Godot 4.7 (stable)

Godot 4.7 shipped stable on 2026-06-18 (the team dubs it the “Director’s Cut”) — the culmination of the RC cycle this wiki tracked (RC1 → RC2 → RC3), after ~three years of Godot 4 development (“Godot 4 has only gotten better with age”). First-party download/release page, corroborated by 80.lv’s release writeup (secondary).

Headline features (per 80.lv)

• New Asset Store — replaces the old Asset Library with cleaner browsing, zoomable previews, and background threading (non-blocking) — the first-party evolution of the community time-to-game layer (godot-best-plugins-2025) the godot-engine page flagged.
• HDR output — wider brightness/color range for 2D and 3D, on Windows, macOS, iOS, visionOS, and Linux (Wayland).
• AreaLight3D — a rectangular real-time 3D light (softer shadows, realistic reflections without emissive-material hacks).
• Inline shader previews — preview text shaders live in the editor, no separate compile step.
• Control-node transforms — translate/rotate/scale GUI Control nodes while keeping container behavior (UI animation).
• DrawableTexture2D — draw directly onto textures.
• GABE stable — the on-device Android build/export/publish environment (godot-gabe-android) reaches stable, with Gradle support — the “create-and-ship-with-no-PC” pitch graduates from preview.

Platforms

Android, Linux (x86_64/32, arm64/32), macOS universal, Windows (incl. arm64), plus a self-hosted Web editor; Standard (GDScript/GDExtension) and .NET/C# builds across platforms; specialized VR Android builds for Meta Quest and PICO (per the official download page).

Why it matters here

4.7 stable closes the disciplined RC cadence the wiki read as Godot’s signature — and the four open regressions still tracked at RC3 (Adreno 660 geometry, editor scaling) were the gate it cleared to ship. The two threads that mature most are the first-party Asset Store and GABE stable: both push Godot’s ecosystem and on-device reach from “community/preview” to “official,” sharpening its low-overhead, fast-iteration pitch against Unity/Unreal (unity-vs-godot-comparison) — though completeness vs. those two remains the open question.

Caveat

First-party release page + a secondary games-industry writeup (80.lv); feature quality under real production load is unverified at launch. The 06-18 (godotengine.org) vs 06-19 (80.lv) date difference is just release-day vs. coverage-day.

Related

godot-engine · godot-4-7-rc3 · godot-4-7-rc2 · godot-4-7-rc1 · godot-gabe-android · godot-best-plugins-2025 · unity-vs-godot-comparison · synthesis