Godot Daily: Timing Bugs and Object Lifetime Fixes
Today's activity centers on two reliability themes: incorrect physics timing at non-standard game speeds, and unsafe object lifetime handling during engine callbacks. Alongside these, several editor usability fixes round out a broad but coordinated patch day.
Duration: PT2M48S
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-08-10T06:03:16Z
- Audio duration: PT2M48S
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Good morning. It's August 10th, and this is Godot Daily.
The clearest signal today is around timing correctness. Developer siadialiga opened two related pull requests, 122228 and 122243, both tracing back to the same root issue: when game speed is set to a fraction like one-sixteenth, physics delta was landing on one forty-eighth of a second instead of the expected…
The second theme is object lifetime safety. Bromeon's PR 122230 addresses undefined behavior when code calls "free" on itself from inside the notification callback. The object is destroyed immediately, but engine logic — including ready and process callbacks — keeps running afterward and can touch freed memory. It…
Beyond those two threads, it's a normal grab-bag day for editor polish: FileSystem dock history navigation is fixed in 122245, TextEdit redraw performance improves in 122222, and GDScript squiggle underline styling becomes configurable in 122250, paired with a documentation update in 122235. Rendering also saw…
What to remember: if your project uses non-standard game speeds, watch for the physics timing fix landing. And audit any code that frees objects from within notification handlers — that pattern is now…
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