Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 2

Godot 4.8 dev 2 is out, and the headline is less about flashy features than about shaving friction off day-to-day engine work. The inspector now auto-expands newly created resources, scenes can be launched directly from the file system context menu, and Object serialization now inserts line breaks between properties so text diffs and merges are much more usable.

That last change is the kind of unglamorous fix teams feel immediately. Object data has long been awkward in version control because everything sat on one line, making merges noisy and review painful. With properties split across lines, scene and resource churn should be easier to inspect, especially for teams that live in Git and routinely resolve conflicts in large projects.

The snapshot also includes a broad mix of smaller improvements: better 2D scene-paint guidance, freelook inertia restored by default in the 3D editor, deterministic shader float formatting for exports, crash resilience work in GDScript shutdown, and a default change to ignore joypads on unfocused windows for new projects. Rendering, input, asset library sorting, and third-party physics also saw updates, including Jolt Physics 5.6.0.

This build comes from commit 7220d456d and aggregates 197 fixes from 93 contributors. No new issues were introduced in this snapshot, and the usual pre-release caution applies: test on copies, keep backups, and report regressions early if your project depends on any of these editor or runtime behaviors.