# SDL 2.0 future support

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-future-support/68372>\
**Category:** SDL Announcements\
**Created:** [June 4, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-future-support/68372 "2026-06-04T14:53:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![slouken](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@slouken](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/slouken)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-future-support/68372/1 "2026-06-04T14:53:09Z")

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While we will accept GitHub pull requests and may release critical fixes, we have no further planned releases of SDL 2.0.

For new development, we recommend starting with [SDL 3.0](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL). For projects that need to continue using SDL 2.0, we recommend [sdl2-compat](https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat) which is both ABI (binary drop in) and API compatible.

Many issues in SDL 2.0 have been resolved in sdl2-compat, and if you’re still seeing an issue once you switch, please [report it](https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat/issues)!

Cheers,