diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6b6fde86b8..fda224e295 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - Fixed EGL's `Device::query_devices()` being too strict about required extensions
 - Fixed crash in `EglGetProcAddress` on Win32-x86 platform due to wrong calling convention
 - Fixed EGL's `Display::device()` always returning an error due to invalid pointer-argument passing inside
+- Fixed EGL's `Display::new()` making an `EGLDisplay::Khr` when the EGL version for the display is 1.4 or lower.
 
 # Version 0.32.0
 
diff --git a/glutin/src/api/egl/display.rs b/glutin/src/api/egl/display.rs
index 0e2ee62e38..e2295ac54b 100644
--- a/glutin/src/api/egl/display.rs
+++ b/glutin/src/api/egl/display.rs
@@ -492,6 +492,26 @@ impl Display {
             Version::new(major as u8, minor as u8)
         };
 
+        let display = match display {
+            // `eglGetPlatformDisplay` and `GetPlatformDisplayEXT` aren't really differentiated,
+            // we must check if the version of the initialized display is not sensible for the
+            // EglDisplay type and downgrade it if so.
+            EglDisplay::Khr(display) if version <= Version { major: 1, minor: 4 } => {
+                let client_extensions = CLIENT_EXTENSIONS.get().unwrap();
+                if client_extensions.contains("EGL_EXT_platform_base")
+                    && (version == Version { major: 1, minor: 4 })
+                {
+                    // `EGL_EXT_platform_base` requires EGL 1.4 per specification; we cannot safely
+                    // presume that an `Ext` display would be valid for older versions.
+                    EglDisplay::Ext(display)
+                } else {
+                    EglDisplay::Legacy(display)
+                }
+            },
+            // We do not do anything otherwise.
+            display => display,
+        };
+
         // Load extensions.
         let display_extensions = get_extensions(egl, *display);
         let features = Self::extract_display_features(&display_extensions, version);