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title: 'MoltenVK 1.3 Released For Vulkan 1.3 Support On Apple Devices'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23642-a817e7b055b84de1db1f2a9d8372ece8'
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date: '2025-05-03'
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#  MoltenVK 1.3 Released For Vulkan 1.3 Support On Apple Devices 

  May 3rd at 2:58pm

 MoltenVK 1.3 provides Vulkan 1.3 API support across Apple macOS, iOS, tvOS, and visionOS platforms. MoltenVK continues to serve as a translation layer so that applications/games can use the cross-platform, multi-vendor Vulkan API and in turn translating for execution with Apples Metal graphics driver stack. 

 [ Read More  ](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/releases/tag/v1.3.0)

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