When do you guys estimate 4.4.stable will release? Will we be getting it by the end of the year or not. Really can’t wait to try out the new features
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I think it will release before the end of the year
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The current stage is Godot 4.4 dev 4, so there is 95% chance that Godot 4.4 will release by this year.
The new features of Godot 4.4 is really great and useful, like in-game editor, move objects by snapping on ground, etc. They are the main features of it.
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Sorry, but I highly doubt it will release by the end of the year. The Godot Foundation announced after the release of 4.0 that they would try to make a new release about every 4 months. Three months for developing and merging in new features and then one month of beta testing to remove bugs and add polish.
Here’s the blog post announcing those plans:
And they did a fairly good job of sticking to that schedule for two releases (4.1 and 4.2). But Godot 4.2 released basically a year ago, on the last day of November. The first dev build of 4.3 was announced 3 weeks later and then it was about six months later when 4.3 entered beta and then three more months before the full/stable release. All in all it took about 9 months from the release of 4.2 until 4.3.
4.4 is still in “dev” (alpha) release and hasn’t had a beta release yet.
If development of 4.4 is on schedule, that would mean it should be entering beta any day now. But even then I expect the fact that there are major holidays coming up will mean things will slow down and see some delays.
In short, once it gets to a beta state it should be in beta for at least a month, and possibly many months if it follows a similar velocity as 4.3 did.
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