In addition, Khronos has defined a set of five new ARB extensions that "enable the very latest graphics functionality introduced in the newest GPUs to be accessed through OpenGL." These extensions will be become part of the core of OpenGL in the future, after they have become widely adopted.
What about graphics vendor support? Well, NVIDIA has a available now, and AMD/ATI plans to have a driver supporting OpenGL 3.2 before the end of the year.
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