The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions.
Beyond the usual maintenance changes in Vulkan 1.4.321, there are a number of new extensions with today’s update:
VK_KHR_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready – An extension from NVIDIA and Google engineers based on VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready with equivalent functionality. This new extension adds VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_LATEST_READY_KHR as a new tear-free present mode that is like VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR with minor changes designed for use with a time-based present API.
VK_KHR_surface_maintenance1 – Adds a collection of new window system integration features that were left out or overlooked from the original VK_KHR_surface extension.
VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1 – Similar to VK_KHR_surface_maintenance1, this new maintenance extension adds additional functionality atop VK_KHR_swapchain.
VK_KHR_video_encode_intra_refresh – Building upon the VK_KHR_video_encode_queue extension to enable the application to perform intra-refresh in video encode operations.
VK_SEC_pipeline_cache_incremental_mode – This Samsung vendor extension allows layered implementations like ANGLE to modify the default behavior of the pipeline cache to return only the incremental data from the previous call to vkGetPipelineCacheData. This is just intended for layered implementations and not applications / engines directly.
More details on today’s Vulkan 1.4.321 spec update via Vulkan-Docs.
