v0.10.9

OpenCL v0.10.9

Diff since v0.10.8

Merged pull requests:

• Add atomic float support (#399) (@michel2323)
• [SPIRVIntrinsics] Fix @device_override (#404) (@christiangnrd)
• Disable broken vectorization tests on Windows and use windows-2022 in CI (#405) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix macos CI (#406) (@christiangnrd)
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#407) (@dependabot[bot])
• Add relevant package versions to versioninfo (#409) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix CI for locally built POCL (#412) (@christiangnrd)
• [OpenCL] Subgroup support (#413) (@christiangnrd)
• Fixes found with JETLS (#416) (@christiangnrd)
• [SPIRVIntrinsics] Sub-group shuffle & barrier (#420) (@christiangnrd)

Closed issues:

• PoCL/Windows: undefined symbol: _initterm_e (#393)
• [CI] Local POCL builds failing (#408)

v0.10.8

OpenCL v0.10.8

Diff since v0.10.7

Merged pull requests:

• SIMD support for math intrinsics (#379) (@simeonschaub)
• [KA] support unified memory API (#394) (@simeonschaub)

Closed issues:

• support vectorized math intrinsics (#376)

v0.10.7

OpenCL v0.10.7

Diff since v0.10.6

Merged pull requests:

• change mangling of pointers (#395) (@simeonschaub)
• Reduce macOS runs on CI (#397) (@christiangnrd)
• Bump peter-evans/find-comment from 3 to 4 (#400) (@dependabot[bot])
• Bump peter-evans/create-or-update-comment from 4 to 5 (#401) (@dependabot[bot])
• fix rand(::AbstractRange{Int64}) (#402) (@simeonschaub)

Closed issues:

• Updating SPIRV_Tools_jll breaks Rusticl backend (#398)

v0.10.6

OpenCL v0.10.6

Diff since v0.10.5

Merged pull requests:

• implement device-side RNG (#365) (@simeonschaub)
• add Float16 math functions (#368) (@simeonschaub)
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#372) (@dependabot[bot])
• [SPIRVIntrinsics] GPUToolbox compat (#373) (@christiangnrd)
• Use macos-15-intel (#375) (@christiangnrd)
• GPUToolbox compat again (#378) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix return_type test failure in 1.12 (#380) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix typo in Float64 unsupported error (#381) (@christiangnrd)
• Various test improvements (#382) (@christiangnrd)
• Test improvement follow-up (#387) (@christiangnrd)
• 1.12 (#391) (@christiangnrd)
• Use --quickfail in CI (#392) (@christiangnrd)
• Version 0.10.6 (#396) (@simeonschaub)

Closed issues:

• wrong definition for rem (#374)
• findmax broken in Julia 1.12 (#384)

v0.10.5

OpenCL v0.10.5

Diff since v0.10.4

Merged pull requests:

• TagBot: use DOCUMENTER_KEY (#362) (@simeonschaub)
• add profiling docs (#363) (@simeonschaub)
• minor README fixes (#364) (@simeonschaub)
• CI: Build PoCL without hwloc. (#367) (@maleadt)
• allow disabling validation (#369) (@simeonschaub)
• Version 0.10.5 (#370) (@simeonschaub)

v0.10.4

OpenCL v0.10.4

Diff since v0.10.3

Merged pull requests:

• Add sources for SPIRVIntrinsics (#321) (@vchuravy)
• Use stacked method tables (#325) (@vchuravy)
• Allow direct host-interactions with SVM-backed arrays (#336) (@VarLad)
• Track memory type when converting arguments to pointers (#341) (@maleadt)
• Port control barriers to SPIR-V, add memory barriers. (#343) (@maleadt)
• fix broadcasting for differently backed CLArrays of different dimensions (#345) (@simeonschaub)
• Int64 atomics (#347) (@simeonschaub)
• Disable broken hardware-based linear KA index. (#348) (@maleadt)
• pass extensions argument through @opencl (#355) (@simeonschaub)
• set up Documenter (#357) (@simeonschaub)
• add backend to COMPILER_KWARGS (#358) (@simeonschaub)
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#359) (@dependabot[bot])
• fix docs setup (#360) (@simeonschaub)
• Version 0.10.4 (#361) (@simeonschaub)

Closed issues:

• Invalid device buffer to CPU pointer conversions are allowed (#294)
• PoCL: Occasional __init__ failure during wrapper generation (#318)
• SVM pointer conversion and other related issues (#337)
• Behaviour discrepancy between the REPL and the testing environment, as well as between logically similar kernels. (#339)
• issues with Int64 atomic_cmpxchg! (#353)
• add some proper documentation (#354)

v0.10.3

OpenCL v0.10.3

Diff since v0.10.2

Merged pull requests:

• Switch to the LLVM SPIR-V back-end. (#285) (@maleadt)
• CI: Fixed arch for macOS jobs (#286) (@stemann)
• Avoid promition to Int32 in work_items functions (#287) (@vchuravy)
• Remove access keyword from examples (#288) (@blegat)
• Bump OpenCL_jll to 2024.10.24 (#289) (@blegat)
• Update jupyter notebooks (#291) (@blegat)
• Typo fix : pivate -> private (#292) (@blegat)
• cl.LocalMemory -> CLPtr (#293) (@blegat)
• Add warning about using pocl_jll on top of script (#295) (@blegat)
• Ptr -> CLPtr in examples (#296) (@blegat)
• Add pocl upstream as a CI (#298) (@vchuravy)
• [OpenCLKernel] Use barrier with LOCAL_MEM_FENCE (#300) (@vchuravy)
• Pass actually pointer typed things to printf (#302) (@vchuravy)
• Bump SPIRVIntrinsics (#306) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix typo in intrinsic mangling, and always test using latest subpackage. (#307) (@maleadt)
• Upgrade and switch to the non-unified SPIRV LLVM Translator. (#308) (@maleadt)
• Update PoCL to v7. (#309) (@maleadt)
• Silence 1.12 warnings (#310) (@christiangnrd)
• Add Buffer Device Address Backend (#311) (@VarLad)
• Windows support (#313) (@maleadt)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for SPIRVIntrinsics to 0.2, (keep existing compat) (#320) (@github-actions[bot])
• Cast sizeof(::LocalMem) to Int (#323) (@blegat)
• [NFC] Docstring typo (#327) (@christiangnrd)
• Add JLD2 to test env (#329) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix OpenCL on 1.12 (#333) (@VarLad)
• KA.__synchronize, add GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE semantics (#338) (@vchuravy)

Closed issues:

• Buffers aren't released (#208)
• OOB trap is fatal for CPU back-ends (#249)
• Fails to create array on Rusticl driver (#255)
• Atlernative allocation strategies (#256)
• Support Atomix.jl (#280)
• Support cl_mem based buffers using cl_ext_buffer_device_address extension (#281)
• ndrange provided in KernelAbstractions kernels is broken (#283)
• Invalid instruction with pocl package from ArchLinux (#290)
• Failure for POCL without inbounds (#299)
• PoCL: Linking can fail due to missing libc (#303)
• PoCL's CPU platform gives isgpu(backend) == true (#304)
• PoCL 7.0 (#305)
• PoCL: Ship additional system libraries on macOS (#315)
• Printing failure for LocalMem (#322)
• does not support USM or coarse-grained SVM (#324)
• Look into Vulkan shader compilers (#331)
• TypeError in add_ptr in Julia 1.12 (#332)

v0.10.2

OpenCL v0.10.2

Diff since v0.10.1

Merged pull requests:

• Revamp memory management, and add USM support. (#264) (@VarLad)
• Elide bounds checks when kernels contains manual ones. (#276) (@maleadt)
• Fix CI again. (#277) (@maleadt)

Closed issues:

• Simplify use of OpenCL extensions (#257)

v0.10.1

OpenCL v0.10.1

Diff since v0.10.0

Merged pull requests:

• Fix main CI. (#275) (@maleadt)

v0.10.0

OpenCL v0.10.0

Diff since v0.9.0

Very breaking release, with significant changes:

• adds a native compiler
• changes lots of APIs
• integrates with JLLs

For more details, see NEWS.md or the blog post on juliagpu.org.

Merged pull requests:

• Don't install additional packages on CI (#203) (@maleadt)
• Add Buildkite build status badge (#204) (@ClaroHenrique)
• enable dependabot for GitHub actions (#207) (@ranocha)
• Add POCL support and CI + major package rework (#210) (@maleadt)
• Support loading IL. (#211) (@maleadt)
• Various clean-ups (#212) (@maleadt)
• Fix the Program constructor checks. (#213) (@maleadt)
• Switch to global state + automatic pointer conversions (#214) (@maleadt)
• Switch from getindex overloading to getproperty (#215) (@maleadt)
• Remove CLString. (#216) (@maleadt)
• Always run tests on all available platforms/devices (#217) (@maleadt)
• Add a simple versioninfo function. (#218) (@maleadt)
• Preserve buffers from GC collection when doing unsafe things. (#219) (@maleadt)
• Replace blocking cl.launch by asynchronous cl.call. (#220) (@maleadt)
• Add a native compiler, using SPIR-V IL. (#222) (@maleadt)
• Wrap cl_ext.h and handle CL_PLATFORM_NOT_FOUND_KHR gracefully. (#223) (@maleadt)
• Disable argument conversion when calling raw OpenCL kernels. (#224) (@maleadt)
• Improve build status reporting. (#225) (@maleadt)
• Replace to_host by Array. (#226) (@maleadt)
• Buffer rework (#227) (@maleadt)
• Introduce clcall for ccall-like kernel invocation. (#228) (@maleadt)
• Add SVM Buffer type. (#229) (@maleadt)
• Switch CLArray to SVM. (#230) (@maleadt)
• Update examples and notebooks again. (#231) (@maleadt)
• Initial GPUArrays integration (#232) (@maleadt)
• Initial KernelAbstractions.jl integration. (#233) (@maleadt)
• Add compat bounds. (#238) (@maleadt)
• Use a distributed test harness (#239) (@maleadt)
• Test runner improvements (#240) (@maleadt)
• Enable the GPUArrays test suite. (#241) (@maleadt)
• Fixes (#242) (@maleadt)
• Make copies from host to device blocking (#243) (@maleadt)
• Add a couple of quirks. (#244) (@maleadt)
• Don't periodically recycle workers. (#245) (@maleadt)
• Synchronize before freeing memory in a finalizer. (#246) (@maleadt)
• Avoid synchronizing freed queues. (#247) (@maleadt)
• mapreduce: don't launch too many items. (#248) (@maleadt)
• Only dev SPIRVIntrinsics.jl if needed. (#251) (@maleadt)
• Work around SVM issue on Intel. (#253) (@maleadt)
• Support passing LLVMPtrs. (#254) (@maleadt)
• Adapt to GPUArrays.jl transition to KernelAbstractions.jl. (#260) (@maleadt)
• Switch CI to 1.11. (#261) (@maleadt)
• SPIRVIntrinsics: add import/export helpers. (#262) (@maleadt)
• Adapt to JuliaGPU/GPUArrays.jl#567. (#265) (@maleadt)
• Bump LLVM-SPIRV translator. (#267) (@maleadt)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5 (#268) (@dependabot[bot])
• Add the ability to test a single platform. (#269) (@maleadt)
• Type fixes for Windows. (#270) (@maleadt)
• Improve initialization warnings. (#271) (@maleadt)
• Don't use platform-dependent types. (#272) (@maleadt)
• Don't use platform-dependent types for upsample (#273) (@christiangnrd)
• KernelAbstractions: Use fine-grained synchronization (#274) (@maleadt)

Closed issues:

• Support Windows (#199)
• PoCL as fallback driver (#200)
• Clang.jl bindings (#202)
• v0.9.0 breaks MacOS (#205)
• OpenCL.jl on MacOSX Ventura 13.2 (#206)
• GPUArrays.default_rng(CLArray) causes Random not defined in OpenCL (#235)
• SPIRVIntrinsics: Unknown type Int8 on aarch64-linux (#236)
• Cannot pass pointers (#250)
• Novice view: warning about no JLLs more confusing than useful? (#263)
• OpenCL_jll.jl should check privilege level (#266)