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1Revision history for SPIRV-Tools
2
3v2024.4 2024-09-19
4  - General
5    - Add FPEncoding operand type. (#5726)
6    - Support SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers (#5736)
7    - add support for SPV_INTEL_global_variable_host_access (#5786)
8  - Optimizer
9    - Add knowledge of cooperative matrices (#5720)
10    - Add struct-packing pass and unit test. (#5778)
11  - Validator
12    - Validate presence of Stride operand to OpCooperativeMatrix{Load,Store}KHR (#5777)
13    - Update sampled image validation (#5789)
14  - Linker
15    - allow linking functions with different pointer arguments (#5534)
16
17v2024.3 2024-06-20
18  - General
19  - Optimizer
20    - Do not fold mul and adds to generate fmas (#5682)
21    - add OpExtInst forward ref fixup pass (#5708)
22  - Validator
23    - Separate Location check for tess patch (#5654)
24    - Validate MemoryAccessMask of OpCooperativeMatrixStoreKHR (#5668)
25    - OpSampledImage extra validation (#5695)
26    - add support for OpExtInstWithForwardRefs (#5698)A
27  - Disassembler
28    - add decorations to comments (#5675)
29    - Add --nested-indent and --reorder-blocks (#5671)
30
31v2024.2 2024-04-22
32  - General
33    - Add SPIRV_TOOLS_EXPORT to public C++ API (#5591)
34    - Use bazel 7 and bzlmod (#5601)
35  - Optimizer
36    - opt: add GroupNonUniformPartitionedNV capability to trim pass (#5648)
37    - Fix rebuilding types with circular references. (#5637)
38    - Add AliasedPointer decoration (#5635)
39    - add support for vulkan-shader-profiler external passes (#5512)
40  - Validator
41    - A fix to support of SPV_QCOM_image_processing2 (#5646)
42    - spirv-val: Add Vulkan check for Rect Dim in OpTypeImage (#5644)
43    - Validate duplicate decorations and execution modes (#5641)
44    - Validator: Support SPV_NV_raw_access_chains (#5568)
45
46v2024.1 2024-03-06
47  - General
48    - Add tooling support for SPV_KHR_maximal_reconvergence (#5542)
49    - Add support for SPV_KHR_float_controls2 (#5543)
50    - SPV_KHR_quad_control (#5547)
51    - Fold 64-bit int operations (#5561)
52    - update image enum tests to remove Kernel capability (#5562)
53    - Support operand kind for SPV_INTEL_maximum_registers (#5580)
54    - SPV_NV_shader_atomic_fp16_vector (#5581)
55    - Support for SPV_QCOM_image_processing2 (#5582)
56    - Fix access chain struct checks (#5592)
57  - Optimizer
58    - opt: add Int16 and Float16 to capability trim pass (#5519)
59    - Add preserver-interface option to spirv-opt (#5524)
60    - spirv-opt: Fix OpCompositeExtract relaxation with struct operands (#5536)
61    - opt: Add VulkanMemoryModelDeviceScope to trim (#5544)
62    - opt: Add TrimCapabilities pass to spirv-opt tool (#5545)
63    - Add modify-maximal-reconvergence to spirv-opt help (#5546)
64    - opt: add SPV_EXT_mesh_shader to opt allowlist (#5551)
65    - opt: Add OpEntryPoint to DescriptorScalarReplacement pass (#5553)
66    - opt: prevent meld to merge block with MaximalReconvergence (#5557)
67    - [OPT] Use new instruction folder for for all opcodes in spec consti folding (#5569)
68    - [OPT] Identify arrays with unknown length in copy prop arrays (#5570)
69    - [OPT] Add removed unused interface var pass to legalization passes (#5579)
70  - Validator
71    - spirv-val: Re-enable OpControlBarrier VU (#5527)
72    - spirv-val: Add Mesh Primitive Built-In validaiton (#5529)
73    - spirv-val: Validate PhysicalStorageBuffer Stage Interface (#5539)
74    - spirv-val: Multiple interface var with same SC (#5528)
75    - spirv-val: Revert Validate PhysicalStorageBuffer Stage Interface (#5575)
76    - spirv-val: Make Constant evaluation consistent (#5587)
77
78v2023.6 2023-12-18
79  - General
80    - update_build_version.py produce deterministic header. (#5426)
81    - Support missing git in update_build_version.py (#5473)
82  - Optimizer
83    - Add ComputeDerivativeGroup*NV capabilities to trim capabilities pass. (#5430)
84    - Do not crash when tryingto fold unsupported spec constant (#5496)
85    - instrument: Fix handling of gl_InvocationID (#5493)
86    - Fix nullptr argument in MarkInsertChain (#5465)
87    - opt: support 64-bit OpAccessChain index in FixStorageClass (#5446)
88    - opt: add StorageImageReadWithoutFormat to cap trim (#5475)
89    - opt: add PhysicalStorageBufferAddresses to trim (#5476)
90    - Fix array size calculation (#5463
91  - Validator
92    - spirv-val: Loosen restriction on base type of DebugTypePointer and DebugTypeQualifier (#5479)
93    - spirv-val: Add WorkgroupMemoryExplicitLayoutKHR check for Block (#5461)
94
95v2023.5 2023-10-15
96  - General
97    - Support 2 Intel extensions (#5357)
98    - SPV_QCOM_image_processing support (#5223)
99  - Optimizer
100    - opt: fix StorageInputOutput16 trimming. (#5359)
101    - opt: add StoragePushConstant16 to trim pass (#5366)
102    - opt: enable StorageUniform16 (#5371)
103    - opt: add bitmask support for capability trimming (#5372)
104    - opt: Add SwitchDescriptorSetPass (#5375)
105    - opt: add FragmentShader*InterlockEXT to capability trim pass (#5390)
106    - opt: add Int64 capability to trim pass (#5398)
107    - opt: add Float64 capability to trim pass (#5428)
108    - opt: add raytracing/rayquery to trim pass (#5397)
109    - opt: add ImageMSArray capability to trim pass. (#5395)
110    - Add SPV_KHR_physical_storage_buffer to allowlists (#5402)
111    - Add SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock to allow lists (#5393)
112    - Make sure that fragment shader interlock instructions are not removed by DCE (#5400)
113    - instrument: Use Import linkage for instrumentation functions (#5355)
114    - Add a new legalization pass to dedupe invocation interlock instructions (#5409)
115    - instrument: Ensure linking works even of nothing is changed (#5419)
116  - Validator
117    - Move token version/cap/ext checks from parsing to validation (#5370)
118    - val: re-add ImageMSArray validation (#5394)
119  - Linker
120    - linker: Add --use-highest-version option
121
122v2023.4 2023-07-17
123  - General
124    - Set cmake_policy CMP0128 (#5341)
125    - Add python3 requirement for the script (#5326)
126    - Add support for LiteralFloat type (#5323)
127    - SPV_KHR_cooperative_matrix (#5286)
128    - Allow OpTypeBool in UniformConstant (#5237)
129    - Allow physical storage buffer pointer in IO (#5251)
130    - Remove const zero image operands (#5232)
131  - Optimizer
132    - Enable vector constant folding (#4913) (#5272)
133    - Fold negation of integer vectors (#5269)
134    - Add folding rule for OpTranspose (#5241)
135    - Add SPV_NV_bindless_texture to spirv optimizations (#5231)
136    - Fix incorrect half float conversion (#5349)
137    - Add SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float_add to allow lists (#5348)
138  - Instrument
139    - instrument: Cast gl_VertexIndex and InstanceIndex to uint (#5319)
140    - instrument: Fix buffer address length calculations (#5257)
141    - instrument: Reduce number of inst_bindless_stream_write_6 calls (#5327)
142  - Validator
143    - Validate GroupNonUniform instructions (#5296)
144    - spirv-val: Label SPV_KHR_cooperative_matrix VUID (#5301)
145    - Validate layouts for PhysicalStorageBuffer pointers (#5291)
146    - spirv-val: Remove VUID from 1.3.251 spec (#5244)
147  - Diff
148    - spirv-diff: Update test expectations (#5264)
149    - spirv-diff: Leave undefined ids unpaired. (#5262)
150    - spirv-diff: Properly match SPV_KHR_ray_query types. (#5259)
151    - diff: Don't give up entry point matching too early. (#5224)
152
153v2023.3 2023-05-15
154  - General
155    - Update spirv_headers to include SPV_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch (#5205)
156    - spirv-tools: Add support for QNX (#5211)
157    - build: set std=c++17 for BUILD.gn (#5162)
158  - Optimizer
159    - Run ADCE when the printf extension is used. (#5215)
160    - Don't convert struct members to half (#5201)
161    - Apply scalar replacement on vars with Pointer decorations (#5208)
162    - opt: Fix null deref in OpMatrixTimesVector and OpVectorTimesMatrix (#5199)
163    - instrument: Add set and binding to bindless error records (#5204)
164    - instrument: Change descriptor state storage format (#5178)
165    - Fix LICMPass (#5087)
166    - Add Vulkan memory model to allow lists (#5173)
167    - Do not remove control barrier after spv1.3 (#5174)
168  - Validator
169    - spirv-val: Label Interface Location/Component VUIDs (#5221)
170    - Add support for SPV_EXT_shader_tile_image (#5188)
171    - Fix vector OpConstantComposite type validation (#5191)
172    - spirv-val: Label new Vulkan VUID 07951 (#5154)
173  - Fuzz
174    - Do not define GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_INTERNAL_DONATE_STEAL_INLINE if it is already defined. (#5200)
175
176v2023.2 2023-03-10
177  - General
178    - build: move from c++11 to c++17 (#4983)
179    - tools: refactorize tools flags parsing. (#5111)
180    - Add C interface for Optimizer (#5030)
181    - libspirv.cpp: adds c++ api for spvBinaryParse (#5109)
182    - build: change the way we set cxx version for bazel. (#5114)
183  - Optimizer
184    - Fix null pointer in FoldInsertWithConstants. (#5093)
185    - Fix removal of dependent non-semantic instructions (#5122)
186    - Remove duplicate lists of constant and type opcodes (#5106)
187    - opt: fix spirv ABI on Linux again. (#5113)
188  - Validator
189    - Validate decoration of structs with RuntimeArray (#5094)
190    - Validate operand type before operating on it (#5092)
191    - spirv-val: Conditional Branch without an exit is invalid in loop header (#5069)
192    - spirv-val: Initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader builtins (#5080)
193
194v2023.1 2023-01-17
195  - General
196    - Renamed "master" to "main" (issue#5051)
197    - Validate version 5 of clspv reflection (#5050)
198    - Remove testing support for VS2015 (#5027)
199    - Fix undef behaviour in hex float parsing (#5025)
200    - Require C++11 *or later* (#5020)
201  - Instrument
202    - Instrument: Fix bindless checking for BufferDeviceAddress (#5049)
203  - Optimizer
204    - Optimize allocation of spvtools::opt::Instruction::operands_ (#5024)
205    - spirv-opt: Fix OpCompositeInsert with Null Constant (#5008)
206    - spirv-opt: Handle null CompositeInsert (#4998)
207    - Add option to ADCE to remove output variables from interface. (#4994)
208    - Add support for tesc, tese and geom to EliminateDead*Components (#4990)
209    - Add pass to eliminate dead output components (#4982)
210    - spirv-opt: Add const folding for CompositeInsert (#4943)
211    - Add passes to eliminate dead output stores (#4970)
212    - Prevent eliminating case constructs in block merging (#4976)
213  - Validator
214    - Fix layout validation (#5015)
215    - Fix use of invalid analysis (#5013)
216    - Fix infinite loop in validator (#5006)
217    - Add validation support for SPV_NV_shader_invocation_reorder. (#4979)
218    - Only validate full layout in Vulkan environments (#4972)
219    - spirv-val: Label new Vulkan OpPtrAccessChain VUs (#4975)
220    - spirv-val: Add OpPtrAccessChain Base checks (#4965)
221
222
223v2022.4 2022-10-12
224  - General
225    - Support Narrow Types in BitCast Folding Rule (#4941)
226    - spirv-diff: Allow no SpecId (#4904)
227    - build: cmake: Add support for GNU/Hurd (#4895)
228    - Implement tool changes for SPV_EXT_mesh_shader. (#4915)
229  - Validator
230    - spirv-val: Add SPV_ARM_core_builtins validation (#4958)
231    - spirv-val: Add an option to use friendly names or not (#4951)
232    - spirv-val: Consistently quote ids in messages (#4950)
233    - spirv-val: Add initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader validation (#4924)
234    - spirv-val: Make it legal to use arrays of ray queries (#4938)
235    - spirv-val: Better message for using OpTypeBool in input/output (#4901)
236    - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing storage class (#4868)
237  - Optimizer
238    - spirv-opt: Fix stacked CompositeExtract constant folds (#4932)
239    - Improve time to build dominators (#4916)
240    - Fix ADCE to mark scope and inlined_at of line instructions as live. (#4910)
241    - Improve algorithm to reorder blocks in a function (#4911)
242    - Add structs to eliminate dead input components (#4894)
243    - spirv-opt: fix copy-propagate-arrays index opti on structs. (#4891)
244    - Fix ADCE to not eliminate top level DebugInfo instructions (#4889)
245    - Fix array copy propagation (#4890)
246
247v2022.3 2022-08-08
248  - General
249    - Add SPV_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric support (#4805)
250    - Add support for SPV_KHR_subgroup_rotate (#4786)
251    - use exec_tools instead of tools for better RBE compatibility (#4837)
252    - Write binary files to stdout in binary on windows. (#4834)
253    - Allow spirv-opt print-all to show pretty IDs (#4888)
254  - Validator
255    - spirv-val: Add PerVertexKHR (#4807)
256    - spirv-opt : Add FixFuncCallArgumentsPass (#4775)
257    - spirv-val: Add CullMaskKHR support (#4792)
258    - Require ColMajor or RowMajor for matrices (#4878)
259    - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_query (#4848)
260    - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing instructions (#4871)
261    - Implement SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4847)
262    - spirv-val: Add OpConvertUToAccelerationStructureKHR (#4838)
263    - spirv-val: Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_early_and_late_fragment_tests (#4812)
264  - Optimizer
265    - Fold multiply and subtraction into FMA with negation (#4808)
266    - Add more folding for composite instructions (#4802)
267    - spirv-opt: add pass for interface variable scalar replacement (#4779)
268    - Don't try to unroll loop with step count 0. (#4769)
269    - spirv-opt: SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4870)
270  - Linker
271    - linker: Recalculate interface variables (#4784)
272
273v2022.2 2022-04-07
274  - General
275    - Add OpModuleProcessed to debug opcode (#4694)
276  - Optimizer
277    - Complete handling of RayQueryKHR type (#4690)
278    - Have scalar replacement use undef instead of null (#4691)
279    - Optimize Instruction::Instruction (#4705)
280    - Handle propagation of arrays with decorations (#4717)
281    - spirv-opt: Add OpExecutionModeId support (#4719)
282    - Optimize Type::HashValue (#4707)
283    - Optimize DefUseManager allocations (#4709)
284    - Add pass to remove DontInline function control (#4747)
285    - Better handling of 0xFFFFFFFF when folding vector shuffle (#4743)
286    - Reset the id bound on the module in compact ids (#4744)
287    - spirv-opt: (WIP) Eliminate Dead Input Component Pass (#4720)
288    - Support SPV_KHR_uniform_group_instructions (#4734)
289    - Handle shaders without execution model in spread-volatile-semantics (#4766)
290  - Validator
291    - Fix handling of Nontemporal image operand (#4692)
292    - [spirv-val] Allow 0 Component Count for DebugTypeArray for Shader (#4706)
293    - spirv-val: Validate DebugTypeMatrix (#4732)
294    - spirv-val: Label Vulkan VUID 04734 (#4739)
295    - spirv-val: Label VUID 06491 (#4745)
296    - spirv-val: Disallow array of push constants (#4742)
297    - spirv-val: Label Vulkan RuntimeArray VUID (#4749)
298    - spirv-val: Add Vulkan Image VUID 06214 (#4750)
299    - spirv-val: Add Vulkan Dref not allowed 3D dim VUID (#4751)
300    - spirv-val: Label and add test for PSB Aligned (#4756)
301    - spirv-val: Add Vulkan 32-bit bit op Base (#4758)
302    - spirv-val: Add more Vulkan VUID labels (#4764)
303  - Diff
304    - Introduce spirv-diff (#4611)
305    - Stabilize the output of spirv-diff (#4698)
306    - spirv-diff: Handle OpSpecConstant array sizes (#4700)
307    - spirv-diff: Match OpSpecConstantComposite correctly (#4704)
308    - spirv-diff: Use GetSingleWord*Operand (#4768)
309    - spirv-diff: Basic support for OpTypeForwardPointer (#4761)
310    - spirv-diff: Fix OpTypeFunction matching w.r.t operand count (#4771)
311
312v2022.1 2022-01-26
313  - General
314    - Add SPIR-V 1.6 support to wasm build (#4674)
315    - Improvements to disassembly within PassManager (#4677)
316    - Basic support for SPIR-V 1.6 (#4663)
317    - reflect debug (#4662)
318    - Fix endianness of string literals (#4622)
319  - Optimizer
320    - spirv-opt: add pass to Spread Volatile semantics (#4667)
321    - Fix constant propagation and folding of FClamp instructions (#4651)
322    - Manually fold floating point division by zero (#4637)
323    - Allow ADCE to remove dead inputs (#4629)
324  - Linker
325    - Linker improvements (#4679)
326      * test/linker: Code factorisation and small tweaks
327      * linker: Do not fail when going over limits
328  - Validator
329    - val: interface struct with builtins must be Block (#4665)
330  - Fuzzer
331    - Avoid id bound errors during opt fuzzing (#4658)
332    - Avoid uninitialised read when parsing hex float (#4646)
333
334v2021.4 2021-11-11
335  - General
336    - Add a WebAssembly build (#3752)
337    - Make cxx exceptions controllable (#4591)
338  - Validator
339    - Improve decoration validation (#4490)
340  - Optimizer
341    - Add spirv-opt pass to replace descriptor accesses based on variable indices (#4574)
342    - Do not fold snegate feeding sdiv (#4600)
343    - Handle overflowing id in merge return (#4606)
344  - Fuzzer
345    - Add libFuzzer target for spirv-fuzz (#4434)
346  - Linter
347
348v2021.3 2021-08-24
349 - General
350    - Initial support for SPV_KHR_integer_dot_product (#4327)
351    - Add non-semantic vulkan extended instruction set (#4362)
352    - Add common enum for debug info instructions from either opencl or vulkan (#4377)
353 - Validator
354    - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float16_add (#4325)
355    - Disallow loading a runtime-sized array (#4473)
356    - spirv-val: Validate vulkan debug info similarly to opencl debug info (#4466)
357 - Optimizer
358    - spirv-opt: support SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#4379)
359    - spirv-opt: Add dataflow analysis framework (#4402)
360    - Add control dependence analysis to opt (#4380)
361    - Add spirv-opt convert-to-sampled-image pass (#4340)
362    - spirv-opt: Add handling of vulkan debug info to DebugInfoManager (#4423)
363 - Fuzz
364    - spirv-fuzz: support AtomicLoad (#4330)
365    - spirv-fuzz: Support AtomicStore (#4440)
366    - spirv-fuzz: TransformationWrapVectorSynonym that rewrites scalar operations using vectors (#4376)
367    - spirv-fuzz: Add minimal SPIR-V example to test shaders (#4415)
368    - spirv-fuzz: support building using gn (#4365)
369 - Linter
370    - Add new target for spirv-lint (#4446)
371    - spirv-lint: add basic CLI argument handling (#4478)
372    - Add divergence analysis to linter (#4465)
373
374v2021.2 2021-06-18
375 - General
376    - Support SPV_KHR_subgroup_uniform_control_flow (#4318)
377    - Support Intel extensions for fixed point and hls-float (#4321)
378    - Fix crash when optimizing shaders with DebugPrintf (#4280)
379
380 - Validator
381    - Support Vulkan Storage Class for Execution Model (#4212)
382
383 - Optimizer
384    - Handle SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model in dead-code elimination (#4320)
385    - Support folding OpBitcast with numeric constants (#4247)
386
387 - Fuzz
388    - Add tests for MaybeGet* functions in fuzzerutil (#4284)
389    - Fix OutlineFunction in presence of unreachable blocks (#4308)
390    - Fix def-use update in PermutePhiOperands (#4309)
391    - Swap positions of two functions in a module (#4236)
392
393v2021.1 2021-04-19
394 - General
395    - Support SPV_KHR_linkonce_odr, SPV_KHR_expect_assume (#4161)
396    - Fixes for the vscode language server extension (#4150)
397 - Validator
398    - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float_min_max (#4105)
399    - Add Vulkan Execution Scope checks (#4183)
400    - Vulkan 64-bit OpAtomicStore check (#4163)
401 - Optimizer
402    - Add interpolate legalization pass (#4220)
403 - Fuzz
404    - Various performance optimizations
405    - Do not add too many dead blocks (#4217)
406    - Add WGSL compatibility flag to context (#4193)
407    - Add persistent state to the fuzzer (#4137)
408
409v2020.7 2021-02-16
410 - General
411    - Support pending Intel extensions (#4116)
412    - Remove WebGPU support (#4108)
413 - Validator
414    - Vulkan image gather constant component (#4133)
415    - Add Vulkan PSB64 convert VUID (#4122)
416    - Validate SPV_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout (#4128)
417    - Validate VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory (#4124)
418    - Add Vulkan image gather offset VUID (#4118)
419    - Label Vulkan atomic semantics VUIDs (#4120)
420    - Label VUID 04662 (#4123)
421    - Label VUID 04683 (#4121)
422    - Add Vulkan EXT builtins (#4115)
423    - Validate Sampled=1 for Vulkan ImageQuerySizeLod, ImageQueryLevels, ImageQueryLod (#4103)
424    - Add Vulkan Memory Scope VUs (#4106)
425    - Add Vulkan Addressing Model check (#4107)
426    - Vulkan atomic storage class (#4079)
427    - Label standalone Vulkan VUID (#4091)
428    - Add Vulkan decroation VUID (#4090)
429    - Add Vulkan FP Mode VUID (#4088)
430    - Fix Vulkan image sampled check (#4085)
431    - Add Vulkan ForwardPointer VUID (#4089)
432    - Add Vulkan ImageTexelPointer format check (#4087)
433    - Add Vulkan Group Operation VUID (#4086)
434    - Add first StandAlone VUID 04633 (#4077)
435    - Add Subgroup VUIDs (#4074)
436    - validate return type of OpImageRead (#4072)
437    - tighter validation of multisampled images (#4059)
438    - validate OpTypeImage Sampled values for environemnts (#4064)
439    - validate StorageImageMultisampled capability (#4062)
440    - Add last TessLevelOuter and TessLevelInner VUID (#4055)
441    - Add last ClipDistance and CullDistance VUID (#4054)
442    - Add last ViewportIndex and Layer VUID (#4053)
443    - Add last Position VUID (#4052)
444    - Allow forward pointer to be used in types generally (#4044)
445 - Optimizer
446    - Mark module as modified if convert-to-half removes decorations (#4127)
447    - Fix binding number calculation in desc sroa (#4095)
448    - Run DCE when SPV_KHR_shader_clock is used (#4049)
449 - Debug Info
450    - Set correct scope and line info for DebugValue (#4125)
451    - Avoid integrity check failures caused by propagating line instructions (#4096)
452 - Linker
453    - Linker usability improvements (#4084)
454 - Instrumentation
455    - Generate differentiated error codes for buffer oob checking (#4097)
456 - Fuzz
457    - Fix OpPhi handling in DuplicateRegionWithSelection (#4065)
458
459v2020.6 2020-12-07
460 - General
461    CMake: Add SPIRV_TOOLS_BUILD_STATIC flag (#3910)
462 - Disassembler
463    Add some context comments to disassembly. (#3847)
464 - Optimizer
465   - Take new (raytracing) termination instructions into account. (#4050)
466   - Do run DCE if SPV_KHR_ray_query is used. (#4047)
467   - Handle 8-bit index in elim dead member (#4043)
468   - Add texel buffer out-of-bounds checking instrumentation (#4038)
469   - Update MeshShadingNV dependencies (and land Ray tracing updates) (#4028)
470   - Fix buffer oob instrumentation for matrix refs (#4025)
471   - Fix SSA re-writing in the presence of variable pointers. (#4010)
472   - Add support to prevent functions from being inlined if they have
473     DontInline flag (#3858)
474   - Add SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#3852)
475   - Support SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (#3943)
476   - Fix use-after-move in val/validate.cpp (#3848)
477 - Debug Info
478   - properly preserve DebugValue indexes operand (#4022)
479   - Add DebugValue for invisible store in single_store_elim (#4002)
480   - Propagate OpLine to all applied instructions in spirv-opt (#3951)
481   - Add DebugValue for DebugDecl invisible to value assignment (#3973)
482   - Add DebugValue for function param regardless of scope (#3923)
483   - Debug info preservation in convert-local-access-chains pass (#3835)
484   - Debug info preservation in redundancy-elimination pass (#3839)
485   - Debug info preservation in if-conversion pass (#3861)
486 - Validator
487   - Add validation support for the ray tracing built-in variables (#4041)
488   - Use less stack space when validating Vulkan builtins (#4019)
489   - Fix SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate VUID label (#4014)
490   - Label Layer and ViewportIndex VUIDs (#4013)
491   - Allow the ViewportIndex and Layer built-ins on SPIR-V 1.5 (#3986)
492   - Fix validation of OpPhi instructions (#3919)
493 - Fuzz
494   - Fix facts arising from CompositeConstruct (#4034)
495   - Do not flatten conditionals that create synonyms (#4030)
496   - Add support for reining in rogue fuzzer passes (#3987)
497   - Fix assertion failure in FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3995)
498   - Fix invalid equation facts (#4009)
499   - Fix bugs in TransformationFlattenConditionalBranch (#4006)
500   - Fix bug related to transformation applicability (#3990)
501   - Add expand vector reduction transformation (#3869)
502   - Add FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3904)
503   - Fix mismatch with shrinker step limit (#3985)
504   - Fix off-by-one error in replayer (#3982)
505   - Get order right for OpSelect arguments (#3974)
506   - Do not add synonym-creating loops in dead blocks (#3975)
507   - Skip OpTypeSampledImage when propagating up (#3976)
508   - Pass OpUndef in function call if needed (#3978)
509   - Fix off-by-one in TransformationCompositeConstruct (#3979)
510   - Tolerate absent ids in data synonym fact management (#3966)
511   - Fix to id availability (#3971)
512   - Fix operand types (#3962)
513   - Don't flatten conditional if condition is irrelevant (#3944)
514   - Do not produce OpPhis of type OpTypeSampledImage (#3964)
515   - Restrict fuzzer pass to reachable blocks (#3970)
516   - Handle more types when extending OpPhi instructions (#3969)
517   - Skip early terminator wrappers when merging returns (#3968)
518   - Avoid irrelevant constants in synonym-creating loops (#3967)
519   - Skip dead blocks in FuzzerPassAddOpPhiSynonyms (#3965)
520   - Avoid the type manager when looking for struct types (#3963)
521   - Fix to TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3941)
522   - Skip OpFunction when replacing irrelevant ids (#3932)
523   - Use component-wise selectors when flattening conditional branches (#3921)
524   - Avoid void struct member when outlining functions (#3936)
525   - Do not allow Block-decorated structs when adding parameters (#3931)
526   - Fix to operand id type (#3937)
527   - Handle dead blocks in TransformationEquationInstruction (#3933)
528   - Do not allow sampled image load when flattening conditionals (#3930)
529   - Take care of OpPhi instructions when inlining (#3939)
530   - Fix to TransformationInlineFunction (#3913)
531   - Wrap early terminators before merging returns (#3925)
532   - Lower probability of adding bit instruction synonyms (#3917)
533   - Fix handling of OpPhi in FlattenConditionalBranch (#3916)
534   - Avoid creating blocks without parents (#3908)
535   - Do not allow creation of constants of block-decorated structs (#3903)
536   - Fixes related to irrelevant ids (#3901)
537   - Fix to transformation that adds a synonym via a loop (#3898)
538   - Fix to duplicate region with selection (#3896)
539   - Do not expose synonym facts for non-existent ids (#3891)
540   - Do not add synonyms involving irrelevant ids (#3890)
541   - Do not replace irrelevant ids that are not in blocks (#3892)
542   - Wrap OpKill and similar in function calls (#3884)
543   - Integrate spirv-reduce with shrinker (#3849)
544   - Report fresh ids in transformations (#3856)
545   - Support OpNot bit instruction case (#3841)
546   - Return IR and transformation context after replay (#3846)
547
548v2020.5 2020-09-22
549 - General
550   - Enable building with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1 (#3490)
551   - Avoid using /MP4 for clang on windows. (#3662)
552   - Fix compiler error on macOS with XCode12. (#3836)
553 - Optimizer
554   - Preserve OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 through private-to-local pass (#3571)
555   - Preserve debug info in scalar replacement pass (#3461)
556   - Debug info preservation in loop-unroll pass (#3548)
557   - Preserve debug info in dead-insert-elim pass (#3652)
558   - Improve non-semantic instruction handling in the optimizer (#3693)
559   - Let ADCE pass check DebugScope (#3703)
560   - Add undef for inlined void function (#3720)
561   - Fix SSA-rewrite to remove DebugDeclare for variables without loads (#3719)
562   - Handle DebugScope in compact-ids pass (#3724)
563   - Add buffer oob check to bindless instrumentation (#3800)
564 - Validator
565   - Update OpenCL capabilities validation (#3149)
566   - Validator support for non-semantic clspv reflection (#3618)
567   - OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 DebugTypeArray with variable size (#3549)
568   - Only validation locations for appropriate execution models (#3656)
569   - Validate more OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 instructions (#3684)
570   - Allow DebugTypeTemplate for Type operand (#3702)
571   - spirv-val: Add Vulkan VUID labels to BuiltIn (#3756)
572   - Allow SPV_KHR_8bit_storage extension. (#3780)
573   - Validate SPIRV Version number when parsing binary header (#3834)
574 - Reduce
575   - Support reducing a specific function (#3774)
576 - Fuzz
577   - adds TransformationReplaceCopyObjectWithStoreLoad (#3567)
578   - adds TransformationReplaceCopyMemoryWithLoadStore (#3575)
579   - adds TransformationReplaceLoadStoreWithCopyMemory (#3586)
580   - Implement the OpOuterProduct linear algebra case (#3617)
581   - Pass to replace int operands with ints of opposite signedness (#3612)
582   - TransformationMoveInstructionDown (#3477)
583   - Add TransformationMakeVectorOperationDynamic (#3597)
584   - TransformationReplaceAddSubMulWithCarryingExtended (#3598)
585   - FuzzerPassPropagateInstructionsUp (#3478)
586   - add FuzzerPassAddCompositeInserts (#3606)
587   - Add inline function transformation (#3517)
588   - Transformation to replace the use of an irrelevant id (#3697)
589   - Add SPIRV_FUZZ_PROTOC_COMMAND (#3789)
590   - Add TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3773)
591   - Transformation to flatten conditional branch (#3667)
592   - Handle OpPhis in TransformationInlineFunction (#3833)
593   - Create synonym of int constant using a loop (#3790)
594   - Support dead blocks in TransformationAddSynonym (#3832)
595 - Linker
596
597v2020.4 2020-07-22
598 - General
599   - Changed variable names to be more descriptive (#3433)
600   - Add support to GPU-AV instrumentation for Task and Mesh shaders (#3512)
601   - Permit Simple and GLSL450 memory model in WEBGPU_0 (#3463)
602   - Support SPV_KHR_terminate_invocation (#3568)
603 - Optimizer
604   - Preserving debug information in optimizations
605     (#3389,#3420,#3425,#3356,#3459,#3444,#3492,#3451,#3497i,#3498,#3542)
606   - Eliminate branches with condition of OpConstantNull (#3438)
607   - Use structured order to unroll loops. (#3443)
608   - Updated desc_sroa to support flattening structures (#3448)
609   - Support OpCompositeExtract pattern in desc_sroa (#3456)
610   - Fix ADCE pass bug for mulitple entries (#3470)
611     - Sink pointer instructions in merge return (#3569)
612 - Validator
613   - Validate location assignments (#3308)
614     - Fix reachability in the validator (#3541)
615 - Reduce
616 - Fuzz
617   - Add support for OpSpecConstant* (#3373)
618   - Add replace linear algebra instruction transformation (#3402)
619   - Implement vector shuffle fuzzer pass (#3412)
620   - Swap operands in OpBranchConditional (#3423)
621   - Permute OpPhi instruction operands (#3421)
622   - Add FuzzerPassAddCopyMemoryInstructions (#3391)
623   - TransformationInvertComparisonOperator (#3475)
624   - Add variables with workgroup storage class (#3485)
625   - Add image sample unused components transformation (#3439)
626   - TransformationReplaceParameterWithGlobal (#3434)
627     - Support adding dead break from back-edge block (#3519)
628       - Fuzzer pass to interchange zero-like constants (#3524)
629 - Linker
630
631v2020.3 2020-05-27
632 - General
633   - Prevent Effcee from installing things when building spirv-tools with testing enabled (#3256)
634   - Update acorn version (#3294)
635   - If SPIRV-Headers is in our tree, include it as subproject (#3299)
636   - allow cross compiling for Windows Store, UWP, etc. (#3330)
637 - Optimizer
638   - Remove deprecated interfaces from instrument passes (#3361)
639   - Preserve debug info in inline pass (#3349)
640   - Handle more cases in dead member elim (#3289)
641   - Preserve debug info in eliminate-dead-functions (#3251)
642   - Fix Struct CFG analysis for single block loop (#3293)
643   - Add tests for recently added command line option (#3297)
644   - Consider sampled images as read-only storage (#3295)
645   - Allow various validation options to be passed to spirv-opt (#3314)
646   - Add debug information analysis (#3305)
647   - Preserve debug info for wrap-opkill (#3331)
648   - refactor inlining pass (#3328)
649   - Add unrolling to performance passes (#3082)
650 - Validator
651   - Add validation support for ImageGatherBiasLodAMD (#3363)
652   - Validate ShaderCallKHR memory scope (#3332)
653   - Validate Buffer and BufferBlock apply only to struct types (#3259)
654 - Reduce
655   - increase default step limit (#3327)
656   - Remove unused uniforms and similar (#3321)
657 - Fuzz
658   - Add support for StorageBuffer (#3348)
659   - Add validator options (#3254)
660   - Limit adding of new variables to 'basic' types (#3257)
661   - Transformation to add OpConstantNull (#3273)
662   - Handling of more fuzzing opportunities (#3277, #3280, #3281, #3290, #3292)
663   - Respect rules for OpSampledImage (#3287)
664   - Do not outline regions that produce pointer outputs (#3291)
665 - Linker
666
667v2020.2 2020-03-26
668 - General:
669   - Support extended instructions in the vscode language server
670   - Make spvOpcodeString part of the public API (#3174)
671   - Added guide to writing a spirv-fuzz fuzzer pass (#3190)
672   - Add support for KHR_ray_{query,tracing} extensions (#3235)
673 - Optimizer
674   - Debug Printf support (#3215)
675   - Add data structure for DebugScope, DebugDeclare in spirv-opt (#3183)
676   - Fix identification of Vulkan images and buffers (#3253)
677 - Validator
678   - Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_image_load_store_lod (#3186)
679   - Add validation rules for OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extension (#3133)
680   - Adding WebGPU specific Workgroup scope rule (#3204)
681   - Disallow phis of images, samplers and sampled images (#3246)
682 - Reduce
683 - Fuzz
684   - Fuzzer passes to add local and global variables (#3175)
685   - Add fuzzer passes to add loads/stores (#3176)
686   - Fuzzer pass to add function calls (#3178)
687   - Fuzzer pass that adds access chains (#3182)
688   - Fuzzer pass to add equation instructions (#3202)
689   - Add swap commutable operands transformation (#3205)
690   - Add fuzzer pass to permute function parameters (#3212)
691   - Allow OpPhi operand to be replaced with a composite synonym (#3221)
692 - Linker
693
694v2020.1 2020-02-03
695 - General:
696   - Add support for SPV_KHR_non_semantic_info (#3110)
697   - Support OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extended instruction set (#3080)
698   - Added support for Vulkan 1.2
699   - Add API function to better handle getting the necessary environment (#3142)
700   - Clarify mapping of target env to SPIR-V version (#3150)
701   - Implement constant folding for many transcendentals (#3166)
702 - Optimizer
703   - Change default version for CreatInstBindlessCheckPass to 2 (#3096, #3119)
704   - Better handling of OpLine on merge blocks (#3130)
705   - Use placeholder switch instead of placeholder loop in MergeReturn pass. (#3151)
706   - Handle TimeAMD in AmdExtensionToKhrPass. (#3168)
707 - Validator
708   - Fix structured exit validation (#3141)
709 - Reduce
710 - Fuzz
711   - Fuzzer pass to merge blocks (#3097)
712   - Transformation to add a new function to a module (#3114)
713   - Add fuzzer pass to perform module donation (#3117)
714   - Fuzzer passes to create and branch to new dead blocks (#3135)
715   - Fuzzer pass to add composite types (#3171)
716 - Linker:
717   - Remove names and decorations of imported symbols (#3081)
718
719v2019.5 2019-12-11
720 - General:
721   - Export SPIRV-Tools targets on installation
722   - SPIRV-Tools support for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2865)
723   - Add WebGPU SPIR-V Assembler in JavaScript. (#2876)
724   - Add Bazel build configuration. (#2891)
725   - Add support for building with emscripten (#2948)
726   - Update SPIR-V binary header test for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2967)
727   - Add fuzzer for spirv-as call path (#2976)
728   - Improved CMake install step. (#2963)
729   - Add fuzzer for spirv-dis call path (#2977)
730   - Ensure timestamp does not vary with timezone. (#2982)
731   - Add a vscode extension for SPIR-V disassembly files (#2987)
732   - Add iOS as a supported platform (#3001)
733   - utils/vscode: Add SPIR-V language server support
734   - Respect CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR in installed CMake files (#3054)
735   - Permit the debug instructions in WebGPU SPIR-V (#3063)
736   - Add support for Fuchsia. (#3062)
737 - Optimizer
738   - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742)
739   - Add pass to wrap OpKill in a function call (#2790)
740   - Fold FMix during constant folding. (#2818)
741   - Add pass to replace AMD shader ballot extension (#2811)
742   - Add pass to make Float32 operation relax precision (#2808)
743   - Add pass to make relax precision operation Float16 (#2808)
744   - Add pass to replace uses of 3 AMD extensions (#2814)
745   - Fold Min, Max, and Clamp instructions. (#2836)
746   - Better handling of OpKill in continues (#2842,#2922,#2933)
747   - Enable OpTypeCooperativeMatrix specialization (#2927)
748   - Support constant-folding UConvert and SConvert (#2960)
749   - Update Offset to ConstOffset bitmask if operand is constant. (#3024)
750   - Improve RegisterSizePasses (#3059)
751   - Folding: perform add and sub on mismatched integer types (#3084)
752   - Graphics robust access: use signed clamp (#3073)
753   Fixes:
754   - Instrument: Fix version 2 output record write for tess eval shaders. (#2782)
755   - Instrument: Add support for Buffer Device Address extension (#2792)
756   - Fix check for changed binary in API call. (#2798)
757   - For WebGPU<->Vulkan optimization, set correct execution environment (#2834)
758   - Handle OpConstantNull in copy-prop-arrays. (#2870)
759   - Use OpReturn* in wrap-opkill (#2886)
760 - Validator
761   - Add generic builtin validation of target (#2843)
762   - Extra resource interface validation (#2864)
763   - Adding valilidation checks for OpEntryPoint duplicate names and execution mode (#2862)
764   - Relaxed bitcast with pointers (#2878)
765   - Validate physical storage buffer restrictions (#2930)
766   - Add SPV_KHR_shader_clock validation (#2879, #3013)
767   - Validate that selections are structured (#2962)
768   - Disallow use of OpCompositeExtract/OpCompositeInsert with no indices (#2980)
769   - Check that derivatives operate on 32-bit values (#2983)
770   - Validate array stride does not cause overlap (#3028)
771   - Validate nested constructs (#3068)
772   Fixes:
773   - Fix validation of constant matrices (#2794)
774   - Update "remquor" validation
775   - Only allow previously declared forward refs in structs (#2920)
776 - Reduce
777   - Remove relaxed precision decorations (#2797)
778   - Reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932)
779   - Improve remove unref instr pass (#2945)
780   Fixes:
781 - Fuzz
782   - Fix add-dead-break and add-dead-continue passes to respect dominance (#2838)
783   - Add fuzzer pass to copy objects (#2853)
784   - Add fuzzer pass to replace ids with synonyms (#2857)
785   - Allow validation during spirv-fuzz replay (#2873)
786   - Employ the "swarm testing" idea in spirv-fuzz (#2890)
787   - reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932)
788   - option to convert shader into a form that renders red (#2934)
789   - Add fuzzer pass to change selection controls (#2944)
790   - add transformation and pass to construct composites (#2941)
791   - Add fuzzer pass to change loop controls (#2949)
792   - Add fuzzer pass to change function controls (#2951)
793   - Add fuzzer pass to add NoContraction decorations (#2950)
794   - Add missing functionality for matrix composites (#2974)
795   - Fuzzer pass to adjust memory access operands (#2968)
796   - Transformation to extract from a composite object (#2991)
797   - Vector shuffle transformation (#3015)
798   - Improve debugging facilities (#3074)
799   - Function outlining fuzzer pass (#3078)
800
801
802v2019.4 2019-08-08
803 - General:
804   - Memory model support for SPIR-V 1.4
805   - Add new spirv-fuzz tool
806   - Add option for base branch in check_code_format.sh
807   - Removed MarkV and Stats code. (#2576)
808   - Instrument: Add version 2 of record formats (#2630)
809   - Linker: Better type comparison for OpTypeArray and OpTypeForwardPointer (#2580)
810 - Optimizer
811   - Bindless Validation: Instrument descriptor-based loads and stores (#2583)
812   - Better folding for OpSpecConstantOp (#2585, #2614)
813   - Add in individual flags for Vulkan <-> WebGPU passes (#2615)
814   - Handle nested breaks from switches. (#2624)
815   - Optimizer: Handle array type with OpSpecConstantOp length (#2652)
816   - Perform merge return with single return in loop. (#2714)
817   - Add --preserve-bindings and --preserve-spec-constants (#2693)
818   - Remove Common Uniform Elimination Pass (#2731)
819   - Allow ray tracing shaders in inst bindle check pass. (#2733)
820   - Add pass to inject code for robust-buffer-access semantics (#2771)
821   - Treat access chain indexes as signed in SROA (#2776)
822   - Handle RelaxedPrecision in SROA (#2788)
823   - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742)
824   Fixes:
825   - Handle decorations better in some optimizations (#2716)
826   - Change the order branches are simplified in dead branch elim (#2728)
827   - Fix bug in merge return (#2734)
828   - SSA rewriter: Don't use trivial phis (#2757)
829   - Record correct dominators in merge return (#2760)
830   - Process OpDecorateId in ADCE (#2761)
831   - Fix check for unreachable blocks in merge-return (#2762)
832   - Handle out-of-bounds scalar replacements. (#2767)
833   - Don't move debug or decorations when folding (#2772)
834   - Protect against out-of-bounds references when folding OpCompositeExtract (#2774)
835 - Validator
836   - Validate loop merge (#2579)
837   - Validate construct exits (#2459)
838   - Validate OpenCL memory and addressing model environment rules (#2589)
839   - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpTypeImage (#2606)
840   - Allow breaks to switch merge from nested construct (#2604)
841   - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpImageWrite (#2619)
842   - Allow arrays of out per-primitive builtins for mesh shaders (#2617)
843   - Validate OpenCL rules for ImageRead and OpImageSampleExplicitLod (#2643)
844   - Add validation for SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock (#2650)
845   - Add builtin validation for SPV_NV_shader_sm_builtins (#2656)
846   - Add validation for Subgroup builtins (#2637)
847   - Validate variable initializer type (#2668)
848   - Disallow stores to UBOs (#2651)A
849   - Validate Volatile memory semantics bit (#2672)
850   - Basic validation for Component decorations (#2679)
851   - Validate that in OpenGL env block variables have Binding (#2685)
852   - Validate usage of 8- and 16-bit types with only storage capabilities (#2704)
853   - Add validation for SPV_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation (#2707)
854   - Extra small storage validation (#2732)
855   - For Vulkan, disallow structures containing opaque types (#2546)
856   - Validate storage class OpenCL environment rules for atomics (#2750)
857   - Update OpControlBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2769)
858   - Update OpMemoryBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2775)
859   - Update WebGPU validation rules of OpAtomic*s (#2777)
860   Fixes:
861   - Disallow merge targeting block with OpLoopMerge (#2610)
862   - Update vloadn and vstoren validation to match the OpenCL Extended
863     Instruction Set Specification (#2599)
864   - Update memory scope rules for WebGPU (#2725)
865   - Allow LOD ops in compute shaders with derivative group execution modes (#2752)
866 - Reduce
867   Fixes:
868
869v2019.3 2019-05-14
870 - General:
871   - Require Python 3 since Python 2 will out of service soon.
872   - Add a continuous test that does memory checks using the address sanitizer.
873   - Fix the build files so the SPIRV_USE_SANITIZER=address build works.
874   - Packaging top of tree build artifacts again.
875   - Added support for SPIR-V 1.4. (#2550)
876 - Optimizer
877   - Remove duplicates from list of interface IDs in OpEntryPoint instruction (#2449)
878   - Bindless Validation: Descriptor Initialization Check (#2419)
879   - Add option to validate after each pass (#2462)
880   - Add legalization pass to fix mismatched pointer (#2430, #2535)
881   - Add error messages when the input contains unknown instructions. (#2487)
882   - Add pass to convert from WebGPU Spir-V to Vulkan Spir-V and back. (#2495)
883   Fixes:
884   - #2412: Dead memeber elimination should not change input and output variables.
885   - #2405: Fix OpDot folding of half float vectors.
886   - #2391: Dead branch elim should not fold away back edges.
887   - #2441: Removing decorations when doing constant propagation.
888   - #2455: Maintain inst to block mapping in merge return.
889   - #2453: Fix merge return in the face of breaks.
890   - #2456: Handle dead infinite loops in DCE.
891   - #2458: Handle variable pointer in some optimizations.
892   - #2452: Fix dead branch elimination to handle unreachable blocks better.
893   - #2528: Fix undefined bit shift in sroa.
894   - #2539: Change implementation of post order CFG traversal.
895 - Validator
896   - Add validation of storage classes for WebGPU (#2446)
897   - Add validation for ExecutionMode in WebGPU (#2443)
898   - Implement WebGPU specific CFG validation (#2386)
899   - Allow NonWritable to target struct members. (#2420)
900   - Allow storage type mismatch for parameter in relaxed addressing mode.
901   - Allow non memory objects as parameter in relaxed addressing mode.
902   - Disallow nested Blocks and buffer blocks (#2410).
903   - Add validation for SPV_NV_cooperative_matrix (#2404)
904   - Add --strip-atomic-counter-memory (#2413)
905   - Check OpSampledImage is only passed into valid instructions (#2467)
906   - Handle function decls in Structured CFG analysis (#2474)
907   - Validate that OpUnreacahble is not statically reachable (#2473)
908   - Add pass to generate needed initializers for WebGPU (#2481)
909   - Allow images without format for OpenCL. (#2470)
910   - Remove unreachable block validation (#2525)
911   - Reduce runtime of array layout checks (#2534)
912   - Add validation specific to OpExecutionModeId (#2536)
913   - Validate sign of int types. (#2549)
914   - VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout validation (#2562)
915   Fixes:
916   - #2439: Add missing DepthGreater case to Fragment only check.
917   - #2168: Disallow BufferBlock on StorageBuffer variables for Vulkan.
918   - #2408: Restrict and Aliased decorations cannot be applied to the same id.
919   - #2447: Improve function call parameter check.
920 - Reduce
921   - Add Pass to remove unreferenced blocks. (#2398)
922   - Allows passing options to the validator. (#2401)
923   - Improve reducer algorithm and other changes (#2472)
924   - Add Pass to remove selections (#2485)
925   - Add passes to simplify branches (#2507)
926   Fixes:
927   - #2478: fix loop to selection pass for loops with combined header/continue block
928
929v2019.2 2019-02-20
930 - General:
931   - Support SPV_EXT_physical_storage_buffer
932   - A number of memory leak have been fixed.
933   - Removed use of deprecated Google test macro:
934   - Changed the BUILD.gn to only build tests in Chromium.
935 - Optimizer
936   - Upgrade memory model improvments for modf and frexp.
937   - Add a new pass to move loads closer to their uses: code sinking.
938   - Invalidating the type manager now invalidates the constnat manager.
939   - Expand instrumentation pass for bindless bounds checking to runtime-sized descriptor arrays.
940   - Add a new pass that removes members from structs that are not used: dead member elimination.
941   Fixes:
942   - #2292: Remove undefined behaviour when folding bit shifts.
943   - #2294: Fixes for instrumentation code.
944   - #2293: Fix overflow when folding -INT_MIN.
945   - #2374: Don't merge unreachable blocks when merging blocks.
946 - Validator
947   - Support SPV_KHR_no_integer_wrap and related decorations.
948   - Validate Vulkan rules for OpTypeRuntimeArray.
949   - Validate NonWritable decoration.
950   - Many WebGPU specific validation rules were added.
951   - Validate variable pointer related function call rules.
952   - Better error messages.
953   Fixes:
954   - #2307: Check forwards references in OpTypeArray.
955   - #2315, #2303: Fixed the layout check for relaxed layout.
956   - #1628: Emit an error when an OpSwitch target is not an OpLabel.
957 - Reduce
958   - Added more documentation for spirv-reduce.
959   - Add ability to remove OpPhi instructions.
960   - Add ability to merge two basic blocks.
961   - Add ability to remove unused functions and unused basic blocks.
962   Fixes:
963
964v2019.1 2019-01-07
965 - General:
966   - Created a new tool called spirv-reduce.
967   - Add cmake option to turn off SPIRV_TIMER_ENABLED (#2103)
968   - New optimization pass to update the memory model from GLSL450 to VulkanKHR.
969   - Recognize OpTypeAccelerationStructureNV as a type instruction and ray tracing storage classes.
970   - Fix GCC8 build.
971   - Add --target-env flag to spirv-opt.
972   - Add --webgpu-mode flag to run optimizations for webgpu.
973   - The output disassembled line number stead of byte offset in validation errors. (#2091)
974 - Optimizer
975   - Added the instrumentation passes for bindless validation.
976   - Added passes to help preserve OpLine information (#2027)
977   - Add basic support for EXT_fragment_invocation_density (#2100)
978   - Fix invalid OpPhi generated by merge-return. (#2172)
979   - Constant and type manager have been turned into analysies. (#2251)
980   Fixes:
981   - #2018: Don't inline functions with a return in a structured CFG contstruct.
982   - #2047: Fix bug in folding when volatile stores are present.
983   - #2053: Fix check for when folding floating pointer values is allowed.
984   - #2130: Don't inline recursive functions.
985   - #2202: Handle multiple edges between two basic blocks in SSA-rewriter.
986   - #2205: Don't unswitch a latch condition during loop unswitch.
987   - #2245: Don't fold branch in loop unswitch.  Run dead branch elimination to fold them.
988   - #2204: Fix eliminate common uniform to place OpPhi instructions correctly.
989   - #2247: Fix type mismatches caused by scalar replacement.
990   - #2248: Fix missing OpPhi after merge return.
991   - #2211: After merge return, fix invalid continue target.
992   - #2210: Fix loop invariant code motion to not place code between merge instruction and branch.
993   - #2258: Handle CompositeInsert with no indices in VDCE.
994   - #2261: Have replace load size handle extact with no index.
995 - Validator
996   - Changed the naming convention of outputing ids with names in diagnostic messages.
997   - Added validation rules for UniformConstant variables in Vulkan.
998   - #1949: Validate uniform variable type in Vulkan
999   - Ensure for OpVariable that result type and storage class operand agree (#2052)
1000   - Validator: Support VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout
1001   - Added Vulkan memory model semantics validation
1002   - Added validation checkes spefic to WebGPU environment.
1003   - Add support for VK_EXT_Transform_feedback capabilities (#2088)
1004   - Add validation for OpArrayLength. (#2117)
1005   - Ensure that function parameter's type is not void (#2118)
1006   - Validate pointer variables (#2111)
1007   - Add check for QueueFamilyKHMR memory scope (#2144)
1008   - Validate PushConstants annotation and type (#2140)
1009   - Allow Float16/Int8 for Vulkan 1.0 (#2153)
1010   - Check binding annotations in resource variables (#2151, #2167)
1011   - Validate OpForwardPointer (#2156)
1012   - Validate operation for OpSpecConstantOp (#2260)
1013   Fixes:
1014   - #2049: Allow InstanceId for NV ray tracing
1015 - Reduce
1016   - Initial commit wit a few passes to reduce test cases.
1017   - Validation is run after each reduction step.
1018   Fixes:
1019
1020
1021v2018.6 2018-11-07
1022 - General:
1023   - Added support for the Nvidia Turing and ray tracing extensions.
1024   - Make C++11 the CXX standard in CMakeLists.txt.
1025   - Enabled a parallel build for MSVC.
1026   - Enable pre-compiled headers for MSVC.
1027   - Added a code of conduct.
1028   - EFFCEE and RE2 are now required when build the tests.
1029 - Optimizer
1030   - Unrolling loops marked for unrolling in the legalization passes.
1031   - Improved the compile time of loop unrolling.
1032   - Changee merge-return to create a placeholder loop around the function.
1033   - Small improvement to merge-blocks to allow it to merge more often.
1034   - Enforce an upper bound for the ids, and add option to set it.
1035   - #1966: Report error if there are unreachable block before running merge return
1036   Fixes:
1037   - #1917: Allow 0 (meaning unlimited) as a parameter to --scalar-replacement
1038   - #1915: Improve handling of group decorations.
1039   - #1942: Fix incorrect uses of the constant manager.  Avoids type mismatches in generated code.
1040   - #1997: Fix dead branch elimination when there is a loop in folded selection.
1041   - #1991: Fixes legality check in if-conversion.
1042   - #1987: Add nullptr check to array copy propagation.
1043   - #1984: Better handling of OpUnreachable in ADCE.
1044   - #1983: Run merge return on reachable functions only.
1045   - #1956: Handled atomic operations in ADCE.
1046   - #1963: Fold integer divisions by 0 to 0.
1047   - #2019: Handle MemberDecorateStringGOOGLE in ADCE and strip reflect.
1048 - Validator
1049   - Added validation for OpGroupNonUniformBallotBitCount.
1050   - Added validation for the Vulkan memory model.
1051   - Added support for VK_KHR_shader_atddomic_int64.
1052   - Added validation for execution modes.
1053   - Added validation for runtime array layouts.
1054   - Added validation for 8-bit storage.
1055   - Added validation of OpPhi instructions with pointer result type.
1056   - Added checks for the Vulkan memory model.
1057   - Validate MakeTexelAvailableKHR and MakeTexelVisibleKHR
1058   - Allow atomic function pointer for OpenCL.
1059   - FPRounding mode checks were implemented.
1060   - Added validation for the id bound with an option to set the max id bound.
1061   Fixes:
1062   - #1882: Improve the validation of decorations to reduce memory usage.
1063   - #1891: Fix an potential infinite loop in dead-branch-elimination.
1064   - #1405: Validate the storage class of boolean objects.
1065   - #1880: Identify arrays of type void as invalid.
1066   - #487: Validate OpImageTexelPointer.
1067   - #1922: Validate OpPhi instructions are at the start of a block correctly.
1068   - #1923: Validate function scope variable are at the start of the entry block.
1069
1070v2018.5 2018-09-07
1071 - General:
1072   - Support SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model
1073   - Update Dim capabilities, to match SPIR-V 1.3 Rev 4
1074   - Automated build bots no run tests for the VS2013 case
1075   - Support Chromium GN build
1076   - Use Kokoro bots:
1077     - Disable Travis-CI bots
1078     - Disable AppVeyor VisualStudio Release builds. Keep VS 2017 Debug build
1079   - Don't check export symbols on OSX (Darwin): some installations don't have 'objdump'
1080   - Reorganize source files and namespaces
1081   - Fixes for ClangTidy, and whitespace (passes 'git cl presumit --all -uf')
1082   - Fix unused param compile warnings/errors when Effcee not present
1083   - Avoid including time headers when timer functionality is disabled
1084   - Avoid too-stringent warnings flags for Clang on Windows
1085   - Internal refactoring
1086   - Add hooks for automated fuzzing
1087   - Add testing of command line executables
1088   - #1688: Use binary mode on stdin; fixes "spirv-dis <foo.spv" on Windows
1089 - Optimizer
1090   - The optimizer validates the module before it begins
1091   - Add API to register passes by string name
1092   - Fold a vector shuffle feeding a vector shuffle
1093   - Add -combine-access-chains transform
1094   - Refactor how IRContext is handled by passes
1095   - Improve bookkeeping for instruction result type and result id
1096   - Fix over-duplication of decorations
1097   - Fix handling of exits from selections in dead-branch elimination, and dead code
1098     elimination.
1099   - Fix handling of certain kinds of flow control in merge-return
1100   Fixes:
1101   - #1721: Fix size bug when folding vector shuffles
1102   - #1722: Fix size infinite loop when folding vector shuffles
1103   - #1724: Fix finding a constant of a specific type
1104   - #1727: Dead branch elim: Reorder blocks if needed to satisfy dominance rule
1105   - #1729: Handle VariablePointers cases in various optimizations
1106   - #1731: Fix vector shuffle with literal id indicating undef value
1107   - #1736: Fix handling of decorations and phis in merge-return
1108   - #1787: Fix handling of decorations related to access chains
1109   - #1865: Avoid leaking memory for SPIR-V constant values
1110 - Validator
1111   - Improve error messages
1112   - Avoid platform-dependent traversal ordering, to ensure consistent messages
1113   - Use libspirv::Instruction where possible
1114   - Add option to skip all block layout checks
1115   - Validate all type IDs
1116   - Validate uses of OpFunction
1117   - Validate uses of OpTypeFunction
1118   - Disallow a struct containing its own type https://crbug.com/874372
1119   - #1685: Vulkan permits non-monotonic offsets for block members
1120   - #1697: Enforce block layout rules even when using relaxed block layout option
1121   - #1719: Fix line number for vector shuffle valiation error
1122   - #1789: Avoid assertion failure when validating some functions
1123   - #1800: Fix validation of OpCopyMemorySized
1124   - #1822: Stop enforcing struct member offset montonicity
1125   - #1831: Disallow void members in structs
1126
1127v2018.4 2018-07-08
1128 - General:
1129   - Support SPV_KHR_8bit_storage
1130   - Add gclient and presubmit configurations
1131   - Enable Kokoro build bots (#1625)
1132   - Group tests into fewer executables, reduces load on CI
1133   - Port test script to Python 3
1134   - Symbol export tests respect SPIRV_SKIP_TESTS
1135   - #1596: Operand lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
1136   - #1624: Instruction lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
1137   - Refactoring namespaces:
1138     - #1678: Change libspirv to spvtools
1139     - Code in source/utils moved into spvtools::utils
1140     - Code in source/comp moved into spvtools::comp
1141 - Optimizer:
1142   - Remove insert-extract-elim pass. Use simplification pass instead.
1143   - Preserve instruction-to-block mapping in most passes, to reduce runtime.
1144   - Small vector optimization for operands
1145   - Add pass to move Private variables to Function. Increase opportunity to optimize.
1146   - Fixes:
1147     #1120: Check static uses of entry point interfaces
1148     #1372: Avoid merging some structs, to preserve names for reflection
1149     #1577: Scalar replacement uses only undecorated types.
1150     #1578: Fix handling of forward-pointer types, and types embedding pointers
1151       to themselves.
1152     #1591: Inliner: Callee variable with initializer should have a store at the call site.
1153     #1634: Fix crash: Use type id in vector type lookup
1154     #1649: Fix assert in compact-ids pass
1155     Fix constant folder: ensure it uses the right type
1156     #1659: Folding rules added to IRContext. Avoids leak.
1157 - Validator
1158   - Add work-in-progress WebGPU environment. Disallows OpUndef
1159   - #670, #1581: Improve error messages; disassemble instruction
1160   - #491: Check structured switches
1161   - #937: Check layout rules for Block and BufferBlock in Uniform, StorageBuffer, PushConstant
1162   - #1281: Check invalid branches into structured constructs
1163   - #1522: Disallow array-of-arrays with DescriptorSets
1164   - #1577: Allow duplicate pointer types.
1165   - #1581: Better messages: output ID names along with numbers in more cases.
1166   - #1597: Check Vulkan 1.1 capabilities
1167   - #1618: Check invalid exit from structured case construct
1168   - #1622: Run IdPass before DataRulesPass
1169   - #1632: Reduce test time by artificially lowering limits in limit test
1170   - #1638: Block-decorated structs member order must respect offset order
1171   - #1657: Improve CFG validation diagnostics
1172   - Khronos SPIR-V #337: GLSL.std.450 Refract instruction Eta param can be any float scalar.
1173   - #1606: PushConstant Blocks follow storage-buffer layout rules
1174   - #1664: Check layout of StorageBuffer variables with Block decoration, using storage buffer
1175     rules
1176   - #1666: Layout validation should permit {vec3; float} packing
1177   - #1637, #1668: Layout validation uses RowMajor, ArrayStride, MatrixStride properly
1178 - Linker
1179   - Avoid buffer overrun when creating OpModuleProcessed
1180
1181v2018.3 2018-05-25
1182 - General:
1183   - Support SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing
1184   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string
1185   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
1186   - Support SPV_NV_shader_subgroup_partitioned
1187   - Use "unified1" grammar from SPIRV-Headers
1188   - Simplify support for new extensions. Assembler, disassembler, and simple validation
1189     support is automatic if new tokens are introduced with appropriate extension
1190     attributes in the "unified1" SPIR-V core grammar.
1191   - Disassembler: Emit more digits on floating point, to reliably reproduce all
1192     significand bits.  (Use std::max_digits10 instead of std::digits10)
1193   - Fix compilation for old XCode versions: Explicit construction required for std::set.
1194 - Optimizer:
1195   - Add --strip-reflect
1196   - Add --time-report
1197   - Add --loop-fission
1198   - Add lop fusion.
1199   - Add loop peeling pass and internal utility.
1200   - Improve optimizer runtime.
1201   - Merge-return now works with structured control flow.
1202   - New (faster) SSA rewriter to convert local loads and stores to SSA IDs and phis.
1203     Can replace load/store elimination passes.
1204   - Fix instruction folding case: insertion that feeds and extract, when the extract
1205     remains.
1206   - Fold OpDot.
1207   - Fold OpFNegate.
1208   - Fold multply and divide of same value.
1209   - Fold FClamp feeding a compare.
1210   - Fold OpLoad feeding an extract, to reduce excessive copying. (#1547)
1211   - Fold Fmix feeding an extract.
1212   - Use simplification pass instead of insert-extract elimination.
1213   - Constant fold OpVectorTimesScalar.
1214   - Copy propagate arrays, in simple cases.
1215   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Can remove more instructions, e.g. derivatives.
1216   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove Workgroup variables that are written but not read.
1217   - Better handling of OpImageTexelPointer
1218   - Initial utilities for scalar evolution.
1219   - Add Vector dead code elimination.
1220   - Each pass can only run once.
1221   - Allow code hosting in if-conversion.
1222   - Add external interface for adding a PassToken, so external code can make their own
1223     passes.
1224   - Fixes:
1225     #1404: Don't optimize away the compute compute workgroup size constant.
1226     #1407: Remove a bad assertion
1227     #1456: Fix bug in SSA rewriter related to variables updated in loops.
1228     #1487: Fix long runtime in Dead insertion elimination: Don't revist select phi nodes.
1229     #1492: Aggressive dead code elimination can remove OpDecorateStringGOOGLE.
1230     #1527: Fix inlining of functions having OpKill and OpUnreachable.
1231     #1559: Fix assert failure in reduce-load-size pass.
1232     #1556: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix handling of OpCopyMemory.
1233 - Validator:
1234   - Check Vulkan built-in variables
1235   - Check Vulkan-specific atomic result type rule.
1236   - Relax control barrier check for SPIR-V 1.3.  Fixes #1427
1237   - Check OpPhi.
1238   - Check OpMemoryModel.
1239   - Stop checking sizes derived from spec-constants.
1240   - Re-enable checks for OpUConvert.
1241   - Vulkan: Fix check for PrimitiveId: Permit as Input in fragment shader.
1242   - Validate binary version for the given target environment.
1243   - Add tests for OpBranch checks.
1244   - Vulkan 1.1: Check scope for non-uniform subgroup operations.
1245   - Fix checks for SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16.
1246   - Fix logical layout check for OpDecorateId.
1247   - Fix checks for ViewportIndex & Layer for Vulkan and SPV_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer.
1248   - Fixes:
1249     #1470: Vulkan: Don't restrict WorkgroupSize to Input storage class.
1250     #1469: Vulkan: Permit Subgroup memory scope for Vulkan 1.1.
1251     #1472: Per-vertex variable validation fixes.
1252     #1483: Valdiate barrier execution scopes for Vulkan 1.1.
1253 - Fixes:
1254   #898: Linker properly removes FuncParamAttr from imported symbols.
1255   #924, #1174: Fix handling of decoration groups in optimizer, linker.
1256
1257v2018.2 2018-03-07
1258 - General:
1259   - Support SPIR-V 1.3 and Vulkan 1.1.
1260     - Default target environment is now SPIR-V 1.3.  For command-line tools,
1261       use the --target-env option to override the default.  Examples:
1262	  # Generate a SPIR-V 1.0 binary instead of SPIR-V 1.3
1263	  spirv-as --target-env spv1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
1264	  spirv-as --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
1265	  # Validate as Vulkan 1.0
1266	  spirv-val --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spv
1267   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string and SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
1268 - Fixes:
1269   - Fix Android.mk build. Compilation was failing due to missing definitions of
1270     SpvCapabilityFloat16ImageAMD and other enumerated values.
1271   - Optimizer: Avoid generating duplicate names when merging types.
1272   - #1375: Validator: SPV_AMD_gpu_shaer_half_float implicitly allows declaration
1273     of the 16-bit floating point type.
1274   - #1376: Optimizer: Avoid folding half-precision float.
1275
1276v2018.1 2018-03-02
1277 - General:
1278   - Support Visual Studio 2013 again. (Continue support for VS 2015 and VS 2017.)
1279   - Support building SPIRV-Tools as a shared library.
1280   - Improve the HLSL legalization optimization recipe. #1311
1281 - Optimizer:
1282   - General speedups.
1283   - Remove generic dead code elimination functionality from transforms:
1284       --eliminate-local-single-block
1285       --eliminate-local-single-store
1286       --eliminate-local-multi-store
1287     To recover the previous behaviour, a recipe using those transforms should now
1288     also invoke the --eliminate-dead-code-aggressive transform.
1289   - Improve folding, including coverage for floating point, OpSelect, and arithmetic
1290     with non-trivial constant operands.
1291   - Add loop-invariant code motion pass.
1292   - Add loop-unrolling pass, for honouring unroll hits.
1293   - Add loop-unswitch pass.
1294   - Add instruction simplification pass.
1295   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Understands capability hierarchy when finding
1296     instructions it can eliminate (combinators). (PR #1268)
1297   - CCP can now fold floating point arithmetic. #1311
1298 - Validator:
1299   - Validate barrier instructions.
1300   - Check Vulkan-specific rules for atomics.
1301   - Check Vulkan prohibition of Location or Component decorations on BuiltIn variables.
1302 - Linker:
1303   - Add --verify-ids option
1304   - Add option to allow a resulting module to be partially linked.
1305   - Handle OpModuleProcessed (instructions in SPIR-V layout section 7c)
1306 - Fixes:
1307   - #1265: Optimizer: Fix use-after free bug in if-conversion. (Fix object lifecycle bug
1308     in type manager.)
1309   - #1282: Fix new warnings found by GCC 8.0.1.
1310   - #1285: Optimizer: Fix random failures during inlining.  (Dangling references in DefUseManager)
1311   - #1295: Optimizer: Fix incorrect handling of Phi nodes in CCP.
1312   - #1300: Fix CCP: avoid bad CCP transitions and unsettled values.
1313   - #1304: Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
1314   - #1323: Fix folding of an insert composite feeding a composite extract.
1315   - #1339: Fix CCP: Handle OpConstantNull boolean values as conditions.
1316   - #1341: DCEInst: Keep atomic instructions (and some others with side effects).
1317   - #1354: Don't fold integer division.
1318   - #1357: Support OpConstantNull in folding.
1319   - #1361: CCP: Fix handling of non-constant module-scope values
1320
1321v2018.0 2018-02-02
1322 - General
1323   - VisualStudio 2013 is no longer supported.  VisualStudio 2015 is supported.
1324   - Use "include/unified1" directory from SPIRV-Headers.  Requires recent SPIRV-Headers source.
1325 - Disassembler: spirv-dis adds --color option to force color disassembly.
1326 - Optimizer:
1327   - Add pass to eliminate dead insertions.
1328   - Aggressive dead code elimination now removes OpSwitch constructs.
1329   - Block merging occurs in more cases.
1330   - Add driver workaround transform: replace OpUnreachable with harmless branch to merge.
1331   - Improve instruction folding framework.
1332   - Add loop analysis.
1333   - Add scalar replacement of aggregates to size-optimization recipe.
1334   - Add pass to replace instructions invalid for a shader stage, with a harmless value.
1335     This changes the semantics of the program!  Not for general use!
1336   - Rearragne and add passes to performance-optimization recipe, to produce better results.
1337 - Validator:
1338   - Validate OpenCL extended instructions.
1339   - Shaders can't perform atomics on floats.
1340   - Validate memory semantics values in atomics.
1341   - Validate instruction-adjacency constraints, e.g. OpPhi predecessors, merge instructions
1342     immediately precede branches.
1343 - Fixes:
1344   - PR 1198: Optimizer: Fix CCP in presence of matrix constants.
1345   - #1199: Optimizer: Fix CCP: don't propagate spec constants.
1346   - #1203: Optimizer: Fix common uniform elim bug introduced by refactoring.
1347   - #1210: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix 'break' identification.
1348   - #1212: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was skipping too many instructions.
1349   - #1214: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix infinite loop.
1350   - #1228: Optimizer: Fix CCP: Handling of varying Phi nodes; was resulting in infinite loop.
1351   - #1245: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid a null pointer dereference.
1352   - #1250: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid spuriously reporting a change.
1353
1354v2017.3 2018-01-12
1355 - General:
1356   - Support DebugInfo extended instruction set, targeted at OpenCL environments.
1357     See the SPIR-V Registry.
1358   - Generate a SPIRV-Tools.pc file for pkg-config.
1359 - Optimizer:
1360   - Progress for legalization of code generated from HLSL (issue #1118):
1361     - Add --legalize-hlsl option to run transforms used to transform intermediate
1362       code generated by HLSL to SPIR-V for Vulkan compilers.  Those compilers
1363       normally run these transforms automatically.  This option is used for developing
1364       those transforms.
1365     - Add Private-to-Function variable conversion for modules with logical
1366       addressing.
1367   - Add --ccp: SSA Conditional Constant Propagation (CCP)
1368   - Add --print-all to show disassembly for each optimization pass.
1369   - Internal: Add loop descriptors and post-order tree iterator.
1370   - Generalized dead branch elimination
1371   - Aggressive dead code elimination (ADCE) now removes dead functions and
1372     module-scope variables.
1373   - Vector extract/insert elimination now optimizes through some cases of
1374     VectorShuffle, and GLSL.std.450 Mix extended instruction.
1375 - Validator:
1376   - Add validation for GLSL.std.450 extended instruction set.
1377   - Check out of bounds composite accesses, where that's statically computable.
1378     Fixes #1112.
1379   - Check upper bits of literal numbers that aren't a multiple of 32-bits wide.
1380   - More validation of primitive instructions
1381   - Add optional "relaxed" checking logical addressing mode to permit some
1382     cases of pointer-to-pointer.  Contributes to HLSL legalization (issue #1118).
1383 - Fixes:
1384   #1100: Validator: Image operand Sample can be used with OpImageSparseFetch,
1385     OpImageSparseRead.
1386   #1108: Remove duplicates transform was incorrectly removing non-duplicate
1387     decorations.
1388   #1111: Optimizer's type manager could reference deleted memory.
1389   #1112: Fix decoration equality check, e.g. it is now symmetric.
1390   #1129: Validator now disallows Dim=SupbassData for OpImageSparseRead.
1391   #1143: Fix CCP: Was generating incorrect code for loops.
1392   #1153: Fix CCP crash.
1393   #1154: Optimizer's internal instruction-to-block mappings were sometimes
1394       inconsistent.
1395   #1159: Fix CCP infinite loop.
1396   #1168: Fix dead branch elimination intermittently generating incorrect code.
1397       Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/1205
1398   #1186: Fix validation of PackDouble2x32 and UnpackDouble2x32
1399
1400v2017.2 2017-12-15
1401 - General:
1402   - Support OpenCL 1.2, 2.0 target environments, including embedded profiles
1403   - Add CONTRIBUTING.md
1404   - Fix exit status code for spirv-link
1405   - Disassember: Enable emitting ANSI colour codes to a string
1406   - Library avoids polluting global namespace.  The libraries can export C and C++
1407     symbols starting with "spv", or in a C++ namespace.  Add a test for this.
1408   - Linux release builds include debug information, for easier profiling
1409   - Build bots no longer test VisualStudio 2013
1410     - Testing dependency RE2 requires VisualStudio 2015 or later
1411   - Build bots check code formatting
1412 - Optimizer:
1413   - Add --skip-validation to spirv-opt
1414   - Add dominance tree analysis
1415   - Add generic value propagation engine
1416   - Add global redundancy elimination within a function
1417   - Add scalar replacement of function-scope variables of composite type
1418   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove empty loops
1419   - Killing an instruction notifies the IRContext
1420   - IRContext::KillInst deletes the instruction
1421   - Move CFG analysis to IRContext
1422   - Add constant manager
1423   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
1424   - Fix: Don't delete an instruction twice in local dead-code-elimination
1425   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
1426 - Validator:
1427   - Finish checking of image instructions (Section 3.32.10)
1428     - Check sparse image instructions
1429     - Check OpTypeImage, OpTypeSampleImage
1430   - Check composite instructions (Section 3.32.12)
1431   - Check atomic instructions (Section 3.32.18)
1432   - Check OpEmitStreamVertex, OpEndStreamPrimitive instructions
1433   - Re-enable validation of OpCopyObject
1434   - OpKill, image ImplicitLod and QueryLod instructions can only be used in Fragment
1435     shaders.
1436   - Fixes for image instruction validation:
1437     - Lod image operand only usable with ExplicitLod and OpImageFetch
1438     - ExplicitLod Lod image operand must be float scalar
1439     - OpImageFectch Lod image operand must be int scalar
1440     - OpImageGather component operand must be 32-bits (integer scalar)
1441     - OpImageQuerySizeLod Lod must be integer scalar
1442 - Fixes:
1443   #622: Remove names and decorations when inlining
1444   #989: Aggressive dead code elim: Don't optimize away live breaks from a loop
1445   #991: Fix validation of SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
1446   #1004: Use after free of an instruction, in remove-duplicates transform
1447   #1007: OpImageRead not required to return 4-component vector
1448   #1009: OpImageRead can return scalar int/float types
1449   #1011: OpImageWrite should allow scalar int/float texel types
1450   #1012: Fix validat Dref type check
1451   #1017: Load-store elimination considers variable initializations
1452   #1034: Fix Windows debug build: operator< should be a weak ordering
1453   #1083: Inlining: Set parent (function) for each inlined basic block.
1454   #1075: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was leaving dangling references to
1455     removed blocks.
1456
1457v2017.1 2017-11-23
1458 - Update README with details on the public_spirv_tools_dev@khronos.org mailing list.
1459 - General:
1460   - Automatically deploy built artifacts to GitHub Releases
1461   - Add a Linker (module combiner). Under development.
1462   - Add Android.mk for Android NDK builds.
1463   - Add the 'effcee' library as an optional dependency for use in tests.
1464     Eventually it will be a required dependency, once downstream projects have
1465     a chance to adjust.  Requires 're2' library.
1466   - Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
1467   - Hack around bugs in gcc-4.8.1 template handling
1468   - Faster opcode lookup
1469 - Validator:
1470   - Recognize extensions listed on SPIR-V registry,
1471     through #25 SPV_AMD_shader_fragment_mask
1472   - Validator issues an info message when it sees an unrecognized extension.
1473   - Type check basic arithmetic operations
1474   - Type check carry/extended arithmetic operations
1475   - Type check vector arithmetic operations
1476   - Type check Relational and Logical instructions
1477   - Type check Bit instructions
1478   - Check type uniqueness rules
1479   - Check conversion instructions
1480   - Check image instructions
1481   - Check derivative instructions
1482   - Check OpVectorShuffle
1483   - Check OpBranchConditional
1484   - OpModuleProcessed is only allowed after debug names section and before annotations
1485     section.
1486   - Checks the right kind of return is called for each function (void or non-void).
1487   - Add option to relax type check when storing structs (--relax-store-struct)
1488 - Optimizer:
1489   - Refactoring internal representation of the module, including:
1490     - IRContext: owns a module and manages analyses
1491     - Instructions are owned by intrusive lists, and have unique IDs
1492     - BasicBlock owns its instruction list.
1493     - DefUseManager: change representation of uses, for faster processing
1494       on large modules.
1495   - Add high level recipes: -O, -Os, and -Oconfig
1496     Recipes for -O and -Os are under development.
1497   - Add eliminate-dead-function transform
1498   - Add strength reduction transform: For now, convert multiply by power of 2
1499     to a bit shift.
1500   - Add CFG cleanup transform
1501   - Add removal of dead module-scope variables
1502   - Add merge-return transform for modules without structured control flow
1503   - Add redundancy elimination within a basic block (local value numbering)
1504   - Extract-insert elimination:
1505     - Recognize the case where the first instruction in the sequence is an
1506       OpCompositeConstruct or OpConstantComposite
1507     - Handle some cases of nested structs
1508   - Dead branch elimination now can eliminate entire selection constructs
1509     when all arms are dead.
1510 - Compressing codec:
1511   - Updated algorithm to 1.01, 1.02, 1.03
1512   - Not built by default.  Use -DSPIRV_BUILD_COMPRESSION=ON to build.
1513   - Codec can be parameterized by a customized model.
1514 - Fixes:
1515   #728: Fix decoration of inlined functions
1516   #798: spirv-as should fail when given unrecognized long option
1517   #800: Inliner: Fix inlining function into header of multi-block loop
1518   #824: Eliminate-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
1519   #826: Elimiante-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
1520   #827: Fix crash when compact-ids transform runs before another transform.
1521   #834: Add Cmake option to build the compressing codec. Off by default.
1522   #911: Fix classification of Line and NoLine instructions
1523
1524v2017.0 2017-09-01
1525 - Update README to describe that assembler, disassembler, and binary parser support
1526   are based on grammar files from the SPIRV-Headers repository.
1527
1528v2016.7 2017-09-01
1529 - Add SPIR-V 1.2
1530 - OpenCL 2.2 support is now based on SPIR-V 1.2
1531 - Support AMD extensions in assembler, disassembler:
1532    SPV_AMD_gcn_shader
1533    SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
1534    SPV_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter
1535    SPV_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax
1536    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float
1537    SPV_AMD_texture_gather_bias_lod
1538    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16
1539 - Optimizer: Add support for:
1540   - Inline all function calls in entry points.
1541   - Flatten decoration groups.  Fixes #602
1542   - Id compaction (minimize Id bound).  Fixes #624
1543   - Eliminate redundant composite insert followed by extract
1544   - Simplify access chains to local variables
1545   - Eliminate local variables with a single store, if possible
1546   - Eliminate local variables with a several stores, if possible
1547   - Eliminate loads and stores in same block to local variables
1548   - Eliminate redundant insert/extract to composite values
1549   - Aggressive dead instruction elimination
1550   - Eliminate dead branches
1551   - Merge blocks when the second can only be preceded by the first
1552   - Eliminate ommon uniform loads
1553 - Assembler: Add option to preserve numeric ids. Fixes #625
1554 - Add build target spirv-tools-vimsyntax to generate spvasm.vim, a SPIR-V
1555   assembly syntax file for Vim.
1556 - Version string: Allow overriding of wall clock timestamp with contents
1557   of environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
1558 - Validator implements relaxed rules for SPV_KHR_16bit_storage.
1559 - CMake installation rules use GNUInstallDirs.  For example, libraries
1560   will be installed into a lib64 directory if that's the norm for the
1561   current system.
1562 - Fixes:
1563   #500: Parameterize validator limit checks
1564   #508: Support compilation under CYGWIN
1565   #517: Fix validation when continue (or case) contstruct is also the head of a
1566     nested control construct.
1567   #551: If a merge block is reachable, it must be *strictly* dominated by its
1568     header.
1569   #548: Validator: Error when the reserved OpImageSparseSampleProj* opcodes
1570     are used.
1571   #611: spvtools::Optimizer was failing to save the module to the output
1572     binary vector when all passes succeded without changes.
1573   #629: The inline-entry-points-all optimization could generate invalidly
1574     structured code when the inlined function had early returns.
1575   #697: Optimizer's Instruction::ForEachInId method was skipping semantics-id
1576     and scope-id.
1577   #755: Inliner: Fix inlining of callee with single Return appearing before
1578     the end of the function.
1579   #776: Fix dead branch elimination in presence of complex but dead control
1580     flow.
1581   #781: SPV_KHR_variable_pointers allows duplicate pointer types
1582   #782: Inliner: Fix remapping of non-label forward references in callee
1583   #787: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when called from
1584     single block loop.
1585   #790: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when callee has
1586     multiple returns.
1587
1588v2016.6 2016-12-13
1589 - Published the C++ interface for assembling, disassembling, validation, and
1590   optimization.
1591 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_draw_parameters in assembler, disassembler, parser.
1592 - Validator:
1593   - Add validator API accepting raw binary words
1594   - Increased coverage:
1595     - Checks "Data rules" in Universal Validation Rules, section 2.16.1
1596     - WIP: Universal Limits.
1597       - The minimum mandated upper bounds are checked.
1598       - TODO: Parameterize the validator to allow larger limits accepted by
1599         a more than minimally capable implementation.
1600   - OpSampledImage checks
1601   - OpConstantComposite checks
1602   - Id bound check
1603 - Disasssembler:
1604   - Generates friendly GLSL-based names for more builtin variables
1605   - Generates friendly names for numeric OpConstant values
1606   - Vendor tool info extracted from SPIR-V XML registry file.
1607 - Fixes issues:
1608   #429: Validator: Allow OpTypeForwardPointer and OpTypeStruct to reference
1609     undefined IDs
1610   #482: Validator: OpVariable initializer can be an ID of a module-scope variable
1611
1612v2016.5 2016-09-16
1613 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_ballot in assembler, disassembler, parser.
1614 - Disassembler: Generate friendly names for built-in variables.
1615 - Partial fixes:
1616   #359: Add Emacs helper for automatically diassembling/assembling a SPIR-V
1617     binary on file load/save.
1618 - Fixes:
1619   #414: Validator: Allow OpUndef for composite constants
1620   #415: Validator: Phi can use its own value in some cases.
1621
1622v2016.4 2016-09-01
1623 - Relicensed under Apache 2.0
1624 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
1625   - Fold spec constants defined with OpSpecConstantOp and
1626       OpSpecConstantComposite to normal constants with fixed value(s).
1627 - Fixes issues:
1628   #318: Relicensed under Apache 2.0
1629
1630v2016.3 2016-08-24
1631 - Add target environment enums for OpenCL 2.1, OpenCL 2.2,
1632   OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL 4.1, OpenGL 4.2, OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL 4.5.
1633 - Add spirv-cfg, an experimental tool to dump the control flow graph
1634   as a GraphiViz "dot" graph
1635 - Add optimization pass: Eliminate dead constants.
1636 - Add spirv-lesspipe.sh filter utility
1637 - Fixes issues:
1638   #288: Check def-use dominance rules for OpPhi (variable,parent) operands
1639   #339: Allow OpUndef in types-constants-global-vars section, as required
1640     by SPIR-V 1.0 Rev7, 1.1 Rev 3.
1641   #340: Avoid race on mkdir during build
1642   #365: Relax PointSize, ClipDistance, CullDistance capability check in all
1643     environments not just Vulkan 1.0.
1644
1645v2016.2 2016-08-05
1646 - Validator is incomplete
1647   - Checks ID use block is dominated by definition block
1648 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
1649   - Strip debug info instructions
1650   - Freeze spec constant to their default values
1651 - Allow INotEqual as operation for OpSpecConstantOp
1652 - Fixes bugs:
1653   #270: validator: crash when continue construct is unreachable
1654   #279: validator: infinite loop when analyzing some degenerate control
1655     flow graphs
1656   #286: validator: don't incorrectly generate def-use error for
1657         (variable,parent) parameters to OpPhi
1658   #290: disassembler: never generate bare % for an identifier
1659   #295: validator: def-use dominance check should ignore unreachable uses
1660   #276: validator: allow unreachable continue constructs
1661   #297: validator: allow an unreachable block to branch to a reachable
1662         merge block
1663
1664v2016.1 2016-07-19
1665 - Fix https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/261
1666   Turn off ClipDistance and CullDistance capability checks for Vulkan.
1667 - The disassembler can emit friendly names based on debug info (OpName
1668   instructions), and will infer somewhat friendly names for most types.
1669   This is turned on by default for the spirv-dis command line tool.
1670 - Updated to support SPIR-V 1.1 rev 2
1671   - Input StorageClass, Sampled1D capability, and SampledBuffer capability
1672     do not require Shader capability anymore.
1673
1674v2016.0 2016-07-04
1675
1676 - Adds v<year>.<index> versioning, with "-dev" indicating
1677   work in progress.  The intent is to more easly report
1678   and summarize functionality when SPIRV-Tools is incorporated
1679   in downstream projects.
1680
1681 - Summary of functionality (See the README.md for more):
1682   - Supports SPIR-V 1.1 Rev 1
1683   - Supports SPIR-V 1.0 Rev 5
1684   - Supports GLSL std450 extended instructions 1.0 Rev 3
1685   - Supports OpenCL extended instructions 1.0 Rev 2
1686   - Assembler, disassembler are complete
1687     - Supports floating point widths of 16, 32, 64 bits
1688     - Supports integer widths up to 64 bits
1689   - Validator is incomplete
1690     - Checks capability requirements in most cases
1691     - Checks module layout constraints
1692     - Checks ID use-definition ordering constraints,
1693       ignoring control flow
1694     - Checks some control flow graph rules
1695   - Optimizer is introduced, with few available transforms.
1696   - Supported on Linux, OSX, Android, Windows
1697
1698 - Fixes bugs:
1699   - #143: OpenCL pow and pown arguments
1700