Planned features for this release:

• Support for compute pipelines and shaders.
• Support for multi-threaded render passes.
• Support for explicit resource transitions using barriers for improved efficiency.
• Simplified wait-logic by exposing fences on command queues after each command buffer submit.
• Improved rasterizer state, supporting MSAA, render target blending, depth/stencil states.
• Improved descriptor handling with support for descriptor arrays and push constants.
• Improved texture handling with support for 1D and 3D textures, texture arrays, cube maps, mip-map generation and limited support for planar image formats.
• Improved handling of writable buffers/textures.
• Several bug fixes and usage improvements.