Date: [Current Date] Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Supersedes: OpenGL 4.5 Status: Final Specification (The Khronos Group) 1. Executive Summary OpenGL 4.6 is a maintenance and feature update to the OpenGL 4.x lineage. It introduces no new hardware features beyond OpenGL 4.5 but significantly enhances the SPIR-V integration, adds buffer device addresses for direct GPU memory referencing, improves robustness with ARB_gl_spirv , and adopts several highly requested extensions into the core specification.