As excitement builds for SIGGRAPH 2025, the Khronos Group is preparing to host its annual Vulkan Birds of a Feather session at SIGGRAPH 2025 on Wednesday, August 13, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. The BOF is an essential gathering for graphics developers, GPU vendors, and graphics enthusiasts eager to stay on the cutting edge of the industry’s leading cross-platform graphics and compute API. This year’s Vulkan BOF will be packed with meaningful updates and will provide a great opportunity for community engagement. In this blog post, we preview the key Vulkan developments, initiatives, and events that will take center stage at the BOF, including: an update on Vulkan 1.4 adoption, recent extensions, a proposed new deprecation mechanism, enhancements to our samples and documentation, plus updates on the Vulkanised 2026 conference, and much more.