- Edited
As written on my nightly builds page:
Builds on this page are currently less optimized than official releases since
target=release_debug
andtarget=release
exhibit various issues in the master branch. Also, debug symbols are kept in the editor binaries so that Godot provides useful backtraces when crashing. This makes editor binaries about 5 times larger than they would otherwise be, but it makes bug reporting much more effective.
I may strip debugging symbols again in the future, but probably not before 4.0 is released. We want 4.0 to be as stable as possible, and that requires giving the means for users to report crashes with useful backtraces :)