"I found r256, isn't that way newer than 1.0.46?" I see this constantly, and it's the perfect trap, because 256 is obviously bigger than 46 — except those two numbers come from completely different counters, years apart. Once you see how the versioning actually works, every "fully updated" and "newest version" claim on a download portal falls apart. Let me show you.
- 1.0.46 (May 30, 2020) is the final official release. Nothing newer exists.
- "r256" is an older 2015 build from a different numbering scheme — not newer, despite the bigger number.
- Any "newer than 1.0.46" or "fully updated R256" download is stale, unofficial, or fake.
The short answer
The newest real version is 1.0.46, from May 2020. That's it. The project went quiet after that and there has been nothing official since. So when a site advertises something "newer," it's selling you confusion or a repack — there's nothing past 1.0.46 to actually be newer than.
The two numbering systems (this is the whole trick)
Gibbed has used two different ways of numbering the editor over the years, and that's the entire source of the confusion:
- svn revisions — written as "Revision 256" or "r256." This was the old system, before 2017, when Gibbed distributed builds from his own server. The number counted code revisions and climbed into the hundreds.
- version numbers — written as "1.0.46." This is the current system, used since the editor moved to GitHub in 2017.
"r256" looks bigger than "1.0.46," so a 2015 revision-256 build gets passed around as if it's the latest. It isn't — it predates the entire 1.0.x line by years. You're comparing two different rulers. The 2020 version wins every time.
The svn era (≈2008–2017)
Before GitHub, Gibbed shipped builds from his own site — blog.gib.me and a build server at svn.gib.me — and numbered them by revision. This goes way back: the original Borderlands save editor was Revision 9 in 2009. For Borderlands 2, the revisions climbed over the years to around Revision 256 by late 2015. Those "r237 / r256" builds you still find on mirrors are fossils from this era.
The GitHub era (2017 onward)
On October 31, 2017, Gibbed announced on his blog that releases were moving to GitHub, and the numbering reset to the clean 1.0.x scheme. Here's the whole official timeline:
| Version | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.4 | Jul 26, 2017 | First GitHub release |
| 1.0.5 | Oct 31, 2017 | Move to GitHub announced |
| 1.0.14–1.0.42 | May–Jun 2019 | A burst of updates |
| 1.0.46 | May 30, 2020 | Final official release |
About nine releases in total, all with bl2_saveedit_<version>.zip assets — and 1.0.46 sits at the top.
Why 1.0.46 is the end (but the tool isn't dead)
Releases stopped in 2020. The last actual code change from Gibbed was in September 2021. You might notice the repo says something like "Updated Dec 2022" — that's a bot (dependabot) bumping a dependency, not the author working on it. The repo isn't archived, and crucially, 1.0.46 still works fine with the current Steam and Epic versions of the game. Dormant isn't the same as broken — and Gibbed himself is still active elsewhere, as I cover in who is Rick Gibbed.
The "Fully Updated R256" trap
You'll see mirrors — Nexus among them — hosting a build literally titled something like "Gibbed's BL2 Save Editor (Fully Updated) R256." Read that carefully: it's an old revision-256 build with a reassuring "fully updated" sticker slapped on. It is not updated, and it's older than 1.0.46. The label is doing marketing, not telling the truth.
"Fully updated R256," "newest version," "newer than GitHub" — all of these mean either an ancient svn build or a repack. The genuine latest is plain 1.0.46 on the author's GitHub, and it doesn't need adjectives.
So which version do I run?
1.0.46, the verified release. Don't chase a higher number, don't trust an "r"-anything, don't grab a "fully updated" mirror. The newest, safest, only-version-you-want is the plain one straight from the source.
Quick answers
Is r256 newer than 1.0.46?
Is the project dead?
A site has a version newer than 1.0.46. Real?
The official release history, Gibbed's 2017 GitHub-move post, Wayback snapshots of the old svn.gib.me build server, and the Nexus "Fully Updated R256" listing. Checked June 2026.