Release 1.15.

Approved-by: Giovanni Mascellani (@giomasce)
Approved-by: Henri Verbeet (@hverbeet)
Approved-by: Elizabeth Figura (@zfigura)
Approved-by: Francisco Casas (@fcasas)
Merge-Request: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/merge_requests/1378

ChangeLog.md

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+# What's new in vkd3d 1.15 (19 February 2025)
+
+### libvkd3d
+
+  - New interfaces:
+    - vkd3d_queue_signal_on_cpu() allows a Direct3D 12 fence to be signalled
+      when all preceding work on a Direct3D 12 command queue has been submitted
+      to the corresponding Vulkan queue.
+
+### libvkd3d-shader
+
+  - New features for the HLSL source type:
+    - ‘InputPatch’ and ‘OutputPatch’ tessellation shader objects. This was the
+      main feature required by most tessellation shaders that was still missing,
+      and tessellation shaders should be considered generally usable now.
+    - Unrolling of loops containing conditional jumps.
+    - Improved function overload resolution. Previously the compiler was unable
+      to decide between multiple function overloads with the same number of
+      parameters.
+    - The parser is able to continue parsing in a larger number of error cases.
+      This allows more issues in the input to be reported during a single
+      compilaton attempt.
+    - The following intrinsic functions are supported:
+      - GatherCmp()
+      - GatherCmpAlpha(), GatherCmpBlue(), GatherCmpGreen(), and GatherCmpRed()
+      - InterlockedAdd(), InterlockedAnd(), InterlockedCompareExchange(),
+        InterlockedCompareStore(), InterlockedExchange(), InterlockedMax(),
+        InterlockedMin(), InterlockedOr(), and InterlockedXor()
+      - isinf()
+    - Separate resource and sampler support for shader model 1-3 target
+      profiles.
+    - Casts on the left hand side of assignments.
+    - Reassociation and redistribution of constants in binary expressions, to
+      facilitate constant folding.
+    - Packing of interstage I/O variables with the ‘SV_IsFrontFace’,
+      ‘SV_PrimitiveID’, ‘SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex’, ‘SV_SampleIndex’, and
+      ‘SV_ViewPortArrayIndex’ semantics matches d3dcompiler/fxc more closely.
+    - Parser support for the ‘LineStream’, ‘PointStream’, and ‘TriangleStream’
+      Stream-Output objects.
+
+  - A number of instructions have been implemented for the experimental MSL
+    target. Although more and more shaders are starting to work, support is
+    still fairly limited. For example, shader resource views and unordered
+    access views are still entirely unsupported.
+
+  - Shader code generation for fixed-function fog. Like the existing shader code
+    generation for other fixed-function features, this is mainly relevant for
+    executing shader model 1-3 sources in modern target environments like
+    Vulkan.
+
+  - The ‘fx’ parser can parse binary effects containing inline shader blobs.
+
+  - Internal validator support for validating I/O signatures, as well as I/O
+    source and destination parameters. The validator is enabled by the
+    ‘force_validation’ option, specified through the VKD3D_SHADER_CONFIG
+    environment variable.
+
+  - Internal validator support for validating the number of indices used with a
+    register, as well as basic bounds checking for static indices.
+
+  - New interfaces:
+    - The vkd3d_shader_scan_hull_shader_tessellation_info structure extends the
+      vkd3d_shader_compile_info structure, and can be used to retrieve the
+      output primitive type and partitioning mode used by a hull shader. This
+      information is particularly useful for specifying
+      vkd3d_shader_spirv_domain_shader_target_info structures when targetting
+      SPIR-V in OpenGL environments.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_PARAMETER_NAME_FOG_FRAGMENT_MODE shader parameter
+      specifies the kind of fog to generate in a fragment shader.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_PARAMETER_NAME_FOG_COLOUR shader parameter
+      specifies the fog colour.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_PARAMETER_NAME_FOG_END shader parameter
+      specifies the ‘end’ parameter used for linear fog generation.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_PARAMETER_NAME_FOG_SCALE shader parameter
+      specifies the ‘scale’ parameter used for fog generation.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_PARAMETER_NAME_FOG_SOURCE shader parameter
+      specifies the kind of fog coordinate to output from a pre-rasterisation
+      shader.
+
+### vkd3d-compiler
+
+  - The new ‘dxbc-fx’ source type specifies an effect binary embedded in a DXBC
+    container. This is a convenience feature;
+    ‘vkd3d-compiler -x dxbc-fx blob.dxbc’ is equivalent to
+    ‘vkd3d-dxbc -x t:FX10 blob.dxbc | vkd3d-compiler -x fx’.
+
 # What's new in vkd3d 1.14 (21 November 2024)
 
 ### libvkd3d