Lots of fantastic changes coming in 4.5, some of which are a long time coming.

My personal highlights:

  • Proper SVG support and text scaling
  • Tilemap chunking which boosts performance and stops glitching in-between tile seams
  • Variadic arguments in functions
  • In-editor translation previews
  • Windows exports no longer need rcedit to change the icon/metadata!
  • Build profile now properly detects everything in your game, giving you a file to exclude all the nodes and features not used to easily reduce binary size
  • Emission shape gizmos on 2D particles (finally)
  • Screenreader support
  • Recursive focus modes and mouse passthrough for Control nodes
  • Borderless fullscreen mode on Windows finally doesn’t have a 1px outline
  • Deep duplicates of resources finally work, previously anything in collections like arrays wouldn’t get duped and you had to go through them manually
  • Lots of optimizations for the web