Godot Daily: macOS Cleanup and Editor Runtime Tools
A cluster of macOS platform fixes addresses embedded process behavior and minimum OS version requirements, while the editor gains a major new runtime manipulation feature for 2D nodes. Meanwhile, the 3.x branch continues steady maintenance with a security patch and concurrency fixes.
Duration: PT2M37S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Godot Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-08-18T06:02:56Z
- Audio duration: PT2M37S
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Good morning, it's August 18th, 2026, and you're listening to Godot Daily.
The clearest thread today is macOS platform work. Bruvzg shipped a trio of fixes around embedded process handling: setting the embedded process activation policy correctly in PR 122500, fixing responsiveness so Activity Monitor stops flagging the game as not responding in PR 122497, and patching OS alert behavior in…
Second theme: the editor keeps gaining runtime power tools. YeldhamDev's PR 122510 is the big one — full manipulation of CanvasItems directly in the Game view, with undo and redo, after weeks of work. Smaller editor polish landed alongside it: object selector sizing in PR 122505, general visual nitpicks in PR…
Third, the 3.x branch got real maintenance. Akien-mga's libpng update in PR 122506, mirrored for 3.6 in PR 122507, closes out known security bugs upstream. Lawnjelly contributed a BVH branchless optimization in PR 122508 and a batch of thread-sanitizer race fixes in PR 122496, touching audio server timing and script…
Elsewhere: dsnopek's OpenXR swapchain change in PR 122512 avoids unnecessary swapchain recreation, and a lightmap UV cache bug fix in PR 122494 should improve cross-platform…
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