What's Changed

New Features

• VS2026 CMake 4.2 support by@AnastaZIuk in#951
• CMake build targets for SPIR-V shaders, CI now tests example shaders building by@Przemog1 in#944
• Dump info about all Vulkan Physical Devices to JSON (not just ones that meet Nabla core profile), by@YasInvolved in#938
• llvm-pipe preliminary integration into CI pipeline (however llvm-pipe does not meet Nabla Core Profile - see Mesa issues we've filed)
• New morton class with arithmetic and comparison operators by@Fletterio and@kevyuu in#860
• Iridescent Fresnel draft (subject to change) by@keptsecret in#918
• Geometry Vertex Welder utility
• emulated_uint64_t for Vulkan devices withoutshaderInt64 support like the Quest 2
• other minor features likesystem::to_string for HLSL vectors,nbl/builtin/hlsl/colorspace.hlsl, polar coordinate header

Improvements

• BxDF HLSL Library Interfaces and API finalized
• Vertex Hash Grid is its own utility now to be shared between algorithms
• morefunctional.hlsl functors likeequal_to and shift operator equivalents
• nbl::hlsl::truncate
• nbl::hlsl::sincos_accumulator finalized
• Image, font and zlib 3rdparty library updates
• radix sort does histogramming and scatter in alternating directions keeping cache warm
• more SPIR-V inline intrinsics
• morenbl::hlsl::mpl functions

Bugfixes

• Clean up the NBL_ C++/HLSL compatibility headers (esp forconstexpr) hence the API breakage
• DXC Updates
• Smooth normal computation uses proper O(1) algorithms
• nbl::hlsl::math::linalg::promote_affine actually fills the diagonal of expanded matrix with 1s now
• nbl::hlsl::extent specialization clean up forvector andmatrix

Full Changelog:v0.8.0.1...v0.9.0.0

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