* Bump API patch number and header version number to 51 for this update.
Github Issues:
* Add Valid Usage statement to flink:vkCmdResolveImage to require that
source and destination image formats match (public issue 492).
* Specify that a code:char* parameter must: be a valid null-terminated
string in the <<fundamentals-implicit-validity, implicit valid usage>>
section (public issue 494).
* Removed unnecessary VU for slink:VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures which is
covered by ename:VK_ERROR_FEATURE_NOT_PRESENT already (public issue
496).
* Clarify valid usage of pname:pQueueFamilyIndices in
slink:VkBufferCreateInfo, slink:VkImageCreateInfo, and
slink:VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR (public issue 501).
* Document that dependencies of enabled extensions must also be enabled in
the <<extended-functionality-extensions-dependencies, Extension
Dependencies>> section (public issue 507).
Internal Issues:
* Change slink:VkMappedMemoryRange valid usage to allow pname:offset +
pname:size == size of the allocation. Also, if ename:VK_WHOLE_SIZE is
used, require the end of the mapping to be aligned to a multiple of
pname:nonCoherentAtomSize (internal issue 611).
* Add issue to `VK_KHR_win32_surface` about reusing window objects from a
different graphics API or Vulkan ICD (internal issue 639).
* Require locations on user in/out in `GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl` (internal issue
783).
* Added version info to the json validation output, and updated the schema
to match (internal issue 838).
* Restructure enumerated type descriptions separately from the command or
structure they are used in, allowing better reference page generation
(internal issue 841).
* Re-sort extension appendices to be in alphabetical order within each
author ID section.
* Fix enum naming and clarify behavior for
`VK_NVX_device_generated_commands` extension.
New Extensions:
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 44 for this update.
Github Issues:
* Fix description of <<features-extentperimagetype, Allowed Extent Values
Based On Image Type>> (public issue 290).
* Better specify VK_DEVICE_LOST behavior around flink:vkQueueSubmit,
flink:vkWaitForFences, and flink:vkGetFenceStatus (public issue 423).
* Clarify definition of flink:vkGetQueryPoolResults::pname:queryCount
(public issue 441).
* Simplify and clean up normative language. Remove shall and replace
recommend and variants with should wherever possible (public issue 448).
* Fix all dangling internal cross-references in the 1.0-extensions
specification, and add scripts/checkXrefs to find these in the future
(public issue 456).
* Reverse order of ChangeLog.txt entries so the most recent version is
documented first (public issue 463)
* Removes "become invalid" which clashes with invalid state for command
buffers. (public issue 467)
* Disallowed pending state in spec text for vkResetCommandBuffer, matching
valid usage (public issue 468)
* Removes sentence describing invalid state "like initial state". (public
issue 469)
* Disallows begin command buffer from resetting command buffers in the
"recording" state. (public issue 470)
* Removes mention of state from description of
VK_COMMAND_POOL_CREATE_RESET_COMMAND_BUFFER_BIT (public issue 471)
* Removed extra valid usage statement in VkSubmitInfo (public issue 472)
Internal Issues:
* Clarify description of the pname:imageLayout member of
sname:VkDescriptorImageInfo.
* Fix typos where etext:VK_VIEW_TYPE* was used instead of
etext:VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE.
* Removed the <<VK_KHR_display>> and <<VK_KHR_display_swapchain>> example
code from the specification and noted it has been moved to the Vulkan
SDK cube demo (internal issue 179).
* Reorder VkExternalMemoryHandleTypeFlagBitsNV description (internal issue
480).
* Clarify than an implementation is
<<fundamentals-validusage-flags,permitted to return 'undefined' bit
flags>> in a bitfield (internal issue 640).
* Break Valid Usage statements describing unrelated parameters into
separate statements, and add a style guide entry to follow this approach
(internal issue 685).
* Move valid usage statement for slink:VkImageCreateInfo from spec body to
the explicit valid usage block (internal issue 693).
* Fix typos in the descriptions of slink:VkDisplaySurfaceCreateInfoKHR,
flink:vkCreateDisplayModeKHR, and
flink:vkGetDisplayPlaneSupportedDisplaysKHR in the <<display,Presenting
Directly to Display Devices>> section (internal issue 698, 704, 716).
* Clarified that mandatory depth/stencil formats are only a requirement
for 2D images (internal issue 719).
* Clarify that variables decorated with DeviceIndex/ViewIndex must be in
the Input storage class (internal issue 733).
* Work around generator script problem with removal of Unicode literals
from Python 3.0-3.2 using `future` package (internal issue 737).
* Remove nonexistent structure type enums from vk.xml (internal issue
738).
* Fix validextensionstructs attributes for structures in the pname:pNext
chain for VkPresentInfoKHR, fixing implicit valid usage statements for
those structures (internal issue 740).
New Extensions:
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 42 for this update
(the first anniversary edition).
Github Issues:
* Changed asciidoctor macros so cross-page links in the standalone
reference pages function properly (public issue 462).
Internal Issues:
* Clarified host visibility discussion for slink:VkMemoryType,
flink:vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges, elink:VkAccessFlagBits, and the
<<synchronization-framebuffer-regions,Framebuffer Region Dependencies>>
section, removing duplicated information and adding a central definition
in the access types section (internal issue 552).
* Change description of
slink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModesKHR::pname:pPresentModes to
return an array of values, not structures (internal issue 699).
New Extensions:
* Add a NOTE to the <<extensions,Layers & Extensions>> chapter describing
the experimental status of `KHX` extensions.
* Add new Khronos, Khronos Experimental, and vendor Vulkan extensions for
release at GDC:
** VK_KHR_descriptor_update_template
** VK_KHR_push_descriptor
** VK_KHX_device_group
** VK_KHX_device_group_creation
** VK_KHX_external_memory
** VK_KHX_external_memory_capabilities
** VK_KHX_external_memory_fd
** VK_KHX_external_memory_win32
** VK_KHX_external_semaphore
** VK_KHX_external_semaphore_capabilities
** VK_KHX_external_semaphore_fd
** VK_KHX_external_semaphore_win32
** VK_KHX_multiview
** VK_KHX_win32_keyed_mutex
** VK_EXT_discard_rectangles
** VK_MVK_ios_surface
** VK_MVK_macos_surface
** VK_NVX_multiview_per_view_attributes
** VK_NV_clip_space_w_scaling
** VK_NV_geometry_shader_passthrough
** VK_NV_sample_mask_override_coverage
** VK_NV_viewport_array2
** VK_NV_viewport_swizzle
* Add new GLSL vendor extensions to support new builtin variables:
** GL_EXT_device_group
** GL_EXT_multiview
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 33 for this update.
Github Issues:
* Added implicit external synchronization parameters to
vkBegin/EndCommandBuffer, and fixed missing command pool host
synchronization from per-command lists (public issue 398).
* Started using git tags including the spec release number, such as
'v1.0.32-core', instead of tags including the date of release, such as
'v1.0-core-20161025' (public issue 405).
Internal Issues:
* Add validity constraint for
slink:VkImportMemoryWin32HandleInfoNV::pname:handle (internal issue
#480).
* Add scripts to compare two Vulkan HTML specifications, derived from W3
htmldiff service (internal issue 525).
* Relax requirement that memoryTypeBits can't depend on format, to allow
it to differ only for depth/stencil formats (internal issue 544).
* Add a new generator script to create a simple extension loader for
Vulkan based on +vk.xml+ (internal issue 558).
* Add the overlooked requirement that buffer and image memory
alignment requirements must be a power of two in the
<<resources-association,Resource Memory Association>> section
(internal issue 569).
Other Issues:
* Add a naming rule to the style guide for members of extension structures
defining array lengths which are the same as array lengths of the core
structure they are chained from.
* Add a new generator to create a simple extension loader in
+src/ext_loader/vulkan_ext.[ch]+ from +vk.xml+. This code can be
included in your project, and is expected to be packaged in the Vulkan
SDK provided by LunarG in the future.
Jon Leech