--- title: Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading,... description: The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone, introducing new features including Variable Rate Shading and Host... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vulkan-roadmap-2026-milestone-variable-rate-shading-host-image-copies-more-wnh0gfqxq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More | daily.dev og:description: The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone, introducing new features including Variable Rate Shading and Host... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vulkan-roadmap-2026-milestone-variable-rate-shading-host-image-copies-more-wnh0gfqxq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wNH0GfQxQ.png og:image:alt: Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone, introducing new features including Variable Rate Shading and Host Image Copies. This announcement coincides with the release of Vulkan 1.4.340, which includes the new descriptor heap extension (VK_EXT_descriptor_heap) and three additional extensions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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