5.2.0

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Aug 21, 2026, v5.2.0, 1585b09

5.2.0

Relatively small release due to me having to work on finishing my dissertation.
The more interesting work shall continue eventually.

### Highlights

- PreparedStatement got a huge cleanup, and it should be properly usable now.
- Bind parameter indexing now start at 0, so it works the same as value retrieval.
- 3D Skeletons got some getter and setter usability improvements.
- The available IK algorithms were also improved / mostly fixed.
- Make the GridMap's editor much more usable.
- Added back the `yield` keyword to PScript.

### Breaking Changes

- PreparedStatement got a huge cleanup, methods were renamed, but new ones were also added.
It should be realtively trivial to update old PreparedStatement code though.
- Please note that Bind parameter indexing now start at 0, so when updating subtract 1 from each index.
You can also make use of the new next style api (`set_next_bind_float`, `set_next_bind_int` etc.) to
get rid of indices alltogether.
- 3D Skeletons got some getter and setter usability improvements, very advanced uses might be affected.
- GDNative api had some bugs and missing methods, so the headers had to be changed. This means gdnative
modules need to be recompiled. The plan is that with the next release GDNative's 1.0 api will be finalized,
and versioning will start. (Note that it might not need any more changes already, so only small
tweaks and issues are expected.)

### Core

- Fix all img->get_data().read() style calls.

### Modules

#### Skeleton3D

- Fix default value of the additional_rotation property in SkeletonModification3DLookAt.
- Fix global_pose_to_local_pose() and global_pose_to_local_pose() in Skeleton.
These used to use parent bone pose * rest, but rest influence was
removed, so now they basically just used the parent bone's transform.
- Added get_bone_local_pose() helper method to Skeleton.
- Backported 'Fix get_bone_pose_global_no_override()' from godot 4.
- lyuma
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/commit/565803ce3dbaabbd1cff76e3191c4297f212a0de
- Fix SkeletonModification3DCCDIK.
- Added more helper methods to Skeleton.
- Fix potential bug in Skeleton::local_pose_to_global_pose().
- Fix logic in SkeletonModification3DLookAt.
- Remove superflous space in SkeletonModification3DLookAt's lock_rotation_plane's enum binder values.
- Now SkeletonModification3DLookAt::get_lock_rotation_to_plane() returns the proper variable.
- Don't use variable directly in Skeleton::local_pose_to_global_pose_no_override() as it might need to be updated.
- Actually fix SkeletonModification3DLookAt. Also small improvements.
- Unset override in a better way.
- Fix some of the helper methods in Skeleton.
- Fix SkeletonModification3DFABRIK.
- Fix SkeletonModification3DJiggle.
- Work on SkeletonModification3DTwoBoneIK.
- Fix SkeletonModification3DTwoBoneIK except when a pole node is not provided.
- Bind more methods in Skeleton.
- Now Skeleton::get_bone_global_pose_no_override() uses the final transform of the parent bone chain.
It's more useful this way, and also this behaviour is probably the
expected one. The previous behaviour can be reconstructed from script
manually if desired. Or if it turn out to be useful it will be added
back as a different getter.

#### GridMap

- Make the GridMap's editor much more usable.
- Tweak the Gridmap Editor's menu buttons.

#### PDFGenerator

- Fix new error caught by ci after a compiler update.

#### Web

- Added an example code to UserLoginWebPage's docs that show how to set up the user session on login success.
- Added note and recommendation on implementing 2FA to UserLoginWebPage's docs.

#### Database

- Indicate done state with ERR_FILE_EOF in PreparedStatement::step().
- Improve docs for PreparedStatement's column_count() and data_count().
- Make SQLite3PreparedStatement's bind functions to be indexed from 0 instead of from 1.
- This makes every index in SQLite3PreparedStatement to be 0 based.
- This is a small api break.
- Added an auto advancing bind api for PreparedStatement.
- Added next_column helper method to PreparedStatement.
- Added more column info helper methods to PreparedStatement.
- Re-extracted class docs.
- Update indexing in PreparedStatement's docs.
- Added has_data() helper method to PreparedStatement.
- Added more usage examples to PreparedStatement's docs.
- Added docs for PreparedStatement's new methods.
- Don't increment index twice when using bind_float().
- Also add a description to current_column_index in PreparedStatement's docs.
- Renamed the next* and current* helper methods in PreparedStatement to be more similar to QueryResult's api.
- Added an another usage example to PreparedStatement.
- Tweak getter names in PreparedStatement.
- Moved some of the get prefixes to postfixes in PreparedStatement.
- Moved more of the get prefixes to postfixes in PreparedStatement.
- Update PreparedStatement's docs.

#### PScript

- Restored yield to PScript.
Added the pscript_no_yield compile time option so it can be disabled
when building if it's not needed.
- Allow StringNames as signal names in yield for PScript. Also use StringNames directly when setting up the signal connection.
- Honor the add_string_name_symbol setting for yield signal names in PScript's code editor.
- Fix docs for pscript's function_may_yield, and yield.

#### GDScript

- Allow StringNames as signal names in yield for GDscript aswell.

#### GDNative

- Added a missing constructor to gdnative's typed array header.
- Fix the return value of GDNative's PackedTypedArray's set.
- Rename the new constructor in GDNative's TypedArray api.
- Added missing constructor for GDNative's PackedTypedArray.
- Update gdnative api's json.

### Platform

- Added get_entropy() to the frt backends.
- Fix control reaches end of non-void function warning in OS_Windows::get_stdin_string().

### Other

- Added md5 sum generation to the make release script.
- Ran Codespell over the entire codebase.
- Tweaks to the codespell script.

#### Readme

- Added a todos section to the readme.
- Added a breaking changes policy.
- Simplified and explicitly spelled out things in the Use of AI content generators readme section.
It's very similar to zig's policy now, but in essence nothing really
changed apart from the wording.
- Small tweaks to the readme.

##### Plans

- Add a build system long term goal. Unfortunately.
- Add local ci and nightlies as a long term plan.
- Website git long ther plan.
- Added plans for the PasswordReset Node.
- WebUserAdmin editor long term plan.
- Added a long term plan for the User class.

#### Github CI

- Disable windows x86 builds for now as the github windows runner seems to be broken.
- I'ts 2026, so I'll just assume that somebody forgot to tell their AI
to not make mistakes, so I'm just disabling it for now temporarily.
- The releases are built locally using mingw so that will be unaffected.

#### Build Containers

- Update android build container.

### Backports

#### Godot 3.x

- Preserve the output from the gradle build command
Updates `EditorNode#execute_and_show_output(...)` to return the output of the executed command.
Co-authored-by: Fredia Huya-Kouadio
- Fix `safe_unproject_position()`
* fixes returning center of the viewport (instead of top left) when the 3D position is at the origin
* +y is up in 3D but down in 2D, so the Y polarity needs flipping in the recovery branch
- Backport some of the fixes from https://github.com/godotengine/godot/commit/13d050475599bad648678c2371d7258dbf6ff372 .
- Android versions bump for 2026
- mbedTLS: Update to 3.6.7
(cherry picked from commit 1de7e257ffc38a88b2b931c2ea1672e27812a225)
- `BlobShadows` - Ensure blob shadow is hidden when light exits tree
- Blob Shadows - Fade is frame rate independent, and configurable
- core: Backport OS::get_entropy from 4.x
- mbedTLS: Always use Godot's OS as entropy source
- Fix audio crackling issues due to incorrect WASAPI buffer size
(cherry picked from commit 179b0786c6fa3a432dba9e8fc023a620c11a8a5d)
- iOS: Bump min. version to 15.0, remove 32-bit code, add min. target export option.
- Minor BVH correctness fixes
- Suppress error when device is invalidated after `IAudioClient::GetBufferSize`
Co-authored-by: chocola-mint <56677134+chocola-mint@users.noreply.github.com>
- Ping `master` cache after saving cache
Stripped down 3.x version, also updates the action version to `v6` to ensure compatibility.
Also changed the default cache path used for the action to ensure compatibility.
- libpng: Update to 1.6.58
- Fix x86_64 iOS simulator build.

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