May 31, 2012

• Minor fix for DDSTextureLoader's retry fallback that can happen with 10level9 feature levels
• Switched to use "_DEBUG" instead of "DEBUG" and cleaned up debug warnings
• added Metro style application project files for DirectXTex

March 27, 2015

• Added projects for Windows apps Technical Preview
• Fixed bug with WIC-based mipmap generation for non-WIC supported formats
• Fixed bug with WIC multiframe loader when resizing required
• texconv: Added -nmap/-nmapamp for generating normal maps from height maps
• texconv/texassemble: Updated to load multiframe WIC files (tiff, gif)
• Minor code cleanup

DirectXTex is now licensed under the MIT license rather than the MS-PL

March 22, 2013

• Supports reading and writing alpha-mode (straight, premultiplied, etc.) metadata in .DDS files
• Added build option to use WICCreateImagingFactory_Proxy instead of CoCreateInstance to obtain WIC factory

June 15, 2013

• Custom filtering implementation for Resize & GenerateMipMaps(3D) - Point, Box, Linear, Cubic, and Triangle
  • TEX_FILTER_TRIANGLE finite low-pass triangle filter
  • TEX_FILTER_WRAP, TEX_FILTER_MIRROR texture semantics for custom filtering
  • TEX_FILTER_BOX alias for TEX_FILTER_FANT WIC
• Ordered and error diffusion dithering for non-WIC conversion
• sRGB gamma correct custom filtering and conversion
• DDS_FLAGS_EXPAND_LUMINANCE - Reader conversion option for L8, L16, and A8L8 legacy DDS files
• Added use of WIC metadata for sRGB pixel formats
• Added BitsPerColor utility function
• Fixed Convert threshold parameter usage
• Non-power-of-2 volume map support, fixed bug with non-square volume maps
• Texconv utility update with -xlum, -wrap, and -mirror options; reworked -if options for improved dithering
• Texassemble utility for creating cubemaps, volume maps, and texture arrays
• DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader sync'd with DirectXTK versions

June 22, 2012

• Moved to using XNA Math 2.05 instead of XNA Math 2.04 for USE_XNAMATH builds
• Fixed BGR vs. RGB color channel swizzle problem with 24bpp legacy .DDS files in DirectXTex
• Update to DirectXTex WIC and WICTextureLoader for additional 96bpp float format handling on Windows 8

July 15, 2014

• texconv command-line tool fixes
• Fixed problem with 'wide' images with CPU Compress
• Updates to Xbox One platform support

July 1, 2013

• VS 2013 Preview projects added
• SaveToWIC functions updated with new optional setCustomProps parameter

January 24, 2014

• Added sRGB flags for Compress (TEX_COMPRESS_SRGB*)
• Added 'compress' flag parameter to GPU versions of Compress breaking change
• Minor fix for potential rounding problem in GPU Compress
• Code cleanup (removed DXGI_1_2_FORMATS control define; ScopedObject typedef removed)
• Dropped VS 2010 support without the Windows 8.1 SDK (removed USE_XNAMATH control define)

January 29, 2013

• Added PremultiplyAlpha to DirectXTex; -pmalpha switch for texconv command-line tool
• Fixed problem with forceSRGB implementation for Ex versions of CreateTexture, CreateShaderResourceView, DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader

February 24, 2014

• Direct3D 11 video and Xbox One extended format support
• New APIs: IsPlanar, IsPalettized, IsDepthStencil, ConvertToSinglePlane
• Added 'alphaWeight' parameter to GPU Compress breaking change
• texconv '-aw' switch to control the alpha weighting for the BC7 GPU compressor
• Fixed bug with ordered dithering in non-WIC conversion codepaths
• Fixed SaveToDDS* functions when using arbitrary row pitch values