KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs

The Vulkan API Specification and related tools

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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
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370 open issues indexed

request: query capability for fp64 precision on basic ops Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2816 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2026
request: TaskPayloadWorkgroupEXT pointers in OpPtrAccessChain/OpUntypedPtrAccessChainKHR Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2812 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR still disallows CONCURRENT when queueFamilyIndexCount is 1 even with maintenance11 Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2811 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Guarantee queue family 0 = graphics + compute in a future maintenance extension Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2809 · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ImplicitLayers registry hooks trigger crash (0xC0000005) during Vulkan LLM tensor allocation Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2808 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
happens-before inconsistency Open

Memory Model TSG

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2807 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Task list for VK_KHR_pipeline_library_group_handles Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2806 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Vulkan / KHR support for SPV_INTEL_rounded_divide_sqrt functionality Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2814 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Is UPDATE_AFTER_BIND suppose to only be updated before pending state Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2798 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
`VK_EXT_descriptor_heap`: no normative guarantee that a descriptor heap buffers device address meets `sampler/resourceHeapAlignment` Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2794 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Can you dynamically set zero attachments Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2793 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[Memory Model] Contradiction with vanilla spec regarding data race Open

Memory Model TSG

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2792 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
vkBeginCommandBuffer valid usage inconsistency Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2782 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Task list for VK_EXT_multisampled_render_to_swapchain Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2780 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
xml scheme: Clarification for array pointer optionality (inheritance) Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2778 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Property for max unique/hardware sampler count Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2769 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Task list for VK_KHR_extended_flags release Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2761 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 6, 2026
Task list for VK_KHR_video_encode_feedback2 release Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2760 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Spec Clarification: Behavior of index buffers with robustBufferAccess2 Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2756 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 16, 2026
Mapping between Optimal Tiling Image Data and Memory with `VK_HOST_IMAGE_COPY_MEMCPY_BIT ` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2754 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
Spec/CTS Clarification: Modifying and copying optimal tiled images from CPU Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2753 · Opened May 15, 2026
Task list for VK_EXT_shader_split_barrier release Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2746 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_KHR_opacity_micromap release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2745 · 4 comments · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_data_graph_model release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2744 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_ycbcr_degamma release Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2741 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_tile_properties release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2737 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_rotated_copy_commands release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2734 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_tile_shading release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2733 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_shader_multiple_wait_queues Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2732 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_image_processing3 release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2731 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_render_pass_transform release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2728 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_elapsed_timer_query release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2727 · Opened May 11, 2026
Task list for VK_QCOM_cooperative_matrix_conversion release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2726 · Opened May 11, 2026
`VK_KHR_video_decode_h264`: using `is_non_existing` is strange Open

Video

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2725 · 1 assignee · Opened May 7, 2026
Define a mapping of Image data without requiring Sparse Residency Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2723 · 7 comments · 10 reactions · Opened May 6, 2026
VkHdrMetadataEXT is populated via VkSurfaceCapabilities2KHR pNext on AMD but is not listed as a valid extending struct Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2719 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Extension to tell us if a Raytracing Pipeline implementation actually uses Wavefront Tracing and builtins to uniquely identify rays Open

Ray Tracing

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2717 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Is the presentation engine allowed to perform queue family ownership transfers? Open

System Integration

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2716 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Clarifying the format support table Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2715 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Spec pdf: incorrect link. Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2712 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 12, 2026
[Roadmap Feedback] Better batched Descriptor writing in VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2711 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2026
Mention that TRANSFER capability must be advertised on COMPUTE or GRAPHICS queues in 1.4 Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2705 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Incorrect matrices for VK_QCOM_filter_cubic_weights Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2701 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 16, 2026
VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo::rasterizationSamples relation to VkRenderPass of graphics pipeline Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2697 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Does a Gather operation require the image format to support VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT? Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2696 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 8, 2026
[Roadmap Feedback] Allow GPU-side descriptor creation for descriptor heaps Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2687 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Base Pointer Alignment Decoration Should Work in Shader SPIR-V Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2685 · 28 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Feb 25, 2026
VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers / SPV_KHR_untyped pointers should work on any storage class allowing non-uniform array indexing. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2684 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Write Racing Write in Transfer->Graphics Queue Example Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2683 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 23, 2026
[Roadmap Feedback] vkMalloc Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2676 · Opened Feb 10, 2026

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