Godot Daily: Editable Children Revert and Threading Race Fixes
Merged activity centers on stability over features, led by a revert of the editable-children reset fix and a multithreaded command-queue race fix. Editor polish, macOS platform corrections, and debugger honesty round out the day.
Duration: PT2M19S
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-11-03T06:02:34Z
- Audio duration: PT2M19S
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Good morning, it's November 3rd, 2026. You're listening to Godot Daily.
The biggest signal today is caution around instanced scenes, paired with steady progress on hard-to-reproduce threading and editor stability issues.
First, scene editing. Pull request 124893 reverts an earlier fix for children of instanced nodes not resetting when editing is disabled. The author reports ownership errors on save and problems with properties that store nodes in arrays and dictionaries. The takeaway for developers: if you rely on editable children,…
Second, core thread safety. Pull request 124990 fixes a race when multiple threads flush the multithreaded command queue, an issue linked to five separate reports. A related open request, 125099, would wake idle workers when low-priority tasks drain to avoid a hang during shutdown. For developers shipping…
Third, editor and platform polish. Merged fixes stop an infinite resize loop in the theme editor preview when editor scale is not one, stop needless re-saves of unchanged scripts that refreshed the inspector and broke paged arrays, and correct grid and zoom behavior in the 2D editors. On macOS, two open proposals…
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