News

In this section, you’ll find the news log alonside the roadmap of the project.

Project Roadmap (and thoughts)

• Add a HTML5/emscripten application backend

• Add a WebGPU graphics backend (will surely alter haiku/graphics.h public API)

• Support hardware ray tracing

Changelog (DD/MM/YYYY)

• 0.25.4 (05/03/2026)

  • Fixed bug when swapchain images are created after numerous applications resources

  • Updated documentation

  • Added API-Reference

• 0.25.1 (08/10/2025)

  • Added specialization constants for compute pipelines

  • Fixed AST Generation pipeline

• 0.24.0 (06/10/2025)

  • Breaking API change: hkgfx_view_resize became hkgfx_view_update

  • Added hkgfx_device_get_subgroup_size to vulkan and mockup backends

  • hkgfx_module_list_all_devices now logs subgroup size

  • Updated documentation

  • Fixed typos in log messages

• 0.23.2 (24/07/2025)

  • Updated mockup backend,

  • Updated documentation,

  • Updated logs on startup,

• 0.23.0 (26/06/2025)

  • Fixed enums typos

  • Exposed length of paths (drag and drop)

• 0.22.3 (04/06/2025)

  • Fixed CMakelists/API typos

  • Started “Mock” backend

• 0.22.0 (29/04/2025)

  • Added support for atomics on 64bits integers

  • Added CPack to package haiku binaries using CMake

  • Updated documentation

• 0.21.0 (04/04/2025)

  • Changed C++ bindgen move/copy constructors

  • Added extended dynamic state to vulkan backend

  • Added hkgfx_context_set_cullmode and hkgfx_context_set_front_face

• 0.20.0 (18/03/2025)

  • Added hkgfx_device_load_statistics and hkgfx_device_unload_statistics which dumps json formatted file tracing all gpu allocations.

  • hk_image_t and hk_buffer_t labels are now forwarded to VMA allocator (debug).

• 0.19.0 (13/03/2025)

  • Added hkgfx_timestamp_is_available which checks if query is available before returning.

  • Added hkgfx_context_draw_indirect and hkgfx_context_draw_indexed_indirect drawcalls.

• 0.18.0 (27/02/2025)

  • Added hkapp_is_text_input and hkapp_text_input to retrieve last typed characters.

• 0.17.0 (18/02/2025)

  • Added flags to support MacOS platform using MoltenVK and Vulkan SDK

  • This is experimental in the sense that it has only been tested on a single machine:

    • Mac Mini M4 with macOS Sequoia 15.3.1

• 0.16.0 (14/02/2025)

  • Added label/name to bindgroups, layouts and pipelines

  • Added polygonmode (fill, lines, points) to graphic and mesh pipelines

  • Added some vertex attributes format

  • Updated WIN32 experimental backend (missing keycodes, …)

  • Fixed hkapp_is_key_just_released() event

• 0.15.0 (14/01/2025)

  • Added experimental WIN32 backend implementation using native windows.h

  • Updated submodules

• 0.14.0 (11/12/2024)

  • Added hk_load_action_e and hk_store_action_e to haiku/graphics.h

  • Started toolkit documentation

• 0.13.1 (06/11/2024)

  • Added drag and drop support to haiku/application.h module

  • hkapp_is_drag_and_drop, hkapp_dropped_paths_count and hkapp_dropped_paths

• 0.12.1 (04/11/2024)

  • Changed image API to hk_image_t and hk_view_t

  • Updated commands and swapchain accordingly

  • Fixed and Updated tutorials inside documentation

• 0.11.0 (25/10/2024)

  • Added some image formats

  • Fixed bugs in descriptor sets (images)

  • Added tutorials inside documentation

  • Added cullmode and depth tests in graphics/mesh pipelines

  • hk_gfx_viewport_params extent and offset are now signed

  • Added hkgfx_context_draw_indexed

• 0.10.0 (26/07/2024)

  • Added CI pipeline to generate C++ header.

  • Automatic deployment to haiku-toolkit develop branch.

• 0.9.0 (18/07/2024)

  • Added Mesh shading support (with hkgfx_pipeline_mesh_create and hk_gfx_pipeline_mesh_desc)

  • Added more checks to device capabilites (checking support for dynamic rendering and mesh shading)

  • Thanks Josué Raad for the help !

• 0.8.0 (16/07/2024)

  • Renamed hk_gfx_compute_pipeline_desc to hk_gfx_pipeline_compute_desc

  • Renamed hk_gfx_graphic_pipeline_desc to hk_gfx_pipeline_graphic_desc

  • Added application io methods is_xxx_held, is_xxx_pressed and is_xxx_released

  • Finalized CPP language binding pipeline (clang to ast, filtering it, and generate haiku.hpp)

• 0.7.2 (08/07/2024)

  • Renamed hk_binding_layout_desc to hk_layout_desc

• 0.7.1 (06/07/2024)

  • Fixed missing symbols on gcc

  • Renamed hk_app_desc to hk_app_window_desc

• 0.7.0 (05/07/2024)

  • Fixed unamed nested structs in haiku/graphics.h and haiku/application.h

  • Refactored swapchain public API. Now returning an opaque pointer and removing explicit surface creation.

• 0.6.0 (01/07/2024)

  • Added checks for requested presentation mode support before swapchain creation

  • Started AST generation for automatic language bindings (still work in progress)

  • Fixed unamed nested structs in haiku/graphics.h and haiku/application.h

  • Changed naming convention to distinguish structures used during objects creation for those used as command parameters.

• 0.5.0 (13/06/2024)

  • Added image region data structure

  • Modified blit and resolve command to use image region

  • Modified image/buffer copy commands to use image region

  • Modified image barriers to transition subresources (mipmap levels or array layers)

• 0.4.0 (11/06/2024)

  • Fixed wrong Vulkan instance API version when listing all available physical devices

  • hkgfx_context_reset now resets the command pool instead of the primary command buffer (vulkan)

  • Added support for multisampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) updating images, pipelines and rendering public API

• 0.3.0 (17/05/2024)

  • Added user-defined icons in haiku/application.h

• 0.2.1 (17/05/2024)

  • Fixing wrong doxygen formatting

  • Switch haiku installation target on by default

• 0.2.0 (15/05/2024)

  • Removed software explicit validation layers in debug

  • Fixing bugs in swapchain assertions and when resized

  • Fixed missing CXX standard to VMA implementation

  • Moving backward Vulkan version from 1.3 to 1.2 to ensure MoltenVK compatibility

  • Added debug names for image, buffers, samplers

  • Added command buffer labels for debugging

  • Reworked device selection and added ability to choose a specific one

  • Moved samples and their dependency to another repository

  • Muted noisy warnings from Volk and Vulkan Memory Allocator implementations

  • Added Vulkan-Headers and Volk meta-loader to submodule to remove Vulkan SDK requirement

• 0.1.0 (17/04/2024)

  • Added Vulkan graphics backend supporting compute and graphics pipelines

  • Added GLFW application backend

  • Started documentation using Sphinx, Myst-Parser and Furo

• 0.0.0 (09/03/2024)

  • Created the git repository

  • Started the haiku graphics library

  • Started Vulkan backend (offline rendering)

  • Added samples