Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Fixes to CanvasItem draw methods to better handled lines of different widths and filled rectangles ( GH-41239 , GH-71623 , GH-71679 ). With the first Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. The game started development with Godot 3.x, Happy holidays!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Add support for Unicode identifiers in GDScript and Expression ( GH-71676 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: SkeletonModificationStack3D has been removed, with the 3D inverse kinematic API being more or less reset to the state of Godot 3.x. With the first Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. beta 1 blog post , so if you havent read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.4 Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ). in the previous 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. The game started development with Godot 3.x, Happy holidays!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by James Dornan, the game was released on Steam in January 2025. beta 1 blog post , so if you havent read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.4 in the previous 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Last week, we released the first of our Release Candidate builds, a state suitable for production settings. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by chx games, the game was just released on Steam. in the previous 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! You can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this beta. see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. The only big change is that the classical build for macOS is now a universal binary, with both x86_64 and arm64 architectures included (to support the new ARM-based Apple M1 chip natively).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. In particular, this build adds optional GDNative support to the HTML5 target , on top of the pre-existing optional multithreading support. Additionally, beta 4 adds support for MP3 loading and playback !

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Mono build (C# support + all the above). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. And this is just a first beta, there's more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Now that we're confident that 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds (new in 3.2.4 And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Between biweekly 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

beta 1 two weeks ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here's beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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MARCH 1, 2023

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. The previous beta 3 introduced a brand new Android editor port! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Mono build (C# support + all the above). You need to have MSBuild installed to use the Mono build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. beta 2 and beta 3. The upcoming Godot 3.4 Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 4 and beta 5 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Highlights. The main changes coming in Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ).

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