wgpu/CHANGELOG.md
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Change Log

v0.8 (2021-04-29)

  • Naga is used by default to translate shaders, SPIRV-Cross is optional behind cross feature
  • Features:
    • buffers are zero-initialized
    • downlevel limits for DX11/OpenGL support
    • conservative rasterization (native-only)
    • buffer resource indexing (native-only)
  • API adjustments to the spec:
    • vertex formats are renamed
    • blend factors are renamed, blend color is changed to blend constant
    • depth clamping is moved to PrimitiveState
    • render pass attachments contain view members
    • copy views are renamed
  • Infrastructure:
    • switch from tracing to profiling
    • more concrete and detailed errors
    • API traces include the command that crashed/panicked
    • Vulkan Portability support is removed from Apple platforms
  • Validation:
    • texture bindings
    • filtering of textures by samplers
    • interpolation qualifiers
    • allow vertex components to be underspecified

v0.7.1 (2021-02-25)

  • expose wgc::device::queue sub-module in public
  • fix the indexed buffer check
  • fix command allocator race condition

v0.7 (2021-01-31)

  • Major API changes:
    • RenderPipelineDescriptor
    • BindingType
  • Features:
    • (beta) WGSL support, including the ability to bypass SPIR-V entirely
    • (beta) implicit bind group layout support
    • timestamp and pipeline statistics queries
    • ETC2 and ASTC compressed textures
    • (beta) targeting WASM with WebGL backend
    • reduced dependencies
    • Native-only:
      • clamp-to-border addressing
      • polygon fill modes
      • query a format for extra capabilities
      • f64 support in shaders
  • Validation:
    • shader interface
    • render pipeline descriptor
    • vertex buffers

v0.6 (2020-08-17)

  • Crates:
  • 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:
  • 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