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

VK_KHR_pipeline_binary internal cache check example should elaborate that VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier (or similar) is required Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 63/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2674 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 5, 2026
New SPIR-V capability for PrimitiveId in fragment shader? Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2672 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Swapchain and timeline semaphores Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2665 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Task list for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap release Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2662 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2026
VUID-VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR-pNext-07781 impossible to satisfy Open

Resolving Inside Khronos System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2660 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Fundamentals, Object Lifetime should mention non-parent–child relationships object destruction order Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2656 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 10, 2026
Importing external memory as an image while preserving the contents Open

Video

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2652 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 8, 2026
"See Also" references in documentation can generate duplicate links Open

Specification

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2631 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Clarification regarding externalMemoryFeatures returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalBufferProperties Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2630 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2025
VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives html page links to non-existent GLSL extension Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2619 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 18, 2025
Task list for VK_EXT_shader_64bit_indexing release Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2609 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 3, 2025
Feedback on the XML registry schema Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2596 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Constant Sampler in shaders Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2598 · Opened Oct 1, 2025
No good VU for VK_SUBPASS_CONTENTS_SECONDARY_COMMAND_BUFFERS Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2576 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2025
VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_2_TRANSFER_BIT is missing documentation in 7.1.2. Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2575 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 31, 2025
Is the linear transfer function defined for values outside of [0, 1)? Open

Specification System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2564 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 27, 2025
[Roadmap Feedback] Remove the need to manually enable extension/feature Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2551 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Do Subgroup Shuffle Intrinsics require a preceeding `OpControlBarrier` with scope at least Subgroup to avoid UB? Open

Memory Model TSG

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2548 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Should swapchain creation say that the application _must not_ create multiple swapchains? Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2544 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Allow arrays sized with specialization constants in Buffer variables? Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2539 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2025
[Roadmap Feedback] VK_KHR_present_wait needs more return values Open

System Integration

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2530 · 4 comments · Opened May 9, 2025
sRGB texture formats are defined as having an sRGB-encoded alpha channel in vk.xml Open

bug Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2513 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 19, 2025
VK_EXT_headless_surface support windows? Open

System Integration

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2512 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2025
Question: how does `VK_KHR_present_wait` interacts with DPMS? Open

System Integration

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2507 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2025
uncertainties with sparse resource memory type requirements Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2506 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 8, 2025
Requirement of support for compatible per-plane formats when a multi-plane format is supported Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2500 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Vulkan buffer acquisition failure (err=NO_BUFFER_AVAILABLE) on MediaTek devices when not using VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR Open

System Integration

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2499 · Opened Feb 26, 2025
VUID-VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo-pRasterizationState-09039 refers to pMultisampleState, not pRasterizationState Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2498 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Improved Dispatch Functionality Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2496 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Missing VUIDs for `offset + extent` being in bounds of the image subresource in `VkSparseImageMemoryBind` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2490 · Opened Feb 3, 2025
Issue with rendering pipeline stages ordering in core spec build Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2488 · Opened Jan 31, 2025
CI is failing in consistency checks due to weird path problems Open

bug Specification

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2482 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 24, 2025
Clarification on timeline semaphore signals chaining availability from previous signals Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2481 · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Support for DRM `syncobj` FDs in `vkGetSemaphoreKHR`/`vkImportSemaphoreFdKHR` Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2473 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2024
[Question] Necessity of VUID-vkQueueSubmit-pSubmits-02207 and VUID-vkQueueSubmit2-commandBuffer-03879 Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2464 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 17, 2024
docs: Should `vkWaitSemaphores()` list synchronization scopes and exclude access scopes? Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2463 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 14, 2024
Build Antora docs site as part of CI Open

Ecosystem (Ref Pages)

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2455 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Spec clarification for valid pFd return values in vkGetSemaphoreFdKHR Open

System Integration

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2452 · Opened Oct 27, 2024
Clarify memory model atomic operation language Open

Memory Model TSG

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2449 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 22, 2024
Cross adapter memory and synchronization Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2443 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 4, 2024
Contradictory VK_HUAWEI_subpass_shading with VUIDs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2438 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2024
(Feature Request) Official Non-32-bit Bitwise Intrinsic Support Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2434 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2024
VK_EXT_host_image_copy incompatible with VK_KHR_external_memory_win32 Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2431 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 4, 2024
Prevent concatenation for string constants in headers? Open

Header

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2425 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2024
vkGetMemoryWin32HandleKHR behavior should be more explicit Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2420 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Ambiguous phrase: "the act of waiting" on a binary semaphore Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2412 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2024
Clarify the alignment of pOffsets passed to vkCmdBindVertexBuffers Open

Specification

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2411 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2024
Permitting device loss due to improper external synchronization is (or at least seems) too restrictive Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2409 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 16, 2024
Rendering to a VkImageView referencing multiple mip levels using Dynamic Rendering Open

Validity

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2400 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2024
Missing query type in vkWriteMicromapsPropertiesEXT VUID 07575 Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2399 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2024

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