SDL 2.0.9 has been released today featuring some rather interesting new stuff. It’s been a while, with 2.0.8 being released back in March of last year.<\/p>\n
What is SDL 2? Well, in their own words “Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.” (and Vulkan since 2.0.6<\/a>). It’s used by many game developers including Valve, Unity, Feral Interactive and no doubt a great many more.<\/p>\n A few random highlights of what’s new:<\/p>\n The SDL render batching and some caching, which Ryan Gordon wrote about in this Patreon post<\/a> didn’t make it into this release but it should be in the next one. Ryan told me he didn’t want to risk breakage late in the development cycle. That should make the next version of SDL after this really quite exciting.<\/p>\n On top of that, Wayland server-side window decorations on KDE should also be in the following release. You can see a video of that from Ryan Gordon below:<\/p>\n You can see a human readable changelog here<\/a> for 2.0.9 and for the commit log to get down and dirty with more details find that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n