---
title: 'PoCL 3.1 Released with Improved SPIR-V'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21331-cc85c2bbba05bba7e1343aa3a7667b96'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21331-cc85c2bbba05bba7e1343aa3a7667b96.md'
date: '2022-12-05'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - opencl
    - spirv
---

#  PoCL 3.1 Released with Improved SPIR-V 

  December 5th at 9:08pm

 PoCL 3.1 provides compatibility with the LLVM/Clang 15.0 release, switches to using lowercase device names for the platform setup via the “POCL_DEVICES” environment variable, there has been a major rework to the custom device driver, much improved SPIR-V support, continued work towards implementing a Vulkan driver, and a basic OpenCL cl_khr_command_buffer implementation. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-3.1-Released)

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