--- title: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition | daily.dev description: GTK 4.18 brings several notable changes following the FOSDEM hackfest. Breaking changes include stricter initialization requirements and dropping support for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gtk-winter-2025-edition-xyrwszxgf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition | daily.dev og:description: GTK 4.18 brings several notable changes following the FOSDEM hackfest. Breaking changes include stricter initialization requirements and dropping support for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gtk-winter-2025-edition-xyrwszxgf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xYRwSZxgf.png og:image:alt: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition **[GTK Development Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gtk-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GTK 4.18 brings several notable changes following the FOSDEM hackfest. Breaking changes include stricter initialization requirements and dropping support for Windows versions older than 10 and macOS older than 10.15. The old GL renderer has been removed, and the X11 and Broadway backends are now deprecated ahead of GTK 5. On the positive side, a new AccessKit backend brings accessibility support to Windows and macOS for the first time, widget layout performance has been improved, fractional scaling pointer size issues on Wayland are fixed, and an experimental Android backend is now available allowing GTK4 apps to run on Android devices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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