{"id":2615,"date":"2020-10-05T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:02:46","slug":"new-vulkan-sdks-include-spirv-reflect-and-vkconfig-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-sdks-include-spirv-reflect-and-vkconfig-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vulkan SDKs include SPIRV-reflect and vkconfig improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LunarG releases new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.154.0. The prior SDK supported Vulkan API revision 1.2.148. Read on for information about the new features.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview of New Features in SDK 1.2.154.0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vulkan Configurator (vkconfig) has been updated to improve quality and stability. \u00a0See the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.154.0\/linux\/vkconfig.html\">Vulkan Configurator documentation<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPIRV-Reflect<\/strong> has been added to the SDK.<\/p>\n<p>The Device Simulation Layer (devsim) has been updated to support the VK_KHR_portability_subset extension. Read about this in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.154.0\/linux\/device_simulation_layer.html\">devsim documentation<\/a><\/strong>. Note: The VK_KHR_portability_subset extension has been released as &#8220;provisional&#8221; and the integration of devsim and the portability extension with vkconfig is work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>This SDK also includes support for new extensions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VK_EXT_4444_formats<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_copy_commands2<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_portability_subset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These SDK features are for the macOS SDK only:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>iOS and tvOS versions of binaries for MoltenVK support both hardware and simulator environments using an XCFramework<\/li>\n<li>MoltenVK now supports Vulkan version 1.1<\/li>\n<li>New extensions:\u00a0VK_KHR_multiview,\u00a0VK_KHR_external_semaphore,\u00a0VK_KHR_external_fence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please read the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.154.0\/linux\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Linux<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.154.0\/windows\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Windows<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.154.0\/mac\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for macOS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LunarG software engineering experts create innovative products and services for open source and commercial customers using leading-edge 3D graphics and compute technologies, including Vulkan, SPIR-V, OpenXR, and OpenGL. We have strengths in performance analysis and tuning, runtime and tools development, shader optimizations, driver development, and porting engines and applications to Vulkan.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\">LunarG, please check out our <strong>NEW LunarG.com website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LunarG releases new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.154.0. The prior SDK supported Vulkan API revision 1.2.148. 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