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1Revision history for SPIRV-Tools
2
3v2022.2-dev 2022-01-26
4  - Start v2022.2-dev
5
6v2022.1 2022-01-26
7  - General
8    - Add SPIR-V 1.6 support to wasm build (#4674)
9    - Improvements to disassembly within PassManager (#4677)
10    - Basic support for SPIR-V 1.6 (#4663)
11    - reflect debug (#4662)
12    - Fix endianness of string literals (#4622)
13  - Optimizer
14    - spirv-opt: add pass to Spread Volatile semantics (#4667)
15    - Fix constant propagation and folding of FClamp instructions (#4651)
16    - Manually fold floating point division by zero (#4637)
17    - Allow ADCE to remove dead inputs (#4629)
18  - Linker
19    - Linker improvements (#4679)
20      * test/linker: Code factorisation and small tweaks
21      * linker: Do not fail when going over limits
22  - Validator
23    - val: interface struct with builtins must be Block (#4665)
24  - Fuzzer
25    - Avoid id bound errors during opt fuzzing (#4658)
26    - Avoid uninitialised read when parsing hex float (#4646)
27
28v2021.4 2021-11-11
29  - General
30    - Add a WebAssembly build (#3752)
31    - Make cxx exceptions controllable (#4591)
32  - Validator
33    - Improve decoration validation (#4490)
34  - Optimizer
35    - Add spirv-opt pass to replace descriptor accesses based on variable indices (#4574)
36    - Do not fold snegate feeding sdiv (#4600)
37    - Handle overflowing id in merge return (#4606)
38  - Fuzzer
39    - Add libFuzzer target for spirv-fuzz (#4434)
40  - Linter
41
42v2021.3 2021-08-24
43 - General
44    - Initial support for SPV_KHR_integer_dot_product (#4327)
45    - Add non-semantic vulkan extended instruction set (#4362)
46    - Add common enum for debug info instructions from either opencl or vulkan (#4377)
47 - Validator
48    - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float16_add (#4325)
49    - Disallow loading a runtime-sized array (#4473)
50    - spirv-val: Validate vulkan debug info similarly to opencl debug info (#4466)
51 - Optimizer
52    - spirv-opt: support SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#4379)
53    - spirv-opt: Add dataflow analysis framework (#4402)
54    - Add control dependence analysis to opt (#4380)
55    - Add spirv-opt convert-to-sampled-image pass (#4340)
56    - spirv-opt: Add handling of vulkan debug info to DebugInfoManager (#4423)
57 - Fuzz
58    - spirv-fuzz: support AtomicLoad (#4330)
59    - spirv-fuzz: Support AtomicStore (#4440)
60    - spirv-fuzz: TransformationWrapVectorSynonym that rewrites scalar operations using vectors (#4376)
61    - spirv-fuzz: Add minimal SPIR-V example to test shaders (#4415)
62    - spirv-fuzz: support building using gn (#4365)
63 - Linter
64    - Add new target for spirv-lint (#4446)
65    - spirv-lint: add basic CLI argument handling (#4478)
66    - Add divergence analysis to linter (#4465)
67
68v2021.2 2021-06-18
69 - General
70    - Support SPV_KHR_subgroup_uniform_control_flow (#4318)
71    - Support Intel extensions for fixed point and hls-float (#4321)
72    - Fix crash when optimizing shaders with DebugPrintf (#4280)
73
74 - Validator
75    - Support Vulkan Storage Class for Execution Model (#4212)
76
77 - Optimizer
78    - Handle SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model in dead-code elimination (#4320)
79    - Support folding OpBitcast with numeric constants (#4247)
80
81 - Fuzz
82    - Add tests for MaybeGet* functions in fuzzerutil (#4284)
83    - Fix OutlineFunction in presence of unreachable blocks (#4308)
84    - Fix def-use update in PermutePhiOperands (#4309)
85    - Swap positions of two functions in a module (#4236)
86
87v2021.1 2021-04-19
88 - General
89    - Support SPV_KHR_linkonce_odr, SPV_KHR_expect_assume (#4161)
90    - Fixes for the vscode language server extension (#4150)
91 - Validator
92    - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float_min_max (#4105)
93    - Add Vulkan Execution Scope checks (#4183)
94    - Vulkan 64-bit OpAtomicStore check (#4163)
95 - Optimizer
96    - Add interpolate legalization pass (#4220)
97 - Fuzz
98    - Various performance optimizations
99    - Do not add too many dead blocks (#4217)
100    - Add WGSL compatibility flag to context (#4193)
101    - Add persistent state to the fuzzer (#4137)
102
103v2020.7 2021-02-16
104 - General
105    - Support pending Intel extensions (#4116)
106    - Remove WebGPU support (#4108)
107 - Validator
108    - Vulkan image gather constant component (#4133)
109    - Add Vulkan PSB64 convert VUID (#4122)
110    - Validate SPV_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout (#4128)
111    - Validate VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory (#4124)
112    - Add Vulkan image gather offset VUID (#4118)
113    - Label Vulkan atomic semantics VUIDs (#4120)
114    - Label VUID 04662 (#4123)
115    - Label VUID 04683 (#4121)
116    - Add Vulkan EXT builtins (#4115)
117    - Validate Sampled=1 for Vulkan ImageQuerySizeLod, ImageQueryLevels, ImageQueryLod (#4103)
118    - Add Vulkan Memory Scope VUs (#4106)
119    - Add Vulkan Addressing Model check (#4107)
120    - Vulkan atomic storage class (#4079)
121    - Label standalone Vulkan VUID (#4091)
122    - Add Vulkan decroation VUID (#4090)
123    - Add Vulkan FP Mode VUID (#4088)
124    - Fix Vulkan image sampled check (#4085)
125    - Add Vulkan ForwardPointer VUID (#4089)
126    - Add Vulkan ImageTexelPointer format check (#4087)
127    - Add Vulkan Group Operation VUID (#4086)
128    - Add first StandAlone VUID 04633 (#4077)
129    - Add Subgroup VUIDs (#4074)
130    - validate return type of OpImageRead (#4072)
131    - tighter validation of multisampled images (#4059)
132    - validate OpTypeImage Sampled values for environemnts (#4064)
133    - validate StorageImageMultisampled capability (#4062)
134    - Add last TessLevelOuter and TessLevelInner VUID (#4055)
135    - Add last ClipDistance and CullDistance VUID (#4054)
136    - Add last ViewportIndex and Layer VUID (#4053)
137    - Add last Position VUID (#4052)
138    - Allow forward pointer to be used in types generally (#4044)
139 - Optimizer
140    - Mark module as modified if convert-to-half removes decorations (#4127)
141    - Fix binding number calculation in desc sroa (#4095)
142    - Run DCE when SPV_KHR_shader_clock is used (#4049)
143 - Debug Info
144    - Set correct scope and line info for DebugValue (#4125)
145    - Avoid integrity check failures caused by propagating line instructions (#4096)
146 - Linker
147    - Linker usability improvements (#4084)
148 - Instrumentation
149    - Generate differentiated error codes for buffer oob checking (#4097)
150 - Fuzz
151    - Fix OpPhi handling in DuplicateRegionWithSelection (#4065)
152
153v2020.6 2020-12-07
154 - General
155    CMake: Add SPIRV_TOOLS_BUILD_STATIC flag (#3910)
156 - Disassembler
157    Add some context comments to disassembly. (#3847)
158 - Optimizer
159   - Take new (raytracing) termination instructions into account. (#4050)
160   - Do run DCE if SPV_KHR_ray_query is used. (#4047)
161   - Handle 8-bit index in elim dead member (#4043)
162   - Add texel buffer out-of-bounds checking instrumentation (#4038)
163   - Update MeshShadingNV dependencies (and land Ray tracing updates) (#4028)
164   - Fix buffer oob instrumentation for matrix refs (#4025)
165   - Fix SSA re-writing in the presence of variable pointers. (#4010)
166   - Add support to prevent functions from being inlined if they have
167     DontInline flag (#3858)
168   - Add SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#3852)
169   - Support SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (#3943)
170   - Fix use-after-move in val/validate.cpp (#3848)
171 - Debug Info
172   - properly preserve DebugValue indexes operand (#4022)
173   - Add DebugValue for invisible store in single_store_elim (#4002)
174   - Propagate OpLine to all applied instructions in spirv-opt (#3951)
175   - Add DebugValue for DebugDecl invisible to value assignment (#3973)
176   - Add DebugValue for function param regardless of scope (#3923)
177   - Debug info preservation in convert-local-access-chains pass (#3835)
178   - Debug info preservation in redundancy-elimination pass (#3839)
179   - Debug info preservation in if-conversion pass (#3861)
180 - Validator
181   - Add validation support for the ray tracing built-in variables (#4041)
182   - Use less stack space when validating Vulkan builtins (#4019)
183   - Fix SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate VUID label (#4014)
184   - Label Layer and ViewportIndex VUIDs (#4013)
185   - Allow the ViewportIndex and Layer built-ins on SPIR-V 1.5 (#3986)
186   - Fix validation of OpPhi instructions (#3919)
187 - Fuzz
188   - Fix facts arising from CompositeConstruct (#4034)
189   - Do not flatten conditionals that create synonyms (#4030)
190   - Add support for reining in rogue fuzzer passes (#3987)
191   - Fix assertion failure in FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3995)
192   - Fix invalid equation facts (#4009)
193   - Fix bugs in TransformationFlattenConditionalBranch (#4006)
194   - Fix bug related to transformation applicability (#3990)
195   - Add expand vector reduction transformation (#3869)
196   - Add FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3904)
197   - Fix mismatch with shrinker step limit (#3985)
198   - Fix off-by-one error in replayer (#3982)
199   - Get order right for OpSelect arguments (#3974)
200   - Do not add synonym-creating loops in dead blocks (#3975)
201   - Skip OpTypeSampledImage when propagating up (#3976)
202   - Pass OpUndef in function call if needed (#3978)
203   - Fix off-by-one in TransformationCompositeConstruct (#3979)
204   - Tolerate absent ids in data synonym fact management (#3966)
205   - Fix to id availability (#3971)
206   - Fix operand types (#3962)
207   - Don't flatten conditional if condition is irrelevant (#3944)
208   - Do not produce OpPhis of type OpTypeSampledImage (#3964)
209   - Restrict fuzzer pass to reachable blocks (#3970)
210   - Handle more types when extending OpPhi instructions (#3969)
211   - Skip early terminator wrappers when merging returns (#3968)
212   - Avoid irrelevant constants in synonym-creating loops (#3967)
213   - Skip dead blocks in FuzzerPassAddOpPhiSynonyms (#3965)
214   - Avoid the type manager when looking for struct types (#3963)
215   - Fix to TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3941)
216   - Skip OpFunction when replacing irrelevant ids (#3932)
217   - Use component-wise selectors when flattening conditional branches (#3921)
218   - Avoid void struct member when outlining functions (#3936)
219   - Do not allow Block-decorated structs when adding parameters (#3931)
220   - Fix to operand id type (#3937)
221   - Handle dead blocks in TransformationEquationInstruction (#3933)
222   - Do not allow sampled image load when flattening conditionals (#3930)
223   - Take care of OpPhi instructions when inlining (#3939)
224   - Fix to TransformationInlineFunction (#3913)
225   - Wrap early terminators before merging returns (#3925)
226   - Lower probability of adding bit instruction synonyms (#3917)
227   - Fix handling of OpPhi in FlattenConditionalBranch (#3916)
228   - Avoid creating blocks without parents (#3908)
229   - Do not allow creation of constants of block-decorated structs (#3903)
230   - Fixes related to irrelevant ids (#3901)
231   - Fix to transformation that adds a synonym via a loop (#3898)
232   - Fix to duplicate region with selection (#3896)
233   - Do not expose synonym facts for non-existent ids (#3891)
234   - Do not add synonyms involving irrelevant ids (#3890)
235   - Do not replace irrelevant ids that are not in blocks (#3892)
236   - Wrap OpKill and similar in function calls (#3884)
237   - Integrate spirv-reduce with shrinker (#3849)
238   - Report fresh ids in transformations (#3856)
239   - Support OpNot bit instruction case (#3841)
240   - Return IR and transformation context after replay (#3846)
241
242v2020.5 2020-09-22
243 - General
244   - Enable building with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1 (#3490)
245   - Avoid using /MP4 for clang on windows. (#3662)
246   - Fix compiler error on macOS with XCode12. (#3836)
247 - Optimizer
248   - Preserve OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 through private-to-local pass (#3571)
249   - Preserve debug info in scalar replacement pass (#3461)
250   - Debug info preservation in loop-unroll pass (#3548)
251   - Preserve debug info in dead-insert-elim pass (#3652)
252   - Improve non-semantic instruction handling in the optimizer (#3693)
253   - Let ADCE pass check DebugScope (#3703)
254   - Add undef for inlined void function (#3720)
255   - Fix SSA-rewrite to remove DebugDeclare for variables without loads (#3719)
256   - Handle DebugScope in compact-ids pass (#3724)
257   - Add buffer oob check to bindless instrumentation (#3800)
258 - Validator
259   - Update OpenCL capabilities validation (#3149)
260   - Validator support for non-semantic clspv reflection (#3618)
261   - OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 DebugTypeArray with variable size (#3549)
262   - Only validation locations for appropriate execution models (#3656)
263   - Validate more OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 instructions (#3684)
264   - Allow DebugTypeTemplate for Type operand (#3702)
265   - spirv-val: Add Vulkan VUID labels to BuiltIn (#3756)
266   - Allow SPV_KHR_8bit_storage extension. (#3780)
267   - Validate SPIRV Version number when parsing binary header (#3834)
268 - Reduce
269   - Support reducing a specific function (#3774)
270 - Fuzz
271   - adds TransformationReplaceCopyObjectWithStoreLoad (#3567)
272   - adds TransformationReplaceCopyMemoryWithLoadStore (#3575)
273   - adds TransformationReplaceLoadStoreWithCopyMemory (#3586)
274   - Implement the OpOuterProduct linear algebra case (#3617)
275   - Pass to replace int operands with ints of opposite signedness (#3612)
276   - TransformationMoveInstructionDown (#3477)
277   - Add TransformationMakeVectorOperationDynamic (#3597)
278   - TransformationReplaceAddSubMulWithCarryingExtended (#3598)
279   - FuzzerPassPropagateInstructionsUp (#3478)
280   - add FuzzerPassAddCompositeInserts (#3606)
281   - Add inline function transformation (#3517)
282   - Transformation to replace the use of an irrelevant id (#3697)
283   - Add SPIRV_FUZZ_PROTOC_COMMAND (#3789)
284   - Add TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3773)
285   - Transformation to flatten conditional branch (#3667)
286   - Handle OpPhis in TransformationInlineFunction (#3833)
287   - Create synonym of int constant using a loop (#3790)
288   - Support dead blocks in TransformationAddSynonym (#3832)
289 - Linker
290
291v2020.4 2020-07-22
292 - General
293   - Changed variable names to be more descriptive (#3433)
294   - Add support to GPU-AV instrumentation for Task and Mesh shaders (#3512)
295   - Permit Simple and GLSL450 memory model in WEBGPU_0 (#3463)
296   - Support SPV_KHR_terminate_invocation (#3568)
297 - Optimizer
298   - Preserving debug information in optimizations
299     (#3389,#3420,#3425,#3356,#3459,#3444,#3492,#3451,#3497i,#3498,#3542)
300   - Eliminate branches with condition of OpConstantNull (#3438)
301   - Use structured order to unroll loops. (#3443)
302   - Updated desc_sroa to support flattening structures (#3448)
303   - Support OpCompositeExtract pattern in desc_sroa (#3456)
304   - Fix ADCE pass bug for mulitple entries (#3470)
305     - Sink pointer instructions in merge return (#3569)
306 - Validator
307   - Validate location assignments (#3308)
308     - Fix reachability in the validator (#3541)
309 - Reduce
310 - Fuzz
311   - Add support for OpSpecConstant* (#3373)
312   - Add replace linear algebra instruction transformation (#3402)
313   - Implement vector shuffle fuzzer pass (#3412)
314   - Swap operands in OpBranchConditional (#3423)
315   - Permute OpPhi instruction operands (#3421)
316   - Add FuzzerPassAddCopyMemoryInstructions (#3391)
317   - TransformationInvertComparisonOperator (#3475)
318   - Add variables with workgroup storage class (#3485)
319   - Add image sample unused components transformation (#3439)
320   - TransformationReplaceParameterWithGlobal (#3434)
321     - Support adding dead break from back-edge block (#3519)
322       - Fuzzer pass to interchange zero-like constants (#3524)
323 - Linker
324
325v2020.3 2020-05-27
326 - General
327   - Prevent Effcee from installing things when building spirv-tools with testing enabled (#3256)
328   - Update acorn version (#3294)
329   - If SPIRV-Headers is in our tree, include it as subproject (#3299)
330   - allow cross compiling for Windows Store, UWP, etc. (#3330)
331 - Optimizer
332   - Remove deprecated interfaces from instrument passes (#3361)
333   - Preserve debug info in inline pass (#3349)
334   - Handle more cases in dead member elim (#3289)
335   - Preserve debug info in eliminate-dead-functions (#3251)
336   - Fix Struct CFG analysis for single block loop (#3293)
337   - Add tests for recently added command line option (#3297)
338   - Consider sampled images as read-only storage (#3295)
339   - Allow various validation options to be passed to spirv-opt (#3314)
340   - Add debug information analysis (#3305)
341   - Preserve debug info for wrap-opkill (#3331)
342   - refactor inlining pass (#3328)
343   - Add unrolling to performance passes (#3082)
344 - Validator
345   - Add validation support for ImageGatherBiasLodAMD (#3363)
346   - Validate ShaderCallKHR memory scope (#3332)
347   - Validate Buffer and BufferBlock apply only to struct types (#3259)
348 - Reduce
349   - increase default step limit (#3327)
350   - Remove unused uniforms and similar (#3321)
351 - Fuzz
352   - Add support for StorageBuffer (#3348)
353   - Add validator options (#3254)
354   - Limit adding of new variables to 'basic' types (#3257)
355   - Transformation to add OpConstantNull (#3273)
356   - Handling of more fuzzing opportunities (#3277, #3280, #3281, #3290, #3292)
357   - Respect rules for OpSampledImage (#3287)
358   - Do not outline regions that produce pointer outputs (#3291)
359 - Linker
360
361v2020.2 2020-03-26
362 - General:
363   - Support extended instructions in the vscode language server
364   - Make spvOpcodeString part of the public API (#3174)
365   - Added guide to writing a spirv-fuzz fuzzer pass (#3190)
366   - Add support for KHR_ray_{query,tracing} extensions (#3235)
367 - Optimizer
368   - Debug Printf support (#3215)
369   - Add data structure for DebugScope, DebugDeclare in spirv-opt (#3183)
370   - Fix identification of Vulkan images and buffers (#3253)
371 - Validator
372   - Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_image_load_store_lod (#3186)
373   - Add validation rules for OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extension (#3133)
374   - Adding WebGPU specific Workgroup scope rule (#3204)
375   - Disallow phis of images, samplers and sampled images (#3246)
376 - Reduce
377 - Fuzz
378   - Fuzzer passes to add local and global variables (#3175)
379   - Add fuzzer passes to add loads/stores (#3176)
380   - Fuzzer pass to add function calls (#3178)
381   - Fuzzer pass that adds access chains (#3182)
382   - Fuzzer pass to add equation instructions (#3202)
383   - Add swap commutable operands transformation (#3205)
384   - Add fuzzer pass to permute function parameters (#3212)
385   - Allow OpPhi operand to be replaced with a composite synonym (#3221)
386 - Linker
387
388v2020.1 2020-02-03
389 - General:
390   - Add support for SPV_KHR_non_semantic_info (#3110)
391   - Support OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extended instruction set (#3080)
392   - Added support for Vulkan 1.2
393   - Add API function to better handle getting the necessary environment (#3142)
394   - Clarify mapping of target env to SPIR-V version (#3150)
395   - Implement constant folding for many transcendentals (#3166)
396 - Optimizer
397   - Change default version for CreatInstBindlessCheckPass to 2 (#3096, #3119)
398   - Better handling of OpLine on merge blocks (#3130)
399   - Use placeholder switch instead of placeholder loop in MergeReturn pass. (#3151)
400   - Handle TimeAMD in AmdExtensionToKhrPass. (#3168)
401 - Validator
402   - Fix structured exit validation (#3141)
403 - Reduce
404 - Fuzz
405   - Fuzzer pass to merge blocks (#3097)
406   - Transformation to add a new function to a module (#3114)
407   - Add fuzzer pass to perform module donation (#3117)
408   - Fuzzer passes to create and branch to new dead blocks (#3135)
409   - Fuzzer pass to add composite types (#3171)
410 - Linker:
411   - Remove names and decorations of imported symbols (#3081)
412
413v2019.5 2019-12-11
414 - General:
415   - Export SPIRV-Tools targets on installation
416   - SPIRV-Tools support for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2865)
417   - Add WebGPU SPIR-V Assembler in JavaScript. (#2876)
418   - Add Bazel build configuration. (#2891)
419   - Add support for building with emscripten (#2948)
420   - Update SPIR-V binary header test for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2967)
421   - Add fuzzer for spirv-as call path (#2976)
422   - Improved CMake install step. (#2963)
423   - Add fuzzer for spirv-dis call path (#2977)
424   - Ensure timestamp does not vary with timezone. (#2982)
425   - Add a vscode extension for SPIR-V disassembly files (#2987)
426   - Add iOS as a supported platform (#3001)
427   - utils/vscode: Add SPIR-V language server support
428   - Respect CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR in installed CMake files (#3054)
429   - Permit the debug instructions in WebGPU SPIR-V (#3063)
430   - Add support for Fuchsia. (#3062)
431 - Optimizer
432   - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742)
433   - Add pass to wrap OpKill in a function call (#2790)
434   - Fold FMix during constant folding. (#2818)
435   - Add pass to replace AMD shader ballot extension (#2811)
436   - Add pass to make Float32 operation relax precision (#2808)
437   - Add pass to make relax precision operation Float16 (#2808)
438   - Add pass to replace uses of 3 AMD extensions (#2814)
439   - Fold Min, Max, and Clamp instructions. (#2836)
440   - Better handling of OpKill in continues (#2842,#2922,#2933)
441   - Enable OpTypeCooperativeMatrix specialization (#2927)
442   - Support constant-folding UConvert and SConvert (#2960)
443   - Update Offset to ConstOffset bitmask if operand is constant. (#3024)
444   - Improve RegisterSizePasses (#3059)
445   - Folding: perform add and sub on mismatched integer types (#3084)
446   - Graphics robust access: use signed clamp (#3073)
447   Fixes:
448   - Instrument: Fix version 2 output record write for tess eval shaders. (#2782)
449   - Instrument: Add support for Buffer Device Address extension (#2792)
450   - Fix check for changed binary in API call. (#2798)
451   - For WebGPU<->Vulkan optimization, set correct execution environment (#2834)
452   - Handle OpConstantNull in copy-prop-arrays. (#2870)
453   - Use OpReturn* in wrap-opkill (#2886)
454 - Validator
455   - Add generic builtin validation of target (#2843)
456   - Extra resource interface validation (#2864)
457   - Adding valilidation checks for OpEntryPoint duplicate names and execution mode (#2862)
458   - Relaxed bitcast with pointers (#2878)
459   - Validate physical storage buffer restrictions (#2930)
460   - Add SPV_KHR_shader_clock validation (#2879, #3013)
461   - Validate that selections are structured (#2962)
462   - Disallow use of OpCompositeExtract/OpCompositeInsert with no indices (#2980)
463   - Check that derivatives operate on 32-bit values (#2983)
464   - Validate array stride does not cause overlap (#3028)
465   - Validate nested constructs (#3068)
466   Fixes:
467   - Fix validation of constant matrices (#2794)
468   - Update "remquor" validation
469   - Only allow previously declared forward refs in structs (#2920)
470 - Reduce
471   - Remove relaxed precision decorations (#2797)
472   - Reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932)
473   - Improve remove unref instr pass (#2945)
474   Fixes:
475 - Fuzz
476   - Fix add-dead-break and add-dead-continue passes to respect dominance (#2838)
477   - Add fuzzer pass to copy objects (#2853)
478   - Add fuzzer pass to replace ids with synonyms (#2857)
479   - Allow validation during spirv-fuzz replay (#2873)
480   - Employ the "swarm testing" idea in spirv-fuzz (#2890)
481   - reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932)
482   - option to convert shader into a form that renders red (#2934)
483   - Add fuzzer pass to change selection controls (#2944)
484   - add transformation and pass to construct composites (#2941)
485   - Add fuzzer pass to change loop controls (#2949)
486   - Add fuzzer pass to change function controls (#2951)
487   - Add fuzzer pass to add NoContraction decorations (#2950)
488   - Add missing functionality for matrix composites (#2974)
489   - Fuzzer pass to adjust memory access operands (#2968)
490   - Transformation to extract from a composite object (#2991)
491   - Vector shuffle transformation (#3015)
492   - Improve debugging facilities (#3074)
493   - Function outlining fuzzer pass (#3078)
494
495
496v2019.4 2019-08-08
497 - General:
498   - Memory model support for SPIR-V 1.4
499   - Add new spirv-fuzz tool
500   - Add option for base branch in check_code_format.sh
501   - Removed MarkV and Stats code. (#2576)
502   - Instrument: Add version 2 of record formats (#2630)
503   - Linker: Better type comparison for OpTypeArray and OpTypeForwardPointer (#2580)
504 - Optimizer
505   - Bindless Validation: Instrument descriptor-based loads and stores (#2583)
506   - Better folding for OpSpecConstantOp (#2585, #2614)
507   - Add in individual flags for Vulkan <-> WebGPU passes (#2615)
508   - Handle nested breaks from switches. (#2624)
509   - Optimizer: Handle array type with OpSpecConstantOp length (#2652)
510   - Perform merge return with single return in loop. (#2714)
511   - Add --preserve-bindings and --preserve-spec-constants (#2693)
512   - Remove Common Uniform Elimination Pass (#2731)
513   - Allow ray tracing shaders in inst bindle check pass. (#2733)
514   - Add pass to inject code for robust-buffer-access semantics (#2771)
515   - Treat access chain indexes as signed in SROA (#2776)
516   - Handle RelaxedPrecision in SROA (#2788)
517   - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742)
518   Fixes:
519   - Handle decorations better in some optimizations (#2716)
520   - Change the order branches are simplified in dead branch elim (#2728)
521   - Fix bug in merge return (#2734)
522   - SSA rewriter: Don't use trivial phis (#2757)
523   - Record correct dominators in merge return (#2760)
524   - Process OpDecorateId in ADCE (#2761)
525   - Fix check for unreachable blocks in merge-return (#2762)
526   - Handle out-of-bounds scalar replacements. (#2767)
527   - Don't move debug or decorations when folding (#2772)
528   - Protect against out-of-bounds references when folding OpCompositeExtract (#2774)
529 - Validator
530   - Validate loop merge (#2579)
531   - Validate construct exits (#2459)
532   - Validate OpenCL memory and addressing model environment rules (#2589)
533   - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpTypeImage (#2606)
534   - Allow breaks to switch merge from nested construct (#2604)
535   - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpImageWrite (#2619)
536   - Allow arrays of out per-primitive builtins for mesh shaders (#2617)
537   - Validate OpenCL rules for ImageRead and OpImageSampleExplicitLod (#2643)
538   - Add validation for SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock (#2650)
539   - Add builtin validation for SPV_NV_shader_sm_builtins (#2656)
540   - Add validation for Subgroup builtins (#2637)
541   - Validate variable initializer type (#2668)
542   - Disallow stores to UBOs (#2651)A
543   - Validate Volatile memory semantics bit (#2672)
544   - Basic validation for Component decorations (#2679)
545   - Validate that in OpenGL env block variables have Binding (#2685)
546   - Validate usage of 8- and 16-bit types with only storage capabilities (#2704)
547   - Add validation for SPV_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation (#2707)
548   - Extra small storage validation (#2732)
549   - For Vulkan, disallow structures containing opaque types (#2546)
550   - Validate storage class OpenCL environment rules for atomics (#2750)
551   - Update OpControlBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2769)
552   - Update OpMemoryBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2775)
553   - Update WebGPU validation rules of OpAtomic*s (#2777)
554   Fixes:
555   - Disallow merge targeting block with OpLoopMerge (#2610)
556   - Update vloadn and vstoren validation to match the OpenCL Extended
557     Instruction Set Specification (#2599)
558   - Update memory scope rules for WebGPU (#2725)
559   - Allow LOD ops in compute shaders with derivative group execution modes (#2752)
560 - Reduce
561   Fixes:
562
563v2019.3 2019-05-14
564 - General:
565   - Require Python 3 since Python 2 will out of service soon.
566   - Add a continuous test that does memory checks using the address sanitizer.
567   - Fix the build files so the SPIRV_USE_SANITIZER=address build works.
568   - Packaging top of tree build artifacts again.
569   - Added support for SPIR-V 1.4. (#2550)
570 - Optimizer
571   - Remove duplicates from list of interface IDs in OpEntryPoint instruction (#2449)
572   - Bindless Validation: Descriptor Initialization Check (#2419)
573   - Add option to validate after each pass (#2462)
574   - Add legalization pass to fix mismatched pointer (#2430, #2535)
575   - Add error messages when the input contains unknown instructions. (#2487)
576   - Add pass to convert from WebGPU Spir-V to Vulkan Spir-V and back. (#2495)
577   Fixes:
578   - #2412: Dead memeber elimination should not change input and output variables.
579   - #2405: Fix OpDot folding of half float vectors.
580   - #2391: Dead branch elim should not fold away back edges.
581   - #2441: Removing decorations when doing constant propagation.
582   - #2455: Maintain inst to block mapping in merge return.
583   - #2453: Fix merge return in the face of breaks.
584   - #2456: Handle dead infinite loops in DCE.
585   - #2458: Handle variable pointer in some optimizations.
586   - #2452: Fix dead branch elimination to handle unreachable blocks better.
587   - #2528: Fix undefined bit shift in sroa.
588   - #2539: Change implementation of post order CFG traversal.
589 - Validator
590   - Add validation of storage classes for WebGPU (#2446)
591   - Add validation for ExecutionMode in WebGPU (#2443)
592   - Implement WebGPU specific CFG validation (#2386)
593   - Allow NonWritable to target struct members. (#2420)
594   - Allow storage type mismatch for parameter in relaxed addressing mode.
595   - Allow non memory objects as parameter in relaxed addressing mode.
596   - Disallow nested Blocks and buffer blocks (#2410).
597   - Add validation for SPV_NV_cooperative_matrix (#2404)
598   - Add --strip-atomic-counter-memory (#2413)
599   - Check OpSampledImage is only passed into valid instructions (#2467)
600   - Handle function decls in Structured CFG analysis (#2474)
601   - Validate that OpUnreacahble is not statically reachable (#2473)
602   - Add pass to generate needed initializers for WebGPU (#2481)
603   - Allow images without format for OpenCL. (#2470)
604   - Remove unreachable block validation (#2525)
605   - Reduce runtime of array layout checks (#2534)
606   - Add validation specific to OpExecutionModeId (#2536)
607   - Validate sign of int types. (#2549)
608   - VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout validation (#2562)
609   Fixes:
610   - #2439: Add missing DepthGreater case to Fragment only check.
611   - #2168: Disallow BufferBlock on StorageBuffer variables for Vulkan.
612   - #2408: Restrict and Aliased decorations cannot be applied to the same id.
613   - #2447: Improve function call parameter check.
614 - Reduce
615   - Add Pass to remove unreferenced blocks. (#2398)
616   - Allows passing options to the validator. (#2401)
617   - Improve reducer algorithm and other changes (#2472)
618   - Add Pass to remove selections (#2485)
619   - Add passes to simplify branches (#2507)
620   Fixes:
621   - #2478: fix loop to selection pass for loops with combined header/continue block
622
623v2019.2 2019-02-20
624 - General:
625   - Support SPV_EXT_physical_storage_buffer
626   - A number of memory leak have been fixed.
627   - Removed use of deprecated Google test macro:
628   - Changed the BUILD.gn to only build tests in Chromium.
629 - Optimizer
630   - Upgrade memory model improvments for modf and frexp.
631   - Add a new pass to move loads closer to their uses: code sinking.
632   - Invalidating the type manager now invalidates the constnat manager.
633   - Expand instrumentation pass for bindless bounds checking to runtime-sized descriptor arrays.
634   - Add a new pass that removes members from structs that are not used: dead member elimination.
635   Fixes:
636   - #2292: Remove undefined behaviour when folding bit shifts.
637   - #2294: Fixes for instrumentation code.
638   - #2293: Fix overflow when folding -INT_MIN.
639   - #2374: Don't merge unreachable blocks when merging blocks.
640 - Validator
641   - Support SPV_KHR_no_integer_wrap and related decorations.
642   - Validate Vulkan rules for OpTypeRuntimeArray.
643   - Validate NonWritable decoration.
644   - Many WebGPU specific validation rules were added.
645   - Validate variable pointer related function call rules.
646   - Better error messages.
647   Fixes:
648   - #2307: Check forwards references in OpTypeArray.
649   - #2315, #2303: Fixed the layout check for relaxed layout.
650   - #1628: Emit an error when an OpSwitch target is not an OpLabel.
651 - Reduce
652   - Added more documentation for spirv-reduce.
653   - Add ability to remove OpPhi instructions.
654   - Add ability to merge two basic blocks.
655   - Add ability to remove unused functions and unused basic blocks.
656   Fixes:
657
658v2019.1 2019-01-07
659 - General:
660   - Created a new tool called spirv-reduce.
661   - Add cmake option to turn off SPIRV_TIMER_ENABLED (#2103)
662   - New optimization pass to update the memory model from GLSL450 to VulkanKHR.
663   - Recognize OpTypeAccelerationStructureNV as a type instruction and ray tracing storage classes.
664   - Fix GCC8 build.
665   - Add --target-env flag to spirv-opt.
666   - Add --webgpu-mode flag to run optimizations for webgpu.
667   - The output disassembled line number stead of byte offset in validation errors. (#2091)
668 - Optimizer
669   - Added the instrumentation passes for bindless validation.
670   - Added passes to help preserve OpLine information (#2027)
671   - Add basic support for EXT_fragment_invocation_density (#2100)
672   - Fix invalid OpPhi generated by merge-return. (#2172)
673   - Constant and type manager have been turned into analysies. (#2251)
674   Fixes:
675   - #2018: Don't inline functions with a return in a structured CFG contstruct.
676   - #2047: Fix bug in folding when volatile stores are present.
677   - #2053: Fix check for when folding floating pointer values is allowed.
678   - #2130: Don't inline recursive functions.
679   - #2202: Handle multiple edges between two basic blocks in SSA-rewriter.
680   - #2205: Don't unswitch a latch condition during loop unswitch.
681   - #2245: Don't fold branch in loop unswitch.  Run dead branch elimination to fold them.
682   - #2204: Fix eliminate common uniform to place OpPhi instructions correctly.
683   - #2247: Fix type mismatches caused by scalar replacement.
684   - #2248: Fix missing OpPhi after merge return.
685   - #2211: After merge return, fix invalid continue target.
686   - #2210: Fix loop invariant code motion to not place code between merge instruction and branch.
687   - #2258: Handle CompositeInsert with no indices in VDCE.
688   - #2261: Have replace load size handle extact with no index.
689 - Validator
690   - Changed the naming convention of outputing ids with names in diagnostic messages.
691   - Added validation rules for UniformConstant variables in Vulkan.
692   - #1949: Validate uniform variable type in Vulkan
693   - Ensure for OpVariable that result type and storage class operand agree (#2052)
694   - Validator: Support VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout
695   - Added Vulkan memory model semantics validation
696   - Added validation checkes spefic to WebGPU environment.
697   - Add support for VK_EXT_Transform_feedback capabilities (#2088)
698   - Add validation for OpArrayLength. (#2117)
699   - Ensure that function parameter's type is not void (#2118)
700   - Validate pointer variables (#2111)
701   - Add check for QueueFamilyKHMR memory scope (#2144)
702   - Validate PushConstants annotation and type (#2140)
703   - Allow Float16/Int8 for Vulkan 1.0 (#2153)
704   - Check binding annotations in resource variables (#2151, #2167)
705   - Validate OpForwardPointer (#2156)
706   - Validate operation for OpSpecConstantOp (#2260)
707   Fixes:
708   - #2049: Allow InstanceId for NV ray tracing
709 - Reduce
710   - Initial commit wit a few passes to reduce test cases.
711   - Validation is run after each reduction step.
712   Fixes:
713
714
715v2018.6 2018-11-07
716 - General:
717   - Added support for the Nvidia Turing and ray tracing extensions.
718   - Make C++11 the CXX standard in CMakeLists.txt.
719   - Enabled a parallel build for MSVC.
720   - Enable pre-compiled headers for MSVC.
721   - Added a code of conduct.
722   - EFFCEE and RE2 are now required when build the tests.
723 - Optimizer
724   - Unrolling loops marked for unrolling in the legalization passes.
725   - Improved the compile time of loop unrolling.
726   - Changee merge-return to create a placeholder loop around the function.
727   - Small improvement to merge-blocks to allow it to merge more often.
728   - Enforce an upper bound for the ids, and add option to set it.
729   - #1966: Report error if there are unreachable block before running merge return
730   Fixes:
731   - #1917: Allow 0 (meaning unlimited) as a parameter to --scalar-replacement
732   - #1915: Improve handling of group decorations.
733   - #1942: Fix incorrect uses of the constant manager.  Avoids type mismatches in generated code.
734   - #1997: Fix dead branch elimination when there is a loop in folded selection.
735   - #1991: Fixes legality check in if-conversion.
736   - #1987: Add nullptr check to array copy propagation.
737   - #1984: Better handling of OpUnreachable in ADCE.
738   - #1983: Run merge return on reachable functions only.
739   - #1956: Handled atomic operations in ADCE.
740   - #1963: Fold integer divisions by 0 to 0.
741   - #2019: Handle MemberDecorateStringGOOGLE in ADCE and strip reflect.
742 - Validator
743   - Added validation for OpGroupNonUniformBallotBitCount.
744   - Added validation for the Vulkan memory model.
745   - Added support for VK_KHR_shader_atddomic_int64.
746   - Added validation for execution modes.
747   - Added validation for runtime array layouts.
748   - Added validation for 8-bit storage.
749   - Added validation of OpPhi instructions with pointer result type.
750   - Added checks for the Vulkan memory model.
751   - Validate MakeTexelAvailableKHR and MakeTexelVisibleKHR
752   - Allow atomic function pointer for OpenCL.
753   - FPRounding mode checks were implemented.
754   - Added validation for the id bound with an option to set the max id bound.
755   Fixes:
756   - #1882: Improve the validation of decorations to reduce memory usage.
757   - #1891: Fix an potential infinite loop in dead-branch-elimination.
758   - #1405: Validate the storage class of boolean objects.
759   - #1880: Identify arrays of type void as invalid.
760   - #487: Validate OpImageTexelPointer.
761   - #1922: Validate OpPhi instructions are at the start of a block correctly.
762   - #1923: Validate function scope variable are at the start of the entry block.
763
764v2018.5 2018-09-07
765 - General:
766   - Support SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model
767   - Update Dim capabilities, to match SPIR-V 1.3 Rev 4
768   - Automated build bots no run tests for the VS2013 case
769   - Support Chromium GN build
770   - Use Kokoro bots:
771     - Disable Travis-CI bots
772     - Disable AppVeyor VisualStudio Release builds. Keep VS 2017 Debug build
773   - Don't check export symbols on OSX (Darwin): some installations don't have 'objdump'
774   - Reorganize source files and namespaces
775   - Fixes for ClangTidy, and whitespace (passes 'git cl presumit --all -uf')
776   - Fix unused param compile warnings/errors when Effcee not present
777   - Avoid including time headers when timer functionality is disabled
778   - Avoid too-stringent warnings flags for Clang on Windows
779   - Internal refactoring
780   - Add hooks for automated fuzzing
781   - Add testing of command line executables
782   - #1688: Use binary mode on stdin; fixes "spirv-dis <foo.spv" on Windows
783 - Optimizer
784   - The optimizer validates the module before it begins
785   - Add API to register passes by string name
786   - Fold a vector shuffle feeding a vector shuffle
787   - Add -combine-access-chains transform
788   - Refactor how IRContext is handled by passes
789   - Improve bookkeeping for instruction result type and result id
790   - Fix over-duplication of decorations
791   - Fix handling of exits from selections in dead-branch elimination, and dead code
792     elimination.
793   - Fix handling of certain kinds of flow control in merge-return
794   Fixes:
795   - #1721: Fix size bug when folding vector shuffles
796   - #1722: Fix size infinite loop when folding vector shuffles
797   - #1724: Fix finding a constant of a specific type
798   - #1727: Dead branch elim: Reorder blocks if needed to satisfy dominance rule
799   - #1729: Handle VariablePointers cases in various optimizations
800   - #1731: Fix vector shuffle with literal id indicating undef value
801   - #1736: Fix handling of decorations and phis in merge-return
802   - #1787: Fix handling of decorations related to access chains
803   - #1865: Avoid leaking memory for SPIR-V constant values
804 - Validator
805   - Improve error messages
806   - Avoid platform-dependent traversal ordering, to ensure consistent messages
807   - Use libspirv::Instruction where possible
808   - Add option to skip all block layout checks
809   - Validate all type IDs
810   - Validate uses of OpFunction
811   - Validate uses of OpTypeFunction
812   - Disallow a struct containing its own type https://crbug.com/874372
813   - #1685: Vulkan permits non-monotonic offsets for block members
814   - #1697: Enforce block layout rules even when using relaxed block layout option
815   - #1719: Fix line number for vector shuffle valiation error
816   - #1789: Avoid assertion failure when validating some functions
817   - #1800: Fix validation of OpCopyMemorySized
818   - #1822: Stop enforcing struct member offset montonicity
819   - #1831: Disallow void members in structs
820
821v2018.4 2018-07-08
822 - General:
823   - Support SPV_KHR_8bit_storage
824   - Add gclient and presubmit configurations
825   - Enable Kokoro build bots (#1625)
826   - Group tests into fewer executables, reduces load on CI
827   - Port test script to Python 3
828   - Symbol export tests respect SPIRV_SKIP_TESTS
829   - #1596: Operand lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
830   - #1624: Instruction lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
831   - Refactoring namespaces:
832     - #1678: Change libspirv to spvtools
833     - Code in source/utils moved into spvtools::utils
834     - Code in source/comp moved into spvtools::comp
835 - Optimizer:
836   - Remove insert-extract-elim pass. Use simplification pass instead.
837   - Preserve instruction-to-block mapping in most passes, to reduce runtime.
838   - Small vector optimization for operands
839   - Add pass to move Private variables to Function. Increase opportunity to optimize.
840   - Fixes:
841     #1120: Check static uses of entry point interfaces
842     #1372: Avoid merging some structs, to preserve names for reflection
843     #1577: Scalar replacement uses only undecorated types.
844     #1578: Fix handling of forward-pointer types, and types embedding pointers
845       to themselves.
846     #1591: Inliner: Callee variable with initializer should have a store at the call site.
847     #1634: Fix crash: Use type id in vector type lookup
848     #1649: Fix assert in compact-ids pass
849     Fix constant folder: ensure it uses the right type
850     #1659: Folding rules added to IRContext. Avoids leak.
851 - Validator
852   - Add work-in-progress WebGPU environment. Disallows OpUndef
853   - #670, #1581: Improve error messages; disassemble instruction
854   - #491: Check structured switches
855   - #937: Check layout rules for Block and BufferBlock in Uniform, StorageBuffer, PushConstant
856   - #1281: Check invalid branches into structured constructs
857   - #1522: Disallow array-of-arrays with DescriptorSets
858   - #1577: Allow duplicate pointer types.
859   - #1581: Better messages: output ID names along with numbers in more cases.
860   - #1597: Check Vulkan 1.1 capabilities
861   - #1618: Check invalid exit from structured case construct
862   - #1622: Run IdPass before DataRulesPass
863   - #1632: Reduce test time by artificially lowering limits in limit test
864   - #1638: Block-decorated structs member order must respect offset order
865   - #1657: Improve CFG validation diagnostics
866   - Khronos SPIR-V #337: GLSL.std.450 Refract instruction Eta param can be any float scalar.
867   - #1606: PushConstant Blocks follow storage-buffer layout rules
868   - #1664: Check layout of StorageBuffer variables with Block decoration, using storage buffer
869     rules
870   - #1666: Layout validation should permit {vec3; float} packing
871   - #1637, #1668: Layout validation uses RowMajor, ArrayStride, MatrixStride properly
872 - Linker
873   - Avoid buffer overrun when creating OpModuleProcessed
874
875v2018.3 2018-05-25
876 - General:
877   - Support SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing
878   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string
879   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
880   - Support SPV_NV_shader_subgroup_partitioned
881   - Use "unified1" grammar from SPIRV-Headers
882   - Simplify support for new extensions. Assembler, disassembler, and simple validation
883     support is automatic if new tokens are introduced with appropriate extension
884     attributes in the "unified1" SPIR-V core grammar.
885   - Disassembler: Emit more digits on floating point, to reliably reproduce all
886     significand bits.  (Use std::max_digits10 instead of std::digits10)
887   - Fix compilation for old XCode versions: Explicit construction required for std::set.
888 - Optimizer:
889   - Add --strip-reflect
890   - Add --time-report
891   - Add --loop-fission
892   - Add lop fusion.
893   - Add loop peeling pass and internal utility.
894   - Improve optimizer runtime.
895   - Merge-return now works with structured control flow.
896   - New (faster) SSA rewriter to convert local loads and stores to SSA IDs and phis.
897     Can replace load/store elimination passes.
898   - Fix instruction folding case: insertion that feeds and extract, when the extract
899     remains.
900   - Fold OpDot.
901   - Fold OpFNegate.
902   - Fold multply and divide of same value.
903   - Fold FClamp feeding a compare.
904   - Fold OpLoad feeding an extract, to reduce excessive copying. (#1547)
905   - Fold Fmix feeding an extract.
906   - Use simplification pass instead of insert-extract elimination.
907   - Constant fold OpVectorTimesScalar.
908   - Copy propagate arrays, in simple cases.
909   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Can remove more instructions, e.g. derivatives.
910   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove Workgroup variables that are written but not read.
911   - Better handling of OpImageTexelPointer
912   - Initial utilities for scalar evolution.
913   - Add Vector dead code elimination.
914   - Each pass can only run once.
915   - Allow code hosting in if-conversion.
916   - Add external interface for adding a PassToken, so external code can make their own
917     passes.
918   - Fixes:
919     #1404: Don't optimize away the compute compute workgroup size constant.
920     #1407: Remove a bad assertion
921     #1456: Fix bug in SSA rewriter related to variables updated in loops.
922     #1487: Fix long runtime in Dead insertion elimination: Don't revist select phi nodes.
923     #1492: Aggressive dead code elimination can remove OpDecorateStringGOOGLE.
924     #1527: Fix inlining of functions having OpKill and OpUnreachable.
925     #1559: Fix assert failure in reduce-load-size pass.
926     #1556: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix handling of OpCopyMemory.
927 - Validator:
928   - Check Vulkan built-in variables
929   - Check Vulkan-specific atomic result type rule.
930   - Relax control barrier check for SPIR-V 1.3.  Fixes #1427
931   - Check OpPhi.
932   - Check OpMemoryModel.
933   - Stop checking sizes derived from spec-constants.
934   - Re-enable checks for OpUConvert.
935   - Vulkan: Fix check for PrimitiveId: Permit as Input in fragment shader.
936   - Validate binary version for the given target environment.
937   - Add tests for OpBranch checks.
938   - Vulkan 1.1: Check scope for non-uniform subgroup operations.
939   - Fix checks for SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16.
940   - Fix logical layout check for OpDecorateId.
941   - Fix checks for ViewportIndex & Layer for Vulkan and SPV_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer.
942   - Fixes:
943     #1470: Vulkan: Don't restrict WorkgroupSize to Input storage class.
944     #1469: Vulkan: Permit Subgroup memory scope for Vulkan 1.1.
945     #1472: Per-vertex variable validation fixes.
946     #1483: Valdiate barrier execution scopes for Vulkan 1.1.
947 - Fixes:
948   #898: Linker properly removes FuncParamAttr from imported symbols.
949   #924, #1174: Fix handling of decoration groups in optimizer, linker.
950
951v2018.2 2018-03-07
952 - General:
953   - Support SPIR-V 1.3 and Vulkan 1.1.
954     - Default target environment is now SPIR-V 1.3.  For command-line tools,
955       use the --target-env option to override the default.  Examples:
956	  # Generate a SPIR-V 1.0 binary instead of SPIR-V 1.3
957	  spirv-as --target-env spv1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
958	  spirv-as --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
959	  # Validate as Vulkan 1.0
960	  spirv-val --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spv
961   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string and SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
962 - Fixes:
963   - Fix Android.mk build. Compilation was failing due to missing definitions of
964     SpvCapabilityFloat16ImageAMD and other enumerated values.
965   - Optimizer: Avoid generating duplicate names when merging types.
966   - #1375: Validator: SPV_AMD_gpu_shaer_half_float implicitly allows declaration
967     of the 16-bit floating point type.
968   - #1376: Optimizer: Avoid folding half-precision float.
969
970v2018.1 2018-03-02
971 - General:
972   - Support Visual Studio 2013 again. (Continue support for VS 2015 and VS 2017.)
973   - Support building SPIRV-Tools as a shared library.
974   - Improve the HLSL legalization optimization recipe. #1311
975 - Optimizer:
976   - General speedups.
977   - Remove generic dead code elimination functionality from transforms:
978       --eliminate-local-single-block
979       --eliminate-local-single-store
980       --eliminate-local-multi-store
981     To recover the previous behaviour, a recipe using those transforms should now
982     also invoke the --eliminate-dead-code-aggressive transform.
983   - Improve folding, including coverage for floating point, OpSelect, and arithmetic
984     with non-trivial constant operands.
985   - Add loop-invariant code motion pass.
986   - Add loop-unrolling pass, for honouring unroll hits.
987   - Add loop-unswitch pass.
988   - Add instruction simplification pass.
989   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Understands capability hierarchy when finding
990     instructions it can eliminate (combinators). (PR #1268)
991   - CCP can now fold floating point arithmetic. #1311
992 - Validator:
993   - Validate barrier instructions.
994   - Check Vulkan-specific rules for atomics.
995   - Check Vulkan prohibition of Location or Component decorations on BuiltIn variables.
996 - Linker:
997   - Add --verify-ids option
998   - Add option to allow a resulting module to be partially linked.
999   - Handle OpModuleProcessed (instructions in SPIR-V layout section 7c)
1000 - Fixes:
1001   - #1265: Optimizer: Fix use-after free bug in if-conversion. (Fix object lifecycle bug
1002     in type manager.)
1003   - #1282: Fix new warnings found by GCC 8.0.1.
1004   - #1285: Optimizer: Fix random failures during inlining.  (Dangling references in DefUseManager)
1005   - #1295: Optimizer: Fix incorrect handling of Phi nodes in CCP.
1006   - #1300: Fix CCP: avoid bad CCP transitions and unsettled values.
1007   - #1304: Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
1008   - #1323: Fix folding of an insert composite feeding a composite extract.
1009   - #1339: Fix CCP: Handle OpConstantNull boolean values as conditions.
1010   - #1341: DCEInst: Keep atomic instructions (and some others with side effects).
1011   - #1354: Don't fold integer division.
1012   - #1357: Support OpConstantNull in folding.
1013   - #1361: CCP: Fix handling of non-constant module-scope values
1014
1015v2018.0 2018-02-02
1016 - General
1017   - VisualStudio 2013 is no longer supported.  VisualStudio 2015 is supported.
1018   - Use "include/unified1" directory from SPIRV-Headers.  Requires recent SPIRV-Headers source.
1019 - Disassembler: spirv-dis adds --color option to force color disassembly.
1020 - Optimizer:
1021   - Add pass to eliminate dead insertions.
1022   - Aggressive dead code elimination now removes OpSwitch constructs.
1023   - Block merging occurs in more cases.
1024   - Add driver workaround transform: replace OpUnreachable with harmless branch to merge.
1025   - Improve instruction folding framework.
1026   - Add loop analysis.
1027   - Add scalar replacement of aggregates to size-optimization recipe.
1028   - Add pass to replace instructions invalid for a shader stage, with a harmless value.
1029     This changes the semantics of the program!  Not for general use!
1030   - Rearragne and add passes to performance-optimization recipe, to produce better results.
1031 - Validator:
1032   - Validate OpenCL extended instructions.
1033   - Shaders can't perform atomics on floats.
1034   - Validate memory semantics values in atomics.
1035   - Validate instruction-adjacency constraints, e.g. OpPhi predecessors, merge instructions
1036     immediately precede branches.
1037 - Fixes:
1038   - PR 1198: Optimizer: Fix CCP in presence of matrix constants.
1039   - #1199: Optimizer: Fix CCP: don't propagate spec constants.
1040   - #1203: Optimizer: Fix common uniform elim bug introduced by refactoring.
1041   - #1210: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix 'break' identification.
1042   - #1212: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was skipping too many instructions.
1043   - #1214: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix infinite loop.
1044   - #1228: Optimizer: Fix CCP: Handling of varying Phi nodes; was resulting in infinite loop.
1045   - #1245: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid a null pointer dereference.
1046   - #1250: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid spuriously reporting a change.
1047
1048v2017.3 2018-01-12
1049 - General:
1050   - Support DebugInfo extended instruction set, targeted at OpenCL environments.
1051     See the SPIR-V Registry.
1052   - Generate a SPIRV-Tools.pc file for pkg-config.
1053 - Optimizer:
1054   - Progress for legalization of code generated from HLSL (issue #1118):
1055     - Add --legalize-hlsl option to run transforms used to transform intermediate
1056       code generated by HLSL to SPIR-V for Vulkan compilers.  Those compilers
1057       normally run these transforms automatically.  This option is used for developing
1058       those transforms.
1059     - Add Private-to-Function variable conversion for modules with logical
1060       addressing.
1061   - Add --ccp: SSA Conditional Constant Propagation (CCP)
1062   - Add --print-all to show disassembly for each optimization pass.
1063   - Internal: Add loop descriptors and post-order tree iterator.
1064   - Generalized dead branch elimination
1065   - Aggressive dead code elimination (ADCE) now removes dead functions and
1066     module-scope variables.
1067   - Vector extract/insert elimination now optimizes through some cases of
1068     VectorShuffle, and GLSL.std.450 Mix extended instruction.
1069 - Validator:
1070   - Add validation for GLSL.std.450 extended instruction set.
1071   - Check out of bounds composite accesses, where that's statically computable.
1072     Fixes #1112.
1073   - Check upper bits of literal numbers that aren't a multiple of 32-bits wide.
1074   - More validation of primitive instructions
1075   - Add optional "relaxed" checking logical addressing mode to permit some
1076     cases of pointer-to-pointer.  Contributes to HLSL legalization (issue #1118).
1077 - Fixes:
1078   #1100: Validator: Image operand Sample can be used with OpImageSparseFetch,
1079     OpImageSparseRead.
1080   #1108: Remove duplicates transform was incorrectly removing non-duplicate
1081     decorations.
1082   #1111: Optimizer's type manager could reference deleted memory.
1083   #1112: Fix decoration equality check, e.g. it is now symmetric.
1084   #1129: Validator now disallows Dim=SupbassData for OpImageSparseRead.
1085   #1143: Fix CCP: Was generating incorrect code for loops.
1086   #1153: Fix CCP crash.
1087   #1154: Optimizer's internal instruction-to-block mappings were sometimes
1088       inconsistent.
1089   #1159: Fix CCP infinite loop.
1090   #1168: Fix dead branch elimination intermittently generating incorrect code.
1091       Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/1205
1092   #1186: Fix validation of PackDouble2x32 and UnpackDouble2x32
1093
1094v2017.2 2017-12-15
1095 - General:
1096   - Support OpenCL 1.2, 2.0 target environments, including embedded profiles
1097   - Add CONTRIBUTING.md
1098   - Fix exit status code for spirv-link
1099   - Disassember: Enable emitting ANSI colour codes to a string
1100   - Library avoids polluting global namespace.  The libraries can export C and C++
1101     symbols starting with "spv", or in a C++ namespace.  Add a test for this.
1102   - Linux release builds include debug information, for easier profiling
1103   - Build bots no longer test VisualStudio 2013
1104     - Testing dependency RE2 requires VisualStudio 2015 or later
1105   - Build bots check code formatting
1106 - Optimizer:
1107   - Add --skip-validation to spirv-opt
1108   - Add dominance tree analysis
1109   - Add generic value propagation engine
1110   - Add global redundancy elimination within a function
1111   - Add scalar replacement of function-scope variables of composite type
1112   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove empty loops
1113   - Killing an instruction notifies the IRContext
1114   - IRContext::KillInst deletes the instruction
1115   - Move CFG analysis to IRContext
1116   - Add constant manager
1117   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
1118   - Fix: Don't delete an instruction twice in local dead-code-elimination
1119   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
1120 - Validator:
1121   - Finish checking of image instructions (Section 3.32.10)
1122     - Check sparse image instructions
1123     - Check OpTypeImage, OpTypeSampleImage
1124   - Check composite instructions (Section 3.32.12)
1125   - Check atomic instructions (Section 3.32.18)
1126   - Check OpEmitStreamVertex, OpEndStreamPrimitive instructions
1127   - Re-enable validation of OpCopyObject
1128   - OpKill, image ImplicitLod and QueryLod instructions can only be used in Fragment
1129     shaders.
1130   - Fixes for image instruction validation:
1131     - Lod image operand only usable with ExplicitLod and OpImageFetch
1132     - ExplicitLod Lod image operand must be float scalar
1133     - OpImageFectch Lod image operand must be int scalar
1134     - OpImageGather component operand must be 32-bits (integer scalar)
1135     - OpImageQuerySizeLod Lod must be integer scalar
1136 - Fixes:
1137   #622: Remove names and decorations when inlining
1138   #989: Aggressive dead code elim: Don't optimize away live breaks from a loop
1139   #991: Fix validation of SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
1140   #1004: Use after free of an instruction, in remove-duplicates transform
1141   #1007: OpImageRead not required to return 4-component vector
1142   #1009: OpImageRead can return scalar int/float types
1143   #1011: OpImageWrite should allow scalar int/float texel types
1144   #1012: Fix validat Dref type check
1145   #1017: Load-store elimination considers variable initializations
1146   #1034: Fix Windows debug build: operator< should be a weak ordering
1147   #1083: Inlining: Set parent (function) for each inlined basic block.
1148   #1075: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was leaving dangling references to
1149     removed blocks.
1150
1151v2017.1 2017-11-23
1152 - Update README with details on the public_spirv_tools_dev@khronos.org mailing list.
1153 - General:
1154   - Automatically deploy built artifacts to GitHub Releases
1155   - Add a Linker (module combiner). Under development.
1156   - Add Android.mk for Android NDK builds.
1157   - Add the 'effcee' library as an optional dependency for use in tests.
1158     Eventually it will be a required dependency, once downstream projects have
1159     a chance to adjust.  Requires 're2' library.
1160   - Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
1161   - Hack around bugs in gcc-4.8.1 template handling
1162   - Faster opcode lookup
1163 - Validator:
1164   - Recognize extensions listed on SPIR-V registry,
1165     through #25 SPV_AMD_shader_fragment_mask
1166   - Validator issues an info message when it sees an unrecognized extension.
1167   - Type check basic arithmetic operations
1168   - Type check carry/extended arithmetic operations
1169   - Type check vector arithmetic operations
1170   - Type check Relational and Logical instructions
1171   - Type check Bit instructions
1172   - Check type uniqueness rules
1173   - Check conversion instructions
1174   - Check image instructions
1175   - Check derivative instructions
1176   - Check OpVectorShuffle
1177   - Check OpBranchConditional
1178   - OpModuleProcessed is only allowed after debug names section and before annotations
1179     section.
1180   - Checks the right kind of return is called for each function (void or non-void).
1181   - Add option to relax type check when storing structs (--relax-store-struct)
1182 - Optimizer:
1183   - Refactoring internal representation of the module, including:
1184     - IRContext: owns a module and manages analyses
1185     - Instructions are owned by intrusive lists, and have unique IDs
1186     - BasicBlock owns its instruction list.
1187     - DefUseManager: change representation of uses, for faster processing
1188       on large modules.
1189   - Add high level recipes: -O, -Os, and -Oconfig
1190     Recipes for -O and -Os are under development.
1191   - Add eliminate-dead-function transform
1192   - Add strength reduction transform: For now, convert multiply by power of 2
1193     to a bit shift.
1194   - Add CFG cleanup transform
1195   - Add removal of dead module-scope variables
1196   - Add merge-return transform for modules without structured control flow
1197   - Add redundancy elimination within a basic block (local value numbering)
1198   - Extract-insert elimination:
1199     - Recognize the case where the first instruction in the sequence is an
1200       OpCompositeConstruct or OpConstantComposite
1201     - Handle some cases of nested structs
1202   - Dead branch elimination now can eliminate entire selection constructs
1203     when all arms are dead.
1204 - Compressing codec:
1205   - Updated algorithm to 1.01, 1.02, 1.03
1206   - Not built by default.  Use -DSPIRV_BUILD_COMPRESSION=ON to build.
1207   - Codec can be parameterized by a customized model.
1208 - Fixes:
1209   #728: Fix decoration of inlined functions
1210   #798: spirv-as should fail when given unrecognized long option
1211   #800: Inliner: Fix inlining function into header of multi-block loop
1212   #824: Eliminate-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
1213   #826: Elimiante-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
1214   #827: Fix crash when compact-ids transform runs before another transform.
1215   #834: Add Cmake option to build the compressing codec. Off by default.
1216   #911: Fix classification of Line and NoLine instructions
1217
1218v2017.0 2017-09-01
1219 - Update README to describe that assembler, disassembler, and binary parser support
1220   are based on grammar files from the SPIRV-Headers repository.
1221
1222v2016.7 2017-09-01
1223 - Add SPIR-V 1.2
1224 - OpenCL 2.2 support is now based on SPIR-V 1.2
1225 - Support AMD extensions in assembler, disassembler:
1226    SPV_AMD_gcn_shader
1227    SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
1228    SPV_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter
1229    SPV_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax
1230    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float
1231    SPV_AMD_texture_gather_bias_lod
1232    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16
1233 - Optimizer: Add support for:
1234   - Inline all function calls in entry points.
1235   - Flatten decoration groups.  Fixes #602
1236   - Id compaction (minimize Id bound).  Fixes #624
1237   - Eliminate redundant composite insert followed by extract
1238   - Simplify access chains to local variables
1239   - Eliminate local variables with a single store, if possible
1240   - Eliminate local variables with a several stores, if possible
1241   - Eliminate loads and stores in same block to local variables
1242   - Eliminate redundant insert/extract to composite values
1243   - Aggressive dead instruction elimination
1244   - Eliminate dead branches
1245   - Merge blocks when the second can only be preceded by the first
1246   - Eliminate ommon uniform loads
1247 - Assembler: Add option to preserve numeric ids. Fixes #625
1248 - Add build target spirv-tools-vimsyntax to generate spvasm.vim, a SPIR-V
1249   assembly syntax file for Vim.
1250 - Version string: Allow overriding of wall clock timestamp with contents
1251   of environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
1252 - Validator implements relaxed rules for SPV_KHR_16bit_storage.
1253 - CMake installation rules use GNUInstallDirs.  For example, libraries
1254   will be installed into a lib64 directory if that's the norm for the
1255   current system.
1256 - Fixes:
1257   #500: Parameterize validator limit checks
1258   #508: Support compilation under CYGWIN
1259   #517: Fix validation when continue (or case) contstruct is also the head of a
1260     nested control construct.
1261   #551: If a merge block is reachable, it must be *strictly* dominated by its
1262     header.
1263   #548: Validator: Error when the reserved OpImageSparseSampleProj* opcodes
1264     are used.
1265   #611: spvtools::Optimizer was failing to save the module to the output
1266     binary vector when all passes succeded without changes.
1267   #629: The inline-entry-points-all optimization could generate invalidly
1268     structured code when the inlined function had early returns.
1269   #697: Optimizer's Instruction::ForEachInId method was skipping semantics-id
1270     and scope-id.
1271   #755: Inliner: Fix inlining of callee with single Return appearing before
1272     the end of the function.
1273   #776: Fix dead branch elimination in presence of complex but dead control
1274     flow.
1275   #781: SPV_KHR_variable_pointers allows duplicate pointer types
1276   #782: Inliner: Fix remapping of non-label forward references in callee
1277   #787: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when called from
1278     single block loop.
1279   #790: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when callee has
1280     multiple returns.
1281
1282v2016.6 2016-12-13
1283 - Published the C++ interface for assembling, disassembling, validation, and
1284   optimization.
1285 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_draw_parameters in assembler, disassembler, parser.
1286 - Validator:
1287   - Add validator API accepting raw binary words
1288   - Increased coverage:
1289     - Checks "Data rules" in Universal Validation Rules, section 2.16.1
1290     - WIP: Universal Limits.
1291       - The minimum mandated upper bounds are checked.
1292       - TODO: Parameterize the validator to allow larger limits accepted by
1293         a more than minimally capable implementation.
1294   - OpSampledImage checks
1295   - OpConstantComposite checks
1296   - Id bound check
1297 - Disasssembler:
1298   - Generates friendly GLSL-based names for more builtin variables
1299   - Generates friendly names for numeric OpConstant values
1300   - Vendor tool info extracted from SPIR-V XML registry file.
1301 - Fixes issues:
1302   #429: Validator: Allow OpTypeForwardPointer and OpTypeStruct to reference
1303     undefined IDs
1304   #482: Validator: OpVariable initializer can be an ID of a module-scope variable
1305
1306v2016.5 2016-09-16
1307 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_ballot in assembler, disassembler, parser.
1308 - Disassembler: Generate friendly names for built-in variables.
1309 - Partial fixes:
1310   #359: Add Emacs helper for automatically diassembling/assembling a SPIR-V
1311     binary on file load/save.
1312 - Fixes:
1313   #414: Validator: Allow OpUndef for composite constants
1314   #415: Validator: Phi can use its own value in some cases.
1315
1316v2016.4 2016-09-01
1317 - Relicensed under Apache 2.0
1318 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
1319   - Fold spec constants defined with OpSpecConstantOp and
1320       OpSpecConstantComposite to normal constants with fixed value(s).
1321 - Fixes issues:
1322   #318: Relicensed under Apache 2.0
1323
1324v2016.3 2016-08-24
1325 - Add target environment enums for OpenCL 2.1, OpenCL 2.2,
1326   OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL 4.1, OpenGL 4.2, OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL 4.5.
1327 - Add spirv-cfg, an experimental tool to dump the control flow graph
1328   as a GraphiViz "dot" graph
1329 - Add optimization pass: Eliminate dead constants.
1330 - Add spirv-lesspipe.sh filter utility
1331 - Fixes issues:
1332   #288: Check def-use dominance rules for OpPhi (variable,parent) operands
1333   #339: Allow OpUndef in types-constants-global-vars section, as required
1334     by SPIR-V 1.0 Rev7, 1.1 Rev 3.
1335   #340: Avoid race on mkdir during build
1336   #365: Relax PointSize, ClipDistance, CullDistance capability check in all
1337     environments not just Vulkan 1.0.
1338
1339v2016.2 2016-08-05
1340 - Validator is incomplete
1341   - Checks ID use block is dominated by definition block
1342 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
1343   - Strip debug info instructions
1344   - Freeze spec constant to their default values
1345 - Allow INotEqual as operation for OpSpecConstantOp
1346 - Fixes bugs:
1347   #270: validator: crash when continue construct is unreachable
1348   #279: validator: infinite loop when analyzing some degenerate control
1349     flow graphs
1350   #286: validator: don't incorrectly generate def-use error for
1351         (variable,parent) parameters to OpPhi
1352   #290: disassembler: never generate bare % for an identifier
1353   #295: validator: def-use dominance check should ignore unreachable uses
1354   #276: validator: allow unreachable continue constructs
1355   #297: validator: allow an unreachable block to branch to a reachable
1356         merge block
1357
1358v2016.1 2016-07-19
1359 - Fix https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/261
1360   Turn off ClipDistance and CullDistance capability checks for Vulkan.
1361 - The disassembler can emit friendly names based on debug info (OpName
1362   instructions), and will infer somewhat friendly names for most types.
1363   This is turned on by default for the spirv-dis command line tool.
1364 - Updated to support SPIR-V 1.1 rev 2
1365   - Input StorageClass, Sampled1D capability, and SampledBuffer capability
1366     do not require Shader capability anymore.
1367
1368v2016.0 2016-07-04
1369
1370 - Adds v<year>.<index> versioning, with "-dev" indicating
1371   work in progress.  The intent is to more easly report
1372   and summarize functionality when SPIRV-Tools is incorporated
1373   in downstream projects.
1374
1375 - Summary of functionality (See the README.md for more):
1376   - Supports SPIR-V 1.1 Rev 1
1377   - Supports SPIR-V 1.0 Rev 5
1378   - Supports GLSL std450 extended instructions 1.0 Rev 3
1379   - Supports OpenCL extended instructions 1.0 Rev 2
1380   - Assembler, disassembler are complete
1381     - Supports floating point widths of 16, 32, 64 bits
1382     - Supports integer widths up to 64 bits
1383   - Validator is incomplete
1384     - Checks capability requirements in most cases
1385     - Checks module layout constraints
1386     - Checks ID use-definition ordering constraints,
1387       ignoring control flow
1388     - Checks some control flow graph rules
1389   - Optimizer is introduced, with few available transforms.
1390   - Supported on Linux, OSX, Android, Windows
1391
1392 - Fixes bugs:
1393   - #143: OpenCL pow and pown arguments
1394