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 cannot 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 is 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 do not 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. Do not 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 do not 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 must not 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 have 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). ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for May 20, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.14 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 14 for this update. Github Issues: * Fix validity language for sname:VkCommandBufferAllocateInfo to impose range limits on pname:commandBufferCount (public issue 178). * Fix validity language for flink:vkCmdExecuteCommands to refer to the correct structure names (public issue 179). * Fix two copy-and-paste errors in the WSI queries, where the wrong term was used for what was being returned (public issue 206). * Add a note in the documentation of flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR, about what it means if ename:VK_FORMAT_UNDEFINED is returned (public issue 207). Internal Issues: * Clarify the usage and correct the name for the bitmask referenced in <> (internal issue 334). Other Commits: * Fix the names of decorations listed in the <> section such that they match the SPIR-V specification. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for May 27, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.15 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 15 for this update. Github Issues: * Fixed the <> entry for Fragment Input Attachment Interface to specify code:UniformConstant storage class (public issue 156). * Disallow lazily allocated memory for buffers in the description of slink:VkMemoryRequirements::pname:memoryTypeBits (public issue 196). * Add numbered figure captions (public issue 219). * Fix output variable names in the <> section and related minor normative language and markup cleanup (public issue 220). Internal Issues: * Fix reference to nonexistent etext:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_TRANSFER_{SRC,DST}BIT to the actual etext:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT{SRC,DST}_OPTIMAL (internal issue 296). * Update the <> to refer to the correct feature names (internal issue 305). ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for June 10, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.16 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 16 for this update. Github Issues: * Clarify that integer border values are meant to be 0/1, and that integer texture lookups are sign-extended in the <> and <> sections (public issue 52). * Add logic to generate spec boilerplate without using the 'git' command-line client, needed when building from a tarball or another source of the Vulkan tree rather than a cloned git repo. Remove boilerplate as part of 'clean' target (public issue 195). * Document that color writes and clears to unused attachments have no effect for slink:VkClearAttachment and elink:VkColorComponentFlagBits (public issue 198). * Fixed flink:vkCmdExecuteCommands validity statement for sname:VkCommandBufferInheritanceInfo::pname:framebuffer. If used, it must match the framebuffer in the current renderpass instance (public issue 226). * Added valid usage language to require for all functions that set dynamic state that the currently bound graphics pipeline has the corresponding dynamic state enabled (public issue 235). Internal Issues: * Clarify for flink:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties, in the <> section, and in the <> section when functionality should be exposed as an instance extension, as a device extension, or as both (internal issue 109). * Place WorkgroupSize in alphabetical order in the <> section (internal issue 323). * Corrects valid usage in vkEndRenderPass to only affect primary render passes, as secondaries may be entirely within a render pass, and should be able to be ended (previous language disallowed that) (internal issue 338). * Fix relational operator from <= to >= in the <> section (internal issue 343). * Disallow recursion under SPIR-V entry points in the <> section (internal SPIR-V issue 37). Other Commits: * Use standard Python ElementTree package instead of lxml.etree in header / validation layer / include autogeneration from XML, reducing platform dependencies. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for June 17, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.17 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 17 for this update. Github Issues: * Update description of vertex shader reuse in <> (public issue 106). * Simplify validity language around pname:ppEnabledExtensionNames and pname:ppEnabledLayerNames (in the <> and <> sections) (public issue 214). * Add missing validity rule to flink:vkCmdBeginRenderPass requiring compatibility between slink:VkAttachmentDescription pname:initalLayout members and the corresponding attached framebuffer images (public issue 233). * Fix Unicode arrows appearing in output instead of relational operators (public issue 239). * Correctly describe the required number of elements for code:TessLevelInner and code:TessLevelOuter arrays in the <> section as two and four, respectively, instead of the other way around, and refer to this section from the <> chapter (public issue 246). Internal Issues: * Document deprecation of ename:VK_COLORSPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR in the VK_KHR_surface extension, and of ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEBUG_REPORT_CREATE_INFO_EXT in the VK_EXT_debug_report extension (internal issue 328). * Added language to define what a valid usage statement is and should be, with a note about some apparent weirdnesses this might entail (internal issue 357). Other Commits: * Added missing ename:VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST error to flink:vkQueueBindSparse. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for June 24, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.18 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 18 for this update. Github Issues: * Added "queue operation" terminology, and modified spec to actually use this terminology (public issue 155). The act of submitting a piece of work to a queue now generates "operations" for the queue to execute, including operations to wait on/signal semaphores and fences. Synchronization waits on these operations, making execution dependency chains more obvious for semaphores and fences (though additional work is still needed here). These changes include: ** Overview of "queue submission" commands in chapter <>. ** Updated descriptions for fence and semaphore waits and signals in the synchronization chapter <>, <> and <>. ** Clarifications to semaphore and fence operation within queue submission functions. ** New glossary terms. ** Moved device idle and queue wait idle to synchronization chapter in order to describe them in terms of other synchronization primitives. ** Clarifications to semaphore and fence operation allowed removal of the "implicit ordering guarantees" section, as this information is now wholly covered where these primitives are described. *** The "host writes" section of this is still there for now - in its own section. This could probably be merged into other sections later. *** Modified fundamentals chapter on queue ordering to make sense in context of the new changes, and avoid duplication. <> * Added "aspect" and "component" definitions to the glossary, and made sure these terms are referenced correctly (public issue 163). * Update valid usage for ftext:vkGet*ProcAddr to only include conditions that must be met to get a valid result. In particular, it is okay to call flink:vkGetDeviceProcAddr with any string and will get a code:NULL if that string is not a core Vulkan function or an enabled extension function (addresses but does not fully close public issue 214). * Change the WSI extension dependencies to refer to version 1.0 of the Vulkan API, instead of the pre-1.0-release internal revisions numbers (public issue 238). * Specified that <> result in undefined values input to the blending unit or color attachment (public issue 240). * Fix latexmath:[$\leq$] operators turning into Unicode left arrow symbols (public issue 245). Internal Issues: * Better documented that the registry XML "optional" tag for values only applies when that value is the size of an array (internal issue 335). * Add a stronger definition for the valid usages of VkSpecializationMapEntry.size in the <> section (internal issue 345). * Change code:OpName to code:OpDecorate (along with appropriate syntax) for vertex shader built-ins (internal issue 368). * Add missing ref pages (those which are not currently stubs) to apispec.txt for the single-page version of the ref pages (internal issue 378). Other Commits: * Fix example in the <> section to use M, N, and I, describing set, binding, and index, consistently throughout the example code. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for July 1, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.19 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 19 for this update. Github Issues: * Clarified how flink:vkGetImageSubresourceLayout interacts with image layouts (public issue 247). * Remove ename:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED from valid usage rule for slink:VkImageMemoryBarrier::pname:oldLayout. It is only valid if it is the current layout (public issue 248). * Modify valid usage for flink:vkBindBufferMemory so implementations are free to require a different backing memory size than the buffer size (public issue 251). * Clarify that filtering rules for flink:vkCmdBlitImage always apply, and are usually no-ops if the formats are the same (public issue 253). * Remove 'non-sparse' from description of flink:vkGetBufferMemoryRequirements and flink:vkGetImageMemoryRequirements (public issue 257). * Remove ename:VK_ERROR_LAYER_NOT_PRESENT error code from flink:vkCreateDevice (public issue 259). * Change "must: not" to "should: not" in constraint on when flink:vkAcquireNextImageKHR is called in the VK_KHR_swapchain branch (public issue 262). * Change type of flink:vkCmdUpdateBuffer::pname:pData from basetype:uint32_t* to basetype:void* (public issue 263). * Change should: to must: in description of where additional segments are placed in the <<[tessellation-tessellator-spacing,Tessellator Spacing>> section (public issue 264). Internal Issues: * Normalize the language of all the compute shader built-ins in the <> section (internal issue 323). * Remove definition of presentation engine internal queue lengths associated with ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR and ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_RELAXED_KHR in the <> chapter (internal issue 374). * The language of a Note was too broad, and implied that loaders for a given OS would statically export functions for WSI extensions that were not relevant to (or supported on) the OS. Also, removed "Khronos-provided" since the Android loader is not (internal issue 380) Other Commits: * Add ename:VK_INCOMPLETE to list of return values for flink:vkGetPipelineCacheData. Spec says this value is returnable, but it was not listed in the error codes. * Fix "correponds" typo in member definitions for slink:VkSubpassDescription. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for July 8, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.20 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 20 for this update. Github Issues: * Replaced existing reference pages by text automatically extracted from the specification source, or generated from vk.xml in some cases. This is not a complete solution for the reference pages, but puts them in a much better state. The ref pages (only) are now placed under a CC BY open source license, which is more current than the obsolete license previously used. Various minor tweaks to the Specification sources were made to enable this, and a new ``API Boilerplate'' chapter added to include definitions of all the entities in the API and +vulkan.h+ which were not already described in some form in the document. Further improvements to the pages should not edit them directly, but instead concentrate on the specification source from which the ref pages are being extracted (public issues 44, 55, 160; internal issue 389). ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for July 15, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.21 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 21 for this update. Github Issues: * Clarify how <> relate to the limits in slink:VkPhysicalDeviceLimits. (public issue 185). * Clarify in the <> section that shader output variables have undefined values until the shader writes to them (public issue 240). * Specify the implicit value of image parameters that cannot be set in slink:VkSwapchainCreateInfo::pname:flags, pname:imageType, pname:mipLevels, pname:samples, pname:tiling, and pname:initialLayout (public issue 243). * Make use of code:NULL and code:VK_NULL_HANDLE consistent in the VK_KHR_swapchain extension (public issue 276). Internal Issues: * Clarify that presenting an image to a display surface swapchain applies the display surface's mode, and that destroying a display surface swapchain may reset the display's mode, in the VK_KHR_display_swapchain extension (internal issue 247). * Better describe what a slink:VkSurfaceKHR is, and that creating one does not set a mode, in the VK_KHR_display extension. This is a round-about way of pointing out that mode setting is not covered by the extension, but rather is performed as a side effect of presentation (internal issue 247). * Add more valid usage statements to flink:vkQueuePresentKHR command when the VK_KHR_display_swapchain extension is present (internal issue 247). * Add more includes to the VK_KHR_swapchain extension to better document interactions with VK_KHR_display_swapchain (internal issue 247). * Clarify restrictions on location aliasing in the <> section (internal issue 370). * Add mathematical description of blitting to flink:vkCmdBlitImage, and link it to the <> chapter. Use mathematical notation for ranges of texel coordinates in the <> chapter. Fixed miscellaneous validity statements for flink:vkCmdBlit and slink:VkImageBlit (internal issue 382). Other Commits: * Added a valid usage rule to flink:VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo that the ename:VK_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_PATCH_LIST topology must only be used when tessellation shaders are used. * Expand the style guide into a formal "Procedures and Conventions" document. Add a API Naming Conventions section, move most of the API Specification Appendix C (Layers and Extensions) content into the new document, and define the resulting procedures as mandatory (where relevant). This more clearly separates use vs. specification of Vulkan APIs. * Update vk_platform.h to handle 32-bit ARMv8 binaries. * Various minor cleanups to the Makefile and build process. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for July 22, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.22 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 22 for this update. Github Issues: * Translate the subpass self-dependency language into concrete validity statements, and added a validity statement about the restrictions on layout parameters (public issue 267). * Add validity requirement that slink:VkAttachmentDescription::pname:finalLayout and slink:VkAttachmentReference::pname:layout must not be ename:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED or ename:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED (public issue 268). * Clarify that slink:VkSubpassDescription::pname:pResolveAttachments layouts are used. Make language consistent with other attachment arrays (public issue 270). * Changed 64-bit definition for dname:VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE to work for x32 platform in +vk.xml+ and the resulting +vulkan.h+ (public issue 282). * Add missing error return code for flink:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties and flink:vkEnumerateDeviceExtensionProperties (public issue 285) * Fix several cases of stext::VkStructName.memberName markup to stext::VkStructName::pname:memberName, to match other usage in the spec, and describe this markup in the style guide (public issue 286). * Modified validity language generation script to avoid redundant common ancestor language if covered by generic parent language, and used `Both' instead of `Each' when appropriate (public issue 288). Internal Issues: * Add language about behavior of flink:vkAllocateDescriptorSets when allocation fails due to fragmentation, a new error ename:VK_ERROR_FRAGMENTED_POOL, and a Note explaining the situation (internal issue 309). * For the features of code:PointSize, code:ClipDistance, and code:CullDistance, the SPIR-V capability is required to be declared on use (read or write) rather than on decoration (internal issue 359). * Have desktop versions of GLSL respect precision qualification (code:mediump and code:lowp) when compiling for Vulkan. These will get translated to SPIR-V's code:RelaxedPrecision decoration as they do with OpenGL ES versions of GLSL (ESSL). The default precision of all types is code:highp when using a desktop version (internal issue 360). * Add validity statement for slink:VkImageCreateInfo specifying that multisampled images must be two-dimensional, optimally tiled, and with a single mipmap level (internal issue 369). * Add validity statements to slink:VkImageViewCreateInfo disallowing creation of images or image views with no supported features. Made some slink:VkImageViewCreateInfo validity statements more precise and consistent. Added a Note to the <> chapter about formats with no features (internal issue 371). * Remove +manpages+ from default build targets. Nroff outputs containing imbedded latexmath will not render properly. Fixing this is a lot of work for limited use cases (internal issue 401). Other Commits: * Fix flink:vkRenderPassBeginInfo::pname:clearValueCount validity statement to be based on attachment indices rather than the number of cleared attachments (Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers/issues/601). * Convert registry documentation from LaTeX to asciidoc source and rename from +src/spec/readme.tex+ to +src/spec/registry.txt+. * Fix lack of Oxford commas in validity language. * Lots of cleanup of generator scripts and Makefiles to move extension list for generator into the script arguments instead of the body of genvk.py, and express better dependencies between XML, scripts, and generated files. ----------------------------------------------------- Change log for August 5, 2016 Vulkan 1.0.23 spec update: * Bump API patch number and header version number to 23 for this update. Github Issues: * Add explicit valid value attributes to pname:sType members in vk.xml (public issue 34). * Clarify usage of flink:vkGetInstanceProcAddr and flink:vkGetDeviceProcAddr (public issue 225). * Fix a copy-and-paste error in the description of pname:pSwapchainImageCount saying that it was the count of ``format pairs'' instead of ``swapchain images'' (public issue 292). * flink:vkCmdExecuteCommandBuffers requires all command buffers to be allocated from command pools created for the same queue family (public issue 296). * Remove bogus +optional+ attribute for flink:vkEnumerateDeviceLayerProperties::pname:physicalDevice from vk.xml (public issue 301). * Clean up the <> reference and contents. Use full enumerant names. Refer to pname:layerCount in the ``view parameters'' column instead of pname:arrayLayers. Require N >= 1 for the cube array subview row, not just arrayLayers >= 6 N (public issue 304). * Modify description of <> to be consistent with the description of <> (public issue 307). Internal Issues: * Describe remaining +vk_platform.h+ macros in the <> appendix (internal issue 6). * Clarify <> feature behavior; what memory can be accessed, how bounds checking is performed, and allowing for vectorization (internal issue 332). * Document markup for automatic extraction of reference pages from the spec sources in the style guide (internal issue 395). * Allow flink:vkCreateDisplayModeKHR to return ename:VK_ERROR_INITIALIZAION_FAILED_KHR if the user requests mode parameters that the specified display does not support (internal issue 411). * Remove atomic counters (atomic_uint style) from KHR_vulkan_glsl, and more clearly remove the subroutine keyword alongside it (internal issue 421). * Clarify behavior of flink:vkCmdBindDescriptorSets for descriptor sets not contained in the layout (internal issue 427). Other Commits: * Change the order in which members of sname:VkAttachmentDescription and sname:VkPipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateInfo are described to match their order in the structures.