Update Log for the Vulkan-Docs repository on Github. This just summarizes the periodic public updates, not individual commits to the tree. For the most part, commits on Github are done as single large patches at the release point, collecting together the resolution of many Khronos internal and public issues. ----------------------------------------------------- February 16, 2016 - Vulkan 1.0 initial public release ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for February 25, 2015 Vulkan 1.0.4 spec update: * Bump API patch number from 3 to 4 for the first public update to the spec. Add patch number to the spec title (this will be done automatically from XML, later). * Fixes for numerous editorial issues. Regularize descriptions of variable-length array queries. Properly tag enumerants so they come out in the right font (many were mislabeled in usage tags in vk.xml, or not tagged). Spelling and markup corrections (public issue 4). * Fix typos and clearly separate description of different types of memory areas (public issue 5). * Use standards-compliant preprocessor guard symbols on headers (public issue 7). * Note that Github users can't currently set labels on issues, and recommend a fallback approach (public issue 15). * Use latexmath prefix on len= attributes (public issue 29). * Make flink:vkCmdUpdateBuffer pname:dataSize limit consistent (public issue 65). * Add VK_KHR_mirror_clamp_to_edge extension to core API branch, as an optional feature not introducing new commands or enums (internal issue 104). * Cleanup invariance language inherited from the GL specification to not refer to nonexistent (GL-specific) state (internal issue 111). * Modify the flink:vkCmdDrawIndexed pname:vertexOffset definition to not be the "base offset within the index buffer" but rather the "value added to the vertex index before indexing into the vertex buffer" (internal issue 118). * Fix drawing chapter in the "Programmable Primitive Shading" section where it described categories of drawing commands. It referenced flink:vkCmdDrawIndexed twice. Replace the second reference with flink:vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect (internal issue 119). * Typo fixed in <> sparse memory example (internal issue 122). * Add flink:VkDisplayPlaneAlphaFlagsKHR to section of VK_KHR_display extension (internal issue 125) * Add missing optional="false,true" to flink:vkGetImageSparseMemoryRequirements pname:pSparseMemoryRequirementCount parameter (internal issue 132) * Rename ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEBUG_REPORT_CREATE_INFO_EXT to ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEBUG_REPORT_CALLBACK_CREATE_INFO_EXT (internal issue 133) * Fix a handful of broken cross-references in the <> chapter (internal issue 134). * Fix "Input Attachement" GLSL example to use correct syntax (internal issue 135). * Update XML schema and documentation to accomodate recently added attributes for validity. Add some introductory material describing design choices and pointing to the public repository to file issues. * Put include of validity in the core spec extensions chapter on its own line, so that asciidoc is happy. * Fix vertexOffset language to specify that it's the value added to the vertex index before indexing into the vertex buffer, not the base offset within the index buffer. * Fix error in the description of flink:vkCmdNextSubpass. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for March 4, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.5 spec update: * Bump API patch number to 5 for this update. Github Issues: * Correctly describe slink:VkPhysicalDeviceProperties pname:deviceName member as a string, not a pointer to a string. Also one typo fix for "hetereogeneous" (public issue 4). * Replace maynot: macro with may: not, and "may: or maynot:" with "may:" (public issue 4). * Clarify that redundantly setting the state of a fence or event has no effect (public issue 4). * Minor fixes to ref pages to track descriptions of memory bits that changed in the core spec. Fix name of a member in the description of sname:sname:VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo (public issues 8, 13). * Remove redundant validity statement for sname:VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo::pname:stageCount (public issue 14). * Fix typos in chapters 7-9 (public issue 14). * Clarify the example demonstrating the behavior of code:OpMemoryBarrier in the <> section (public issue 16). * Specify that freeing mapped memory implicitly unmaps the memory in the description of flink:vkFreeMemory (public issue 17). * Forbid allocation callbacks from calling into the API in the <> section (public issue 20). * Add missing validity rules about size being greater than 0 and offset being less than size of object. Fix flink:VkMappedMemoryRange's misinterpretation of offset (public issues 27, 31). * Add validity rule disallowing overlapping source/destination descriptors in flink:VkCopyDescriptorSet (public issue 32). * Clarify that array and matrix stride has to be a multiple of the base alignment of the array or matrix in the <> section (public issue 38). * Correct parenthesis floor nesting error in equation for <>. Clarify case of when exp' is forced to 0, avoiding log2(0) undefined problem (public issue 40). * Remove redundant statement from the code:FragDepth description in the <> section (public issue 47). * Define the clamping of the <> by linking to the slink:VkPhysicalDevice feature pname:maxSamplerLodBias (public issue 64). * Fix typo "optimal linear resources" and clarify the set of resources <> applies to (public issue 67). * Replace 'descriptor accessed by a pipeline' language for sname:VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo with more precise phrasing about binding a descriptor set before a command that invokes work using that set (public issue 69). * tstripadj.svg contained an Inkscape tag which caused Firefox and IE 11 to fail to render it, and was illegal SVG. Generating Plain SVG from the Inkscape SVG source fixes this (public issue 70). * Fix validity for sname:VkVertexInputBindingDescription and sname:VkVertexInputAttributeDescription numbers (public issue 72). Internal Issues: * Clarify the meaning of ename:VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT in elink:VkFormatFeatureFlagBits with respect to depth compare (internal issue 107). * Added a note explaining that ename:VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT may or may not be reported for a queue family that already supports ename:VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT or ename:VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT as the former is a strict subset of the latter ones (internal issue 116). * Add validity language for sname:VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo about exceeding the descriptor pool capacity (internal issue 140). * Add ename:VK_INCOMPLETE success code for flink:vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices query (internal issue 163). Other Commits: * Add the VK_NV_glsl_shader extension definitions to the API. * Update GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl with 1) origin_upper_left as default 2) specialization array constant semantics. * Corrected/updated Data Format Specification date. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for March 10, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.6 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 6 for this update. Github Issues: * Define 'invocation group' for compute and graphics shaders. Cleanup definition and use of 'workgroup', and add glossary entries (public issue 1). * Various minor editorial fixes (public issue 33). * Clarify locations for block members in the <> section (public issue 45). * Editorial fixes for <> section (public issues 54, 59). * Clarify behavior of depth test in the <> section (public issues 80, 81). * Remove discussion of return codes from flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties and flink:vkGetImageSparseMemoryRequirements, which don't return values (public issue 82). * Allow flink:vkCmdDrawIndirect and flink:vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect pname:drawCount of 0, as well as 1, when the multiDrawIndirect feature is not supported (public issue 88). * Remove confusing wording in the <> section describing the slink:VkPhysicalDeviceLimits pname:minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment, pname:minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment, and pname:minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment members as both minimums and maximums (public issue 91). * Clarified that only the RGB components should be affected in places where sRGB is referred to in the spec, such as ASTC formats. Minor re-wording to avoid "color space" when actively incorrect, now that we refer to the Data Format Spec which actually makes a distinction between color space and transfer function (public issue 94). * Treat pname:pPropertyCount == 0 consistently in flink:vkEnumerateInstanceLayerProperties and flink:vkEnumerateDeviceLayerProperties (public issue 99) * Cleanup minor editorial issues in chapters 14-17 (public issue 100). * Clarify definition of flink:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties and flink:vkEnumerateDeviceExtensionProperties (public issue 101). * Define the flink:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties and flink:vkEnumerateDeviceExtensionProperties pname:pLayerName parameter to be a pointer to a null-terminated UTF-8 string (public issue 101). * Rearrange "Missing information" references in mandatory format tables (public issue 101). * Clarify that the enumerated extensions returned by flink:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties and flink:vkEnumerateDeviceExtensionProperties will only include extensions provided by the platform or extensions implemented in implicitly enabled layers (public issue 101). * Miscellaneous editorial fixes. Include the Vulkan spec patch number in the PDF title. Fix label on <> diagram. Use more easily distinguished symbols in tables in the <> section. Don't require FQDNs used as layer names be encoded in lower case if not possible, in the <> section (public issues 101, 119, 121). Internal Issues: * Fixed excessive spacing in tables in XHTML (internal issue 18). * Clarify that ename:VK_COMMAND_BUFFER_USAGE_ONE_TIME_SUBMIT_BIT applies to secondary command buffers. Previously spec only referred to the members of pname:pCommandBuffers being affected by this bit. Added a separate slink:VkSubmitInfo Valid Usage restriction specifying that ename:VK_COMMAND_BUFFER_USAGE_ONE_TIME_SUBMIT_BIT also applies to any secondary command buffers that are recorded into the primary command buffers in pname:pCommandBuffers (internal issue 106). * Clarify that slink:VkDeviceCreateInfo::pname:pEnabledFeatures can be NULL (internal issue 117). * Remove "the value of" where it is redundant (e.g. speaking of an API parameter, struct member, or SPIR-V variable, but not when speaking of color components) (internal issue 175). * Forced patch version to always be 0 in the header. Add a "VK_API_VERSION__" macro for people to use to do the right thing. Add a VK_HEADER_VERSION which captures the header release number independent of the spec patch number (internal issue 176). * Correct description of slink:VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo::pname:pName to "a pointer to a null-terminated UTF-8 string" (internal issue 197). Other Commits: * Updated DataFormat spec reference to the new date for revision 5 of that spec. * Fixed KEEP option (to retain LaTeX intermediate files) in the Makefile to be included when edited there, as well as set on the command line. * Reserve and add "VK_IMG_filter_cubic" to the registry, and implement script functionality to add and remove validity from existing functions. Includes schema and readme changes. * Update GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl so push_constants do not have descriptor sets. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for March 25, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.7 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 7 for this update. Github Issues: * Fix slink:VkSpecializationMapEntry example to avoid C/C++ strict aliasing issues (public issue 14). * Clarify the meaning of "matching" in flink:vkCmdBindDescriptorSets validity language (public issue 33). * Add stub reference pages so xrefs to not-yet-written pages don't generate 404 errors. However, the actual content of these pages still needs to be filled in as time allows (public issue 44, but does not close that issue out). * Remove incorrect validity statement for flink:vkGetImageSparseMemoryRequirements (public issue 85). * Reword the <> feature in terms of "aliasing", and clarify that it applies to bindings in the same memory object (public issue 90). * Clarify the relationship of the slink:VkPhysicalDeviceLimits pname:maxViewportDimensions and pname:viewportBoundsRange limits (public issue 92). * Specify sparse unbound texture replacement in the <> section independently of robust buffer access language (public issue 100). * Add the <> section to explain architecture constraints Vulkan has chosen to accept in order to enable portable and performant code (public issue 122). * State that an object must not be destroyed until *all* (not *any*) uses of that object have completed (public issue 123). * Minor editorial cleanup (public issues 129, 134, 146, 148). * Add validity language for layer and extension names to slink:VkDeviceCreateInfo matching that used for slink:VkInstanceCreateInfo (public issue 130). * Clean up terminology for the case when the bits set in one bitmask are a subset of the bits set in another bitmask (public issue 138). * Document that input attachments are UniformConstant not Input, in the <> section (public glslang bug 169). Internal Issues: * Add max enum values to "flag bits" enums (internal issue 136). * Clarify language around the various uses of the term "block" in the <> section (internal issue 202). * Removed "expand" dependency from groups in vk.xml and added auto-generation code in the scripts to infer it instead, to ensure consistency. This caused renaming of sname:VkColorSpaceKHR and sname:VkPresentModeKHR etext:BEGIN_RANGE (etc.) tokens, but those tokens are metadata, not part of the API, and the Vulkan WG is OK with this change. This change adds ranges to two additional enums that were missing them due to not defining the "expand" attribute (internal issue 217). * Tweak makefile to generate ref page nroff (.3) files in the right output directory, working around an a2x limitation (internal issue 223). Other Commits: * Add validity requirements for flink:vkCmdCopyQueryPoolResults pname:dstBuffer parameter. * Fix ref page build to generate .3 targets in the right output directory. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for April 1, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.8 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 8 for this update. Github Issues: * Specify in the validity language for flink:vkBeginCommandBuffer that pname:commandBuffer mustnot: currently be pending execution (public issue 96). * Describe depth comparison using the correct temporary variable names in the <> section (public issue 100). * Clarify the order of descriptor update operations in the flink:vkUpdateDescriptorSets command (public issue 115). * Specify in the VK_KHR_swapchain extension that flink:vkAcquireNextImageKHR's pname:semaphore and pname:fence parameters cannot both be sname:VK_NULL_HANDLE (partly addresses, but does not fully close, public issue 117 / internal issue 246). * Change reference to the "lifetime" of a Vulkan command to "duration", and define the "duration" term (public issue 135). * Added valid usage language for slink:VkImageLayout to require both pname:height and pname:depth to be 1 for 1D images and pname:depth to be 1 for 2D images (public issue 137). * Fix SPIR-V example code in the <> section to properly decorate the code:InputAttachmentIndex (public issue 139). * Fix reference to nonexistent pname:imageInfo in the description of flink:VkWriteDescriptorSet to refer to pname:pImageInfo (public issue 140). Internal Issues: * Link to the fixed-function vertex chapter from the drawing chapter (internal issue 110) * Fix typo in slink:VkImageCreateInfo validity language: ptext:maxExtent.sampleCounts -> pname:sampleCounts (internal issue 249). * Explain why the non-core token etext:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR is used in the example in the <> section (internal issue 251). * Attempt to clarify in the VK_KHR_android_surface extension's <> section that there is no Android-specific WSI query, and why (internal issue 252). Other Commits: * Add missing language about ename:VK_INCOMPLETE being returned from array queries when the passed array is too short, in the VK_KHR_display, VK_KHR_swapchain, and VK_KHR_surface extensions. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for April 8, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.9 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 9 for this update. Github Issues: * Fix memory type preorder definition and clarify example list and source code for slink:VkMemoryRequirements and slink:VkMemoryHeap (public issue 26). * Ensure slink:VkAllocationCallbacks are properly defined (public issue 73). * Clarify the WSI extension language by switching from the fuzzier "ownership" language to more-consistent "acquire" language (public issue 117). * Add language allowing allocation and freeing of memory scoped to the duration of any API command in the <> section (public issue 136). * Clarify the explicit location assignment always overrides the inherited location in the <> section, even for the first member of a block (public issue 141). * Fixed references to slink:VkCommandBufferInheritanceInfo::pname:pipelineStatistics (public issue 158). * Fix name of slink:VkBufferCopy::pname:size field in validity language for flink:vkCmdCopyBuffer (public issue 162). Internal Issues: * Update GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl specification to clarify disallowance of spec-const arrays in initializers (internal issue 248). * Clarify <> section to state that user-defined variable interface must match too (internal issue 250). ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for April 15, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.10 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 10 for this update. Github Issues: * Slightly tweak the <> allocator language so that an application wrapping the standard C alloc/free/realloc functions is still correct - the previous language was too strong with regards to freeing memory. Also made certain scenarios clearer - an implementation may now continue without error if an allocation failed and it is able to continue correctly (public issue 21). * Require that etext:VK_*_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT is set when the corresponding etext:VK_*_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT is used, in the <> section and related commands flink:vkCreateBuffer and flink:vkCreateImage (public issue 84). * Update the <> chapter to clarify interactions between optional features and dynamic state for the pname:depthBiasClamp and pname:wideLines features (public issue 89). * Describe the code:WorkgroupSize builtin in the <> section, and update the <> section to further clarify how to set the number of workgroups to execute in a compute shader (public issue 145). * Use the term *image subresource* everywhere instead of *subresource*, except for the special case of *host-accessible subresource*, which may be either an image subresource or buffer range (public issue 120) * Add a note to the <> section about extensibility of structures (Public issue 165). * Fix return code flink:vkAcquireNextImageKHR when the timeout parameter is 0 to ename:VK_NOT_READY instead of ename:VK_TIMEOUT (public issue 170). * Fix typo in slink:VkLayerProperties::pname:apiVersion field (public issue 172). Internal Issues: * Fix a few minor internally-detected typos. * Minor formatting tweaks to pseudocode in the <> chapter (internal issue 179). * Fix typo in the definition of point sampling for elink:VkCullModeFlagBits (internal issue 268). ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for April 22, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.11 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 11 for this update. Github Issues: * Clarify the WSI extension language by switching from the fuzzier "ownership" language to more-consistent "acquire" language (public issue 117). * Clarify that memory barriers apply to all commands in the dependency chains in the flink:vkGetRenderAreaGranularity command and the <> section (public issue 132). * Clarify that a queue family is a set of queues in the <> section (public issue 166). * Removed requirement from valid usage language that VkPresentInfoKHR::waitSemaphoreCount must be greater than 0 (public issue 171). * Fix broken internal links, describe structures consistently, use consistent style for SPIR-V codewords, and tag normative terms that were missing asciidoc tags (public issue 183 and ancillary markup/normative language fixes). * Fix typos for slink:VkPhysicalDeviceLimits member names in slink:VkImageCreateInfo validity language (public issue 184). Internal Issues: * Document that the requested patch version number specified as part of slink:VkApplicationInfo::pname:apiVersion is ignored when creating an instance (internal issue 176). * Clarify handling of extension structs in the <> section (internal issue 254). * Update required slink:VkImageFormatProperties::pname:maxMipLevels to be limited to the maximum allowed mipmap pyramid size corresponding to the actual maximum supported size for the format (internal issue 256). * Modify the <> section so the allowed maximum extent is the maximum image dimension supported for each dimension of the type of texture being queried (internal issue 257). * Clarify in the <> section that at least one of the code:LocalSize execution mode or code:WorkgroupSize decoration is required for each compute shader entry point in a shader module (internal issue 279). * Add validity rules for formats in flink:vkCmdClearColorImage and flink:vkCmdClearDepthStencilImage (internal issue 283). * Clarify that slink:VkImageFormatProperties::pname:maxResourceSize is an upper bound, and that it may not be possible to create an image anywhere near that size (internal issue 284). Other Commits: * Fix various minor markup errors reported by validation scripts. * Change copyright from Khronos Free Use License to Apache 2.0 license on relevant script/XML/header files. This does not affect the specification source copyright. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for April 29, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.12 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 12 for this update. Github Issues: * Change valid usage statements intended to be "sub-points" to be actual sub-points (public issue 66). * Replace double negation in description of slink:VkRenderPassBeginInfo::pname:pClearValues (based on public merge 142). * Cleanup minor typos in spec, ref pages and XML, including those proposed in public pull requests 144, 150, 151, 167, 168, 181, and 186. * Use *strict subset* in describing the partial order of memory property types for slink:VkMemoryType, and update the style guide accordingly (public issue 190). * Fix various "a image" -> "an image" typos (public issue 191). * Note in the <> and <> sections that structures defined by extensions which may be passed in structure chains using the ptext:pNext member must: include initial ptext:sType and ptext:pNext members (public issue 192). Internal Issues: * Remove duplicate language from the description of the pname:fence parameter to flink:vkQueueSubmit and improve validity language (internal issue 91). * Added documentation for "optional" attribute to XML readme.tex/pdf (internal issue 149). * Clarify the host-side data validity rules and behavior of flink:vkFlushMappedMemoryRanges and flink:vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges (internal issue 266). Other Commits: * Added clarification to flink:vkCmdFillBuffer regarding the use of ename:VK_WHOLE_SIZE. * Fixed and documented implementation of "validextensionstructs" attribute. in XML processing scripts and readme.tex/pdf. * Add missing validity statements to flink:vkResetEvent and flink:vkCmdResetEvent. * Fix validity for the ename:VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT flag. Correct all the draw/dispatch commands to mention optimally tiled images as well as linear tiled images, and say image VIEWS instead of images. Add validity statement to flink:vkCmdBlitImage * Replace the {apiname} macro with hardcoded "Vulkan", now that we've committed to that name. * Add the VK_AMD_rasterization_order extension to vk.xml. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for May 13, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.13 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 13 for this update. Github Issues: * Improve the description of ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_RELAXED_KHR in the VK_KHR_surface extension (public issue 174). * Clarify use of etext:*_SIMULTANEOUS_USE_BIT for secondary command buffers (public issue 182). * Fix typos in VK_KHR_wayland_surface extension where code:wl_device was used instead of code:wl_display (public issue 193). * Replaced {apiname} with ``Vulkan'' in XML validity statements (public issue 199). * Fix dead links for WSI handle types (public issue 200). * Use "signaled" instead of "signalled" spelling everywhere (public issue 201). * Move readme.pdf target directory for XML schema documentation into the target generation directory, instead of leaving it checked into the spec source tree (public issue 203). * Fix duplicate 'which which' typo in description of elink:VkCommandPoolResetFlagBits (public issue 204). * Move the <> section up one level, out of the <> section (public issue 209). Internal Issues: * Clarify in the <> section that implementations should not manage the size of pipeline cache (internal issue 192). * Deprecate the concept of device layers and associated commands (internal issue 255). * Remove ename:VK_INCOMPLETE from the list of possible result codes of flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR (internal issue 314). * Add missing std140/std430 rule: the base alignment of a member following a structure is a multiple of the structure's base alignment (internal issue 321). * Fixes naming of the single elink:VkColorSpaceKHR enum from ename:VK_COLORSPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR to ename:VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR in XML/header and the VK_KHR_swapchain and VK_KHR_surface extensions to match the style of the typename (space and color are two words, not one) (internal issue 322). * Make it clear that code:LocalInvocationID should only be applied to an input variable and normalize the language describing code:LocalInvocationID to the language for other compute shader variables in the <> section, and add normative language (internal issue 323). * Clarify in the <> section that the result pointer may be modified for specific commands, even if a runtime error is returned (internal issue 324).