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<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable <a href="projects.php">commercial quality games</a> to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (<a href="http://www.opengl.org/" target="_blank">Open Graphics Library</a>) and OpenAL (<a href="http://www.openal.org" target="_blank">Open Audio Library</a>) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API.</p>
<p>LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly easy; it is primarily an enabling technology which allows developers to get at resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing <a href="http://java.sun.com" target="_blank">Java platform</a>. We anticipate that the LWJGL will, through evolution and extension, become the foundation for more complete game libraries and "game engines" as they have popularly become known, and hide some of the new evils we have had to expose in the APIs.</p>
<p>LWJGL is available under a <a href="license.php">BSD license</a>, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.</p>
<p>Please visit us on the Freenode IRC Network: <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/lwjgl" target="_blank">#LWJGL</a>. Do idle if there is no one to answer any of your questions, we are on different timezones.</p>
<h1>News</h1>
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<b>LWJGL 1.1.4 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Monday, January 21st, 2008</span><br/>
First release in 2008!. This is mostly a bugfix and performance release. It is expected that this is the last release in the 1.1 series. We are now working towards a 2.0 release. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2531">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.1.3 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Tuesday, October 30th, 2007</span><br/>
Better applet support, spec updates and some crash fixes. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2465">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.1.2 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Friday, August 17th, 2007</span><br/>
Basically a Windows bugfix release. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2400">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.1.1 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Sunday, August 5th, 2007</span><br/>
Mostly a bug fix release. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2392.0.html">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.1 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Monday, April 30th, 2007</span><br/>
We bumped the number a nod. Now at 1.1, featuring some linux fixes, optimizations and OpenAL 1.1 support. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2314">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.0 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Sunday, February 4th, 2007</span><br/>
Finally, after several years of development we finally decided that we're good to go with 1.0!. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2202">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.0 Release Candidate 1 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Sunday, January 7th, 2007</span><br/>
We're proud to release the first release candidate of LWJGL! The premier Java Game Library. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php/topic,2174">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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