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| # What's New in MoltenVK |
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| Copyright (c) 2015-2022 [The Brenwill Workshop Ltd.](http://www.brenwill.com) |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.11 |
| -------------- |
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| Released TBD |
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| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_EXT_metal_objects` |
| - `VK_KHR_buffer_device_address` and `VK_EXT_buffer_device_address` *(requires GPU Tier 2 argument buffers support)*. |
| - Reducing redundant state changes to improve command encoding performance. |
| - Update minimum Xcode deployment targets to macOS 10.13, iOS 11, and tvOS 11, |
| to avoid Xcode build warnings in Xcode 14. |
| - Work around MTLCounterSet crash on additional Intel Iris Plus Graphics drivers. |
| - Check `MTLDevice` to enable support for `VK_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric` |
| and `VK_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric` extensions. |
| - Fix query pool wait block when query is not encoded to be written to. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to version `35`. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.10 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2022/06/06 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_portability_enumeration` support added to `MoltenVK_icd.json`, and documentation |
| updated to indicate the impact of the `VK_KHR_portability_enumeration` extension during |
| runtime loading on *macOS* via the *Vulkan Loader*. |
| - `VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering` |
| - `VK_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric` and `VK_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric` |
| - `VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts` |
| - `VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage` |
| - Implement `vkGetRefreshCycleDurationGOOGLE()` for _macOS_. |
| - Support attachment clearing when some clearing formats are not specified. |
| - Fix regression error where previously bound push constants can override a descriptor buffer |
| binding used by a subsequent pipeline that does not use push constants. |
| - Fix error on some Apple GPU's where a `vkCmdTimestampQuery()` after a renderpass was |
| writing timestamp before renderpass activity was complete. |
| - Fix regression error in vertex buffer binding counts when establishing implicit buffers binding indexes. |
| - Fix `vkSetMoltenVKConfigurationMVK()` function pointer typedef. |
| - Work around zombie memory bug in Intel Iris Plus Graphics driver when repeatedly retrieving GPU counter sets. |
| - Fix reorder-ctor warnings and add Xcode clang -Wreorder warning to catch future misalignments. |
| - Update build settings to support Xcode 13.4. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross: |
| - MSL: Emit interface block members of array length 1 as arrays instead of scalars. |
| - MSL: Potentially cast loaded Input variables. |
| - Emit KHR barycentrics if source enables the KHR extension. |
| - Handle early reads from loop variables with initializers. |
| - Attempt more optimal codegen for `OpCompositeInsert`. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.9 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2022/04/11 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_EXT_sample_locations` _(Custom locations settable via_ `vkCmdBeginRenderPass()` _only, |
| since_ `VkPhysicalDeviceSampleLocationsPropertiesEXT::variableSampleLocations` _is `false`)_. |
| - Fixes to pipeline layout compatibility between sequentially bound pipelines. |
| - Reinstate memory barriers on non-Apple GPUs, which were inadvertently disabled in an earlier update. |
| - Support base vertex instance support in shader conversion. |
| - Fix alignment between outputs and inputs between shader stages when using nested structures. |
| - Fix issue where the depth component of a stencil-only renderpass attachment was incorrectly attempting to be stored. |
| - Fix deletion of GPU counter `MTLFence` while it is being used by `MTLCommandBuffer`. |
| - Fix crash in `vkGetMTLCommandQueueMVK()`. |
| - Fix leak of `CoreFoundation` objects during calls to `vkUseIOSurfaceMVK()`. |
| - Remove limit on `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxSamplerAllocationCount` when not using Metal argument buffers. |
| - Avoid adjusting SRGB clear color values by half-ULP on GPUs that round float clear colors down. |
| - Fixes to optimize resource objects retained by descriptors beyond their lifetimes. |
| - Optimize behavior for `VK_COMMAND_BUFFER_USAGE_ONE_TIME_SUBMIT_BIT` when |
| `MVK_CONFIG_PREFILL_METAL_COMMAND_BUFFERS` is used |
| - `MoltenVKShaderConverter` tool defaults to the highest MSL version supported on runtime OS. |
| - Update *glslang* version, to use `python3` in *glslang* scripts, to replace missing `python` on *macOS 12.3*. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to version `34`. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross: |
| - MSL: Support input/output blocks containing nested struct arrays. |
| - MSL: Use var name instead of var-type name for flattened interface members. |
| - MSL: Handle aliased variable names for resources placed in IB struct. |
| - MSL: Handle awkward mix and match of `Offset` / `ArrayStride` in constants. |
| - MSL: Append entry point args to local variable names to avoid conflicts. |
| - MSL: Consider that `gl_IsHelperInvocation` can be `Volatile`. |
| - MSL: Refactor and fix use of quadgroup vs simdgroup. |
| - Handle `OpTerminateInvocation`. |
| - Fixup names of anonymous inner structs. |
| - Fix regression from adding 64-bit switch support. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.8 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2022/02/22 |
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| - Remove logged warning if MoltenVK does not support `VkApplicationInfo::apiVersion` value. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.7 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2022/02/07 |
| |
| - Add `MVK_HIDE_VULKAN_SYMBOLS` env var to support building MoltenVK with static Vulkan linkage symbols hidden. |
| - Improve accuracy of `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::timestampPeriod`. |
| - Do not use `MTLEvent` for `VkSemaphore` under *Rosetta2*. |
| - On *Apple Silicon (iOS, tvOS & macOS)*, set `VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::deviceID` from GPU capabilities. |
| - Support compiling *MSL 2.4* in runtime pipelines and `MoltenVKShaderConverterTool`. |
| - Fix issue where *MSL 2.3* only available on *Apple Silicon*, even on *macOS*. |
| - Fix memory leak of dummy `MTLTexture` in render subpasses that use no attachments. |
| - Fix Metal object retain-release errors in assignment operators. |
| - Fix use of GPU counter sets on older versions of iOS running on the simulator. |
| - `mvk::getShaderOutputs()` in `SPRIVReflection.h` support flattening nested structures. |
| - Replaced ASL logging levels with `MVKConfigLogLevel`. |
| - `MoltenVKShaderConverter` tool support loading tessellation shader files. |
| - `MoltenVKShaderConverter` tool update to *MSL 2.4* by default. |
| - Upgrade to *Vulkan 1.3* headers. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to version `33`. |
| - Update copyright notices to year 2022. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross: |
| - MSL: Add 64 bit support for `OpSwitch`. |
| - MSL: Don't output depth and stencil values with explicit early fragment tests. |
| - MSL: Fix incorrect MSL `gl_TessCoord` variable type. |
| - MSL: Allow copy array from `UniformConstant` storage. |
| - MSL: Handle signed `atomic min/max`. |
| - Fix `normalize` on `half3/half2`. |
| - MSL: Handle constant construct of block-like array types. |
| - MSL: Rethink how opaque descriptors are passed to leaf functions. |
| - Rework how loop iteration counts are validated. |
| - Clamp vector element access to vector size. |
| - Handle aliased names in spec constants. |
| - Add support for `LocalSizeId`. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.6 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2021/11/15 |
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| - Set maximum point primitive size based on GPU vendor ID, which can now be as large as `511`. |
| - Improved checks for timestamp GPU counter support on older devices. |
| - Fix incorrect validation error on multilayer `VkImage` marked for rendering, when multilayered-rendering |
| is not supported on platform, but app doesn't actually attempt to render to multiple layers. |
| - Fix dynamic pipeline state such as `vkCmdSetDepthBias()` sometimes ignoring pipeline dynamic |
| state flags when called before `vkCmdBindPipeline()`. |
| - Fix incorrect validation of multilayer-rendering validation when `MVKImageView` |
| does not actually perform multilayer-rendering. |
| - Fix issue where dynamic pipeline flags were sometimes read from previously bound pipeline. |
| - Fix issue where correct base layer and mipmap for attachment was sometimes not being used. |
| - Add `MTLFence` between Metal encoders and timestamp stage counter BLIT encoder |
| to ensure previous work is finished before being timestamped. |
| - Fix issue with `BC1_RGB` compressed format where incorrect alpha value returned. |
| - Add `vkGetMTLCommandQueueMVK()` function to expose underlying `MTLCommandQueue` object. |
| - Add `vkSetWorkgroupSizeMVK()` function. |
| - Add unsupported `VkApplicationInfo::apiVersion` warning. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Add support for `OpSpecConstantOp` ops `OpQuantizeToF16` and `OpSRem`. |
| - MSL: Return fragment function value even when last SPIR-V Op is discard (`OpKill`). |
| - MSL: Fix location and component variable matching between shader stages. |
| - MSL: Fix type redirection when struct members are reordered to align with offsets. |
| - MSL: Remove over-zealous check for struct packing compatibility. |
| - MSL: Correctly emit user(`clip/cullN`) for clip/cull builtins in tess output struct. |
| - MSL: Don't output depth and stencil values with explicit early fragment tests. |
| - MSL: Track location component to match `vecsize` between shader stages. |
| - MSL: Selectively enable `fast-math` in MSL code to match Vulkan CTS results. |
| - MSL: Honor `DecorationNoContraction` when compiling using `fast-math`. |
| - MSL: Honor infinities in `OpQuantizeToF16` when compiling using `fast-math`. |
| - MSL: Support synthetic functions in function constants. |
| - MSL: Improve handling of `INT_MIN/INT64_MIN` literals. |
| - MSL: Consolidate `spvQuantizeToF16()` functions into a single template function. |
| - MSL: Use `vec<T, n>` in template `SpvHalfTypeSelector` for function `spvQuantizeToF16()`. |
| - MSL: Support more usecases for unpacked vectors. |
| - MSL: Workaround compiler crashes when using `threadgroup bool`. |
| - MSL: Handle non-thread storage class in `Modf/Frexp` pointer versions. |
| - Improve handling of `INT_MIN/INT64_MIN` literals. |
| - Per spec, support undefined behavior for out-of-bounds swizzles. |
| - Correctly reflect declared buffer size for out of order members. |
| - Separate (partially) the tracking of depth images from depth compare ops. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.5 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2021/08/30 |
| |
| - Changes to how `VkSemaphore` is supported: |
| - Revert to prefer `MTLEvent` for `VkSemaphore`, except on NVIDIA, where emulation on CPU is preferred. |
| - Set default value of the `MVK_ALLOW_METAL_FENCES` environment variable to `0 (false)`, |
| - Vulkan timestamp query pools use Metal GPU counters when available. |
| - Support resolving attachments with formats that Metal does not natively resolve. |
| - Support stencil-only partial attachment clearing. |
| - Support alpha-to-coverage without a color attachment. |
| - Fix issue where swapchain images were acquired out of order under heavy load. |
| - Fix issue with `vkCmdBlitImage()` from compressed textures. |
| - Fix incorrect translation of clear color values on Apple Silicon. |
| - Fix swizzle of depth and stencil values into RGBA (`float4`) variable in shaders. |
| - Fix occasional crash when swizzling used but shader swizzling not enabled. |
| - Fix pipeline barriers not working inside self-dependent subpasses on Apple GPUs. |
| - Fix GPU race condition when clearing a renderpass input attachment on Apple GPUs. |
| - Disable `VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BLEND_BIT` for |
| `VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32` on macOS Apple Silicon. |
| - Fix execution order of `encodeBindings` for `bufferBindings`. |
| - Properly ignore non-null pipeline creation pointers that should be ignored. |
| - Add queue and queue family indices to `MTLCommandBuffer` label. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `32`. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Adjust `gl_SampleMaskIn` for sample-shading and/or fixed sample mask. |
| - MSL: Remove redundant path for `SampleMask`. |
| - MSL: Fix setting `SPIRVCrossDecorationInterpolantComponentExpr` decoration. |
| - MSL: Support row-major transpose when storing matrix from constant RHS matrix. |
| - MSL: Fix casting in constant expressions with different sizes. |
| - MSL: Fix duplicate `gl_Position` outputs when `gl_Position` defined but unused. |
| - MSL: Simplify `spvSubgroupBallot()`. |
| - MSL: Consider that function/private variables can be block-like. |
| - Track temporary access for `OpArrayLength` result. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.4 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2021/06/28 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer` |
| - Advertise Vulkan extension functions only from enabled extensions. |
| - Make `vkGetPastPresentationTimingGOOGLE()` queuing behavior compliant with Vulkan spec. |
| - Expose `vkGetIOSurfaceMVK()` and `vkUseIOSurfaceMVK()` without requiring _Objective-C_. |
| - Default MoltenVK build using `C++17` and compiler optimization setting `-O2`. |
| - API fix to remove `#include "SPIRVReflection.h"` from `SPIRVToMSLConverter.h` header. |
| - Support _Xcode 12.5_ build settings, build warnings, and SDK change to availability of |
| `[MTLDevice supportsBCTextureCompression]` on _Mac Catalyst_. |
| - Add support for new AMD devices supporting 32 lanes. |
| - Improve handling of sampler border color and mirror edge clamp. |
| - Improve cache hits when matching `SPIRVToMSLConversionConfiguration` structs to each other |
| to find a cached shader, by only considering resources from the current shader stage. |
| - Rename `kMVKShaderStageMax` to `kMVKShaderStageCount`. |
| - Fix crash when requesting `MTLCommandBuffer` logs in runtime debug mode on older OS versions. |
| - Fix synchronization issue with locking `MTLArgumentEncoder` for Metal Argument Buffers. |
| - Fix race condition on submission fence during device loss. |
| - Fix crash due to incorrect number of attachments when clearing. |
| - Fix crash using memoryless storage for input attachments on Apple Silicon. |
| - Fix issue where M1 GPU does not support reusing Metal visibility buffer offsets |
| across separate render encoders within a single Metal command buffer (Vulkan submit). |
| - On command buffer submission failure, if `MVKConfiguration::resumeLostDevice` enabled, do not release |
| waits on `VkDevice`, and do not return `VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST`, unless `VkPhysicalDevice` is also lost. |
| - Fix inconsistent handling of linear attachment decisions on Apple Silicon. |
| - Fix small memory leak during swapchain creation. |
| - Fix stencil clear incorrectly using using the depth `loadOp`, when stencil is smaller than render area. |
| - Reorganize coherent texture flushing on memory map and unmap`. |
| - Fix issues where data in temporary internal buffers are discarded while in use. |
| - Protect against crash when retrieving `MTLTexture` when `VkImage` has no `VkDeviceMemory` bound. |
| - Adjust some `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits` values for Vulkan and Metal compliance. |
| - Fix internal reference from `SPIRV_CROSS_NAMESPACE_OVERRIDE` to `SPIRV_CROSS_NAMESPACE`. |
| - Add label strings to `MTLCommandBuffers`, based on use type, for GPU Capture debugging. |
| - Add `Scripts/runcts` script as a convenience for running Vulkan CTS tests. |
| - Support _Xcode 13_ SDK APIs and build settings. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match _Vulkan SDK 1.2.182_. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Handle array of IO variable with Component decoration. |
| - MSL: Handle array with component when we cannot rely on `user()` attrib. |
| - MSL: Improve handling of split tessellation access chains. |
| - MSL: Always enable support for base vertex/index on _iOS_. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.3 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2021/04/27 |
| |
| - Add beta support for using Metal argument buffers for shader resources on _macOS_, by setting |
| `MVK_CONFIG_USE_METAL_ARGUMENT_BUFFERS` environment variable (disabled by default). This dramatically |
| expands the number of resources that can be submitted to a pipeline stage, per the Vulkan |
| `VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing` extension. **Currently available on _macOS 11.0 (Big Sur)_ or later, |
| and on earlier _macOS_ versions on _Intel_ GPU's**. |
| - Add support for `HDR10` colorspace via `VK_COLOR_SPACE_HDR10_HLG_EXT` and `VK_COLOR_SPACE_HDR10_ST2084_EXT`. |
| - Always explicitly set `CAMetalLayer` colorspace property based on _Vulkan_ parameters, |
| and don't rely on _Metal_ default values. |
| - Add `MVKConfiguration::resumeLostDevice` and `MVK_CONFIG_RESUME_LOST_DEVICE` env var, |
| to allow `VkDevice` to resume after non-fatal `VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST` error. |
| - `MVKDescriptorPool` pools its descriptor sets. |
| - Enable `MVKConfiguration::preallocateDescriptors` and `MVK_CONFIG_PREALLOCATE_DESCRIPTORS` |
| environment variable by default to preallocate descriptors when a `VkDescriptorPool` is created. |
| - Avoid use of _Metal_ renderpass load and store actions on memoryless attachments. |
| - Fix memory leak on swapchain destruction. |
| - Fix `MVKPhysicalDevice::getSurfaceFormats()` returning `VK_FORMAT_UNDEFINED`. |
| - Fix memory leak where swapchains and images were not destroyed due to a retention loop. |
| - Fix advertising single-texel alignment capability for texel buffers. |
| - Fix time and space inefficiencies caused by missed shader cache lookup hits in `MVKShaderLibraryCache`. |
| - Log enhanced command buffer errors in debug mode. |
| - Ensure queue submission message logging occurs before submission object is destroyed. |
| - Remove project qualifiers from references to `SPIRV-Cross` header files. |
| - Only perform automatic GPU capture on queue identified by `MVKConfiguration::defaultGPUCaptureScopeQueueIndex` |
| and `defaultGPUCaptureScopeQueueFamilyIndex`. |
| - Introduce `MVKConfigLogLevelBits`, `MVKConfigAutoGPUCaptureScopeBits`, and `MVKConfigTraceVulkanCallsBits` |
| enums to specify config API values in a Vulkan-friendly manner, while automatically documenting the same values for env vars. |
| - Add `MVKConfiguration::apiVersionToAdvertise` and `MVK_CONFIG_API_VERSION_TO_ADVERTISE` |
| env var to configure **MoltenVK** to advertise a particular _Vulkan_ version. |
| - Add `MVKConfiguration::advertiseExtensions` and `MVK_CONFIG_ADVERTISE_EXTENSIONS` |
| env var to configure **MoltenVK** to force advertising support for no, or minimally few, _Vulkan_ extensions. |
| - Remove the `Hologram` and `API-Samples` demo apps, and remove |
| `LunarG/VulkanSamples` as a dependency library. |
| - Add `NDEBUG` macro to all Release builds to remove `assert()` calls. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `31`. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match _Vulkan SDK 1.2.176_. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support long `ulong` types in buffers in 2.3+. |
| - MSL: Support padding Metal argument buffer entries based on argument index. |
| - Add interfaces to aid with LTO-style optimization |
| - Handle edge cases in `OpCopyMemory`. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.2 |
| -------------- |
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| Released 2021/02/22 |
| |
| - Advertise support for `shaderInt64` feature. |
| - Support fast math on MSL compiler via `MVKConfiguration::fastMathEnabled` configuration |
| setting and `MVK_CONFIG_FAST_MATH_ENABLED` environment variable (enabled by default). |
| - Support compiling MSL with position invariance if indicated in SPIRV shader. |
| - `vkGetMoltenVKConfigurationMVK()` and `vkSetMoltenVKConfigurationMVK()` functions |
| can now be used with a `VkInstance` from another Vulkan layer, or with a `VK_NULL_HANDLE VkInstance`. |
| - `MVKConfiguration` extended to cover all MoltenVK environment variables. |
| - Report accurate value of 8 for `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxBoundDescriptorSets`. |
| - Advertise macOS M1 GPU as `VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_INTEGRATED_GPU`. |
| - For Vulkan semaphores, prefer using `MTLFence` over `MTLEvent`. |
| - Support `immmutableSamplers` with sampler arrays. |
| - Query pools write to dedicated temporary internal buffer to span multiple render passes |
| and support larger query counts. |
| - Fixes for race conditions in CTS multithread tests, guarding `MTLDevice` on cross-thread syncing. |
| - Set Metal buffer alignment to 256 on non-Apple Silicon iOS/tvOS simulators. |
| - `MVKMTLBufferAllocation`: Support device-local temp buffers for tessellation, |
| indirect multiview, or occlusion queries buffer usage. |
| - `MVKPixelFormats`: Enable `RenderTarget` usage for linear textures on Apple GPUs. |
| - `MVKRenderPass`: Use a non-trivial granularity for TBDR GPUs. |
| - Don't use barriers in render passes on Apple GPUs. |
| - `MVKGraphicsPipeline`: Fix color write mask with `RGB9E5` RTs. |
| - `MVKImagePlane`: When sync'ing, create the texture if it doesn't exist. |
| - `MVKRenderPass`: Don't use `Load/Store` actions for memoryless. |
| - `MVKRenderPass`: Only use `MTLStorageModeMemoryless` where available. |
| - `MVKDeviceMemory`: Don't consider Memoryless host-accessible on *macOS/tvOS*. |
| - `MVKCmdResolveImage` fix incorrectly changing first resolve layer's src/dst base layer. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice`: Require Mac family 2 for render without attachments. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice`: Disable SIMD-group permutation for Mac family 1. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice`: Clamp maximum buffer range to 4 GiB - 1. |
| - `MVKMTLBufferAllocation`: Mark temp buffers as volatile. |
| - `SPIRVReflection`: Multiple entry point support for `getShaderOutputs()`. |
| - Remove obsolete `MVKVector`, which was long ago replaced with `MVKSmallVector`. |
| - Remove official support for submitting shaders directly containing MSL source code or compiled MSL code. |
| MSL shaders may still be directly submitted, and may work, but it is not officially supported at this time. |
| Future versions of **MoltenVK** may support direct MSL submission again. |
| - Remove `ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH` from Debug builds. **MoltenVK _Debug_** builds now build for all platform architectures. |
| - Add ability to automatically capture first GPU frame by setting `MVKConfiguration::autoGPUCaptureScope` |
| (or environment variable `MVK_CONFIG_AUTO_GPU_CAPTURE_SCOPE`) to `2`. |
| - Support _GitHub Actions_ for CI builds on pull requests. |
| - Support pre-built binary artifacts from _GitHub Actions_ CI builds. |
| - `Makefile` and `fetchDependencies` support `xcpretty`, if available. |
| - Remove support for _Travis-CI_. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `30`. |
| - Update copyright notices to year 2021. |
| - Update Xcode build settings check to _Xcode 12.4_. |
| - Support legacy building on _Xcode 11.7_. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.170*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Gracefully assign automatic input locations to builtin attributes. |
| - MSL: Refactor out location consumption count computation. |
| - MSL: Always return `[[position]]` when required. |
| - MSL: Fix some edge cases in input attachment handling. |
| - MSL: Fix various bugs with framebuffer fetch on macOS and argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Always use input_attachment_index for framebuffer fetch binding. |
| - MSL: Make sure initialized output builtins are considered active. |
| - MSL: Always enable Outputs in vertex stages. |
| - MSL: Only consider builtin variables and flatten builtin arrays if they are part of IO interface. |
| - MSL: Handle load and store to TessLevel array in TESC. |
| - MSL: Fixup type when using tessellation levels in TESC functions. |
| - MSL: Fix automatic assign of builtin attributes in tessellation. |
| - GLSL/MSL: Handle more complicated tessellation Output initializers. |
| - MSL: Emit correct initializer for tessellation control points. |
| - MSL: Handle initializers for tess levels. |
| - MSL: Fix initializer for tess level outputs. |
| - MSL: Fix broken reserved identifier handling for entry points. |
| - MSL: Handle reserved identifiers for entry point. |
| - Fix pathological complexity explosion for certain shaders. |
| - Improve handling of complex variable initialization. |
| - Expose position invariance. |
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| MoltenVK 1.1.1 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/12/09 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge` (iOS) |
| - `VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore` |
| - `VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing` (initial release limited to Metal Tier 1: 96/128 textures, 16 samplers) |
| - `VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage` (macOS) |
| - `VK_EXT_private_data` |
| - `VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control` |
| - `VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_hdr` |
| - `VK_AMD_shader_image_load_store` (macOS) |
| - `VK_IMG_format_pvrtc` (macOS) |
| - Support the *Mac Catalyst* platform for *iOS* apps on *macOS 11.0+*, |
| under both `x86_64` and `arm64` architectures. |
| - Re-enable `MTLEvent`-based semaphores and fix several `MVKSync` issues. |
| - Use `VK_KHR_image_format_list` to disable `MTLTextureUsagePixelFormatView` |
| if only swizzles or `sRGB` conversion will be used for image views, improving |
| performance on *iOS* by allowing Metal to use lossless texture compression. |
| - Handle device loss. |
| - Fix crash in `vkUpdateDescriptorSets()` when copying inline block descriptors. |
| - Fix Metal validation error when unused elements in an array of sampler are not populated by descriptors. |
| - Fix crashes in `vkUseIOSurfaceMVK()` on chroma sampling and double releasing of`MTLTexture`. |
| - Fix potential drawable present race conditions. |
| - Fix crash in `vkUpdateDescriptorSets()` when copying inline block descriptors. |
| - Fix Metal validation error when unused elements in an array of sampler are not populated by descriptors. |
| - Move *Metal* drawable presentation from `MTLCommandBuffer` to `MTLDrawable` |
| to improve performance and reduce blocking. |
| - Allow binding descriptor set using layout different than it was created with. |
| - Report `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages` as Metal limit of `8`. |
| - Increase per-stage texture count to `96` for A11 SoC's and above. |
| - Use variable descriptor count when determining descriptor binding count. |
| - Support setting sizes of SPIR-V unsized arrays. |
| - Support `MTLStorageTypeMemoryless` for Apple Silicon on Mac. |
| - Support Apple GPU pixel formats with Apple Silicon on Mac. |
| - Allow linear images on Apple GPUs in Blit and Clear commands. |
| - Apple family 7 GPUs (A14) on iOS support multisample layered rendering, |
| as well as sampler border colors and the mirror clamp to edge sampler address mode. |
| - Set fill mode, depth bias, viewport, and scissor states before clearing attachments |
| - Disable culling for the duration of `vkCmdClearAttachments()` |
| - `MVKDevice` increase minimum OS for shared-storage textures. |
| - `MVKDevice` set properties for Apple Silicon GPUs on macOS. |
| - `MVKQueue` only create one `GPUCaptureScope` per queue. |
| - `MVKSamplerYcbcrConversion` always make sure there is one plane. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` correct fragment input component limit. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` set max visibility buffer size to 256 kiB where supported. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` expose support for interpolation functions. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` enable 3D compressed textures on *iOS/tvOS*, and forbid ETC2 and EAC |
| 3D textures on all platforms. Apple GPUs do not support 3D for those. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` enable Apple family 7 features on *iOS*. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` remove need to call `initGPUInfoProperties()` twice. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` correct max descriptor set resources. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` reduce maximum point size to 64. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` enable strictLines for Intel and NVIDIA. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` enable `shaderResourceMinLod` on *iOS*. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` set correct subgroup properties. |
| - `MVKPhysicalDevice` enable texture swizzle on all Apple GPUs. |
| - `MVKPipelineLayout` only set configuration result if validating. |
| - `MVKPipeline` fix calculation of atomic image buffer addresses. |
| - `MVKPipeline` disable rasterization if culling both sides and don't try to add a fragment shader. |
| - `MVKPipeline` shorten vertex attribute format's length when `stride` < `size`. |
| - `MVKGraphicsPipeline` handle `minSampleShading`. |
| - `MVKImage` always use texel buffers for linear images in `MTLHeaps`. |
| - `MVKImage` make sure plane heap offsets are properly aligned. |
| - `MVKImage` always set the depth plane when rendering to a 3D image. |
| - `MVKImage` avoid swizzling storage and/or attachment image views. |
| - `MVKImage` avoid texel buffer for atomics if view format list |
| exists and does not include either `R32_UINT` or `R32_SINT` format. |
| - `MVKImageView` always ignore transfer usages. |
| - `MVKBufferView` avoid triggering `bytesPerRow` validation warning. |
| - `MVKDescriptorSetLayout` speed up lookup of descriptor index and streamline binding access. |
| - `MVKCmdBlitImage` use layered draws when possible. |
| - `MVKCmdBlitImage` add 0.5 to layer index before interpolating. |
| - `MVKCmdBlitImage` support depth/stencil blits with inversion and scaling. |
| - `MVKSwapchain` allow images whose size doesn't match the `CAMetalLayer`. |
| - `MVKPixelFormats` add 0.5 ULP to clear values for normalized formats. |
| - `MVKCommandEncoder` don't set `renderTargetArrayLength` for mixed 2D/3D renders. |
| - `MVKExtensions` add missing *tvOS* case for unsupported extensions. |
| - `MVKDescriptorSetLayout` sort and hold bindings by binding number. |
| - `MVKDescriptor` simplify subclass implementations. |
| - `MVKComputePipeline` override max threads per threadgroup. |
| - `MVKGPUCapture` make sure the `MTLCaptureScope` has only one reference. |
| - `MoltenShaderConverter` fix *tvOS* build to support *tvOS 9.0*. |
| - Support building external libraries and dylibs against sanitizers. |
| - Clarify documentation on mapping limitations for host-coherent image memory on *macOS*. |
| - Add validation policy for MoltenVK development to `README.md` document. |
| - Update Xcode build settings check to Xcode 12.2. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `29`. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.162*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support `SPV_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation` for MSL 2.3. |
| - MSL: Support run-time sized image and sampler arrays |
| (`GL_EXT_nonuniform_qualifier/SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing`). |
| - MSL: Support atomic access to images from argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Add missing interlock handling to atomic image buffers. |
| - MSL: Fix calculation of atomic image buffer address. |
| - MSL: Support querying and modifying generated combined sampler suffix. |
| - MSL: Don't use a bitcast for tessellation levels in tesc shaders. |
| - MSL: Handle Offset and Grad operands for 1D-as-2D textures. |
| - MSL: Don't remove periods from swizzle buffer index exprs. |
| - MSL: Correct definitions of subgroup ballot mask variables. |
| - MSL: Extract global variables from subgroup ballot operations. |
| - MSL: Mask ballots passed to ballot bit ops. |
| - MSL: Don't mask off inactive bits in ballot masks. |
| - MSL: Support vectors with `OpGroupNonUniformAllEqual`. |
| - MSL: Cast broadcast booleans to `ushort`. |
| - MSL: Do not use `component::x` gather for `depth2d` textures. |
| - MSL: For 2.1+, don't disable rasterization for vertex writes. |
| - MSL: Allow post-depth coverage on Mac in MSL 2.3. |
| - MSL: Allow framebuffer fetch on Mac in MSL 2.3. |
| - MSL: Allow Bias and Grad arguments with comparison on Mac in MSL 2.3. |
| - MSL: Support pull-model interpolation on MSL 2.3+ |
| - MSL: Expand subgroup support. |
| - MSL: Adjust `FragCoord` for sample-rate shading. |
| - MSL: Expose some more features on iOS: `min_lod_clamp()`, `simd_is_helper_thread()`, |
| `barycentric_coord`, and `primitive_id`. |
| - MSL: Don't add fixup hooks for builtin variables if they're unused. |
| - MSL: Don't try to use `[[thread_index_in_simdgroup]]` in vertex shaders. |
| - Handle case where block is loop header, continue AND break block. |
| - MSL: Added `fmin3` and `fmax3` library functions to the illegal name list. |
| - Added Metal keyword: `level`. |
| - Parser: Don't assume `OpTypePointer` will always take a `SPIRType`. |
| - Add MIT dual license for the SPIRV-Cross API and CLI. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.1.0 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/09/28 |
| |
| >**_Note:_** This release contains changes to library paths and framework linking options. |
| |
| - Add support for Vulkan 1.1, including: |
| - The `vkEnumerateInstanceVersion()` function |
| - The `vkGetDeviceQueue2()` function |
| - Protected memory (non-functional) |
| - A feature struct for `VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters` |
| - All extensions that were promoted to core in Vulkan 1.1 |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_portability_subset` |
| - `VK_KHR_create_renderpass2` |
| - `VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve` |
| - `VK_KHR_external_fence` (non-functional groundwork for future extensions, |
| including support for GCD and Mach semaphores) |
| - `VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities` (non-functional groundwork for future |
| extensions, including support for GCD and Mach semaphores) |
| - `VK_KHR_external_semaphore` (non-functional groundwork for future |
| `MTLSharedEvent` Vulkan extension) |
| - `VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities` (non-functional groundwork for |
| future `MTLSharedEvent` Vulkan extension) |
| - `VK_KHR_multiview` |
| - `VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types` |
| - Remove support for obsolete `VK_EXTX_portability_subset` extension. |
| - Redesign build and linking options that leverage newer framework technology: |
| - Add comprehensive support for multi-platform, multi-architecture `XCFrameworks`. |
| - Build fat single-platform, multi-architecture `dylibs`. |
| - Add support for *Apple Silicon* builds for *macOS* and *Simulators*. |
| - Remove support for distinct legacy frameworks and static libraries. |
| - Remove support for fat libraries and frameworks that span device and simulators. |
| - Combine `MoltenVKSPIRVToMSLConverter` and `MoltenVKGLSLToSPIRVConverter` frameworks |
| into a single `MoltenVKShaderConverter` framework. |
| - Support copying between 3D and 2D images. |
| - Support clearing 3D images. |
| - Support linear images and buffer views in shared memory on *macOS 10.15.5+*. |
| - Support `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT`. |
| - Support multiple aliased images for dedicated image memory allocations. |
| - Improve performance of tessellation control pipeline stage by processing multiple |
| patches per workgroup. |
| - `vkCmdBindDescriptorSets` order `pDynamicOffsets` by descriptor binding number |
| within each descriptor set. |
| - `vkCmdCopyImage` on macOS flush non-coherent image memory before copy operation. |
| - Process multiple patches per workgroup in a tessellation control shader. |
| - Initialize tessellation related variables conditionally in indirect draws. |
| - Fix build errors on Simulator not supporting `MTLDrawable` present time options. |
| - Fix `dynamicOffsets` ordering based on binding index. |
| - Ensure the base texture is created when creating a view texture. |
| - Fix features, alignment, and image properties of chroma subsampled formats. |
| - Disable `variableMultisampleRate` feature. |
| - Permit renderpass to have no attachments. |
| - Clear linear images using a compute shader. |
| - Reject attempts to create compressed linear images. |
| - Always use a texel buffer for atomic linear storage images. |
| - Use deferred store actions instead of tracking multi-pass draws. |
| - Use `MTLRenderPassDescriptor renderTargetWidth` and `renderTargetHeight` on macOS 10.15 and newer. |
| - Use a 2D non-arrayed view for 2D non-arrayed attachments. |
| - Use arrayed textures for layered subpass input. |
| - Use layered rendering when clearing or resolving images whenever possible, |
| and take `renderArea` into account. |
| - Streamline image copying when the entire source is being copied to the entire destination. |
| - Don't set `renderTargetArrayLength` on devices that don't support it. |
| - Don't attempt to clear unused attachments and fix vertex count for clearing multiple layers. |
| - Don't encode commands that draw zero vertices. |
| - Ignore `addressModeW` on samplers with unnormalized coordinates. |
| - Flip GPU when swapchain is created, not when device object is created, |
| to optimize this condition if it is not needed. |
| - Flush source image of a transfer on *macOS*. |
| - Fix offset for texel buffers and heaps for multi-planar images. |
| - Fix memory leak when object create fails. |
| - Fix several use-after-freed errors. |
| - Fix applying divisors to instanced vertex attributes. |
| - Fix issue in accessing `MTLTexture` for swapchain image planes. |
| - Fix occasional crash on vertex stage indirect draws. |
| - Fix reported image format properties for 1D images as 2D. |
| - `VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor` fix issues with zero divisors. |
| - Re-add support for bitcode generation on *iOS* and *tvOS*. |
| - `fetchDependencies` builds serially by default for better build script integration. |
| - Combine `MoltenVKSPIRVToMSLConverter` and `MoltenVKGLSLToSPIRVConverter` |
| frameworks into a single `MoltenVKShaderConverter` framework. |
| - Fix Metal validation error when occlusion query and renderpass are in separate |
| Vulkan command buffers. |
| - Fix a crash on starting a query outside a render pass. |
| - Fix Metal validation error that forbids rendering to an image of zero size. |
| - Fix issue where descriptor pool releasing descriptor sets it doesn't own. |
| - Fix issue where load/store actions not set in renderpass that includes compute stage. |
| - Prevent accidental `setColorStoreAction` for non-color attachments. |
| - Fix image copy destination extent of compressed images. |
| - Fix image resolve sub-region extent. |
| - Fix owner of merged `MVKShaderLibraries`. |
| - Fix rounding of buffer sizing when `VK_WHOLE_SIZE` is used. |
| - Fix detection of indexed draw calls. |
| - `vkSetMTLTextureMVK()` Fix crash if incoming `MTLTexture` does not have an associated `IOSurface`. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.154*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Fix handling of matrices and structs in the output control point array. |
| - MSL: Enclose args when convert `distance(a,b)` to `abs(a-b)`. |
| - MSL: Fix multiview view index calculation with a non-zero base instance. |
| - MSL: Don't set the layer for multiview if the device doesn't support it. |
| - MSL: Fix `OpCompositeInsert` and `OpVectorInsertDynamic`. |
| - MSL: Support layered input attachments. |
| - Ensure that we use primary alias type when emitting flattened members. |
| - Only rewrite type aliases for the base type. |
| - Overhaul how we deal with reserved identifiers. |
| - Implement a simple evaluator of specialization constants. |
| - Deal with case where a selection construct conditionally merges/breaks. |
| - Allow `flip_vert_y` in all relevant stages. |
| - Clean up conditional branch codegen. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.44 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/07/28 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_driver_properties` |
| - `VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion` |
| - `VK_EXT_image_robustness` |
| - `VK_EXT_robustness2` |
| - Add native support for `VK_FORMAT_D16_UNORM` on **_iOS 13.0+_** and **_tvOS 13.0+_**. |
| - Add support for **_tvOS_** platform. |
| - Add support for **_iOS Simulator_** and **_tvOS Simulator_** build destinations. |
| - Cube demo runs on **_tvOS_**, **_iOS Simulator_**, and **_tvOS Simulator_**. |
| - **_MoltenVK_** Xcode schemes support building fat *Platform+Simulator* binaries. |
| - `Makefile` supports building fat *Platform+Simulator* binaries, plus *Debug* builds. |
| - `fetchDependencies` script supports platform build selection, plus parallel builds. |
| - `vkCmdBlitImage()` returns error if scaling or inverting to linear image on *macOS*. |
| - Support `VK_FORMAT_A2B10G10R10_UNORM_PACK32` as a surface format. |
| - Support `VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo::pSampleMask`. |
| - Support `VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupProperties`. |
| - Fix memory layout of inline uniform blocks. |
| - Fix issue where mapped host-coherent device memory not updated from image contents on *macOS*. |
| - Fix image memory sizing and offsets. |
| - Fix small memory leak when setting swapchain color space. |
| - Fix new and unexpected App Store failure on newly deprecated color space values. |
| - Fix intermittent concurrent shader specialization race condition. |
| - Fix offsets when flushing buffer data to GPU. |
| - Fix issue where expected buffer-sizes buffer not bound to Metal compute encoder. |
| - Ensure fragment shader inputs to have as many components as vertex shader outputs. |
| - Include vertex attribute size when testing whether attribute offset exceeds stride. |
| - Add support for `USCALED/SSCALED` vertex formats. |
| - Add host-coherent texel buffer caching just for buffer views. |
| - Include MoltenVK Git revision hash in `VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::pipelineCacheUUID`. |
| - Add `MVKPhysicalDeviceMetalFeatures::vertexStrideAlignment` to track Metal vertex binding stride alignment. |
| - Add `MVKPhysicalDeviceMetalFeatures::indirectTessellationDrawing` to track if indirect tessellation drawing is supported. |
| - Remove use of `@available()` directive as it was causing issues in some build environments. |
| - Pass pipeline sample mask, if present, to SPIRV-Cross. |
| - Refactor **MoltenVK** *Xcode* build architectures. |
| - Demo `API-Samples generateSPIRVShaders` no longer builds `MoltenVKShaderController` tool. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `27`. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.148*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Add support for processing more than one patch per workgroup. |
| - MSL: Workaround broken scalar access chain behavior in MSL LLVM IR / AIR. |
| - MSL: Do not emit swizzled writes in packing fixups. |
| - MSL: Ensure `OpStore` source operands are marked for inclusion in function arguments. |
| - MSL: Enabling setting an additional fixed `sampleMask` in fragment shaders. |
| - MSL: Remove obsolete `MSLVertexAttr` and `MSLShaderInput` members. |
| - MSL: Fix up input variables' vector lengths in all stages. |
| - MSL: Improve handling of array types in buffer objects. |
| - MSL: Deal with loading non-value-type arrays. |
| - MSL: Deal with array load-store in buffer-block structs. |
| - MSL: Use input attachment index directly for resource index fallback. |
| - Fix missing switch cases in `Y'CbCr` conversion. |
| - Implement context-sensitive expression read tracking. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.43 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/06/09 |
| |
| - Fix issue in reporting properties of substitutable `VkFormats`. |
| - Fix vertex attribute offset adjustments when vertex buffer stride is zero. |
| - Update `fetchDependencies` script to use pre-built `spirv-tools` files by default. |
| - Update `maxVertexInputBindingStride` and `maxVertexInputAttributeOffset` |
| to minimum Vulkan values. |
| - Numerous documentation typo corrections. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `26`. |
| - Update Travis CI to Xcode 11.5. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.42 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/06/01 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_GOOGLE_display_timing` |
| - `VK_KHR_external_memory` (non-functional groundwork for future |
| Metal-resource Vulkan extension). |
| - `VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities` (non-functional groundwork |
| for future Metal-resource Vulkan extension). |
| - Memory consumption improvements in command handling and vector pre-allocation optimizations. |
| - `vkQueuePresentKHR()` returns a `VkResult` for each swapchain. |
| - `MVKPipeline` disable fragment shader outputs for unused attachments. |
| - `MVKBuffer` support texel buffers in host-coherent memory on Mac. |
| - `MVKDescriptor` pass buffers to shaders that do atomic image accesses. |
| - Support vertex attribute offsets larger than the vertex buffer stride. |
| - Fix crash when more than two GPUs. |
| - Fix issue where `vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties()` incorrectly returned |
| properties for unsupported formats. |
| - Fix stack overflow in when logging and reporting very long messages. |
| - Fix situation where compute pipeline state not retained across copy and renderpass operations. |
| - Fix buffer offset calculation. |
| - Fixes to maximum FPS calculations. |
| - Fix buffer size passed to shaders when `VkDescriptorBufferInfo.range` set to `VK_WHOLE_SIZE`. |
| - Update maximum number of framebuffer layers to 2048. |
| - Support stencil only image formats in identity swizzle case. |
| - Enables format atomic capabilities only when format supports it. |
| - Add `MVKSmallVector` as a more memory efficient substitute of `MVKVector`. |
| - Reinstate `VulkanSamples API-Samples` demo apps and add |
| `input_attachment` and `push_descriptors` demos. |
| - Add `MVK_CONFIG_AUTO_GPU_CAPTURE_OUTPUT_FILE` environment variable |
| to support capturing GPU traces to a file. |
| - Consolidate frame and non-frame performance reporting. |
| - Remove `vkGetSwapchainPerformanceMVK()` from API. |
| - Swapchain performance can be retrieved with other activity performance |
| through `vkGetPerformanceStatisticsMVK()`. |
| - Add `MVK_CONFIG_PERFORMANCE_LOGGING_INLINE` env var to enable/disable |
| logging of performance of each activity when it happens. |
| - Reduce thread locking on performance statistics collection. |
| - Numerous documentation typo corrections. |
| - Support Xcode 11.5. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.141*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: mark `BuiltInFragCoord` as implicitly used for subpass reads. |
| - MSL: Deal with cases where builtin is implicitly needed, declared, but unused. |
| - MSL: Do not use base expression with PhysicalTypeID `OpCompositeExtract`. |
| - MSL: Add options to control emission of fragment outputs. |
| - MSL: Force disabled fragment builtins to have the right name. |
| - MSL: Allow removing clip distance user varyings. |
| - MSL: Support edge case with DX layout in scalar block layout. |
| - MSL: Deal correctly with initializers on Private variables. |
| - MSL: Fix case where `subpassInput` is passed to leaf functions. |
| - MSL: Redirect member indices when buffer has been sorted by Offset. |
| - MSL: If the packed type is scalar, don't emit "pack_" prefix. |
| - MSL: Avoid packed arrays in more cases. |
| - Do not add NonWritable/NonReadable decorations for regular images. |
| - Expose a query if samplers or images are comparison resources. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.41 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/04/05 |
| |
| - Accurately populate Vulkan `VkFormatProperties` from `MTLPixelFormat` capabilities, |
| taking into consideration variations across `MTLDevice` Features Sets. |
| - Validate format capabilities for MSAA, renderpass attachments, and `vkCmdResolveImage()`. |
| - Fix issue where immutable samplers are removed during descriptor update. |
| - Guard against Metal validation assertion from reuse of query number within a single `MTLRenderEncoder`. |
| - Increase value of `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment` |
| to `16` to avoid Metal validation assertions. |
| - Add ability to disable command memory pooling using `MVK_CONFIG_USE_COMMAND_POOLING` |
| environment variable. |
| - Fix memory leak when pre-filling `MTLCommandBuffers` using `MVK_CONFIG_PREFILL_METAL_COMMAND_BUFFERS`. |
| - Fix issue causing screen captures from swapchain image to deadlock. |
| - Fix memory estimates for iOS 13+. |
| - Broaden conditions for host read sync for image memory barriers on macOS. |
| - Fix issue of reseting `CAMetalDrawable` and `MTLTexture` of peer swapchain images. |
| - Fix the `make install` build command to overwrite the existing framework in the system |
| framework library, and update `README.md` to clarify the instructions for using `make install`. |
| - Update the `README.md` and `MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md` documents to clarify that |
| **MoltenVK** is not a fully-compliant implementation of *Vulkan*. |
| - Support Xcode 11.4. |
| - Disable `API-Samples` demos and document in `Demos/README.md`. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.135*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support inline uniform blocks in argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Move inline uniform blocks to the end of the argument buffer. |
| - MSL: Fix access chain for deep struct hierarchy on array of buffers. |
| - MSL: Remove old memory_scope flag from iOS barriers. |
| - MSL: Fixes to array handling. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.40 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2020/01/22 |
| |
| - Refactor descriptor management to reduce memory footprint and fix caching leak. |
| - Add `MVK_CONFIG_PREALLOCATE_DESCRIPTORS` environment variable to support preallocated |
| descriptor pooling within a `VkDescriptorPool` via the `VkDescriptorPoolSize` values. |
| - Fix crash when app does not use queue family zero. |
| - Fix buffer offset in `vkCmdPushDescriptorSet()` for non-dedicated buffer memory. |
| - Fix Metal validation error on push constant sizing differences between C and MSL structs. |
| - Use `MTLBuffer` when inline uniform block descriptor is written to instead of copying host-side bytes. |
| - Fix `EXT_inline_uniform_block` when using push descriptor sets. |
| - Merge buffer and inline unions to fix issue where binding inline descriptor would interfere with |
| future binds on the same set index in the same command buffer (now only used in push case anyway). |
| - Track performance of `CAMetalLayer nextDrawable` call. |
| - Document recommendation to use 3 swapchain images, particularly with full-screen rendering. |
| - Update `MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md` to better explain runtime environment variables. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `24`. |
| - Update copyright notices to year 2020. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.2.131*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support `ClipDistance` as an input stage variable. |
| - MSL: Fix automatic binding allocation for image atomic buffers. |
| - MSL: Deal with packing vectors for vertex input/fragment output. |
| - MSL: Don't set `OrigID` when emitting component packed vectors. |
| - MSL: Add trivial tests for `Component` decoration. |
| - MSL: Deal with padded fragment output + `Component` decoration. |
| - MSL: Partially implement support for Component decoration in complex scenarios. |
| - MSL: Explicitly don't support component packing for tessellation. |
| - MSL: Deal with sign on wave `min/max`. |
| - MSL: Add support for force-activating IAB resources. |
| - Deal with illegal names in types as well. |
| - Basic implementation of `OpCopyLogical`. |
| - Fix sign handling for `S/UToF`. |
| - Fix uninitialized memory issue. |
| - Roll custom versions of `isalpha/isalnum`. |
| - Update license headers to year 2020. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.39 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/12/16 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block` |
| - Support linear filtering when using `vkCmdBlitImage()`. |
| - Clamp image copy extents to image extent. |
| - Fix crash in `fetchDependencies` on build paths containing spaces. |
| - Fix image subresource sizing calculations for heap-based textures. |
| - Fix `MTLHeap` memory leak in `MVKDeviceMemory`. |
| - Fix tessellation break when control stage declares but does not use position builtin. |
| - Fix inconsistency in reporting device local memory between type and heap on macOS. |
| - Fix bug where dynamic shader buffers are overflowing. |
| - Avoid reading env vars inside library constructor functions. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to `23`. |
| - Cube demo use `VK_EXT_metal_surface` extension. |
| - Support *Xcode 11.3*. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.1.130*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Rewrite `tessellation_access_chain()`. |
| - MSL: Report tess input array failures more accurately. |
| - MSL: Deal with chained access chains for tessellation IO variables. |
| - MSL: Fix array of array declaration. |
| - MSL: Declare struct type explicitly. |
| - MSL: Declare arrays with proper type wrapper. |
| - MSL: Remove workaround for passing constant arrays to functions. |
| - MSL: Fix unpacking of column from padded matrix. |
| - MSL: Fix integer cast. |
| - MSL: Add missing reference output. |
| - MSL: Ensure stable output for access chain CFG workarounds. |
| - MSL: Remove stray `allow_id_rewrite()`. |
| - MSL: Do read-only lookups of access_chain_children. |
| - MSL: Do not declare variables which will not be unflattened. |
| - MSL: Rewrite propagated depth comparison state handling. |
| - MSL: Do not declare array of UBO/SSBO as `spvUnsafeArray<T>`. |
| - MSL: Remove dubious workaround code in `unpack_expression()`. |
| - MSL: Remove hacky workaround for patch constant passing. |
| - MSL: Revert hack with `kBufferSizeBufferBinding`. |
| - MSL: Remove stale code for texture swizzle. |
| - MSL: Avoid some fallthrough warnings. |
| - Expose as public `Compiler::update_active_builtins()` and `has_active_builtin()`. |
| - Implement constant empty struct correctly on all backends. |
| - Mark loop headers as complex as early as possible. |
| - Clean up call to `builtin_translates_to_nonarray()`. |
| - Fix broken access tracking for `OpFunctionCall` results. |
| - Avoid including stdexcept in no-exception environment. |
| - Add `spvc_type_get_base_type_id()`. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.38 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/10/30 |
| |
| - Add support for Metal 3.0 capabilities. |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace` (*iOS*, already supported on *macOS*). |
| - `VK_EXT_hdr_metadata` (*macOS*) |
| - Use native texture swizzling when available. |
| - Set default value of the `MVK_ALLOW_METAL_FENCES` environment variable to `1 (true)`, |
| to enable use of `MTLFence` for Vulkan semaphores, by default. |
| - Support additional capabilities in 1D images, including rendering, clearing, |
| and mipmaps. Add `MVK_CONFIG_TEXTURE_1D_AS_2D` environment variable to |
| enable/disable these capabilities. |
| - Use placement `MTLHeaps` for `VkDeviceMemory` when possible. |
| - Report heap sizes accurately when possible. |
| - Add support for additional colorspace options. |
| - Add support for the `VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures::shaderResourceMinLod` feature. |
| - Add support for compressed 3D images on *macOS*. |
| - Update `MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md` about embedding `libMoltenVK.dylib` in an application. |
| - Clarify static linking as the recommended linking approach for *iOS* app store distribution. |
| - Add request for feedback from people who reject **MoltenVK** to `README.md` document. |
| - Allow `MVK_CONFIG_SYNCHRONOUS_QUEUE_SUBMITS` build setting to be overridden. |
| - Fix memory leaks of system classes during `VkInstance` and `VkQueue` creation. |
| - Fix memory leaks when compiling shaders and pipelines without default OS autorelease pool. |
| - Fix severe FPS degradation caused by certain swapchain recreation situations. |
| - Log format substitution error when `MTLPixelFormatDepth24Unorm_Stencil8` is not supported. |
| - Reduce memory usage by adjusting default memory allocs for many `MVKVectorInline` uses and |
| replacing use of `MVKVectorDefault` with `std::vector` in descriptor set bindings. |
| - Set value of `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxTexelBufferElements` to more realistic value. |
| - Add linking separate shader texts to `GLSLToSPRIVConverter`. |
| - Move generation of `SPIRV-Cross/mvkSpirvCrossRevisionDerived.h` to separate script. |
| - Support *Xcode 11.1*. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.1.126*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support option for treating 1D textures as 2D textures of height 1. |
| - MSL: Fix array copies to/from interpolators. |
| - MSL: Fix 16-bit integer literals. |
| - MSL: Fix regression with `OpCompositeConstruct` from `std140 float[]`. |
| - Fixes cases where discard and demote are called in pure functions |
| and the function result is not consumed. |
| - Do not consider aliased struct types if the master is not a block. |
| - Fix `OpVectorExtractDynamic` with spec constant op index. |
| - Update SPIR-V headers to SPIR-V 1.5. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.37 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/09/10 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_device_group` |
| - `VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock` |
| - Add support for `VkEvent`, using either native `MTLEvent` or emulation when `MTLEvent` not available. |
| - `vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges()` synchronizes managed device memory to CPU. |
| - Track supported instance and device extensions correctly. |
| - Revert to supporting host-coherent memory for linear images on macOS. |
| - Report limit of 64KB for constant buffer bindings on macOS. |
| - Disable depth and/or stencil testing if corresponding attachment is missing. |
| - Ensure Vulkan loader magic number is set every time before returning any dispatchable Vulkan handle. |
| - Fix crash when `VkDeviceCreateInfo` specifies queue families out of numerical order. |
| - Fix crash in `vkDestroyPipelineLayout()`. |
| - Fix crash when signalling swapchain semaphore using `MTLEvent`. |
| - Fix crash when determining alignment of invalid pixel formats. |
| - `vkCmdBlitImage():` Support format component swizzling. |
| - `vkCmdClearImage():` Set error if attempt made to clear 1D image, and fix validation of depth attachment formats. |
| - `vkCreateRenderPass():` Return `VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED` if format not supported. |
| - `vkCmdFillBuffer():` Improve performance 150x by using parallelism more effectively. |
| - Support optional use of `MTLFence` for Vulkan semaphores via the `MVK_ALLOW_METAL_FENCES` environment variable. |
| - Remove error logging on `VK_TIMEOUT` of `VkSemaphore` and `VkFence`. |
| - Remove log message warning of obsolescence of `vkCreateMacOSSurfaceMVK()` and `vkCreateIOSSurfaceMVK()` functions. |
| - Report error only on the first time a format substitution is made. |
| - Streamline design and use of `MVKSemaphore`. |
| - Consolidate the various linkable objects into a `MVKLinkableMixin` template base class. |
| - Use `MVKVector` whenever possible in MoltenVK, especially within render loop. |
| - No longer prefer dedicated allocations for buffer memory, including buffer-backed images. |
| - Handle the `compositeAlpha` member of `VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR`. |
| - `VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetFeaturesEXTX::events` set to `true`. |
| - Always submit surface presentations using `MTLCommandBuffer`. |
| `MVKConfiguration::presentWithCommandBuffer` is now obsolete. |
| - Don't use `MTLCommandBuffer push/popDebugGroup` if not available. |
| - `MVKSwapchain::signalWhenAvailable()` add autoreleasepool around `MTLCommandBuffer` use. |
| - Add ability to automatically cause an *Xcode* GPU capture without developer intervention. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to version 22. |
| - Update to renaming of `VK_INTEL_shader_integer_functions2` enums and structs in latest Vulkan headers. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match *Vulkan SDK 1.1.121*. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - Support the `SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock` extension. |
| - MSL: Deal with array copies from and to threadgroup. |
| - MSL: Deal with `Modf/Frexp` where output is access chain to scalar. |
| - MSL: Inline all emitted functions. |
| - MSL: Inline all non-entry-point functions. |
| - MSL: Add `{Base,}{Vertex,Instance}{,Index}` to `bitcast_from_builtin_load`. |
| - MSL: Add support for sampler Y'CbCr conversion. |
| - MSL: Force storage images on iOS to use discrete descriptors. |
| - MSL: Support dynamic offsets for buffers in argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Cleanup temporary use with `emit_uninitialized_temporary`. |
| - MSL: Unify the `get_*_address_space()` methods. |
| - Assume image and sampler can be `RelaxedPrecision`. |
| - Fix post-depth coverage for ESSL. |
| - Fix variable scope when switch block exits multiple times. |
| - Fix severe performance issue with invariant expression invalidation. |
| - Fix `ParsedIR::mark_used_as_array_length(uint32_t id)` |
| - Deal correctly with sign on bitfield operations. |
| - Elide branches to continue block when continue block is also a merge. |
| - Move branchless analysis to CFG. |
| - Deal with `ldexp` taking `uint` input. |
| - Do not allow base expressions for non-native row-major matrices. |
| - Do not force temporary unless continue-only for loop dominates. |
| - Fix `ParsedIR::mark_used_as_array_length(uint32_t id)`. |
| - Refactor into stronger types in public API. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.36 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/07/25 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_KHR_device_group_creation` |
| - `VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format` |
| - `VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout` |
| - `VK_EXT_metal_surface` |
| - `VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage` |
| - `VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout` |
| - `VK_EXT_shader_stencil_export` |
| - `VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace` (*macOS*) |
| - `VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment` |
| - `VK_AMD_shader_image_load_store_lod` |
| - `VK_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax` |
| - `VK_INTEL_shader_integer_functions2` |
| - Support `VK_FORMAT_A2R10G10B10_UNORM_PACK32` as a surface format and view format. |
| - For shaders created directly from MSL, set function name from |
| `VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo::pName`. |
| - On iOS GPU family 2 and earlier, support immutable depth-compare samplers |
| as `constexpr` samplers hardcoded in MSL. |
| - `vkCmdCopyImage()` support copying between compressed and uncompressed formats |
| and validate that formats are compatible for copying. |
| - `vkCmdBufferImageCopy()` fix crash when setting bytes per image in non-arrayed images. |
| - `vkCmdBlitImage()` supports blit between different texture formats, and multisampled images. |
| - `vkCmdResolveImage()` supports textures of different sizes. |
| - `vkCmdClearImage()` returns error if texture is not renderable. |
| - Move push constant binding to `vkCmdBindPipeline()` from `vkCmdBindDescriptorSet()`. |
| - `MVKDeviceMemory` keep `MTLResourceOptions` aligned with `MTLStorageMode` & `MTLCPUCacheMode`. |
| - Texture memory requirements don't use shared storage on macOS. |
| - Add `MTLCommandBuffer` completion timing performance tracking option. |
| - Expand `MVK_CONFIG_TRACE_VULKAN_CALLS` to optionally log Vulkan call timings. |
| - Skip `SPIRV-Tools` build in Travis because Travis does not support the required Python 3. |
| - Separate `SPIRVToMSLConverterContext` into input config and output results. |
| - Use native Metal texture buffers when available. |
| - Fix issue with push constants used across multiple draw calls not being applied. |
| - Fix memory leak in debug marker and debug utils labelling. |
| - Reduce memory leaks when autorelease pools are not available. |
| - Fix pipeline cache lookups. |
| - Fix race condition between swapchain image destruction and presentation completion callback. |
| - Set Metal texture usage to allow texture copy via view. |
| - Fix memory leak in debug marker and debug utils labelling. |
| - Fix issue with push constants used across multiple draw calls not being applied. |
| - Fix crash when binding descriptor set to layout that has been destroyed and recreated. |
| - Return error when `MVKImage` created as 1D attachment. |
| - Reduce use of autoreleased Obj-C objects, and ensure those remaining are |
| covered by deliberate autorelease pools. |
| - Document that the functions in `vk_mvk_moltenvk.h` cannot be used with objects |
| retrieved through the *Vulkan SDK Loader and Layers* framework. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 21. |
| - Update dependency libraries to match Vulkan SDK 1.1.114. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support `SPV_KHR_multiview` extension. |
| - MSL: Support the `SPV_KHR_post_depth_coverage` extension. |
| - MSL: Support the `SPV_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax` extension. |
| - MSL: Support the `SPV_KHR_device_group` extension. |
| - MSL: Support the `SPV_INTEL_shader_integer_functions2` extension. |
| - MSL: Support `SubgroupSize` / `SubgroupInvocationID` in fragment. |
| - MSL: Support `OpImageQueryLod`. |
| - MSL: Support `MinLod` operand. |
| - MSL: Support `PrimitiveID` in fragment and barycentrics. |
| - MSL: Support 64-bit integers. |
| - MSL: Support `OpOuterProduct`. |
| - MSL: Support `SubgroupLocalInvocationId` and `SubgroupSize` in all stages. |
| - MSL: Support scalar reflect and refract. |
| - MSL: Support scalar block layout. |
| - MSL: Use the `select()` function for `OpSelect`. |
| - MSL: Handle `coherent`, `volatile`, and `restrict`. |
| - MSL: Refactor buffer packing logic from ground up. |
| - MSL: Fix alignment of packed types. |
| - MSL: Handle packed matrices. |
| - MSL: Conditionally validate MSL 2.2 shaders. |
| - MSL: Rewrite how resource indices are fallback-assigned. |
| - MSL: Support custom bindings for argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Fix sampling with `FP16` coordinates. |
| - MSL: Deal with scalar input values for distance/length/normalize. |
| - MSL: Error out on `int64_t/uint64_t` buffer members as unsupported by Metal. |
| - MSL: Deal with scalar input values for distance/length/normalize. |
| - MSL: Re-roll array expressions in initializers. |
| - MSL: New SDK errors out on cull distance. |
| - Rewrite how switch block case labels are emitted. |
| - Fixes to handling of `OpPhi` and case fallthrough. |
| - Fix declaration of loop variables with a `OpPhi` helper copy. |
| - Handle more cases with FP16 and texture sampling. |
| - Fix variable scope when an `if` or `else` block dominates a variable. |
| - Fall back to complex loop if non-trivial continue block is found. |
| - Remove unreasonable assertion for `OpTypeImage Sampled` parameter. |
| - Propagate NonUniformEXT to dependent expressions. |
| - Deal correctly with return sign of bitscan operations. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.35 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/06/13 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - `VK_EXT_debug_report` |
| - `VK_EXT_debug_marker` |
| - `VK_EXT_debug_utils` |
| - `VK_NV_glsl_shader` |
| - Support setting workgroup size for shader modules that use |
| MSL directly instead of converting from SPIR-V. |
| - Tessellation fixes: |
| - Don't use `setVertexBytes()` for passing tessellation vertex counts. |
| - Fix intermediate Metal renderpasses load and store actions maintaining |
| attachments appropriately. |
| - Use empty depth state for tessellation vertex pre-pass. |
| - Fix tessellated indirect draws using wrong kernels to map parameters. |
| - Work around potential Metal bug with stage-in indirect buffers. |
| - Fix zero local threadgroup size in indirect tessellated rendering. |
| - Fix `[[attribute]]` assignment for tessellation evaluation shaders. |
| - `VkSemaphore` optionally uses `MTLEvent`, if available and |
| `MVK_ALLOW_METAL_EVENTS` environment variable is enabled. |
| - Add `vkSetWorkgroupSizeMVK()` to set compute kernel workgroup size |
| when using MSL source code or MSL compiled code. |
| - Allow zero count of viewports and scissors. |
| - Report image layer limits for attachments in `vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties()`. |
| - Change log indication of error in logs from `[***MoltenVK ERROR***]` to |
| `[mvk-error]`, for consistency with other log level indications. |
| - Allow `mvkMTLRenderStagesFromVkPipelineStageFlags()` to map to all Vulkan stages, |
| by indicating whether the pipeline barrier should come before or after the stages. |
| - Automatically update `VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::pipelineCacheUUID` when SPIRV-Cross revision changes. |
| - Fix crash when clearing attachments using layered rendering on older macOS devices. |
| - Fixes to Metal renderpass layered rendering settings. |
| - `vkCmdClearAttachments()` returns encoder to previous pipeline, depth-stencil & resource state after execution. |
| - Fix issue clearing stencil attachment via renderpass when depth attachment is not being cleared. |
| - Fix sporadic crash on `vkDestroySwapchainKHR()`. |
| - `MoltenVKShaderConverter` tool: Add MSL version and platform command-line options. |
| - Fix crash on pipeline cache merge after `VkShaderModule` destroyed. |
| - Fix case where viewport/scissor doesn't get set properly when mixing dynamic and |
| static-configured pipelines in the same command buffer. |
| - Fix a race condition between sync objects and queries. |
| - Fix unused attachments terminating loop early. |
| - Fix offset of buffer view relative to buffer offset within device memory. |
| - Guard against missing Metal pipeline states when pipeline compilation fails. |
| - `MVKBuffer`: Force managed storage for linear textures on shared buffers. |
| - Use device address space when decompressing DXT image data. |
| - Added missing `texelBufferTextureWidth` setting in `MVKComputePipeline::getMTLFunction()`. |
| - Fixes and consolidation of external library header references. |
| - Allow building external dependency libraries in `Debug` mode. |
| - Enable AMD and NV GLSL extensions when building `glslang` for `MoltenVKGLSLToSPIRVConverter`. |
| - Make external library header references consistent and add `MVK_EXCLUDE_SPIRV_TOOLS` option. |
| - MVKVector improvements. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 20. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Add support for subgroup operations. |
| - MSL: Support argument buffers and image swizzling. |
| - MSL: Add support for `OpArrayLength`. |
| - MSL: Only use constant address space for tessellation control shader. |
| - MSL: Support native texture_buffer type, throw error on atomics. |
| - MSL: Add native texture buffer support. |
| - MSL: Deal with texture swizzle on arrays of images. |
| - MSL: Fix complex type alias declaration order. |
| - MSL: Fix declaration of unused input variables. |
| - MSL: Use correct address space when passing array-of-buffers. |
| - MSL: Deal correctly with nonuniformEXT qualifier. |
| - MSL: Cast texture_buffer index to uint. |
| - MSL: Fix nonuniform test. |
| - MSL: Fix regression with Private parameter declaration. |
| - MSL: Support remapping constexpr samplers by set/binding. |
| - MSL: Support Invariant qualifier on position. |
| - MSL: Support stencil export. |
| - Deal with case where a block is somehow emitted in a duplicated fashion. |
| - Fix infinite loop when `OpAtomic*` temporaries are used in other blocks. |
| - Fix tests for device->constant address space change in MSL tessellation control shader generation. |
| - Accept SPIR-V 1.4 version. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.34 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019-04-12 |
| |
| - Add support for tessellation. |
| - Add correct function entry point handling. |
| - Add support for `VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2` extension. |
| - Implement newer `VK_KHR_swapchain` extension functions. |
| - Support the `VK_EXT_host_query_reset` extension. |
| - Add support for tracking device features enabled during `vkCreateDevice()`. |
| - Handle surface loss due to window moved between screens or a window style change. |
| - Allow zero offset and stride combo in `VkVertexInputBindingDescription`. |
| - API: Add `MVKPhysicalDeviceMetalFeatures::depthSampleCompare`. |
| - Fix conditions under which functions return `VK_INCOMPLETE`. |
| - Fix potential memory leak on synchronous command buffer submission. |
| - Increase shader float constant accuracy beyond 6 digits of precision. |
| - `fetchDependencies`: Stop on first error. |
| - Clean up behaviour of sparse binding functions. |
| - Fix a possible race condition around `MVKMTLBufferAllocation`. |
| - Fix memory overrun if no vertex buffer found with same binding as a vertex attribute. |
| - Fix PVRTC texture content loading via memory mapping. |
| - Fix wrong offset for `vkCmdFillBuffer()` on `VK_WHOLE_SIZE`. |
| - Fixed crash within `MVKPushConstantsCommandEncoderState` when accessing absent |
| graphics pipeline during a compute stage. |
| - Fixed crash when `MTLRenderPassDescriptor renderTargetWidth` & `renderTargetHeight` |
| set on older devices. |
| - Renderpass width/height clamped to the `renderArea` includes `offset`, not just `extent`, |
| and are set only when layered rendering is supported on device. |
| - Set options properly on a buffer view's `MTLTextureDescriptor`. |
| - Don't set `MTLSamplerDescriptor.compareFunction` on devices that don't support it. |
| - Disable the `shaderStorageImageArrayDynamicIndexing` feature on iOS. |
| - Debug build mode includes `dSYM` file for each `dylib` file. |
| - Explicitly build dSYM files in `BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR` to avoid conflict between |
| macOS and iOS build locations. |
| - `Makefile` supports `install` target to install `MoltenVK.framework`. |
| into `/Library/Frameworks/`. |
| - Add `MVK_CONFIG_TRACE_VULKAN_CALLS` env var and build setting to log Vulkan calls made by application. |
| - Log shader performance statistics in any runtime if `MVKConfiguration::performanceLoggingFrameCount` non-zero. |
| - Suppress visibility warning spam when building Debug macOS from SPIRV-Cross Release build. |
| - Support Xcode 10.2. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 19. |
| - MoltenVKShaderConverter tool: |
| - Support `cs` & `csh` for compute shader file extensions. |
| - Validate converted MSL with a test compilation. |
| - Add option to log shader conversion performance. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Add support for Metal 2 indirect argument buffers. |
| - MSL: Add support for tessellation control & evaluation shaders. |
| - MSL: Support `VK_KHR_push_descriptor`. |
| - MSL: Force unnamed array builtin attributes to have a name. |
| - MSL: Set location of builtins based on client input. |
| - MSL: Ignore duplicate builtin vertex attributes. |
| - MSL: Fix crash where variable storage buffer pointers are passed down. |
| - MSL: Fix infinite CAS loop on atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit(). |
| - MSL: Fix `depth2d` 4-component fixup. |
| - MSL: Expand quad `gl_TessCoord` to a float3. |
| - MSL: Fix depth textures which are sampled and compared against. |
| - MSL: Emit proper name for optimized UBO/SSBO arrays. |
| - MSL: Support emit two layers of address space. |
| - MSL: Declare `gl_WorkGroupSize` constant with `[[maybe_unused]]`. |
| - MSL: Fix OpLoad of array which is forced to a temporary. |
| - Add stable C API and ABI. |
| - Performance improvements & reduce pressure on global allocation. |
| - Fix case where a struct is loaded which contains a row-major matrix. |
| - Fix edge case where opaque types can be declared on stack. |
| - Ensure locale handling is safe for multi-threading. |
| - Add support for sanitizing address and threads. |
| - Add support for `SPV_NV_ray_tracing`. |
| - Support -1 index in `OpVectorShuffle`. |
| - Deal more flexibly with for-loop & while-loop variations. |
| - Detect invalid DoWhileLoop early. |
| - Force complex loop in certain rare access chain scenarios. |
| - Make locale handling threadsafe. |
| - Support do-while where test is negative. |
| - Emit loop header variables even for while and dowhile. |
| - Properly deal with sign-dependent GLSL opcodes. |
| - Deal with mismatched signs in S/U/F conversion opcodes. |
| - Rewrite how we deal with locales and decimal point. |
| - Fix crash when `backend.int16_t_literal_suffix` set to null. |
| - Introduce customizable SPIRV-Cross namespaces and use `MVK_spirv_cross` in MoltenVK. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.33 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/02/28 |
| |
| - Support the `VK_EXT_memory_budget` extension. |
| - Support 8-bit part of `VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8`. |
| - Disable the `shaderStorageImageMultisample` feature. |
| - Modify README.md to direct developers to Vulkan SDK. |
| - Clarify Xcode version requirements in documentation. |
| - Use the `MTLDevice registryID` property to locate the GPU in `IOKit`. |
| - Add GPU device ID for *iOS A12* SoC. |
| - Allow logging level to be controlled with `MVK_CONFIG_LOG_LEVEL` |
| runtime environment variable. |
| - Allow forcing use of low-power GPU using `MVK_CONFIG_FORCE_LOW_POWER_GPU` |
| runtime environment variable. |
| Set MSL version for shader compiling from Metal feature set. |
| - Don't warn on identity swizzles when `fullImageViewSwizzle` config setting is enabled. |
| - Track version of spvAux buffer struct in SPIRV-Cross and fail build if different |
| than version expected by MoltenVK. |
| - Add static and dynamic libraries to MoltenVKShaderConverter project. |
| - Fix crash from use of MTLDevice registryID on early OS versions. |
| - `fetchDependencies`: Fix issue loading from `Vulkan-Portability_repo_revision`. |
| - `fetchDependencies`: Clean MoltenVK build to ensure using latest dependency libs. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 18. |
| - Update to latest dependency libraries to support SDK 1.1.101. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Implement 8-bit part of `VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8`. |
| - MSL: Add a setting to capture vertex shader output to a buffer. |
| - MSL: Stop passing the aux buffer around. |
| - Support LUTs in single-function CFGs on Private storage class. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.32 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/01/28 |
| |
| - Add support for `VK_EXTX_portability_subset` extension. |
| - iOS: Support dual-source blending with iOS 11. |
| - iOS: Support cube arrays with A11. |
| - iOS: Support layered rendering and multiple viewports with A12. |
| - Use combined store-resolve ops when supported and requested in renderpass. |
| - Fixes to values returned from `vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties()` |
| and `vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2KHR()`. |
| - Log and return `VK_ERROR_FEATURE_NOT_PRESENT` error if `vkCreateImageView()` |
| requires shader swizzling but it is not enabled. |
| - Log and return `VK_ERROR_FEATURE_NOT_PRESENT` error if array of textures or |
| array of samplers requested but not supported. |
| - Treat all attributes & resources as used by shader when using pre-converted MSL. |
| - Allow default GPU Capture scope to be assigned to any queue in any queue family. |
| - VkPhysicalDevice: Correct some features and limits. |
| - Stop advertising atomic image support. |
| - `vkSetMTLTextureMVK()` function retains texture object. |
| - Log to stderr instead of stdout. |
| - `fetchDependencies`: build `spirv-tools` when attached via symlink. |
| - Enhancements to `MVKVector`, and set appropriate inline sizing usages. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 17. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Use correct size and alignment rules for structs. |
| - MSL: Fix texture projection with Dref. |
| - MSL: Deal with resource name aliasing. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.31 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2019/01/17 |
| |
| - Support runtime config via runtime environment variables |
| - Add full ImageView swizzling to config, and disable it by default. |
| - Add GPU switching to config, and enable it by default. |
| - Add queue family specialization to config, and disable it by default. |
| - Enable synchronous queue submits as config default. |
| - Support 4 queue families. |
| - Pad fragment shader output to 4 components when needed. |
| - Add support for copying to and from PVRTC images. |
| - Log Vulkan versions in human readable form when reporting version error. |
| - Update `VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION` to 16. |
| - Update copyright to 2019. |
| - Advertise the `VK_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float` extension. |
| - Support the `VK_KHR_variable_pointers` extension. |
| - MoltenVKShaderConverter tool exit with fail code on any file conversion fail. |
| - Update to latest dependency libraries for Vulkan SDK 1.1.97. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support SPV_KHR_variable_pointers. |
| - MSL: Workaround missing gradient2d() on macOS for typical cascaded shadow mapping. |
| - MSL: Fix mapping of identity-swizzled components. |
| - MSL: Support composites inside I/O blocks. |
| - MSL: Fix case where we pass arrays to functions by value. |
| - MSL: Add option to pad fragment outputs. |
| - MSL: Fix passing a sampled image to a function. |
| - MSL: Support std140 packing rules for float[] and float2[]. |
| - MSL: Fix image load/store for short vectors. |
| - Performance improvements on iterating internal constructs. |
| - Update copyright to 2019. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.30 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/12/31 |
| |
| - Allow 2 or 3 swapchain images to support both double and triple buffering. |
| - Force display to switch to GPU selected by vkCreateDevice() to avoid system |
| view compositor having to copy from that GPU to display GPU. |
| - Use inline buffer for pipeline auxiliary buffer. |
| - vkCmdCopyImage: Cast source image to the destination format. |
| - Result of vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2KHR match vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties. |
| - MVKImage: Return error for BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW. |
| - MVKDescriptorSet: Fix handling of immutable samplers. |
| - MVKPipeline: Forbid vertex attribute offsets >= stride. |
| - Fix handling of case where vertex bindings and binding indices don't match up. |
| - Return VK_TIMEOUT even on zero wait if fences not signalled. |
| - Support iOS builds for arm64e architecture. |
| - Improvements to building external libraries. |
| - Print Vulkan semantics when logging converted GLSL. |
| - Support uploading S3TC-compressed 3D images. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.29 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/12/15 |
| |
| - Replace use of std::vector with MVKVector to support allocations on stack. |
| - Add missing include MVKEnvironment.h to MVKImage.mm for IOSurfaces. |
| - vkCmdClearAttachments apply [[render_target_array_index]] more carefully. |
| - vkCmdPushDescriptorSet: Fix mapping of binding numbers to descriptor layouts. |
| - Forbid depth/stencil formats on anything but 2D images. |
| - MVKCommandPool: Destroy transfer images using the device. |
| - MVKPipeline: Reject non-multiple-of-4 vertex buffer strides. |
| - MVKPipeline: Set auxiliary buffer offsets once, on layout creation. |
| - MVKSampler: Support border colors. |
| - MVKImage: Round up byte alignment to the nearest power of 2. |
| - MVKImage: Don't set MTLTextureUsageRenderTarget for non-blittable formats. |
| - MVKImage: Support image views of 2D multisample array images. |
| - MVKGraphicsPipeline: Add dummy attachments even when rasterization is off. |
| - MVKDeviceMemory: Try creating an MTLBuffer before allocating heap memory. |
| - Add support for VK_FORMAT_A2R10G10B10_UNORM_PACK32. |
| - Support A8B8G8R8_PACK32 formats. |
| - Add new formats and fix existing ones. |
| - On macOS, VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32 can only be filtered. |
| - On macOS, linear textures cannot be blitted to. |
| - Depth formats cannot be used for a VkBufferView. |
| - Give every image format we support the BLIT_SRC feature. |
| - Correct supported features of compressed formats. |
| - Correct mapping of packed 16-bit formats. |
| - Add some more vertex formats. |
| - Don't use char/uchar for clearing/copying 8-bit formats. |
| - Explicitly set number of sparse image property/requirement info sets to 0. |
| - Retrieve linear image memory alignment requirements from Metal device. |
| - For each GPU, log MSL version and updated list of feature sets. |
| - Cube demo on iOS support Portrait and Landscape device orientation. |
| - Build the dylib with -fsanitize=address when asan is enabled. |
| - Fix name of generated dSYM file. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL don't emit `memory_scope` after MSL 2.0. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.28 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/12/06 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - VK_KHR_bind_memory2 |
| - VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format |
| - VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8 |
| - VK_KHR_8bit_storage |
| - VK_KHR_16bit_storage |
| - VK_KHR_relaxed_block_layout |
| - VK_KHR_maintenance3 |
| - VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class |
| - Add support for 2D multisample array textures. |
| - Ignore fragment shader if raster discard is enabled. |
| - Force signedness of shader vertex attributes to match the host. |
| - In debug configurations, create a dSYM bundle for libMoltenVK.dylib. |
| - MVKImage: Take lock when setting the MTLTexture manually. |
| - Optimize MVKFenceSitter. |
| - Support parallel builds of fetchDependencies to improve build times. |
| - Change internal header references to increase header path flexibility. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Use an enum instead of two mutually exclusive booleans. |
| - MSL: Force signedness of shader vertex attributes to match the host. |
| - Support gl_HelperInvocation on GLSL and MSL. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.27 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/11/15 |
| |
| - Remove destroyed resources from descriptor sets. |
| - Forbid compressed formats on non-2D images. |
| - Update to latest dependency libraries for Vulkan SDK 1.1.92. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Print early_fragment_tests specifier before fragment shader declaration. |
| - MSL: Also pack members at unaligned offsets. |
| - MSL: Also pack 2- and 4- element vectors when necessary. |
| - MSL: Emit wrapper for SSign (sign() for int types). |
| - MSL: Support extended arithmetic opcodes. |
| - Handle opcode OpSourceContinued. |
| - Handle group decorations. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.26 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/11/06 |
| |
| - Fix memoryTypes order to match Vulkan spec. |
| - Allow linear images to use host-coherent memory. |
| - Generate Bitcode in iOS libraries. |
| - Allow all pipeline attachements to be unused. |
| - Perform usage checks on 3D images. |
| - Enhancements to dylib generation script. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Support 8 & 16 bit types. |
| - MSL: Updated spec constant support. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.25 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/10/31 |
| |
| - Refactor the build environment. |
| - Support creation of static library and build framework and dynamic library from it. |
| - Add Makefile to better support command line or script building integration. |
| - Update demos to each use one of framework, static library, and dynamic library. |
| - Refactor and rename the build scripts. |
| - Refactor and rename the Xcode Schemes. |
| - Update build and runtime documentation. |
| - Update shader caching for compatibility with texture swizzling. |
| - Support polygonMode VK_POLYGON_MODE_POINT. |
| - vkCreateInstance returns VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER if Metal not available. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.24 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/10/16 |
| |
| - Support arbitrary swizzles of image data. |
| - Include struct size parameter in VK_MVK_moltenvk extension functions that pass structs that |
| might change size across extension versions. |
| - Remove vkGetMoltenVKDeviceConfigurationMVK() & vkSetMoltenVKDeviceConfigurationMVK() functions. |
| - Allocate MVKDescriptorSets from a pool within MVKDescriptorPool |
| - Support copying between textures of compatible-sized formats |
| - Support VK_FORMAT_A2B10G10R10_UNORM_PACKED vertex format |
| - Build scripts support SRCROOT path containing spaces. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.23 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/09/28 |
| |
| - Add support for features: |
| - shaderStorageImageMultisample |
| - shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat |
| - shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat |
| - shaderUniformBufferArrayDynamicIndexing |
| - shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing |
| - shaderStorageBufferArrayDynamicIndexing |
| - shaderStorageImageArrayDynamicIndexing |
| - Support reduced render area |
| - Support rasterization to missing attachment |
| - Allocate MVKCommandBuffers from a pool within MVKCommandPool. |
| - Update glslang version |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Improve coordinate handling for buffer reads. |
| - MSL: Expand arrays of buffers passed as input. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.22 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/09/25 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - VK_KHR_maintenance2 |
| - VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor |
| - VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge |
| - VK_KHR_image_format_list |
| - VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation |
| - VK_KHR_get_memory_requirements2 |
| - VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer |
| - Support multiple viewports and scissor rectangles. |
| - Support sampleRateShading. |
| - Support pre-filling Metal command buffer on same thread as Vulkan command buffer. |
| - Support passing either a CAMetalLayer or an NSView/UIView in the pView member |
| when creating a surface. |
| - Support views of the stencil aspect of depth/stencil images. |
| - Improvements to subviews on 3D textures. |
| - Enforce single queue per queue family to improve Metal command buffer handling. |
| - Set Metal render target sizes on iOS. |
| - Fix potential deadlocks on query results and fences. |
| - Fix memory leak on SPIRV conversion. |
| - Update to Vulkan header 1.1.85 and latest version of library dependencies. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Handle the ViewportIndex builtin. |
| - MSL: Handle the SamplePosition builtin. |
| - MSL: Fix OpAtomicIIncrement and OpAtomicIDecrement. |
| - MSL: Support array of arrays composites and copying. |
| - MSL: Fix issues with casting of builtin integer vectors. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.21 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/09/08 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - VK_KHR_descriptor_update_template |
| - Create 3D MTLTextureViews for 2D image views of 3D textures. |
| - Allow building and packaging MoltenVK for of only iOS or only macOS. |
| - Move packaging scripts out of Xcode projects and into script files. |
| - vkUpdateDescriptorSet: Handle copies of uninitialized descriptors. |
| - vkCmdFillBuffer & vkCmdCopyBuffers: Use dispatch call that supports older OS versions. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version: |
| - MSL: Emit F{Min,Max,Clamp} as fast:: and N{Min,Max,Clamp} as precise |
| - MSL: Implement multisampled array textures. |
| - MSL: Emit spvTexelBufferCoord() on ImageWrite to a Buffer. |
| - MSL: Handle interpolation qualifiers. |
| - MSL: Account for components when assigning locations to varyings. |
| - MSL: Do not emit function constants for version < 1.2. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.20 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/09/01 |
| |
| - Add support for extensions: |
| - VK_KHR_maintenance1 |
| - VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters |
| - VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 |
| - VK_KHR_push_descriptor |
| - Add ability to track and access supported and enabled extensions. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.19 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/08/23 |
| |
| - Move MoltenVK config to instance instead of device. |
| - Add MVKConfiguration and deprecate MVKDeviceConfiguration. |
| - Add vkGetMoltenVKConfigurationMVK() and deprecate vkGetMoltenVKDeviceConfigurationMVK(). |
| - Add vkSetMoltenVKConfigurationMVK() and deprecate vkSetMoltenVKDeviceConfigurationMVK(). |
| - Add build setting overrides for all initial MVKConfiguration member values. |
| - Support Xcode 10: Explicitly specify MoltenVKSPIRVToMSLConverter as prelink library. |
| - Update to Vulkan header 1.1.83 and latest version of library dependencies. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.18 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/08/15 |
| |
| - vkCmdFullBuffer() fills buffer using compute shader. |
| - Fix API for updating MVKDeviceConfiguration::synchronousQueueSubmits. |
| - vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties() return VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT |
| if supported, even if other format properties are not. |
| - Support Metal GPU capture scopes. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross, glslang & SPIRV-Tools. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.17 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/07/31 |
| |
| - Disable rasterization and return void from vertex shaders that write to resources. |
| - Add SPIRVToMSLConversionOptions::isRasterizationDisabled to allow pipeline and |
| vertex shader to communicate rasterization status. |
| - Track layered rendering capability. |
| - Add MVKPhysicalDeviceMetalFeatures::layeredRendering. |
| - Add mvkStaticCmdShaderSource() to generate static MSL shader source for commands. |
| - Add MVKDevice::getMTLCompileOptions() to consolidate shader compilation options. |
| - CreatePipelines return error when fragment MSL translation fails. |
| - Add new vertex format VK_FORMAT_A2B10G10R10_SNORM_PACK32. |
| - Fix watermark timing. |
| - Update MoltenVK spec version to 6. |
| - Remove obsolete deprecated licensing functions. |
| - Rename folders and project for Cube demo. |
| - Update What's New document for earlier releases. |
| - Update to latest library dependencies. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version. |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.16 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/07/24 |
| |
| - Fixes to attachment and image clearing to pass CTS tests. |
| - MVKCmdClearAttachments support clearing multiple attachment layers. |
| - MVKCmdClearImage use renderpass clear, and support clearning multiple image layers. |
| - Rename mvkCmdClearImage() to mvkCmdClearColorImage(). |
| - MVKDevice add getFormatIsSupported() to allow devices to test for format support. |
| - MVKFramebuffer support multiple layers. |
| - mvk_datatypes.h support both 2D and 3D mipmap calculations and allow |
| mvkMTLPrimitiveTopologyClassFromVkPrimitiveTopology() in iOS. |
| - Remove support for VK_FORMAT_B10G11R11_UFLOAT_PACK32 & VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32 |
| since format components are reversed on Metal. |
| - Report correct workgroup sizes from MTLDevice. |
| - Retrieve VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupSize & |
| maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations & maxComputeSharedMemorySize from MTLDevice. |
| - Move OS extension source files to new OS directory. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.15 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/07/12 |
| |
| - Link IOSurface on iOS only if IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is at least iOS 11.0. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.14 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/07/04 |
| |
| - vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties() indicate 1D texture limitations. |
| - Fix compute shader workgroup size specialization. |
| - Support separate specialization for each workgroup dimension. |
| - Support zero as a specialization ID value. |
| - Set correct value for VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments. |
| - Cleanup MoltenVKShaderConverterTool. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.13 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/06/28 |
| |
| - Support larger VkBufferViews by using 2D Metal textures. |
| - Swapchain return VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR when window resized. |
| - Improve crispness of visuals on macOS Retina displays. |
| - Set CAMetalLayer magnificationFilter property to Nearest by default. |
| - Add MVKDeviceConfiguration::swapchainMagFilterUseNearest member to allow overrides. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.12 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/06/22 |
| |
| - Sorting Metal devices in the list of physicalDevices by whether they are headless. |
| - vkCmdBlitImage() support texture arrays as source and destination targets. |
| - vkCmdBlitImage() remove broken support for depth/stencil scaling. |
| - vkCmdClearImage() fixes to clearing depth and stencil formats and avoid Metal validation errors. |
| - Fix slice index when rendering to cube maps. |
| - Fix texture file copy in Cube Demo. |
| - fetchDeps: Add flags for pre-built repos. |
| - Update to latest library dependencies to match Vulkan SDK 1.1.77. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.11 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/06/12 |
| |
| - Avoid fragment shader tracking interacting with vertex attributes. |
| - Restrict allowed linear tiling features for pixel formats. |
| - Fix bad logic when testing allowed linear tiling usage. |
| - Fix copying 4-byte 32-bit depth/stencil formats between buffers and textures. |
| - Fix MSL compilation failures on macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.10 |
| --------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/06/05 |
| |
| - Support mapping and filling device memory before binding an image to it. |
| - Fix vsync not being enabled in IMMEDIATE present mode. MVK_MACOS was not being defined. |
| - Avoid Metal validation error on MTLBuffer.contents access from private storage. |
| - Support using Metal texel buffer for linear images to increase host coherency. |
| - MVKDeviceMemory track MVKImages and MVKBuffers separately. |
| - Per Vulkan spec, restrict linear images to 2D, non-array, single mipmap. |
| - Use texel buffer if possible for texture on coherent device memory. |
| - Only flush MVKImages (not MVKBuffers) when device memory mapped. |
| - Do not flush texel buffer images. |
| - Replace dependency on Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers with Vulkan-Headers and Vulkan-Tools. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.9 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/05/23 |
| |
| - Fix an issue where the depth format in MVKCmdClearImage was not getting set correctly. |
| - Move surface access to UI components to main thread. |
| - Fix deadlock possibility between MVKFence and MVKFenceSitter. |
| - Fix handling of locking on deferred-destruction objects. |
| - vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties returns VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED |
| if the format is not supported. |
| - Default value of MVKDeviceConfiguration::metalCompileTimeout set to infinite. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.8 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/05/18 |
| |
| - Allow queue processing to be optionally handled on the submitting (render) thread. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.7 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/05/14 |
| |
| - Cache MTLCommandQueues for reuse to handle long delays in creating new VkDevices and VkQueues. |
| - Handle multiple MVKResources mapped to the same region of a single MVKDeviceMemory. |
| - Add Metal library, function and pipeline compilation timeout limits. |
| - Create copies of MVKShaderLibraries when merging pipeline caches. |
| - Handle NULLs when freeing command buffers. |
| - Replace delete with call to destroy() for all MVK objects. |
| - Handle null pointers in vkDestroy...() functions. |
| - Set default value of MVKDeviceConfiguration::supportLargeQueryPools to true by default. |
| - Fixes to run Vulkan CTS without crashes. |
| - Remove mutex locks on MVKDescriptorPool. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.5 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/05/04 |
| |
| - Add features to support Vulkan CTS. |
| - Dynamically create frag shaders for clearning attachments and images. |
| - Dynamically create frag shaders for blitting scaled images. |
| - MVKGraphicsPipeline don't create MTLRenderPipelineState if vertex function conversion fails. |
| - MVKComputePipeline don't create MTLComputePipelineState if compute function conversion fails. |
| - Handle SPIRV-Cross errors thrown during SPIR-V parsing in compiler construction. |
| - Set undefined property limits to large, but not max, values to avoid casting issues in app. |
| - Mark multiDrawIndirect features as available. |
| - Support VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT. |
| - Separate categories from MVKOSExtensions. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.4 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/04/22 |
| |
| - Support depth clip mode only from MTLFeatureSet_iOS_GPUFamily2_v4 onwards. |
| - MVKCmdClearAttachments & MVKCmdClearImage support multisampled attachments and images. |
| - Don't use CAMetalLayer displaySyncEnabled property if it is not available. |
| - Update python brew install command. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.3 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/04/18 |
| |
| - Add support for VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR swapchain presentation mode. |
| - Round up row and layer byte counts when copying compressed images with sizes |
| that are not integer multiples of block size. |
| - Queue and device wait idle handled by internal fence instead of semaphore. |
| - vkCmdCopyBufferToImage() & vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer() support a VkBuffer |
| that is bound to an offseted position in a VkDeviceMemory. |
| - MVKImage::getArrayLayers() reports only layer count and excludes depth. |
| - Add workaround for apps that use one semaphore for all swapchain images. |
| - Support deferred secondary signaling of semaphore & fence acquired while image is free. |
| - Update to latest cube.c version. |
| - Use ninja if available to build dependencies. |
| - Build the demos in Travis-CI. |
| - Update to latest V-LVL, glslang & SPIRV-Tools. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.2 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/04/02 |
| |
| - Add support for caching converted MSL shader code offline from pipeline cache |
| via vkGetPipelineCacheData(), vkCreatePipelineCache() & vkMergePipelineCaches(). |
| - Present using command buffer by default. |
| - Support SPIR-V containing multiple entry points. |
| - Add option for per-frame performance logging via un-commentable logging code. |
| - VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::pipelineCacheUUID value derived from MoltenVK |
| version and highest supported Metal feature set. |
| - vkCmdClearAttachments() don't attempt to clear non-existing depth & stencil attachments. |
| - Always clamp scissors to render area to avoid Metal validation error. |
| - Move fetchDependencies to top directory. |
| - Turn caching of Externals off in .travis.yml. |
| - Add instructions in README.md about building MoltenVK via the command line. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| |
| |
| |
| MoltenVK 1.0.1 |
| -------------- |
| |
| Released 2018/03/19 |
| |
| - Add support for Vulkan Loader and Validation Layer API version 5. |
| - Add support for LunarG Vulkan Loader ICD API. |
| - Add Vulkan Loader and Validation Layer ICD JSON file. |
| - Fix vkGetInstanceProcAddr to work with 1.1 loader. |
| - Use fetchDependencies script instead of submodules. |
| - Align versioning of external libraries with those used by LunarG SDK. |
| - Combine multiple VkCommandBuffers into a single MTLCommandBuffer. |
| - On command buffer submission, defer waiting on semaphores until just before |
| MTLCommandBuffer is committed. |
| - Retrieve heap size from MTLDevice on macOS and from free shared system memory on iOS. |
| - Allow color attachment on depth-only rendering. |
| - Allow color attachment when clearing depth only. |
| - Support DXT1 RGB texture compression. |
| - Support VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT on VkFormats that are not supported |
| as texture formats under Metal. |
| - Don't check if texture is coherent on macOS, since it never is. |
| - Setup push constants for compute shaders. |
| - Check if storage mode is not shared when checking if synchronize is needed. |
| - Log which GPU is attached to a VkDevice. |
| - Sort multiple GPU's to put higher-power GPU's at front of list. |
| - Populate VkPhysicalDeviceProperties vendorID, deviceID and pipelineCacheUUID. |
| - Ensure scissors fit inside renderpass area to avoid Metal validation assertions. |
| - Consolidate setting of viewport and scissors by pipeline and command. |
| - Make MVKBuffer::getMTLBuffer() thread-safe. |
| - Fix Metal validation error with a renderpass with no depth attachment. |
| - Use pipelineStatisticsQuery feature to determine whether pipeline stats are available. |
| - Modify MVKImageView to fix MTLTexture used for renderpasses. |
| - Fix vkBindImageMemory crash when multiple simultaneous threads are binding to |
| different offsets in the of the same VkDeviceMemory. |
| - Don't align push constant buffer. |
| - Fix vkCmdCopyBuffer when copying unaligned regions. |
| - Added workgroup size specialization constants |
| - Fix SPIRV-Cross OOM conditions with multiple consecutive two-vector OpVectorShuffles. |
| - Support non-square row-major matrix conversions. |
| - Fix vkCmdBlitImage between images of different sizes. |
| - Add ability to write SPIR-V to file for debugging purposes. |
| - Update ThirdPartyConfig.md to latest use of SPIRV-Cross testability. |
| - Fixes to compute workgroup sizes and barriers. |
| - Improved extraction of entry point name and workgroup size from SPIR-V. |
| - Consolidate to a single ThirdPartyConfig.md document. |
| - MSL enhancements to nested function use of globals. |
| - Support customizing MSL based on iOS or macOS platform. |
| - MSL threadgroup barrier memory scope only on iOS MSL 2.0. |
| - MVKBufferView add lock when creating MTLTexture. |
| - MVKDeviceMemory add lock when creating MTLBuffer during memory mapping. |
| - MVKMTLBufferAllocator does not need to be threadsafe. |
| - Cleanup syntax on other lock handling to add consistency. |
| - Consolidate timestamps and performance tracking. |
| - Derive vkCmdCopyBuffer() alignment requirement at runtime. |
| - Don't log error from vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties() if format not supported. |
| - Add printf-like macros to MVKLogImpl and mvkNotifyErrorWithText. |
| - Updates to dylib building process. Use clang instead of libtool. |
| - Allow MoltenVK to be installed and built without asciidoctor. |
| - Add CI support using Travis CI. |
| - Automatically install demo apps. |
| - Cube demo generate SPIR-V as part of demo project build. |
| - Disable watermark in debug builds. |
| - Add build and runtime OS and device requirements to documentation. |
| - Add Compliance and Contribution sections to README.md. |
| - Remove executable permissions from non-executable files. |
| - Update to latest SPIRV-Cross. |
| - Update copyright dates to 2018. |
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| MoltenVK 1.0.0 |
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| Released 2018/02/26 |
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| Initial open-source release! |
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