Redot LTS 26.2

Redot 26.2 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 Shakai-Dev
• Migrated UID Viewer from bottom‑panel dock to editor tool by TheAenema
• Add support for adjusting color intensity with Color::apply_intensity method 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 Shakai-Dev
• Update the notification for Auto-exposure to provide a more useful error message by Shakai-Dev

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
• Fix crash on skeleton select GH-1296 by JoltedJon
• Bug Fix: Added Validation Pass for Rendering Driver Availability by TheAenema
• Restore support for parsing Variant::NIL and handling related cases in VariantParser by Arctis-Fireblight
• OpenBSD EXE Path now works even when argv[0] is modified to something bogus by samuelvenable
• Update release build scripts to enable DX12 support on Windows by Arctis-Fireblight
• Fixed GitHub Actions failing to detect MSVC for Windows due to MS’s updates to the Windows runner by Arctis-Fireblight
• Fixed compiler warning in CollisionPolygon2d in MSVC 2026 that was preventing Windows builds by Arctis-Fireblight
• Fixed Visual Studio Not Opening by GeneralProtectionFault

Misc

• Cherry picked the latest fixes from Godot 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 Shakai-Dev
• 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 Shakai-Dev
• Document that auto-exposure won't work on Mobile & Compatibility renderers by Shakai-Dev
• Clarify that map_to_local returns the position of the center of the cell in GridMap by Shakai-Dev
• Update Dictionary.get regarding the default argument & it's side effects by Shakai-Dev

New Contributors

• @Joy-less made their first contribution in #1175
• @CyberneticDruid made their first contribution in #1195
• @guychuasaard made their first contribution in #1198
• @Tekkitslime made their first contribution in #1216
• @VictorSohier made their first contribution in #1222
• @GeneralProtectionFault made their first contribution in #1223
• @maxlindb made their first contribution in #1251
• @U-YumeTsuki made their first contribution in #1246

Full Changelog: redot-26.1-stable...redot-26.2-stable