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Changes since 3.2.3:

Bindings

  • Added libffi bindings.
    • Bundled with the LWJGL core, under the org.lwjgl.system package.
  • Added meshoptimizer bindings.
  • Added SPIRV-Cross bindings.
  • Assimp: Updated to 5.1.0 (up from 5.0.0.rc2)
  • bgfx: Updated to API version 115 (up from 100)
  • CUDA: Updated to 11.5.0 (up from 10.1.0)
    • Now includes full API documentation.
  • glfw: Updated to latest 3.3.4 (up from 3.3.1):
    • Added GLFW_WIN32_KEYBOARD_MENU.
    • Added GLFW_CURSOR_UNAVAILABLE.
    • Added GLFW_FEATURE_UNAVAILABLE.
    • Added GLFW_FEATURE_UNIMPLEMENTED.
    • Added GLFW_MOUSE_PASSTHROUGH.
    • Added GLFW_ANGLE_PLATFORM_TYPE.
    • Added GLFW_CONTEXT_DEBUG.
    • Added GLFW_X11_XCB_VULKAN_SURFACE.
    • Added GLFW_PLATFORM, GLFW_PLATFORM_UNAVAILABLE.
    • Added GLFW_ANY_PLATFORM, GLFW_PLATFORM_WIN32, GLFW_PLATFORM_COCOA, GLFW_PLATFORM_WAYLAND, GLFW_PLATFORM_X11, GLFW_PLATFORM_NULL.
    • Added glfwInitAllocator.
    • Added glfwGetPlatform.
    • Added glfwPlatformSupported.
    • Added glfwInitVulkanLoader.
    • Added standard cursors for diagonal and omnidirectional resize/move and operation-not-allowed.
    • Added OSMesa native access functions.
  • LibOVR: Updated to 1.64.0 (up from 1.39.0)
  • libdivide: Updated to 5.0 (up from 2.0)
    • Added support for 16-bit divisions.
  • LLVM/Clang: Updated to 13.0.1 (up from 8.0)
  • lmdb: Updated to 0.9.28 (up from 0.9.24)
  • lz4: Updated to 1.9.3 (up from 1.9.2)
  • NativeFileDialog: Updated to 1.2.0 (up from 1.1.6)
  • Nuklear: Updated to 4.09.0 (up from 4.01.0)
  • OpenAL Soft: Updated to 1.21.1 (up from 1.19.1)
    • Added AL_SOFT_bformat_ex extension.
    • Added AL_SOFT_buffer_samples extension.
    • Added AL_SOFT_buffer_sub_data extension.
    • Added AL_SOFT_direct_channels_remix extension.
  • OpenCL: Added support for OpenCL 3.0.
  • OpenVR: Updated to 1.16.8 (up from 1.6.10)
  • Opus: Added Opusfile & Libopusenc bindings (#634)
  • par: Added par_octasphere bindings.
  • rpmalloc: Updated to 1.4.3 (up from 1.4.0)
  • Shaderc: Updated to 2021.3 (up from 2019.1)
  • stb
    • Updated stb_dxt to 1.12 (up from 1.08)
    • Updated stb_easy_font to 1.1 (up from 1.0)
    • Updated stb_image to 2.27 (up from 2.23)
    • Updated stb_image_resize to 0.97 (up from 0.96)
    • Updated stb_image_write to 1.16 (up from 1.13)
    • Updated stb_perlin to 0.5 (up from 0.4)
    • Updated stb_rect_pack to 1.01 (up from 1.00)
    • Updated stb_truetype to 1.26 (up from 1.22)
    • Updated stb_vorbis to 1.22 (up from 1.17)
  • tinyexr: Updated to 1.0.1 (up from 1.0.0 pre-release)
  • tinyfiledialogs: Updated to 3.8.8 (up from 3.3.9)
  • vma: Updated to 3.3.0-development (up from 2.2.0)
  • Vulkan: Updated to 1.2.198 (up from 1.1.121)
    • Includes Vulkan Video
    • Includes MoltenVK 1.1.5 (up from 1.0.36)
  • xxhash: Updated to 0.8.0 (up from 0.7.1)
  • Yoga: Updated to 1.19.0 (up from 1.14.0)
  • Zstd: Updated to 1.5.0 (up from 1.4.3)

Improvements

  • macOS/Windows: Added support for ARM builds. (#601)
    • Maven classifier for macOS: natives-macos-arm64
    • Maven classifier for Windows: natives-windows-arm64
  • Linux: Shared libraries are now built with GCC 7.5 (up from GCC 4.8)
  • Generator: Struct member javadoc moved to the corresponding getter method.
    • There are links to the getter method in the class javadoc (Layout section) and in the javadoc of the corresponding setter and .Buffer accessors.
    • Makes it easier to navigate to the documentation of a particular member.
  • Generator: simplified stack allocation methods in Struct classes.
    • 4 new methods added, named malloc and calloc, without a "Stack" suffix.
    • 8 old methods with the "Stack" suffix are now deprecated, to be removed in LWJGL 3.4.0.
  • Core: Replaced internal usages of dyncall with libffi.
    • This resolves a range of long-standing issues, mainly with upcalls (callbacks).
    • Single native callback handler used for all upcalls, regardless of signature. Arguments and return values handled Java-side (per callback type).
    • Improved upcall performance (before: JNI downcall per argument, after: simple memory accesses)
    • Support for structs returned by-value. (#283)
  • Core: Implemented overflow protection in text encoding methods.
  • Core: When LWJGL fails to resolve native libraries, it will now attempt to report native JAR files in the classpath with mismatching platform/architecture. (#587)
  • Core: The SharedLibraryLoader now prefers to extract natives to the working directory, over the user's home directory.
  • Core: Added version information to module descriptors. (#685)
    • The LWJGL version/build used will now be included in stacktraces of modular applications.
  • docs: The javadoc of callback classes/interfaces now includes a link to the corresponding invoke method, for better IDE navigation.
  • macOS: Shared libraries are now built with Xcode 11.3 (up from 10.0)
  • GLFW: Added overrides for internally loaded shared libraries.
    • Useful when there's a mismatch with the library loaded by LWJGL.
    • GLFWNativeEGL.setEGLPath & GLFWNativeEGL.setGLESPath
    • GLFWNativeGLX.setPath
    • GLFWNativeNSGL.setFramework
    • GLFWNativeWGL.setPath
    • GLFWVulkan.setPath
  • GLFW: There is now a single Linux native that supports both X11 and Wayland.
    • Use glfwPlatformSupported(GLFW_PLATFORM_WAYLAND) to test if Wayland is available.
    • Use glfwInitHint(GLFW_PLATFORM, GLFW_PLATFORM_WAYLAND) to enable the Wayland backend.
  • GL: Added support for OSMesa contexts. (#595)
  • GL/GLES/AL: Added createCapabilities overloads that accept an IntFunction<PointerBuffer>. Enables explicit management of the off-heap memory used by the capabilities instances.
  • GL/GLES/AL: When capabilities creation fails, the current thread/process capabilities state is no longer reset to null.
  • GL/GLES/AL/CL/EGL: Added Configuration options to forcibly disable specific extensions for debugging purposes. (#683)
  • OpenAL: Introduced ALC::setCapabilities. Rarely useful when opening multiple devices with different ALC capabilities. (#582)
  • Vulkan: Struct classes now include an additional sType setter that writes the appropriate struct type value. (#537)
  • Vulkan: Struct classes now include type-safe pNext setters, one for each struct type that is known to extend them.
    • These setters prepend the struct to the pNext chain, enabling cleaner code when chaining multiple structs.
    • Order does not matter, but do note that structs will be chained in the reverse order of the pNext calls.
    • Also be careful when the base struct is malloced, make sure to call .pNext(NULL) first, otherwise the last struct in the chain will point to invalid memory.

Fixes

  • Generator: Native libraries are now initialized before constants. (#630)
  • Core: Fixed unsafe field reads in MemoryUtil setup code. (#632)
  • Core: The SharedLibraryLoader now prepends a . to SHARED_LIBRARY_EXTRACT_DIRECTORY when the target directory is not temporary.
  • Core: The SharedLibraryLoader will now load libraries in the correct ClassLoader when testing for JDK-8195129. (#648)
  • Core: Changed the encoding of dlopen paths to UTF-8. (#691)
  • CUDA: Implemented missing cuIpcOpenEventHandle/cuIpcOpenMemHandle using libFFI.
  • EGL: Fixed nullability of eglInitialize arguments.
  • GLFW: Fixed main thread check. Setting GLFW_CHECK_THREAD0 to false is now required for offscreen interop. (#538)
  • OpenCL: Added missing errcode_ret parameter to clLinkProgram. (#560)
  • OpenGL: Restored GL_TEXTURE in the core profile. (#573)
  • OpenGL: Added buffer object offset overloads to GetQueryObject* functions.
  • stb: Removed redundant stb_image_resize overloads. (#605)
  • Vulkan: Fixed GLFW configuration for MoltenVK. (#502)
  • Vulkan: Fixed vkGetInstanceProcAddr to work with null instance arguments.
  • Vulkan: Fixed unsigned arithmetic in VK_VERSION_MAJOR and VK_VERSION_MINOR macros.

Breaking Changes

(B): binary incompatible change
(S): source incompatible change
  • Linux: Shared libraries are now built on Ubuntu 18.04 (up from Ubuntu 16.04) (B)
    • GLIBC versions older than 2.14 are no longer supported. Some, but not all, LWJGL natives may require up to GLIBC 2.27.
    • Applications deployed on older systems must now build & bundle custom LWJGL natives. Contact LWJGL developers if you need assistance.
  • Removed deprecated methods that were marked for removal in LWJGL 3.3. (S)
  • Core: Users of the dyncall bindings must migrate to libffi. (S)
  • CUDA: Merged versioned classes into a single class that contains the entire functionality. (S)
    • The bindings still require CUDA 3.2 as the minimum version. There are runtime checks for functions introduced after 3.2.
  • Shaderc: The shaderc_spvc library has been removed since Shaderc 2020.4. Users may migrate to the new SPIRV-Cross bindings. (S)
  • Vulkan: All header boilerplate constants have been moved to VK10. (S)
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