v0.6.2

Highlights:

• Miscellaneous
  • Add ti.core.toggle_advanced_optimization(True/False) (#927) (by Yuanming Hu)

Full changelog:

• [doc] Non-Ubuntu Linux users are suggested to build clang-8 from scratch (#867) (by 彭于斌)
• [Misc] Add ti.core.toggle_advanced_optimization(True/False) (#927) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir][refactor] Move legacy frontend constructs to frontend.h/cpp (#924) (by Ye Kuang)
• [misc] Enforce format (#922) (by Taichi Gardener)
• [ir][refactor] Move all Expression subclasses to frontend_ir.h (#919) (by Ye Kuang)

v0.6.1

Highlights:

• Automatic differentiation
  • Fix CUDA data layout and stack alignment (#918) (by Yuanming Hu)
• CUDA backend
  • Fix CUDA data layout and stack alignment (#918) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Examples
  • Add example/bitmasked.py (#905) (by 彭于斌)
• GUI
  • Better event filtering system (#801) (by 彭于斌)
• Language and syntax
  • Scalar math functions can now be applied element-wisely to vectors/matrices (#891) (by 彭于斌)

Full changelog:

• [ir][refactor] Move all frontend stmts to frontend_ir.h (#916) (by Ye Kuang)
• [CUDA] [AutoDiff] Fix CUDA data layout and stack alignment (#918) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Example] Add example/bitmasked.py (#905) (by 彭于斌)
• [opengl] [bug] Move GLSLRuntime into a separate buffer, fix ti.random() bug on NVIDIA (#912) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir][refactor] First step to move Frontend IR to its own file (#914) (by Ye Kuang)
• [async] Avoid unnecessary list generations and activations (#913) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Lang] Scalar math functions can now be applied element-wisely to vectors/matrices (#891) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir] Deprecate FrontendAtomicStmt (#907) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] [refactor] Remove the global current_block (#908) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir][refactor] Pass a context object to Expression::flatten() (#901) (by Ye Kuang)
• [test] Add an argument -r to rerun failed test (#904) (by 彭于斌)
• [GUI] Better event filtering system (#801) (by 彭于斌)

v0.6.0

Highlights:

• The OpenGL Compute Shader backend (by 彭于斌) is officially released!
• Examples
  • Add Multiple Importance Sampling to the cornell box scene (#890) (by Ye Kuang)
• IR optimization passes
  • Extract constants to top-level (#897) (by xumingkuan)
  • Global variable optimizations (#857) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [ir] [refactor] Separate UnaryOpType::cast into cast_value and cast_bits (#892) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Set has_global_side_effect to false for some statements (#898) (by xumingkuan)
• [Example] Add Multiple Importance Sampling to the cornell box scene (#890) (by Ye Kuang)
• [async] Overlap compilation and execution (#885) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] Extract constants to top-level (#897) (by xumingkuan)
• [ir] Remove Ident alias (#895) (by Ye Kuang)
• [opt] Use advanced_optimization for #857 (#894) (by xumingkuan)
• [Opt] Global variable optimizations (#857) (by xumingkuan)

v0.5.15

Highlights:

• Bug fixes
  • Fix CPU SNode reader in debug mode (#887) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
• Examples
  • Add sdf2d.py (#835) (by 彭于斌)
  • Add quadtree.py (#824) (by 彭于斌)
  • Add a Cornell box renderer (#836) (by Ye Kuang)
• Miscellaneous
  • Enhance ti.init and support arch=ti.gpu (#843) (by 彭于斌)
• OpenGL backend
  • Detect driver existence in with_opengl() (#864) (by 彭于斌)
  • Use GLAD as API loader (replace GLEW) (#819) (by 彭于斌)
• IR optimization passes
  • Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
  • Algebraic simplification for bitwise operators (#827) (by xumingkuan)
• Refactoring
  • Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [release] v0.5.15 (#888) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Bug] Fix CPU SNode reader in debug mode (#887) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opengl] Tolerate all errors in with_opengl() (#884) (by 彭于斌)
• [Opt] [Refactor] [Bug] Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] No sync after kernel launch and postpone lower access (#883) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] Fix SNode reading in async mode (#881) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opt] Eliminate assertions with non-zero const conditions (#877) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Reorganize misc files (#876) (by Yuanming Hu)
• revert #769 ti.cfg.gdb_trigger error (#879) (by 彭于斌)
• [cuda] [test] Add TI_DEVICE_MEMORY_GB and TI_DEVICE_MEMORY_FRACTION environment variable (#769) (by 彭于斌)
• [OpenGL] Detect driver existence in with_opengl() (#864) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Avoid unnecessary linking when git commit hash not changed (#871) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] [refactor] Fix async engine statement not found error (#874) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [example] Fix pbf2d.py's initialization to use np.float32 (#873) (by Ye Kuang)
• [misc] Avoid mutable defaults in PyTaichi (#870) (by Yuxin Wu)
• [misc] Fix imread not reading properly when image is not equal in height and width (#855) (by 彭于斌)
• [async] Parallel compilation (#863) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] [Bug] Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] ti test -na opengl to exclude tests on some archs (#830) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Eliminate useless local stores and atomics (#858) (by xumingkuan)
• [doc] update documention for #843 (#844) (by 彭于斌)
• [Example] add sdf2d.py (#835) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Lower linearize even without advanced optimization (#854) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Split accessor and other kernels in statistics (#853) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Profiler now supports multiple threads (#852) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opt] Improve optimization for OffsetAndExtractBitsStmt (#851) (by xumingkuan)
• [Bug] [Opt] Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] Fix duplicate test name in test_tensor_reflection.py (#850) (by xumingkuan)
• [Example] Add quadtree.py (#824) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Avoid printing empty logs (#848) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] Each JIT thread now has its own LLVM context (#845) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Clear stats in the constructor of Program (by xumingkuan)
• [Misc] Enhance ti.init and support arch=ti.gpu (#843) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Add an option to print statistics into files (#841) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] Fix test when advanced_optimization == false (#842) (by xumingkuan)
• [Example] Add a Cornell box renderer (#836) (by Ye Kuang)
• [metal] Increment by thread grid size for the grid-strip loops (#837) (by Ye Kuang)
• [OpenGL] Use GLAD as API loader (replace GLEW) (#819) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Eliminate WhileControlStmt with non-zero const conditions (by xumingkuan)
• [refactor] Move backend implementations to the backends folder (#818) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [test] Add a test for statement offloading (#826) (by xumingkuan)
• [Opt] Algebraic simplification for bitwise operators (#827) (by xumingkuan)

v0.5.14

Highlights:

• CUDA backend
  • Fix slim_libdevice.bc shipping on Windows (#820) (by Yuanming Hu)
• OpenGL backend
  • Fix NVIDIA GLSL compile freeze by sorting SNodes (#808) (by 彭于斌)

Full changelog:

• [refactor] Miscellaneous & mechanical cleanups (#822) (by Taichi Gardener)
• [CUDA] Fix slim_libdevice.bc shipping on Windows (#820) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [OpenGL] Fix NVIDIA GLSL compile freeze by sorting SNodes (#808) (by 彭于斌)
• [refactor] Remove SNodeAttr and decouple SNode from LLVM (#817) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] Parallel compilation infrastructure (#816) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [example] Improve mpm128 gravity control (#809) (by 彭于斌)

v0.5.13

Highlights:

• Bug fixes
  • Insert gc tasks only for pointer and dynamic SNodes (#781) (by Ye Kuang)
• Command line interface
  • Fix ti commands other than ti test (#783) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Documentation
  • Improved documentation (#747) (by 彭于斌)
• Examples
  • Add an Euler equation solver (#796) (by Kenneth Lozes)
• Intermediate representation
  • Fix compilation crash when offloading local variables stores/atomic adds (#813) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix malformed IRs (#806) (by xumingkuan)
• Language and syntax
  • Support matrix initialization with a list of vectors (#811) (by Kenneth Lozes)
• LLVM backend (CPU and CUDA)
  • Upgrade to LLVM 10 and keep backward compatibility with LLVM 8 (#787) (by Tao He)
• OpenGL backend
  • Support range for-loops with non-constant bounds (#785) (by 彭于斌)
• IR optimization passes
  • Improve local variable optimizations (#788) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [Lang] Support matrix initialization with a list of vectors (#811) (by Kenneth Lozes)
• [IR] Fix compilation crash when offloading local variables stores/atomic adds (#813) (by xumingkuan)
• [opt] Avoid storing constants across offloaded tasks (#812) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Update README.md (#776) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [OpenGL] Support range for-loops with non-constant bounds (#785) (by 彭于斌)
• [Example] Add an Euler equation solver (#796) (by Kenneth Lozes)
• [doc] Add Google code review article PDFs (#800) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [IR] Fix malformed IRs (#806) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] Add parallel task executor (#805) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir] Add checks for loop_vars and print names for loops (#803) (by xumingkuan)
• [Opt] Improve local variable optimizations (#788) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Improve type checking error messages (#797) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [example] Improve mpm_lagrangian_forces.py (#799) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [doc] Document the Statistics class (#795) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Implement range_for using grid stride loop (#780) (by Ye Kuang)
• [doc] Include a few links to Google Code Health articles in contributor guidelines (#789) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Doc] Improved documentation (#747) (by 彭于斌)
• [LLVM] Upgrade to LLVM 10 and keep backward compatibility with LLVM 8 (#787) (by Tao He)
• [doc] Fix typo (#786) (by xumingkuan)
• [CLI] Fix ti commands other than ti test (#783) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Bug] [sparse] Insert gc tasks only for pointer and dynamic SNodes (#781) (by Ye Kuang)

v0.5.12

Notable changes:

• Language
  • Support 4x4 matrix inverse and determinant (#763) (by KLozes)
• Command-line interface
  • Fix ti test --arch ... (#764) (by 彭于斌)
• Examples
  • Add 2D stable fluids example (#748) (by Ye Kuang)
• PyPI package
  • Package name changed from taichi-nightly to taichi (#762) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Full log

Full changelog:

• [cli] Add TI_GDB_TRIGGER environment variable (#766) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Update Jenkinsfile (by Yuanming Hu)
• [cli] Fix ti test (#774) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Update README.md (#767) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [refactor] [opt] Move LocalLoadSearcher and 2 other classes to irpass::analysis (#771) (by xumingkuan)
• [ir] [refactor] Slim ir.h and reduce build time by ~4% (#761) (by xumingkuan)
• [CLI] Fix ti test --arch ... (#764) (by 彭于斌)
• [opengl] GLFW 3.3.2 is now included as a submodule (#760) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [lang] Support 4x4 matrix inverse and determinant (#763) (by KLozes)
• [PyPI] Package name changed from taichi-nightly to taichi (#762) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Unify #include format (#759) (by Taichi Gardener)
• [Example] Add 2D stable fluids example (#748) (by Ye Kuang)

v0.5.11

Notable changes:

• Automatic differentiation
  • Fix floating-point type-cast gradients (#687) (by Yuanming Hu)
• CUDA backend
  • PyPI package taichi-nightly now covers CUDA 10.X on Windows and Linux (#756) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Examples
  • Add game_of_life.py (#741) (by 彭于斌)
  • Fix examples/regression.py (#757) (by Quan Wang)
• GUI
  • Support SPACE key (#749) (by Ye Kuang)
  • Fix blinking particles and random segmentation faults in ti.GUI.circles (#755) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Language and syntax
  • Support continue on all backends (#716) (by Ye Kuang)
• LLVM backend (CPU and CUDA)
  • Fix LLVM struct-for codegen crashing due to extra return #704 (#707) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Metal backend
  • Support ti.random() on Metal (#710) (by Ye Kuang)
• OpenGL backend
  • Support NVIDIA GLSL compiler (#666) (by 彭于斌)
  • 64-bit data type support (#717) (by 彭于斌)
  • Support more than one external array arguments (#694) (by 彭于斌)
• IR and Optimization
  • More Taichi IR standardization and optimization (#656) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [CUDA] limit memory allocation chunk size 128 MB (#758) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [CUDA] PyPI package taichi-nightly now covers CUDA 10.X on Windows and Linux (#756) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Example] Fix examples/regression.py (#757) (by Quan Wang)
• [ir] [refactor] Move all passes that do not change IR into irpass::analysis (#754) (by xumingkuan)
• [GUI] Fix blinking particles and random segmentation faults in ti.GUI.circles (#755) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Fix dynamic node out-of-bound checker (#752) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [doc] Update syntax.rst to include ti.sqrt, ti.asin, ti.acos and x ** y (#753) (by Quan Wang)
• [refactor] Remove vprintf in runtime/llvm/runtime.cpp to avoid name conflicts (#750) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Update Jenkinsfile (by Yuanming Hu)
• [GUI][Metal] Support SPACE key (#749) (by Ye Kuang)
• [OpenGL] 64-bit data type support (#717) (by 彭于斌)
• [cli] Better ti test to test single cpp file and no cpp test when testing python(s) (#724) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir] [refactor] Simplify statement visitors (#744) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] Benchmark infrastructure (#743) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opt] Move common statements in true/false branches outside if's (#727) (by xumingkuan)
• [opengl] Add check_opengl_error to prevent potential segfaults (#728) (by 彭于斌)
• [Example] Add game_of_life.py (#741) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir] [refactor] Add a verify pass to find out illegal IRs, and remove OffloadedStmt::begin_stmt/end_stmt (#731) (by xumingkuan)
• [cli] Improve ti header message (#715) (by Ye Kuang)
• [metal][refactor] Use compile_to_offloads() in codegen (#738) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Fix adjoint alloca location in make_adjoint (#734) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir] Fix out-of-scope operands during offloading (#730) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Refactor the codegen to have multiple code sections (#733) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] [refactor] BasicStmtVisitor includes Frontend sstatements (#732) (by 彭于斌)
• [infra] AppVeyor triggers format server when [format] included as substrings in commit messages (#725) (by 彭于斌)
• [opengl] [refactor] Remove the global no_gc in opengl_codegen.cpp (#723) (by Ye Kuang)
• [Lang] Support continue on all backends (#716) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Add assertions of Allocas in the constructors of LocalAddress and LocalStoreStmt (by xumingkuan)
• [CUDA] Improve CUDA build portability with run-time driver loading (#714) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [infra] Windows stack backtrace (#720) (by xumingkuan)
• [ir][refactor] Use const & in function arguments to avoid copying (#718) (by xumingkuan)
• [opengl] [refactor] Fix memory leakages using modern C++ memory management features (#696) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir] Fix compilation crash when passing global pointer to if statements (#713) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [test] Make test_struct_for_branching run on archs with pointer (#712) (by Ye Kuang)
• [Metal] Support ti.random() on Metal (#710) (by Ye Kuang)
• [refactor] SNode now uses unique_ptr instead of shared_ptr for clearer children ownership (#705) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [LLVM] Fix LLVM struct-for codegen crashing due to extra return #704 (#707) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Skip listgen for leaf Snode (#699) (by Ye Kuang)
• [refactor] CUDA-related infrastructure (#706) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [OpenGL] Support more than one external array arguments (#694) (by 彭于斌)
• [ir] Add a function to test if two IRNodes are equivalent (#683) (by xumingkuan)
• [refactor] Create taichi/codegen/codegen_llvm.cpp and outline class member definitions (#702) (by Taichi Gardener)
• [refactor] Extract Taichi IR compilation from KernelCodeGen (#700) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] AsyncEngine infrastructure (#698) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Fix tests that require 64-bit data (#697) (by Ye Kuang)
• [opengl] Improved randomness of PRNGs across each launch (#692) (by 彭于斌)
• [OpenGL] Support NVIDIA GLSL compiler (#666) (by 彭于斌)
• [metal] Fix bug in Metal listgen where it goes beyond the capacity (#691) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Add statement field manager (#690) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Enforce the use of #include "taichi/..." (#688) (by Taichi Gardener)
• [AutoDiff] Fix floating-point type-cast gradients (#687) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Use grid-stride loop to implement listgen kernels (#682) (by Ye Kuang)
• [refactor] Remove llvm::Value *Stmt::value (#686) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [refactor] Removed Stmt::adjoint (#685) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [lang] Fix ti.static(ti.grouped(...)) syntax checker (#681) (by xumingkuan)

v0.5.10

Notable changes:

• (Mar 29, 2020) v0.5.10 released
  • Language and syntax
    • Fix ti.static(ti.grouped(ti.ndrange(...))) syntax checker false positive (#680) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • CLI
    • ti test now supports -t/--threads for specifying number of testing threads (#674) (by Yuanming Hu)

Full changelog:

• [Infra] ti test now supports -t/--threads for specifying number of testing threads (#674) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Lang] Fix ti.static(ti.grouped(ti.ndrange(...))) syntax checker false positive (#680) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Removed useless files (by Taichi Gardener)
• [misc] Update README.md (by Yuanming Hu)

v0.5.9

Notable changes:

• (Mar 28, 2020) v0.5.9 released
  • CPU & CUDA backends
    • Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Documentation
    • Updated contributor guideline (#658) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Infrastructure
    • 6x faster compilation on CPU/CUDA backends (#673) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Language and syntax
    • Simplify dense.bitmasked to bitmasked (#670) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Support break in non-parallel for statements (#583) (by 彭于斌)
  • Metal backend
    • Enable bitmasked on Metal (#661) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Silence compile warnings (#650) (by Ye Kuang)
  • Optimization
    • Improved Taichi IR optimizers (#662) (#668) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [misc] misc/make_changelog.py for automatically generating changelogs (#679) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Simplify Metal backend's namings (#675) (by Ye Kuang)
• [CPU][CUDA] Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Infra] 6x faster compilation on CPU backends (#673) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Improve format server stability (#672) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir] Basic function definition/call instructions (#612) (by 彭于斌)
• [Lang] Simplify dense.bitmasked to bitmasked (#670) (by Ye Kuang)
• [misc] Fixed format server file coverage (#669) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] Merge adjacent if's with identical conditions (#668) (by xumingkuan)
• [metal] Move platform/metal to backends/metal (#667) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Added irpass::gather_statements (#665) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] Dive into container statements to find local loads/stores for optimization, and optimize loads of new allocas to 0 (#662) (by xumingkuan)
• [Metal] Changes to enable bitmasked on Metal! (#661) (by Ye Kuang)
• [Doc] Updated contributor guideline (#658) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Introduced a temporary boolean constant for benchmarking advanced optimizations (#657) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] v0.5.8 README (#654) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Fixed MGPCG (#652) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Refactor ASTTransformer.visit_For and fix a bug on grouped ndrange loops (#648) (by xumingkuan)
• [Metal] Silence compile warning with [[maybe_unused]] (#650) (by Ye Kuang)
• add LineAppender for OpenGL too #643 (#651) (by 彭于斌)
• Support break in non-parallel for statements by translate range-for into while #578 (#583) (by 彭于斌)
• [Metal] Add bitmasked support in MetalRuntime (#638) (by Ye Kuang)