* Update release number to 124.
Github Issues:
* Fix Makefile SPECREMARK macro to work when not building in a git tree
(public issue 992).
* Ignore pname:aspectMask for unused attachments in
slink:VkSubpassDescription2KHR valid usage statements (public pull
request 1028).
* Minor markup / spelling fixes (public pull requests 1035, 1045).
Internal Issues:
* Fix markup in Valid Usage statement for slink:VkCreateFramebuffer
(internal issue 1823).
* Add a new <<synchronization-signal-operation-order, _signal operation
order_>> section to the synchronization chapter which describes in
detail the ordering guarantees provided by the API between fence and
semaphore signal operations (internal merge request 3368).
* Move generated `appendix/meta/` files into the Makefile GENERATED
directory (internal merge request 3381).
New Extensions
* `<<VK_KHR_shader_clock>>`
* `<<VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore>>`
* Update release number to 118.
Github Issues:
* Update `BUILD.adoc` to specifically require asciidoctor 1.5.8, and make
that change to the gitlab CI script (public issue 968).
* Remove redundant slink:VkSubpassDependency and
slink:VkSubpassDependency2KHR valid usage statements
(public pull request 995).
* Clarify the <<vkGetInstanceProcAddr behavior>> and <<vkGetDeviceProcAddr
behavior>> tables (public pull request 1004).
* Fix use of nonexistent
slink:VkSamplerYcbcrConversionImageFormatProperties::pname:maxCombinedImageSamplerDescriptorCount
(public pull request 1010).
* Use compatible pathlib for python2 (public pull request 1012).
Internal Issues:
* Mark the <<VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model>> extension as no longer
provisional in `vk.xml` (internal issue 1369).
* Clarify that use-defined code:Input and code:Output variables cannot be
code:Boolean in the <<interfaces-iointerfaces-user, User-defined
Variable Interface>> section (internal issue 1663).
* Fix naming inconsistencies in
slink:VkPhysicalDevicePerformanceQueryFeaturesKHR,
slink:VkPhysicalDevicePerformanceQueryPropertiesKHR,
slink:VkQueryPoolPerformanceCreateInfoKHR, and associated enumerants
(internal issue 1746).
* Use ACM reference style for normative references (internal merge request
3256).
* Explicitly list the features changed in Vulkan 1.1 in the
<<features-requirements, Feature Requirements>> section and the
<<versions, Core Revisions (Informative)>> appendix (internal merge
request 3274).
* Add the slink:VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure
to the <<VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control>> extension, which was
accidentally omitted in the initial release of the extension (internal
merge request 3287).
* Add missing slink:VkImageUsageFlag description for
ename:VK_IMAGE_USAGE_FRAGMENT_DENSITY_MAP_BIT_EXT (internal merge
request 3292).
* Add valid usage statements to slink:VkAccelerationStructureInfoNV and
flink:vkGetAccelerationStructureHandleNV to clarify usage of
acceleration structure handle and geometries (internal merge request
3292).
New Extensions:
* `<<VK_AMD_shader_core_properties2>>`
* `<<VK_AMD_pipeline_compiler_control>>`
* Update release number to 102.
Public Issues:
* Simplify flink:vkGetImageMemoryRequirements constraint for
ename:VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_LAZILY_ALLOCATED_BIT (public pull request 817).
* Fix typo in markup of the <<textures-texel-coordinate-systems-diagrams,
Texel Coordinate Systems, Corner Sampling>> image that was generating
complaints from chunked HTML output generation (public pull request
928).
Internal Issues:
* Split the old <<features, Features>> chapter into four chapters:
<<features, Features>>, <<limits, Limits>>, <<formats, Formats>>, and
<<capabilities, Capabilities>>, with minor edits to the introductory
paragraph of each chapter. Anchor names in these chapters were changed,
with corresponding effects to xrefs to these anchors elsewhere in spec
markup . The purpose is to make the chunked HTML spec output load faster
on what was previously a single, gigantic chapter (internal issue 1554).
* Add ename:VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_RAY_TRACING_SHADER_BIT_NV, to the supported
pipeline stages for ename:VK_ACCESS_UNIFORM_READ,
ename:VK_ACCESS_SHADER_READ, and ename:VK_ACCESS_SHADER_WRITE in the
<<synchronization-access-types-supported>> table.
* Correct legal name of Google, LLC in vk.xml \<tags> section and a
copyright statement.
* Clarify that Vulkan treats the Android
code:AHARDWAREBUFFER_FORMAT_R8G8B8X8_UNORM format as RGBA, and the
application is responsible for forcing the X/A component to be read as
1.0, in the <<memory-external-android-hardware-buffer-formats>> table.
* Clarify the vertex order of various primitive topologies, and define the
order of transform feedback vertex capture based on that. This involves
a lot of refactoring and cleanup in the <<drawing-primitive-topologies,
Primitive Topologies>>, <<geometry-input, Geometry Shader Input
Primitives>> sections, and <<vertexpostproc-transform-feedback Transform
Feedback>> sections, and numerous places in the <<tessellation>>
chapter,
New Extensions:
* `VK_EXT_metal_surface`
* `VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays` (internal issue 1361).
* `VK_NVX_image_view_handle`