Jon Leech ab08f0951e Change log for February 19, 2018 Vulkan 1.0.69 spec update:
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 69 for this update.

Github Issues:

  * Clean up description of synchronization for flink:vkAcquireNextImageKHR
    (public issue 626).
  * Move valid usage statements requiring offset and extent to respect image
    transfer granularity requirements of the queue family they are submitted
    against from slink:VkImageCopy and slink:VkBufferImageCopy to the
    corresponding flink:vkCmdCopyImage, flink:vkCmdCopyBufferToImage, and
    flink:vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer commands, where are relevant information is
    known (public issue 654).
  * Clarify that flink:vkGetDeviceProcAddr only supports device-level
    commands (public issue 655).

Internal Issues:

  * Associate each elink:VkDescriptorType with a type of descriptor, and
    link to descriptions of those types (internal issue 860).
  * Rework valid usage extraction script to better utilize and respond to
    spec markup, and fix some spec markup accordingly (internal issues 846,
    909, 945).
  * Rephrase flink:vkCmdPushConstants valid usage to allow overlapping push
    constant ranges in different shader stages (internal issue 1103).
  * Fix problem with diff_html target in extension.rb (internal issue 1104).
  * Modify valid usage statements for slink:VkClearDepthStencilValue,
    slink:VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo, slink:VkViewport, and
    flink:vkCmdSetDepthBounds, and the description of vkCmdSetDepthBias, to
    clarify that clamping is applied if and only if the
    `VK_EXT_depth_range_unrestricted` is not enabled (internal issue 1124),
    in versions of the specification built with that extension included.
  * Resolve contradictions and use of undefined "`per-sample shading`" term
    in the <<primsrast-sampleshading, Sample Shading>> and
    <<shaders-fragment-execution, Fragment Shader Execution>> sections; for
    the <<features-features-sampleRateShading, sampleRateShading feature>>;
    for code:FragCoord, code:SampleId, and code:SamplePosition; and for
    slink:sname:VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo (internal issue 1134).
  * Clarify the meaning of the ptext:maxDescriptorSet* limits in footnote 8
    of the <<features-limits-required,Required Limits>> table (internal
    issue 1139).
  * Fix broken NOTE markup in slink:VkSamplerCreateInfo.txt (internal issue
    1140).
  * Remove extend comparison language from valid usage statement for
    slink:VkImageCreateInfo, turning it into a simple validation of
    pname:mipLevels against pname:maxMipLevels (internal issue 1151).
  * Update valid usage statements for slink:VkImageCopy when the
    `VK_KHR_maintenance1` extension is enabled to allow multi-slice 2D <->
    3D copies when the pnaem:extent.depth parameter specifies the number of
    layers being copied, and matches the
    slink:VkImageSubresourceLayers.layerCount of the 2D image (internal
    issue 1152).
  * Rephrase memory / control barrier rules in the
    <<spirvenv-module-validation, Validation Rules within a Module>> section
    to avoid "`not use none`", which could be misconstrued to allow no
    synchronization semantics, and only storage class semantics (internal
    issue 1154).

Other Issues:

  * Move GLSL extension specifications to the KhronosGroup/GLSL repository
    on Github.
  * Add missing description of ename:VK_FILTER_CUBIC_IMG enum to
    slink:VkFilter.
  * Update description of code:PrimitiveId in the
    <<interfaces-builtin-variables,Built-In Variables>> section to clarify
    its behavior.
  * Disallow disjoint images from being used with dedicated-memory images in
    slink:VkMemoryDedicatedAllocateInfoKHR.
  * Update README to suggest older versions of "mathematical" and
    "ruby-gems" packages for use on Cygwin.
  * Fix typos

New Extensions:

  * `VK_AMD_buffer_marker`
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Vulkan^(R)^ API Documentation Project
=====================================

This repository contains formal documentation of the Vulkan API. This
includes the main API Specification, the reference (man) pages, the XML API
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
--------------------

```
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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As of the 1.0.40 release, we have moved from the old `asciidoc` toolchain to
a new one based on `asciidoctor`. See `doc/specs/vulkan/README.adoc` for
more information on installing the toolchain and building the Specification.

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------------------------------------

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can regenerate the header by going to `src/spec` and running:

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