Vulkan 1.4 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-06-05 |
| VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support | Valve | 2026-05-27 |
| 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 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps | Intel | 2026-05-05 |
| Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-05-01 |
| Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play | Radeon | 2026-04-14 |
| Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension | Vulkan | 2026-04-10 |
| RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension | Mesa | 2026-04-09 |
| Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation | Vulkan | 2026-04-03 |
| Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2026-03-20 |
| NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands | NVIDIA | 2026-03-13 |
| Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands | Vulkan | 2026-03-13 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect | Radeon | 2026-03-12 |
| Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension | Vulkan | 2026-03-06 |
| Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected | Mesa | 2026-02-20 |
| 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 VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland | Vulkan | 2026-01-27 |
| 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 |
| Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64 | WINE | 2026-01-12 |
| FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton | Free Software | 2026-01-07 |
| The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 | Mesa | 2025-12-30 |
| 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 |
| Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete | Mesa | 2025-12-11 |
| 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 |
| NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance | Nouveau | 2025-11-18 |
| Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension | Vulkan | 2025-11-14 |
| RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR | Radeon | 2025-11-12 |
| Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML | Vulkan | 2025-11-07 |
| KosmicKrisp Now Vulkan 1.3 Compliant For Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-10-31 |
| Vulkan 1.4.331 Brings Two New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-10-31 |
| Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-10-24 |
| KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0 | Mesa | 2025-10-20 |
| Vulkan 1.4.329 Released With New Fused-Multiply Add Extension | Vulkan | 2025-10-10 |
| 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 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support | Radeon | 2025-08-27 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Lands Intra-Refresh Encode | Radeon | 2025-08-21 |
| 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 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| 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 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-07-04 |
| RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support | Radeon | 2025-06-23 |
| 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 |
| Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding | 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 |
| Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More | Vulkan | 2025-05-15 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 | Radeon | 2025-05-09 |
| Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 | Vulkan | 2025-05-05 |
| Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 | Intel | 2025-04-29 |
| MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-04-28 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-23 |
| NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-22 |
| Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon Graphics But No Actual Driver Yet | Apple | 2025-04-09 |
| Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm | Vulkan | 2025-04-04 |
| AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1 | AMD | 2025-03-31 |
| Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-03-30 |
| 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 |
| DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review | Mesa | 2025-03-10 |
| AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support | Radeon | 2025-02-28 |
| Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2025-02-23 |
| Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready | Mesa | 2025-02-19 |
| Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension | Vulkan | 2025-02-14 |
| Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month | Mesa | 2025-02-06 |
| Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions | Mesa | 2025-01-30 |
| Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-01-24 |
| PanVK Driver Now Exposing Vulkan 1.1 For Arm Mali Valhall v10 GPUs | Mesa | 2025-01-23 |
| Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux | WINE | 2025-01-20 |
| Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions | Vulkan | 2025-01-17 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2025-01-07 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4 | Radeon | 2024-12-30 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning | Radeon | 2024-12-23 |
| Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Now Ready For Apple Silicon Devices | Fedora | 2024-12-17 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes | Radeon | 2024-12-04 |
| AMD User Queue Mesa Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU | Radeon | 2024-12-03 |
| NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2024-12-02 |
| Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering | Vulkan | 2024-12-02 |
