{"id":235532,"date":"2026-04-25T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/godot-4-7-reaches-beta-with-hdr-output-ray-tracing-improvements-editor-enhancements\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:30:14","slug":"godot-4-7-reaches-beta-with-hdr-output-ray-tracing-improvements-editor-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/godot-4-7-reaches-beta-with-hdr-output-ray-tracing-improvements-editor-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements &#038; Editor Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Godot-4.7-Beta\">Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements &#038; Editor Enhancements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Godot-4.7-Beta\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Godot-4.7-Beta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-25 06:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine.<\/p>\n<p>Most exciting with the upcoming Godot 4.7 release is HDR output support for use with modern GPU\/display setups. This high dynamic range output works on Linux when using Wayland and having all the necessary driver requirements and a capable HDR display.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=godot_47_beta_1\" alt=\"Godot 4.7 beta\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Godot 4.7 Beta also refactors its raytracing pieplines, 2D physics improvements, touch support on Wayland, and the ability to render real-time light from a rectangle in 3D space.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=godot_47_beta_2\" alt=\"Godot 4.7 beta editor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For game developers, the Godot 4.7 beta also brings a variety of enhancements to its editor as well.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads and more details on the Godot 4.7 beta release via GodotEngine.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Godot-4.7-Beta\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements &#038; Editor Enhancements https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Godot-4.7-Beta Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=godot_47_beta_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-235532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235534,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235532\/revisions\/235534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}