Release v1.4.0-rc1

This new release candidate includes bug fixes and compatibility for .Net 7.0 [in terms of abstract interface operators and generic math operations] (get the ILGPU Nuget package and ILGPU Algorithms Nuget package).

Changes

• Added support for .NET 7 (#894).
• Added support for Generic Math using .NET 7 SDK (#898).
• Added support for static abstract interface members (#930).
• Added Cuda ISA 8.0 (#909).
• Added checks to ensure kernel parameters are blittable types (#966).
• Added P/Invoke source generation with LibraryImport (#946).
• Added support for LibDevice using Cuda Release v12 (#975).
• Added override capabilities for Cuda device instruction set (#931).
• Added tool to fetch Cuda release history from Nvidia website (#926).
• Adapted Cuda update tool for website design changes (#958).
• Removed obsolete code in RuntimeSystem (#951).
• Updated Cuda Library API versions (#974).
• Fixed compilation warnings from updated .NET 7 SDK (#902).
• Fixed reinterpret cast of Half on OpenCL (#954).
• Fixed failing unit tests when run in DEBUG configuration (#955).
• Fixed failing unit tests by adding generic constraints on .NET 7.0.3 SDK (#933).

Samples

• Added MemoryBufferStrides sample project (#949).
• Fixed comments in PinnedMemoryCopy sample (#950).
• Added sample project for Static Abstract Interface Members (#970).
• Updated workaround in CuFFT sample project (#972).

Website

• Fixed broken links in documentation and nuspec (#956).
• Fixed layout of Features Comparison table on mobile devices (#939).
• Replaced obsolete VB.NET reference with F# (#973).
• Build website on pull requests (#937).
• Sort milestones by name on website (#938).
• Removed broken link to obsolete Roadmap on website (#941).
• Ignore Docs/Sites when performing code builds (#936).
• Updated dependabot to monitor website dependencies (#934).

CI/DevOps

• Updated to conditional nuget packages (#897).
• Updated copyright tool to remove dependency on Ubuntu-18.04 (#908).
• Fixed setup of CI matrix (#967).
• Fixed status checks on protected branches (#962).
• Fixed CodeQL scanning 'Error' alerts (#817).
• Fixed CI copyright pipeline failing on .NET 7 SDK (#896).
• Fixed regression in CI skipping MacOS builds (#944).
• Fixed building website when workflow changes (#945).

Internal changes

• Applied generic struct constraint on ILGPU internals (#935).
• Added editor guidelines to T4 templates (#928).
• Allow manually triggering workflows (#940).
• Bump Cuda versions (#964).
• Bump FluentAssertions from 6.8.0 to 6.10.0 (#915, #927)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.3.2 to 17.5.0 (#886, #904, #948).
• Bump System.Collections.Immutable from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 (#884).
• Bump System.Reflection.Metadata from 6.0.1 to 7.0.1 (#885, #968).
• Bump actions/configure-pages from 2 to 3 (#916).
• Bump activesupport from 6.0.5.1 to 6.0.6.1 (#920).
• Bump commonmarker from 0.23.6 to 0.23.7 (#918).
• Bump github-pages from 227 to 228 in (#942).
• Bump nokogiri from 1.13.9 to 1.13.10 (#899).
• Bump runners version to v2.302.1 (#910, #917, #973, #947).
• Bump webrick from 1.7.0 to 1.8.1 (#943).

Special thanks

Special thanks to @lostmsu, @MoFtZ, and @pavlovic-ivan for their contributions to this release in form of code, feedback, ideas and proposals. Furthermore, we would like to thank the entire ILGPU community (especially @kilngod, @NullandKale, @MPSQUARK, and @Yey007 for providing feedback, submitting issues and feature requests.