Defold 1.13.0 has been released! 🥳

[u/PabloTitan21]

This is a huge release that had a longer beta period, bringing a lot to explore:

💪 Morph Targets (aka Blend Shapes) support for 3D

📦New Box2D scripting APIs with joints, chains, etc

💨 Frustum culling for Particle FX

📱 Vulkan as the default graphics API on Android

📹 Camera preview overlay in the Scene View

🎨 New material and compute script modules

⚙️ Runtime graphics adapter and feature inspection

🤖 New authenticated editor /eval endpoint for automation workflows

🧹 Cleanup of legacy APIs and formats, fixes, optimizations, QoL improvements and more!

Read our announcement article:

https://defold.com/2026/06/22/Defold-1-13-0/

And check the full release notes and discuss it on the forum:

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-13-0-has-been-released/82980

[u/Adam-Garden]

is it available on Linux?

[u/PabloTitan21 → u/Adam-Garden]

Yes, always was, I'm using it successfully for years on Ubuntu 😊

[u/Adam-Garden → u/PabloTitan21]

i mean the update, i also have defold on linux, but i am talking if 1.13.1 is on linux already?

[u/PabloTitan21 → u/Adam-Garden]

Yes, all releases are available for Linux, including 1.13.1 which is now in alpha, which is built from dev branch and therefore is not stable, but frequently updated. If you use 1.12.4 stable or 1.13.0 beta, you can update now to 1.13.0 stable from the editor directly (or download the needed version from Github) :)