We're thrilled to announce the rollout of Redot 4.3.1 Alpha! We've brought a whole host of bug fixes and enhancements in from the 4.4 branch, with over 320 commits merged! Now, we need your help to put it through its paces. The more hands we have testing, the better we can refine it for its final release. Head over to RedotEngine.org, navigate to Download > Download Latest, and give it a try!
Below you’ll find some of the most notable fixes and enhancements—many of which were highly requested by the community. Keep in mind, this is just a snapshot of what’s new, just a tiny fraction of the whole: there’s much more under the hood!
Enhancements and fixes
- Scaling multiple nodes at once is now possible in the canvas editor, letting you adjust groups of nodes without having to resize each one individually.
- Editing controls inside viewports in the editor is now enabled, so you can adjust UI elements within viewport nodes directly. These include selection, box selection, anchors, moving, rotating, scaling, pivot, as well as others.
- DDS textures now have their width and height rounded up to the next divisor multiple for block compression, ensuring smoother and more reliable texture handling.
- The FileSystem dock now works correctly when loading large projects. Before, the dock would remain empty for several minutes without any feedback, and the editor would freeze during file scanning. Now, progress popups are shown during key steps like scanning files, updating script classes, and loading the editor layout.
- Additional improvements to the performance of loading larger projects—scanning a project with 30,000 files now takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds instead of nearly 3 minutes.
- Added a function called get_open_scenes_roots to the Editor Interface API. Original get_open_scenes function only returned a list of scene names, with the new one you can access all opened scenes, which is necessary for some advanced features like hot-reloading in the Jenova Framework.
- CompositorEffect now uses GDVIRTUAL_CALL() to invoke virtual methods, ensuring correct behavior with both GDExtension and Gdscript, fixing an error that occurred previously when Callable() was used.
- AudioEffectPitchShift now fixes a distortion issue caused by a precision error when switching the pitch from 1.0 to another value and back.
- Selecting a non-PackedScene resource for POT generation no longer crashes the editor.
- A new method was added to AStarGrid2D that retrieves all points within a specified region, making grid-based navigation even easier.
- Improved SpinBox and its usability, which now offers a more user-friendly and customizable experience. The up and down buttons are separated—each with its own icon and interactive feedback (hover, pressed, disabled)—and can be styled individually, while the embedded text field also supports separate styling.
- Fixed GPUParticles Inherit Velocity breaking with physics movement.
- Fixed AStar2D, AStar3D, AStarGrid2D from not returning a path when the destination is disabled/solid even with allow_partial_path option.
- Introduced bug fixes and improvements for game controllers on Apple.
- Combine existing modes when calling SetConsoleMode.
- Fixed the problem in which the PathFollow2D progress was not updated when the scene started and retained its position when the Path2D curve was animated.
- Fixed project manager stealing focus on i3.
- Merged a fix important for C#: using dotnet CLI to launch OpenVisualStudio.dll instead of the EXE.
- Fixed animation compression going the wrong way.
- Fixed web export infinite reload issue.
- Fixed layered HDR texture import with lossless compression.
- Assigned the correct bone rest transform to nodes with matrix in GLTF.
- Fixed error when undo tile deletion in TileSetAtlasSourceEditor.
- Fixed InputEventKey test failure under certain system languages.
- After deactivating SkeletonModifier, there was no skin update because the pose in the Skeleton was considered unchanged. Now fixed.
- The glTF importer loaded up to 8 bone weights, but didn't set the according flag. This results in broken LODs.
- Disabled Nahimic code injection.
- Fixed TTS events arriving out of order on Windows.
- Multi-threaded management of the C# script map now uses read-write locking to reduce deadlocks.
- Updated to Mbed TLS 3.6.2 to fix a security vulnerability present in previous versions.
- The AnimationTree now takes a "backward" parameter in the AnimationNodeAnimation, fixing an issue.
- BlendSpace1D and 2D now correctly sync in Discrete mode by properly propagating the current time from playback info, fixing an issue where it was always zero.
- Composition layers using hole punching now correctly hide and show in OpenXR.
- Improved AStarGrid2D performance when jumping is enabled.
- Fixed JavaClassWrapper on Android.
You can browse through the entirety of the changelog in our Github post
Thanks to this release, we're able to bring a wealth of fixes and improvements from the 4.4 branch directly into the 4.3 version you’re already using. We’ve carefully backported these updates with a strong focus on maintaining compatibility, so you can start experiencing the fixes and benefits right now, without having to switch to an unstable developmental version or worry about breaking your projects. This means you get the best of both worlds: a batch of enhancements and refinements from 4.4, all while preserving the rock-solid foundation of 4.3.
And yes, a Redot 4.4 release is already in the works as well.
In the meantime: test, report, suggest, and share, as always. We look forward to your feedback. Redot needs to remain community-focused at all times—we want to be sure that our community remains central to everything we do. You deserve nothing less.
-Redot Team
