v2024.10.2

What's Changed

• Allow creating draft releases from tags containing "draft" by @expipiplus1 in #4896
• Dont require llvm for building generators by @expipiplus1 in #4895
• Fix a false failure when using the latest SPIR-V by @jkwak-work in #4904
• Feature/capture unit test by @kaizhangNV in #4898
• Add skeleton of a language reference. by @tangent-vector in #4808
• Make variadic generics work with interfaces and forward autodiff. by @csyonghe in #4905
• Feature/record unit test by @kaizhangNV in #4910
• Implement -fvk-use-dx-layout by @ArielG-NV in #4912
• Correct the generic-jvp.slang test by @ArielG-NV in #4900
• Fix Varying Variable Location Assignments With Hull Shaders by @ArielG-NV in #4915
• Migrate examples by @kaizhangNV in #4920
• Explicitly detach derivative when forming a non-differentiable struct out of differentiable args by @saipraveenb25 in #4901
• Add ability to specialize generic references to functions, types and more by @saipraveenb25 in #4909
• Avoid inlining functions with inline ASM blocks. by @saipraveenb25 in #4925
• Adds a warning for using [PreferRecompute] on methods that may contain side effects by @saipraveenb25 in #4707
• Script for generating a release note by @jkwak-work in #4776
• Adding a document of how to update external/spirv-* by @jkwak-work in #4902
• Document notable __ref uses in stdlib. Remove user docs use of '__ref'. by @ArielG-NV in #4799
• Add functor syntax support. by @csyonghe in #4926
• Auto-cancel obsolete MDL benchmark jobs. by @csyonghe in #4929
• Make tuple types work in autodiff. by @csyonghe in #4923
• Allow capabilities to be used with [shader("...")] by @ArielG-NV in #4928
• Metal: Mesh Shaders by @Dynamitos in #4280
• Metal: Fix metal primitive_id semantic by @Dynamitos in #4951
• Ignoring construct field warnings on delegatory methods by @venkataram-nv in #4911
• Migrate examples by @kaizhangNV in #4927
• Update IFunc proposal to reflect its implementation. by @csyonghe in #4950
• Add ReportIntersectionOptix for optix. by @csyonghe in #4949
• Structured binding proposal by @csyonghe in #4953
• Fix partial inference of variadic generic functions. by @csyonghe in #4956
• Fix typo SV_DispatchThreadIndex by @jkwak-work in #4962
• Make sure NullDifferential and its witness are removed after autodiff. by @csyonghe in #4958
• Fix typo SV_DomainLsocation by @jkwak-work in #4960
• Support mixture of precompiled and non-precompiled modules by @cheneym2 in #4860
• Fix redundant decorations in IRParam by @jkwak-work in #4964
• Integrate slang-rhi by @skallweitNV in #4970
• Support specialization constants. by @csyonghe in #4963
• capture component type by @kaizhangNV in #4967
• Updated MDL shader sources for benchmarks by @venkataram-nv in #4965
• Support extension on generic type. by @csyonghe in #4968
• Fix prelude generation by using relative paths for including slang.h by @saipraveenb25 in #4973
• User guide page for SPIR-V target specific information by @jkwak-work in #4815
• fix slang-rhi compile error by @skallweitNV in #4979

Full Changelog: v2024.10...v2024.10.2