Release v2024.3

• General
• Optimizer
  • Do not fold mul and adds to generate fmas (#5682)
  • add OpExtInst forward ref fixup pass (#5708)
• Validator
  • Separate Location check for tess patch (#5654)
  • Validate MemoryAccessMask of OpCooperativeMatrixStoreKHR (#5668)
  • OpSampledImage extra validation (#5695)
  • add support for OpExtInstWithForwardRefs (#5698)A
• Disassembler
  • add decorations to comments (#5675)
  • Add --nested-indent and --reorder-blocks (#5671)

Release v2024.2

• General
  • Add SPIRV_TOOLS_EXPORT to public C++ API (#5591)
  • Use bazel 7 and bzlmod (#5601)
• Optimizer
  • opt: add GroupNonUniformPartitionedNV capability to trim pass (#5648)
  • Fix rebuilding types with circular references. (#5637)
  • Add AliasedPointer decoration (#5635)
  • add support for vulkan-shader-profiler external passes (#5512)
• Validator
  • A fix to support of SPV_QCOM_image_processing2 (#5646)
  • spirv-val: Add Vulkan check for Rect Dim in OpTypeImage (#5644)
  • Validate duplicate decorations and execution modes (#5641)
  • Validator: Support SPV_NV_raw_access_chains (#5568)

Release v2024.1

IMPORTANT:
This release is the last one we will publish here until further notice. The official SDK releases can be found on LunarG's website. They offer 2 options: the prebuilt & tested binaries, or a list of known-good commits to build your own release binaries.

• General
  • Add tooling support for SPV_KHR_maximal_reconvergence (#5542)
  • Add support for SPV_KHR_float_controls2 (#5543)
  • SPV_KHR_quad_control (#5547)
  • Fold 64-bit int operations (#5561)
  • update image enum tests to remove Kernel capability (#5562)
  • Support operand kind for SPV_INTEL_maximum_registers (#5580)
  • SPV_NV_shader_atomic_fp16_vector (#5581)
  • Support for SPV_QCOM_image_processing2 (#5582)
  • Fix access chain struct checks (#5592)
• Optimizer
  • opt: add Int16 and Float16 to capability trim pass (#5519)
  • Add preserver-interface option to spirv-opt (#5524)
  • spirv-opt: Fix OpCompositeExtract relaxation with struct operands (#5536)
  • opt: Add VulkanMemoryModelDeviceScope to trim (#5544)
  • opt: Add TrimCapabilities pass to spirv-opt tool (#5545)
  • Add modify-maximal-reconvergence to spirv-opt help (#5546)
  • opt: add SPV_EXT_mesh_shader to opt allowlist (#5551)
  • opt: Add OpEntryPoint to DescriptorScalarReplacement pass (#5553)
  • opt: prevent meld to merge block with MaximalReconvergence (#5557)
  • [OPT] Use new instruction folder for for all opcodes in spec consti folding (#5569)
  • [OPT] Identify arrays with unknown length in copy prop arrays (#5570)
  • [OPT] Add removed unused interface var pass to legalization passes (#5579)
• Validator
  • spirv-val: Re-enable OpControlBarrier VU (#5527)
  • spirv-val: Add Mesh Primitive Built-In validaiton (#5529)
  • spirv-val: Validate PhysicalStorageBuffer Stage Interface (#5539)
  • spirv-val: Multiple interface var with same SC (#5528)
  • spirv-val: Revert Validate PhysicalStorageBuffer Stage Interface (#5575)
  • spirv-val: Make Constant evaluation consistent (#5587)

SPIRV-Tools v2023.2

• General
  • build: move from c++11 to c++17 (#4983)
  • tools: refactorize tools flags parsing. (#5111)
  • Add C interface for Optimizer (#5030)
  • libspirv.cpp: adds c++ api for spvBinaryParse (#5109)
  • build: change the way we set cxx version for bazel. (#5114)
• Optimizer
  • Fix null pointer in FoldInsertWithConstants. (#5093)
  • Fix removal of dependent non-semantic instructions (#5122)
  • Remove duplicate lists of constant and type opcodes (#5106)
  • opt: fix spirv ABI on Linux again. (#5113)
• Validator
  • Validate decoration of structs with RuntimeArray (#5094)
  • Validate operand type before operating on it (#5092)
  • spirv-val: Conditional Branch without an exit is invalid in loop header (#5069)
  • spirv-val: Initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader builtins (#5080)

SPIRV-Tools v2023.1

v2023.1 2023-01-17

• General
  • Renamed "master" to "main" (issue#5051)
  • Validate version 5 of clspv reflection (#5050)
  • Remove testing support for VS2015 (#5027)
  • Fix undef behaviour in hex float parsing (#5025)
  • Require C++11 or later (#5020)
• Instrument
  • Instrument: Fix bindless checking for BufferDeviceAddress (#5049)
• Optimizer
  • Optimize allocation of spvtools::opt::Instruction::operands_ (#5024)
  • spirv-opt: Fix OpCompositeInsert with Null Constant (#5008)
  • spirv-opt: Handle null CompositeInsert (#4998)
  • Add option to ADCE to remove output variables from interface. (#4994)
  • Add support for tesc, tese and geom to EliminateDead*Components (#4990)
  • Add pass to eliminate dead output components (#4982)
  • spirv-opt: Add const folding for CompositeInsert (#4943)
  • Add passes to eliminate dead output stores (#4970)
  • Prevent eliminating case constructs in block merging (#4976)
• Validator
  • Fix layout validation (#5015)
  • Fix use of invalid analysis (#5013)
  • Fix infinite loop in validator (#5006)
  • Add validation support for SPV_NV_shader_invocation_reorder. (#4979)
  • Only validate full layout in Vulkan environments (#4972)
  • spirv-val: Label new Vulkan OpPtrAccessChain VUs (#4975)
  • spirv-val: Add OpPtrAccessChain Base checks (#4965)

v2022.4 2022-10-12

v2022.4 2022-10-12

• General
  • Support Narrow Types in BitCast Folding Rule (#4941)
  • spirv-diff: Allow no SpecId (#4904)
  • build: cmake: Add support for GNU/Hurd (#4895)
  • Implement tool changes for SPV_EXT_mesh_shader. (#4915)
• Validator
  • spirv-val: Add SPV_ARM_core_builtins validation (#4958)
  • spirv-val: Add an option to use friendly names or not (#4951)
  • spirv-val: Consistently quote ids in messages (#4950)
  • spirv-val: Add initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader validation (#4924)
  • spirv-val: Make it legal to use arrays of ray queries (#4938)
  • spirv-val: Better message for using OpTypeBool in input/output (#4901)
  • spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing storage class (#4868)
• Optimizer
  • spirv-opt: Fix stacked CompositeExtract constant folds (#4932)
  • Improve time to build dominators (#4916)
  • Fix ADCE to mark scope and inlined_at of line instructions as live. (#4910)
  • Improve algorithm to reorder blocks in a function (#4911)
  • Add structs to eliminate dead input components (#4894)
  • spirv-opt: fix copy-propagate-arrays index opti on structs. (#4891)
  • Fix ADCE to not eliminate top level DebugInfo instructions (#4889)
  • Fix array copy propagation (#4890)

v2022.3 2022-08-11

• General
  • Add SPV_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric support (#4805)
  • Add support for SPV_KHR_subgroup_rotate (#4786)
  • use exec_tools instead of tools for better RBE compatibility (#4837)
  • Write binary files to stdout in binary on windows. (#4834)
  • Allow spirv-opt print-all to show pretty IDs (#4888)
• Validator
  • spirv-val: Add PerVertexKHR (#4807)
  • spirv-opt : Add FixFuncCallArgumentsPass (#4775)
  • spirv-val: Add CullMaskKHR support (#4792)
  • Require ColMajor or RowMajor for matrices (#4878)
  • spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_query (#4848)
  • spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing instructions (#4871)
  • Implement SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4847)
  • spirv-val: Add OpConvertUToAccelerationStructureKHR (#4838)
  • spirv-val: Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_early_and_late_fragment_tests (#4812)
• Optimizer
  • Fold multiply and subtraction into FMA with negation (#4808)
  • Add more folding for composite instructions (#4802)
  • spirv-opt: add pass for interface variable scalar replacement (#4779)
  • Don't try to unroll loop with step count 0. (#4769)
  • spirv-opt: SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4870)
• Linker
  • linker: Recalculate interface variables (#4784)

SPIRV-Tools v2022.2

Finalizing v2022.2  release.

SPIRV-Tools v2022.1

Finalizing v2022.1 release.

SPIRV-Tools v2021.4

Finalizing v2021.4 release