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Ali_Haider1129 · November 10, 2026, 1:21pm

Latest Godot version is 4.8 beta 3

Hello Guys

Do you know:

Why godot 4.8 dev 1 to 7 size is larger then godot 4.8 beta 2 or 3

Look at there sizes:

The answer is because:

It does’nt mean godot dev’s is better then godot beta versions.Actually —> Dev 4 is bigger because it has extra debug data inside for finding bugs. Beta 2 removed that data, so it is smaller and faster.

flamenco687 · November 10, 2026, 1:57pm

Thanks for the information @Ali_Haider1129 but this post should rather belong to Resources > Tips & Tricks

athousandships · November 10, 2026, 2:27pm

This is completely unrelated to the debug symbols, they aren’t in the editor binary before or after, beta1 just had a lot of optimizations for size, like:

[Editor] Use single ZSTD blob for editor translations. by bruvzg · Pull Request #124108 · godotengine/godot · GitHub (about 18 MB)
Compress embedded RD and GLES3 shader code to reduce binary size by akien-mga · Pull Request #124058 · godotengine/godot · GitHub (about 2 MB)

But I also don’t see the reason to create this post on this forum