[2023-02-23]-Godot 4.0 RC 4+ Is Not Ready For "Stable" Release!

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[2023-02-23]-Godot 4.0 RC 4+ Is Not Ready For "Stable" Release!

JeZxLee

Hi,

I've been making simple 2D video games as a hobby since 1998.
I've been using daily Godot 4.0 since late Alpha version.
As of 2023-02-23 (4.0 RC 4), 4.0 is NO where near ready for "Stable" release.

I love the 4.0 developers and I mean no disrespect, but you need another 4+ weeks.
Don't rush 4.0 "Stable" release - just look at "Cyberpunk 2077" release on Steam.
(first impression only happens once - hope you understand that)

Jesse "JeZxLee"
Team "www.BetaMaxHeroes.org"

DaveTheCoder

4.0-stable will not be a stable release. Your problem is solved.

JeZxLee

uggg, you are committing technical suicide

cybereality

Honestly, I'm not even sure it will be stable this year. 4 weeks no way, maybe 4 months. I think we will be waiting for Godot 4.1.

Megalomaniak

cybereality I think we will be waiting for Godot 4.1.

They've iterated this on the blog/news section of godotengine.org for a long while now, I'm not even sure how it's a surprise.

Alienhead

Maybe 4.0 RC 5 will surprise us? 🙂

Tomcat

Alienhead Maybe 4.0 RC 5 will surprise us?

Definitely a surprise 😆

Lethn

Hopefully they have enough sense to hold release back if it's truly broken in some places but we'll see, I've personally not run into anything particularly bad so far but it would be good for people to post feedback. I love the new agent path debug feature because it's genuinely helped me already fixing code problems and dealing with setup, just because I can know now whether or not the path is calculating properly on the navmesh.

cybereality

I'm not completely satisfied, but they did just fix a bug that was driving me nuts for months (editor crash on HDR image import) so that's a plus. They also fixed a problem with model material importing, not sure but it was shortly after I complained to Juan about it on Twitter. So it's not in the worst place and I understand the need to release something.

davek

I've had pretty good luck with it then.

My complex 2D game is mostly ported from v3 running without crashes.

I am upset about the change with Tweens though. They should have offered to keep them in the scene tree, for signal connections and persistence, and made a new style of tweens for those who wanted those. Reminds me of Python 2 to Python 3 upgrade.

No one is reading this but, for future changes, Godot should set a policy of making developers who want to break compat, also have to build an upgrade tool

Alienhead

davek No one is reading this but, for future changes, Godot should set a policy of making developers who want to break compat, also have to build an upgrade tool

At the least a path to new version compatibility when working with feature-locked releases. 🙁