vulkano/CHANGELOG.md

Unreleased

Public dependency updates

• raw-window-handle 0.6
• winit 0.29
• regex has been replaced with nom 7.1

Public dependency updates

Breaking changes

Changes to (physical) device:

• Properties is renamed to DeviceProperties.
• Features is renamed to DeviceFeatures.

Changes to command buffers:

• Renamed AutoCommandBufferBuilder to RecordingCommandBuffer and AutoCommandBufferBuilder::build to end.
• Merged {Primary,Secondary}AutoCommandBuffer into CommandBuffer and the corresponding RecordingCommandBuffer::{primary,secondary} into new.
• RecordingCommandBuffer no longer has a type parameter for the command buffer level.
• Renamed UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder to RawRecordingCommandBuffer and UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder::build to end.
• Renamed UnsafeCommandBuffer to RawCommandBuffer.
• RecordingCommandBuffer and RawRecordingCommandBuffer now take an Arc<dyn CommandBufferAllocator> on construction.
• RecordingCommandBuffer, CommandBuffer, RawRecordingCommandBuffer and RawCommandBuffer no longer have a type parameter for the type of allocator.
• The PrimaryCommandBufferAbstract and SecondaryCommandBufferAbstract traits were removed.
• RawRecordingCommandBuffer::execute_commands now takes &RawCommandBuffers as argument.

Changes to command buffer allocation:

• CommandBufferAllocator no longer has any associated types in order to make the trait object-safe.
• There is now only the single CommandBufferAlloc type to represent allocated command buffers. The CommandBufferAlloc and CommandBufferBuilderAlloc traits and StandardCommandBufferAlloc and StandardCommandBufferBuilderAlloc types were removed.
• CommandBufferAllocator::allocate now returns a single CommandBufferAlloc on success and Validated<VulkanError> on failure.
• CommandBufferAllocator now has a required method deallocate.

Changes to descriptor sets:

• There is now only the single type DescriptorSet to represent descriptor sets. The DescriptorSet trait and PersistentDescriptorSet type were removed.
• Renamed UnsafeDescriptorSet to RawDescriptorSet.
• DescriptorSet now takes an Arc<dyn DescriptorSetAllocator> on construction, the type parameter for the descriptor set allocator was removed.

Changes to descriptor set allocation:

• DescriptorSetAllocator no longer has an Alloc associated type in order to make the trait object-safe.
• There is now only the single type DescriptorSetAlloc to represent allocated descriptor sets. The DescriptorSetAlloc trait and StandardDescriptorSetAlloc type were removed.
• DescriptorSetAllocator has a new required method deallocate.

Changes to Surface:

• Surface::required_extensions now returns a result.
• Surface::from_window[_ref] now take HasWindowHandle + HasDisplayHandle as the window and return a new error type.

Changes to surface creation and support functions:

• Where handles to foreign window system objects are passed, Vulkano no longer takes a generic pointer, but takes the same pointer type that Ash does.

Changes to vertex input:

• VertexInputBindingDescription and VertexInputAttributeDescription are now non-exhaustive, and must be created with the Default trait.

Changes to render passes:

• The is_compatible_with_shader methods of RenderPass and Subpass are removed.

Changes to buffers:

• BufferMemory is now marked non-exhaustive.
• RawBuffer::bind_memory is now marked unsafe.

Changes to images:

• ImageMemory is now marked non-exhaustive.
• RawImage::bind_memory is now marked unsafe.

Changes to draw/dispatch commands:

• These are now unsafe, as the shader can perform invalid operations outside of Vulkano's control.

Changes to pipelines:

• GraphicsPipeline::input_assembly_state returns an option now.

Changes to queries:

• QueryType is now a regular Vulkan enum like others in Vulkano.
• The QueryType::result_len method is moved to QueryPool, and now takes result flags into account.
• QueryPoolCreateInfo now has a pipeline_statistics field to specify the pipeline statistics flags.
• The CommandBufferInheritanceInfo::query_statistic_flags field is renamed to pipeline_statistics to match Vulkan.

Changes to queues:

• The Queue::id_within_family method is renamed to queue_index to match Vulkan.

Changes to vulkano-shaders:

• Shaders included via bytes: <path-to-spv> must no longer specify a shader type, e.g. ty: <vertex>.

Changes to vulkano-util:

• VulkanoWindowRenderer::acquire now takes in an FnOnce(&[Arc<ImageView>]). This means that a closure can be called when the swapchain gets recreated.

Additions

• Partially validated versions of submit and present commands (called via QueueGuard).
• Support for the khr_timeline_semaphore extension.
• Ability to update existing descriptor sets.
• Support for the ext_vertex_input_dynamic_state extension.
• Support for 64-bit values in vertex input.
• Support for creating buffers and images that are not backed by vulkano-managed memory.
• Documented the safety requirements of shaders in the shader module.
• Support for the khr_draw_indirect_count extension.
• Support for the ext_mesh_shader extension.
• Support for querying memory requirements directly from the device.
• Support for the glam crate in the type_for_format macro.
• Added DepthState::reverse helper method.
• Vulkano-shaders: Support for Vulkan 1.3 target environment.
• Vulkano-shaders: Added generate_structs: true option that may be used to disable rust structs from generating. Useful in e.g. rust-gpu contexts where such functionality is not needed.
• Vulkano-util: VulkanoWindowsRenderer::swapchain_image_views allows access to the swapchain images.
• Validation between shader code and device extensions, features and properties.

Bugs fixed

• Incorrect assert condition in PipelineLayout::is_compatible_with.
• evaluate_spec_constant_op panics with UConvert, SConvert, and FConvert.
• #2398 Push constant reflection sometimes uses the wrong types, and doesn't correctly reflect push constants with multiple entry points.
• surface_capabilities demands that win32_monitor be Some or None in the wrong cases.
• Improved and more accurate validation of vertex input.
• #1738: Validation of shader interface matching is insufficient.
• Improved and more accurate validation of fragment output.
• RawRecordingCommandBuffer::end being safe to call.
• Fix wrong comparison in push constant size validation check.
• Unnecessarily strict validation that disallowed providing a single DRM format modifier without an explicit layout.
• Fixed the alignment check when (sub)allocating buffers that would limit the alignment to 64 at maximum, even though some applications might need buffers with higher alignments that aren't read/written by the host. The check is now only present when reading/writing a buffer.
• Vulkano-shaders: Fixed shader struct names that are invalid rust idents from panicking the shader! macro. Rust-gpu emitted struct names such as foo::bar::MyStruct now work.

Version 0.34.1 (2023-10-29)

Bugs fixed

• StandardDescriptorSetAllocator panicking due to an arithmetic overflow when arithmetic overflow checks are enabled.
• Vulkano-util still depending on the now-deprecated vulkano-win.

Version 0.34.0 (2023-10-25)

Public dependency updates

• ash 0.37.3 (Vulkan 1.3.251)
• libloading 0.8

Breaking changes

Changes to pipeline construction:

• Pipelines are now constructed with the standard complement of new, new_unchecked and from_handle constructors, that each take a ComputePipelineCreateInfo or GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo struct.
• Pipeline layouts are no longer automatically constructed when creating a pipeline. You can auto-create a pipeline layout (and modify the auto-generated parameters if needed) using the new PipelineDescriptorSetLayoutCreateInfo type.
• GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo::vertex_input_state requires a VertexInputState struct directly, instead of a VertexDefinition. The VertexDefinition trait can be used to create the struct.
• GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo now requires you to provide input_assembly_state, rasterization_state, multisample_state and color_blend_state instead of them having default values. You can still call default() to generate default values for each of them.
• Instead of an entry point and specialization constants, pipeline construction now takes a PipelineShaderStageCreateInfo structure. GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo has a stages member that takes all shader stages at once, instead of separate members for each shader type. EntryPoint now owns instead of borrows a reference to the ShaderModule, so this is easier.
• Specialization constants are now provided by calling ShaderModule::specialize with a HashMap containing SpecializationConstant enum values. This produces a SpecializedShaderModule value, which you can then create an EntryPoint from.
• The SpecializationConstants trait is removed, and vulkano_shaders no longer generates structs for specialization constants.
• ViewportState is now a standard struct with two fields, viewports and scissors.
• The origin and dimensions fields of Viewport and Scissors are renamed to offset and extent to match Vulkan.
• Viewport::depth_range is now an inclusive range.
• All fields of AttachmentBlend are renamed to match Vulkan.
• Added a _ne field to all pipeline state create info structs, as they should have had all along.
• Dynamic state is now specified with the GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo::dynamic_state field.

Changes to images:

• There is now only the single type Image to represent images. ImageAccess, ImageInner, AttachmentImage, ImmutableImage, StorageImage and SwapchainImage were removed.
• ImageView no longer has a type parameter, ImageViewAbstract was removed.
• Removed ImageAccessFromUndefinedLayout, ImmutableImageCreationError, ImmutableImageInitialization and MipmapsCount.
• Image was moved to the image module.
• ImageDimensions is removed. ImageCreateInfo now instead has image_type, extent and array_layers to match Vulkan. Some of the methods of ImageDimensions have been turned into bare functions in the image module.
• ImageCreateFlags::ARRAY_2D_COMPATIBLE is renamed to DIM2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE to better match the Vulkan name (but within the limitation that identifiers can't start with a digit).
• ImageCreateInfo::stencil_usage is now an Option<ImageUsage>.

Changes to buffers:

• The Subbuffer::{try_cast, try_cast_slice, try_from_bytes} functions were replaced by Subbuffer::reinterpret[_ref].
• The buffer_with_range(_array) constructor of WriteDescriptorSet now takes DescriptorBufferInfo structs.
• Index buffers are now specified using the IndexBuffer enum instead of the Index trait.
• ExternalBufferInfo::sparse was replaced by a flags field.
• Subbuffer::mapped_ptr was replaced by Subbuffer::mapped_slice.

Changes to errors:

• Added new types ValidationError and Validated (enum of ValidationError + something else) to return errors from any function. Some existing functions have been converted to use these types, others will follow later.
• AllocationCreationError is renamed to MemoryAllocatorError.
• SuballocationCreationError is renamed to SuballocatorError.

Changes to command buffers:

• SyncCommandBuffer(Builder) is merged into *AutoCommandBuffer(Builder). The commands that formerly belonged to SyncCommandBufferBuilder are now available as _unchecked versions on AutoCommandBufferBuilder.
• Command buffers are now created with a wrapping Arc like other object types.
• The type parameter of PrimaryCommandBuffer and SecondaryCommandBuffer is now the allocator itself (like for the builder) rather than its allocation type.
• UnsafeCommandBuffer(Builder) now takes ownership of the command buffer allocation, and has a type parameter for the allocator.
• CommandPoolResetError is renamed to ResetCommandPoolError.
• Command pool creation and resetting now take CommandPoolCreateFlags and CommandPoolResetFlags respectively.
• All validated binding and dynamic state commands now return Result instead of panicking, just like the other commands.
• The begin_render_pass, next_subpass and end_render_pass commands now take SubpassBeginInfo and/or SubpassEndInfo parameters. Nothing has changed functionally, but this allows for future-compatibility.
• UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder now performs some validation, when it does not rely on tracking any state. The old, completely unvalidated commands have been renamed with _unchecked added to the end.

Changes to descriptor sets and descriptor set layouts:

• PersistentDescriptorSet::new now takes an additional parameter, specifying descriptor set copy operations.
• DescriptorSetLayoutCreateInfo::push_descriptor has been replaced with a more generic flags field.
• DescriptorSetLayoutBinding::variable_descriptor_count has been replaced with a more generic binding_flags field.
• DescriptorPool::allocate_descriptor_sets is now validated, and returns DescriptorPoolAlloc objects.
• DescriptorSetAllocator::allocate returns Validated<VulkanError> as its error type.
• UnsafeDescriptorSet::update is now partially validated, and takes slices instead of iterators.
• UnsafeDescriptorSet now owns its allocation.

Changes to render pass objects:

• AttachmentDescription::stencil_load_op and stencil_store_op are now wrapped in an Option. If it is None, the value is taken from load_op and store_op instead.
• SubpassDescription::resolve_attachments is renamed to color_resolve_attachments.
• Renamed LoadOp and StoreOp to AttachmentLoadOp and AttachmentStoreOp to match the Vulkan names.
• In the single_pass_renderpass and ordered_passes_renderpass macros, the load and store fields for attachments are renamed to load_op and store_op, and ordered below the format and samples fields, to match the fields of the AttachmentDescription structure.

Changes to instances:

• InstanceCreateInfo::enumerate_portability has been replaced with a more generic flags field.
• DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfo::user_callback is now a custom type DebugUtilsMessengerCallback, and is unsafe to create.
• The debug messenger callback now takes three parameters instead of one, corresponding to the first three parameters of the Vulkan callback (the fourth, user data, is represented by the closure itself).
• InstanceCreateInfo now has a debug_utils_messengers field. The Instance::with_debug_utils_messengers constructor is removed, as the unsafety has been moved to the user callback construction itself.

Changes to DescriptorPool:

• DescriptorPool::new now returns validation errors instead of panicking.
• DescriptorPoolCreateInfo::can_free_descriptor_sets has been replaced with a more generic flags field.

Changes to pipeline caches:

• They are now constructed with the standard combination of a new constructor and a PipelineCacheCreateInfo.

Changes to Swapchain:

• Swapchain creation no longer returns an error when the swapchain extent doesn't match the current surface extent. This requirement is ill-defined in the spec, as detailed here: TOCTOU race condition on minImageExtent/maxImageExtent?.
• Renamed acquire_full_screen_exclusive and release_full_screen_exclusive to acquire_full_screen_exclusive_mode and release_full_screen_exclusive_mode to match the Vulkan names.
• acquire_next_image and wait_for_present now return Validated<VulkanError> as their error type.

Changes to samplers:

• The sampler module is now a submodule of image.

Changes to Format:

• The following objects now use Format instead of Option<Format>: BufferView, Image, ImageView, SamplerYcbcrConversion.
• The block_size method no longer returns an Option.
• The type_color, type_depth and type_stencil methods are renamed to numeric_format_color, numeric_format_depth and numeric_format_stencil, and the returned type is renamed to NumericFormat.
• ShaderScalarType is renamed to NumericType.

Changes to memory allocation:

• The memory (sub)allocation API has been completely reworked.
  • Buffer and SubbufferAllocator now take an Arc<dyn MemoryAllocator> on construction.
  • Suballocator and MemoryAllocator now have explicit deallocate methods in order to fix all the flexibility issues.
  • Suballocator is completely generic now in regards to the type of suballocation.
  • SuballocationCreateInfo was removed.
  • MemoryAllocatePreference and AllocationType are no longer marked #[non_exhaustive].
  • MemoryAlloc was replaced by ResourceMemory, MemoryAlloc now only represents specifically allocations made by MemoryAllocator.
  • PoolAllocator was removed.
  • GenericMemoryAllocatorCreateInfo::allocation_type was removed.
• AllocationCreateInfo::usage and SubbufferAllocatorCreateInfo::memory_usage were replaced by a memory_type_filter field, to allow for a more flexible selection of the memory type. Additionally, SubbufferAllocatorCreateInfo::memory_type_filter defaults to MemoryTypeFilter::PREFER_DEVICE for consistency with AllocationCreateInfo, unlike the previous default of MemoryUsage::Upload.
• SubbufferAllocatorCreateInfo::buffer_usage is now empty by default for consistency with BufferCreateInfo.
• MemoryAlloc::new no longer returns a Result, and doesn't map the DeviceMemory automatically anymore.
• MemoryAlloc::mapped_ptr and MemoryAlloc::mapped_slice[_mut] were replaced by MemoryAlloc::mapped_slice, which returns a pointer.
• MemoryAlloc::{invalidate, flush}_range now take a MappedMemoryRange as argument.
• Merged MemoryAllocator::allocate_from_type_unchecked into MemoryAllocator::allocate_from_type and MemoryAllocator::allocate_unchecked into MemoryAllocator::allocate.
• Replaced MemoryAllocator::allocate_dedicated_unchecked with MemoryAllocator::allocate_dedicated.
• FreeListAllocator, BuddyAllocator and BumpAllocator are no longer Sync.
• GenericMemoryAllocatorCreateInfo::block_sizes now represents a block size per memory type, instead of per memory heap, to allow for a more fine-grained configuration.
• Merged GenericMemoryAllocator::new_unchecked into GenericMemoryAllocator::new.

Changes to descriptor set allocation:

• StandardDescriptorSetAllocator now takes a StandardDescriptorSetAllocatorCreateInfo parameter.

Changes to command buffer allocation:

• StandardCommandBufferAllocatorCreateInfo::secondary_buffer_count now defaults to 0.

Changes to synchronization primitives:

• Event::signaled is renamed to is_signaled, to match the method on Fence.
• The set_raw and reset_raw methods of Event are removed.
• Event::reset is now unsafe, as it has preconditions that cannot be validated.
• FenceCreateInfo::signaled is replaced with a flags field.

Changes to queries:

• Query and QueriesRange are removed. The get_results method is moved to QueryPool directly.

Changes to futures:

• FlushError is replaced with Validated<VulkanError>.

Changes to the khr_display extension:

• The API is completely refactored.
• Getting displays and display planes is now done from the physical device.
• All features are now available.

Changes to the physical device:

• The PhysicalDevice::surface_present_modes method now takes an additional SurfaceInfo parameter.

Additions

• Vulkano-shaders: Added a root_path_env property to allow loading shaders generated by a build script.
• Support for the khr_deferred_host_operations extension.
• Added image_view_with_layout(_array) and image_view_with_layout_sampler(_array) constructors to WriteDescriptorSet, which let you control the image layouts used for image views bound to a descriptor.
• Added Surface::from_window[_ref] and Surface::required_extensions. This is now the preferred way of creating a surface, vulkano-win has been deprecated.
• Added support for the khr_acceleration_structure and khr_ray_query extensions.
• PipelineLayoutCreateInfo now has a flags field.
• Added Device::descriptor_set_layout_support from the khr_maintenance3 extension.
• Support for the khr_depth_stencil_resolve extension. SubpassDescription now has additional depth_stencil_resolve_attachment, depth_resolve_mode and stencil_resolve_mode fields.
• Support for the khr_separate_depth_stencil_layouts extension. AttachmentReference now has an additional stencil_layout field, and AttachmentDescription now has additional stencil_initial_layout and stencil_final_layout fields.
• Added flags to RenderPassCreateInfo, AttachmentDescription and SubpassDescription.
• Support for the khr_device_group_creation extension.
• Added support for InlineUniformBlock descriptors.
• When creating an instance or device, you only need to specify the extensions and features you actually care about. Any extensions and features that are required by the extensions that you specified are now automatically enabled too.
• Support for the ext_surface_maintenance1 and most of the ext_swapchain_maintenance1 extension.
• Added a domain_origin field to TessellationState.
• Added the trait InstanceOwned.
• Debug formatting of Vulkan objects no longer follows references to other objects, instead only printing their handles, in order to alleviate the spam.
• Added ImageCreateFlags::EXTENDED_USAGE from the khr_maintenance2 extension.
• Support for the ext_image_drm_format_modifier extension.
• Support for the ext_image_2d_view_of_3d extension.
• Added Format::UNDEFINED, and implemented Default which returns this value.
• ShaderModule is now constructed with a new method, which takes a ShaderModuleCreateInfo struct. The old constructors from_words and from_bytes are deprecated.
• Added a set_debug_utils_object_name method to the DeviceOwned trait.
• Support for the ext_subgroup_size_control extension.
• Support for the khr_image_format_list extension.
• Support for the khr_swapchain_mutable_format extension.
• Support for pipeline derivatives.
• Support for the khr_get_display_properties2 extension.
• Added DeviceMemory::{map, unmap, mapping_state, invalidate_range, flush_range}, MappedDeviceMemory has been deprecated.
• Added MemoryMapInfo, MemoryUnmapInfo, MappingState and MappedMemoryRange.
• Added ShaderModule::single_entry_point() which may replace entry_point("main") calls in common setups.
• Added ShaderModule::single_entry_point_with_execution.
• Added GenericMemoryAllocatorCreateInfo::memory_type_bits and AllocationCreateInfo::memory_type_bits.
• Vulkano-shaders: support for specialization-constant-sized arrays in structs (they are generated with the size specified as fallback in the specialization constant initializer).
• Added the DeviceAddress and NonNullDeviceAddress types to the crate root.
• Support for the ext_private_data extension.
• Added the UPDATE_AFTER_BIND, UPDATE_UNUSED_WHILE_PENDING and PARTIALLY_BOUND flags to DescriptorBindingFlags, as well as DescriptorSetLayoutCreateFlags::UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_POOL and DescriptorPoolCreateFlags::UPDATE_AFTER_BIND.

Bugs fixed

• #2184: VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 not used in Device creation for Vulkan 1.1 and later.
• Fixed UB in ShaderModule::from_bytes[_with_data], where an unaligned reference could have been created.
• Fixed a bug when using GenericMemoryAllocator configured not to use dedicated allocation, where a dedicated allocation wasn't created even when required.
• Fixed UB in {AutoCommandBufferBuilder, UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder}::push_constants where a reference to uninitialized bytes could have been created.
• Device::set_debug_utils_object_name no longer exhibits use-after-free UB.
• #2248: Meanings of | and & operators for extensions were swapped.
• Fixed validation for the AllocationType of allocations in RawImage::bind_memory, where the image tiling wasn't taken into consideration.
• vulkano-shaders: Use a placeholder name instead of erroring out, when the shader doesn't contain a name for a struct.
• #2203: Shader reflection fails to find descriptor set variables if multiple OpAccessChain instructions are themselves chained.
• vulkano-shaders: Invalid emitted code for shader input/output interfaces if the shader is missing a name decoration.
• Fixed potential UB when using MemoryAlloc::try_unwrap, where the allocation was mapped on contruction of the MemoryAlloc but not unmapped on unwrapping, allowing double-mapping.
• Fixed a bug in GenericMemoryAllocator::allocate, where the root allocations weren't created with the configured AllocationType.
• Specialization constants are now applied to the reflected SPIR-V code before any other reflection is performed.
• Fragment shaders cannot use dual_src_blend device feature due to interface errors.
• Vulkano-shaders: handle pointers correctly when they appear in composite types.

Version 0.33.0 (2023-04-01)

Public dependency updates

• ash 0.37.2
• bytemuck 1.9
• winit 0.28

Breaking changes

Changes to all Vulkan bitflag types:

• They are now implemented as wrappers around an integer, instead of as a struct of bools.
• The fields of the struct have been replaced with associated constants, using uppercase names as is the convention.
• All functions that take or return one of these types now take them by value (copy).
• Bitflag types that have a corresponding enum type now have the following additional items:
  • A contains_enum method that takes a value of the enum, and returns whether the bitflags contain the flag corresponding to that enum.
  • A From implementation to convert the enum to the bitflags type, with a single flag set.
  • A FromIterator implementation that collects an iterator of enums into a single bitflag value.
  • An IntoIterator implementation that does the reverse.

Changes to two swapchain bitflag types:

• SupportedSurfaceTransforms is renamed to SurfaceTransforms.
• SupportedCompositeAlpha is renamed to CompositeAlphas.

Changes to buffers:

• Merged CpuAccessibleBuffer, DeviceLocalBuffer, BufferSlice, CpuBufferPoolChunk, CpuBufferPoolSubbuffer into Subbuffer.
• Removed BufferAccess, TypedBufferAccess, BufferAccessObject, BufferInner and BufferViewAbstract.
• Replaced CpuBufferPool with SubbufferAllocator, which is now marked !Sync and no longer has a T type parameter. The type parameter was moved to the methods, to allow one allocator to allocate as many types of buffers as needed.
• All methonds on BufferContents have been replaced.

Changes to DescriptorRequirements:

• The struct has been split into two levels: the per-binding DescriptorBindingRequirements, and the per-descriptor-index DescriptorRequirements.
• The descriptor_requirements method of various types has been renamed to descriptor_binding_requirements to match.
• DescriptorBindingRequirements has a single descriptors member instead of multiple HashSet members. This member is a HashMap with Option<u32> as the key type. The key None holds requirements for non-constant indices, while requirements for constant indices are stored as Some.
• Validation checks against the requirements, and pipeline barriers, now always include the requirements of the None key as well. This may result in false positives, but prevents false negatives.
• DescriptorRequirements now has memory_read and memory_write members, which hold a ShaderStages value for the stages which read or write the resource. This is used for more fine-grained pipeline barriers.

Changes to the sync module and types:

• Split the module into several submodules: event, fence, future, semaphore.
• Added the DependencyFlags type, which is now used by DependencyInfo and SubpassDependency.
• Renamed QueueFamilyTransfer to QueueFamilyOwnershipTransfer and made it into an enum to prevent invalid usage.

Changes to GpuFuture:

• The check_buffer_access and check_image_access methods now return nothing on success.

Changes to pipelines:

• The descriptor_binding_requirements method is moved to the Pipeline trait, and returns a reference to the hashmap directly.

Changes to impl_vertex, VertexMember and VertexMemberInfo:

• VertexMember::format now directly returns a Format
• VertexMemberInfo now holds format and VertexMemberTy was removed.
• impl_vertex was updated to correctly use the new VertexMember::format signature.

Changes to memory and allocation:

• MemoryRequirements::{size, alignment} fields have been replaced with a single layout field.
• Suballocator::allocate_unchecked has been removed.
• Device properties that represent alignments are now generated with the type DeviceAlignment instead of DeviceSize.
• Removed FastMemoryAllocator, because it was giving people the wrong impression that this is a type of allocator that is employed often and for general tasks, which couldn't be further from the truth.
• Renamed MemoryUsage::GpuOnly to MemoryUsage::DeviceOnly.
• Marked MemoryUsage, MemoryAllocatePreference and AllocationType as non-exhaustive.
• AllocationCreateInfo::{requirements, allocation_type, dedicated_allocation} fields were removed.
• Added the parameters requirements, allocation_type, dedicated_allocation to MemoryAllocator::allocate[_unchecked].

Changes to vulkano-shaders:

• Struct fields are now padded using Padded, instead of generating additional fields.
• The types_meta option has been removed in favor of custom_derives. Additionally, a derive for BufferContents is automatically added to the generated structs, so there is no need to specify anything in order to use the structs in buffers.
• The ty module is no longer generated. All types are generated in the same module where the macro call resides.

Additions

• Added SubbufferAllocatorCreateInfo.
• Allow waiting on SwapchainAcquireFuture.
• Implement IntoIterator for Features, DeviceExtensions and InstanceExtensions.
• A buffer_with_range constructor for WriteDescriptorSet, which can be used to select the range within the buffer that should be bound. This must be used when using dynamic buffers.
• Added a derive macro for the Vertex trait. The impl_vertex macro and VertexMember trait are deprecated.
• BufferDefinition matching logic was updated to work with the new VertexMemberInfo and now matches based on scalar type, number of components and number of elements allowing the use of formats such as *_UNORM.
• GraphicsPipelineBuilder validation was extended to make sure locations are not bound multiple times when a single attribute spans multiple locations (e.g. using double precision float formats).
• Added documentation of the cargo features to the main documentation page of each crate.
• Added documentation of _unchecked functions to the main documentation page.
• Added DeviceLayout and DeviceAlignment.
• Added the type alias NonZeroDeviceSize.
• Added VertexBufferDescription and three new methods to the Vertex trait that return it: per_vertex, per_instance and per_instance_with_divisor. This deprecates and replaces BuffersDefinition.
• Implemented From<SampleCount> for u32.
• Added documentation to the shader module to explain the layout of buffers, push constants and other data accessed by shaders.
• The macros single_pass_renderpass! and ordered_passes_renderpass! now allow trailing commas in various places.
• Added a BufferContents derive macro. You no longer need to use bytemuck to read/write your structs form/to buffers.
• Added BufferContentsLayout.
• Added support for allocating buffers with any kind of unsized contents, not just slices. These can also be read/written from the host.
• Added Padded, which can be used to pad struct fields as well as array elements/matrix columns.
• Added support for the VK_EXT_external_memory_dma_buf extension, which allows importing an image from a Linux dma_buf.
• Vulkano-shaders: All error messages are now appropriately spanned compile-errors, instead of being panics.
• Vulkano-shaders: Added support for arrays (and by extension matrices) whose stride exceeds the size of the element type in Rust (e.g. vec3[]).
• Vulkano-shaders: Added a linalg_type option to the macro, for generating types from external linear algebra crates.
• Vulkano-win: Added create_surface_from_handle_ref.
• Vulkano-win: The features winit and raw-window-handle can now be used directly, winit_ and raw-window-handle_ have been deprecated.

Bugs fixed

• #2094: Fixed debug assertion when the first command in a command buffer that uses an image expects it to be in the Undefined layout.
• Fixed wrong aspects being used in pipeline barriers when an image view selects one aspect of a combined depth+stencil image.
• Fixed panic when building a finished command buffer, if the command buffer contains commands that use only some subresources of an image.
• Fixed possible arithmetic overflows when allocating memory with a size that's too large.
• Added missing check for the allocation type when binding memory.
• #2130: Fixed getting memory requirements on swapchain images, which don
• Vulkano-shaders: Fixed an "expected expression, found ," compile error for precompiled shaders with more than one entrypoint.
• #2149: Image data being discarded when transitioning from UNDEFINED in StorageImage
• Vulkano-shaders: mat3xN is now generated correctly, taking its matrix stride into account.
• Vulkano-shaders: Row-major matrices are now generated correctly.
• Fixed potential panics during panics.

Version 0.32.3 (2022-12-07)

Bugs fixed

• Fixed issue with MemoryAlloc::mapped_ptr not being adjusted for offset.

Version 0.32.2 (2022-12-06)

Bugs fixed

• Fixed another issue with CpuBufferPool<T>, where the alignment of T was not being considered when allocating.

Version 0.32.1 (2022-11-09)

Bugs fixed

• #2074: Fixed error on multiple draw calls using a texture that had a layout transition.
• Fixed an issue with CpuBufferPool<T>, where the alignment of T was not being considered when allocating.
• Fixed an issue with CpuBufferPool, where the allocated subbuffers did not respect the non-coherent atom size for non-host-coherent memory types.

Version 0.32.0 (2022-10-31)

Breaking changes

Changes to queue operations:

• To do operations on a queue, you must now call with to gain access. This takes a closure that is passed a
• The wait method of devices and queues is renamed to wait_idle to match Vulkan.
• Queue now implements VulkanObject instead of SynchronizedVulkanObject, which is removed.
• Queue now takes ownership of resources belonging to operations that you execute on it, to keep them from being destroyed while in use.
• If Queue is dropped, it will call wait_idle to block the current thread until all operations on it have completed.
• The command_buffer::submit module has been removed. The SubmitAnyBuilder enum is moved to the sync module, and no longer has a lifetime parameter.

Changes to Surface, Swapchain and swapchain operations:

• Surface, Swapchain, SwapchainImage and SwapchainAcquireFuture and related functions no longer have a W type parameter.
• All constructors of Surface now take Option<Arc<dyn Any + Send + Sync>> instead of a generic W. The window function has been renamed to object and likewise returns Option<&Arc<dyn Any + Send + Sync>>.
• Vulkano-win: create_surface_from_handle takes an Arc<impl Any + Send + Sync + HasRawWindowHandle + HasRawDisplayHandle>, create_surface_from_winit takes an Arc<Window>.
• PresentInfo has been renamed to SwapchainPresentInfo and has differently named members and constructor.
• acquire_next_image returns an u32 index to match Vulkan.

Changes to GpuFuture:

• Added required method check_swapchain_image_acquired.
• AccessError::SwapchainImageAcquireOnly has been renamed to SwapchainImageNotAcquired.

Changes to command buffers and command pools:

• Renamed CommandPool to CommandBufferAllocator, StandardCommandPool to StandardCommandBufferAllocator, and UnsafeCommandPool to CommandPool to better reflect their action.
• Removed Device::with_standard_command_pool.
• AutoCommandBufferBuilder::{primary, secondary} now take an implementation of CommandBufferAllocator instead of the Device.
• The PrimaryCommandBuffer and SecondaryCommandBuffer traits are renamed to PrimaryCommandBufferAbstract and SecondaryCommandBufferAbstract.

Changes to descriptor sets and descriptor pools:

• Renamed DescriptorPool to DescriptorSetAllocator, StandardDescriptorPool to StandardDescriptorSetAllocator, and UnsafeDescriptorPool to DescriptorPool to better reflect their action.
• DescriptorPool methods now take &self and the type itself is !Sync.
• Removed SingleLayoutDescPool and SingleLayoutVariableDescPool.
• Removed Device::with_standard_descriptor_pool.
• Descriptor set allocators must now be managed manually.
  • PersistentDescriptorSet::{new, new_variable} now take an implementation of DescriptorSetAllocator, PersistentDescriptorSet::new_with_pool has been removed.

Changes to buffers and images:

• DeviceLocalBuffer::{from_buffer, from_data, from_iter} and ImmutableImage::{from_iter, from_buffer} now take a mutable reference to an AutoCommandBufferBuilder instead of a queue, and no longer return a future. The upload command will be recorded into the provided command buffer, which should be executed later.
• When binding memory to a buffer with the shader_device_address usage, and the ext_buffer_device_address extension isn't enabled, the memory must now have been allocated with the MemoryAllocateFlags::device_address flag set.
• UnsafeBuffer and UnsafeImage are renamed to RawBuffer and RawImage.
• UnsafeBufferCreateInfo and UnsafeImageCreateInfo are renamed to BufferCreateInfo and ImageCreateInfo.
• ImageCreateInfo now takes a flags instead of separate booleans.
• Replaced the various unsafe *_linear_layout methods of UnsafeImage with a safe subresource_layout method. The LinearLayout struct is renamed to SubresourceLayout to match.
• Added bind_memory methods to these two types. These take self by value, and return Buffer and Image on success.
• Added Buffer and Image types, which represent buffers and images that have had memory bound to them. This memory can be retrieved using the memory() method.
• Most previous uses of UnsafeBuffer and UnsafeImage now use Buffer and Image instead.

Changes to the VulkanObject trait:

• The method internal_object is renamed to handle, and the associated type Object is renamed to Handle.

Changes to PipelineStages:

• The transfer flag has been renamed to all_transfer.

Changes to SubpassDependency, MemoryBarrier, BufferMemoryBarrier, ImageMemoryBarrier:

• Fields that start with source_ have been renamed to src_.
• Fields that start with destination_ have been renamed to dst_.

Changes to the set_event command:

• This command now takes a DependencyInfo instead of PipelineStages, to enable use of the vkCmdSetEvent2 version.

Changes to memory allocation:

• MemoryPool has been replaced with MemoryAllocator and StandardMemoryPool has been replaced with StandardMemoryAllocator.
• Removed AllocFromRequirementsFilter, MemoryPoolAlloc, MappingRequirement, AllocLayout, PotentialDedicatedAllocation, StandardNonHostVisibleMemoryTypePool, StandardNonHostVisibleMemoryTypePoolAlloc, StandardHostVisibleMemoryTypePool, StandardHostVisibleMemoryTypePoolAlloc and StandardMemoryPoolAlloc.
• Memory allocators must now be managed manually.
  • Buffer and image constructors now take an implementation of the MemoryAllocator trait.

Additions

• Added bind_sparse_unchecked, present_unchecked and submit_unchecked methods to QueueGuard.
• Added the device_coherent, device_uncached and rdma_capable flags to MemoryPropertyFlags, and improved the documentation of all flags with additional usage advice.
• Some methods of PhysicalDevice now cache their results, so that another call with the same arguments will retrieve them faster.
• Fence methods are now validated and synchronized, so they take &self.
• When calling Fence::is_signaled or Fence::wait, if the fence is associated with a queue, any resources of the associated queue operation will be released.
• VulkanLibrary::extension_properties, to mirror the equivalent function on PhysicalDevice.
• VulkanLibrary methods layer_extension_properties, supported_layer_extensions and supported_extensions_with_layers, to query the extensions supported by layers.
• Added the remaining missing variants of the ColorSpace enum.
• Added a supports_protected member to SurfaceCapabilities for the khr_surface_protected_capabilities extension.
• Support for the ext_validation_features extension.
• Support for the khr_external_fence_fd and khr_external_fence_win32 extensions.
• Added MemoryAllocateFlags.
• Added Device::allocation_count.
• Support for the khr_external_semaphore_fd, khr_external_semaphore_win32 and fuchsia_external_semaphore extensions.
• Semaphore::export_fd is no longer unsafe.
• Added support for all remaining PipelineStages and AccessFlags, including those from the synchronization2 feature.
• Added support for synchronization2 to the set_event, reset_event and write_timestamp commands, and to SubpassDependency when creating a render pass.
• Added the wait_events command to SyncCommandBufferBuilder and UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder.
• Added the Suballocator trait and 4 of its implementors: FreeListAllocator, BuddyAllocator, PoolAllocator and BumpAllocator.
• Added GenericMemoryAllocator and its configuration GenericMemoryAllocatorCreateInfo.
• Added MemoryAlloc, AllocationCreateInfo, AllocationCreationError, MemoryUsage, MemoryAllocatePreference, MemoryTypeFilter, SuballocationCreateInfo and SuballocationCreationError.
• Added a flags field to BufferCreateInfo. This contains no flags yet, but will in the future.
• Added the disjoint flag to ImageCreateFlags. This flag is used in combination with multi-planar images, to bind separate memory to each plane of the image. It is not yet supported for the higher-level image types.
• Added StandardCommandBufferAllocatorCreateInfo.
• Added StandardCommandBufferAllocator::{try_reset_pool, clear}.
• Added a spinning Future implementation to Fence and FenceSignalFuture.

Bugs fixed

• #2004: A swapchain image could be presented without being acquired.
• #1871: Layer extensions are not included when validating extensions to enable on an instance.
• Fixed missing validation when binding memory to a buffer with the shader_device_address usage.
• Queue family count isn't being set in either ash::vk::BufferCreateInfo or ash::vk::ImageCreateInfo.
• Validation checks for khr_portability_subset devices.
• Depth and stencil attachments are now properly checked when using dynamic rendering.
• Proper error (NoStencilAttachment) is now being returned if stencil attachment format is missing.
• Fixed an issue with missing synchronization between a command buffer and any that were previously submitted on the same queue.
• SwapchainCreateInfo documentation correction.
• Fixed an issue with CpuAccessibleBuffer<T>, where the alignment of T was not being considered when allocating.

Version 0.31.1 (2022-10-04)

Bugs fixed

• Incorrect check for descriptor set validity when the shader declares a runtime-sized array.
• #2018: Incorrect handling of VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR caused a panic when presenting.

Version 0.31.0 (2022-09-18)

Public dependency updates

• winit 0.27
• raw-window-handle 0.5
• half 2

Breaking changes

Changes to Instance and Vulkan initialization:

• FunctionPointers is renamed to VulkanLibrary, and now resides in a separate library module. It is re-exported from the crate root.
• The Loader trait is now in the library module.
• Instance now requires a VulkanLibrary object, which you must create beforehand.
• The auto_loader function is removed.
• Supported extensions and layers are now retrieved from the VulkanLibrary object. The old layers_list and InstanceExtensions methods are removed.
• The deprecated methods of DeviceExtensions are removed.
• Vulkano-win: required_extensions now requires a reference to VulkanLibrary.
• VulkanLibrary::get_instance_proc_addr is now unsafe, and returns ash::vk::PFN_vkVoidFunction.

Changes to Vulkano-util:

• Required instance extensions for surface creation aren't added until VulkanoContext is created.
• The instance, device, graphics_queue and compute_queue methods of VulkanoContext now return a reference instead of an owned Arc.

Changes to command pools:

• StandardCommandPool is now implemented lock-free, using thread-local storage.
• Device::standard_command_pool has been removed in favor of Device::with_standard_command_pool.
• StandardCommandPool::new nows return a Result.
• Added khr_portability_enumeration as a default configuration for MacOS in vulkano-utils

Changes to descriptor (set) pools:

• Renamed StdDescriptorPool[Alloc] to Standard{...}.
• StandardDescriptorPool is now implemented lock-less, using thread-local storage.
• Removed Device::standard_descriptor_pool in favor of Device::with_standard_descriptor_pool.
• DescriptorPool::allocate now takes &Arc<DescriptorSetLayout> instead of &DescriptorSetLayout.
• SingleLayoutDescSetPool::new now returns Result.
• Added SingleLayoutVariableDescSetPool.

Changes to memory pools:

• Renamed StdMemoryPool[Alloc], StdHostVisibleMemoryTypePool[Alloc], StdNonHostVisibleMemoryTypePool[Alloc] to Standard{...}.
• Renamed Device::standard_pool to Device::standard_memory_pool.

Changes to PhysicalDevice:

• PhysicalDevice::enumerate has been replaced with Instance::enumerate_physical_devices. This function returns Arc<PhysicalDevice>.
• Enumerating physical devices multiple times now retrieves the list of devices each time, instead of only at instance creation. This makes it possible to handle devices that are added/removed during runtime.
• PhysicalDevice now owns instead of borrows from its parent Instance, so it has no more type parameter.
• Added extension_properties, memory_properties and queue_family_properties method to get the full properties directly.
• MemoryType, MemoryHeap and QueueFamily have been removed. Where they were used, you now provide a u32 index into the memory_properties().memory_types, memory_properties().memory_heaps and queue_family_properties() arrays.
• QueueFamily::supports_surface has been replaced with PhysicalDevice::surface_support, to match the Vulkan structure.
• QueueCreateInfo now implements Default (with a default queue_family_index of 0).
• Queue::family has been renamed to queue_family_index.

Changes to swapchain presentation:

• swapchain::present now takes PresentInfo parameter.
• swapchain::present_incremental has been removed.
• GpuFuture::then_swapchain_present now takes PresentInfo parameter.
• GpuFuture::then_swapchain_present_incremental has been removed.
• SubmitPresentBuilder::swapchain now takes PresentInfo.
• Added support for present_id feature with present_id field on PresentInfo.
• Added support for present_wait feature by adding method swapchain::wait_for_present.

Changes to CpuBufferPool:

• The methods next and chunk have been renamed to from_data and from_iter respectively, to be clearer and to match the constructor methods of other buffer and image types.

Changes to bitflag structs and enums corresponding to Vulkan equivalents, as well as to InstanceExtensions, DeviceExtensions and Features:

• The all() constructor has been removed from types that have it, as it has the potential to break forward compatibility: it can enable new flags that were not anticipated by old code. For the same reason, the ! operator is not implemented.
• All values are validated against the device API version and enabled extensions.
• The constructor ::none() is deprecated in favour of ::empty().
• The method is_superset_of is deprecated in favour of contains.
• BufferUsage and ImageUsage no longer have constructors for some specific combinations.

Miscellaneous:

• Merged ImmutableBuffer into DeviceLocalBuffer.
• Semaphore::export_opaque_fd has been renamed to export_fd and now takes an ExternalSemaphoreHandleType to specify the handle type to export.
• Surface::from_raw_surface has been renamed to from_handle to match the from_handle methods that were added for other types.

Additions

• All bitflag types, InstanceExtensions, DeviceExtensions and Features now:
  • Have a const fn empty() constructor.
  • Have const methods is_empty, intersects, contains, union, intersection, difference, symmetric_difference.
  • Implement the operators &, &=, |, |=, ^, ^=, - and -=.
  • Implement Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq and Hash.
  • Implement From to and from the corresponding Vulkan type (except InstanceExtensions, DeviceExtensions and Features).
• All enum types now:
  • Implement Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq and Hash.
  • Implement From to the corresponding Vulkan type, and TryFrom from the corresponding Vulkan type.
• Support for importing OpaqueWin32 / OpaqueWin32Kmt memory handles.
• Two missing functions for querying about sparse images: PhysicalDevice::sparse_image_format_properties and UnsafeImage::sparse_memory_requirements.
• A DeviceMemory::commitment method to retrieve the current commitment for lazily-allocated memory.
• Support for the khr_external_fence and khr_external_fence_capabilities extensions. No import or export functions are defined yet, but those can be added more easily now.
• The missing wayland_presentation_support, win32_presentation_support xcb_presentation_support and xlib_presentation_support methods to PhysicalDevice.
• Support for the ext_headless_surface, ext_directfb_surface, fuchsia_imagepipe_surface, ggp_stream_descriptor_surface and qnx_screen_surface surface for creating surfaces from these APIs.
• Support for the ext_tooling_info extension.
• Support for external memory to UnsafeBuffer.
• Support for the ext_separate_stencil_usage extension. UnsafeImage and the ImageAccess trait now have a stencil_usage method.
• The DepthReadOnlyStencilAttachmentOptimal and DepthAttachmentStencilReadOnlyOptimal image layouts.
• The ability to choose a usage for image views, that is a subset of the usage of the parent image.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed iOS compilation. Potentially breaking.
  • Removed dependency to cocoa and metal
  • Fixed iOS compilation errors
  • Added winit_to_surface method for iOS, ensuring we can draw to a sub CAMetalLayer layer
  • Added Surface::update_ios_sublayer_on_resize to ensure iOS sublayer is fullscreen if initial window size was not the same as device's
  • Ensure both iOS and MacOS have CAMetalLayer when using create_surface_from_handle
• #1896: Vulkano-shaders generates invalid struct definitions when struct field names are stripped out by the compiler.
• Atomic writes in shaders are not treated as write access for the purposes of synchronization.
• Improvements to compiler linting:
  • Most clippy warnings and errors have been fixed, and the remainder is explicitly allowed in each crate root. Some of these may be re-enabled in the future if desired.
  • Warnings for dead code and unused variables have been re-enabled and fixed.

Version 0.30.0 (2022-07-20)

• Breaking Removed the try_gpu_lock, increase_gpu_lock and unlock methods from the BufferAccess and ImageAccess traits. Locking is now implemented internally in UnsafeBuffer and UnsafeImage.
• Breaking All check_buffer_access and check_image_access functions now take an UnsafeBuffer/UnsafeImage and a Range<DeviceSize>.
• Breaking UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder::pipeline_barrier now takes a DependencyInfo. It will use vkCmdPipelineBarrier2 if supported.
• Breaking The debug command buffer commands have been renamed to match Vulkan. They now take a DebugUtilsLabel value.
• Breaking end_debug_utils_label is now unsafe, as it requires validation checks that are not implemented yet.
• Breaking DebugCallback is renamed to DebugUtilsMessenger to match Vulkan, and now takes a DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfo to construct. It is now unsafe to create, because the the callback cannot call any Vulkan API functions, which Vulkano is unable to check.
• Breaking The copy, blit, clear, fill and update commands are completely rewritten, and now use Info structs to specify the parameters. They now allow you to specify multiple regions at once to copy, give you fill control over the image subresources, and also let you select image layouts.
• Breaking The transfer_source and transfer_destination fields of BufferUsage and ImageUsage are renamed to transfer_src and transfer_dst to match Vulkan.
• Breaking SubImage has been removed.
• Breaking The conflict_key method on the BufferAccess and ImageAccess traits is removed.
• Breaking ImageViewCreateInfo now has a single subresource_range field instead of separate fields for aspect, mip levels and array layers.
• Breaking The aspects, mip_levels and array_layers methods of ImageViewAbstract are removed, and replaced with a single subresource_range method.
• Breaking The current_mip_levels_access and current_array_layers_access methods of ImageAccess are removed.
• Breaking begin_render_pass now takes a RenderPassBeginInfo struct.
• Breaking ClearRect now has a single Range<u32> for array layers.
• Breaking The fields of ClearAttachment::Color are now named.
• Breaking The ImageClearValue trait is removed.
• Breaking The various AutoCommandBufferBuilder constructors for secondary command buffers have been merged into one secondary function, which directly takes a CommandBufferInheritanceInfo value.
• Breaking The render_pass values of GraphicsPipelineBuilder and CommandBufferInheritanceInfo have both been changed into an enum that selects between rendering with begin_render_pass and rendering with begin_rendering. They implement Into for easy conversion.
• Breaking Added the missing rasterization_samples field to MultisampleState, which must be provided when doing multisampled rendering.
• Breaking Renamed the ready method of Fence to is_signaled.
• Breaking The set_depth_bounds parameter is now a single RangeInclusive instead of two separate f32, to match the type used on the DepthBoundsState struct.
• Breaking Removed DeviceExtensions::required_extensions(). Required extensions such as khr_portability_subset are now enabled automatically when available.
• Breaking Removed PhysicalDevice::required_extensions()
• UnsafeCommandPoolCreateInfo and UnsafeCommandPoolCreationError interfaces exposed.
• Fixed compile error in Vulkano-win on Android.
• Added COVERAGE.md, a document detailing how much of Vulkan is currently covered by Vulkano.
• Added debug utils commands to Queue.
• Added Instance::with_debug_utils_messengers, to provide creation info for messengers that should be used at instance creation and destruction time. This function is also unsafe.
• Added subresource_layers and subresource_range methods to UnsafeImage and ImageAccess to easily generate these types from an image.
• Added support for the khr_copy_commands2 device extension.
• Added the resolve_image command buffer command.
• BufferViewAbstract now has a range method that returns the byte range of the underlying buffer that the view covers.
• Added new enum value CheckDispatchError::ZeroLengthDimensions to be returned when dispatch() is called with dimension(s) of length zero.
• Vulkano-shaders now supports raygen, anyhit, closesthit, miss, intersection and callable shaders.
• Fix PresentFuture flushing twice if then_swapchain_present fails.
• Added new enum value SwapchainCreationError::ImageExtentZeroLengthDimensions to be returned when at least one of the image extent's dimensions are zero.
• Added support for dynamic rendering, and a triangle-v1_3 example demonstrating how it's used.
• Fixed a bug where NonExhaustive implemented the Default trait and was therefore still constructable by the user.
• Updated ash to 0.37.0+1.3.209.
• Fixed bug in various Vulkan calls where the returned data might be incomplete.
• Fixed bug that triggered an assert if a render pass had an attachment with Undefined initial layout.
• Added an is_signaled method to FenceSignalFuture.
• Add a simple general_purpose_image_view method to StorageImage for less verbose image view creation for e.g. intermediary render targets.
• Add a vulkano_util crate to help reduce boilerplate in many use cases. VulkanoContext to hold access to device & instances, VulkanoWindows to organize windows and their renderers. VulkanoRenderer to hold the window and methods to acquire (swapchain) and present between which you are intended to execute your pipelines.
• Add option to change PresentMode at runtime in vulkano_util with set_present_mode
• Made ImageUsage constructor functions const.
• Added intersection and max_count methods to SampleCounts, as well as a BitAnd implementation.
• InstanceCreateInfo now has enumerate_portability field.

Version 0.29.0 (2022-03-11)

• Breaking Instance creation parameters are given using InstanceCreateInfo.
• Breaking ApplicationInfo and the app_info_from_cargo_toml! macro are removed, their functionality is now integrated into InstanceCreateInfo.
• Breaking Device creation parameters are given using DeviceCreateInfo.
• Breaking Changes to UnsafeBuffer:
  • Creation parameters are given using UnsafeBufferCreateInfo. It is no longer unsafe to construct, only to use.
  • Memory requirements are no longer returned on construction, but retrieved by calling memory_requirements on the UnsafeBuffer.
• Breaking Constructing a buffer of zero size now results in a panic (except for CpuBufferPool chunks).
• Breaking BufferView creation parameters are given using BufferViewCreateInfo.
• Breaking The following types are now considered non-exhaustive and must be constructed using a method call and struct update syntax: BufferUsage, SparseLevel.
• Breaking RenderPass creation parameters are given using RenderPassCreateInfo. RenderPassDesc is removed.
• Breaking Framebuffer creation parameters are given using FramebufferCreateInfo.
• Breaking The dimensions, width and height methods of Framebuffer are replaced with extent and layers.
• Breaking Changes to Surface:
  • The constructors are renamed to match their Vulkan equivalents:
    • from_display_mode > from_display_plane
    • from_anativewindow > from_android
    • from_ios_moltenvk > from_ios
    • from_macos_moltenvk > from_mac_os
    • from_vi_surface > from_vi
    • from_hwnd > from_win32
  • from_raw now requires a SurfaceApi value.
  • Surface::capabilities has been moved to PhysicalDevice and split into three functions: surface_capabilities, surface_formats and surface_present_modes.
  • Capabilities has been renamed to SurfaceCapabilities.
  • The is_supported method has been moved to QueueFamily and renamed to supports_surface.
• Breaking Changes to Swapchain:
  • Creation parameters are given using SwapchainCreateInfo. Methods of Swapchain are renamed to match.
  • All names with Fullscreen and fullscreen have been renamed to FullScreen and full_screen, to match Vulkan word breaking.
  • FullScreenExclusive::AppControlled has been renamed to FullScreenExclusive::ApplicationControlled to match Vulkan.
  • Using FullScreenExclusive::ApplicationControlled on Windows now requires a Win32Monitor.
• Breaking Vulkano-win: create_vk_surface and create_vk_surface_from_handle have been renamed to create_surface_from_winit and create_surface_from_handle respectively.
• Breaking DescriptorSetLayout creation parameters are given using DescriptorSetLayoutCreateInfo. The getter methods on DescriptorSetLayout have been changed to match.
• Breaking DescriptorDesc has been renamed to DescriptorSetLayoutBinding and must now be constructed with struct update syntax. The ty member has been renamed to descriptor_type, and variable_count has been renamed to variable_descriptor_count.
• Breaking PipelineLayout creation parameters are given using PipelineLayoutCreateInfo. The getter methods on PipelineLayout have been changed to match.
• Breaking PipelineLayoutPcRange has been renamed to PushConstantRange.
• Breaking DeviceMemory creation parameters are given using MemoryAllocateInfo and MemoryImportInfo. The number of constructors has been reduced.
• Breaking Importing memory is now unsafe, because the safety of the file descriptor can't be guaranteed.
• Breaking DedicatedAlloc is renamed to DedicatedAllocation, and its None variant is now represented by being wrapped in an Option.
• Breaking DeviceMemoryAllocError is renamed to DeviceMemoryAllocationError.
• Breaking UnsafeCommandPool creation parameters are given using UnsafeCommandPoolCreateInfo.
• Breaking UnsafeCommandPool::allocate_command_buffers now takes CommandBufferAllocateInfo.
• Breaking The alloc method on the CommandPool trait has been renamed to allocate, and it takes CommandBufferLevel instead of a boolean.
• Breaking The new constructors of UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder and SyncCommandBufferBuilder now take CommandBufferBeginInfo.
• Breaking The begin_render_pass methods of UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder and SyncCommandBufferBuilder now take RenderPassBeginInfo.
• Breaking CommandBufferLevel is now a plain enum, CommandBufferLevel::Secondary has no associated value anymore. Its constructors have been removed.
• Breaking CommandBufferInheritance and CommandBufferRenderPassInheritance have been renamed to CommandBufferInheritanceInfo and CommandBufferRenderPassInheritanceInfo respectively.
• Breaking The inheritance method on the SecondaryCommandBuffer trait has been renamed to inheritance_info.
• Breaking QueryPool creation parameters are given using QueryPoolCreateInfo.
• Breaking The ty and num_slots methods of QueryPool have been renamed to query_type and query_count.
• Breaking Fence and Semaphore no longer have a type parameter.
• Breaking Event creation parameters are given using EventCreateInfo.
• Breaking Fence creation parameters are given using FenceCreateInfo.
• Breaking Semaphore creation parameters are given using SemaphoreCreateInfo.
• Breaking Semaphore::export_opaque_fd is now unsafe.
• Breaking Sampler creation parameters are given using SamplerCreateInfo.
• Breaking SamplerYcbcrConversion creation parameters are given using SamplerYcbcrConversionCreateInfo.
• Breaking UnsafeDescriptorPool creation parameters are given using UnsafeDescriptorPoolCreateInfo.
• Breaking The alloc and free methods of UnsafeDescriptorPool are renamed to allocate_descriptor_sets and free_descriptor_sets.
• Breaking The alloc method of the DescriptorPool trait is renamed to allocate.
• Breaking DescriptorSetLayout::descriptors_count is renamed to descriptor_counts, and returns a hashmap instead of a separate type.
• Breaking UnsafeImage creation parameters are given using UnsafeImageCreateInfo.
• Breaking ImageView creation parameters are given using ImageViewCreateInfo.
• Breaking ImageView::new has been renamed to new_default.
• Breaking ImageView::ty has been renamed to view_type.
• Breaking The format methods of UnsafeImage and ImageViewAbstract now return Option<Format>.
• Breaking UnsafeImage::flags has been replaced with methods to return individual flags.
• Breaking MappedDeviceMemory is now constructed separately with new, the _and_map variants of DeviceMemory are removed.
• Breaking Changed how MappedDeviceMemory handles CPU access; added invalidate_range and flush_range methods and read and write methods to get (im)mutable byte slices to the memory.
• Breaking Bytemuck dependencies:
  • All buffer types now require their data type parameter to implement BufferContents, which has bytemuck::Pod as a supertrait.
  • Vertex also has Pod as a supertrait.
  • Consequently, you must derive the Zeroable and Pod traits from bytemuck on any custom structures that are used as buffer contents.
  • To do this for structures generated by Vulkano-shaders, use the types_meta parameter as seen in the teapot example.
• Fixed sync bug in copy_image and blit_image where the src and dest images are the same but with different mip level and/or array layer.
• Fixed bug in begin_render_pass causing a panic when clearing a depth-only attachment.
• Fixed bug in the QueueFamily::supports_ methods causing a panic when querying support for a stage that needs no queue flags.
• Fixed buffer overflow bug in AutoCommandBufferBuilder::push_constants.
• Fixed AutoCommandBufferBuilder::push_constants to push multiple times in case of range overlap (to accommodate VUIDs 01795 and 01796)
• Fixed shader! macro failing to compile with geometry shaders.
• Refactored VertexBuffersCollection to allow Arc<dyn BufferAccess>.
• Added a Format::texels_per_block method.\
• Fixed bug on certain drivers where samplers would behave oddly when minmax samplers are enabled.
• Added support for the khr_create_renderpass2 extension.
• Added an api method to Surface to return the windowing API that it was created from.
• Added a create_info method to Swapchain to return a SwapchainCreateInfo that contains all the parameters copied from the existing swapchain. This can be used for easy recreation of outdated swapchains.
• Added support for the khr_get_surface_capabilities2 extension.
• Vulkano-win: Added create_win32_monitor_from_winit function.
• Added support for Vulkan 1.3.
• Added Version::HEADER_VERSION, a constant that contains the Vulkan spec version that Vulkano currently uses.
• Added PhysicalDevice::external_buffer_properties.
• PhysicalDevice::image_format_properties now includes external memory properties in the returned structure.
• Added Device::memory_fd_properties.
• Added PhysicalDevice::external_semaphore_properties.
• Replaced fnv crate's FnvHashMap, FnvHashSet & FnvHasher with their std counterparts.
• Validate SPIR-V code containing OpUndef correctly.
• VertexBuffersCollection now supports arrays.
• Fixed overflow in multiview vertex buffer validation.
• Fixed missing initialization in PhysicalDevice::surface_formats.

Version 0.28.0 (2022-02-02)

• Breaking Updated to ash 0.35, half 1.8, smallvec 1.7, winit 0.26, raw-window-handle 0.4.
• Breaking ColorSpace::DciP3Linear is renamed to DisplayP3Linear to match an equivalent change in the Vulkan naming.
• Updated vk.xml to 1.2.203.
• Upgraded to Rust 2021.
• Breaking DescriptorWrite is renamed to WriteDescriptorSet to match Vulkan, and moved into the main descriptor_set module.
• Breaking The constructors of WriteDescriptorSet are no longer unsafe. Added convenience constructors for writing non-arrayed bindings.
• Breaking Descriptor sets are no longer constructed using a builder, but with an iterator of WriteDescriptorSet items. See in the examples how this is used.
  • PersistentDescriptorSet::start has been replaced with three constructors, new, new_variable and new_with_pool. Each of these takes an iterator of WriteDescriptorSet.
  • SingleLayoutDescSetPool::next takes an iterator of WriteDescriptorSet as well.
• Breaking Shader reflection now always generates only the descriptor requirements needed for each given entry point, instead of for all of them. The exact_entrypoint_interface argument to the shader! macro is removed.
• Added ClearRect struct, which contains the region information to be cleared
• Added ClearAttachment enum, which will contain the ClearValue and type of attachment
• Implemented AutoCommandBufferBuilder::clear_attachments, which implements all possible checks from the vulkan standards to make it safe.
• Implemented SyncCommandBufferBuilder::clear_attachments and UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder::clear_attachments.
• Allowed copy_image, blit_image and copy_buffer to work with src and dest images/beffers being the same. But, regions from src to dest must not overlap.
• Fix undefined behaviour on external semaphore creation.
• Fix undefined behaviour on external image creation.
• Add uuid checking to gl-interop example.
• Added additional fields to DescriptorRequirements, and changed mutable to be on a per-descriptor basis.
• Breaking Sampler is now constructed using a builder, using start instead of new. The shortcut functions simple_repeat_linear and simple_repeat_linear_no_mipmap are retained, but now return Result.
• Breaking MipmapMode is renamed to SamplerMipmapMode to match Vulkan.
• Breaking SamplerAddressMode::ClampToBorder no longer includes a BorderColor value. This is now provided with the new builder.
• Breaking The ImageViewAbstract::can_be_sampled method is removed, and replaced with Sampler::can_sample.
• Added Filter::Cubic.
• Added support for filter reduction modes on samplers.
• Added buffer_self_copy_overlapping and buffer_self_copy_not_overlapping as unit tests for self_copy feature (#1782).
• Removed test basic_conflict (failed after #1782).
• Added VertexMember implementations for nalgebra Vectors and Points as an optional crate feature.
• Breaking The spelling mip_level is used everywhere as a function and variable name for consistency with Vulkan naming.
• Breaking Changes to UnsafeImage:
  • It is now constructed with a builder.
  • It is no longer unsafe to construct, only to use.
  • Memory requirements are no longer returned on construction, but retrieved by calling memory_requirements on the UnsafeImage.
  • format_features now returns a reference.
  • preinitialized_layout is replaced by initial_layout, which returns an ImageLayout value.
• Breaking Changes to the ImageAccess trait:
  • Added a format_features method, and removed supports_blit_source and supports_blit_destination.
  • preinitialized_layout is replaced by initial_layout, which returns an ImageLayout value.
  • current_layer_levels_access was misnamed, and is now named current_array_layers_access.
  • current_miplevels_access is now named current_mip_levels_access.
• Breaking Changes to ImageView:
  • UnsafeImageView has been merged into ImageView.
  • Removed with_ from all the builder functions.
  • The ImageViewAbstract trait now has VulkanObject as a supertrait, and no longer has an inner method.
• Breaking Changes to Format:
  • properties has been moved to PhysicalDevice::format_properties. It now supports the khr_format_feature_flags2 extension.
  • requires_sampler_ycbcr_conversion has been renamed to ycbcr_chroma_sampling and returns Option<ChromaSampling>, where Some replaces true.
  • size has been renamed to block_size.
  • block_dimensions has been renamed to block_extent.
  • The members of the CompressionType enum have changed.
• Breaking The BufferViewAbstract trait now has VulkanObject as a supertrait.
• Breaking ExternalMemoryHandleType has been renamed to ExternalMemoryHandleTypes, and the singular name ExternalMemoryHandleType has been introduced as an enum.
• Breaking ComponentMapping and ComponentSwizzle have been moved to the sampler module.
• Added PhysicalDevice::image_format_properties.
• Added UnsafeImage::tiling.
• The ImageViewAbstract trait now includes a format_features method.
• The BufferViewAbstract trait now includes format and format_features methods.
• Add boxed_send(), boxed_sync(), boxed_send_sync() for GpuFuture.
• Fixed mipmap generation for 2D array images.
• Added aspects to the builder of ImageView, to choose which aspect(s) of an image to use in the view.
• Added SamplerYcbcrConversion, and the ability to attach it to a sampler or image view.
• Fixed of not being able to create multi-layer framebuffers.

Version 0.27.1 (2021-12-07)

• Reimplement generic impl's for BufferAcces, TypedBufferAccess & ImageAccess.

Version 0.27.0 (2021-12-06)

• Breaking The modules compute_pipeline and graphics_pipeline are shortened to compute and graphics, and are now public.
• Breaking ComputePipeline, GraphicsPipeline and PipelineLayout are re-exported from the base pipeline module, but other items are not.
• Breaking Major changes have been made to most parts of the graphics pipeline state.
  • Each state category is now provided by a separate type ending in State that lives in its own submodule of graphics. Some of these were existing types that were renamed.
  • Most of the state-setting methods on GraphicsPipelineBuilder are deprecated. State is now set using a _state method, which is given one of the above state types.
• Breaking ShaderInterfaceEntry now contains the start location and component, and specifies its type using a new ty member instead of as a format.
• Breaking DynamicStateMode is replaced with a simple bool.
• Breaking The presence of dynamic state in the pipeline state is now expressed more explicitly with two new types, StateMode and PartialStateMode.
• Breaking The PersistentDescriptorSet::start and SingleLayoutDescSetPool::new functions now return Result.
• Breaking DescriptorWrite now takes an iterator instead of a single item, allowing arrayed descriptors to be written in one operation.
• Breaking Removed the EntryPointAbstract trait, which was unused.
• Breaking ComputeEntryPoint and GraphicsEntryPoint now hold a list of DescriptorRequirements instead of DescriptorSetDesc.
• Breaking Removed union, union_multiple and ensure_compatible_with_shader from DescriptorSetDesc, and union from DescriptorDesc. This is now handled by DescriptorRequirements.
• Breaking DescriptorDesc::ensure_compatibility_with_shader now takes DescriptorRequirements instead of another DescriptorDesc.
• Breaking When the shader's layout specifies a descriptor with runtime array, its upper bound from now on interprets as zero by default(previously it was 1).
• Breaking The DescriptorSet trait now has a resources method, which returns a reference to a DescriptorSetResources object. It no longer has the num_buffers, buffer, num_images and image methods.
• Breaking BufferViewRef is replaced with BufferViewAbstract, similar to the existing ImageViewAbstract.
• Breaking UnsafeDescriptorSet::write takes a DescriptorSetLayout instead of Device.
• Breaking DescriptorWrite is now constructed based on the resources stored instead of the descriptor type. The descriptor type is inferred from the descriptor set layout.
• Breaking Added an Arc to many parameters and return types:
  • Objects implementing BufferAccess, BufferViewAbstract, ImageAccess, ImageViewAbstract or DescriptorSet are now always constructed in an Arc, and parameters that take one of these types require the Arc wrapper.
  • The type parameters of BufferView, ImageView and BufferSlice do not contain this implicit Arc.
  • The types DescriptorSetLayout, PipelineLayout, ComputePipeline, GraphicsPipeline, QueryPool, RenderPass and Framebuffer are also always constructed in an Arc.
• Breaking Framebuffer no longer has a type parameter.
  • This made the FramebufferAbstract trait redundant, and it has been removed.
  • CommandBufferLevel and its nested types no longer have a type parameter either.
  • AttachmentsList is no longer needed and has been removed.
• Breaking The dimensions method has been removed as an inherent method from types that already implement ImageAccess, to avoid confusion between the inherent method and the method of the trait when they have different semantics.
• Breaking Replaced DescriptorDescTy with DescriptorType and made further changes to the members of DescriptorDesc.
• Breaking Added a Pipeline trait to hold methods that are common to all pipeline types.
• Breaking Changes to allow allocating variable descriptor counts:
  • The alloc method of the DescriptorPool trait now has a second parameter to specify the number of descriptors to allocate for the variable count binding. If there is no variable count binding in the layout, this should be 0.
  • The alloc method of UnsafeDescriptorPool now takes an iterator of DescriptorSetAllocateInfo.
• For PersistentDescriptorSet when using a layout with a variable count binding, allocate only the number of descriptors needed instead of always the maximum.
• Descriptor resources are now checked against the shader requirements at the time of a draw/dispatch call, rather than at the time the descriptor set is created. Only the resources that are actually needed in the shader are checked, the other resources in a descriptor set are ignored and don't need to be valid.
• Added a new DescriptorRequirements type, which contains requirements imposed by a shader onto a descriptor and the resources bound to it.
  • DescriptorDesc can be created from DescriptorRequirements with the From trait.
  • DescriptorSetDescs can be created from the requirements with the from_requirement constructor.
  • The descriptor requirements of a pipeline can be queried using a new descriptor_requirements method.
• Added basic support for the khr_push_descriptor extension, with an example of how it's used. The implementation is somewhat limited and some of the details may change in a future update.
• Added support for lots more dynamic state, most of which requires features or extensions to use.
• Added support for discard rectangles, in the pipeline::discard_rectangle module.
• Added support for line rasterization state, in the pipeline::rasterization module.
• Added support for color write enable state, in the pipeline::color_blend module.
• GraphicsPipeline now has methods to return each state object it was created with.
• ash has been updated to 0.33.3, which provides new features and extensions.
• Added CommandBufferState::push_constants to retrieve the set of all push constant bytes that have been set.
• Added check to AutoCommandBufferBuilder to ensure that the push constants that are needed by the pipeline have been set.
• Added android platform to external memory cfgs.
• Fixed two bugs related to the requirements for enabled extensions:
• For required extensions that have been promoted, the promoted version now also fulfills the requirement.
• For features that must be enabled in tandem with extensions (e.g. descriptor_indexing), the requirement only applies to Vulkan 1.2 and above, since these features do not exist on earlier versions and thus cannot be enabled.
• Fix device memory builder not including p_next structures.
• Fix exportable image not created with VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo.
• Fix mutable bit not set on exportable image.
• ShaderModule can how handle multiple entry points with the same name but differing execution models. ShaderModule::entry_point will now return None if the entry point with the specified name does not exist or is ambiguous. To disambiguate, use ShaderModule::entry_point_with_execution.
• Added a shaderc-debug cargo feature to Vulkano-shaders, to emit debug information in the generated SPIR-V code.
• Added a type_for_format macro, which returns a Rust type that is suitable for representing a given Format.
• Fixed a bug when using vulkano-shaders macro with multiple shaders in release mode.
• Fixed bug where the wrong image layout was used for images used as a storage image.
• Fix typo in clear_depth_stencil.

Version 0.26.0 (2021-10-2)

• Breaking The draw and draw_indexed commands on AutoCommandBufferBuilder now take parameters to explicitly specify the range of vertices and instances to draw.
• Breaking BufferlessDefinition is removed.
• Breaking The VertexSource trait is removed, and has been replaced with the new VertexBuffersCollection trait, which works analogously to DescriptorSetsCollection. Vertex buffers can now be passed in as a tuple, just like descriptor sets.
• Breaking Removed the vertex definition type parameter from GraphicsPipeline, which is no longer needed with the change above.
• Breaking The ComputePipelineAbstract and GraphicsPipelineAbstract traits are no longer needed and have been removed, with their methods made available on the base ComputePipeline and GraphicsPipeline types.
• Breaking Changes to DescriptorDesc and related changes:
  • The variants of DescriptorDescTy now match those of DescriptorType and Vulkan.
  • The array_count and readonly members are renamed to descriptor_count (to match Vulkan) and mutable (with the opposite sense, to match familiar Rust usage).
  • DescriptorImageDesc is renamed to DescriptorDescImage. The dimensions and arrayed members have been combined into a single ImageViewType value.
  • Removed the arrayed member of the InputAttachment variant as well, as the standard now explicitly disallows arrayed input attachments.
  • The ensure_superset_of method has been split into two, one for shader compatibility and one for binding descriptor sets. The error return types of these methods have been revised.
• Breaking The Cubemap and CubemapArray variants of ImageViewType are renamed to Cube and CubeArray to match Vulkan.
• Breaking Setting state in AutoCommandBufferBuilder is now done via separate commands (e.g. bind_descriptor_sets, bind_vertex_buffers) instead of being provided with dispatch/draw commands. This matches how these commands work in Vulkan.
  • Validity of the state is checked by the dispatch/draw commands.
  • DynamicState is removed; each individual state now has its own command to set it. This includes some states that were not previously included in DynamicState.
• Breaking StateCacher is removed; its task is now partially handled by SyncCommandBufferBuilder.
• Breaking Many traits now require Send + Sync: BufferAccess, ImageAccess, ImageViewAbstract, FramebufferAbstract, AttachmentsList, MemoryPoolAlloc, DescriptorSet, DescriptorPoolAlloc, PrimaryCommandBuffer, SecondaryCommandBuffer, CommandPoolAlloc. This further means that any type parameters of types implementing these traits also require Send + Sync.
• BREAKING DescriptorSetLayout::new() now returns Result<Self, DescriptorSetLayoutError> instead of Result<Self, OomError>`
• BREAKING DescriptorCompatibilityError additional variant VariableCount.
• BREAKING GraphicsPipelineCreationError additional variant PipelineLayoutCreationError.
• BREAKING PipelineLayoutCreationError additional variant SetLayoutError.
• BREAKING FixedSizeDescriptorSetsPool has been replaced by SingleLayoutDescSetPool.
• BREAKING Set builders now return &mut Self instead of Self & methods take values wrapped in an Arc.
• Breaking Changes to Format:
  • Format variants are now all uppercase with underscores. This avoids interpretation problems where the underscore is significant for the meaning.
  • The ty method and the FormatTy enum are removed. They are replaced with the NumericType enum, which concerns itself only with the numeric representation and not with other properties. There are now three type_* methods to retrieve it, for colour, depth and stencil respectively.
  • The planes method now returns a slice containing the equivalent single-plane formats of each plane.
• Breaking The ImageAccess trait no longer has the has_color, has_depth and has_stencil methods. This information can be queried using the aspects or type_* methods of Format.
• Breaking Changes made to DescriptorDescTy to support immutable samplers.
• Breaking DescriptorWrite::combined_image_sampler now takes the sampler in an Option. Use None when the descriptor has immutable samplers.
• Breaking Changes to pipeline layout tweaks:
  • DescriptorSetDesc::tweak is renamed to set_buffer_dynamic, and now takes only a single binding index.
  • DescriptorSetDesc::tweak_multiple is removed.
  • The dynamic buffers parameter of GraphicsPipelineBuilder::with_auto_layout has been replaced with a closure that can be used to make tweaks to the descriptor set layouts as needed.
  • ComputePipeline::new has an additional closure parameter identical to the one described above.
• Breaking AttachmentImage::dimensions() now returns [u32; 3] which includes the layer count.
• Breaking Buffers and Images that have with_exportable_fd use dedicated allocation, thus requiring khr_get_memory_requirements2 and khr_dedicated_allocation on top of already needed khr_external_memory and khr_external_memory_fd.
• Breaking Compare is renamed to CompareOp to match Vulkan.
• Breaking Vulkano-shaders no longer generates a Shader struct, but instead provides load as a standalone function that returns Arc<ShaderModule> directly.
• Breaking Vulkano-shaders no longer generates a function for each entry point. Entry points are now retrieved using the entry_point method of ShaderModule.
• Breaking The shader module is moved to the crate root, and spirv is now a submodule of it.
• Breaking ShaderModule::new is renamed to from_bytes to match the existing from_words.
• Breaking ShaderModule now parses and analyses the shader provided to it on construction, checks whether the shader is compatible with the device, and gathers data such as descriptor sets and input/output interfaces directly from its code. To provide this data yourself as before, and avoid parsing, you can use the _with_data constructors.
• Breaking ComputeEntryPoint and GraphicsEntryPoint are removed, as are the functions on ShaderModule that generate them. Instead, you can look up an entry point using the entry_point method.
• Added support for additional shader types in ShaderStage, ShaderStages and PipelineStages.
• Added export_fd and with_exportable_fd to AttachmentImage and StorageImage as well as mem_size which is needed when using those images with Cuda.
• Vulkano-shaders: added extension/feature checks for more SPIR-V capabilities.
• Added support for surface creation from a CAMetalLayer using VK_EXT_metal_surface.
• Bug fixed. Image layout passed to SubImage is now being respected
• The full Rust code is now generated from vk.xml by autogen directly, instead of using intermediate macros.
• Added storage_buffer() method to BufferUsage.
• Fixed mismatched types on Android.
• Fixed bug in descriptor set validity checking that allowed drawing/dispatching with descriptor sets that didn't match the pipeline.
• Fixed bug where the wrong functions were used for retrieving physical device info.
• Fixed minor bug in retrieving features from the physical device.
• Add BSD platforms to external memory (dma-buf fd) cfgs
• Added support for u8 index buffers with the ext_index_buffer_uint8 extension.
• Descriptor sets now support variable count descriptors.
  • e.g. layout(set = 0, binding = 0) uniform sampler2D textures[];
• Non-breaking Format additions:
  • Formats and their metadata are now auto-generated from vk.xml. This significantly expands the support for YCbCr formats in particular.
  • The compatibility method returns an object that can be used to check the compatibility of two formats, explained here.
  • The components method returns the number of bits in each colour component.
  • The compression method returns the compression scheme as a new enum, CompressionType.
  • The requires_sampler_ycbcr_conversion method returns whether the "sampler YCbCr conversion" must be enabled on an image view and sampler in order to use this format.
  • GraphicsPipelineBuilder now uses Vec instead of SmallVec internally to reduced stack usage.
• Added support for descriptors with immutable samplers.
  • They are included as separate members on the appropriate variants of DescriptorDescTy.
  • Added a set_immutable_samplers method to DescriptorSetDesc, which lets you set the immutable samplers for a descriptor. This can be used together with the closure provided to pipeline constructors.
  • add_image can be used when building a descriptor set, to provide an image to a combined image sampler descriptor that has immutable samplers.
• Updated dependencies:
  • png 0.16 > 0.17
  • time 0.2 > 0.3
• AttachmentImage::current_layer_levels_access() now returns the correct range which solves pipeline barriers only affecting the first layers of of a multi-layer AttachmentImage.
• A new Vulkano-shaders macro option shaders to compile several shaders in a single macro invocation producing generated Rust structs common for all specified shaders without duplications. This feature improves type-safe interoperability between shaders.
• Fixed CommandBufferExecFuture adding the command buffer to queue submission after being flushed.
• Added a spirv module to the main crate, which contains an auto-generated parser for SPIR-V files, and various other utilities that can be used to analyze shaders at runtime.
• DescriptorSetLayout now has variable_descriptor_count which returns the descriptor count in a variable count descriptor if present.
• Additional copy buffer to image checks.
• Add clear_depth_stencil_image to AutoCommandBufferBuilder to clear depth / stencil images.
• AutoCommandBufferBuilder and SyncCommandBufferBuilder now have a state method, which can be used to query the state set by previous "bind" and "set" commands.
• Changed parameters requiring an iterator so that they now take IntoIterator, for more flexibility.
• Removed various custom iterator types in favour of returning impl Iterator.
• Replaced the various dynamic state querying methods of GraphicsPipeline with two: dynamic_state to query a single dynamic state, and dynamic_states to iterate over all of them.

Version 0.25.0 (2021-08-10)

• Breaking Refactoring of PhysicalDevice and related types.
  • The module instance::physical_device is moved to device::physical. Items are exported directly from there.
  • Functions on PhysicalDevice that previously returned a custom iterator type now return impl ExactSizeIterator.
  • PhysicalDevice now has new methods supported_extensions and required_extensions. The equivalent constructors on DeviceExtensions are deprecated, but still present.
• Breaking Renamed Device::loaded_extensions to enabled_extensions, to match the terminology used for enabled_features as well as the Vulkan standard.
• Breaking Renamed Instance::loaded_extensions and loaded_layers to enabled_extensions and enabled_layers respectively.
• Breaking Major reorganisation of the descriptor module. Most importantly, its descriptor_set child is moved to the crate root and everything is placed under there. Full list of module changes:
  • descriptor::descriptor_set::* > descriptor_set.
  • descriptor::descriptor::* > descriptor_set::layout.
    • But ShaderStages* are moved to pipeline::shader.
  • descriptor_set::UnsafeDescriptorSetLayout > descriptor_set::layout::DescriptorSetLayout (renamed).
  • descriptor_set::DescriptorSetDesc > descriptor_set::layout.
  • descriptor_set::{FixedSize*} > descriptor_set::fixed_size_pool.
    • Re-exported descriptor_set::FixedSizeDescriptorSetsPool.
  • descriptor_set::{Persistent*} > descriptor_set::persistent.
    • Re-exported descriptor_set::PersistentDescriptorSet, descriptor_set::PersistentDescriptorSetBuildError, descriptor_set::PersistentDescriptorSetError.
  • descriptor_set::{DescriptorPool*, DescriptorsCount, UnsafeDescriptorSetPool*} > descriptor_set::pool.
  • descriptor_set::{StdDescriptorPool*} > descriptor_set::pool::standard.
    • Re-exported descriptor_set::pool::StdDescriptorPool.
  • descriptor_set::{DescriptorWrite, UnsafeDescriptorSet} > descriptor_set::sys.
  • descriptor_set::collection is now private.
• Breaking Features::superset_of is renamed to is_superset_of.
• Breaking The VertexDefinition trait no longer has AttribsIter and BuffersIter as associated types. It instead returns a VertexInput.
• Breaking The various types for vertex definitions (except BufferlessDefinition) have been replaced with the new BuffersDefinition type, which can handle any number of vertex and instance buffers. Examples of how it's used can be seen in the "instancing" and "teapot" examples.
• Breaking InputRate has been renamed to VertexInputRate to match the Vulkan name. The Instance variant now has a divisor member.
• Breaking DescriptorSetDesc is converted from a trait to a struct. DescriptorSetLayout can take this struct in its constructor, as alternative to the iterator which was already possible previously.
• Breaking PipelineLayout is now built from a list of descriptor set layouts and push constant ranges, like in plain Vulkan. It no longer constructs its own descriptor set layouts internally.
• Breaking PipelineLayoutDescPcRange is renamed to PipelineLayoutPcRange.
• Breaking PipelineLayoutDesc is no longer needed and is removed. Its functionality has been moved to DescriptorSetDesc and PipelineLayoutPcRange. This also applies to ComputeEntryPoint, GraphicsEntryPoint and EntryPointAbstract.
• Breaking PipelineLayout now has a descriptor_set_layouts method which returns a slice of all the layouts, replacing the previous descriptor_set_layout which only returned one at a time.
• Breaking Vulkano is now relaying on features from Rustc >= 1.53.0.
• Breaking The boolean graphics parameter on the bind_descriptor_sets method of SyncCommandBufferBuilder, UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder and StateCacher has been replaced with a new enum PipelineBindPoint.
• Breaking Known physical device properties (VkPhysicalDeviceProperties, VkPhysicalDeviceLimits, VkPhysicalDeviceSparseProperties) are now no longer Option<T>.
  • These properties are available with every vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2 call.
  • Add some Default instances to make the auto trait happy.
• Breaking Values that represent a size, offset or index on the device are now represented as DeviceSize (a type alias of u64).
• Breaking Fix in push constant ranges with intersecting stage flags.
• Added support for the ext_vertex_attribute_divisor extension, via the new BuffersDefinition type and the additions to VertexInputRate.
• Added is_superset_of method to DeviceExtensions and InstanceExtensions.
• Examples now enable only the features they need instead of all of them.
• Examples have much smarter device selection logic. In the triangle example this is supplied with comments.
• Errors checking(by unwrapping) in MappedDeviceMemory::read_write.
• Add creation of Semaphores with exportable Linux file descriptor on.
• Add method to export file descriptor corresponding to Semaphore.
• SemaphoreBuilder introduced.
• Add DisplayNative enum variant to ColorSpaceEnum (AMD-specific feature).
• Vulkano-shaders now provides the image format for descriptors, if the shader requires a specific format.
• Vulkano-shaders now uses the spirv_headers crate for some of its types.
• Large allocations now use dedicated allocations which improves memory efficiency.
• Add Clone interface for LayerProperties.
• Fixed detection of storage buffers in SPIR-V so that it works for all SPIR-V versions.
• Added VertexInput type, which contains the binding and attribute descriptions.
• Added a vertex_input method to GraphicsPipelineAbstract, which returns a reference to the vertex input.
• Add support for 8bit uniform storage.
• Added limits check for vertex buffer binding numbers.
• Fixed synchronization bug where pipeline barriers were placed based on the binding of resources instead of the draw/dispatch calls that use them.
• SyncCommandBufferBuilder and UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder accept any IntoIterator where they previously only accepted Iterator.
• Updated ash to 0.33.0, vk.xml to 1.2.185, and ran cargo update to update other dependencies' patch versions.
• Add support for EXTENDED_SRGB_NONLINEAR_EXT color space.
• Better error message for wrong color space value
• Added impl BitOr for debug::MessageType and debug::MessageSeverity and some bit field generators, also turning them into const fn.

Version 0.24.0 (2021-06-20)

• Breaking Vulkano-shaders now checks if the device supports the shader's SPIR-V version, when loading the shader.
• Breaking (but unlikely) Vulkano-shaders now compiles to SPIR-V 1.0 by default. If your shader needs features only available in a higher version, you can specify the target version on the shader! macro with the new vulkan_version: "major.minor" and spirv_version: "major.minor" arguments.
• Breaking Changes to how image sample counts are represented.
  • Instead of an integer, functions with a parameter for number of image samples now take a value of SampleCount, an enum with variants named SampleN, where N is a power-of-two integer. It can be converted to a Vulkan SampleCountFlags, and from an integer with try_from.
  • sample_counts field is originaly represented as u32 type, which is now represented by SampleCounts struct-type which is a boolean collection of supported sample_counts. It can be converted to and from a Vulkan SampleCountFlags.
• Breaking Changes to shader interfaces and pipeline layouts.
  • The module descriptor::pipeline_layout has been renamed to pipeline::layout.
  • The trait ShaderInterfaceDef has been replaced by a simple struct ShaderInterface, and its elements method returns a slice instead of an iterator. This means you no longer need to define a new type for a shader interface. The accompanying type ShaderInterfaceDefEntry has been renamed to ShaderInterfaceEntry to match. The ShaderInterfaceDefMatch trait and EmptyShaderInterfaceDef struct have been removed.
  • The trait PipelineLayoutDesc has also been converted into a struct, with methods descriptor_sets and push_constants which return slices. It is functionally equivalent to the old RuntimePipelineDesc type, which is now merged into it. The traits PipelineLayoutSuperset, PipelineLayoutSetsCompatible and PipelineLayoutPushConstantsCompatible have been integrated into this struct as well. The EmptyPipelineDesc trait has been replaced with an ::empty() constructor.
  • Consequently, functions that took a value of these traits now take a plain ShaderInterface or PipelineLayoutDesc. Types that had a type parameter for it no longer have it, e.g. VertexDefinition, GraphicsEntryPoint, GraphicsEntryPointAbstract, PipelineLayout.
  • Now that PipelineLayout has no more type parameter, the trait PipelineLayoutAbstract is removed. The layout type parameter is also removed from ComputePipeline and GraphicsPipeline.
  • ComputeEntryPoint and GraphicsEntryPoint now take a value specifying the push constants descriptor, instead of having a type parameter. The corresponding associated type on EntryPointAbstract has been removed.
  • The GraphicsEntryPointAbstract trait has been removed. GraphicsPipelineBuilder now takes a GraphicsEntryPoint object directly, and has lifetime parameters for the 5 shader types instead. EntryPointDummy is no longer needed and has been removed.
• Breaking The constructors of Instance now take an additional argument to specify the maximum API version.
• Breaking Vulkano is now built on top of Ash instead of vk-sys.
  • The EntryPoints, InstancePointers and DevicePointers types from vk-sys have been replaced with a new module fns containing EntryFunctions, InstanceFunctions and DeviceFunctions. Rather than containing the functions directly, there is a member for each Vulkan version and extension, which is loaded from Ash.
  • The functions to retrieve the function pointers have been renamed to fns.
  • The TYPE associated constant has been removed from the VulkanObject trait. This is now provided by the Ash Handle trait, which the object returned by internal_object must implement.
• Breaking RawInstanceExtensions and RawDeviceExtensions have been removed. The Instance and Device constructors now take &InstanceExtensions and &DeviceExtensions respectively. The loaded_extensions function returns these reference types as well.
• Breaking The restrictions of each enabled extension and feature are checked when creating an instance or device.
• Breaking Physical device properties are now retrieved through a new properties method, returning a &Properties reference.
  • To allow for the possibility that not every property is known by the physical device, fields in Properties are wrapped by an Option.
  • The previous methods for retrieving properties, name, ty, limits, driver_version, pci_device_id, pci_vendor_id, uuid and extended_properties, have been removed.
  • The api_version method remains, but there is now a semantic difference between it and the version reported by properties: The raw property gives the maximum supported version that the driver itself reports, while the method on PhysicalDevice returns the version a logical device would support if it were created from this physical device (that is, restricted by the instance's max_api_version).
• Breaking ImageAccess trait method try_gpu_lock() now has an additional argument to allow locking the image in an uninitialized state.`
• Breaking The conflicts_buffer and conflicts_image methods on the BufferAccess and ImageAccess traits are removed.
• Breaking Draw and dispatch calls on AutoCommandBufferBuilder no longer have a parameter for dynamic offsets. Instead, they are provided as part of the descriptor sets parameter. They are added to each descriptor set individually using the new offsets method on the DescriptorSet trait. SyncCommandBufferBuilder and StateCacher likewise take dynamic offsets as part of the descriptor set.
• Breaking StencilFaceFlags is renamed to StencilFaces, and its variants are also shortened.
• Breaking DynamicStencilValue now contains a front and a back value.
• Breaking The stencil state commands of SyncCommandBufferBuilder now take a StencilFaces value and a u32 instead of DynamicStencilValue.
• Improve ImageLayout checks to prevent AccessError::ImageNotInitialized from occurring where the image is safe to use uninitialized.
• Added DeviceExtensions::khr_spirv_1_4, which allows SPIR-V 1.4 shaders in Vulkan 1.1.
• Added FunctionPointers::api_version to query the highest supported instance version.
• Added Instance::api_version and Device::api_version to return the actual supported Vulkan version. These may differ between instance and device, and be lower than what FunctionPointers::api_version and PhysicalDevice::api_version return.
• Added Instance::max_api_version, which returns the maximum version that was specified when creating the instance.
• Fixed the issue when creating a buffer with exportable fd on Linux(see to #1545).
• The draw_indirect and draw_indexed_indirect commands on AutoCommandBufferBuilder now check the draw count against the max_draw_indirect_count limit.
• Fixed a few documentation errors.
• It is now possible to construct a graphics pipeline without a fragment shader.
• Added support for all core Vulkan 1.1 and 1.2 device features.
• Updated winit to 0.25.
• Fixed the teapot example on ArchLinux (GTX 1650).
• Added support for the SPIR-V draw parameters capability.
• Added support for the VK_KHR_multiview extension.
• Vulkano-shaders: Added support for MultiView SPIR-V capability.
• Multiview example added showing how to utilize the VK_KHR_multiview extension to render to multiple layers of a framebuffer at once.
• All Vulkan extensions supported by Ash are now provided in InstanceExtensions and DeviceExtensions. This includes all but the very newest extensions; new extensions should be added whenever Ash is updated to a new version.
• Every extension is now documented with a link to its Vulkan page and information about requirements, conflicts, promotion and deprecation.
• InstanceExtensions and DeviceExtensions now have a From implementation that takes an iterator of &CStr. There is also a From implementation for Vec<CString> that performs the reverse conversion.
• All Vulkan features supported by Ash are now provided.
• Implement fmt::Display for DisplayMode.
• Clarify return value is in millihertz for DisplayMode.refresh_rate()
• Reworked some of the internals of SyncCommandBufferBuilder, so that a mutex is no longer needed and resource conflict detection is simplified.
• Features::all and Features::none are now const fn.

Version 0.23.0 (2021-04-10)

• Breaking Changes to command buffers:
  • AutoCommandBuffer and the CommandBuffer trait have been split in two, one for primary and the other for secondary command buffers. AutoCommandBufferBuilder remains one type, but has a type parameter for the level of command buffer it will be creating, and some of its methods are only implemented for builders that create PrimaryAutoCommandBuffer.
  • The Flags enum is renamed to CommandBufferUsage, and is exported from the main command_buffer module. The None variant is renamed to MultipleSubmit.
  • Simplified the number of constructors on AutoCommandBufferBuilder by adding a CommandBufferUsage parameter.
  • Kind has been renamed to CommandBufferLevel, and for secondary command buffers it now contains a single CommandBufferInheritance value.
  • CommandBufferInheritance::occlusion_query and UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder::begin_query now take QueryControlFlags instead of a boolean.
• Breaking The non-default constructors of ImageView have been replaced with a builder, created with ImageView::start(image).
• Breaking Added support for component mapping/swizzling on image views.
  • image::Swizzle is moved and renamed to image::view::ComponentMapping. It now has an is_identity method.
  • A non-default component mapping can now be specified for image views, via the new builder. A ComponentMapping parameter has been added to UnsafeImageView as well.
  • The identity_swizzle method on the ImageViewAbstract trait has been replaced with component_mapping, which returns a ComponentMapping directly.
  • Storage image and input attachment descriptors now check for identity swizzling when being built.
• Breaking Major rearranging of framebuffer and render pass-related types:
  • The framebuffer module is renamed to render_pass.
  • RenderPassDesc is now a struct, not a trait. The methods have been simplified, returning a slice reference to the attachments, subpasses and dependencies.
    • Renamed: AttachmentDescription > AttachmentDesc, PassDescription > SubpassDesc, PassDependencyDescription > SubpassDependencyDesc.
    • EmptySinglePassRenderPassDesc is replaced with the RenderPassDesc::empty constructor, or its Default implementation.
    • The RenderPassCompatible, RenderPassDescClearValues and RenderPassSubpassInterface traits are removed, their functionality is moved to RenderPassDesc.
  • RenderPass takes a concrete RenderPassDesc value for construction, and no longer has a type parameter.
    • The RenderPassAbstract trait is removed.
    • GraphicsPipeline and Framebuffer no longer have a render pass type parameter.
    • GraphicsPipelineAbstract and FramebufferAbstract have trait methods to retrieve the render pass instead.
  • The ordered_passes_renderpass! and single_pass_renderpass! macros are unchanged externally.
• Support for queries:
  • Breaking UnsafeQueryPool, UnsafeQuery and UnsafeQueriesRange have Unsafe removed from their names.
  • Breaking QueriesRange is now represented with a standard Rust Range in its API.
  • Breaking The secondary command buffer constructors that have parameters for queries will check if the corresponding features are enabled, and return a different error type.
  • Removed OcclusionQueriesPool, which was incomplete and never did anything useful.
  • get_results has been added to QueriesRange, to copy query results to the CPU.
  • The following functions have been added to both SyncCommandBufferBuilder and AutoCommandBufferBuilder: begin_query (still unsafe), end_query (safe), write_timestamp (still unsafe), copy_query_pool_results (safe), reset_command_pool (still unsafe).
  • Better documentation of everything in the query module.
  • An example demonstrating occlusion queries.
• Breaking Improved the handling of image aspects a little, with the enum ImageAspect and the struct ImageAspects. UnsafeCommandBufferBuilderImageAspect has been removed.
• Breaking Removed the separate structs for each image format. Now, only the Format enum exists.
  • Traits that no longer make sense in this context have been removed: FormatDesc, the Possible*FormatDesc traits, StrongStorage.
  • In types that had a type parameter for the format type, it has been removed.
  • AcceptsPixels has been converted to Pixel, which is implemented on the pixel type rather than on the format type.
• Breaking shader! will generate descriptor information for all variables declared in the shader module, even if they are not used. This reverts the default behavior from the last release.
  • Breaking Added the exact_entrypoint_interface option to shader! to force vulkano to only generate descriptor information for variables that are used. (the default behavior from the last release)
• Breaking AccessFlagBits is renamed to AccessFlags.
• Breaking Minor refactor of UnsafeBuffer:
  • Replaced the various usage functions with a single usage function, mirroring the change made earlier to UnsafeImage.
  • The SparseLevel::sparse member is removed, and UnsafeBuffer::new takes Option<SparseLevel> instead.
• Breaking Swapchain is now constructed using a builder. Swapchain::start will start building a new blank swapchain. Calling recreate on an existing swapchain will create a builder filled with all the properties of the old swapchain.
• Added two methods to Format: planes to query the number of planes in the format, and aspects to query what aspects an image of this type has.
• The deprecated cause trait function on Vulkano error types is replaced with source.
• Fixed bug in descriptor array layers check when the image is a cubemap.
• Vulkano-shaders: Fixed and refined the generation of the readonly descriptor attribute. It should now correctly mark uniforms and sampled images as read-only, but storage buffers and images only if explicitly marked as readonly in the shader.
• Vulkano-shaders: Added support for StoragePushConstant8 SPIR-V capability.
• Fixed a bug which caused a segfault when extending memory allocation info in DeviceMemoryBuilder
• BufferlessDefinition and BufferlessVertices now derive Copy and Clone. This allows GraphicsPipelineBuilders that have not yet defined a vertex buffer type to be cloned.
• Various functions for converting to/from Vulkan flags have been consolidated into implementations of the standard From trait.
• Export root-level entry_point method on loader::FunctionPointers type.
• Add few more InstanceExtensions from KHR and EXT.

Version 0.22.0 (2021-03-31)

• Breaking Updated all code to Rust 2018 edition.
• Breaking DeviceMemoryBuilder::new() takes in memory_index rather than MemoryType.
• Fixed shader! generated descriptor set layouts for shader modules with multiple entrypoints.
  • Breaking Prefixed shader! generated descriptor set Layout structs with the name of the entrypoint the layout belongs to. For shaders generated from GLSL source, this means Layout has been renamed to MainLayout.
  • Breaking shader! will no longer generate descriptor information for variables that are declared but not used in a shader.
• Breaking shader! now accepts structs in shader interfaces decorated with BufferBlock rather than Block.
• Fixed missing barriers in dispatch calls
  • Breaking shader! no longer marks descriptor sets as readonly as a fallback when it doesn't know
    • Breaking The keyword readonly might need to be added in front of the buffer keyword in GLSL files to get them working again
• Breaking Changes to image types:
  • Image types no longer implement ImageViewAccess.
  • Dimensions is removed. Image constructors now take ImageDimensions.
  • ImageDimensions no longer has the cubemap_compatible member. Instead, several image constructors take ImageCreateFlags which specifies this aspect.
  • Replaced the various functions of UnsafeImage to query format features and usage with two that simply return Formatfeatures and ImageUsage.
• Breaking Changes to image view handling:
  • Created a new image::view module for all image view related things.
  • Introduced a new ImageView type, a safe wrapper around UnsafeImageView.
  • The ImageViewAccess trait is renamed to ImageViewAbstract, some methods added, removed or renamed. ImageView implements this trait.
  • UnsafeImageView no longer holds image usage information, nor does it check for valid usage.
• Breaking UnsafeCommandBuffer and SyncCommandBuffer and their corresponding builders and other related types no longer have a type parameter for the command pool allocation, and no longer keep the command pool alive. Their constructors now take an &UnsafeCommandPoolAlloc. Users must now ensure that the pool allocation outlives the command buffers and their builders (AutoCommandBuffer does this itself).
• Breaking The CommandBuffer trait no longer has the PoolAlloc associated type, and has four new methods: num_buffers, buffer, num_images and image.
• Breaking structures passed to ImmutableBuffer::from_data and CpuAccessibleBuffer::from_data must implement Copy to ensure soundness of these functions
• Replaced deprecated compare_and_swap with compare_exchange.
• UnsafeCommandPoolAlloc now implements DeviceOwned.
• Allow const usage of features and BufferUsage.
• Opaque fd and dma-buf import support on Linux.
• DeviceMemoryMapping to separate device memory and mappings.
• Added external memory support for DeviceLocalBuffer for Linux.
• Implemented synchronization for SyncCommandBufferBuilder::execute_commands.
• AutoCommandBufferBuilder::execute_commands is now fully safe to use.
• SyncCommandBufferBuilder now becomes poisoned when it returns an error, to prevent using the builder in an inconsistent state.
• Added a dispatch_indirect command to AutoCommandBufferBuilder.

Version 0.21.0 (2021-03-05)

• Breaking Message::layer_prefix turned to Option to prevent segfaults when Vulkan message didn't provide pMessageIdName value
• Breaking On AutoCommandBufferBuilder, methods that bind a descriptor set now take a dynamic_offsets parameter
• Breaking On AutoCommandBufferBuilder and SyncCommandBufferBuilder, the update_buffer method now takes data by reference
• Breaking Made PipelineLayoutDescTweaks public, for use with compute pipelines
• Added support for ImageAspect and YV12/NV12 formats, for use with the UnsafeImage API.
• Added basic VK_KHR_external_memory, VK_KHR_external_memory_fd, and VK_EXT_external_memory_dma_buf support.
• Fixed potential segmentation fault in ComputePipeline when referencing PipelineCache objects.
• Fixed race condition in StandardCommandPool when allocating buffers.
• Fixed potential stack overflow error in loading large shaders by storing the bytecode as static.
• Fixed descriptor set layouts with arrays containing more than one element triggering unreachable code.
• Fixed panic on some machines when calling Surface::capabilities
• Added basic support and safety checks for dynamic uniform/storage buffers
• Updated dependencies:
  • crossbeam 0.7 -> 0.8
  • half 1.6 -> 1.7
  • shaderc 0.6 -> 0.7
  • smallvec 1.4 -> 1.6
  • cgmath 0.17 -> 0.18 (for examples)
  • png 0.15 -> 0.16 (for examples)
  • time 0.1 -> 0.2 (for examples)
• Added VK_KHR_portability_subset device extension.
• Added DeviceExtensions::required_extensions function that returns a set of available extensions required to create Device on this platform.
• FormatFeatures now implements Copy.
• Removed the AttachmentImageView trait, which didn't appear to be used for anything anyway.
• Added support and validation for the mutable_format and block_texel_view_compatible image creation flags.
• Added format to the ImageViewBuilder, to choose a different format from the underlying image.

Version 0.20.0 (2020-12-26)

• Breaking The ImmutableImage::from_iter and ImmutableImage::from_buffer can build Mipmaps
• Breaking CpuAccessibleBuffer now uses RwLock from parking_lot.
• Breaking The Kind and SubpassContents types have been moved to the root of the command_buffer module.
• Breaking On AutoCommandBufferBuilder, the methods begin_render_pass and next_subpass now take SubpassContents instead of a boolean value.
• Breaking The CommandBuffer trait now has an additional required method, kind.
• Breaking Update dependency winit 0.22 -> 0.24
• Breaking Added an Option to the ComputePipeline constructor to enable pipeline caching.
• Add support for 8bit storage.
• Some safety checks have been added to execute_commands/execute_commands_from_vec on AutoCommandBufferBuilder, but not everything is checked yet so it's still unsafe to call.
• Added two vulkano-win features raw-window-handle_ and winit_ to be able to use vulkano without winit.
• Added function to create surface from RawWindowHandle.
• Added a properties method to Format.
• Added additional device feature flags for enabling SPIR-V related capabilities.
• Added method copy_buffer_dimensions that allows copying parts of buffers containing arrays.
• Added debug_marker_begin, debug_marker_end and debug_marker_insert to AutoCommandBufferBuilder.
• Fixed surface creation function on Windows(PR #1410).
• Travis CI Linux Nightly job temporary disabled until #1423 resolved.
• Renamed feature from shader_f3264 to shader_float64.
• Added method build_with_cache to the GraphicsPipelineBuilder that enables pipeline caching.
• Check usage bits on image when creating image view.
• Fixing an assertion panic in the SyncCommandBuffer. If the buffer encountered an error while locking the necessary resources, it would unlock all previously locked resources. Images were unlocked incorrectly and an assert in the image unlock function would panic.
• Added support for including precompiled shaders in vulkano-shaders using the bytes option.
• Added an option for Vulkano-Shaders macro to automatically generate standard traits(Default, PartialEq, etc) implementations for Rust types generated from the Shader types, and to derive these structs with external traits.
• Fixed clear Cubemap and CubemapArray framebuffer attachment dimensions; previously only 1/6th of the layers in each of these image layouts were actually considered by the framebuffer (for clearing and rendering). This seems to have been a result of the difference between Dimensions and ImageDimensions.

Version 0.19.0 (2020-06-01)

• Breaking AutoCommandBufferBuilder methods now take a mutable reference to self instead of taking ownership
• Update smallvec 1.2 -> 1.4
• Added additional ImageUsage constructor functions, color_attachment, depth_stencil_attachment, transient_color_attachment & transient_depth_stencil_attachment.
• Update dependency half 1.5 -> 1.6
• Update MacOS dependency metal 0.17 -> 0.18
• Added additional checks around image/device compatibility.
• Fixed all warnings as of Rust 1.43.1
• Provides new API to fetch additional information of the Physical Device from the PhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR structure whenever it possible. In the current implementation only subgroupSize property is fetching. This interface can be extended in the future to obtain more metadata depending on community needs.
• dynamic-local-size compute shader example added showing how to utilize subgroupSize to compute and set shader's local size in run time.
• Fixed Vulkano Shaders bug when compute shader local group layout values bound to specialization constants. Now it is possible to define the layout in form of layout(local_size_x_id = 12, local_size_y_id = 13, local_size_z = 1) in; and then set the values as SpecializationConstants {constant_12: 8, constant_13: 4, ...}.
• Allow applications to access the instance and device pointers
• Add a helper function '.boxed()' on the GpuFuture that is short for Box::new(yourFuture) as Box<dyn GpuFuture>

Version 0.18.0 (2020-03-11)

• Breaking Update dependency winit 0.21 -> 0.22
• Update dependency half 1.4 -> 1.5
• Update dependency smallvec 0.6 -> 1.2

Version 0.17.0 (2020-02-09)

• Breaking Swapchain::recreate_with_dimension() is now Swapchain::recreate_with_dimensions()
• Breaking Sync::SharingMode::Exclusive(queue_family: u32) is now Sync::SharingMode::Exclusive.
• Breaking Added Swapchain::with_old_swapchain() - same as previous Swapchain::new(), if an oldswapchain needs to be used
• Breaking Swapchain::new() now doesnt need to have the old_swapchain parameter anymore but requires the ColorSpace
• Breaking Decouple descriptor sets from pipeline
• Breaking Update Winit to 0.21.0
• Breaking Add host_cached field to all CpuAccessibleBuffer initializers to allow the user to perfer host cached memory.
• Breaking Added fullscreen_exclusive field to Swapchain initializers to allow the user to specify how fullscreen exclusivity should be handled.
  • Swapchain methods added: Swapchain::acquire_fullscreen_exclusive(), Swapchain::release_fullscreen_exclusive(), and Swapchain::is_fullscreen_exclusive()
• Add function execute_commands_from_vec to handle submission of multiple secondary command buffers.
• Allow DebugCallback to be sent between threads
• Pipeline barriers are now correctly inserted when a resource is used more than two times.
• Update MacOS dependency cocoa to 0.20
• Fixed code generated by shader! macro so that SSBO's are supported again (broken in 0.16.0).
• Added Swapchain::surface() - which returns the saved surface
• Propogate new lines correctly in shader compile errors.
• Queue and QueueFamily now implement PartialEq and Eq
• `Swapchain::acquire_next_image()now returns(image_id, suboptimal, aquire_future)``
  • suboptimal indicates that the swapchain is usable, but should be recreated
• Fixed Join Future implementation to not submit joined command buffers twice.
• The traits GraphicsPipelineAbstract and DescriptorSet now require DeviceOwned.
• Added PartialEq, Eq and Hash implementations to all types involved in a draw call, including:
  • Instance, Device, GraphicsPipeline and dyn GraphicsPipelineAbstract
  • UnsafeBuffer and all types implementing BufferAccess
  • UnsafeImage, UnsafeImageView and all types implementing ImageAccess or ImageViewAccess
  • All types implementing DescriptorSet

Version 0.16.0 (2019-11-01)

• Fixed bug in examples causing OutOfHostMemory errors
• Replaced VK_EXT_debug_report VK_EXT_debug_marker with VK_EXT_debug_utils.
• Update MacOS dependencies metal to 0.17 and cocoa to 0.19
• Added dynamic stencil elements to DynamicState
• Fixed ImageDimensions::mipmap_dimensions and max_mipmaps in cases where the original size is not a power of two.
• Shader includes now work on Windows.
• Breaking Change Shader include directories passed to the shader! macro are now relative to the crates Cargo.toml
• Add support for VK_KHR_16bit_storage and VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class device extensions.
• Update dependencies: lazy_static, half, syn, quote & proc-macro2
• Swapchain can now be recreated with dimensions of corresponding surface using recreate().
• Added raw_loaded_extensions() to Instance to allow querying of all extensions, not just known ones.
• Breaking Change loaded_extensions() on Instance no longer returns a reference.
• Add support for GLSL macro defines to the shader! macro.
• Switch to Vulkan 1.1 and inherently SpirV 1.3 (shaderc default version for vulkan 1.1)

Version 0.15.0 (2019-10-18)

Yanked

Version 0.14.0 (2019-08-17)

• Update shaderc to 0.6. This again allows to use locally installed libraries which reduces the build-time significantly on Arch/Voidlinux (see https://github.com/google/shaderc-rs/issues/58)
• Removed faulty debug_assert in SwapchainAcquireFuture::drop.
• Compressed texture formats can now be uploaded using ImmutableImage::from_iter, ImmutableImage::from_buffer, AutoCommandBuilder::copy_buffer_to_image_dimensions, and AutoCommandBuilder::copy_buffer_to_image.

Version 0.13.0 (2019-07-02)

This is an emergency breaking breaking change. It fixes Undefined Behaviour that was preventing the compilation of Vulkano on the latest rust nightlies.

• Structs that have the impl_vertex macro applied to them, now also need to #[derive(Default)].

Version 0.12.0 (2019-05-24)

• Update shaderc to 0.5. New shaderc has improved pre-built options for libshaderc that significantly reduce package build time and are appropriate for use in CI
• QueueFamily::explicitly_supports_tranfers only returns true if vk::QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT is set instead of also always returning true. Removed supports_transfers.
• Update to winit 0.19
• Add support for #include "..." and #include <...> directives within source files.
• Add a union method for the extensions types.
• Make BufferUsage derive PartialEq and Eq
• Fix a compiler error in struct code generated by the shader! macro.
• Improve inference of image layout transitions and in turn image memory barrier behaviour.

Version 0.11.1 (2018-11-16)

• Expose CopyImageError and DrawIndexedIndirectError.

Version 0.11.0 (2018-11-08) (yanked because vk-sys 0.3.4 was accidentally breaking vulkano 0.10)

• Update to winit 0.18
• Export features and device extensions from the device module instead of the instance module
  • instance::Features -> device::Features
  • instance::DeviceExtensions -> device::DeviceExtensions
  • instance::RawDeviceExtensions -> device::RawDeviceExtensions
• Added vulkano_shaders::shader! proc macro, use this instead of vulkano_shader_deriver::VulkanoShaders.
• The entire vulkano_shader_derive crate is deprecated.
• vulkano_shaders::{reflect, compile, Error} are no longer public.
• Remove vulkano_shaders::build_glsl_shaders
• Removed mir support, as it is being removed from the vulkan spec.
• Split PersistentDescriptorSetError::MissingUsage into MissingImageUsage and MissingBufferUsage each with a matching enum indicating the usage that was missing.
• Fix instance_count when using draw_index with instance buffers
• Added a reinterpret function to BufferSlice
• Made AttributeInfo derive Copy, Clone and Debug
• Use google/shaderc for shader compilation
• Reject generation of rust types for SPIR-V arrays that would have incorrect array stride.
• Removed the Layout prefix of the descriptions used for a render pass.
• Implemented DescriptorSetCollection for Vec<T> which allows easier use of construction them for usage when drawing.

Version 0.10.0 (2018-08-10)

• Use dynamically loaded libvulkan like on other platforms instead of linking to MoltenVK on macOS
• Updated winit to version 0.17.
• Allow custom implementations of RenderPassDesc to specify VK_SUBPASS_EXTERNAL as a dependency source or destination
• Added vulkano_win::create_vk_surface which allows creating a surface safely without taking ownership of the window.
• AutoCommandBufferBuilder::draw and friends no longer consume the DynamicState argument, allowing reuse between calls.
• Instance::new and Instance::with_loader now take in the layers as an iterator of borrowed strs, not of references to borrowed strs.

Version 0.9.0 (2018-03-13)

• Updated winit to version 0.11.

Version 0.8.0 (2018-03-11)

• Changed ShaderInterfaceMismatchError to be more verbose.
• Allow depth/stencil images to be used with AutoCommandBufferBuilder::copy_image_to_buffer()
• Allow Surface to own the window it references.
• Clear value validation for AutoCommandBufferBuilder::begin_render_pass()
• Fix occasional truncation of glslang_validator when glsl-to-spirv is rebuilt
• Fix linking against MoltenVK >= 0.19.0
• Fix panic on DeviceLost error after resizing swapchain on nvidia/amd hardware
• Added AutoCommandBufferBuilder::copy_image
• Added VulkanObject::TYPE to look up the DebugReportObjectTypeEXT of an object
• Added Device::set_object_name and Device::set_object_name_raw
• Added GraphicsPipelineBuilder::with_auto_layout to simplify use of dynamic buffers.

Version 0.7.3 (2018-02-10)

Yanked

Version 0.7.2 (2017-10-09)

• Allow impl_vertex! to support generic structs.
• Added GraphicsPipelineBuilder::with_pipeline_layout.
• Fixed creating a buffer view not checking the min_texel_buffer_offset_alignment limit.
• Added support for loading the VK_EXT_debug_marker extension and adding debug markers to UnsafeCommandBufferBuilder
• Changed GraphicsPipelineBuilder to default to a buffer-less vertex input.
• Deprecated pipeline::input_assembly::InputAssembly.

Version 0.7.1 (2017-09-28)

• Fixed an HiDPI scaling issue on MacOS in vulkano-win.
• Fixed le() and ge() for DescriptorsCount, which also fixes a potential memory leak when allocating descriptor sets.
• Fixed the ordered_passes_renderpass! macro not working properly when using resolve.
• Added an optional resolve entry in pass for single_pass_renderpass!, for resolving multisampled attachments into non-multisampled attachments.
• Fixed the value of rasterizationSamples not corresponding to the render pass.
• Added GraphicsPipelineBuilder::sample_shading_disabled, sample_shading_enabled, alpha_to_coverage_disabled, alpha_to_coverage_enabled, alpha_to_one_disabled and alpha_to_one_enabled. Added GraphicsPipelineCreationError::SampleRateShadingFeatureNotEnabled and AlphaToOneFeatureNotEnabled.
• Deprecated pipeline::multisample::Multisample.

Version 0.7.0 (2017-09-21)

• Added RuntimePipelineDesc, an implementation of PipelineLayoutDesc that makes creating custom layouts easier.
• Changed CpuBufferPool::next() and chunk() to return a Result in case of an error when allocating or mapping memory.
• Changed CommandBufferExecError::AccessError to provide a hint of where the error occurs.
• Added vulkano::pipeline::vertex::BufferlessDefinition and BufferlessVertices to enable bufferless drawing.
• Changed ImageAccess::try_gpu_lock and unlock() to verify whether the image layout is correct, especially at the first usage of an image.
• Changed BufferAccess::conflict_* and ImageAccess::conflict_* to forbid querying a specific range of the resource.
• Fixed layers argument validation in Swapchain::new_inner.
• Added a 32-bit word constructor for ShaderModule (ShaderModule::from_words).
• Changed the various is_superset_of functions to return a Result instead of a bool.

Version 0.6.2 (2017-09-06)

• Added checking compatibility between the descriptor sets and the pipeline object when adding a draw or compute command.
• Fixed several bugs in the validation checks of blit_image.
• Fixed blit_image, copy_buffer_to_image and copy_image_to_buffer not taking the mipmap level into account when checking for the correct image dimensions.
• Added ImageDimensions::mipmap_dimensions() and ImageDimensions::num_mipmaps().
• Added an implementation of DeviceOwned for QueuesIter and Queue.
• Fixed the standard command pool and descriptor pool being destroyed too often.
• Added #[allow(non_snake_case)] to structs generated by vulkano-shaders.