wgpu/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

wgpu-core-0.6.3 (2020-09-04)

• fix group bindings that aren't related to the current pipeline

wgpu-core-0.6.2, wgpu-types-0.6.1 (2020-09-02)

• fix flushing of temporary staging buffers (affects DX11 mostly)
• fix write-only stencil states

wgpu-core-0.6.1 (2020-08-28)

• allow copying from Depth32Float textures
• fix usage tracking of read-only buffer storages

v0.6 (2020-08-17)

• Crates:
  • C API is moved to another repository
  • player: standalone API replayer and tester
• Features:
  • Proper error handling with all functions returning Result
  • Graceful handling of "error" objects
  • API tracing infrastructure
  • uploading data with write_buffer/write_texture queue operations
  • reusable render bundles
  • read-only depth/stencil attachments
  • bind group layout deduplication
  • Cows, cows everywhere
  • Web+Native features:
    • Depth clamping (feature)
    • BC texture compression
  • Native-only features:
    • mappable primary buffers
    • texture array bindings
    • push constants
    • multi-draw indirect
• Validation:
  • all transfer operations
  • all resource creation
  • bind group matching to the layout
  • experimental shader interface matching with Naga

v0.5.6 (2020-07-09)

• add debug markers support

v0.5.5 (2020-05-20)

• fix destruction of adapters, swap chains, and bind group layouts
• fix command pool leak with temporary threads
• improve assertion messages
• implement From<TextureFormat> for TextureComponentType

v0.5.4 (2020-04-24)

• fix memory management of staging buffers

v0.5.3 (2020-04-18)

• fix reading access to storage textures
• another fix to layout transitions for swapchain images

v0.5.2 (2020-04-15)

• fix read-only storage flags
• fix pipeline layout life time
• improve various assert messages

v0.5.1 (2020-04-10)

• fix tracking of swapchain images that are used multiple times in a command buffer
• fix tracking of initial usage of a resource across a command buffer

v0.5 (2020-04-06)

• Crates:
  • wgpu-types: common types between native and web targets
  • wgpu-core: internal API for the native and remote wrappers
• Features:
  • based on gfx-hal-0.5
  • moved from Rendy to the new gfx-memory and gfx-descriptor crates
  • passes are now recorded on the client side. The user is also responsible to keep all resources referenced in the pass up until it ends recording.
  • coordinate system is changed to have Y up in the rendering space
  • revised GPU lifetime tracking of all resources
  • revised usage tracking logic
  • all IDs are now non-zero
  • Mailbox present mode
• Validation:
  • active pipeline
• Fixes:
  • lots of small API changes to closely match upstream WebGPU
  • true read-only storage bindings
  • unmapping dropped buffers
  • better error messages on misused swapchain frames

v0.4.3 (2020-01-20)

• improved swap chain error handling

v0.4.2 (2019-12-15)

• fixed render pass transitions

v0.4.1 (2019-11-28)

• fixed depth/stencil transitions
• fixed dynamic offset iteration

v0.4 (2019-11-03)

• Platforms: removed OpenGL/WebGL support temporarily
• Features:
  • based on gfx-hal-0.4 with the new swapchain model
  • exposing adapters from all available backends on a system
  • tracking of samplers
  • cube map support with an example
• Validation:
  • buffer and texture usage

v0.3.3 (2019-08-22)

• fixed instance creation on Windows

v0.3.1 (2019-08-21)

• fixed pipeline barriers that aren't transitions

v0.3 (2019-08-21)

• Platforms: experimental OpenGL/WebGL
• Crates:
  • Rust API is moved out to another repository
• Features:
  • based on gfx-hal-0.3 with help of rendy-memory and rendy-descriptor
  • type-system-assisted deadlock prevention (for locking internal structures)
  • texture sub-resource tracking
  • raw-window-handle integration instead of winit
  • multisampling with an example
  • indirect draws and dispatches
  • stencil masks and reference values
  • native "compute" example
  • everything implements Debug
• Validation
  • vertex/index/instance ranges at draw calls
  • bing groups vs their expected layouts
  • bind group buffer ranges
  • required stencil reference, blend color

v0.2.6 (2019-04-04)

• fixed frame acquisition GPU waits

v0.2.5 (2019-03-31)

• fixed submission tracking
• added support for blend colors
• fixed bind group compatibility at the gfx-hal level
• validating the bind groups and blend colors

v0.2.3 (2019-03-20)

• fixed vertex format mapping
• fixed building with "empty" backend on Windows
• bumped the default descriptor pool size
• fixed host mapping alignments
• validating the uniform buffer offset

v0.2 (2019-03-06)

• Platforms: iOS/Metal, D3D11
• Crates:
  • wgpu-remote: remoting layer for the cross-process boundary
  • gfx-examples: selected gfx pre-ll examples ported over
• Features:
  • native example for compute
  • "gfx-cube" and "gfx-shadow" examples
  • copies between buffers and textures
  • separate object identity for the remote client
  • texture view tracking
  • native swapchain resize support
  • buffer mapping
  • object index epochs
  • comprehensive list of vertex and texture formats
  • validation of pipeline compatibility with the pass
• Fixes
  • fixed resource destruction

v0.1 (2019-01-24)

• Platforms: Linux/Vulkan, Windows/Vulkan, D3D12, macOS/Metal
• Crates:
  • wgpu-native: C API implementation of WebGPU, based on gfx-hal
  • wgpu-bindings: auto-generated C headers
  • wgpu: idiomatic Rust wrapper
  • examples: native C examples
• Features: - native examples for triangle rendering - basic native swapchain integration - concept of the storage hub - basic recording of passes and command buffers - submission-based lifetime tracking and command buffer recycling - automatic resource transitions