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Release notes (since 3.0.0b):
BINDINGS
- Added support for Java array parameters and HotSpot Critical Natives. (#175)
- Added Vulkan bindings. (#50)
- Added NanoVG bindings. (#99)
- Added NativeFileDialog bindings.
- Added par_shapes.h bindings.
- Added dyncall bindings.
- Added jawt bindings for AWT/Swing integration. (#125)
- Added simple OS-specific window creation bindings, for custom window/context creation. (#105)
- Added missing OpenCL and OpenAL extensions.
- Fully documented OpenCL and OpenAL.
- Moved WGL and GLX capabilities to the new WGLCapabilities and GLXCapabilities classes, respectively. Functionality in WGL, GLX and corresponding extensions that does not require a current context can now be used without creating a dummy context first. (#171)
IMPROVEMENTS
- Added stack allocation APIs (the MemoryStack class and new allocation methods in struct classes and MemoryUtil).
- Made the implementations of PointerBuffer and Struct/StructBuffer subclasses as lightweight as possible. This makes it easier for escape analysis to eliminate allocations.
- Minor struct API improvements.
- Added nullability information to struct members, to protect against buggy code crashing the JVM.
- All bindings are updated to the latest versions of the corresponding libraries. Notably, GLFW now has glfwSetWindowIcon and glfwSetWindowMonitor, it now doesn’t lack anything compared to LWJGL 2’s Display.
- Refactored callbacks for Java 8. (#182)
- Added NativeResource interface and made freeable objects usable as resources in try-with-resources statements. (#186)
- Faster thread-local lookups for the stack and current capabilities. New options in Configuration can be used to complete eliminate thread-local lookup in OpenGL, OpenGL ES and OpenAL, when it is known that only a single context will be used, or that all contexts will be compatible (same capabilities and same function pointers).
- Added memSlice for all buffers types in MemoryUtil. (#179)
- Refactored the Configuration class for type safety and added more options.
- JDK 9 can now be used to build and run LWJGL.
- Javadoc is now generated with JDK 9. The API is fully indexed and search functionality is available. Also made multiple Javadoc formatting improvements.
- Improved debug diagnostics on startup and when loading the LWJGL shared library fails.
- Optimized memSet and memCopy for small buffers.
FIXES
- Stopped using UPX compression for binaries. This eliminates various integration issues and virus scanning false-positives.
- The SharedLibraryLoader now works with any shared library, not only libraries LWJGL knows about. (#176)
BREAKING CHANGES
- LWJGL now requires Java 8 to build and run. Certain custom interfaces have been replaced with java.util.function interfaces. (#177)
- Dropped support for Linux x86. (#162)
- Dropped libffi bindings.
- Dropped ALDevice/ALContext wrappers from OpenAL and CLPlatform/CLDevice wrappers from OpenCL. (#152)
- Dropped the getInstance() method from bindings loaded from shared libraries. Function pointers are now stored either in capabilities classes or in a nested Functions inner class.
- Dropped infrequently used method overloads in bindings. Full javadoc is now generated on (almost) all overloads.
- Dropped utility classes that were not useful.
- Added AutoSize support to struct members. Instance setters for the corresponding count/size members were removed to avoid bugs and confusion.
- Replaced MemoryUtil.memFree(StructBuffer) with StructBuffer.free().
- Renamed __ALIGNMENT to ALIGNOF in struct classes.
- Removed org.lwjgl.system.Retainable interface. Closure and FunctionProvider subclasses are now destroyed using .free() instead of .release().
- Moved xxHash and SSE bindings to the org.lwjgl.util package.
- Integer-boolean native types (0 or 1 are the only legal values) are now mapped to Java booleans. (#181)
- Macros without parameters are now generated as static final values, not methods.