v1.1.0

Metal v1.1.0

Diff since v1.0.0

Merged pull requests:

• Add resize! (#279) (@mtfishman)
• Initial MTLTexture support (#280) (@christiangnrd)
• Avoid redundant pointer conversions for threadgroup memory. (#283) (@maleadt)
• Re-implement metallib generation in Julia. (#284) (@maleadt)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for SHA at version 0.7, (keep existing compat) (#286) (@github-actions[bot])
• Support more of the metallib format (#288) (@maleadt)
• Address potentiallly buggy mtl behaviour. (#290) (@christiangnrd)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for CodecBzip2 at version 0.8, (keep existing compat) (#292) (@github-actions[bot])
• Remove an unneeded pointer method. (#293) (@maleadt)
• Use NSAutoreleasePool to clean up memory. (#294) (@maleadt)
• adapt_storage-related improvements (#296) (@christiangnrd)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for ObjectiveC to 2, (keep existing compat) (#297) (@github-actions[bot])
• Add support for signposts (#300) (@maleadt)
• Retain NSError we rethrow to avoid an UAF. (#302) (@maleadt)
• Minor mapreduce improvements (#303) (@maleadt)
• Specialize broadcast to avoid integer divisions. (#304) (@maleadt)
• Better Support for Unified Memory (#305) (@tgymnich)
• Add 1.11 CI (#306) (@christiangnrd)
• Remove unused files (#307) (@tgymnich)
• Skip profiling tests on macOS 14.4/M1. (#310) (@maleadt)
• Increase test timeout limit to accomodate 1.8 (#311) (@christiangnrd)
• Test all storage modes (#314) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix doctests (#315) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix KernelAbstractions for Unified Memory (#316) (@tgymnich)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for Preferences at version 1, (keep existing compat) (#318) (@github-actions[bot])
• Minor cleanup (#319) (@christiangnrd)
• Create MtlArray using memory allocated by Array (#320) (@christiangnrd)
• Re-enable profiling tests on M1/14.4 when using Xcode 15.3. (#322) (@maleadt)
• Small typo and doc fixup (#325) (@christiangnrd)
• BFloat16s.jl extension and related improvements (#326) (@christiangnrd)
• Support for Julia 1.11 (#327) (@maleadt)

Closed issues:

• Validation-related back-end crash on macOS Ventura (#34)
• slow broadcast copy in 2D (#41)
• Poor performance of mapreduce (#46)
• Multiplication with SubArrays (#47)
• Add support to creating MtlArray using a memory allocated by Array (#62)
• Improve use of unified memory (#86)
• Use Autoreleasepools with Metal (#103)
• Unknown RFLT tag generated by macOS 13 Metal compiler (#167)
• mapreduce allocates a lot on the CPU (#211)
• Legalization errors with vectorized code (#257)
• Compilation Failure due to undefined symbols (#276)
• resize!, append! not defined (#277)
• tag new version (#278)
• Panic during profiling tests on 14.4 beta (#281)
• M3 backend cannot handle atomics with complicated pointer conversions (#282)
• Int128 does not compile (#287)
• Two suspicious mtl-related behaviours (#289)
• LU factorization: add allowsingular keyword argument (#299)
• Autorelease changes lead to use after free with errors (#301)
• Reductions don't work on Shared Arrays (#312)