The third beta version of Godot 4.3 is now ready for testing. The Godot project has handled the majority of the issues that were considered blockers for the 4.3 release, with a few exceptions for regressions. The project is close to reaching the release candidate stage, which will most likely begin next week.

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 beta 3

We are nearing the end of the beta phase for Godot 4.3, which received many fixes during the past 6 weeks thanks to the testing and bug reports of the community. It’s shaping up to be a very solid release, solving a lot of pain points expressed by the userbase.

We’ve now solved most of the issues we considered blocking for the 4.3 release.  A few remain but not all are actually critical, just regressions we’d like to solve before the stable release if possible. As such, we’re pretty close to the Release Candidate stage, which will probably start next week.

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. Notably, we’re now looking to add  one or more generalist programmers to the team, and the Godot Foundation needs to increase its  monthly funding to be able to sustain multiple long-term contractors.

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.

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.

This section covers changes made since the beta 2 snapshot, which are mostly regression fixes. Here are some highlights:

• 2D: Allow selecting TileMapLayers by clicking them ( GH-92016).
• 3D: Improve viewport rotation gizmo drawing ( GH-93639).
• Animation: Rework migration of animate_physical_bones for compatibility ( GH-93504).
• Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite2D/3D::play using wrong end_frame when playing backwards ( GH-93548).
• Animation: Revert the default InterpolationType with angle property to Linear ( GH-93696).
• Audio: Move MIDI parsing up from ALSA driver to platform independent driver ( GH-90485).
• Audio: Fix pausing issues when using Web Audio samples ( GH-93362).
• Audio: Fix Web samples finished missing signal ( GH-94044).
• Buildsystem: Windows/ARM64: Fix raycast/embree ARM64 build with LLVM/MinGW ( GH-93364).
• Buildsystem: SCons: Default optimize to auto, fixing target/dev_build inference for Web ( GH-94107).
• C#: Escape generated members ( GH-93198).
• Core: Fix sharing of typed arrays from constructor ( GH-89197).
• Core: Fix storing of Node Array properties ( GH-93430).
• Core: Lookup method also in base scripts of a PlaceHolderScriptInstance ( GH-93452).
• Core: ResourceLoader: Fix handling of uncached loads ( GH-93540).
• Core: Fix duplicating nodes with Array properties ( GH-93672).
• Core: ResourceLoader: Support polling and get-before-complete on the main thread ( GH-93695).
• Core: Revert “Make freed object different than null in comparison operators” ( GH-93809).
• Core: ResourceLoader: Fixup management of thread-specific status ( GH-93928).
• Core: Fix UTF-8 misintepreted as Latin-1 when logging to file ( GH-94006).
• Core: ResourceLoader: Fix error message due to already-awaited tasks being re-awaited ( GH-94070).
• Editor: Properly change GridMap floors while selecting ( GH-87131).
• Editor: Make project naming setting available in project manager ( GH-89788).
• Editor: Rework global class hiding in addons ( GH-91337).
• Editor: Enable custom separators to treat different characters as words ( GH-92514).
• Editor: Fix noticeable freeze after saving a scene ( GH-93147).
• Editor: Fix determining the availability of a new version ( GH-93391) (for real this time?).
• Editor: Make inspector spacing more themable ( GH-93435).
• Editor: Add brief description tooltips to EditorResourcePicker ( GH-93523).
• Editor: Speed up scene group scanning for text scenes ( GH-93723).
• Editor: Fix EditorHelpBitTooltip for Signals dock ( GH-93967).
• Export: iOS: Automatically generate ARM64 simulator library from device library if it’s missing ( GH-92750).
• Export: Web: Add “threads”/”nothreads” feature tags to export presets ( GH-93556).
• Export: EditorExportPlugin: Call _export_file for all resource types ( GH-93878).
• GDExtension: Fix setting base class properties on a runtime class ( GH-94089).
• GDScript: Fix synchronization of global class name ( GH-92303).
• GDScript: Partially allow member lookup on invalid scripts ( GH-92609).
• GDScript: Invalidate cached parser chain when reloading ( GH-92616).
• GDScript: Avoid deadlock possibility in multi-threaded load ( GH-93032).
• GDScript: Enhance handling of cyclic dependencies ( GH-93346).
• GUI: Button: Use align_to_largest_stylebox for min. size calculation ( GH-93708).
• GUI: Fix Control nodes emitting unnecessary resized signals ( GH-93908).
• Import: Reimport file when .import changes ( GH-84974).
• Import: Fix reimporting assets with csv in the project ( GH-92320).
• Import: Fix default collision shape on imported rigidbody ( GH-93506).
• Import: Fix reimport by scan parsing dependency paths incorrectly ( GH-93765).
• Import: Fix adding a translation CSV results in errors on initial import for many types of resources ( GH-93919).
• Import: Update vertex color import to handle Blender 4.2 upwards ( GH-93998).
• Import: Fix re-import glb model doesn’t change the old glb model ( GH-94020).
• Input: Add input event callback to DisplayServerHeadless ( GH-92806).
• Input: Fix undoredo handling in some dialogs ( GH-93898).
• Input: Wayland: Scale relative pointer motion ( GH-94021).
• Navigation: Fix thread-use causing navigation mesh, source geometry, or polygon data corruption ( GH-93392,  GH-93407,  GH-93426).
• Particles: Fix USERDATA not copied when trails started ( GH-93595).
• Physics: Fix physics tick counter ( GH-94039).
• Porting: Web: Add bigint support on JS value conversion ( GH-93750).
• Porting: Android: Fix crashes and ANRs reported by the Google Play Console ( GH-93933).
• Porting: Web: Fix IME blocking controls ( GH-94024).
• Rendering: Physics interpolation: Fix 2D skinning ( GH-93368).
• Rendering: Make RenderSceneData take projection correction into account ( GH-93630).
• Rendering: D3D12: Use the right state for resources in certain heap types ( GH-93707).
• Rendering: Replace pixel rounding with floor(x + 0.5) ( GH-93740).
• Rendering: Android: Fix the issue causing the logo to not show when using the compatibility renderer ( GH-93891).
• Rendering: Fix AABB computation for position compression to not depend on vertex order ( GH-93916).
• Rendering: MoltenVK: Fix downscaled hiDPI window pixelation ( GH-93950).
• Thirdparty: thorvg: Update to 0.14.1 ( GH-94103).

Changelog

93 contributors submitted 267 improvements for this release. See our  interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.3-beta2 snapshot. You can also review  all changes included in 4.3 compared to the previous 4.2 feature release.

This release is built from commit  82cedc83c.

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 beta 3