CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

hal-0.4.0 (TODO)

• all strongly typed HAL wrappers are removed
• alternative swapchain model built into Surface

hal-0.3.0 (08-08-2019)

• graphics pipeline state refactor
• no winit feature by default
• events support
• more device limits are exposed
• Vulkan: fixed swapchain ranges, stencil dynamic states
• DX12: "readonly" storage support
• Metal: argument buffer support, real immutable samplers
• GL: compute shaders, new memory model, WebGL support, lots of other goodies

backend-dx12-0.2.4 (02-08-2019)

• optimize shader visibility of descriptors

backend-dx12-0.2.3, backend-metal-0.2.4 (01-08-2019)

• fix exposed MSAA capabilities and resolves

backend-dx12-0.2.2 (29-07-2019)

• fix image view creation panics

backend-backend-metal-0.2.3 (10-07-2019)

• fixed depth clip mode support, updates spirv-cross

backend-dx11-0.2.1, backend-dx12-0.2.1, backend-metal-0.2.2, backend-empty-0.2.1 (28-06-2019)

• Debug implementations for Instance

backend-vulkan-0.2.2 (14-06-2019)

• allow building on macOS for Vulkan Portability

backend-metal-0.2.1 (14-06-2019)

• fixed memory leaks in render pass descriptors and function strings

hal-0.2.1 (10-06-2019)

• Debug implementations

backend-vulkan-0.2.1 (23-05-2019)

• fix VK_EXT_debug_utils check at startup

hal-0.2.0 (10-05-2019)

• pipeline cache support
• rich presentation errors
• nicer specialization constants
• Debug implementations
• consistent format names
• more limits
• surface alpha composition properties
• descriptor pool create flags
• removal of FrameSync

backend-dx11-0.1.1 (05-03-2019)

• fixed buffer bind flags
• synchronization of disjoint CB across copy operations
• depth texture views

backend-dx12-0.1.2 (04-03-2019)

• typeless formats for textures
• fixed vertex buffer binding
• fixed non-array views of array textures

backend-metal-0.1.1 (21-02-2019)

• secondary command buffers
• multiple iOS fixes
• fixed surface dimensions

backend-dx12-0.1.1 (04-02-2019)

• get_fence_status

backend-empty-0.1.0 (04-02-2019)

• dummy surface creation

hal-0.1.0 (27-12-2018)

• gfx-hal: graphics hardware abstraction layer
• gfx-backend-*: Vulkan, D3D12, D3D11, Metal, and GL
• range-alloc: helper struct to manage ranges
• unsafe qualifiers on all the API methods
• non-clonable command buffers and resources