The release candidate for MoltenVK 1.3 has been released for testing, featuring support for Vulkan 1.3, along with extensions and enhancements to various components of the system. The support extends to B5G6R5_UNORM_PACK16, B5G5R5A1_UNORM_PACK16, and B8G8R8A8 formats by utilizing swizzle techniques. The system has eliminated glslang as a dependency library and will no longer accept GLSL shaders as input.
The system effectively tackles memory management challenges within MVKSwapchain, manages shader specialization through macros, and incorporates barriers utilizing Metal fences. The system additionally eliminates support for the deprecated VK_NV_glsl_shader extension and the GLSL conversions facilitated by MoltenVKShaderConverter. The system effectively resolves concerns related to the AMD driver's malfunctioning blit encoder timestamp sampling, along with updates pertinent to macOS 13 and Xcode 14. The system incorporates enhancements to its logging capabilities and debug labels and extends support for a wider range of tessellation I/O matching. The system effectively resolves concerns related to the AMD driver's malfunctioning blit encoder timestamp sampling and the most recent SPIRV-Cross updates.
PeaZip 10.4.0 has been released with several enhancements, including fixes, refined error handling, and an improved user experience. The system automatically adjusts icons and accent colors, integrates with various system styles, and updates the backend to Pea 1.24 and Zstd 1.5.7.
Whisky 2.3.5 is a SwiftUI-based graphical wrapper for Wine, allowing users to create and manage bottles, install Windows apps, and run games on macOS without technical knowledge. The bug fixes include resolving configuration view crashes on macOS 15.4 and improving the quality of life by enhancing pinned programs on external drives.
A new version of the open-source archive manager PeaZip has been released, enhancing TAR format management, addressing archives with errors, showcasing task progress, and enabling report saving. The update features enhanced themes, the introduction of a new Style submenu for customization, and improved context menu integration in Gnome and KDE.
The source files have been compiled using Lazarus 3.6 and are compatible with the Lazarus 2.x series. The application now accommodates VMware and Minecraft container file formats and is capable of opening 242 file extensions as archives. Translations are offered in more than 30 languages, and the hash values for each package can be found in the SHA256.txt file included in each release on GitHub. The update incorporates enhancements to the file manager, featuring automatic browsing of TAR archives, the ability to save lists of files and search results, and improved handling of archives that contain errors or additional data. The Tux-Alt theme has been released, offering an alternative aesthetic for Linux systems.
PeaZip 10.2.0 has been released and enhances archive detection, improves archive comment display, and introduces support for Brotli and Zstandard compression settings. The introduction of hybrid KDF mode, Qt6 packages for Linux systems, and Flatpak for Wayland with X11 fallback is noteworthy.
PeaZip 10.1.0 has been released, featuring enhancements including fixes, compression presets, improved navigation, and icons and themes with alpha transparency. It additionally supports scrypt KDF to enhance resistance against password guessing and raise memory cost.
Whisky 2.3.4 has been released, introducing new features such as advertising AVX support on macOS Sequoia+ and enabling DirectX Raytracing support on M3+.
PeaZip 10.0.0 has a new GUI engine, menus, compression presets, and themes. It enables file tools to save checksum/hash reports, look up hash values online, and update backends.
MacRumors published a story that Apple has made available the initial betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 updates for registered developers. The betas unveil the upcoming phase of Apple Intelligence, showcasing enhanced Siri functionalities, image generation capabilities, and additional features.
MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.296 has a lot of changes. It now dynamically assigns descriptors when the pool is full, stops using the MVKConfiguration::preallocateDescriptors and MVK_CONFIG_PREALLOCATE_DESCRIPTORS environment variables, and lets you write or copy past the end of a descriptor binding count. The update also includes support for storage images in Metal argument buffers on iOS and updating VkFormat capabilities based on the latest Metal documents. The update also addresses rendering issues, GPU crashes, race conditions, memory leaks, and build failures on VisionOS 2.0 platforms. The update also includes support for running on tvOS 13, a primitive-restart-disabled warning, and support for storage images in Metal argument buffers.
The release candidate for MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.296 is now available for testing.
Whisky 2.3.3 is now available with Swift 6 and macOS Sequoia toolchain, adding Arabic localization and improvements to various locales.
MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.295 Beta has been released for testing.
PeaZip 9.9.1 is a minor update, introducing internal drag and drop extraction, an improved file browser, revamped archive/extraction progress windows, and a quick archive extraction link.
Following two release candidates, the final version of the MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.290 was released.
The change log includes enhancements to bindless resources and descriptor indexing, including as support for Metal 3 argument buffers, multiplanar images in Metal argument buffers, and a descriptor pool with fewer descriptors than the descriptor set configuration. The maximum number of bindless buffers and textures per stage has been increased to 1 million, according to Apple Docs. The graphics pipeline now includes support for dynamic patch control points. The documentation for the minimal runtime OS requirements has been revised to include macOS 10.15, iOS 13, and tvOS 13.
The second release candidate for MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.290 is now available for testing.
The release candidate for MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.290 is now available for testing.
A new version of PeaZip is now available. PeaZip 9.8.0 introduces new themes, improved flat mode, and direct item extraction to bookmarks, history, or breadcrumb without confirmation. This feature is available in context menus, scripts, and system integration.
Bill Hollings has announced the release of MoltenVK Vulkan SDK version 1.3.283. The changelog includes enhancements to VK_EXT_host_image_copy, MVKPerformanceStatistics, and MVK_CONFIG_SHADER_DUMP_DIR. It also fixes crashes, deadlocks, memory leaks, and possible overruns on Metal buffer indexes. The version also adds support for overlapping bindings, recursive templates for spvArrayCopy(), enhanced argument buffer descriptor aliasing, and compiler bug fixes.
The release candidate for MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.283 is now available for testing.
