SDK Version Compatibility for Vulkan

Vulkan was originally released in March of 2016. Since that time the Khronos Vulkan Working Group continues to update the Vulkan API. When new Vulkan releases become available, the version number associated with the API gets incremented.

This document was originally published in May of 2018 to share the impact of the new Vulkan 1.1 release on applications written with Vulkan 1.0. We’ve updated this white paper to explain how new Vulkan 1.x releases may impact applications. The latest revisions include removing deprecated Vulkan version macros and adding a description of the newly defined Vulkan variant ID.

Click here to download a copy of this white paper.

 

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