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• Removed some out of date README files, and updated others.