OpenGL 4.1, yes it is here

[Petr Schreiber]

New OpenGL specification is out,

numbered 4.1. The additions present are quite welcome, my favourite are:

• Loading shader binaries (I wish this would be present on GL 3.0 hardware as well)
• Shader-stencil interop
• Further OpenGL-OpenCL interop enabled, now with events

You can read the specs with changes since 4.0 marked here:
OpenGL 4.1 specs

The supported hardware models ares NVIDIA GeForce GT4xx series and ATi Radeon 5xxx series (hardware tesselator required).


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[Petr Schreiber]

The first vendor implementations already pop up, have look (in case you have the metal to run it on):
NVIDIA driver for OpenGL 4.1


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[Petr Schreiber]

Very good,

Khronos finally provides complete reference pages for all paths of OpenGL.

OpenGL 2.x
OpenGL 3.x
OpenGL 4.x


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