Redot 26.2 Beta is live!

Hey Redot community, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Redot 26.2 Beta, the next step in our Long-Term Support (LTS) branch! Building directly on the solid foundation of 26.1, this beta brings polished improvements, new tools, and refinements focused on stability, workflow enhancements, and creator-friendly features.

If you like what we’re doing, please consider supporting our work here: https://www.every.org/redot-foundation. Redot Engine is built entirely by a team of volunteers, every little bit helps keep the lights on.

In this update, we’ve continued our focused efforts to enhance stability while delivering meaningful new features and quality-of-life improvements. Building on the strong foundation of 26.1, Redot 26.2 Beta brings a careful balance of reliability fixes, performance tweaks, and new tools designed to make your development experience smoother and more productive.

HIghlights

• Smarter External Editor Integration: Working with multiple scripts just got much better. In previous versions (and older Godot releases), restarting the editor while using an external code editor would open a separate editor window for every script, easily resulting in 10+ cluttered instances. Redot 26.2 now intelligently reuses a single editor instance, opening all your scripts as tabs in one window. Much cleaner, faster, and less chaotic.
  
• Inverse Kinematics Backported from Godot: Thanks to JoltedJon, Redot 26.2 now includes a modern Inverse Kinematics system. This brings powerful new tools for realistic character animation, procedural rigging, foot placement, and more.
  
  *Important Note:As with any beta release, we recommend backing up your projects before opening them in Redot 26.2 Beta. While we don’t expect any compatibility issues, it’s always better to play it safe.*
  
  

Get the new release HERE

Redot 26.2-Beta.1 Changes and Enhancements

General Enhancements

• Added remap_default()to add a default value for error conditions for remap() by Tekkitslime

• Improved efficiency of Variant resulting in performance increases across the engine by VictorSohier

• Converted Variant macros to templates by VictorSohier

• Add Monotonic Cubic Interpolation for animations by JoltedJon

• Add More Reliable OpenBSD Executable Path Solution by samuelvenable

• Add logic for tilde symbol expansion by AR-DEV-1

• Migrated UID Viewer from bottom‑panel dock to editor tool by TheAenema

• Add support for adjusting color intensity with Color::apply_intensitymethod by Arctis-Fireblight

• Add a setter and getter for the intensity value of ColorPicker by Tekkitslime

Editor

• Add support for bulk opening scripts in external editors with tabs by Arctis-Fireblight

Graphics

• Add deffered compilation for render and compute pipelines by AR-DEV-1

• Update the notification for Auto-exposure to provide a more useful error message by AR-DEV-1

Animation

• Bring in Inverse kinematics in from Godot by JoltedJon

Audio

• Updated from SignalSmith to SoundSmith by mcdubhghlas

• Add support for microphones with more than 2 channels by SleeeepyZhou and JoltedJon

Bugs Squashed

• GH-1199 Fix ColorPicker closing when pressing spacebar by JoltedJon

• GH-674 Check if Vulkan is supported before attempting to Initialize by JoltedJon

• GH-1183 Fix engine freeze when Skeleton3DEditor is Deleted by JoltedJon

• GH-1246 Fix Empty strings crash the editor when looking up code by U-YumeTsuki

• GH-1254 Fix incorrect version macro usage in MCP module by Arctis-Fireblight

Docs

• update Redot docs link by CyberneticDruid

• Updated Doxygen and implemented it across all files by GeneralProtectionFault

• Improved Markdown generation in make_md.py for generating class docs by Arctis-Fireblight

• Fix various typos listed in godotengine#91521 by AR-DEV-1

• Add Deepwiki badge and Remove ReX from README.md by JoltedJon

• Move MCP to its own Documentation by JoltedJon

• Clarify that Tree.create_item(), Tree.set_columns() & Tree.clear() can fail & when. by AR-DEV-1

• Document that auto-exposure won’t work on Mobile & Compatibility renderers by AR-DEV-1

• Clarify that map_to_localreturns the position of the center of the cell in GridMap by AR-DEV-1

• Update Dictionary.get regarding the default argument & it’s side effects by AR-DEV-1

A huge thank you to every contributor, tester, bug reporter, and community member who helped make Redot 26.2 possible. Your feedback, patches, and enthusiasm keep this engine alive and moving forward.

—The Redot Team