vulkan_release_summary.adoc

Vulkan Release Summary

Each minor release version of Vulkan promoted a different set of extension to core. This means that it’s no longer necessary to enable an extensions to use it’s functionality if the application requests at least that Vulkan version (given that the version is supported by the implementation).

The following summary contains a list of the extensions added to the respective core versions and why they were added. This list is taken from the Vulkan spec, but links jump to the various spots in the Vulkan Guide

Vulkan 1.1

Note	Vulkan Spec Section

Vulkan 1.1 was released on March 7, 2018

Besides the listed extensions below, Vulkan 1.1 introduced the subgroups, protected memory, and the ability to query the instance version.

• VK_KHR_16bit_storage

• VK_KHR_bind_memory2

• VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation

• VK_KHR_descriptor_update_template

• VK_KHR_device_group

• VK_KHR_device_group_creation

• VK_KHR_external_fence

• VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities

• VK_KHR_external_memory

• VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities

• VK_KHR_external_semaphore

• VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities

• VK_KHR_get_memory_requirements2

• VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2

• VK_KHR_maintenance1

• VK_KHR_maintenance2

• VK_KHR_maintenance3

• VK_KHR_multiview

• VK_KHR_relaxed_block_layout

• VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion

• VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters

• VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class

• VK_KHR_variable_pointers

Vulkan 1.2

Note	Vulkan Spec Section

Vulkan 1.2 was released on January 15, 2020

• VK_KHR_8bit_storage

• VK_KHR_buffer_device_address

• VK_KHR_create_renderpass2

• VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve

• VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count

• VK_KHR_driver_properties

• VK_KHR_image_format_list

• VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer

• VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge

• VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts

• VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64

• VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8

• VK_KHR_shader_float_controls

• VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types

• VK_KHR_spirv_1_4

• VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore

• VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout

• VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model

• VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing

• VK_EXT_host_query_reset

• VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax

• VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout

• VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage

• VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer

Vulkan 1.3

Note	Vulkan Spec Section

Vulkan 1.3 was released on January 25, 2022

• VK_KHR_copy_commands2

• VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering

• VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2

• VK_KHR_maintenance4

• VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product

• VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info

• VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation

• VK_KHR_synchronization2

• VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory

• VK_EXT_4444_formats

• VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state

• VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2

• VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block

• VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control

• VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback

• VK_EXT_private_data

• VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation

• VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control

• VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment

• VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_hdr

• VK_EXT_tooling_info

• VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats