Changelog

The latest published Vello release is 0.3.0 which was released on 2024-10-04. You can find its changes documented below.

Unreleased

This release has an MSRV of 1.75.

0.3.0 - 2024-10-04

This release has an MSRV of 1.75.

Highlights

• Support for most Emoji (#615, #641 by @DJMcNab)
• GPU Friendly Stroke Expansion, which documents key parts of how Vello works, was released (by @raphlinus, @armansito)
• Blurred rounded rectangles are now supported, which can be used for box shadows (#665 by @msiglreith)
• Vello is no longer considered experimental 🎉 (#691 by @waywardmonkeys) Note that Vello is still an alpha, but we believe that the direction has been proven.

Added

• Access to the Adapter from the utils DeviceHandle (#634 by @cfagot)
• Support for compositing existing wgpu::Textures into a Vello scene (#636, #655 by @DJMcNab, @TrueDoctor)
• Utilities for constructing an AaSupport from a set of AaConfigs (#654 by @simbleau)
• An example which uses sdl2 (#671 by @TheNachoBIT)
• The underlying Encoding for a scene can now be modified, circumventing guardrails for advanced use-cases (#701 by @timtom-dev)

Changed

• Breaking: Updated wgpu to 22.1.0 (#635 by @waywardmonkeys)
• Clipping more than four layers deep is now supported (#657 by @DJMcNab)
• Significantly improved automated testing (#610, #643 by @DJMcNab)
• Preliminary debug layers for Vello's internal development (#416 by @armansito)
• Examples now use the run_app API from Winit (#626, #628 by @yutannihilation)
• Labels on GPU objects are now prefixed with vello. (#677 by @waywardmonkeys)

Fixed

• Example code in the repository README (#627 by @kmoon2437)
• A possible crash on iOS working around an invariant undocumented by Apple (#639 by @DJMcNab)
• Large number of clips now work (#659 by @raphlinus)
• Empty clips now no longer cause artifacts (#651 by @raphlinus)
• A potential panic in the presence of a weaker than default allocator (#675 by @timtom-dev)
• Watertightness breaks causing artifacts with some rounded rectangles (#695 by @raphlinus)

Removed

• Breaking: Pipelines API from vello_shaders (#612 by @DJMcNab)
• Our wgpu_profiler is no longer stable (#694 by @DJMcNab)

0.2.1 - 2024-07-16

This release has an MSRV of 1.75.

Fixed

• Crash when there is no scene contents (#630by @DJMcNab)

Changed

• Updated wgpu to 0.20.1. (#631by @waywardmonkeys)
• Document the MSRV of releases in the changelog (#619 by @DJMcNab)

0.2.0 - 2024-06-08

This release has an MSRV of 1.75.

Added

• Euler spiral based stroke expansion. (#496 by @raphlinus)
• Sweep gradients. (#435 by @dfrg)
• Bump allocation estimation. (#436, #454, #522 by @armansito)
• Impl From<Encoding> for Scene. (#538 by @waywardmonkeys)
• Glyph hinting support. (#544 by @dfrg)
• Better glyph caching. (#555 by @dfrg)
• vello_shaders crate to load and preprocess WGSL. (#563 by @armansito)
• Coverage-mask specialization. (#540 by @armansito)
• Support for the #enable post-process directive. (#550 by @armansito)

Changed

• Better error types. (#516 by @DasLixou)
• RenderContext::new() no longer returns a Result. (#547 by @waywardmonkeys)
• Updated wgpu to 0.20. (#560 by @waywardmonkeys)

Removed

• force_rw_storage feature. (#540 by @armansito)

Fixed

• 64k draw object limit. (#526 by @raphlinus)
• Increased robustness of cubic params. (#521 by @raphlinus)
• Increased robustness of GPU shaders. (#537 by @raphlinus)
• draw_leaf uniformity. (#535 by @raphlinus)
• Bug in join estimates in vello_encoding. (#573 by @armansito)
• Incorrect use of numerical operators on atomics in binning. (#539 by @armansito)
• path_reduced_scan buffer size. (#551 by @armansito)
• Handling of upstream pipeline failure. (#553 by @armansito)
• Very slow shader compilation. (#575 by @DJMcNab, @waywardmonkeys)
• Full system hang on Apple systems. (#589 by @raphlinus)

0.1.0 - 2024-03-04

• Initial release