v2025.1

=== Breaking changes ===
No breaking changes

=== All changes for this release ===
5b99314 Add backtraces to examples (#5973) (#5520:quality & productivity)
c43f6fa Lower varying parameters as pointers instead of SSA values. (#5919)
1a56f58 Check whether array element is fully specialized (#6000) (#5776:client support)
7e278c3 Add example showing how to use Slang/WASM (#5996)
7d4142e Fix some robustness issues in the examples (#5984) (#5520:quality & productivity)
5621ace Use disassemble API from SPIRV-Tools (#6001)
a448b7e Properly set D3D12SDKPath (#5993)
7190c28 Add Bindless<T> proposal. (#6002)
bc76c6e Add support for textureLod with sampler2DArrayShadow (#6009)
22dab44 Fix GLSL mix(T,T,bool) SPIR-V output (#6006)
f0431b8 CI: Build the full slang-wasm.[js|wasm] targets instead of just the slang library. (#5998) (#5959:forward looking)
00e7542 Make 'shared' keyword map to 'groupshared' in GLSL mode (#6003) (#5989:quality & productivity)
114c976 Create DirectDeclRef when creating Decl to prevent invalid dedup. (#5945) (#5941:quality & productivity)
5df3a74 Fix parameter location reflection for pure data paramblocks. (#5956) (#5940:quality & productivity)
d48cd13 Correct IR generation for no-diff pointer type (#5976) (#5805:client support)
e3b71cf Allow explicit test root (#5980)
a13ef05 Fixed incorrect condition in Session::queryInterface. (#5978)
f3b916e add missing IR_LEAF_ISA for MetalMeshType (#5975)
075e6c2 Fix reflection for metal vector [[id]] location. (#5943)
823b6a8 Add terminateRayEXT & ignoreIntersectionEXT (#5974)
a8471a1 Fix getInheritanceInfo for ExtractExistentialType. (#5971) (#5900:client support)
b7eb585 Check for undefined %id in spirv_asm block. (#5966) (#5753:client support)
1f98bd6 LanguageServer: fix highlighting of wrapper type. (#5968)
3f43d6c Add RaytracingAccelerationStructure::__init(uint64_t). (#5967) (#5801:client support)
cc1b96d Check mismatching method parameter direction against interface declaration. (#5964) (#5962:quality & productivity)
88e221b Fix requirement candidate lookup to prefer decls in the same paraent as the inheritance decl. (#5965) (#5954:quality & productivity)
89dd2b1 Add a basic WebGPU example (#5923)
b2d51ad Skip uninitialized-use warning on hitAttributeEXT-decorated globals (#5952)
71cd967 Prevent constant folding for specialization constants (#5953)
7a6de4a Implement HLSL pack/unpack math intrinsics (#5934)
c4429bc Fix tiny typos (#5944)
478be54 Fix parsing GLSL SSBO arrays / bindless descriptors (#5932)
7cecc51 Add packed 8bit builtin types (#5939)
2ad1f81 Support dispatchComputeIndirect and draw(Indexed)Indirect with count buffer for Vulkan (#5929)
1b5679f Reflection API Wasm Bindings Part1 (#5936)
e15c280 update CTS package (#5935)
76fdeaa Fixed stage and result field names in json reflection (#5927)
8e55b49 Fix WASM build (#5925)
e93cb8a Check subscript/property accessor for differentiability. (#5922) (#5921:client support)
5c9f011 Fix crash during loop unrolling. (#5920) (#5917:quality & productivity)
a00db74 Add base vertex and base instance system values (#5918)
2e9605e Enable more examples in CI (#5915)
237af82 Add HLSL texture sample with status intrinsics (#5901) (#4495:forward looking)
c6662b6 Readme corrections (#5874)
16f617f Report error when generated spirv is empty. (#5899) (#5893:quality & productivity)
a427c58 Fix issues reported by 'shellcheck' (#5913) (#5520:quality & productivity)
58654d0 Refresh list of failing examples (#5904) (#5520:quality & productivity)
f675c39 Fix the parser issue for not recognize Generic[N] (#5912)
a805756 Check decl nesting for namespaces. (#5910) (#5897:quality & productivity)
abeb375 Support explicit [vk::location(n)] binding on metal/wgsl. (#5907) (#5883:client support)
0f5a2ce Fix metadata of register space and varying params. (#5906) (#5905:quality & productivity)
ae04e60 Allow Optional, Tuple and bool to be used in varying input/output. (#5889) (#5881:quality & productivity)
41c627f Add slang example tests to CI (#5879)
45af246 Add verification logic on push and specialization constants. (#5887) (#5865:quality & productivity)
6e24244 Support specializing generic entrypoints in findAndCheckEntryPoint. (#5890) (#5898:forward looking)
6f57e47 Implement bitcast for 64-bit date type (#5895) (#5470:quality & productivity)
49e912a Fix entrypoint auto discovery logic. (#5885)
7ffc69d Update 09-reflection.md (#5886)
d61bba8 Fix getArgumentValueFloat when arg is int. (#5888) (#5860:quality & productivity)
9c9e1f7 Support matrix negation in metal backend. (#5891) (#5882:client support)
0a6ffee install mono for toc generation (#5877)
83f4bd5 Enable exprs for all supported GLSL layout qualifiers (#5857) (#3873:quality & productivity)
9d608b9 Update reflection API chapter in User Guide (#5868)
9d89a25 Make slang-rhi's NVAPI support conditional on SLANG_ENABLE_NVAPI (#5855)
78c9bd1 Bit extract (#5847)
b4e63d7 use Release over RelWithDebInfo for ci (#5846)
1fb79ac Add an example for using the reflection API (#5839)
9c82ed3 WGSL: Fix issue where global calls are generated (#5768)
79dc7ef Add SLANG_ENABLE_DXIL (#5853)
48ac6f2 Correctly distinguish between windows and MSVC (#5851)
7279c04 Set default hidden visibility for all source on gcc (#5850)
96a8781 Add missing header for _getpid() (#5852)
df06e79 Bump imgui for include fix (#5854)
50fa543 Correct casing of windows includes (#5849)
160be8e Fix prebuilt dependencies filenames on non-windows platforms (#5848)