December 11, 2012

• Ex versions of CreateTexture, CreateShaderResourceView, DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader
• Fixed BC2 and BC3 decompression issue for unusual color encoding case
• Converted annotation to SAL2 for improved VS 2012 /analyze experience
• Updated DirectXTex, DDSView, and Texconv with VS 2010 + Windows 8.0 SDK project using official 'property sheets'

August 13, 2013

• DirectCompute 4.0 BC6H/BC7 compressor integration
• texconv utility uses DirectCompute compression by default for BC6H/BC7, -nogpu disables use of DirectCompute

August 1, 2013

• Support for BC compression/decompression of non-power-of-2 mipmapped textures
• Fixes for BC6H / BC7 codecs to better match published standard
• Fix for BC4 / BC5 codecs when compressing RGB images
• Minor fix for the BC1-3 codec
• New optional flags for ComputeMSE to compare UNORM vs. SNORM images
• New WIC loading flag added to control use of WIC metadata to return sRGB vs. non-sRGB formats
• Code cleanup and /analyze fixes
• Project file cleanup
• Texconv utility uses parallel BC compression by default for BC6H/BC7, -singleproc disables multithreaded behavior

April 3, 2014

Windows phone 8.1 platform support

April 16, 2013

• Updated alpha-mode metadata details in .DDS files
• Added new control flags for Convert
• Added new optional flags for ComputeMSE
• Fixed conversion handling for sRGB formats
• Fixed internal routines for handling R10G10B10_XR_BIAS_A2_UNORM, R9G9B9E5_SHAREDEXP, and FORMAT_R1_UNORM}
• Fixed WIC I/O for GUID_WICPixelFormat32bppRGBE pixel format files (HD Photo)
• Fixed non-square image handling in GenerateMipMaps3D
• Fixed some error handling in the DDS load code

April 20, 2012

DirectTex's WIC-based writer opts-in for the Windows 8 BMP encoder option for writing 32 bpp RGBA files with the BITMAPV5HEADER