PPSSPP, the open source PSP emulator has a major new version, will use Vulkan in future

For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.

They also tweeted out recently that they will be supporting Vulkan:

The new 3D API Vulkan is here! https://t.co/HyiK25GCEv PPSSPP will support it in future versions, for better performance where available.

— PPSSPP (@PPSSPP_emu) February 16, 2016

Changes
- A major rework of sceAtrac audio decoding, fixing various music hangs and similar issues
- Many fixes and workarounds to depth and stencil buffer usage, and also FBO management
-Audio reverb support
- Combo keys - custom touch buttons that press multiple PSP buttons
- 5xBR upscaling on GPU (postprocessing effect)
- Fix problems with playback of video with mono audio
- Performance improvements like multithreaded audio mixing
- ARM64 JIT crash bug fixes
- GLSL shader cache to reduce stuttering ingame
- Support render-to-CLUT functionality that some games use to change colors of various monsters
- x86-64 support on Android
- Auto-hide on-screen controls after a while of no usage
- Fixes to prescale UV speedhack, now seems reliable
- Faster ISO RAM cache
- New UI for moving around the PSP display on larger screens
- Minor UI fixes like better slider controls
- Assorted stability fixes (ffmpeg crash, etc)
- Volume setting is back
- Preparations for supporting more graphics APIs
- AdHoc port offset
- Support another HD remaster (Sora no Kiseki Kai HD)

Does anyone here use PPSSPP, how is it? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.