Bill Hollings has announced the release of MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.2.131
MoltenVK is a driver-level implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 graphics and compute API, that runs on Apple's Metal graphics and compute framework on both iOS and macOS.
MoltenVK allows you to use the Vulkan graphics and compute API to develop modern, cross-platform, high-performance graphical games and applications, and to run them across many platforms, including both iOS and macOS.
New in Vulkan SDK 1.2.131
Refactor descriptor management to reduce memory footprint and fix caching leak.
Add MVK_CONFIG_PREALLOCATE_DESCRIPTORS environment variable to support preallocated
descriptor pooling within a VkDescriptorPool via the VkDescriptorPoolSize values.
Fix crash when app does not use queue family zero.
Fix buffer offset in vkCmdPushDescriptorSet() for non-dedicated buffer memory.
Fix Metal validation error on push constant sizing differences between C and MSL structs.
Use MTLBuffer when inline uniform block descriptor is written to instead of copying host-side bytes.
Fix EXT_inline_uniform_block when using push descriptor sets.
Merge buffer and inline unions to fix issue where binding inline descriptor would interfere with
future binds on the same set index in the same command buffer (now only used in push case anyway).
Track performance of CAMetalLayer nextDrawable call.
Document recommendation to use 3 swapchain images, particularly with full-screen rendering.
Update MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md to better explain runtime environment variables.
Update VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION to 24.
Update copyright notices to year 2020.
Update dependency libraries to match Vulkan SDK 1.2.131.
Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version:
MSL: Support ClipDistance as an input stage variable.
MSL: Fix automatic binding allocation for image atomic buffers.
MSL: Deal with packing vectors for vertex input/fragment output.
MSL: Don't set OrigID when emitting component packed vectors.
MSL: Add trivial tests for Component decoration.
MSL: Deal with padded fragment output + Component decoration.
MSL: Partially implement support for Component decoration in complex scenarios.
MSL: Explicitly don't support component packing for tessellation.
MSL: Deal with sign on wave min/max.
MSL: Add support for force-activating IAB resources.
Deal with illegal names in types as well.
Basic implementation of OpCopyLogical.
Fix sign handling for S/UToF.
Fix uninitialized memory issue.
Roll custom versions of isalpha/isalnum.
Update license headers to year 2020.
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