Jon Leech 3e4bee3d11 Change log for March 10, 2017 Vulkan 1.0.43 spec update:
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 43 for this update.

Github Issues:

  * Make clearer that color write mask is applied regardless of whether
    blending is enabled, by referring to the
    <<framebuffer-color-write-mask,Color Write Mask>> section (public issue
    241).
  * Fix public issue 414:
  ** Added two new command buffer states (invalid, pending), and an explicit
     "command buffer lifecycle" section to explain them.
  ** Replaced "pending execution" with "in the pending state".
  ** Replaced a bunch of "this will invalidate the command buffer" language
     with "this will move the command buffer to the invalid state", and added
     validation language for what state those command buffers should be in.
  ** Added additional validation language about what state a command buffer
     should be in for various commands that affect it.
  ** Added invalidation language to destroy commands in the lifetimes section
     of fundamentals.
  ** Added command buffers to list of objects which must not be deleted
     whilst a (primary) command buffer is in the recording or pending state.
  * Update `GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl` extension to allow anonymous push constant
    blocks (public issue 428).

Internal Issues:

  * Document rules about extension interactions in the style guide (internal
    issue 579).
  * Require ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_MAILBOX_KHR support in queries of surfaces
    created with flink:vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR using the
    VK_KHR_wayland_surface extension (internal issue 666).
  * Remove Valid Usage constraints for flink:vkAllocateDescriptorSets when
    the `VK_KHR_maintainance1` extension is present (internal issue 686).
  * Remove undocumented KHX-variants of vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR
    and vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2KHR from the
    <<VK_KHX_external_memory_capabilities>> and
    <<VK_KHX_external_semaphore_capabilities>> extensions.

New Extensions:

  * `VK_EXT_hdr_metadata`
  * `VK_GOOGLE_display_timing`
2017-03-10 17:39:29 -08:00

Vulkan^(R)^ API Documentation Project
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Registry, and related tools and scripts.

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As of the 1.0.25 release, we have switched to a new "`single-branch`" model
in which all extensions are included in the source of the 1.0 branch of the
Specification, and can be configured in or out of the build using Makefile
options.

Repository Structure
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```
README.adoc             This file
ChangeLog.txt           Change log summary for each public spec update
doc/specs/              Main documentation tree
    vulkan/             Vulkan specification
        appendices/     Appendices - one file each
        chapters/       Chapters - one file each
        config/         asciidoc configuration
        images/         Images (figures, diagrams, icons)
        man/            Reference (manual) pages for API, mostly extracted from the spec source
    misc/               Related specifications (GL_KHR_vulkan_glsl)
src/spec/               XML API Registry (vk.xml) and related scripts
src/vulkan/             Vulkan headers, generated from the Registry
```

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a new one based on `asciidoctor`. See `doc/specs/vulkan/README.adoc` for
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