Khronos Group Releases SPIR-V 1.6.5

The SPIR Working Group released the SPIR-V specification revision 1.6.5. This regular maintenance release has valuable clarifications and updates to the standard, including new extension enumerants and improved terminology for instructions that operate on groups of invocations. All resources can be found on the Khronos SPIR-V landing page.

LunarG Ecosystem Surveys

Help shape Vulkan's future and take the 2025 Ecosystem Survey. The survey closes February 19, 2025. Lunar G also released the 2024 Ecosystem Survey Progress Report. The document describes how LunarG has used the feedback many of you provided last year in their effort to improve the Vulkan ecosystem.

LLVM 20 Promotes SPIR-V To Official Backend

LLVM developers have agreed to raise the SPIR-V back-end from experimental to official target within the LLVM 20 compiler codebase.

Exploring the glTF External Reference Format

The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group is developing a reference format that will enable creators to efficiently combine multiple glTF assets into sophisticated scenes. It us under active developments and the group is seeking feedback.

Vulkan GPU-assisted validation startup time improved by >10X

LunarG describes how they improved startup time by employing four main strategies to accelerate the process: leveraging the DontInLine flag, segmenting instrumentation, utilizing Vulkan robustness features, and optimizing for graphics pipeline libraries.

Gaussian Splats Town Hall

January 22, 2025 - Online

Vulkanised 2025

February 11-13, 2025 - Cambridge, UK

Embedded World 2025

March 11-13, 2025 - Nürnberg, Germany

Image Sensors Europe 2025

March 18-19, 2025 - London, UK

IWOCL 2025

April 7-11, 2025 - Heidelberg, Germany