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 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. Jump to the Downloads Downloads section try the Web editor Web editor Android editor our testing group The original cover illustration is from Gorgon Shield, an old school party-based RPG by Whiskeybarrel Studios, creator of the Sword and Sandals series. The game was just released on Steam, and uses cutting edge Godot 4.3 RC! You can also check out Whiskeybarrel’s previous Godot game Sword and Sandals Immortals, and follow them on YouTube and on Twitter. The original cover illustration is from Gorgon Shield Gorgon Shield an old school party-based RPG by Whiskeybarrel Studios, creator of the Sword and Sandals series. The game was just released on Steam, and uses cutting edge Godot 4.3 RC! You can also check out Whiskeybarrel’s previous Godot game on Steam Sword and Sandals Immortals and follow them on YouTube and on Twitter. on YouTube on Twitter Highlights We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.3 in the previous 4.3 beta 1 blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.3 release. 4.3 beta 1 blog post Especially if you’re testing 4.3 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 changes made since the previous RC 1 snapshot, which are mostly regression fixes, or “safe” fixes to longstanding issues. RC 1 snapshot Here’s a selection of the some of most relevant ones: 3D: Fix “selectable nodes at position clicked” feature in 3D editor (GH-94387).
Animation: Fix BlendShapeTrack insertion not working (GH-94738).
Animation: Determine break_loop_at_end 1 frame earlier using prediction by delta (GH-94858).
Audio: Fix typo that prevented samples finishing (GH-94800).
Core: Fix Variant::construct of Object (GH-90134).
Core: Apply prefer_wayland only if no display driver is set (GH-94774).
Core: ResourceLoader: Let resource setup late steps invoke loading in turn (GH-94910).
Export: Fix Android export failing with custom keystores and no JDK setup in the OS environment (GH-94809).
GDScript: Fix locals clearing after exiting while block (GH-94730).
GDScript: Fix common mismatched external parser errors (second try) (GH-94871).
GUI: Fix division by zero in aspect ratio calculation (GH-93764).
GUI: Use legacy color picking in single window mode (GH-94931).
Import: Avoid crashing when scene import settings are empty (GH-93284).
Import: Fix browse_dialog in Blender scene importer to accept files (GH-93411).
Import: Fix reimporting textures after changing import project settings (GH-94975).
Input: Fix update mouse cursor state wrong mouse position (GH-94987).
Multiplayer: Fix disconnect_peer not doing the proper cleanup (GH-91011).
Multiplayer: Partially revert cache cleanup, track paths as fallback (GH-94984).
Network: WebSocket: Allow reusing closing and closed peers (GH-94168).
Porting: Android: Ensure cleanup of all subobjects in the OpenSL audio driver (GH-85955).
Porting: Windows: Update ANGLE surface size when window is resized (GH-94428).
Porting: Pass window exclusive and transient properties for subwindow creation (GH-94706).
Porting: Enable ASTC encoder build when building with ANGLE to fix macOS import crash (GH-94903).
Porting: Fix crash that occurs on termination of the Godot engine on Android (GH-94923).
Porting: Windows: Improve OpenGL/ANGLE switching on ARM64 (GH-94943).
Porting: Windows: Improve editor grouping, set friendly name registry key for exported projects (GH-94976).
Porting: macOS: Fix is_process_running and kill for bundled apps (GH-94978).
Rendering: Windows: Fall back to D3D12 if Vulkan is not supported and vice versa (GH-94796).
Rendering: Fix regression around OpenGL swapchain optimisation for OpenXR (GH-94894).
Shaders: Fix editor crash when shader has incorrect global array declaration (GH-90792).
Shaders: Fix incorrect passing of parameter to visual shader preview (GH-94729).
Shaders: Emit normal_roughness compatibility code in custom functions (GH-94812).
Shaders: Restrict sampler hint validation to only screen texture hints (GH-94902).
Thirdparty: embree: Fix include order causing unwanted dllexport symbols (GH-94256). 3D: Fix “selectable nodes at position clicked” feature in 3D editor (GH-94387). GH-94387 Animation: Fix BlendShapeTrack insertion not working (GH-94738). GH-94738 Animation: Determine break_loop_at_end 1 frame earlier using prediction by delta (GH-94858). break_loop_at_end GH-94858 Audio: Fix typo that prevented samples finishing (GH-94800). GH-94800 Core: Fix Variant::construct of Object (GH-90134). Variant::construct Object GH-90134 Core: Apply prefer_wayland only if no display driver is set (GH-94774). prefer_wayland GH-94774 Core: ResourceLoader: Let resource setup late steps invoke loading in turn (GH-94910). GH-94910 Export: Fix Android export failing with custom keystores and no JDK setup in the OS environment (GH-94809). GH-94809 GDScript: Fix locals clearing after exiting while block (GH-94730). while GH-94730 GDScript: Fix common mismatched external parser errors (second try) (GH-94871). GH-94871 GUI: Fix division by zero in aspect ratio calculation (GH-93764). GH-93764 GUI: Use legacy color picking in single window mode (GH-94931). GH-94931 Import: Avoid crashing when scene import settings are empty (GH-93284). GH-93284 Import: Fix browse_dialog in Blender scene importer to accept files (GH-93411). browse_dialog GH-93411 Import: Fix reimporting textures after changing import project settings (GH-94975). GH-94975 Input: Fix update mouse cursor state wrong mouse position (GH-94987). GH-94987 Multiplayer: Fix disconnect_peer not doing the proper cleanup (GH-91011). disconnect_peer GH-91011 Multiplayer: Partially revert cache cleanup, track paths as fallback (GH-94984). GH-94984 Network: WebSocket: Allow reusing closing and closed peers (GH-94168). GH-94168 Porting: Android: Ensure cleanup of all subobjects in the OpenSL audio driver (GH-85955). GH-85955 Porting: Windows: Update ANGLE surface size when window is resized (GH-94428). GH-94428 Porting: Pass window exclusive and transient properties for subwindow creation (GH-94706). GH-94706 Porting: Enable ASTC encoder build when building with ANGLE to fix macOS import crash (GH-94903). GH-94903 Porting: Fix crash that occurs on termination of the Godot engine on Android (GH-94923). GH-94923 Porting: Windows: Improve OpenGL/ANGLE switching on ARM64 (GH-94943). GH-94943 Porting: Windows: Improve editor grouping, set friendly name registry key for exported projects (GH-94976). GH-94976 Porting: macOS: Fix is_process_running and kill for bundled apps (GH-94978). is_process_running kill GH-94978 Rendering: Windows: Fall back to D3D12 if Vulkan is not supported and vice versa (GH-94796). GH-94796 Rendering: Fix regression around OpenGL swapchain optimisation for OpenXR (GH-94894). GH-94894 Shaders: Fix editor crash when shader has incorrect global array declaration (GH-90792). GH-90792 Shaders: Fix incorrect passing of parameter to visual shader preview (GH-94729). GH-94729 Shaders: Emit normal_roughness compatibility code in custom functions (GH-94812). normal_roughness GH-94812 Shaders: Restrict sampler hint validation to only screen texture hints (GH-94902). GH-94902 Thirdparty: embree: Fix include order causing unwanted dllexport symbols (GH-94256). GH-94256 Changelog 41 contributors submitted 69 improvements for this new snapshot. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.3-rc1 snapshot. You can also review all changes included in 4.3 compared to the previous 4.2 feature release. 41 contributors 69 improvements interactive changelog interactive changelog all changes included in 4.3 This release is built from commit 3978628c6. 3978628c6 Downloads Download Godot 4.3 rc2 Download Godot 4.3 rc2 Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension. Standard build .NET build (marked as mono) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension. .NET build mono See also C# platform support. See also C# platform support. C# platform support If you want to test the new Windows ARM64 builds, they’re not integrated in our download page yet, so here are direct links: Editor for Windows ARM64 (Standard)
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