Release 1.16.

Approved-by: Elizabeth Figura (@zfigura)
Approved-by: Henri Verbeet (@hverbeet)
Merge-Request: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/merge_requests/1505

ChangeLog.md

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+# What's new in vkd3d 1.16 (20 May 2025)
+
+### libvkd3d
+
+  - DXIL shaders are supported in the default configuration. Previously this
+    required building vkd3d with the ‘-DVKD3D_SHADER_UNSUPPORTED_DXIL’
+    preprocessor option. The also raises the maximum supported shader model to
+    version 6.0.
+
+  - Graphics pipeline state objects can be created from shaders with embedded
+    root signatures. This was already possible for compute pipeline state
+    objects.
+
+  - The SetEventOnMultipleFenceCompletion() method of the ID3D12Device1
+    interface is implemented.
+
+  - When the VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory extension is supported,
+    libvkd3d supports zero-initialising compute shader thread group shared
+    memory.
+
+  - The VK_KHR_maintenance2 extension is now explicitly required. libvkd3d
+    already unconditionally used features provided by this extension, but
+    unfortunately didn't explicitly require it. Support for this extension is
+    widespread, and the extension is part of Vulkan 1.1.
+
+### libvkd3d-shader
+
+  - The previously experimental support for compiling DXIL shaders is now a
+    supported feature and enabled by default. Please note that this feature is
+    nevertheless still far from perfect.
+
+  - New features for the HLSL source type:
+    - Initial support for geometry shaders.
+    - Indirect addressing in shader model 1-3 target profiles.
+    - Modulus and truncation operations in shader model 1-3 target profiles.
+    - Vectorised output code.
+    - Further improved constant folding and propagation.
+    - The following intrinsic functions are supported:
+      - AllMemoryBarrier()
+      - AllMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync()
+      - DeviceMemoryBarrier()
+      - DeviceMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync()
+      - GroupMemoryBarrier()
+      - GroupMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync()
+    - The ‘.Length’ Texture object property.
+    - The ‘SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex’ and ‘SV_ViewportArrayIndex’ semantics in
+      tessellation shaders.
+
+  - Disassembler support for binary ‘fx_2_0’ effects.
+
+  - Experimental built-in support for disassembling SPIR-V shaders, enabled by
+    building vkd3d with the ‘-DVKD3D_SHADER_UNSUPPORTED_SPIRV_PARSER’
+    preprocessor option. When enabled, the built-in SPIR-V disassembler is
+    used instead of SPIRV-Tools for the ‘spirv-text’ target type, as well as
+    for the debug output enabled by the VKD3D_SHADER_DEBUG environment
+    variable.
+
+  - The experimental OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) target supports indirect
+    addressing of constant buffers.
+
+  - The experimental Metal Shading Language (MSL) target supports texture
+    loads.
+
+  - New interfaces:
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_COMPILE_OPTION_FEATURE_ZERO_INITIALIZE_WORKGROUP_MEMORY
+      flag indicates support for zero-initialising workgroup memory in the
+      SPIR-V target environment.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_COMPONENT_INT64 enumeration value indicates a 64-bit
+      signed integer value.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_COMPONENT_FLOAT16 enumeration value indicates a 16-bit
+      IEEE floating-point value.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_COMPONENT_UINT16 enumeration value indicates a 16-bit
+      unsigned integer value.
+    - The VKD3D_SHADER_COMPONENT_INT16 enumeration value indicates a 16-bit
+      signed integer value.
+    - When targeting VKD3D_SHADER_API_1_16, the
+      VKD3D_SHADER_RESOURCE_DATA_NONE enumeration value is returned for the
+      ‘resource_data_type’ field in the vkd3d_shader_descriptor_info structure
+      for sampler descriptors. VKD3D_SHADER_API_1_15 and before use the
+      VKD3D_SHADER_RESOURCE_DATA_UINT enumeration value for this.
+
+### demos
+
+  - The vkd3d demos now work on both the Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS
+    builds. The macOS versions of the vkd3d demos are completely new in vkd3d
+    1.16, while the Windows demos could previously be built, but only worked
+    on Wine. Note that the vkd3d demos produced by a Windows build of vkd3d
+    are distinct from those produced by the ‘make crosstest’ target: the
+    former are Vulkan applications using vkd3d, while the latter are Direct3D
+    12 applications.
+
+  - The vkd3d demos have basic support for DPI scaling.
+
+### build
+
+  - Perl and the ‘JSON’ Perl module have been added as build dependencies.
+    These are used for the experimental built-in SPIR-V disassembler, as well
+    as for the macOS versions of the vkd3d demos.
+
 # What's new in vkd3d 1.15 (19 February 2025)
 
 ### libvkd3d