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OpenGL 4.0 was released alongside version 3.3. It was designed for hardware able to support Direct3D 11. As in OpenGL 3.0, this version of OpenGL contains a high number of fairly inconsequential extensions, designed to thoroughly expose the abilities of Direct3D 11-class hardware. Only the most influential extensions are listed below.
The current production version (2.1.x) implements OpenGL ES 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and EGL 1.5, claiming to pass the conformance tests for both. Work was started on then future OpenGL ES 3.0 version, [8] for the newer Direct3D 11 backend. [14] The capability to use ANGLE in a Windows Store app was added in 2014. [11]
Originally introduced as an extension to OpenGL 1.4, GLSL was formally included into the OpenGL 2.0 core in 2004 by the OpenGL ARB. It was the first major revision to OpenGL since the creation of OpenGL 1.0 in 1992. Some benefits of using GLSL are: Cross-platform compatibility on multiple operating systems, including Linux, macOS and Windows.
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Features in version 2.8.4: [9] VS2010 build support; Features in version 3.0.0: [10] OpenGL ES 1.1, and OpenGL ES 2.0 support; OpenGL 3.x and 4.x support along with associated OpenGL extensions; Support for Android on tablets and phones; Support for IOS on tablets and phones (end users applications have already been accepted on the App Store)
Some incompatibilities between the desktop version of OpenGL and OpenGL ES 2.0 persisted until OpenGL 4.1, which added the GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility extension. [9] Actual version is 2.0.25. [10] The Khronos Group has written a document describing the differences between OpenGL ES 2.0 and ordinary OpenGL 2.0. [11]
The new driver model requires the graphics hardware to have Shader Model 2.0 support at least, since the fixed function pipeline is now translated to 2.0 shaders. However, according to Microsoft as of 2009, only about 1–2 percent of the hardware running Windows Vista used the XDDM, [10] with the rest already WDDM capable.
The framework is cross-platform supporting the platforms Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. The API provided by the framework gives access to the video and sound functions of the host machine through the libraries SDL and OpenGL, or since version 0.10 also OpenGL ES 2 and 3. [3] Fonts can be rendered by the FreeType engine. [4]