Bill Hollings has announced the release of the MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.261 RC2.

Release Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.261 (RC2)

• Add support for extensions:
  • VK_KHR_incremental_present
  • VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info
  • VK_EXT_4444_formats
  • VK_EXT_calibrated_timestamps
  • VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback
  • VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
  • VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot
  • VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote
• Add support for VK_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TRIANGLE_FAN.
• Support building MoltenVK for visionOS.
• Ensure non-dispatch compute commands don't interfere with compute encoding state used by dispatch commands.
• Support maximizing the concurrent executing compilation tasks via MVKConfiguration::shouldMaximizeConcurrentCompilation
• Support VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR if VkPresentTimeGOOGLE::desiredPresentTime is zero.
• Add support for VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR to macOS Cube demo.
• Allow both renderPass and VkPipelineRenderingCreateInfo to be missing.
• Fix sync delay between calls to vkQueueSubmit() on non-Apple-Silicon devices.
• Ensure Xcode simulator always uses 256B buffer alignment.
• Don't attempt to force the window system to use the same high-power GPU as the app, on every swapchain creation.
• Log more info about SPIR-V to MSL conversion errors.
• Implement Deferred Host Operations.
• Support MSL Version 3.1.
• Drop official support for using Xcode 11 to build MoltenVK.
• To allow building MoltenVK without an internet connection, don't fetch a submodule if the commit is already known.
• Update dependency libraries to match Vulkan SDK 1.3.261.
• Update to latest SPIRV-Cross:
  • MSL: Fix argument buffer padding when content includes arrays.
  • MSL: ray-query intersection params
  • MSL: Support SPV_KHR_shader_ballot and SPV_KHR_subgroup_vote.
  • Skip line directives when emitting loop condition blocks.
  • MSL: Consider changed array types for array-of-constant-bool in struct.
  • MSL: Consider bool-short remapping for constant expressions as well.
  • Minor cleanup in constant_expression().
  • MSL: Add test for bool-in-struct edge cases.
  • MSL: Handle more complex array copy scenarios with bool <-> short.
  • MSL: Handle stores to struct bool[].
  • MSL: Consider bool/short remapping when dealing with composites.
  • MSL: fix function constant deduplication misfire

Release Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.261 (RC2) · KhronosGroup/MoltenVK