Khronos Articles & Reviews |
| Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs | Display Drivers | 2022-01-25 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension | Display Drivers | 2020-03-17 |
| Vulkan 1.2 Arrives With An Eye On Greater Performance, Better Compatibility With Other 3D APIs On Top | Display Drivers | 2020-01-15 |
| SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving | Software | 2018-08-13 |
| Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games | Linux Gaming | 2018-07-14 |
| Vulkan 1.1 Released As The First Major Update To This Graphics/Compute API | Display Drivers | 2018-03-07 |
| Vulkan Continues To Show Its Gaming Strength On Low-End Hardware | Linux Gaming | 2018-01-26 |
| Vulkan 1.0 Released: What You Need To Know About This Cross-Platform, High-Performance Graphics API | Software | 2016-02-16 |
| Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week | Software | 2015-08-10 |
| Khronos Group Announces Vulkan, OpenCL 2.1, SPIR-V | Display Drivers | 2015-03-03 |
| OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30 Released | Display Drivers | 2008-08-11 |
Khronos Linux & Open-Source News |
| Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes | Standards | 2026-06-11 |
| Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode | Mesa | 2026-06-07 |
| Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language | Vulkan | 2026-06-06 |
| Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-06-05 |
| OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression | Standards | 2026-05-22 |
| Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector | Vulkan | 2026-05-15 |
| Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement | Vulkan | 2026-05-11 |
| Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute | Vulkan | 2026-05-06 |
| Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan | Mesa | 2026-05-05 |
| OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads | Standards | 2026-05-05 |
| Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-05-01 |
| OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning | Programming | 2026-04-29 |
| Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards | Free Software | 2026-04-28 |
| Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension | Vulkan | 2026-04-10 |
| Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation | Vulkan | 2026-04-03 |
| Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance | Radeon | 2026-03-30 |
| Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-03-20 |
| OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine | Mesa | 2026-03-19 |
| FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration | Multimedia | 2026-03-16 |
| Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands | Vulkan | 2026-03-13 |
| Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension | Vulkan | 2026-03-06 |
| Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve | Vulkan | 2026-02-19 |
| Vulkan 1.4.342 Published With Cooperative Matrix Conversion Extension | Vulkan | 2026-01-30 |
| Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More | Vulkan | 2026-01-23 |
| Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-01-23 |
| Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-12-19 |
| Vulkan 1.4.336 Released With NVIDIA Compute Occupancy Priority Extension | Vulkan | 2025-12-12 |
| Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing | Vulkan | 2025-11-28 |
| Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making | Valve | 2025-11-26 |
| Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing | Vulkan | 2025-11-18 |
| Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension | Vulkan | 2025-11-14 |
| Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML | Vulkan | 2025-11-07 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" | Intel | 2025-11-06 |
| AMD Contributes BFloat16 Support To LLVM's SPIR-V Target | LLVM | 2025-11-04 |
| Vulkan 1.4.331 Brings Two New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-10-31 |
| OpenGL Sees New Extensions Added To The Registry | Standards | 2025-10-24 |
| Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-10-24 |
| Vulkan 1.4.329 Released With New Fused-Multiply Add Extension | Vulkan | 2025-10-10 |
| OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged | Mesa | 2025-10-09 |
| Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension | Vulkan | 2025-09-26 |
| Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension | Vulkan | 2025-09-22 |
| With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux | Apple | 2025-08-26 |
| MoltenVK 1.4 Released For Bringing Vulkan 1.4 To macOS Atop Metal | Vulkan | 2025-08-20 |
| Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension | Vulkan | 2025-08-09 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs | Mesa | 2025-08-04 |
| Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing | Vulkan | 2025-08-01 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK | Nouveau | 2025-07-15 |
| RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) | Radeon | 2025-07-15 |
| RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2025-07-11 |
| OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions | Standards | 2025-07-10 |
| TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware | Programming | 2025-07-07 |
| Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-07-04 |
| Vulkan 1.4.319 Published With New Data Graph Extension | Vulkan | 2025-06-20 |
| Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension | Vulkan | 2025-06-13 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-10 |
| Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point | Vulkan | 2025-06-07 |
| Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups | Mesa | 2025-05-28 |
| PoCL 7.0 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On x86_64 CPUs | Programming | 2025-05-22 |
| PoCL 7.0 RC1 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On CPUs & Level Zero | Programming | 2025-05-06 |
| Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 | Vulkan | 2025-05-05 |
| MoltenVK 1.3 Released For Vulkan 1.3 Support On Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-05-02 |
| MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-04-28 |
| NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-22 |
| AMD ROCm 6.4 Adds SPIR-V Linking Support To HIP | AMD | 2025-04-21 |
| Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm | Vulkan | 2025-04-04 |
| OpenCL 3.0.18 Published With New Extensions & Other Updates | Standards | 2025-04-03 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support | Nouveau | 2025-03-26 |
| Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16 | Vulkan | 2025-03-21 |
| Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025 | Vulkan | 2025-03-05 |
| AMD Engineer Talks Up Vulkan/SPIR-V As Part Of Their MLIR-Based Unified AI Software Play | Radeon | 2025-02-28 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 | Intel | 2025-02-24 |
| Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension | Vulkan | 2025-02-14 |
| LLVM 20 Promotes SPIR-V To Official Backend, Enabled By Default | LLVM | 2025-01-28 |
| Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-01-24 |
| Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-01-17 |
| Open3D v0.19 Brings Cross-Platform GPU Support Via SYCL | Free Software | 2025-01-08 |
| Cross-Vendor Mesh Shading Being Worked On For OpenGL | Mesa | 2025-01-07 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2025-01-07 |
| Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-12-31 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning | Radeon | 2024-12-23 |
| Intel Looking To Raise SPIR-V Backend To Becoming An Official LLVM Target | Intel | 2024-12-13 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes | Radeon | 2024-12-04 |
| Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering | Vulkan | 2024-12-02 |
| Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code | Standards | 2024-11-21 |
| Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions | Vulkan | 2024-11-21 |
| Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing | Standards | 2024-11-14 |
| Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-11-07 |
| OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17 | Programming | 2024-11-07 |
| Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid | Vulkan | 2024-11-02 |
| Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA | Vulkan | 2024-10-26 |
| Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default | Mesa | 2024-10-13 |
| Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready | Vulkan | 2024-10-09 |
| Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2024-10-01 |
| Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands | Vulkan | 2024-09-26 |
| Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward | Microsoft | 2024-09-19 |
| Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API | Mesa | 2024-09-09 |
| Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-30 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds GL_KHR_shader_subgroup Support | Radeon | 2024-08-26 |
| Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-23 |
| Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal | Vulkan | 2024-08-20 |
| Vulkan 1.3.293 Released With NVIDIA Command Buffer Inheritance Extension | Vulkan | 2024-08-17 |
| AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too | AMD | 2024-07-25 |
| Vulkan 1.3.291 Published With VK_AMD_anti_lag, AMD Anti Lag Extension | Vulkan | 2024-07-19 |
| Blender 4.2 LTS Released With GPU Accelerated Compositing, Intel OIDN On AMD GPUs | Free Software | 2024-07-16 |
| Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations | Vulkan | 2024-07-02 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Enables Cooperative Matrix Support For Xe2 GPUs | Intel | 2024-06-26 |
| oneAPI-Focused UXL Foundation Now Collaborating With The Khronos Group | Standards | 2024-06-10 |
| Blender 4.2 LTS Beta Brings Open Image Denoise On AMD GPUs, GPU Compositing | Free Software | 2024-06-05 |
| Vulkan 1.3.286 Released With One New Extension | Vulkan | 2024-05-31 |
| Vulkan 1.3.285 Released With New Extension From Valve VKD3D-Proton Developer | Vulkan | 2024-05-10 |
| Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink | Vulkan | 2024-05-07 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 | Intel | 2024-04-25 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2024-04-16 |
| Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development | Standards | 2024-04-16 |
| OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized | Standards | 2024-04-05 |
| Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension | Vulkan | 2024-03-08 |
| Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve | Vulkan | 2024-03-02 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | Nouveau | 2024-02-28 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library | Nouveau | 2024-02-28 |
| Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 | Mesa | 2024-02-02 |
| Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension | Vulkan | 2024-02-01 |
| ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V | Programming | 2024-01-30 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation | Radeon | 2024-01-26 |
| Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions | Vulkan | 2024-01-25 |
| Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More | Vulkan | 2024-01-25 |
| AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support | Radeon | 2024-01-23 |
| Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | Vulkan | 2023-12-19 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On | Mesa | 2023-12-18 |
| Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures | Mesa | 2023-12-12 |
| Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension | Vulkan | 2023-12-08 |
| Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions | Vulkan | 2023-12-02 |
| AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements | Radeon | 2023-11-27 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0 | Nouveau | 2023-11-20 |
| Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation | Vulkan | 2023-11-10 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA | Radeon | 2023-10-24 |
| Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels | Vulkan | 2023-10-20 |
| Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM | LLVM | 2023-10-16 |
| Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension | Vulkan | 2023-10-06 |
| NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming | Vulkan | 2023-10-04 |
| AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations | Radeon | 2023-09-22 |
| Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension | Vulkan | 2023-09-08 |
| David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux GPU Compute Stacks | Intel | 2023-09-02 |
| Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension | Vulkan | 2023-09-02 |
| Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions | Vulkan | 2023-08-25 |
| Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support | Mesa | 2023-08-24 |
| Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | Apple | 2023-08-22 |
| Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | Standards | 2023-08-02 |
| Intel's Embree 4.2 Promotes Its SYCL GPU Support Out Of Beta | Intel | 2023-08-01 |
| Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support | Mesa | 2023-07-31 |
| Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5 | Vulkan | 2023-07-28 |
