What's New in Molten

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Molten 0.16.0

Released 2017/02/20

MoltenVK

• Support extensions VK_MVK_ios_surface and VK_MVK_macos_surface embedded in vulkan.h file.
• Replace the vk_mvk_ios_surface.h and vk_mvk_macos_surface.h header files with a single mvk_vulkan.h header file.
• Rename vk_mvk_datatypes.h header file to mvk_datatypes.h.
• Update to latest LunarG samples and demos.
• Fix to Hologram demo to use radians instead of degrees.

Molten 0.15.1

Released 2017/02/09

MoltenVK

• Support passing matrices as vertex/instance input to shaders.
• Support texel buffers on iOS.

Molten 0.15.0

Released 2017/01/25

MoltenVK

• Support image fetch (MTLTexture reads) in shaders.
• Remove unnecessary shader function declarations.
• Support writable buffers in shaders.

Molten 0.14.2

Released 2017/01/15

MoltenVK

• Improved support for compressed textures.
• Improved support for commands that can be called both inside and outside a renderpass.
• Improvements to occulsion queries.
• Improvements to accuracy of device features and limits reporting.
• Added support for vkCmdResolveImage().- Added support non-consecutive Vulkan descriptor binding numbers.
• Added support for SRC1 color blending.
• Improved resource management on El Capitan.
• SPIRV-MSL conversion logs partially converted MSL if conversion error occurs.
• SPRIV-MSL conversion simplified handling of vertex attributes.
• Add context labeling of MTLCommandBuffer, MTLRenderCommandEncoder, and MTLBlitCommandEncoder for identification during Xcode Metal GPU Frame Capture.
• Fix command buffer creation/completion deadlock.
• Fix minor renderpass attachment issues.

Molten 0.14.1

Released 2016/10/23

MoltenVK

• Shader converter handle missing names.

Molten 0.14.0

Released 2016/10/19

MoltenVK

• Clearing attachment sub-region with vkCmdClearAttachments now aligned correctly.
• Update to latest Khronos lib dependencies.

Molten 0.13.3

Released 2016/10/13

MoltenGL

• Improved handling of retrieval of CAMetalDrawable from CAMetalLayer.

Molten 0.13.2

Released 2016/09/05

MoltenVK

• Add support for installing MoltenVK as a dynamic library on macOS.

Molten 0.13.1

Released 2016/08/31

MoltenVK

• MSL handles input structs originating from HLSL.
• Fix change in depth clip mode usage for Metal under iOS 10.0.

MoltenGL

• MSL only use half precision for GLSL low precision, and never for scalar floats.
• Support larger textures for GPUs and OS versions that support them.
• Replace GL_FORCE_RENDERABLE_TEXTURES_MGL capability with GL_OPTIMIZE_SAMPLE_ONLY_TEXTURES_MGL.

Molten 0.13.0

Released 2016/07/27

Initial public MoltenVK beta release!

Molten 0.12.0

Released 2016/05/31

Added MoltenVK

• Added MoltenVK
• MoltenGL renamed to Molten

MoltenGL 0.11.0

Released 2016/04/05

Renaming

• MetalGL renamed to MoltenGL

MetalGL 0.10.0

Released 2015/09/21

OS X Support

• Add support for running OpenGL ES 2.0 applications under OS X

Sample Demo Projects

• Add DrawLoadDemo sample project to demonstrate MoltenGL vs OpenGL performance characteristics.

GLKView

• Fix setting properties on iOS MGLGLKView via Interface Builder.

Misc

• Fixed issues related to several changes in Metal API under iOS 9
• Allow an OpenGL shader to be deleted immediately after being attached to an OpenGL program.
• Added support for Xcode 7
• MetalGL_LICENSE.md updated to clarify API license usage.

MetalGL 0.9.1

Released 2015/08/04

New OpenGL ES Extensions

• Add support for OpenGL ES 2.0 EXT_shadow_samplers extension
• Add support for OpenGL ES 2.0 EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic extension

Sample Demo Projects

• Add sample demo Xcode projects in SampleProjects folder
• Add ParticlesDemo sample project

Rendering Enhancements

• Add support for rendering to depth-only framebuffer

Shader Conversion Enhancements

• Convert empty GLSL shaders to MSL
• Trim whitespace from ends of GLSL & MSL source and shader info logs

Documentation Changes

• Rename README.md to README-UserGuide.md
• Add list of supported OpenGL ES extensions to README-UserGuide.md
• Add description of sample Xcode projects to README-UserGuide.md
• Add SampleProjects/README-SampleProjects.md to describe sample apps.
• Add Whats_New.md file to log changes delivered with each MoltenGL version

MetalGL 0.9.0

Released 2015/06/01

Initial public release!