Bill Hollings has announced the release of MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.211.

Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.211

• Add support for extensions:
  • VK_EXT_sample_locations (Custom locations settable via vkCmdBeginRenderPass() only,
    since VkPhysicalDeviceSampleLocationsPropertiesEXT::variableSampleLocations is false).
• Fixes to pipeline layout compatibility between sequentially bound pipelines.
• Reinstate memory barriers on non-Apple GPUs, which were inadvertently disabled in an earlier update.
• Support base vertex instance support in shader conversion.
• Fix alignment between outputs and inputs between shader stages when using nested structures.
• Fix issue where the depth component of a stencil-only renderpass attachment was incorrectly attempting to be stored.
• Fix deletion of GPU counter MTLFence while it is being used by MTLCommandBuffer.
• Fix crash in vkGetMTLCommandQueueMVK().
• Fix leak of CoreFoundation objects during calls to vkUseIOSurfaceMVK().
• Remove limit on VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxSamplerAllocationCount when not using Metal argument buffers.
• Avoid adjusting SRGB clear color values by half-ULP on GPUs that round float clear colors down.
• Fixes to optimize resource objects retained by descriptors beyond their lifetimes.
• Optimize behavior for VK_COMMAND_BUFFER_USAGE_ONE_TIME_SUBMIT_BIT when
  MVK_CONFIG_PREFILL_METAL_COMMAND_BUFFERS is used
• MoltenVKShaderConverter tool defaults to the highest MSL version supported on runtime OS.
• Update glslang version, to use python3 in glslang scripts, to replace missing python on macOS 12.3.
• Update VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION to version 34.
• Update to latest SPIRV-Cross:
  • MSL: Support input/output blocks containing nested struct arrays.
  • MSL: Use var name instead of var-type name for flattened interface members.
  • MSL: Handle aliased variable names for resources placed in IB struct.
  • MSL: Handle awkward mix and match of Offset / ArrayStride in constants.
  • MSL: Append entry point args to local variable names to avoid conflicts.
  • MSL: Consider that gl_IsHelperInvocation can be Volatile.
  • MSL: Refactor and fix use of quadgroup vs simdgroup.
  • Handle OpTerminateInvocation.
  • Fixup names of anonymous inner structs.
  • Fix regression from adding 64-bit switch support.

Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.211