LWJGL 2.8.5

OpenGL Development
#1

The LWJGL team is proud to present the latest release of the fabulous LWJGL: 2.8.5

LWJGL 2.8.5

LWJGL:

- Fix: Matrix*f.negate(Matrix*f dest) methods in Matrix2f, Matrix3f and Matrix4f classes
- Fix: issue with get x/y returning client-area coords (Windows)

OpenAL:

- Fix: Changed ALC10's alcGetString and alcOpenDevice to use UTF8 decoding/encoding
- Fix: Updated to nightly openal-soft (785f52aa29d...)

OpenGL:

- Add: Support for OpenGL 4.3 and OpenGL ES 3.0
- Add: Support for AMD_shader_trinary_minmax, INTEL_map_texture and NV_draw_texturem EXT_multiview_draw_buffers, AMD_sparse_texture, APPLE_sync, EXT_copy_texture_levels, EXT_map_buffer_range, EXT_shader_framebuffer_fetch, NV_compute_program5, NV_shader_storage_buffer_object, NV_shader_atomic_counters, NV_deep_texture3D, QCOM_binning_control, AMD_query_buffer_object
- Fix: GLContext.getCapabilities throw a RuntimeException instead of returning null when there's no GL context current in the current thread
- Fix: Removed some re-defined GL11 enums
- Fix: Removed ARB_debug_group, ARB_debug_label and ARB_debug_output2

OpenCL:

AppletLoader:

- Fix: NumberFormatException when parsing version string on an EA or beta JVM

Input:

- Fix: KEYBOARD_SIZE issue
- Fix: Translate extended keys before the state check
- Fix: Lost key up events when Display is out of focus (Windows)

Eclipse:

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/java-game-lib/files/
Changelog: http://www.lwjgl.org/changelogs/2.8.5-changelog.txt

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#2

Great job everybody! Hopefully the Mac+Java7 fix is finalized and working soon so we can start focusing on LWJGL 3.0.

#3

Although this thread is 2 months old, I just wanted to personally say THANK YOU for this library.

You see, I am a noob coming into the JAVA world. I have ready many many threads, posts and what not where there is an APPARENT war between JOGL and LWJGL. But from a person who is barely 4 weeks into JAVA, I have seen a LOT more support for LWJGL then I have for JOGL. In fact, there are tons of video tutorials on youtube JUST for LWJGL and one of them has the slick library integration with it. JOGL had 1 set of tuts, in non-english and I had no clue what I was looking at when I watched the videos. There was no actual help for JOGL. I went to the website, and it “looked” dead, whether it is or not.

Now with this said, bottom line, Whether JOGL or LWJGL is better or not is irrelevant, I can say from a person coming into this that LWJGL has more support videos and help for us noobs that makes it above the other for this reason alone. I have been using OpenGL for years, but had no clue how to use it in JAVA.

So I wanted to say again, THANK YOU… I would never have gotten into JAVA if it wasn’t for this library.