The OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) and SGI have announced that version 1.5 of the international graphics standard will be released including the OpenGL Shading Language.

Key improvements:

• OpenGL Shading Language (OGLSL), which provides a vendor-neutral method for high-performance vertex and fragment shaders as well as shader objects. These will be included as ARB elements.
• Non-power of two texture map sizes.
• Vertex Array (available on some cards already, but ratified into the specification for 1.5)