Godot Daily: Stabilizing 4.7 and Chasing Down Regressions
A large 4.7.2 cherry-pick batch and a wave of regression fixes dominate today's activity, with security hardening around mbedTLS entropy sourced across four branches. The common thread is stability work catching up with recent feature and refactor churn.
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-07-31T06:02:31Z
- Audio duration: PT2M44S
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Good evening, it's July 31st, and this is Godot Daily.
Today's biggest signal isn't a new feature—it's cleanup. A large chunk of activity is dedicated to fixing regressions introduced by recent changes, and to hardening security across every supported branch.
Start with security: PR 121759 forces Godot to always use its own OS entropy source for mbedTLS, closing a gap where the bundled library's internal randomness could be unreliable on some platforms. That fix was important enough to get backported three separate times—PRs 121942, 121943, and 121944—covering the 4.4,…
Regressions are the second theme. PR 121917 reverts a core fix that had broken the Android editor. PR 121908 repairs the Signals Dock tree, broken by an earlier connections dialog change. And the big one, PR 121947, bundles twenty linked issues into a second wave of cherry-picks for the upcoming 4.7.2…
Rendering also got real performance and correctness attention. PR 121775 fixes directional shadow culling for orthogonal cameras, a visible regression from tighter per-cascade culling logic. And PR 121835 turned a linear scan into a constant-time lookup in SPIR-V reflection, cutting reflection time…
A few smaller but…
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