Vulkan News Archives


651 Vulkan open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2015.

SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3.

23 February 2024 - SDL3 Vulkan Renderer - 15 Comments
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted

Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference. The slides from this conference are now available for those wishing to learn more about this open industry standard cxompute/graphics API.

9 February 2024 - Vulkanised 2024 - 3 Comments
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension

Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding.

1 February 2024 - VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 - 28 Comments
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler

Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler.

10 January 2024 - Vulkan Clang Compiler - 14 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions

The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm.

25 August 2023 - Vulkan 1.3.262 - 4 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension

Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API. Notable with Vulkan 1.3.249 is the introduction of VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch.

27 April 2023 - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch - 1 Comment
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more.

14 March 2023 - Vulkanised 2023 - 6 Comments
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support

The Khronos Group with LunarG has now published the Vulkan SDK 1.3.239 release that is the first version of the software development kit with the Vulkan Video extensions now present.

30 January 2023 - Vulkan SDK With Vulkan Video - 22 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension
Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension

While there tend to be new Vulkan API specification updates weekly or bi-weekly for most of the year, there was a one month hiatus due to Christmas and other end of year holidays with many of the corporate developers taking time off work. But that is now over and out today is Vulkan 1.3.239 as the first update in exactly one month.

19 January 2023 - Vulkan 1.3.239 - 6 Comments
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year

While this week saw the ratification of the Vulkan Video 1.0 extensions in stable form after being out as provisional extensions since early 2021, one of the sad aspects of it is still lacking support for the popular royalty-free VP9 and AV1 codecs. Fortunately, at least, it's been re-affirmed for VP9/AV1 support in 2023.

22 December 2022 - VP9 + AV1 Video Acceleration - 42 Comments
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238

In early 2021 the Vulkan Video extensions were published in beta/provisional form as a new industry-standard video encode/decode API with the context of Vulkan. As a nice Christmas gift this week from The Khronos Group, the extensions have been finalized as Vulkan Video 1.0 and are now deemed ready for production use.

19 December 2022 - Vulkan Video 1.0 - 16 Comments
More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender
More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender

There has long been plans for supporting the Vulkan API with the Blender 3D modelling open-source software but there has been a lack of developers working on it. Fortunately, things are starting to (slowly) come together on Vulkan enablement for Blender.

7 November 2022 - Blender + Vulkan - 34 Comments

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