v1.10.0

• engine: User materials can now use 9 samplers instead of 8 [⚠️ Material breakage].
• engine: Remove populateTangentQuaternions [⚠️ API change].
• engine: Deprecate Stream::Builder::stream(intptr_t) [⚠️ API Change].
• engine: Remove deprecated APIs: Camera::setScaling, Engine::destroy(Camera*),
  Engine::createCamera, Renderer::beginFrame(SwapChain*, uint64_t, backend::FrameScheduledCallback, void*), and View::setShadowsEnabled [⚠️ API Change].
• engine: Remove focusDistance from View::BloomOptions [⚠️ API Change].
• engine: Add a FILAMENT_SUPPORTS_OPENGL CMake option to enable/disable OpenGL support.
• Vulkan: fixes and improvements for large scenes.
• gltfio: fix morphing bugs uncovered by MorphStressTest.
• Java: add API for Texture::Builder::import().
• WebGL: Fix a potential INVALID_OPERATION.

v1.9.25

• NEW API ✨: Screen-space lens flare effect.
• engine: Fix several memory leaks in the GL backend.
• Vulkan: General bug fixes and improvements.
• Vulkan: Fix some problems seen on Mali devices.
• ios: Fix VSM shadows not working.
• webgl: Fix black screen seen with some samples.

Examples

Lens Flare

See demonstration video: https://youtu.be/ne-bej2bit8

v1.9.24

• engine: Fix memory leaks in OpenGL driver.
• engine: new experimental tone mapper, EVILS (name will most likely change).
• engine: Improvements to Vulkan backend.
• engine: Fix incorrect units documented for LightManager.getIntensity.
• engine: fix high quality upsampling for SSAO.
• engine: implement accurate normal reconstruction for SSAO.
• engine: improve LOW and HIGH quality levels for SSAO.
• libs: improvements to libiblprefilter.
• materials: New quality property.
• samples: Add new gltf-viewer iOS sample.
• samples: clear the background in lightbulb sample.

v1.9.23

• Vulkan: various fixes.
• android: fix crash seen using VSM with MSAA on Adreno devices.
• engine: Add Engine::getEntityManager().
• engine: Fix desktop crash seen with some GPU drivers.
• engine: improve importance sampling.
• gltfio: robustness improvements for Draco meshes.
• libs: Add new Transcoder API for C++ clients (part of libgeometry).
• libs: New iblprefilter library to compute IBL pre-integration on the GPU using filament.
• materials: Fix documentation for getNormalizedViewportCoord.
• samples: fix rendertarget sample crash on launch.

v1.9.22

• NEW API: Renderer::renderStandaloneView() is a new method that can be used outside of
  beginFrame/endFrame on Views that have a RenderTarget associated. This can be used as a
  pseudo-compute API.
• Vulkan: bug fixes and improvements.
• engine: RenderTarget API can now use MRT.
• sample-gltf-viewer: improvements for reading zip files.
• sample-gltf-viewer: enable contact-shadows functionality in mobile gltf-viewer.
• windows: fix build error in filament_framegraph_test.

v1.9.21

• JavaScript: add missing TextureSampler bindings.
• Metal: Fix texture swizzling crash with older Nvidia GPUs.
• Vulkan: fix image layout validation error on Android.
• android: fix MSAA w/ multisampled_render_to_texture on Mali.
• engine: better anisotropic filtering with various drivers.
• gltfio: Use BufferObject API, simplify MorphHelper.
• gltfio: honor stride in normalizeSkinningWeights.
• samples: Add web component demo.

v1.9.20

• Android: Fix VSM.
• engine: Introduce BufferObject API.
• engine: Add new isTextureSwizzleSupported API on Texture.
• engine: Add support to Metal and Vulkan backends for texture swizzling.
• engine: Add new DoF settings (native/half res, gather kernel ring counts, CoC radius clamp).
• engine: DoF quality and performance improvements.
• engine: Fix high-quality upsampling issue with SSAO.
• Java: Expose TransformManager.getParent(int).
• samples: Add Metal and Vulkan backend support to Suzanne sample.
• WebGL: expose fitIntoUnitCube to JS.
• WebGL: support for multiple elements.

v1.9.19

• engine: Fix Metal bug when setGeometryAt is called multiple times.
• engine: Improvements to DoF.
• engine: Fix RenderTarget NPE when depth is not present.
• engine: Improvements to Camera APIs. Move focus distance from DofOptions to Camera.
• engine: VSM shadows now support shadowMultiplier.
• java: Expose several MaterialInstance APIs (setColorWrite, setDepthWrite, setDepthCulling) that
  should have been public.
• java: fix bug with Texture::setImage buffer size calculation.

v1.9.18

• engine: Fix a DoF bug that caused black dots around the fast tiles.
• engine: Minor DoF optimizations.
• engine: Fix blanking windows not being drawn into on macOS.
• gltfio: Add support for data:// in image URI's.
• gltfio: Add internal MorphHelper, enable up to 255 targets.
• engine: Fix a hang in JobSystem.
• samples: Fix rendertarget sample app.

v1.9.17

• engine: New shift parameter on Camera to translate the viewport and emulate a tilt/shift lens.
• engine: Camera::setCustomProjection() now allows to set a different projection for culling and rendering.
• engine: Fixed depth of field rendering with custom projection matrices.
• engine: Fix a rare indefinite hang.
• gltfio: SimpleViewer now exposes more rendering parameters, including ColorGrading.
• gltfio: Fix tangents when morphing is enabled.
• Metal/Vulkan: fix incorrect dominant light shadows rendering.
• Fixe some issues with imported rendertargets.