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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 4 – Godot Engine Powering through the post-GodotFest blues

GodotFest is now behind us, leaving a Godot-sized void in our hearts

Let's rectify that with a development snapshot: #GodotEngine 4.6-dev4 is now live! 🎉

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 3 – Godot Engine Rocking a new look!

We hope everyone had a happy Halloween! 🎃

…What's that? "Cool costume"? Well, we're flattered, but this is actually our new look! Read all about it in the latest #GodotEngine 4.6 development snapshot:

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Trots: @jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl is zojuist gekozen als onzer nieuwe fractievoorzitter! 💚❤️

Jesse is één van de drijvende krachten achter onze linkse samenwerking, en we zijn dankbaar dat hij nu de verantwoordelijkheid op zich neemt om de fractie te leiden.

Morgen kunnen wij voorgoed een einde maken aan het tijdperk Wilders.

Met Wilders is de samenleving vastgelopen en haat dominant geworden.

Wij kiezen voor een Nederland dat niet tegenover elkaar staat, maar naast elkaar. Waar hoop sterker is dan haat.

Stem GroenLinks-PvdA.

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 2 – Godot Engine Open the floodgates!

The floodgates have opened, with over 300 improvements in its wake 🌊

The second development snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.6 arrives! Building the engine as a library, a dedicated ObjectDB profiler, and more detailed below:

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Release candidate: Godot 4.5.1 RC 2 – Godot Engine Hotfixes so nice, we added 'em twice!

Hotfixes so nice, we added 'em twice; #GodotEngine 4.5.1-rc2 arrives‼️

Our top priority is ensuring the hotfix release is as stable as possible, so be sure to test and report any issues that aren't present in 4.5-stable.

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Massaal Rode Lijn-protest in Amsterdam, organisatie telt 250.000 betogers Amsterdam stroomde vol met mensen in rode kleding, protestborden en vlaggen. "Meer dan 1 procent van de hele Nederlandse bevolking staat hier nu."

Vandaag 250.000 mensen die in Amsterdam vreedzaam demonstreren tegen genocide, voor vrede, voor medemenselijkheid, voor een Palestijnse staat.

De sociale meerderheid laat zich zien, laat zich horen.

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What an absolutely lovely idea. <3

The sound of knowledge growing: Wikipedia edits as ambient music 🎶🎵.

Relax, listen, or join in by making an edit: listen.hatnote.com#nowelcomes,en

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 1 – Godot Engine The calm before the storm…

Our first development snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.6 has arrived!

As the feature freeze thaws away, so begins a small trickle of QOL and enhancements; a mere sample of the incoming torrent of changes 4.6 is sure to see

…200 PRs is small, right?

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Column: Waarom verboden boeken lezen? Vandaag start de Week van het verboden boek en dit is het perfecte moment om eens stil te staan bij waar en waarom boeken verboden worden. Zijn er verboden boeken in Nederland? Waarom worden boeken ve...

Vandaag begint de Week van het Verboden Boek ⚠️Tijd om boeken te lezen die verboden zijn! We schreven een artikel over waar welke boeken worden verboden, hoe de situatie in Nederland is én waarom je juist banned books moet lezen. www.literairereizen.nl/post/verbode...

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉

With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!

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Release candidate: Godot 4.5 RC 2 – Godot Engine One more for the road, again!

#GodotEngine 4.5's second release candidate has arrived!

This is your last chance to find and report critical regressions before the stable release:

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Release candidate: Godot 4.5 RC 1 – Godot Engine Godot 4.5 stable release is imminent; let the last round(s) of testing begin!

#GodotEngine 4.5 has reached the Release Candidate stage! With all planned features integrated and critical regressions fixed, it's production ready 🚀

Your help will be crucial, so give it a whirl (always make a backup!) and let us know if any issues went unnoticed

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 7 – Godot Engine Two more for the road!

While we considered jumping straight to the release candidate stage, debug symbols for Android warranted a trial run 🤖

#GodotEngine 4.5 beta 7, our final beta snapshot of this release cycle, has arrived!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 6 – Godot Engine One more for the road!

It's been a long journey, but we're at the tail-end of 4.5's beta cycle at last!

Godot 4.5 beta 6 is now live! Help us prepare for the Release Candidate stage by giving it a spin:

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Sign up to the Development Fund today and help us make Godot better for everyone: fund.godotengine.org

Updated Terms and Policies - Bluesky We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.

In the coming weeks, we're asking for feedback on our Community Guidelines. Your input will help ensure our Guidelines serve our users and are ready to support Bluesky's future.

To learn how to contribute, check out our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 5 – Godot Engine Back to our regularly scheduled schedule!

And now, back to our regularly scheduled… Schedule! 📅

#GodotEngine 4.5 beta 5 has arrived, and with it comes several new regression fixes. See our progress firsthand by testing the release 👇

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 4 – Godot Engine More critical fixes coming your way!

Critical bugs: squashed! Beta snapshot: live! Blog post: below!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 3 – Godot Engine Gotta go fast!

Godot 4.5 beta 3 already? But it's only been a week!

Indeed, we have entered the phase of development where snapshots will become much more frequent. Want to make the process even faster? Testing the new release is the easiest way to do so:

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Last chance to fill the poll! It is going to close soon 📝

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 2 – Godot Engine The cow goes

Time for #godotengine 4.5 beta 2!

Even though we’re now in feature freeze, you might recall us mentioning a handful of pre-approved exceptions. One of them being SDL3 input made it in! 🕹️ 🎮

Help us test this release 👇

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Godot Community Poll 2025 – Godot Engine We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

The 2025 Godot Community Poll is live! Help us understand our community better and shape the engine's future. Takes just 5-10 minutes:

👉 godotengine.org/article/godo...

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1 – Godot Engine Godot 4.5 has entered beta and is now feature-complete!

Here we go: #GodotEngine 4.5 is ready for wider testing with its first beta snapshot! 🤖 🧪

As usual, it's feature-packed so we wrote a wordy blog post showcasing the main highlights in this new version.

Please report any issue you encounter while testing on GitHub!
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 5 – Godot Engine The cool chill of the feature freeze approaches…

Brrr… 🧊 Do you feel that? That’s the cold front of the #GodotEngine 4.5 feature freeze (beta) just around the corner.

We still have some days to wrap up new features, and this new dev snapshot is fire 🔥

visionOS support, shader baker, WebAssembly SIMD, and more!
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 4 – Godot Engine One post-GodotCon snapshot coming up!

Back from #GodotCon in Boston with a new dev snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.5, hot off the press!

macOS game window embedding (finally!), improvements to 3D physics interpolation, specular occlusion from ambient light, and more goodies to test!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 3 – Godot Engine Access the engine like never before!

New #GodotEngine 4.5 dev snapshot just dropped‒a proverbial Friday release with all the hiccups you'd expect...

But it's also a HUGE one with the first integration of AccessKit to provide screen reader support! 🗣️

Script backtraces should also be a welcome change 📜

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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

Reminder: You can self-verify your account by setting your domain as your username.

Since we launched this feature in 2023, over 270,000 accounts have linked their Bluesky username to their website.

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