The second release candidate for Godot 4.4.1 has been released for testing, focused on fixing remaining and newly reported regressions that affect users who upgraded to 4.4.

The release candidate includes fixes for 3D, animation, core, editor, export, GDScript, GUI, input, physics, plugins, porting, rendering, and XR. The most notable changes in this second release candidate include fixing RemoteTransform3D to always use global rotation, fixing console errors and crashes in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D, using a single RNG instance for FileAccessEncrypted IV generation, making EditorProperty and its child EditorProperty behave like sibling nodes when handling mouse events, creating .uid files for detected new files, changing the root node transform warning to only show up for position, and fixing use after free in the editor inspector section cleanup.

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 2

We released  Godot 4.4 in early March and we are delighted to see the reception, with so many users upgrading to it on day 1 and sharing their favorite new changes on social media! If you haven’t seen the  4.4 release page, it’s well worth a read!

Since then, we’ve started the development phase for Godot 4.5 at full speed (with a first  dev snapshot released yesterday!), but we also put our main focus on fixing remaining and newly reported regressions that affect users who upgraded to 4.4. A few of these issues can be showstoppers for affected users, so we decided to release a 4.4.1 maintenance release as soon as possible.

After a first  4.4.1-rc1 snapshot last week, we decided to make a second release candidate as a few more critical bugs had fixes available to backport. Please test it if you can and report any new issue that was not present in 4.4-stable, as we want to ensure we don’t introduce new regressions in this hotfix release.

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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.

What’s new

21 contributors submitted around 39 improvements for this release. See our  interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the  4.4.1-rc1 snapshot. You can also review  all changes included in 4.4.1 compared to the 4.4 release.

Below are the most notable changes in this second release candidate (with critical fixes highlighted in bold):

• 3D: Fix RemoteTransform3D to always use global rotation if use_global_coordinates is true ( GH-97498).
• Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921).
• Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217).
• Core: Use single RNG instance for FileAccessEncrypted IV generation ( GH-103415).
• Editor: Make EditorProperty and its child EditorProperty behave like sibling nodes when handling mouse events ( GH-103316).
• Editor: Create .uid files for detected new files ( GH-104248).
• Editor: Change root node transform warning to only show up for position ( GH-104331).
• Editor: Fix use after free in the editor inspector section cleanup ( GH-104362).
• Export: Android: Convert compress_native_libraries to a basic export option ( GH-104301).
• GDScript: Fix head class range to include class_name ( GH-104114).
• GDScript: Add clearing of static_gdscript_cache to GDScriptCache ( GH-104281).
• GUI: Fix error when embedded popup is closed while resizing ( GH-102504).
• GUI: Label: Fix min. size calculation counting extra spacing twice ( GH-103728).
• Import: Force multiple of 4 sizes for Betsy compressor ( GH-104275).
• Import: Fix crash when reimporting nested gltf scenes ( GH-104384).
• Input: macOS/iOS: Ensure only one axis change event is produced during single process_joypads() call ( GH-104314).
• Physics: Fix interpolation in XR ( GH-103233).
• Physics: Fix ConcavePolygonShape3D always enabling backface_collision when using Jolt Physics ( GH-104310).
• Plugin: JavaClassWrapper: Fix mistake in last fix for org.godotengine.godot.Dictionary conversion ( GH-104156).
• Porting: macOS: Fix editor loading crash on native menu click ( GH-103892).
• Porting: macOS: Update mouse-entered state when subwindow closes ( GH-104328).
• Rendering: Vulkan: Disable layers in editor deemed buggy by RenderDoc ( GH-104154).
• Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341).
• XR: Correct occlusion culling viewport location calculation when projection uses asymmetric FOV ( GH-104249).

This release is built from commit  abef5e0d2.

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 2