Godot Daily: Metal Backend Gets a Reliability Pass
The Metal rendering backend saw two consecutive fixes this week, one closing a startup crash and another cleaning up incorrect pipeline state, while a cluster of platform-level bugs across X11 and GDScript rounded out a day focused on correctness over new features.
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-09-14T06:03:03Z
- Audio duration: PT2M25S
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Good morning. It's September 14th, and today's codebase activity centers on stability fixes across rendering and platform backends.
The clearest thread is Metal. Stuart Carnie merged PR 123439 to fix a startup crash tied to a miscompile under LLVM 21, where a shared pointer wrapper was triggering undefined behavior on null checks. The fix inlines the underlying Objective-C calls directly, avoiding the unsafe path entirely. Hours later, the same…
A second theme is platform-level window handling on X11. Miruji submitted two fixes: PR 123476 addresses tiling window managers repositioning Godot windows after creation, and PR 123464 ensures a viewport update callback actually fires when a window is resized. Both are narrow, targeted patches, but they close out…
On the scripting side, PR 123472 improves GDScript's static analysis, so that after an `is` type check inside an `if` block, the narrowed type is respected and doesn't throw unsafe access warnings. That's a real developer-experience fix for anyone relying on strict warning settings.
A few smaller items worth flagging: NoiseTexture2D now generates images immediately on request rather than returning null, GLTF import will properly…
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