Slang v2025.16.1

=== Breaking changes ===
No breaking changes

=== All changes for this release ===
3aff764c2 Use wide char version of Windows API (#8390)
8b512c49d Don't emit ArrayStride 0 for RWStructuredBuffer pointers (#8397)
c0d7405d8 Enhances CI reliability and debug logging (#8393)
bc6b82666 Relax restriction on using link-time types for shader parameters. (#8387)
fe87a39e4 Remove unnecessary check and adust server count etc. in CI (#8374)
4856da26e Add check for backtrace availability (#8329)
ffd58977b Disable a few WGSL testing using Wave functions in branches (#8386)
5055de0bb Add warnings for overflows of integer types (#8281)
5500f1176 Try both LoadLibrary functions on Windows (#8368)
1e1ff8a12 Fix cache_dir path for ccache config (#8370)
0fb62524b Split CI to build and test jobs (#8359)

Slang v2025.16

=== Breaking changes ===
7758625d3 [CBP] Pointer frontend changes + groupshared pointer support (#7848)

=== All changes for this release ===
20373ad01 Fix#8128 LSS and sphere hit object intrinsics fail to compile (#8339)
5ec41675d Enable CUDA support for additional HLSL intrinsic tests (#8293)
b45706b3f Handle slang-test command comments better (#8363)
a766d2744 Diagnose on structured buffers containing resources (#8222)
bf607e2f3 Fix#8085: Batch-9: Enable cuda tests (#8269)
f5fae0108 Add Optix Intrinsics Coverage (#8159) (#8310)
639978008 Fix#8086: Batch-10: Enable cuda tests (#8270)
4886bf95f manually config ccache locally (#8351)
7d15d388d Enable ccache for self-hosted runner (#8345)
f02b08490 render-test: Change D3D12 default to sm_6_5 (#8320)
21693abbd Emit DebugInfo for the legalized entry point parameters (#7703)
b46f46c5e Remove ForceUnroll attribute from link-time specialization documentation (#8225)
288a63dea Remove unused variable in slangc::main (#8325)
[BREAKING] 7758625d3 [CBP] Pointer frontend changes + groupshared pointer support (#7848)
450ef7934 Enable slangpy and slang-rhi tests for Mac (#8297)

74c39eaa3 Revert "Reduce the dependency to thread library (#8216)" (#…

1681bc67f Fail slang-test when VVL printed errors (#8280)

4e9ee1dc8 Fix Metal 8-bit vector type names: emit char/uchar instead of int8_t/uint8_t (#8223)
0b87355f9 Update slang-rhi deps for gfx-unit-test (#8237)
b36659eca Fix `shouldEmitSPIRVDirectly` (#8019)
70d70c1d3 Fix warnings from CMake version 3.31 (#8227)
5060042bb fix a autodiff crash (#8259)
7b30ad489 Add WASM platform support to release workflow (#8264)
404a8635f (origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Print GPU driver version in CI.yml (#8275)
1562f98c0 Fix#8084: Batch-8: Enable cuda tests (#8268)
7b4d02803 Fix#8083: Batch-7: Enable cuda tests (#8267)
53fa12e1b Fix#8082: Batch-6: Enable cuda tests (#8266)
67cf14034 Fix#8081: Batch-5: Enable cuda tests (#8263)
7ae655c2a Fix#8080: Batch-4: Enable cuda tests (#8261)
cd9e1f671 Fix mesh shader OutputIndices subscript error by adding missing ref accessor (#7929)
3ca2e4751 Fix readlink missing include (#8260)
a5e6ddd00 (arial/master) Add record and replay support for IComponentType2 (#8215)
44815ba48 Fix SLANGC_EXECUTABLE search path in slangConfig.cmake (#8200)
c45f02579 Fix reflection JSON writing userAttribs section twice for some cases. (#8210)
35f8e092f Introduce CDataLayout & -fvk-use-c-layout (#8136)
05f0f5603 Implement SV_VulkanSamplePosition (#8236)
cbd73dde3 Fix nextafter() (#8195)
619de903b Add more system dependency options to CMake (#7987)
82e3fc9c1 Add Metal support for WaveGetActiveMask and WaveActiveCountBits (#8218)
a26a11ff5 Enabling via-glsl test for "merge" event (#8133)
113327194 Reduce the dependency to thread library (#8216)
e0c20a076 Updated support to enable batch3  (#8219)
e4a7129b8 Fix#8076 - Re-enable slangpy test (#8087)
785548a49 Add multiple slang installations note to doc (#8231)
6321bf07f CMake: Guard inclusion of VULKAN_HEADERS and SPIRV-Headers (#8124)
ae1a93b57 Emit descriptor handle correctly for ParameterBlock<DescriptorHandle> (#8206)
e9a309678 Fix error in IR stable names Git diff CI script (#7954)
d9851d4e4 Make LLDB IR data formatters more robust (#7927)
09054bff3 Don't let clang-format reorder Fiddle `#include`s (#7887)
2f68f98a3 Fix issue of double lowering issue a differentiable function (#8182)
cc93e2c35 Fix constructor overload ambiguity with scalar and vector parameters (#8109)
1a4ccba64 Show usage of `FIDDLE END` in Fiddle doc example (#7888)
c3df36043 Enable CUDA Test Enablement - Batch 1: Autodiff Tests (1-16)  (#8139)
8ba38bcd6 Update capability atoms reference page (#8138)
3639e71df Update cuda context creation to support cuda 13 (#8181)
af27de015 Add static functions to create blobs from data (#8179)
dcda42e7d Use 64bit int instead of emulation on metal (#8180)
f75bf474e [CUDA] Fix incorrect `kIROp_RaytracingAccelerationStructureType` emitting logic (#8168)
feb1569d9 Prohibit use of buffer.GetDimensions on metal (#8156)
cfd08da10 Clean up `natvis` and use fiddle to generate info needed for `.natvis` debugging (#8192)
dd06524f5 [Capability System] Fix bug where capabilities do not correctly propegate if AST-parent has target+set the AST-child does not (#8175)
ceb2e8d04 Fix typo in "compilation ceased" error identifier (#8189)
90a9515fc Handle SV_Barycentrics on metal (#8163)
80b46bd21 Fix error for not defining `Val::_toTextOverride` (#8177)
d7e2bac2d Remove the semantic decoration from the original entry struct (#8146)
047b8af48 Make the issue headings bigger (#8143)
3618f7a4c Enable CUDA testing for batch 2 (#8147)
719ecf3bf Allow `flake.nix` users to run Vulkan tests (#8152)
5b64150cd Do case-sensitive search for category first in slangc -h (#8142)
dcdebc1a7 Allow specializing entrypoints with generic value args or variadic types from API (#8119)
fc6aea374 [SPIR-V] Emit control flags for `branch/flatten` decorations (#8134)
6d54b66ca Be conservative for checking if PR is doc changes only (#8130)

Slang v2025.13.2

=== Breaking changes ===
No breaking changes

=== All changes for this release ===
b8663a5d9 Fix ICE when immutable value is passed to a bwd_diff function. (#7973)
48efc6038 Fix Metal invalid as_type cast for 64-bit RWByteAddressBuffer.Store values (#7843)
2db6ac97a Fix slang-no-embedded-core-module-source embedding core module (#7885)
ff96d5935 Invoke `clang++` on C++ code instead of `clang` (#7958)
855b1a262 [Language Server]: Show signature help on generic parameters. (#7913)
ea6f8551a Detect uses of uninitialized resource fields (#7962)
1da9019e9 Improve diagnostics over ambiguous references. (#7930)
e8797496b Fix CUDA backend missing U32_firstbitlow implementation (#7921)
a2d93ae01 Disable automatic `#include` insertion for clangd (#7951)
5f8475bee Fix issue in multi-level break elimination by handling multi-level continue statements (#7953)
4ca545ed9 Update slang-rhi to fix CI error on debug. (#7946)
6d399804a Fix broken links in User Guide (#7938)
d311efd9d Fix failing CoopVec tests (#7937)
c068bdea4 Fix mesh shader reflection JSON output (#7868)
6f60f16e0 Fix nv_viewport_mask semantic to emit SpvBuiltInViewportMaskNV (#7904)