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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

We have reached the first beta release for the 4.4 in around a month, but as usual, this timeline will depend on how quickly we are able to fix the outstanding bugs and what new bugs are identified in the beta process. New in Beta 1! release cycle. This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. 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.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. 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.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

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: In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions , handling many cases where collisions would not work reliably.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). Mono build (C# support + all the above). Bug reports. if something that worked fine in 3.2.1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Highlights.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! is set in stone.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. The beta feature freeze will soon lock the API more or less in place, so contributors have been hard at work evaluating and merging or rejecting the last proposals for a more consistent and user-friendly API. for instructions.

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Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

This release has seen many platform-specific improvements from old and new contributors, especially for macOS, iOS, X11. Here are some highlights of the most important changes: Platform: iOS: MFI gamepad support, audio improvements. Platform: macOS: system menu integration, better multimonitor DPI scaling, audio and input improvements.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). beta 1 and RC 1.

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Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). stable build.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

So here's a first Release Candidate to get broader testing of everything that has been iterated upon in the past 6 beta builds. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ).

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Render Bug Build Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). If you already reviewed the changelog for beta 6, you can skip right to the differences between beta 6 and RC 1.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4

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Bug Render Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

This will enable us to publish maintenance updates at a faster pace as soon as we identify a need (critical regressions to fix, security issues, necessary platform updates, etc.). Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! Physics: Many fixes to one-way collisions. Fixes to KinematicBody collisions. Supporting the project.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4

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