Release date: 16 November 2025

Changes

• New experimental Cocoa (native MacOS X) backend.
• Add glutSwapInterval, to control vsync (currently X11 and win32 only).
• glutExtensionSupported now also reports platform extensions (GLX/WGL).
• Fix build issues with new cmake versions while maintaining compatibility with old cmake.
• Fix handling of UTF8 window/icon titles.
• Fix issue with some X11 window managers not properly restoring iconified windows (send _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW EWMH client message).
• Fix build issues with C23 compilers (empty argument list semantics).
• Fix compatibility with older versions of windows which don't have RAWHID support (before XP), by loading the entry points dynamically.
• Fix glutInitDisplayString parsing of "aux", and add =N parsing support to specify samples and auxbufs.
• Various fixes and improvements in the GameCube/Wii backend.
• Altbuild support for Solaris 2.6/SUN Workshop C.
• Started conversion of documentation from the website to markdown in the source tree: doc/api.md
• Added the original GLUT manpages, with permission from Mark Kilgard.
• New demos: accum, vsync, and windows.
• Cleanup of some old and no longer relevant, or redundant comments in the source code.
• Removed some out of date README files, and updated others.

Release date: 12 June 2024

Changes

• New platforms: Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo Wii.
• Minimum cmake version raised to 3.1.
• Make XInput an optional dependency.
• Fix incorrect modifier bit mapped to GLUT_ACTIVE_SUPER on X11.
• Add support for ARM64 MSVC targets.
• Fix for unicode builds on windows.
• Fix build on some versions of MinGW carrying an incorrect winuser.h.
• Fix menu-related memory leak when an error occurs.
• Various build improvements & fixes.

Release date: 7 October 2022

Changes

• Add GLUT_ACTIVE_SUPER modifier, and corresponding GLUT_KEY_SUPER_L and GLUT_KEY_SUPER_R special keys. These map to Windows/Command keys.
• Fix RGB mode (GLUT_RGBA) colors on 8bpp displays on windows (construct default RGB332 palette).
• Fix indexed color context creation on X11 and windows (GLUT_INDEX).
• Add missing colormap management functions for X11 and windows (glutSetColor, glutGetColor).
• Fix crash when calling glutTimerFuncUcall.
• Fix FreeBSD build by essentially disabling the joystick code for newer FreeBSD versions. It will eventually need to be replaced/fixed.
• Add fallbacks for the old GLX (<1.3) context creation API (glXChooseVisual/glXCreateContext), makes us compatible with IRIX 5.x and other old UNIX systems.
• Add fallbacks for OpenGL 1.0 (no vertex arrays/client state).
• Use nanosleep instead of usleep on UNIX, which is more widely supported on old UNIX systems.
• Fix build on X11 if GL_SAMPLES is not defined.
• Fix overly strict context version checking on Android leading to context creation failure in some cases.
• Fix GLUT_CURSOR_INFO on windows, should be IDC_HAND, not IDC_HELP.
• Fix mismatched font declarations on X11.
• Add alternative simple ways to build freeglut with native tools only, without having to use cmake.
• Fix build on windows with cmake 3.0.0. Explicitly link with gdi32.
• Fix build on MSVC 2005.
• Fix build on MacOS X. Link with all the necessary X libraries.
• Fix build on SGI IRIX.
• Fix build on Android (mismatched function prototypes and missing glutCreateMenuUcall).
• Add support for the ninja multi-config generator.
• Removed spurious dependency on a C++ compiler. One of the demos was being compiled as C++ for no reason.
• Silence unnecessary warnings when VBOs or GLSL are not available.
• New demo programs: 3dview, keyboard, joystick.
• Documentation: added MacOS X build instructions.
• Made it possible to eventually support building freeglut as a single compilation unit, by avoiding name conflicts on static variables.
• Other minor fixes.

Release date: 6 February 2022

Changes

• Fix netbsd/aarch64 build by including sys/joystick.h instead of machine/joystick.h.
• Fix build with gcc >= 10 which made -fno-common the default by no longer relying on COMMON symbols for globals.
• Fix android build (default to FREEGLUT_GLES, and check for debug flags).
• Add flat shading option to the shapes demo.
• Fix crash when calling primitive drawing functions without creating a window first.
• Dropped really old and unmaintained doc directory from the source tree.

Release date: 29 September 2019

Changes

• Fixed failure to install glut.h when the "replace glut" build option is enabled.
• Take into account CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR in the installed cmake module.
• Fixed broken menu drawing when the user requests a core profile context.

Release date: 16 September 2019

Changes

• Added new callback registration functions and corresponding callback types in the extended API, which take an extra user pointer, and pass it through to the callbacks (ucall API).
• Added initial wayland support.
• Fixed mousewheel callbacks on X11.
• Fallback to non-sRGB context, instead of crashing, if the user requested SRGB but failed to get one.
• Added GLUT_WINDOW_SRGB query to check if the context supports sRGB or the fallback was triggered.
• Added missing spaceball support for windows.
• Fixed crash on re-init after having set a custom cursor.
• Added init error handler demo.
• Added cmake package.
• Added GLUT_ALLOW_NEGATIVE_WINDOW_POSITION option.
• Fixed incorrect library name in pkg-config files when building with "replace glut" option disabled.
• Added spaceball button definitions in the extended API header.
• Added the "replace glut" option on windows too.
• Fixed missing static defines from pkg-config.
• Fixed incorrectly trying to install glut.h when the "replace glut" option is disabled.
• Take "maximized" state into account when updating the visibility flag on windows.
• Corrected "exit state" checking in the main loop, by placing the check after every glutMainLoopEvent invocation.
• Added checking for the XInput dependency in cmake.
• Fixed netbsd build (joystick code).
• Fixed -pedantic GCC warnings on GNU/Linux.
• Fixed PDB installation for nmake/msvc builds on windows.
• Clear window work mask when marking it for destruction.
• Fixed android build with clang.
• Fixed GLUT_STEREO on nvidia windows drivers, which don't play well with fullscreen windows with frames.
• Fixed original-GLUT compatibility in spaceball button numbering.
• Dropped unnecessary X11 utility library dependencies.
• Fixed namespace pollution due to some global symbols missing the fg prefix.
• Fixed improper setting of the non-blocking flag in the joystick code on UNIX.

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