The OpenCL™ 3.0 specification and SDK for heterogeneous parallel computation are regularly updated with bug fixes, improved documentation, and functional enhancements. The OpenCL 3.0.12 maintenance released on 15 September 2022, included significant new functionality.

Introduction With the release of the VK_EXT_mesh_shader extension Vulkan gets an alternative geometry rasterization pipeline. This extension brings cross-vendor mesh shading to Vulkan, with a focus on improving functional compatibility with DirectX 12. Mesh and Task shaders follow the compute programming model and use threads cooperatively to generate meshes within a workgroup. The vertex and index data for these meshes are written similarly to s