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Graphics API Debugger, version 1.6.1 contains a few bug fixes and improvements to the GAPID Perfetto integration.

Fixes

• Make Android Perfetto tracing work on Windows
• Fix for taking a perfetto trace on desktop
• Fix Perfetto help text
• Disable the horizontal mouse wheel in the Perfetto view
• Look for the Perfetto config in GAPID package
• Update to latest Perfetto
• Fix handling of CPU/CPU Frequency track presence
• Handle empty counter results
• GPU Queue/Render stages UI
• Don't try to dispose the clipboard if the display is already disposed

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.6.0 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes.

Vulkan Features & Fixes

• Fix SEGV when using invalid image views
• Guard invalid device memory flushes
• Fix virtual swapchain
• Fix DCE incorrectly removing vkDeviceWaitIdle calls
• Add VkApplicationInfo in Instance state object
• Add Stadia Support
• First pass on adding multi-planar images
• Add VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count extensions
• Add support for VK_KHR_image_format_list
• Add VK_AMD_buffer_marker and VK_EXT_debug_utils extension support
• Fix for descriptors if we cannot parse the SPIR-V module

GLES Features & Fixes

• Allow unsized internalformat for GLES state reconstruction
• Depth/Stencil GPU written Texture fixes

Android Features & Fixes

• Fix GAPIR Android app termination
• Fix the case where some applications mis-label their ABI
• Use the Android Q settings driven layers to trace
• Add standalone APK creation to export_replay
• Replay frame delimiters for EGL
• Automatically unlock device screen when possible
• Fix tracing on Chromebooks

General Features & Fixes

• Added help text to gapir
• Check if the GAPIR connection exists before shutting down
• Initial Perfetto Support in GAPIS
• Launched gapid.dev
• Update to latest golang runtime
• Initial scaffolding for profiling replays
• Main Perfetto UI for System Profiling
• Fix the memory copy misalignment bug in memory view
• Make two UI modifications in Welcoming window and Help-About dialog
• Perfetto Counter UI and GPU Group

Command Line Tools

• Make gapit video behave like gapit screenshot
• Added a -gapir-nofallback flag
• Gracefully fail when context argument is out of range
• Update help text for DeviceFlags

Build of libinterceptor Android shared libraries to be used by the build.

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.5.0 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes

Bug Fixes:

• Vulkan: Fix stencil image data priming
• Don't rely on context cancelation to release a Vulkan device.
• Fix the keyboard menu shortcuts.
• Fallback to glReadPixels if glReadnPixels is unavailable.
• Correctly set the target/min SDK API.
• Handle a missed GL_HALF_FLOAT vs GL_HALF_FLOAT_OES case.
• Fix reading of depth textures/buffers in ODR.
• Work around exception in the report view on MacOS.
• Shutdown the gRPC server on interrupt.
• Fix SEGV when using invalid image views.

Improvements

• Work for newer Android versions

Command-line tool fixes

• Fix calculation of frame count for gapit trim.

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.4.0 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes for the trace and replay use cases.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix bug when invalid image aspect will be referenced.
• Allowed changes to the SSH config while gapis is running.
• Fix effect of pointer[n] for n > 0
• Fix condition on shader cross-compilation

Improvements

• Allow gapit trace to trace APK files.
• Show the server status in the UI.
• OutputCSV flag in gapit benchmark

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.3.1 contains a number of new features, bug fixes and optimizations to trace and replay.

General Fixes:

• Don't crash when attempting to trace unknown package.

Android fixes:

• Fix path in Android's hasGLorGLES.
• Add the API level to the device label.
• Fix JDWP interception to work if debug names are missing.
• Handle a new JDWP signature for tracing.
• Query the SDK version for Android devices.
• Handle (some) PLT type functions in libInterceptor.

OpenGL ES Fixes

• Don't crash on GLES 1.? contexts...
• Support editing shaders in GLES MEC traces.

Vulkan features:

• Added a dependency graph visualization tool
  • https://github.com/google/gapid/pull/2550
  • https://github.com/google/gapid/pull/2541
  • https://github.com/google/gapid/pull/2527
  • https://github.com/google/gapid/pull/2524
  • https://github.com/google/gapid/pull/2507
• Switch to new (dependency graph) dead code elimination
• Vulkan: sampler_ycbcr_conversion step 3, bind memory for planes
• Vulkan: Sampler_ycbcr_conversion step 2
• Vulkan: Extension sampler_ycbcr_conversion Step 1
• Vulkan: support of VK_KHR_maintenance3 extension
• Vulkan: Support for external memory/fence/semaphore capabilities
• Vulkan: Support of VK_KHR_maintenance2 extension
• Vulkan: Show first layer in case of layered rendering

Vulkan fixes:

• Clear the global PhysicalDevices map on vkDestroyInstance.
• Fall-back to using all descriptors if we can't parse the SPIR-V.
• Handle the case where we destroy an ImageView attached to a framebuffer.
• Vulkan: Rebuild pNext for VkDeviceCreateInfo
• Vulkan: Fix image depth in accessImageSubresourceSlice
• Make sure that the image/view exist before deleting them.
• Vulkan: A list of low hang extensions toward Vulkan 1.1 support
• Vulkan: Correctly handle 3D images with 2D views
• Vulkan: Added Views field to ImageObject to store image views
• Vulkan: Fix wrong aspect flag used in image primer buffer copy job
• Mute the validation layer output on the gapir side by default
• Vulkan: 2D <-> 3D image copy support
• Vulkan: Fix state rebuilder to handle status change in query pools
• Vulkan: Fix the attachment image layout tracking
• Fix error in VkBeginCommandBuffer.
• Vulkan: Fix trace behavior of vkCmdCopyBufferToImage.
• Vulkan: Fix BasePipeline value set in vkCreate*Pipelines
• Vulkan: Fix infinite loop in state_rebuilder.
• Vulkan: Guard access to pipeline DynamicState and push constants
• Vulkan: Fix incorrect image layout for multi-layer-level depth/stencil images
• Vulkan: Validate command buffer state when adding commands
• Vulkan: Validate handles in vkCmdBindDescriptorSets

UI Fixes:

• Fixes the intinite loop in the memory view.
• Lower the verbosity of the GRPC log.
• Use SaveCapture in favor of ExportCapture to support large files.
• Bunch of Shutdown Fixes

Build Fixes:

• Minor changes to fix build on Xcode 10
• Fix Macos build
• Add a @gapic_third_party indirection to the gapic build.

Command Line Tools:

• gapit: print capture id when loading a capture
• gapit dump_resources: include shader type in file extension
• Added gapit status.
• Gapit benchmark: stop gapis trace before closing client connection.

Additional features:

• Allow the remote ssh cfg to be parsed from json string
• Configurable default replay cache path for remote ssh devices

Optimizations:

• Change our std::recursive_mutex into a recursive spin-lock.
• Make AllResourceData resolvable based on resource type.
• Revert a change that inexplicably caused a large perf regression.

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.2.1 contains a number of new features, bug fixes and optimizations to trace and replay.

New Features:

Command Line Tools

• New enum_lookup command for outputting enum names by value
• Use existing shader type in gapit replace_resource.
• Export_replay using original device.
• Most gapit verbs can now take a capture ID instead of a gfxtrace file.

Optimizations:

• Make the Go garbage-collector more aggressive.

Fixes:

• Minor fix for the temporary directory for on-disk cache
• Allow partially valid results returned from find command when listing files and directories
• Check for oob command path.
• Add create index to resource handle string.
• Change kMaxFramebufferObservation to 4K.
• Set the maximum number of ssh connection to a ssh remote target to 15

OpenGL ES Fixes:

• Fix Compressed Texture Compat
• Avoid querying GLES 3.0 features in 2.0.
• Correctly handle texture layer FB attachemnts in DCE.

Vulkan Fixes:

• Fix vulkan-smoketest replay
• Support of VkTrimCommandPoolKHR
• Vulkan: Do not allow nil texture data
• Vulkan: Drop VkDestroyXXX and VkFreeXXX commands that refer to not tracked handles
• Stop aborting on some handle failures.
• Vulkan: Fix framebuffer and querypool creation for initial state
• Vulkan: Fix some image layout errors reported by validation layers
• Vulkan: Track the const pNext pointers for all supported cases

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.2.0 contains a number of new features, bug fixes and optimizations to trace and replay.

New Features:

• New UI to pick the device used for replay and new support for OpenGL ES on-device replay
• New experimental support for OpenGL ES Mid-Execution capture
• Trace dialog is now uniform across all trace targets

Vulkan

• Added support for replaying to the screen on Windows and Linux
• Added the option to export replay payloads for later replay with gapir
• Add overdraw as option to GAPID UI framebuffer view
• Vulkan validation layer output is now included in the Report view

Command Line Tools

• New gapit stats verb for printing capture statistics
• New gapit memory verb for a breakdown of Vulkan memory usage
• gapit can now replace shader source in a .gfxtrace
• gapit screenshot can now specify an attachment
• gapit state filtering now supports wildcards
• VkPipelines are now listed as a resource type
• gapit screenshot can now create multiple screenshots in one call

Misc

• Add an option to GAPID to disable unknown extensions.

Optimizations:

• Only take the slow-path in MutationCmdsFor if we really have to.
• Don't encode commands pre MEC
• Drop the global lock around most of the Vulkan API commands
• Another way to drop raw bytes of the capture data
• Add @spy_disabled annotation to subroutines.
• Pre-resolve dependency graph
• Switched the map iteration template to refs instead of copies.
• Add Dense map to the API language.
• Limit the size of replay resource data chunks to reduce memory usage
• Do not cache the instruction builder for replay execution
• Fix to reduce memory usage of gapis video.
• Vulkan: Reduce DCE memory usage
• Optimize resource hashing
• Elide ALL commands that we are not trying to trace.
• Optimize byte slice copies

Fixes:

• Increase the connect timeout to the gapii socket.
• Linux: Be more aggressive about keeping the memory tracker on.
• Return better error messages from remote ssh connection
• Fix type cast panic (bug #2190)
• Close ssh tunnel when either end closes the connection
• Fix an issue with linux remote-ssh package listing.
• Workaround an issue in golang 1.10.3 where a 4GB file is truncated.
• Use a more robust way to retrieve screen states
• Allow more memory in gapir if we are on desktop.
• Add support for rendering during replay to the surface
• Don't merge stdout/stderr on remote device-info.
• Overdraw: Check for format support and convert if necessary
• gapii/client: Use a timeout for the Dial
• Create gapic GL contexts ourselves on Linux.
• Fix command tree grouping by frame.
• Fix a bug in virtual swapchain
• Add a workaround for some Linux drivers.

OpenGL ES Fixes:

• Correctly replay uniform block bindings.
• Fix scissor/viewport resetting

Vulkan Fixes:

• Fix an overrun in the dependencySync.
• Smarter check for temporary shader modules, renderpasses etc.
• Fix a bug in current DCE about dynamic offsets
• Ad-hoc fix to add a minimum image memory allocation size
• Fix incorrect traversal of descriptor bindings
• re-Fix wrong descriptor set indices when binding descriptor sets
• Made descriptor bindings refs.
• Cache the base pipeline only if the creating pipeling has derivative bit
• vkGetPhysicalDevice*PresentationSupportKHR reads and validate the physical device
• Added vkCmdBlitImage api implementation
• Fix typo in descriptor api.
• Update how we handle descriptor sets again.
• Fix wrong descriptor set indices when binding descriptor sets
• Remove explicit write in doVkCmdFillBuffer.
• Make sure we don't use uninitialized memory in BaseSwapchain::Destroy
• Fix bugs about linear images
• Warn when imageview aspect flags not subset of image aspects
• A few more small fixes around images and descriptor sets.
• Add a couple of checks around image usage.
• Copy depth aspect by rendering in overdraw
• Use framebuffer extent in depth aspect copy, fixes #2071
• Fix a DCE bug with vkCreateBufferView
• Reduce the num of cmds for state rebuilding again
• Fix the crash during tracing vkCmdFillBuffer
• State rebuilding optimization reduce the number of commands
• Fix Crashes caused by not using NewXXX ctor
• Fix the unit test failure due to nil query pool object
• Improve the queue selection logic during state rebuilding
• Fix Device Lost error due to using wrong queue for querypools
• Make associativity explicit for copy_clear_commands
• Allocation optimization for byte slice during state rebuilding
• Add support to BC4 and BC5 format
• Fix a bug in current DCE
• Fix crash at VkDestroyDebugReportCallbackEXT
• Fix missing fetches of physical device properties
• Vulkan Overdraw Tracking
• Lazily resolve Vulkan commands (actually all indirect commands)
• Fix a crash due to footprint builder
• Support pending VkFence signal
• Fix support of sparse buffer
• Image/Buffer view stores back refs to their users
• Fix crashes with Vulkan sparse bindings
• Fix for sparse binding, when unbinding a page.
• Fix for linear image with preinitialized intial layout
• Don't recreate framebuffers that have invalid image views.
• Dont prime depth by copy
• Handle VK_REMAINING_ARRAY_LAYER/MIP_LEVEL
• Cleaned up a bunch of error message in Vulkan.
• Disable our optimization for not re-priming undefined images.
• Now that we clean up images from views, handle that on recreation.
• Fix command buffers whose recording spans a frame.
• Fix the crash of Vulkan MEC due to fetching physical device properties
• Guard the use of prefetched physical device properties
• Fix tracking of image layout
• Fix texture views of when framebuffers are cleared.

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.1.0 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements. Note: Due to some of the changes, this is a file-format breaking release.

New Features:

• Works with Android P
• The geometry view now let's you customize how to display the vertex streams.
• Vulkan presentations on the compute queue inspected.
• You can now specify additional Android intent flags for tracing.

Optimizations:

• Improved performance of capture

Fixes:

• Fix for crashes on certain AMD hardware.
• Fix tonemapping sliders for certain HDR images.
• Fix for deviceinfo failing if there is no GL driver

OpenGL ES Fixes:

• Fix for OpenGL ES undefined framebuffer pattern.
• Fix for OpenGL ES replay when there's a bad command.
• Replay of Shaders > GLSL 330 will now work on host drivers that support it.
• Fix for bad replay of glBindBufferRange.
• Fix crash when examining textures of type GL_INT.
• Fix tracing of pre-compiled shader commands when not disabled.
• Improvements to the logging of replay errors.
• Fix GL_MAX_VIEWS_OVR in glGetInteger
• Add GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR to glTexParametervX

Vulkan Fixes:

• Reworked Vulkan Mid-Execution Capture
• Fix Vulkan trace and replay when the host doesn't have GL drivers.
• Coherent SSBOs are now correctly read.
• Vulkan commands that take a nullptr allocator now replay correctly.
• Replay fix of the start of a Vulkan queue-submit.
• Replay fixes for vkGetImageMemoryRequirements2KHR.
• Fix for tracing apps that use VulkanSDK loaders.
• Fix for commands getting dropped after repeat calls to vkCreateInstance.
• Fix for the use of overflow descriptors.
• Fix replay on hosts with multiple GPUs.
• Fix for incorrect surface types being exposed.
• Fix for crash in vkDestroyImageView.
• Fix bad replay of vkBufferImageCopy.
• Fix replay of D24 textures.
• Fix crash in vkDestroyDevice.
• Fix NPE on vkDestroyImage.
• Clean up presentation and submission images.
• Fix the data dependency for destroyed framebuffers
• Fixes for Sparse Images
• Fix for missing libvulkan.so
• Fix for tracing / replaying while validation layers are enabled
• Fix for not correctly tracking Vulkan image layout transitions
• Fix for replaying Vulkan applications that use debug report
• Fix segfault in deviceinfo for Vulkan
• Fixed a rare crash when vkDestroyDevice was in the trace

Check here for a complete list of changes.

Graphics API Debugger, version 1.0.3 contains a number of crash fixes, including an important crash fix for macOS High Sierra.