---
title: "Phaser v3.85 Beta 1 Released"
subtitle: "A brand new beta version of Phaser 3 is now available to download. Plus, learn more about what's planned beyond this."
date: 2024-06-21T15:30:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2024/06/phaser-v385-beta-1-released
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Phaser v3.85 Beta 1 Released

*A brand new beta version of Phaser 3 is now available to download. Plus, learn more about what's planned beyond this.*

![image](phaser-v385-beta-1-released.png)

Phaser 3.85 Beta 1 is now available from GitHub and npm under the `beta` tag. This release continues our mission to stay on-top of issues while we build-out our brand new renderer and physics engines in parallel. New features include the ability to have more fine-grained control over _when_ context loss and restoration occur, new orientation consts, new texture frame handling and lots of bug fixes and updates.

This release should be a perfectly seamless upgrade for anyone on v3.80 already. As always, look at the extensive [Change Log](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/master/changelog/3.85/CHANGELOG-v3.85.md) to see exactly what's new. Please test this release thoroughly and report any issues you find. We hope to have the final release out in a matter of weeks.

Beyond that, we're now looking to the future. Development of our new renderer, Phaser Beam, has been on-going all year, and is really starting to pack a punch. You can track development in our weekly Dev Logs in the Phaser World newsletter. Our plan is to replace the renderer in Phaser 3 entirely with Phaser Beam.

We've also been working on Zeus, our physics engine. This was designed to replace _both_ MatterJS and Arcade Physics. However, we are aware this will be a massive change and will break every game that relies on physics, so we're strongly considering using the version 4 tag to handle this. More details will be made available as we decide upon the best direction to take. We expect Zeus to enter private testing for all [Phaser subscribers](https://phaser.io/pricing) during July.

[Download v3.85 Beta 1](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/releases/tag/v3.85.0-beta.1)

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