This is a list of API changes in SDL's version history.

1.3.0:

	Added SDL_GetNumVideoDrivers() and SDL_GetVideoDriver().

	Replaced SDL_VideoDriverName() with SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver()

	Added SDL_GetNumAudioDrivers() and SDL_GetAudioDriver().

	Replaced SDL_AudioDriverName() with SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver()

1.2.10:

	If SDL_OpenAudio() is passed zero for the desired format

	fields, the following environment variables will be used

	to fill them in:

		SDL_AUDIO_FREQUENCY

		SDL_AUDIO_FORMAT

		SDL_AUDIO_CHANNELS

		SDL_AUDIO_SAMPLES

	If an environment variable is not specified, it will be set

	to a reasonable default value.

	Added support for the SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD environment

	variable, currently supported on X11 Xinerama configurations.

	Added SDL_GL_SWAP_CONTROL to wait for vsync in OpenGL applications.

	Added SDL_GL_ACCELERATED_VISUAL to guarantee hardware acceleration.

	Added current_w and current_h to the SDL_VideoInfo structure,

	which is set to the desktop resolution during video intialization,

	and then set to the current resolution when a video mode is set.

	SDL_SetVideoMode() now accepts 0 for width or height and will use

	the current video mode (or the desktop mode if no mode has been set.)

	Added SDL_GetKeyRepeat()

	Added SDL_config.h, with defaults for various build environments.

1.2.7:

	Added CPU feature detection functions to SDL_cpuinfo.h:

		SDL_HasRDTSC(), SDL_HasMMX(), SDL_Has3DNow(), SDL_HasSSE(),

		SDL_HasAltiVec()

	Added function to create RWops from const memory: SDL_RWFromConstMem()

1.2.6:

	Added SDL_LoadObject(), SDL_LoadFunction(), and SDL_UnloadObject()

	Added SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS and SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES for FSAA

1.2.5:

	Added SDL_BUTTON_WHEELUP (4) and SDL_BUTTON_WHEELDOWN (5)

	Added SDL_GL_STEREO for stereoscopic OpenGL contexts

1.2.0:

	Added SDL_VIDEOEXPOSE event to signal that the screen needs to

	be redrawn.  This is currently only delivered to OpenGL windows

	on X11, though it may be delivered in the future when the video

	memory is lost under DirectX.

1.1.8:

	You can pass SDL_NOFRAME to SDL_VideoMode() to create a window

	that has no title bar or frame decoration.  Fullscreen video

	modes automatically have this flag set.

	Added a function to query the clipping rectangle for a surface:

		void SDL_GetClipRect(SDL_Surface *surface, SDL_Rect *rect)

	Added a function to query the current event filter:

		SDL_EventFilter SDL_GetEventFilter(void)

	If you pass -1 to SDL_ShowCursor(), it won't change the current

	cursor visibility state, but will still return it.

	SDL_LockSurface() and SDL_UnlockSurface() are recursive, meaning

	you can nest them as deep as you want, as long as each lock call

	has a matching unlock call.  The surface remains locked until the

	last matching unlock call.

	Note that you may not blit to or from a locked surface.

1.1.7:

	The SDL_SetGammaRamp() and SDL_GetGammaRamp() functions now take

	arrays of Uint16 values instead of Uint8 values.  For the most part,

	you can just take your old values and shift them up 8 bits to get

	new correct values for your gamma ramps.

	You can pass SDL_RLEACCEL in flags passed to SDL_ConvertSurface()

        and SDL will try to RLE accelerate colorkey and alpha blits in the

	resulting surface.

1.1.6:

	Added a function to return the thread ID of a specific thread:

		Uint32 SDL_GetThreadID(SDL_Thread *thread)

	If 'thread' is NULL, this function returns the id for this thread.

1.1.5:

	The YUV overlay structure has been changed to use an array of

	pitches and pixels representing the planes of a YUV image, to

	better enable hardware acceleration.  The YV12 and IYUV formats

	each have three planes, corresponding to the Y, U, and V portions

	of the image, while packed pixel YUV formats just have one plane.

	For palettized mode (8bpp), the screen colormap is now split in

	a physical and a logical palette. The physical palette determines

	what colours the screen pixels will get when displayed, and the

	logical palette controls the mapping from blits to/from the screen.

	A new function, SDL_SetPalette() has been added to change

	logical and physical palettes separately. SDL_SetColors() works

	just as before, and is equivalent to calling SDL_SetPalette() with

	a flag argument of (SDL_LOGPAL|SDL_PHYSPAL).

	SDL_BlitSurface() no longer modifies the source rectangle, only the

	destination rectangle. The width/height members of the destination

	rectangle are ignored, only the position is used.

	The old source clipping function SDL_SetClipping() has been replaced

	with a more useful function to set the destination clipping rectangle:

		SDL_bool SDL_SetClipRect(SDL_Surface *surface, SDL_Rect *rect)

	Added a function to see what subsystems have been initialized:

		Uint32 SDL_WasInit(Uint32 flags)

	The Big Alpha Flip: SDL now treats alpha as opacity like everybody

	else, and not as transparency:

	A new cpp symbol: SDL_ALPHA_OPAQUE is defined as 255

	A new cpp symbol: SDL_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT is defined as 0

	Values between 0 and 255 vary from fully transparent to fully opaque.

	New functions:

	SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha()

	    Returns a surface converted to a format with alpha-channel

	    that can be blit efficiently to the screen. (In other words,

	    like SDL_DisplayFormat() but the resulting surface has

	    an alpha channel.)  This is useful for surfaces with alpha.

	SDL_MapRGBA()

	    Works as SDL_MapRGB() but takes an additional alpha parameter.

	SDL_GetRGBA()

	    Works as SDL_GetRGB() but also returns the alpha value

	    (SDL_ALPHA_OPAQUE for formats without an alpha channel)

	Both SDL_GetRGB() and SDL_GetRGBA() now always return values in

	the [0..255] interval. Previously, SDL_GetRGB() would return

	(0xf8, 0xfc, 0xf8) for a completely white pixel in RGB565 format.

	(N.B.: This is broken for bit fields < 3 bits.)

	SDL_MapRGB() returns pixels in which the alpha channel is set opaque.

	SDL_SetAlpha() can now be used for both setting the per-surface

	alpha, using the new way of thinking of alpha, and also to enable

	and disable per-pixel alpha blending for surfaces with an alpha

	channel:

		To disable alpha blending:

			SDL_SetAlpha(surface, 0, 0);

		To re-enable alpha blending:

			SDL_SetAlpha(surface, SDL_SRCALPHA, 0);

	Surfaces with an alpha channel have blending enabled by default.

	SDL_SetAlpha() now accepts SDL_RLEACCEL as a flag, which requests

	RLE acceleration of blits, just as like with SDL_SetColorKey().

	This flag can be set for both surfaces with an alpha channel

	and surfaces with an alpha value set by SDL_SetAlpha().

	As always, RLE surfaces must be locked before pixel access is

	allowed, and unlocked before any other SDL operations are done

	on it.

	The blit semantics for surfaces with and without alpha and colorkey

	have now been defined:

	RGBA->RGB:

	    SDL_SRCALPHA set:

		alpha-blend (using alpha-channel).

		SDL_SRCCOLORKEY ignored.

	    SDL_SRCALPHA not set:

		copy RGB.

		if SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set, only copy the pixels matching the

		RGB values of the source colour key, ignoring alpha in the

		comparison.

	RGB->RGBA:

	    SDL_SRCALPHA set:

		alpha-blend (using the source per-surface alpha value);

		set destination alpha to opaque.

	    SDL_SRCALPHA not set:

		copy RGB, set destination alpha to opaque.

	    both:

		if SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set, only copy the pixels matching the

		source colour key.

	RGBA->RGBA:

	    SDL_SRCALPHA set:

		alpha-blend (using the source alpha channel) the RGB values;

		leave destination alpha untouched. [Note: is this correct?]

		SDL_SRCCOLORKEY ignored.

	    SDL_SRCALPHA not set:

		copy all of RGBA to the destination.

		if SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set, only copy the pixels matching the

		RGB values of the source colour key, ignoring alpha in the

		comparison.

	RGB->RGB: 

	    SDL_SRCALPHA set:

		alpha-blend (using the source per-surface alpha value).

	    SDL_SRCALPHA not set:

		copy RGB.

	    both:

		if SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set, only copy the pixels matching the

		source colour key.

	As a special case, blits from surfaces with per-surface alpha

	value of 128 (50% transparency) are optimised and much faster

	than other alpha values. This does not apply to surfaces with

	alpha channels (per-pixel alpha).

	New functions for manipulating the gamma of the display have

	been added:

		int SDL_SetGamma(float red, float green, float blue);

		int SDL_SetGammaRamp(Uint8 *red, Uint8 *green, Uint8 *blue);

		int SDL_GetGammaRamp(Uint8 *red, Uint8 *green, Uint8 *blue);

	Gamma ramps are tables with 256 entries which map the screen color

	components into actually displayed colors.  For an example of

	implementing gamma correction and gamma fades, see test/testgamma.c

	Gamma control is not supported on all hardware.

1.1.4:

	The size of the SDL_CDtrack structure changed from 8 to 12 bytes

	as the size of the length member was extended to 32 bits.

        You can now use SDL for 2D blitting with a GL mode by passing the

	SDL_OPENGLBLIT flag to SDL_SetVideoMode().  You can specify 16 or

	32 bpp, and the data in the framebuffer is put into the GL scene

	when you call SDL_UpdateRects(), and the scene will be visible

	when you call SDL_GL_SwapBuffers().

	Run the "testgl" test program with the -logo command line option

	to see an example of this blending of 2D and 3D in SDL.

1.1.3:

	Added SDL_FreeRW() to the API, to complement SDL_AllocRW()

	Added resizable window support - just add SDL_RESIZABLE to the

	SDL_SetVideoMode() flags, and then wait for SDL_VIDEORESIZE events.

	See SDL_events.h for details on the new SDL_ResizeEvent structure.

	Added condition variable support, based on mutexes and semaphores.

		SDL_CreateCond()

		SDL_DestroyCond()

		SDL_CondSignal()

		SDL_CondBroadcast()

		SDL_CondWait()

		SDL_CondTimedWait()

	The new function prototypes are in SDL_mutex.h

	Added counting semaphore support, based on the mutex primitive.

		SDL_CreateSemaphore()

		SDL_DestroySemaphore()

		SDL_SemWait()

		SDL_SemTryWait()

		SDL_SemWaitTimeout()

		SDL_SemPost()

		SDL_SemValue()

	The new function prototypes are in SDL_mutex.h

	Added support for asynchronous blitting.  To take advantage of this,

	you must set the SDL_ASYNCBLIT flag when setting the video mode and

	creating surfaces that you want accelerated in this way.  You must

	lock surfaces that have this flag set, and the lock will block until

	any queued blits have completed.

	Added YUV video overlay support.

	The supported YUV formats are: YV12, IYUV, YUY2, UYVY, and YVYU.

	This function creates an overlay surface:

		SDL_CreateYUVOverlay()

	You must lock and unlock the overlay to get access to the data:

		SDL_LockYUVOverlay() SDL_UnlockYUVOverlay()

	You can then display the overlay:

		SDL_DisplayYUVOverlay()

	You must free the overlay when you are done using it:

		SDL_FreeYUVOverlay()

	See SDL_video.h for the full function prototypes.

	The joystick hat position constants have been changed:

	Old constant            New constant

	------------            ------------

	     0                  SDL_HAT_CENTERED

	     1                  SDL_HAT_UP

	     2                  SDL_HAT_RIGHTUP

	     3                  SDL_HAT_RIGHT

	     4                  SDL_HAT_RIGHTDOWN

	     5                  SDL_HAT_DOWN

	     6                  SDL_HAT_LEFTDOWN

	     7                  SDL_HAT_LEFT

	     8                  SDL_HAT_LEFTUP

	The new constants are bitmasks, so you can check for the

	individual axes like this:

		if ( hat_position & SDL_HAT_UP ) {

		}

	and you'll catch left-up, up, and right-up.

1.1.2:

	Added multiple timer support:

		SDL_AddTimer() and SDL_RemoveTimer()

	SDL_WM_SetIcon() now respects the icon colorkey if mask is NULL.

1.1.0:

	Added initial OpenGL support.

	First set GL attributes (such as RGB depth, alpha depth, etc.)

		SDL_GL_SetAttribute()

	Then call SDL_SetVideoMode() with the SDL_OPENGL flag.

	Perform all of your normal GL drawing.

	Finally swap the buffers with the new SDL function:

		SDL_GL_SwapBuffers()

	See the new 'testgl' test program for an example of using GL with SDL.

	You can load GL extension functions by using the function:

		SDL_GL_LoadProcAddress()

	Added functions to initialize and cleanup specific SDL subsystems:

		SDL_InitSubSystem() and SDL_QuitSubSystem()

	Added user-defined event type:

		typedef struct {

        		Uint8 type;

        		int code;

        		void *data1;

        		void *data2;

		} SDL_UserEvent;

	This structure is in the "user" member of an SDL_Event.

	Added a function to push events into the event queue:

		SDL_PushEvent()

	Example of using the new SDL user-defined events:

	{

		SDL_Event event;

		event.type = SDL_USEREVENT;

		event.user.code = my_event_code;

		event.user.data1 = significant_data;

		event.user.data2 = 0;

		SDL_PushEvent(&event);

	}

	Added a function to get mouse deltas since last query:

		SDL_GetRelativeMouseState()

	Added a boolean datatype to SDL_types.h:

		SDL_bool = { SDL_TRUE, SDL_FALSE }

	Added a function to get the current audio status:

		SDL_GetAudioState();

	It returns one of:

		SDL_AUDIO_STOPPED,

		SDL_AUDIO_PLAYING,

		SDL_AUDIO_PAUSED

	Added an AAlib driver (ASCII Art) - by Stephane Peter.

1.0.6:

	The input grab state is reset after each call to SDL_SetVideoMode().

	The input is grabbed by default in fullscreen mode, and ungrabbed in

	windowed mode.  If you want to set input grab to a particular value,

	you should set it after each call to SDL_SetVideoMode().

1.0.5:

	Exposed SDL_AudioInit(), SDL_VideoInit()

	Added SDL_AudioDriverName() and SDL_VideoDriverName()

	Added new window manager function:

		SDL_WM_ToggleFullScreen()

	This is currently implemented only on Linux

	The ALT-ENTER code has been removed - it's not appropriate for a

	lib to bind keys when they aren't even emergency escape sequences.

	ALT-ENTER functionality can be implemented with the following code:

	int Handle_AltEnter(const SDL_Event *event)

	{

	    if ( event->type == SDL_KEYDOWN ) {

	        if ( (event->key.keysym.sym == SDLK_RETURN) &&

	             (event->key.keysym.mod & KMOD_ALT) ) {   

	                SDL_WM_ToggleFullScreen(SDL_GetVideoSurface());

	                return(0);

	        }

	    }

	    return(1);

	}

	SDL_SetEventFilter(Handle_AltEnter);

1.0.3:

	Under X11, if you grab the input and hide the mouse cursor,

	the mouse will go into a "relative motion" mode where you

	will always get relative motion events no matter how far in

	each direction you move the mouse - relative motion is not

	bounded by the edges of the window (though the absolute values

	of the mouse positions are clamped by the size of the window).

	The SVGAlib, framebuffer console, and DirectInput drivers all

	have this behavior naturally, and the GDI and BWindow drivers

	never go into "relative motion" mode.

1.0.2:

	Added a function to enable keyboard repeat:

		SDL_EnableKeyRepeat()

	Added a function to grab the mouse and keyboard input

		SDL_WM_GrabInput()

	Added a function to iconify the window.

		SDL_WM_IconifyWindow()

	If this function succeeds, the application will receive an event

	signaling SDL_APPACTIVE event 

1.0.1:

	Added constants to SDL_audio.h for 16-bit native byte ordering:

		AUDIO_U16SYS, AUDIO_S16SYS

1.0.0:

	New public release

0.11.5:

	A new function SDL_GetVideoSurface() has been added, and returns

	a pointer to the current display surface.

	SDL_AllocSurface() has been renamed SDL_CreateRGBSurface(), and

	a new function SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom() has been added to allow

	creating an SDL surface from an existing pixel data buffer.

	Added SDL_GetRGB() to the headers and documentation.

0.11.4:

	SDL_SetLibraryPath() is no longer meaningful, and has been removed.

0.11.3:

	A new flag for SDL_Init(), SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE, prevents SDL from

	installing fatal signal handlers on operating systems that support

	them.

0.9.15:

	SDL_CreateColorCursor() has been removed.  Color cursors should

	be implemented as sprites, blitted by the application when the

	cursor moves.  To get smooth color cursor updates when the app

	is busy, pass the SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD flag to SDL_Init().  This

	allows you to handle the mouse motion in another thread from an

	event filter function, but is currently only supported by Linux

	and BeOS.  Note that you'll have to protect the display surface

	from multi-threaded access by using mutexes if you do this.

	Thread-safe surface support has been removed from SDL.

	This makes blitting somewhat faster, by removing SDL_MiddleBlit().

	Code that used SDL_MiddleBlit() should use SDL_LowerBlit() instead.

	You can make your surfaces thread-safe by allocating your own

	mutex and making lock/unlock calls around accesses to your surface.

0.9.14:

	SDL_GetMouseState() now takes pointers to int rather than Uint16.

	If you set the SDL_WINDOWID environment variable under UNIX X11,

	SDL will use that as the main window instead of creating it's own.

	This is an unsupported extension to SDL, and not portable at all.

0.9.13:

	Added a function SDL_SetLibraryPath() which can be used to specify

	the directory containing the SDL dynamic libraries.  This is useful

	for commercial applications which ship with particular versions

	of the libraries, and for security on multi-user systems.

	If this function is not used, the default system directories are 

	searched using the native dynamic object loading mechanism.

	In order to support C linkage under Visual C++, you must declare

	main() without any return type:

		main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

			/* Do the program... */

			return(0);

		}

	C++ programs should also return a value if compiled under VC++.

	The blit_endian member of the SDL_VideoInfo struct has been removed.

	SDL_SymToASCII() has been replaced with SDL_GetKeyName(), so there

	is now no longer any function to translate a keysym to a character.

	The SDL_keysym structure has been extended with a 'scancode' and

	'unicode' member.  The 'scancode' is a hardware specific scancode

	for the key that was pressed, and may be 0.  The 'unicode' member

	is a 16-bit UNICODE translation of the key that was pressed along

	with any modifiers or compose keys that have been pressed.

	If no UNICODE translation exists for the key, 'unicode' will be 0.

	Added a function SDL_EnableUNICODE() to enable/disable UNICODE

	translation of character keypresses.  Translation defaults off.

	To convert existing code to use the new API, change code which

	uses SDL_SymToASCII() to get the keyname to use SDL_GetKeyName(),

	and change code which uses it to get the ASCII value of a sym to

	use the 'unicode' member of the event keysym.

0.9.12:

	There is partial support for 64-bit datatypes.  I don't recommend 

	you use this if you have a choice, because 64-bit datatypes are not

	supported on many platforms.  On platforms for which it is supported,

	the SDL_HAS_64BIT_TYPE C preprocessor define will be enabled, and

	you can use the Uint64 and Sint64 datatypes.

	Added functions to SDL_endian.h to support 64-bit datatypes:

	    SDL_SwapLE64(), SDL_SwapBE64(),

	    SDL_ReadLE64(), SDL_ReadBE64(), SDL_WriteLE64(), SDL_WriteBE64()

	A new member "len_ratio" has been added to the SDL_AudioCVT structure,

	and allows you to determine either the original buffer length or the

	converted buffer length, given the other.

	A new function SDL_FreeWAV() has been added to the API to free data

	allocated by SDL_LoadWAV_RW().  This is necessary under Win32 since

	the gcc compiled DLL uses a different heap than VC++ compiled apps.

	SDL now has initial support for international keyboards using the

	Latin character set.

	If a particular mapping is desired, you can set the DEFAULT_KEYBOARD

	compile-time variable, or you can set the environment variable 

	"SDL_KEYBOARD" to a string identifying the keyboard mapping you desire.

	The valid values for these variables can be found in SDL_keyboard.c