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這是昨天的消息，原文請參考《Khronos Drives Momentum of Parallel Computing Standard with Release of OpenCL 1.1 Specification》，OpenCL 的頁面也已經更新了。而在 OpenCL 1.1 裡，比較重要的新功能有：

• Host-thread safety, enabling OpenCL commands to be enqueued from multiple host threads
• Sub-buffer objects to distribute regions of a buffer across multiple OpenCL devices
• User events to enable enqueued OpenCL commands to wait on external events
• Event callbacks that can be used to enqueue new OpenCL commands based on event state changes in a non-blocking manner
• 3-component vector data types
• Global work-offset which enable kernels to operate on different portions of the NDRange
• Memory object destructor callback
• Read, write and copy a 1D, 2D or 3D rectangular region of a buffer object
• Mirrored repeat addressing mode and additional image formats
• New OpenCL C built-in functions such as integer clamp, shuffle and asynchronous strided copies
• Improved OpenGL interoperability through efficient sharing of images and buffers by linking OpenCL event objects to OpenGL fence sync objects
• Optional features in OpenCL 1.0 have been bought into core OpenCL 1.1 including: writes to a pointer of bytes or shorts from a kernel, and conversion of atomics to 32-bit integers in local or global memory.

相關檔案的話，則包含了：

• OpenCL 1.1 Specification (revision 33, June 11, 2010).
• OpenCL 1.1 C Bindings Specification (revision 4, June 14, 2010).
• OpenCL 1.1 Online Manual Pages.
• OpenCL 1.1 Quick Reference card.

而目前 AMD 和 nVIDIA 似乎都還沒有更新他們產品到 OpenCL 1.1，一般程式開發者要用可能還要等等了。

中文的簡單說明可以參考：《Khronos 推出 OpenCL 1.1》