Vulkan 1.1.71 Released As The First Update To Vulkan 1.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkan 1.1.71 Released As The First Update To Vulkan 1.1

The first point release to the Vulkan 1.1 release from earlier this month is now available. Vulkan 1.1 promoted a lot of functionality to core while also officially adding sub-groups and protected content support. This Vulkan 1.1.71 point release adds a new extension and fixes...

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[tildearrow]

Android's AHardwareBuffer is designed to be used by different hardware components ranging from GPUs to sensors and auxillary units.

[GunpowaderGuy]

So the features that allow compositors and graphic toolkits to run just using standard vulkan , won't be available on android / the android gpu drivers ?

[cl333r]

They ought to call it Vulkan 1.2, problem solved.

[Sethox]

They ought to call it Vulkan 1.2, problem solved.

How would this solve anything? Bumping up the version number does not say much more than a difference in versions. If they went to 2.0 wouldn't make any difference than the number they have now. But what does help is having the date as a versioning, so you can basically ALWAYS know when the version was released. Not saying they should do that because project owner has the privilege to do what they like.

[eydee]

Jumping from 0 to 71, it's beyond Mozilla bullshit. I suggest merging the Vulkan and Firefox projects for maximum efficiency. Next release could be 61.72, Google would be mad, maybe even give up and leave the industry.

[VikingGe]

Jumping from 0 to 71, it's beyond Mozilla bullshit.

Except they jumped from 70 to 71. Vulkan 1.1 is officially 1.1.70.