Minecraft Java Edition is upgrading to Vulkan, but it's not great news for mods

Mojang warned that many popular mods will be affected by this change and wants to help mod authors port over their work.
Android Authority

Making high performance 3D apps with Vulkan

OpenGL has always been the standard graphics API used in Android, but now that the Khronos Group announed Vulkan, that may change. Vulkan is not set to replace OpenGL, at least not right away, but it ...
Ars Technica

Vulkan now official, with 1.0 API release and AMD driver [Updated]

After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification, the next-generation version of OpenGL. Initially based on AMD’s ...
PCGamesN

Vulkan, OpenGL's next-gen offspring, is now live and supported by AMD and NVIDIA cards

It's been a long and somewhat bumpy road to 1.0 release for the Vulkan API. After changing its name from GL Next and missing its initial launch window in 2015, Vulkan has arrived. The API's based ...
Ars Technica

Intel celebrates Vulkan’s birthday by actually supporting Vulkan on some GPUs

After months in beta, Intel’s latest driver for its integrated GPUs (version 15.45.14.4590) adds support for the low-overhead Vulkan API for recent GPUs running in Windows 10. The driver supports HD ...
PC World

Gaming on Linux, Steam machines set to soar with DirectX competitor Vulkan

The look of games on Linux-based Steam machines and mobile devices should improve significantly with the soon-to-be-released Vulkan API (application programming interface). Vulkan can be used for many ...