diff --git a/external/imgui/imgui/backends/imgui_impl_sdl3.cpp b/external/imgui/imgui/backends/imgui_impl_sdl3.cpp
index 7bb9ca21..5cd85259 100644
--- a/external/imgui/imgui/backends/imgui_impl_sdl3.cpp
+++ b/external/imgui/imgui/backends/imgui_impl_sdl3.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 // CHANGELOG
 // (minor and older changes stripped away, please see git history for details)
+//  2024-07-18: Update for SDL3 api changes: SDL_GetClipboardText() string ownership change. (#7801)
+//  2024-07-15: Update for SDL3 api changes: SDL_GetProperty() change to SDL_GetPointerProperty(). (#7794)
 //  2024-07-02: Update for SDL3 api changes: SDLK_x renames and SDLK_KP_x removals (#7761, #7762).
 //  2024-07-01: Update for SDL3 api changes: SDL_SetTextInputRect() changed to SDL_SetTextInputArea().
 //  2024-06-26: Update for SDL3 api changes: SDL_StartTextInput()/SDL_StopTextInput()/SDL_SetTextInputRect() functions signatures.
@@ -115,7 +117,8 @@ static const char* ImGui_ImplSDL3_GetClipboardText(void*)
     ImGui_ImplSDL3_Data* bd = ImGui_ImplSDL3_GetBackendData();
     if (bd->ClipboardTextData)
         SDL_free(bd->ClipboardTextData);
-    bd->ClipboardTextData = SDL_GetClipboardText();
+    const char* sdl_clipboard_text = SDL_GetClipboardText();
+    bd->ClipboardTextData = sdl_clipboard_text ? SDL_strdup(sdl_clipboard_text) : NULL;
     return bd->ClipboardTextData;
 }
 
diff --git a/external/imgui/imgui/docs/CHANGELOG.txt b/external/imgui/imgui/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
index 1bb5efa5..fea2fe5c 100644
--- a/external/imgui/imgui/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/external/imgui/imgui/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ Other changes:
   struct description data that a real application would want to use.
 - Backends: Win32: Fixed ImGuiMod_Super being mapped to VK_APPS instead of VK_LWIN||VK_RWIN.
   (#7768, #4858, #2622) [@Aemony]
+- Backends: SDL3: Update for API changes: SDL_GetClipboardText() string ownership change. (#7801)
 - Backends: SDL3: Update for API changes: SDLK_x renames and SDLK_KP_x removals (#7761, #7762)
 - Backends: SDL3: Update for API changes: SDL_GetProperty() change to SDL_GetPointerProperty(). (#7794) [@wermipls]
 - Backends: SDL2,SDL3,OSX: Update for io.SetPlatformImeDataFn() -> io.PlatformSetImeDataFn() rename.