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@github-actions github-actions released this 10 Jul 13:18

This release focused on a comprehensive code modernization across the entire codebase. The release pipeline was completely overhauled for improved reliability and automation.

Rendering

  • Fixed material database assignment edge cases.
  • Improved shader caching for better performance.
  • Improved glTF loading performance.
  • Various rendering performance improvements.

Code Modernization

  • Converted runtime imports to type-only imports (import type) across the entire codebase for improved tree-shaking and bundle optimization.
  • Cleaned up and modernized the codebase including removal of unused Three.js objects and skinning code.
  • Updated Vite and other build tooling.
  • Updated axios and other package dependencies.

Performance

  • Performance improvements for drawing tools geometry state handling, including optimized index array generation.
  • Performance improvements in geometry math management, reusing scratch vectors to avoid per-frame allocation.
  • Added performance evaluator improvements.
  • Scene tree manager cleanup and optimization.

Interaction / Drawing Tools

  • Performance improvements for drawing tools, especially in geometry and restriction handling.
  • Improved constraint calculation with scratch vector reuse in hot paths.

CI / Release Pipeline

  • Complete overhaul of the release pipeline with new GitHub Actions workflows for testing, building, deploying, and publishing.
  • Implemented automated version management with compute-version.ts and version-packages.ts.
  • Added S3 deployment scripts for examples and test artifacts.
  • Added npm and GitHub publishing scripts.
  • Added CDN smoke testing.
  • Added Gitleaks security scanning integration.
  • Added Slack integration for CI notifications.
  • Added mandatory release notes enforcement for public releases.
  • Streamlined the release process with refined failure handling.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a race condition in session/rendering workflows.
  • Fixed interaction package exports and settings package imports.
  • Fixed constant scene tree update triggers.
  • Fixed directional light update propagation.
  • Fixed tree node assignment issues.

General

  • Package updates across all dependencies.
  • test infrastructure improvements, including nightly full test runs and test performance fixes.
  • Viewer Examples integration updates.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shapediver/Viewer/compare/viewer@3.18.0...viewer@3.19.0