October 28, 2023

• Additional methods for DirectX Tool Kit for Audio emitter for linear and inverse-square falloff curves
• xwbtool: -flist option updated to support filenames with spaces

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2023.10.31

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September 2023

• Retired ARM (32-bit) support for the UWP platform
• CMake project updates

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2023.9.6

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June 2023

• CMake project updates
• xwbtool: Fix minor display issue with error messages
• xwbtool: Supports Long Paths on Windows 10, Version 1607 or later

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April 2023

• MapGuard in DirectXHelpers should not support the move ctor or move operator
• CMake project updates and fixes for clang/LLVM v16 warnings
• xwbtool: Windows on ARM64 version

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2023.4.28

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March 2023

• DirectX Tool Kit for Audio updates
  • Reworked audio device enumeration for XAudio 2.9 to use MMDeviceEnumerator rather than Windows Runtime APIs
  • GetOutputFormat now reports sample rate and bit-depth from the audio device properties
  • New method GetOutputSampleRate added to return the input sample rate of the mastering voice
  • Resume now handles device failure by switching to silent mode
• CMake project updates
• Retired VS 2017 legacy Xbox One XDK projects
• xwbtool: Updated to support Windows or UNIX-style path separators

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2023.3.30

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This version is available via vcpkg. Note this update to the port adds a tools feature for the installation of the command-line tools.

February 2023

• Mouse relative mode now accumulates multiple delta updates per frame. Added new optional but recommended method EndOfInputFrame.
• Fixed out-of-bounds read bug in the .WAV file reader.
• Additional checks added to DDSTextureLoader for planar video formats.
• DirectX Tool Kit for Audio updated for XAudio2Redist 1.2.11
• CMake project updates

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2023.2.7

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This is the last release that will support building for the legacy Xbox One XDK using VS 2017. See this issue for details or feedback.

December 2022

• GamePad, Keyboard, and Mouse headers have USING_XINPUT, USING_GAMEINPUT, USING_WINDOWS_GAMING_INPUT defines
• Updates for GameInputCreate failure handling on PC
• DirectX Tool Kit for Audio updated for XAudio2Redist 1.2.10
• CMake project updated to require 3.20 or later
• CMake and MSBuild project updates
• Minor MinGW code changes
• Added Azure Dev Ops Pipeline YAML files
• Test suite updated with CTest support

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2022.12.16

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October 2022

• Additional methods for DirectX Tool Kit for Audio emitter and listener for cone and falloff curves
• Added use of C++11 inline namespaces to make it possible to link both DX11 and DX12 versions at once
• Minor fix for CompileShaders.cmd to address additional 'paths with spaces' issues
• Minor CMake update

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2022.10.18

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July 2022

• breaking change DDSTextureLoader Ex functions now use DDS_LOADER_FLAGS instead of bool forceSRGB parameter.
• MapGuard helper class updated with a new copy method
• Fixed Mouse race-condition with changing mode and resetting scroll wheel at the same time.
• CMake and MSBuild project updates
• Minor code review

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2022.7.30

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June 2022

• GamePad, Keyboard, and Mouse updated to use GameInput on PC for the Gaming.Desktop.x64 platform
• DirectX Tool Kit for Audio updated for XAudio2Redist 1.2.9
• CMake project updates

This version is available via vcpkg.