Lantinga announced SDL 2.0 on 14 July 2012, at the same time announcing that he was joining Valve Corporation, the first version of which was announced the same day he joined the company.
Lantinga 於2012年7月14日宣布 SDL 2.0，同時宣布他即將加入Valve 公司，在他加入公司同一天發表第一個SDL版本。