Whats the difference between LTS, Stable, Latest of godot?

emanvidmaker

Been using LTS version for a while looking to update to stable but i dont understand the difference and porpoise between them in this context (aside from features)

DaveTheCoder

emanvidmaker i dont understand the difference

No one understands it. The best source of information is the Blog:
https://godotengine.org/blog/

For example, this article is very informative: https://godotengine.org/article/release-management-4-1/

I'm using Godot 3.5.3-rc1 for a project I've been working on for a couple of years, and intend to publish soon. I don't want to upgrade it to Godot 4, because it could take weeks to get the UI looking correct. I may upgrade the project to 3.6 when 3.6-rc1 is available.

For new projects I'm using Godot 4.2-dev5. I had been using Godot 4.0.4 because the godot-git-plugin wasn't compatible with 4.1 or 4.2, but that was recently fixed.

soundgnome

The usage of "Stable" vs "Latest" is unfortunately rather inconsistent (on the home page "Download Latest" refers to the latest stable 4.x version, on the docs "Latest" seems to refer to master branch), but basically the main reason for having an LTS is to support people who have invested a lot of time in a 3.x project and for whom porting to 4.x would be prohibitively time consuming.

A very similar thing happened when python 3 came out - there were a lot of breaking changes from python 2, so even though 3 was always recommended for new projects, the python developers supported version 2 for over 10 years after the release of 3 so that projects that didn't have the resources to port to the new version weren't abandoned.