LWJGL Files

Changes since 3.3.6:

Bindings

• Added RenderDoc bindings.
• Added SDL 3 bindings.
• Added libspng bindings.
• Assimp: Updated to 6.0.2 (up from 5.4.3)
• bgfx: Updated to API version 136 (up from 129)
• FMOD: Updated to 2.03.11 (up from 2.03.04)
• freetype: Updated to 2.14.1 (up from 2.13.3)
• harfbuzz: Updated to 12.3.0 (up from 10.1.0)
• hwloc: Updated to 2.12.2 (up from 2.11.2)
• KTX: Updated to 4.4.2 (up from 4.3.2)
• libffi: Updated to 3.5.2 (up from 3.4.6)
• liburing: Updated to 2.13 (up from 2.8)
• LLVM/Clang: Updated to 21.1.2 (up from 19.1.0)
• meshoptimizer: Updated to 1.0.0 (up from 0.22)
• msdfgen: Updated to 1.13.0 (up from 1.11.0)
• Added error correction functions.
• Added optional advance parameter to msdf_ft_font_load_glyph*.
• Replaced msdf_shape_has_inverse_y_axis with msdf_shape_set/get_y_axis_orientation.
• NativeFileDialog: Update to 1.3.0 (up from 1.2.1)
• Nuklear: Updated to 4.13.0 (up from 4.12.3)
• OpenAL Soft: Updated to 1.25.0 (up from 1.24.1)
• Added AL_SOFT_bformat_hoa extension.
• OpenGL (ES): Added latest extensions.
• EXT_fragment_shading_rate
• EXT_mesh_shader
• EXT_shader_realtime_clock
• EXT_shader_texture_samples
• OpenXR: Updated to 1.1.54 (up from 1.1.43)
• Opus: Updated to 1.6.0 (up from 1.5.2)
• Shaderc: Updated to 2025.5 (up from 2024.4)
• Added bindings to glslang.
• Added bindings to SPIRV Tools.
• SPIRV-Cross: Updated to 0.68.0 (up from 0.64.0)
• stb
• Updated stb_image_resize to 2.17 (up from 2.12)
• tinyexr: Updated to 1.0.12 (up from 1.0.8)
• tinyfiledialogs: Updated to 3.19.1 (up from 3.18.1)
• vma: Updated to 3.3.0 (up from 3.2.0)
• Vulkan: Updated to 1.4.338 (up from 1.4.304)
• Includes MoltenVK 1.4.1 (up from 1.2.11)
• Zstd: Updated to 1.5.7 (up from 1.5.6)

LWJGL bindings no longer include API documentation in javadoc form. What remains:

• Native struct definitions.
• Native function signatures for downcalls (new in 3.4.0) and upcalls.
• The package-info javadoc in each module now also includes links to useful resources, such as:
• The official API documentation.
• The official source repository.
• Guides, tutorials, SDKs, etc.

LWJGL no longer includes the following bindings:

• lwjgl-cuda
• lwjgl-libdivide
• lwjgl-meow
• lwjgl-nanovg: the Blendish and OUI bindings only
• lwjgl-openvr
• lwjgl-ovr
• lwjgl-sse
• lwjgl-tootle

Improvements

• Core: Added the Runtime Bindings Generator.
• A preview API, in org.lwjgl.system.ffm, that allows users to define and use custom bindings.
• Based on the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) and ClassFile APIs (requires JDK 25 or later).
• Core: Added a new backend for downcalls, upcalls and off-heap memory access based on FFM.
• Enabled by default on JDK 25 or later.
• LWJGL is now fully functional with --sun-misc-unsafe-memory-access=deny.
• See the FFM Guide for details.
• Core: Added memCopy support for Java arrays. (#972)
• Array to buffer
• Buffer to array
• Corresponding unsafe overloads
• FreeBSD: LWJGL now requires FreeBSD 13.5 or later. (up from 13.3)
• Linux: x86_64 shared libraries are now built with GCC 15.1 (up from GCC 11.2)
• The minimum GLIBC version is now 2.28. (up from 2.17)
• Linux: non-x86_64 shared libraries are now built with GCC 12.3 (up from GCC 11.4)
• No change to minimum GLIBC version (2.35).
• Windows: Shared libraries are now built with Visual Studio 2026 (up from 2022)

Fixes

• Opus: Fixed missing function exports in Windows binaries.
• tinyfiledialogs: Fixed tinyfd_messageBox signature to support the yesnocancel dialog type.
• Vulkan: Fixed stack OOME on VkInstance creation with recent drivers.
• Vulkan: Fixed support for Vulkan 1.4.

Breaking Changes

• Generator: Removed deprecated mallocStack/callocStack methods from structs.
• OpenCL: Fixed the carrier type of cl_ulong constants. (#1087)
• Now mapped to long to avoid unintentional sign extension for negative values.
• Vulkan: MoltenVK on x64 now requires macOS 11.0 or later. (up from 10.13)