Glossary:Vulkan
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Vulkan is an open-standard, cross-language, multi-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering graphics in both 2D and 3D. First released in 2016, it was intended to replace OpenGL in its purpose. Despite this, it is not natively backwards-compatible with it.
General information
Version history
| Version | Released | Notes |
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| 1.0 | February 16, 2016 | |
| 1.1 | March 7, 2018 | |
| 1.2 | January 15, 2020 | |
| 1.3 | January 25, 2022 |