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 ...
Guru3D.com

Vulkan 1.2 Released by Khronos Group + GeForce 441.99 Beta Drivers with Vulkan 1.2 API Support

Khronos announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2 specification for GPU acceleration. This release integrates 23 proven extensions into the core Vulkan API. Before we begin the press release, NVIDIA ...
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 ...