OpenGL compiling with incorrect version

I am trying to compile my application with OpenGL 3.3. I've searched my graphics card online and it supports up to 4.4.

Here is the return of glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2) OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.2.3 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile OpenGL core profile extensions: OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.3 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL extensions: OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 17.2.3 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20 OpenGL ES profile extensions: 

I am telling GLFW to use major version 3 minor version 3

glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 3); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 3); 

and do use core profile:

glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE); 

I built glad pointing to version 3.3 and core profile:

python -m glad --api "gl=3.3" --generator c --out-path ./output --profile core --spec gl 

But when I call

glGetString(GL_VERSION) 

I get back

3.0 Mesa 17.2.3 

I cannot for the life of me figure out what i'm missing.

Section running this code

{ glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 3); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 3); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPAT, GL_TRUE); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_FLOATING, GL_TRUE); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_RESIZABLE, GL_FALSE); glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE); if (!glfwInit()) { std::cout << "glfw not inited" << std::endl; } glfwSetErrorCallback(error_callback); m_game_window = glfwCreateWindow(800, 600, "window", NULL, NULL); if (!m_game_window) { std::cout << "window creation failed" << std::endl; glfwTerminate(); //crash } glfwMakeContextCurrent(m_game_window); gladLoadGLLoader((GLADloadproc) glfwGetProcAddress); glViewport(0, 0, 800, 600); char *version = (char*)glGetString(GL_VERSION); std::cout << version; }