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SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling


In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!

The big SDL3 release for this Simple DirectMedia Layer is a nice step forward for this software that is commonly used by cross-platform games and other software for abstracting out software/hardware platform differences. SDL3 brings new GPU, Dialog, Filesystem, Storage, Camera, Pen, Process, App MetaData, and Properties APIs. Simply put, SDL3 is a hell of a big release and step forward for this widely-used library by games on Steam as well as countless other software projects.

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