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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

Missing support for dot product instructions of existing hardware Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1943 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 12, 2022
Contradictory `vkGetImageSubresourceLayout` VUIDs Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1942 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2022
Proposal: debug naming of subresources Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1935 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2022
Expose driver-side debugging features (related to PSO creation) Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1930 · 15 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2022
Task list for VK_EXT_mesh_shader release Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1927 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2022
Suggestion to replace the actual value into 'sType is the type of this structure'. Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1921 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 23, 2022
VkDescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo::pDescriptorCounts Documentation clarification/improvement Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1909 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2022
Confusing comments in synchronization2 examples Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1888 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 10, 2022
Improve parallelization of GH Actions CI Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1875 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 15, 2022
pipeline layout compatibility question Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1853 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 16, 2022
How about separate depth and stencil in dynamic rendering? Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1846 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 10, 2022
VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model poorly integrated with the core spec Open

Memory Model TSG

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1841 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2022
Task list for VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1820 · Opened Apr 5, 2022
Definition of synchronization scopes as sets Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1815 · 18 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2022
VkBufferImageCopy.bufferRowLength/bufferImageHeight and image 1d array Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1813 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 30, 2022
Clarify behaviour of `vkCmdCopyImage` with non-whole texel blocks Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1807 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 29, 2022
Feature Request: Allow 3D image sampling with unnormalized coordinates Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1799 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 15, 2022
Separate queue creation from logical device creation Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1797 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2022
Ambiguity about integer format type Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1791 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2022
VkDescriptorSet creation imposes requirements on pipeline stage visibility Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1790 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2022
Add extension to query primary chromaticities / luminance data of a VkDisplayKHR from EDID Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1787 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 27, 2022
Parameters for importing an opaque fd from non-Vulkan sources Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1783 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 21, 2022
What exactly does VK_NV_linear_color_attachment do? Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1779 · 13 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 16, 2022
vkAcquireNextImageKHR unclear relationship between return codes and image acquisition Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1776 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 15, 2022
Cross-vendor version of VK_NV_shader_image_footprint Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1773 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 13, 2022
Debug Assert ala debug printf feature Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1760 · 2 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2022
Ability to execute shaders from within shaders outside of raytracing Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1758 · 4 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2022
Ability to create and use device function pointers in vulkan. Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1757 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2022
Ability to create pointers to Workgroup/Shared memory in shaders Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1756 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 1, 2022
Not clear which Vulkan 1.3 features are optional Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1747 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2022
VK_NV_mesh_shader setup for gl_Layer + multiview Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1744 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2022
spv::CapabilityGroups isn't supported Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#2346 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 19, 2022
Ignored pointers/handles are bad for generated code Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1741 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2022
SamplerYcbcrConversion with cubic filter Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1728 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2022
Reduce duplication of VUIDs for pipeline invocation commands Open

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1727 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2021
[VK_NVX_binary_import] Error when loading cubins Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1706 · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 28, 2021
A few question about readonly depth/stencil attachment, and sampling from the image in the same pass Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1700 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2021
Feedback on the video decoding extension(s) Open

Specification Video

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1694 · 171 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 18, 2021
Vulkan memory model: how to check if an implementation supports concurrent host- and device-atomics Open

Memory Model TSG

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1687 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 15, 2021
Promoted extension dependencies in vk.xml Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1683 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 11, 2021
Incorrect VUIDs for `VkWriteDescriptorSet` used with `vkCmdPushDescriptorSetKHR` Open

Validity

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1673 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 28, 2021
Is it planned to support functionality corresponding to DirectStorage in Vulkan? Open

Feature Request

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

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1667 · 11 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2021
`vkCmdSetPrimitiveTopologyEXT` and `vkCmdSetPrimitiveRestartEnableEXT` restrictions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1650 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 2, 2021
Provide functionality equivalent to GL_EXT_shader_framebuffer_fetch Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1649 · 6 comments · 13 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 28, 2021
The ordering guarantee for the returned elements of vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1643 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 20, 2021
Task list for VK_KHR_portability_subset release Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1608 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2021
What happened to KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Ecosystem? Open

Ecosystem (Ref Pages) question

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1599 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2021
Infoboxes for layers & extensions Open

Markup/Editing

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1594 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2021
Some more suspicious swapchain RFC keyword usage Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1586 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 19, 2021
UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-Shader-InconsistentSpirv reported when using sampler2DRect in GLSL Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1582 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 16, 2021

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