Move the benchmarking measuring methods from `Engine` to `OS` to allow for platform specific overrides (e.g: can be used to hook into platform specific benchmarking and tracing capabilities).
4 years of development.
12,000 merged pull requests.
7,000 fixed issues.
1,500 individual contributors across engine and docs.
The Godot 4.0 release is by all metrics our biggest release so far.
No stone has been left unturned, all parts of the engine have been
modernized, refactored, overhauled, rewritten, redesigned.
Our work is far from done. Many areas still have significant known issues,
and will require focused work from all willing contributors to fix blocking
bugs, implement missing features, optimize for performance or compatibility,
and improve the user experience.
But Godot 4.0 marks the start of the new, modern Godot Engine, and a solid
foundation for us all to build upon. Future 4.x releases will come with a
much faster cadence, enabling us to iterate quickly on new features and
improvements to what we already provide.
To all of you who were involved in making Godot 4.0 what it is today, however
big or small your contributions were:
THANK YOU!
This was a massive undertaking, and you all participated in unique and
wonderful ways to build a free and open source game engine for everyone to
use and enjoy. You are breathtaking! <3
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Non-exhaustive list of case-sensitive renames:
GDExtension -> GDNative
GDNATIVE -> GDEXTENSION
gdextension -> gdnative
ExtensionExtension ->Extension (for where there was GDNativeExtension)
EXTENSION_EXTENSION ->EXTENSION (for where there was GDNATIVE_EXTENSION)
gdnlib -> gdextension
gdn_interface -> gde_interface
gdni -> gde_interface
Add export options to set Settings and Notification icons on export.
Automatically fill background of the app store icon instead of failing (with warning).
Update development region to use `en` instead of `English`.
Uses html-eslint for HTML file and eslint-plugin-html for inline
JavaScript.
Use HTML5 (not XHTML), remove CDATA and trailing slashes for self
closing tags.
Add format checks to CI.
Implements https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/3371.
New `target` presets
====================
The `tools` option is removed and `target` changes to use three new presets,
which match the builds users are familiar with. These targets control the
default optimization level and enable editor-specific and debugging code:
- `editor`: Replaces `tools=yes target=release_debug`.
* Defines: `TOOLS_ENABLED`, `DEBUG_ENABLED`, `-O2`/`/O2`
- `template_debug`: Replaces `tools=no target=release_debug`.
* Defines: `DEBUG_ENABLED`, `-O2`/`/O2`
- `template_release`: Replaces `tools=no target=release`.
* Defines: `-O3`/`/O2`
New `dev_build` option
======================
The previous `target=debug` is now replaced by a separate `dev_build=yes`
option, which can be used in combination with either of the three targets,
and changes the following:
- `dev_build`: Defines `DEV_ENABLED`, disables optimization (`-O0`/`/0d`),
enables generating debug symbols, does not define `NDEBUG` so `assert()`
works in thirdparty libraries, adds a `.dev` suffix to the binary name.
Note: Unlike previously, `dev_build` defaults to off so that users who
compile Godot from source get an optimized and small build by default.
Engine contributors should now set `dev_build=yes` in their build scripts or
IDE configuration manually.
Changed binary names
====================
The name of generated binaries and object files are changed too, to follow
this format:
`godot.<platform>.<target>[.dev][.double].<arch>[.<extra_suffix>][.<ext>]`
For example:
- `godot.linuxbsd.editor.dev.arm64`
- `godot.windows.template_release.double.x86_64.mono.exe`
Be sure to update your links/scripts/IDE config accordingly.
More flexible `optimize` and `debug_symbols` options
====================================================
The optimization level and whether to generate debug symbols can be further
specified with the `optimize` and `debug_symbols` options. So the default
values listed above for the various `target` and `dev_build` combinations
are indicative and can be replaced when compiling, e.g.:
`scons p=linuxbsd target=template_debug dev_build=yes optimize=debug`
will make a "debug" export template with dev-only code enabled, `-Og`
optimization level for GCC/Clang, and debug symbols. Perfect for debugging
complex crashes at runtime in an exported project.
- `_DEBUG` is MSVC specific so it didn't make much sense to define for
Android and iOS builds.
- iOS was the only platform to define `DEBUG`. We don't use it anywhere
outside thirdparty code, which we usually don't intend to debug, so it
seems better to be consistent with other platforms.
- Consistently define `NDEBUG` to disable assert behavior in both `release`
and `release_debug` targets. This used to be set for `release` for all
platforms, and `release_debug` for Android and iOS only.
- Due to the above, I removed the only use we made of `assert()` in Godot
code, which was only implemented for Unix anyway, should have been
`DEV_ENABLED`, and is in PoolAllocator which we don't actually use.
- The denoise and recast modules keep defining `NDEBUG` even for the `debug`
target as we don't want OIDN and Embree asserting all over the place.
- Print all StringNames, not just the top 100.
- Print statistics at the end of the list of StringNames,
with unreferenced and rarely referenced StringNames.
- List the CLI argument in `--help` and shell completion.
`--profile-gpu` was renamed to `--gpu-profile` for consistency with
`--gpu-abort`.
This also updates the shell completion files to the latest `master`
branch.
This has been superseded by GDExtension so this code is no longer useful
nor usable.
There's still some GDNative-related stuff in platform export code which
needs to be adapted for GDExtension (e.g. to include GDExtension libraries
in exports).
Add localizable string (Dictionary<Lang Code, String>) property editor and property hint.
Add localized "app name" property to the project settings.
Add localized permission and copyright properties to the macOS and iOS export settings.
Remove some duplicated ("app name") and deprecated ("info") macOS and iOS export properties.
All iOS devices since the iPhone 5S support ARMv8 (64-bit).
The last iOS version supported on ARMv7 devices is 10.x, which is
too old to run Godot 4.0 projects since the minimum supported
iOS version is 11.0.
Use an offline first approach, where we prefer the cached version over
the network one.
This forces games using PWA to always re-export the project and not just
the PCK, so that the service worker version gets updated correctly, and
the end-user cache is correctly cleared on update.
Threads are required for the web editor to function. If the web server
is not correctly configured, threads won't be available.
This makes troubleshooting easier for people looking to self-host
the web editor.
The logo's maximum width is now dependent on the viewport height
in addition to the page width. This prevents the "Start Godot editor"
button from overflowing the page on mobile devices (although the
"Clear persistent data" and "Web editor documentation" buttons will
still overflow for now).
This makes for a more seamless-looking address bar/status bar
when using the web editor on a mobile device, either directly
in the brower or installed as a progressive web app.
This also specifies a theme color for the web editor's offline
fallback.
This fixes window management issues across platforms on hiDPI monitors.
The `--low-dpi` command line argument has been removed as similar
functionality (forcing low-DPI mode on DPI-aware programs) is
already provided by Windows and macOS itself.
Note, the editor build requires the mbedtls module to be manually
enabled, as it is currently needed as a ResourceUID dependency.
This will need to be addressed in a separate PR.
Default is "Auto", but can be forced to a specific WebGL version if the
automatic detection fails.
The game and editor canvas are now replaced with a new one in the exit
hooks. This helps the browser do some context cleanup, and allow us to
create a new context of a different type (WebGL/WebGL2).
Found via `codespell -q 3 -S ./thirdparty,*.po,./DONORS.md -L ackward,ang,ans,ba,beng,cas,childs,childrens,dof,doubleclick,fave,findn,hist,inout,leapyear,lod,nd,numer,ois,ony,paket,seeked,sinc,switchs,te,uint`
These are the entitlements we define for official macOS editor builds since
Godot 3.3.
Users making custom builds of the engine can use those files with `codesign` to
sign their own builds. E.g.:
```
codesign --force --timestamp \
--options=runtime --entitlements editor.entitlements \
-s <your key> -v osx_template.app
```
We used to only generate the favicon if it was specified in the user
project settings, now it's optional, will export it to `NAME.icon.png`,
(falling back to the default project icon if none is set in project
settings), and the `<link>` tag is added using the `$HEAD_INCLUDE`
instead of being hardcoded in the template.
- Consistently use double quotes in the HTML markup.
- Define English language to assist screen readers and search engines.
- Add missing `alt` text for the logo image.
- Remove duplicate `id` for the preload project ZIP input.
This modal dialog displayed when the page is loaded. It can be
dismissed permanently by clicking the "OK, don't show again" button.
Clicking outside the modal will only dismiss it once.
This dialog is used to remind people that the HTML5 editor is still in
release candidate stage and isn't considered production-ready yet.
With a very nice hack, a new hidden configuration option that delays
dropped files removal at exit.
This still leaks while the project manager is running, but will clear
memory as soon as it exits or load something.
(reminder, dropped files are reguarly removed after the signal is
emitted specifically to avoid leaks, but I prefer hacking the HTML5
config then the project manager).
This allows to install it as an app, and provide offline support (after
the first run).
Practically, this boils down to adding a JSON file as a manifest, an
offline page to be displayed when the cached files are not avaialble,
and a JS file to cache resources and return them.
The reason for the "first run requirements" is that some browsers, will
emit an "install" by just visiting the page (to see if the JS code is
compatibile), and we do not want to force casual visitors to just
download the 10 MiB+ compressed editor WebAssembly file without pressing
the start button.
Special thanks to Hugo Locurcio (Calinou) for the initial work.
We used to have it like `$GODOT_VERSION` which caused inconsistencies
between different scons versions when substituting it.
It's now `@GODOT_VERSION@`, which is safe on both scons3 and scons4.
- Darken the header tab background to match the default editor
background color.
- Hide the distracting focus outlines for the editor and game canvas.
- Use a pure black background for the game canvas to better distinguish it
from the editor and provide a more neutral background.
- Use a bold font weight for the Start Godot editor button on the
loader page.
- Link to the web editor documentation on the loader page.
- Clarify what happens when clicking "OK" in the persistent data removal
warning dialog.
- Tidy up the HTML template by removing obsolete attributes.
Three canvas resize policies:
- `None`: Godot window settings are ignored.
- `Project`: Godot handles the canvas like a native app (resizing it
when setting the window size).
- `Adaptive`: Canvas size will always adapt to browser window size.
Use `None` if you want to control the canvas size with custom JavaScript
code.
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