Taichi

- [llvm] Compile serially when num_thread=0 (5631) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [cuda] Reduce kernel profiler memory usage (5623) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [doc] Add docstrings for texture related apis (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [Lang] Support from/to_image for textures and add tests (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [gui] Add wareframe mode for mesh & mesh_instance, add slider_int for Window.GUI. (5576) (by **Mocki**)
- avoid redundant compilation (5607) (by **yixu**)
- [misc] Enable offline cache by default (5613) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [Lang] Add parameter 'order' to specify layout for scalar, vector, matrix fields (5617) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [autodiff] [example] Add an example for computing Jacobian matrix (5609) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [ci] Add PR tag for dx12. (5614) (by **Xiang Li**)
- fix ti.ui.Space (5606) (by **yixu**)
- [ci] Build Android export core (5409) (by **Proton**)
- [type] Rename module quantized_types to quant (5608) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add unit tests for Dynamic SNodes with LLVM AOT (5594) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [build] Forcing write file encoding in misc/make_changelog.py (5604) (by **Proton**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add unit tests for Bitmasked SNodes with LLVM AOT (5593) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [GUI] Shifted to a more commonly supported type for set_image (5514) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [gui] Fix snode offset (mesh disappearing bug) (5579) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [refactor] Redesign loading, dumping and cleaning of offline cache (5578) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [autodiff] [test] Add more complex for loop test cases for forward mode (5592) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- fix num_triangles (5602) (by **yixu**)
- [cuda] Decouple update from sync in kernel profiler (5589) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Removed unnecessary tags to work around a crowdIn issue. (5590) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [Lang] Change vec2/3/4 from function calls to types (5556) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [vulkan] Enable shared array support for vulkan backend (5583) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [aot] Avoid reserved words when generate C AOT bindings (5586) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] Update llvm15 prebuild binary. (5581) (by **Xiang Li**)
- [doc] Removed a redundant line break to see if it will fix a CrowdIn issue (5584) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [type] Refine SNode with quant 10/n: Add validity checks and simplify BitStructType (5573) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [autodiff] [refactor] Rename the parameters to param for forward mode (5582) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [doc] Format fix to work around a crowdIn issue (5580) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Update syntax.md (5575) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [doc] Added an mdx-code-block escape hatch syntaxt to workaround a CrowdIn … (5574) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [Doc] Update external.md (5547) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [doc] Add introductions to ambient_elements in llvm_sparse_runtime.md (5567) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [refactor] Unify ways to set external array args (5565) (by **Ailing**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 9/n: Rename some parameters in quant APIs (5566) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [opt] Improved warning messages for statements (5564) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [bug] Fix android build for taichi-aot-demo (5560) (by **Ailing**)
- [opt] Added llvm::SeparateConstOffsetFromGEPPass() for shared_memory optimizations (5494) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 8/n: Replace bit_struct with ti.BitpackedFields (5532) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [build] Enforce local-scoped symbols in static llvm libs (5553) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [refactor] Unify ways to set ndarray args (5559) (by **Ailing**)
- [gui] [vulkan] Support for drawing mesh instances (5546) (by **Mocki**)
- [llvm] [aot] Added taichi_sparse unit test to C-API for CUDA backend (5531) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- Add glFinish to wait_idle (5538) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [autodiff] Skip ConstStmt when generating alloca for dual (5554) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [ci] Fix macOS nightly build (5552) (by **Proton**)
- Fix potential bug of lang::Program that could be double finalized (5550) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [Error] Raise error when using the struct for in python scope (5536) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [bug] Fix calling make_aot_kernel failed when offline_cache=True (5537) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [ci] Move macOS 10.15 workloads to self-hosted runners (5539) (by **Proton**)
- [build] [refactor] Utilize find_cuda_toolkit and clean some target dependencies (5526) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [autodiff] [test] Add more for-loop tests for forward mode (5525) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [Lang] [bug] Ensure non-i32 compatibility in while statement conditions (5521) (by **daylily**)
- [Lang] Improve error message for ggui on opengl backend (5509) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [aot] Support texture and rwtexture in cgraph (5528) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] Add parallel compilation to CUDA backend (5519) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 9/n: Remove exponent handling from SNode (5510) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Fix numpy and taichi operations problem (5506) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Vulkan] Added an interface to get accumulated on-device execution time (5488) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Async] [refactor] Remove AsyncTaichi (5523) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [misc] Fix warning at GGUI canvas.circles (5424) (5518) (by **Proton**)
- [gui] Support rendering lines from a part of VBO (5495) (by **Mocki**)
- [ir] Cast indices of ExternalPtrStmt to ti.i32 (5516) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Support syntax sugar for ti.cast (5515) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Better struct initialization (5481) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [example] Make implicit_fem fallback to CPU when CUDA is not available (5512) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Make MatrixType support more ways of initialization (5479) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Vulkan] Fixed depth texture validation error (5507) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [bug] Fix vulkan source when build for android (5508) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [refactor] [llvm] Rename CodeGenCPU/CUDA/WASM and CodeGenLLVMCPU/CUDA/WASM (5500) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [bug] Let the arguments in ti.init override the environment variables (5497) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [misc] Add debug logging and TI_AUTO_PROF for offline cache (5503) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [misc] ti.Tape -> ti.ad.Tape (5501) (by **Zihua Wu**)
- [misc] Support jit offline cache for kernels that call real functions (5477) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [doc] Update cpp tests build doc (5493) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Lang] Support call field.fill in kernel functions (5486) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Lang] [bug] Make comparisons always return i32 (5487) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [gui] [vulkan] Support 3d-lines rendering (5492) (by **Mocki**)
- [autodiff] Switch off parts of store forwarding optimization for autodiff (5464) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 9: Added AOT field tests for LLVM backend in C-API (5461) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [bug] [llvm] Fix GEP when allocating TLS buffer in struct for (5473) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [gui] [vulkan] Modify some internal APIs (5484) (by **Mocki**)
- [Build] Remove TI_EMSCRIPTENED related code (5483) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 8/n: Remove redundant handling of llvm15 in codegen_llvm_quant (5480) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [CUDA] Enable shared memory for CUDA (5429) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [gui] [vulkan] A faster version of depth copy through ti.field/ti.ndarray (copy directly from vulkan to cuda/gpu/cpu) (5455) (by **Mocki**)
- [misc] Add missing members of XXXExpression and FrontendXXXStmt to result of ASTSerializer (5471) (by **Mingming Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Added field tests for LLVM backend in CGraph (5458) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 7/n: Rewrite BitStructStoreStmt codegen without SNode (5475) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 8: Added CGraph tests for LLVM backend in C-API (5456) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [build] [refactor] Rename taichi core and taichi python targets (5451) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 6: Handle Field initialization in C-API (5444) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 7: Added AOT kernel tests for LLVM backend in C-API (5447) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [error] Throw proper error message when an Ndarray is passed in via ti.template (5457) (by **Ailing**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 6/n: Rewrite extract_quant_float() without SNode (5448) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [bug] Set SNode tree id to all SNodes (5454) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [AOT] Support on-device event (5433) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 5: Added C-API tests for Vulkan and Cuda backend (5440) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [llvm] [bug] Fixing the crash in release tests introduced by a typo in 5381 where we need a deep copy of arglist. (5441) (by **Proton**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 4: Enabled C-API tests on CI & Added C-API tests for CPU backend (5435) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [misc] Bump version to v1.0.5 (5437) (by **Proton**)
- [aot] Support specifying vk_api_version in CompileConfig (5419) (by **Ailing**)
- [Lang] Add append attribute to dynamic fields (5413) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Lang] Add inf and nan (5270) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Doc] Updated docsite structure (5416) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [ci] Run release tests (5327) (by **Proton**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 5/n: Rewrite load_quant_float() without SNode (5422) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] Allow using clang 15 for COMPILE_LLVM_RUNTIME (5381) (by **Xiang Li**)
- [opengl] Speedup compilation for Nvidia cards (5430) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [Bug] Fix infinite loop when exponent of integer pow is negative (5275) (by **Mike He**)
- [build] [refactor] Move spirv codegen and common targets (5415) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [autodiff] Check not placed field.dual and add needs_dual (5412) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [bug] Simplify scalar handling in cgraph and relax field_dim check (5411) (by **Ailing**)
- [gui] [vulkan] Surpport for getting depth information for python users. (5410) (by **Mocki**)
- [AOT] Adjusted C-API for nd-array type conformance (5417) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [type] Decouple quant from SNode 4/n: Add exponent info to BitStructType (5407) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] Avoid creating new LLVM contexts when updating struct module (5397) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [build] Enable C-API compilation on CI (5403) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Lang] Implement assignment by slicing (5369) (by **Mike He**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 3: Adapted AOT interfaces for LLVM backend (5402) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Fixed Vulkan device import capability settings (5400) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 2: Adapted memory allocation interfaces for LLVM backend (5396) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [autodiff] Add ternary operators for forward mode (5405) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM to CAPI part 1: Implemented capi::LlvmRuntime class (5393) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [ci] Add per test hard timeout limit (5384) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] Properly detect $DISPLAY (5398) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] Llvm15 clang10 ci (5368) (by **Xiang Li**)
- [llvm] [bug] Add stop grad to ASTSerializer (5401) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [autodiff] Add test for ternary operators in reverse mode autodiff (5395) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add numerical unit tests for LLVM-CGraph (5319) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)

Highlights:
- **Documentation**
- Fix typos (5283) (by **Kian-Meng Ang**)
- Update dev_install.md (5266) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Updated README command lines (5199) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Modify compilation warnings (5180) (by **Olinaaaloompa**)
- Updated odop.md, removing obsolete information (5163) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- **Language and syntax**
- Refine SNode with quant 7/n: Support placing QuantFixedType under quant_array (5386) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Add determinant for 1d case (5375) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Make floor, ceil and round accept a dtype optional argument (5307) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Rename struct_class to dataclass (5365) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Improve ti example so that users can choose which example to run by entering numbers. (5265) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Refine SNode with quant 5/n: Rename bit_array to quant_array (5344) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Make bit_vectorize a parameter of ti.loop_config (5334) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Refine SNode with quant 3/n: Turn bit_vectorize into an on/off switch (5331) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Add errror message for missing init call (5280) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Fix fractal gui close warning (5281) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Refine SNode with quant 2/n: Enable struct for on bit_array with bit_vectorize off (5253) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Refactor indexing expressions in AST & enforce integer indices (5138) (by **daylily**)

Full changelog:
- Revert "[llvm] (Decomp of 5251 11/n) Enable parallel compilation on CPU backend (5394)" (by **Proton**)
- [refactor] Default dtype of ndarray type should be None instead of f32 (5391) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] (Decomp of 5251 11/n) Enable parallel compilation on CPU backend (5394) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [gui] [vulkan] Surpport for python users to control the start index and count number of particles & meshes data. (5388) (by **Mocki**)
- [autodiff] Support binary operators for forward mode (5389) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] (Decomp of 5251 10/n) Make SNode tree compatible with parallel compilation (5390) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [llvm] [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 9/n) Refactor CodeGen to support parallel compilation on LLVM backend (5387) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 7/n: Support placing QuantFixedType under quant_array (5386) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 8/n) Refactor KernelCacheData (5383) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [cuda] [type] Refine SNode with quant 6/n: Support __ldg for loading QuantFixedType and QuantFloatType (5374) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [doc] Add simt functions in operators (5333) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Lang] Add determinant for 1d case (5375) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [lang] Texture image load store support (5317) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [bug] Cast scalar to right type before converting to uint64 (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Check dtype mismatch in cgraph compilation and runtime (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Check field_dim mismatch in cgraph compilation and runtime (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [test] Check repeated arg names in cgraph (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [llvm] [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 6/n) Let ModuleToFunctionConverter support multiple modules (5372) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [Lang] Make floor, ceil and round accept a dtype optional argument (5307) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [refactor] Rename the confused needs_grad (5359) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [autodiff] Support unary ops for forward mode (5366) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] (Decomp of 5251 7/n) Change the way to record the time of offline cache (5373) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [llvm] (Decomp of 5251 5/n) Add the parallel compilation worker to LlvmProgramImpl (5364) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [gui] [test] Fix bug in test_ggui.py when some pc env do not surrport ggui (5370) (by **Mocki**)
- [Lang] Rename struct_class to dataclass (5365) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [llvm] Drop code for llvm 15. (5313) (by **Xiang Li**)
- [llvm] [aot] Rewrite LLVM AOT tests with LlvmRuntimeExecutor (5358) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [example] Avoid f64 type in simulation/initial_value_problem.py (5355) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] testing: add retention-days for broken wheels (5326) (by **Proton**)
- [test] (Decomp of 5251 4/n) Delete tests for AsyncTaichi (5357) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [llvm] [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 2/n) Make modulegen a virtual function and let LLVMCompiledData replace ModuleGenValue (5353) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [gui] Support exporting gif && video in GGUI (5354) (by **Mocki**)
- [autodiff] Handle field accessing by zero for forward mode (5339) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 3/n) Remove codegen from OffloadedTask and let it replace OffloadedTaskCacheData (5356) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [refactor] Turn off stack traceback info by default (5347) (by **Ailing**)
- [refactor] (Decomp of 5251 1/n) Move ParallelExecutor out of async engine (5351) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [Lang] Improve ti example so that users can choose which example to run by entering numbers. (5265) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [gui] Add get_view_matrix() and get_projection_matrix() APIs for camera (5345) (by **Mocki**)
- [bug] Added warning messages for implicit type conversion for RangeFor boundaries (5322) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [example] Fix simulation/waterwave.py:update race condition (5346) (by **Proton**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 5/n: Rename bit_array to quant_array (5344) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [aot] Added CGraph tests for LLVM backend (5305) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [autodiff] [test] Add for-loop tests for forward mode (5336) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [example] Lower example GUI resolution to fit buildbot display (5337) (by **Proton**)
- [build] [bug] Fix building on macOS 10.14 failed (5332) (by **PGZXB**)
- [llvm] [aot] Replaced LlvmProgramImpl with LlvmRuntimeExecutor for LlvmAotModuleLoader (5330) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Fixed certain crashes in C-API (5335) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Lang] [type] Make bit_vectorize a parameter of ti.loop_config (5334) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [autodiff] Skip store forwarding to keep the GlobalLoadStmt alive (5315) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] RModified ModuleToFunctionConverter to use LlvmRuntimeExecutor instead of LlvmProgramImpl (5328) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [llvm] Changed LlvmProgramImpl to save cache_data_ with unique_ptr instead of raw object (5329) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 3/n: Turn bit_vectorize into an on/off switch (5331) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [misc] Fix a few compilation warnings (5325) (by **yekuang**)
- [bug] Accept numpy integers in ndrange (5245) (5323) (by **Proton**)
- [misc] Implement cache file cleaning (5310) (by **PGZXB**)
- Fixed C-AP build on Android (5321) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [AOT] Save AOT module artifacts as zip archive (5316) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [llvm] [aot] Added LLVM backend support for Compute Graph (5294) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Unity native plugin interfaces (5273) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [autodiff] Check not placed field.grad when needs_grad = True (5295) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [autodiff] Fix alloca block and add control flow test case for forward mode (5301) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [refactor] Synchronize should always be called in non-async mode (5302) (by **Ailing**)
- [Lang] Add errror message for missing init call (5280) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Update prtags.json (5304) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [refactor] Get rid ndarray host accessor kernels (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Use device api for CPU/CUDA ndarray (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Switch to using staging buffer for metal/vulkan/opengl (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [llvm] Use LlvmProgramImpl::cache_data_ to store compiled kernel info (5290) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [opengl] Texture support in OpenGL (5296) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [build] [refactor] Cleanup backends folder and rename to RHI (5288) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Lang] Fix fractal gui close warning (5281) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [autodiff] [test] Add atomic test for forward autodiff (5286) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [dx11] Fix DX backend with new runtime & Better D3D11 buffer handling (5244) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [autodiff] Set default seed only for scalar parameter to avoid silent unexpected results (5287) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- test (5292) (by **Ailing**)
- [AOT] Added C-API for on-device memory copy (5271) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Doc] Fix typos (5283) (by **Kian-Meng Ang**)
- [autodiff] Support control flow for forward mode (by **mingrui**)
- [autodiff] Support for-loop and mutation for forward mode (by **mingrui**)
- [autodiff] Refactor dual field allocation (by **mingrui**)
- [AOT] Refactor C-API codegen (5272) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- Update README.md (5279) (by **Taichi contributor**)
- [metal] Support memcpy_internal via buffer_copy (5268) (by **Ailing**)
- [bug] Fix missing old but useful metadata in offline cache (5267) (by **PGZXB**)
- [Lang] [type] Refine SNode with quant 2/n: Enable struct for on bit_array with bit_vectorize off (5253) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Doc] Update dev_install.md (5266) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [build] [bug] Fix dependency for opengl_rhi target (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Update fallback order, move opengl behind Vulkan (5257) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [opengl] Move OpenGL backend onto Gfx runtime (5246) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [build] [refactor] Move LLVM source files to target locations (5254) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [bug] Fixed misuse of std::forward (5237) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Added safety checks to prevent hard crashes on failure (5249) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [build] [refactor] Move shaders source files to runtime (5247) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [example] Fix diff_sph example with --train (5242) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [misc] Add filename option to ti.tools.VideoManager. (5219) (by **Qian Bao**)
- [bug] Throw exceptions when ndrange gets non-integral arguments (5245) (by **Mike He**)
- [build] [refactor] Move wasm and dx11 source files to target locations (5235) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [type] [bug] Refine SNode with quant 1/n: Fix (atomic_)set_mask_bN (5238) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [lang] 1d/3d texture support (5233) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [vulkan] Fix OpBranch for reversed RangeForStmt (5241) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [build] Fix -Werror errors for TI_WITH_CUDA_TOOLKIT=ON (5133) (5216) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] Enable pylint on examples (5222) (by **Proton**)
- [llvm] [aot] Split LlvmRuntimeExecutor from LlvmProgramImpl (5207) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 3/n: Extend bit pointers (5232) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [vulkan] Codegen & runtime improvements (5213) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [gui] Fix the device memory leak when GGUI terminates (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [gui] Let gui and renderer manage the resource they own (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [AOT] Unity language binding generator (5204) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 2/n: Remove physical_type from QuantIntType (5223) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [type] [refactor] Decouple quant from SNode 1/n: Add BitStructTypeBuilder (5209) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [build] [refactor] Move metal source files to target locations (5208) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [lang] Export a few types from the share library (5220) (by **yekuang**)
- [llvm] [refactor] LLVMProgramImpl code clean up: part-5 (5197) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [spirv] Fixed `OpLoad` with physical address (5212) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [wip] Enable full wheel build when TI_EXPORT_CORE is on (5211) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] [refactor] LLVMProgramImpl code clean up: part-4 (5189) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- Move spdlog include to profiler.cpp (5210) (by **Ailing**)
- Fix ti gallery command bug (5196) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [misc] Improve TI_STATIC_ASSERT compatibility (5205) (by **Yuanming Hu**)
- [llvm] [refactor] LLVMProgramImpl code clean up: part-3 (5188) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- Fixed C-API provision (5203) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [lang] Improve error message when literal val is out of range of default dtype (5191) (by **Ailing**)
- [Lang] [ir] Refactor indexing expressions in AST & enforce integer indices (5138) (by **daylily**)
- Remove stale coverage from README.md (5202) (by **yekuang**)
- [ci] Slim cpu build image (5198) (by **Proton**)
- [build] [refactor] Move opengl source files to target locations (5200) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [example] Fix dtype for metal backend and enforce vulkan (5201) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [Doc] Updated README command lines (5199) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [llvm] [refactor] LLVMProgramImpl code clean up: part-2 (5187) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Support Matrix/Vector as graph arguments (5165) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [refactor] Enable adaptive block_dim selection for CPU backend (5190) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Doc] Modify compilation warnings (5180) (by **Olinaaaloompa**)
- [ci] Save wheel to artifact when test fails (5186) (by **Proton**)
- [gui] Detailed error message when GGUI is not available (5164) (by **Proton**)
- [ci] Run C++ tests on Windows (5176) (by **Proton**)
- [lang] Texture support 3/n (Python changes) (5174) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [llvm] [refactor] LLVMProgramImpl code clean up: part-1 (5181) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [AOT] Implementation of Taichi Runtime C-API (5168) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [refactor] [autodiff] Clean redundant compiled functions and refactor kernel key (5178) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [doc] Add badge on README.md (5177) (by **yanqingzhang**)
- [lang] Texture support 2/n (SPIR-V backend & runtime changes) (5159) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [build] Export cmake config to ease clients usage in Cmake (5162) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [refactor] [autodiff] Refactor autodiff api and add corresponding tests (5175) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [aot] [llvm] LLVM AOT Field part-4: Added AOT tests for Fields - CUDA backend (5124) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [type] [refactor] Consistently use quant_xxx in quant-related names (5166) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [cuda] Disable reduction in non-full warps (5161) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [autodiff] Support basic operations for forward mode autodiff (by **mingrui**)
- [autodiff] Add a context manager for forward mode autodiff (by **mingrui**)
- [AOT] C-APIs for Taichi runtime distribution (5150) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [cli] Improve user interface for CLI command ti example (5153) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Doc] Updated odop.md, removing obsolete information (5163) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [autodiff] [refactor] Refactor autodiff tape api and TapeImpl (5154) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [type] [refactor] Separate CustomFixedType from CustomFloatType (5149) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [ui] Properlly fix UTF-8 title string by converting to UTF16 (5155) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [aot] [llvm] LLVM AOT Field 3: Added AOT tests for Fields - CPU backend (5121) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- Bump version to v1.0.4 (5157) (by **Taichi Gardener**)
- [lang] Texture support 1/n (Context & Programs) (5139) (by **Bob Cao**)

Highlights:
- **Aot module**
- Support importing external Vulkan buffers (5020) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- Supported inclusion of taichi as subdirectory for AOT modules (5007) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- **Bug fixes**
- Fix frontend type check for reading a whole bit_struct (5027) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Remove redundant AllocStmt when lowering FrontendWhileStmt (4870) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- **Build system**
- Improve Windows build script (4955) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- Improved building on Windows (4925) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- Define Cmake OpenGL runtime target (4887) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Use keywords instead of plain target_link_libraries CMake (4864) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Define runtime build target (4838) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Switch to scikit-build as the build backend (4624) (by **Frost Ming**)
- **Documentation**
- Improve ODOP doc structure (5089) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Add documentation of Taichi Struct Classes. (5075) (by **bsavery**)
- Updated type system (5054) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Branding updates. Also tests netlify. (4994) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Fix netlify cache & sync doc without pr content (5003) (by **Justin**)
- Update trouble shooting URL in bug report template (4988) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- Updated URL (4990) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Fix docs deploy netlify test configuration (4991) (by **Justin**)
- Updated relative path (4929) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Updated broken links (4912) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Updated links that may break. (4874) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Add limitation about TLS optimization (4877) (by **Ailing**)
- **Examples**
- Fix block_dim warning in ggui (5128) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Update visual effects of mass_spring_3d_ggui.py (5081) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Update mass_spring_3d_ggui.py to v2 (3879) (by **Alex Brown**)
- **Language and syntax**
- Add more initialization routines for glsl matrix types (5069) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Support constructing vector and matrix ndarray from ti.ndarray() (by **ailzhang**)
- Disallow reading a whole bit_struct (5061) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Struct Classes implementation (4989) (by **bsavery**)
- Add short-circuit if-then-else operator (5022) (by **daylily**)
- Build sparse matrix from ndarray (4841) (by **pengyu**)
- Fix potential precision bug when using math vector and matrix types (5032) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Refactor quant type definition APIs (5036) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Fix parameter name 'range' for ti.types.quant.fixed (5006) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Refactor quantized_types module and make quant APIs public (4985) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Add more functions to math module (4939) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Support sparse matrix datatype and storage format configuration (4673) (by **pengyu**)
- Copy-free interaction between Taichi and PaddlePaddle (4886) (by **0xzhang**)
- **LLVM backend (CPU and CUDA)**
- Add AOT builder and loader (5013) (by **yekuang**)
- **Metal backend**
- Support Ndarray (4720) (by **yekuang**)
- **RFC**
- AOT for all SNodes (4806) (by **yekuang**)
- **SIMT programming**
- Add match_all warp intrinsics (4961) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- Add match_any warp intrinsics (4921) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- Add uni_sync warp intrinsics (4927) (by **0xzhang**)
- Add activemask warp intrinsics (4918) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- Add syncwarp warp intrinsics (4917) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- **Vulkan backend**
- Fixed vulkan backend crash on AOT examples (5047) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- **GitHub Actions/Workflows**
- Update release_test.sh (4960) (by **Chuandong Yan**)

Full changelog:
- [aot] [llvm] LLVM AOT Field 2: Updated LLVM AOTModuleLoader & AOTModuleBuilder to support Fields (5120) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [type] [refactor] Misc improvements to quant codegen (5129) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [ci] Enable yapf and isort on example files (5140) (by **Ailing**)
- [Example] Fix block_dim warning in ggui (5128) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- fix mass_spring_3d_ggui backend (5127) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [lang] Texture support 0/n: IR changes (5134) (by **Bob Cao**)
- Editorial update (5119) (by **Olinaaaloompa**)
- [aot] [llvm] LLVM AOT Field 1: Adjust serialization/deserialization logics for FieldCacheData (5111) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [aot][bug] Use cached compiled kernel pointer when it's added to graph (5122) (by **Ailing**)
- [aot] [llvm] LLVM AOT Field 0: Implemented FieldCacheData & refactored initialize_llvm_runtime_snodes() (5108) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [autodiff] Add forward mode pipeline for autodiff pass (5098) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [build] [refactor] Move Vulkan runtime out of backends dir (5106) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [bug] Fix build without llvm backend crash (5113) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [type] [llvm] [refactor] Fix function names in codegen_llvm_quant (5115) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [refactor] Replace cast_int() with LLVM native integer cast (5110) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [type] [refactor] Remove redundant promotion for custom int in type_check (5102) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Example] Update visual effects of mass_spring_3d_ggui.py (5081) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [test] Save mpm88 graph in python and load in C++ test. (5104) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] [refactor] Move load_bit_pointer() to CodeGenLLVM (5099) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [refactor] Remove ndarray element shape from extra arg buffer (5100) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [refactor] Update Ndarray constructor used in AOT runtime. (5095) (by **Ailing**)
- clean hidden override functions (5097) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] CUDA-AOT PR 2: Implemented AOTModuleLoader & AOTModuleBuilder for LLVM-CUDA backend (5087) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Doc] Improve ODOP doc structure (5089) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Use pre-calculated runtime size array for gfx runtime. (5094) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [bug] Minor fix for ndarray element_shape in graph mode (5093) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] [refactor] Use LLVM native atomic ops if possible (5091) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [autodiff] Extract shared components for reverse and forward mode (5088) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [llvm] [aot] Add LLVM-CPU AOT tests (5079) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Doc] Add documentation of Taichi Struct Classes. (5075) (by **bsavery**)
- [build] [refactor] Change CMake global include_directories to target based function (5082) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [autodiff] Allocate dual and adjoint snode (5083) (by **Mingrui Zhang**)
- [refactor] Make sure Ndarray shape is field shape (5085) (by **Ailing**)
- [llvm] [refactor] Merge AtomicOpStmt codegen in CPU and CUDA backends (5086) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [llvm] [aot] CUDA-AOT PR 1: Extracted common logics from CPUAotModuleImpl into LLVMAotModule (5072) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [infra] Refactor Vulkan runtime into true Common Runtime (5058) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [refactor] Correctly set ndarray element_size and nelement (5080) (by **Ailing**)
- [cuda] [simt] Add assertions for warp intrinsics on old GPUs (5077) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Lang] Add more initialization routines for glsl matrix types (5069) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [spirv] Specialize element shape for spirv codegen. (5068) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [llvm] Specialize element shape for LLVM backend (5071) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [doc] Fix broken link for github action status badge (5076) (by **Ailing**)
- [Example] Update mass_spring_3d_ggui.py to v2 (3879) (by **Alex Brown**)
- [refactor] Resolve comments from 5065 (5074) (by **Ailing**)
- [Lang] Support constructing vector and matrix ndarray from ti.ndarray() (by **ailzhang**)
- [refactor] Pass element_shape and layout to C++ Ndarray (by **ailzhang**)
- [refactor] Specialized Ndarray Type is (element_type, shape, layout) (by **ailzhang**)
- [aot] [CUDA-AOT PR 0] Refactored compile_module_to_executable() to CUDAModuleToFunctionConverter (5070) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [refactor] Split GraphBuilder out of Graph class (5064) (by **Ailing**)
- [build] [bug] Ensure the assets folder is copied to the project directory (5063) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [bug] Remove operator ! for Expr (5062) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] [type] Disallow reading a whole bit_struct (5061) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Struct Classes implementation (4989) (by **bsavery**)
- [Lang] [ir] Add short-circuit if-then-else operator (5022) (by **daylily**)
- [bug] Ndarray type should include primitive dtype as well (5052) (by **Ailing**)
- [Doc] Updated type system (5054) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [bug] Added type promotion support for atan2 (5037) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Lang] Build sparse matrix from ndarray (4841) (by **pengyu**)
- Set host_write to false for opengl ndarray (5038) (by **Ailing**)
- [ci] Run cpp tests via run_tests.py (5035) (by **yekuang**)
- Exit CI builds when download of prebuilt packages fails (5043) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Vulkan] Fixed vulkan backend crash on AOT examples (5047) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Lang] Fix potential precision bug when using math vector and matrix types (5032) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Metal] Support Ndarray (4720) (by **yekuang**)
- [Lang] [type] Refactor quant type definition APIs (5036) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [aot] Bind graph APIs to python and add mpm88 example (5034) (by **Ailing**)
- [aot] Move ArgKind as first argument in Arg class (by **ailzhang**)
- [aot] Serialize built graph, deserialize and run. (by **ailzhang**)
- [ci] Disable win cpu docker job test (5033) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [doc] Update OS names (5030) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- fix fast_gui rgba bug (5031) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Bug] [type] Fix frontend type check for reading a whole bit_struct (5027) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [AOT] Support importing external Vulkan buffers (5020) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [SIMT] Add match_all warp intrinsics (4961) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- [bug] Revert freeing ndarray memory when python GC triggers (5019) (by **Ailing**)
- [ci] Fix nightly macos (5018) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Llvm] Add AOT builder and loader (5013) (by **yekuang**)
- [aot] Build and run graph without serialization (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [test] Unify kernel setup for ndarray related tests (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [ci] [build] Enable ccache for windows docker (5001) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [refactor] Move get ndarray data ptr to program (5012) (by **pengyu**)
- [bug] Fixed numerical error for Atomic-Sub between unsigned values with different number of bits (5011) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [llvm] Add serializable LlvmLaunchArgInfo (4992) (by **yekuang**)
- [doc] Update community section (4943) (by **yanqingzhang**)
- [SIMT] Add match_any warp intrinsics (4921) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- [Lang] [type] Fix parameter name 'range' for ti.types.quant.fixed (5006) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [misc] Version bump: v1.0.2 -> v1.0.3 (5008) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [AOT] Supported inclusion of taichi as subdirectory for AOT modules (5007) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Doc] Branding updates. Also tests netlify. (4994) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [refactor] Get rid of data_ptr_ in Ndarray (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Move ndarray fast fill methods to Program (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Free ndarray's memory when python GC triggers (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Construct ndarray from existing DeviceAllocation. (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [test] Add test for Ndarray from DeviceAllocation (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [refactor] Program owns allocated ndarrays. (by **Ailing Zhang**)
- [Doc] Fix netlify cache & sync doc without pr content (5003) (by **Justin**)
- [test] Fix a few mis-configured ndarray tests (5000) (by **Ailing**)
- Update README.md (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [Lang] [type] Refactor quantized_types module and make quant APIs public (4985) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Doc] Update trouble shooting URL in bug report template (4988) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [Doc] Updated URL (4990) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [Doc] Fix docs deploy netlify test configuration (4991) (by **Justin**)
- [llvm] Use serializer for LLVM cache (4982) (by **yekuang**)
- Provision of prebuilt LLVM 10 for VS2022 (4987) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [Workflow] Update release_test.sh (4960) (by **Chuandong Yan**)
- [cuda] Add block and grid level intrinsic for cuda backend (4977) (by **YuZhang**)
- [bug] Fix infinite recursion of get_offline_cache_key_of_snode_impl() (4983) (by **PGZXB**)
- [misc] Add ASTSerializer::visit(ReferenceExpression *) (4984) (by **PGZXB**)
- [llvm] Support both BC and LL cache format (4979) (by **yekuang**)
- [refactor] Improve serializer and cleanup utils (4980) (by **yekuang**)
- [Build] Improve Windows build script (4955) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [llvm] Make cache writer support BC format (4978) (by **yekuang**)
- [ci] [build] Containerize Windows CPU build and test (4933) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [llvm] Make codegen produce static llvm::Module (4975) (by **yekuang**)
- [test] Add an ndarray test in C++. (4972) (by **Ailing**)
- [build] Fixed Ilegal Instruction Error when importing PaddlePaddle module (4969) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [llvm] Create ModuleToFunctionConverter (4962) (by **yekuang**)
- [bug] [simt] Fix the problem that some intrinsics are never called (4957) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [vulkan] Set kApiVersion to VK_API_VERSION_1_3 (4970) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [ci] Add new buildbot with latest driver for Linux/Vulkan test (4953) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [RFC] AOT for all SNodes (4806) (by **yekuang**)
- [llvm] Move cache directory to dump() (4963) (by **yekuang**)
- [lang] Add reference type support on real functions (4889) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [refactor] Some renamings (4959) (by **yekuang**)
- [refactor] Add ArrayMetadata to store the array runtime size (4950) (by **yekuang**)
- [lang] [bug] Implement Expression serializing and fix some bugs (4931) (by **PGZXB**)
- [Lang] Add more functions to math module (4939) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Build] Improved building on Windows (4925) (by **PENGUINLIONG**)
- [ci] Fix Nightly (4948) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [build] Limit -Werror to Clang-compiler only (4947) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [refactor] [llvm] Remove struct_compiler_ as a member variable (4945) (by **yekuang**)
- [build] Turned off -Werror temporarily for issues with performance-bot (4946) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [refactor] Remove unused snode_trees in ProgramImpl interface (4942) (by **yekuang**)
- [doc] Updated documentations for implicit type casting rules (4885) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [build] Turn on -Werror on Linux and Mac platforms (4928) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [build] Enable -Werror on Linux & Mac (4941) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [SIMT] Add uni_sync warp intrinsics (4927) (by **0xzhang**)
- [lang] Fix type check warnings for ti.Mesh (4930) (by **Chang Yu**)
- [Lang] Support sparse matrix datatype and storage format configuration (4673) (by **pengyu**)
- [Doc] Updated relative path (4929) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [refactor] Simplify Matrix's initializer (4923) (by **yekuang**)
- [build] Warning Suppression PR 4: Fixed warnings with MacOS (4926) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [build] Warning Suppression PR 3: Eliminate warnings from third-party headers (4920) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [SIMT] Add activemask warp intrinsics (4918) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- [build] Warning Suppression PR 1: Turned on -Wno-ignored-attributes & Removed unused functions (4916) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [refactor] Create MatrixImpl to differentiate Taichi and Python scopes (4853) (by **yekuang**)
- [SIMT] Add syncwarp warp intrinsics (4917) (by **Zeyu Li**)
- [build] Warning Suppression PR 2: Fixed codebase warnings (4909) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [test] Exit on error during Paddle windows test (4910) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Doc] Updated broken links (4912) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- remove debug print (4883) (by **yixu**)
- [test] Cancel tests for Paddle on GPU (4914) (by **0xzhang**)
- [Lang] [test] Copy-free interaction between Taichi and PaddlePaddle (4886) (by **0xzhang**)
- Use Ninja generator on Windows and skip generator test (4896) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [vulkan] Add new VMA vulkan functions. (4893) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [vulkan] Fix typo for waitSemaphoreCount (4892) (by **Gabriel H**)
- [Build] [refactor] Define Cmake OpenGL runtime target (4887) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [aot] [vulkan] Expose symbols for AOT (4879) (by **yekuang**)
- [bug] Fixed type promotion rule for bit-shift operations (4884) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Build] [refactor] Use keywords instead of plain target_link_libraries CMake (4864) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [metal] Migrate runtime's MTLBuffer allocation to unified device API (4865) (by **yekuang**)
- [error] [lang] Improved error messages for illegal slicing or indexing to ti.field (4873) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [Doc] Updated links that may break. (4874) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [metal] Complete Device API (4862) (by **yekuang**)
- [vulkan] Device API explicit semaphores (4852) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [build] Change the library output dir for export core (4880) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [refactor] Add ASTSerializer and use it to generate offline-cache-key (4863) (by **PGZXB**)
- [ci] Use the updated docker image for libtaichi_export_core (4881) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Doc] Add limitation about TLS optimization (4877) (by **Ailing**)
- [Build] [refactor] Define runtime build target (4838) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [ci] Add libtaichi_export_core build for desktop in CI (4871) (by **Ailing**)
- [build] [bug] Fix a bug of skbuild that loses the root package_dir (4875) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [Bug] Remove redundant AllocStmt when lowering FrontendWhileStmt (4870) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [misc] Bump version to v1.0.2 (4867) (by **Taichi Gardener**)
- [build] Install export core library to build dir (4866) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [Build] Switch to scikit-build as the build backend (4624) (by **Frost Ming**)

Highlights:

The v1.0.2 release is a patch fix that improves Taichi's stability on multiple platforms, especially for GGUI and the Vulkan backend.
- **Bug fixes**
- Remove redundant AllocStmt when lowering FrontendWhileStmt (4870) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- **Build system**
- Define Cmake OpenGL runtime target (4887) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Use keywords instead of plain target_link_libraries CMake (4864) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Define runtime build target (4838) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- Switch to scikit-build as the build backend (4624) (by **Frost Ming**)
- **Documentation**
- Add limitation about TLS optimization (4877) (by **Ailing**)

Full changelog:
- [ci] Fix Nightly (4948) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [ci] [build] Containerize Windows CPU build and test (4933) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [vulkan] Set kApiVersion to VK_API_VERSION_1_3 (4970) (by **Haidong Lan**)
- [ci] Add new buildbot with latest driver for Linux/Vulkan test (4953) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [vulkan] Add new VMA vulkan functions. (4893) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [vulkan] Fix typo for waitSemaphoreCount (4892) (by **Gabriel H**)
- [Build] [refactor] Define Cmake OpenGL runtime target (4887) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Build] [refactor] Use keywords instead of plain target_link_libraries CMake (4864) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [vulkan] Device API explicit semaphores (4852) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [build] Change the library output dir for export core (4880) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [ci] Use the updated docker image for libtaichi_export_core (4881) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Doc] Add limitation about TLS optimization (4877) (by **Ailing**)
- [Build] [refactor] Define runtime build target (4838) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [ci] Add libtaichi_export_core build for desktop in CI (4871) (by **Ailing**)
- [build] [bug] Fix a bug of skbuild that loses the root package_dir (4875) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [Bug] Remove redundant AllocStmt when lowering FrontendWhileStmt (4870) (by **Zhanlue Yang**)
- [misc] Bump version to v1.0.2 (4867) (by **Taichi Gardener**)
- [build] Install export core library to build dir (4866) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [Build] Switch to scikit-build as the build backend (4624) (by **Frost Ming**)

Highlights:
- **Automatic differentiation**
- Implement ti.ad.no_grad to skip autograd (4751) (by **Shawn Yao**)
- **Bug fixes**
- Fix and refactor type check for atomic ops (4858) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Fix and refactor type check for local stores (4843) (by **Yi Xu**)
- Fix implicit cast warning for global stores (4834) (by **Yi Xu**)
- **Documentation**
- Updated URL (4847) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- LLVM sparse runtime design doc (4790) (by **yekuang**)
- Proofread Getting started (4682) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Editorial review to fields (advanced) (4686) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- Update docstring for ti.Mesh (4818) (by **Chang Yu**)
- Remove redundant semicolon in path (4801) (by **gaoxinge**)
- **Error messages**
- Show warning when serialize=True is set on a struct for (4844) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- Provide source code info in warnings (4840) (by **Yi Xu**)
- **Language and syntax**
- Add single character property for vector swizzle && test (4845) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Remove obsolete vectypes class (4831) (by **LiangZhao**)
- Add support for keyword arguments (4794) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- Support swizzles on all Matrix/Vector types (4828) (by **yekuang**)
- Add 2d and 3d rotation functions to math module (4822) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Walkaround Vulkan backend behavior which changes cwd on Mac (4812) (by **TiGeekMan**)
- Add mod function to math module (4809) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Support in-place operator of ti.Matrix in python scope (4799) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- Move short-circuit boolean logic into AST-to-IR passes (4580) (by **daylily**)
- Promote output type of log, exp, and sqrt ops (4622) (by **Andrew Sun**)
- Fix integral type promotion rules (e.g., u8 + u8 now leads to u8 instead of i32) (4789) (by **Yuanming Hu**)
- Add basic complex arithmetic and add a mandelbrot example (4780) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- **SIMT programming**
- Add shfl_down_f32 intrinsic. (4819) (by **Chun Cai**)

Full changelog:
- [gui] Avoid implicit type casts in staging_buffer (4861) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [lang] Add better error detection for swizzle patterens (4860) (by **yekuang**)
- [Bug] [ir] Fix and refactor type check for atomic ops (4858) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Doc] Updated URL (4847) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [bug] Fix bug that building with TI_EXPORT_CORE:BOOL=ON failed (4850) (by **PGZXB**)
- [Error] Show warning when serialize=True is set on a struct for (4844) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [lang] Group related Matrix methods closer (4836) (by **yekuang**)
- [Lang] Add single character property for vector swizzle && test (4845) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Bug] [ir] Fix and refactor type check for local stores (4843) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Error] Provide source code info in warnings (4840) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [misc] Update pre-commit hooks (4713) (by **pre-commit-ci[bot]**)
- [Bug] [ir] Fix implicit cast warning for global stores (4834) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [mesh] Remove link hints from ti.Mesh (4825) (by **yixu**)
- [Lang] Remove obsolete vectypes class (4831) (by **LiangZhao**)
- [doc] Fix doc link (4835) (by **yekuang**)
- [Doc] LLVM sparse runtime design doc (4790) (by **yekuang**)
- [Lang] Add support for keyword arguments (4794) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [Lang] Support swizzles on all Matrix/Vector types (4828) (by **yekuang**)
- [test] Add simple test for offline-cache-key of compile-config (4805) (by **PGZXB**)
- [vulkan] Device API blending (4815) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [spirv] Fix int casts (4814) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [gui] Only call ImGui_ImplVulkan_Shutdown if it's initialized (4827) (by **Ailing**)
- [ci] Use a new PAT for project with org permission (4826) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [Lang] Add 2d and 3d rotation functions to math module (4822) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [Doc] Proofread Getting started (4682) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [Doc] Editorial review to fields (advanced) (4686) (by **Vissidarte-Herman**)
- [bug] Fix bug that building with gcc9.4 will fail (4823) (by **PGZXB**)
- [SIMT] Add shfl_down_f32 intrinsic. (4819) (by **Chun Cai**)
- [workflow] Add issues to project when issue opened (4816) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [vulkan] Fix vulkan initialization on macOS with cpu backend (4813) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [Doc] [mesh] Update docstring for ti.Mesh (4818) (by **Chang Yu**)
- [vulkan] Fix Vulkan device score bug (4803) (by **Andrew Sun**)
- [Lang] Walkaround Vulkan backend behavior which changes cwd on Mac (4812) (by **TiGeekMan**)
- [misc] Add SNode to offline-cache key (4716) (by **PGZXB**)
- [Lang] Add mod function to math module (4809) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- [doc] Fix doc of running C++ tests (4798) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Lang] Support in-place operator of ti.Matrix in python scope (4799) (by **Lin Jiang**)
- [Lang] [ir] Move short-circuit boolean logic into AST-to-IR passes (4580) (by **daylily**)
- [lang] Fix frontend type check for sqrt, log, exp (4797) (by **Yi Xu**)
- [Doc] Remove redundant semicolon in path (4801) (by **gaoxinge**)
- [Lang] [ir] Promote output type of log, exp, and sqrt ops (4622) (by **Andrew Sun**)
- [ci] Update ci images to use latest git (4792) (by **Bo Qiao**)
- [Lang] Fix integral type promotion rules (e.g., u8 + u8 now leads to u8 instead of i32) (4789) (by **Yuanming Hu**)
- [Lang] Add basic complex arithmetic and add a mandelbrot example (4780) (by **Zhao Liang**)
- Update index.md (4791) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [spirv] Add 16 bit float immediate number (4787) (by **Bob Cao**)
- [ci] Update ubuntu 18.04 image to use latest git (4785) (by **Frost Ming**)
- [lang] Store relations with 16-bit type (4779) (by **Chang Yu**)
- [Autodiff] Implement ti.ad.no_grad to skip autograd (4751) (by **Shawn Yao**)
- [misc] Remove some unnecessary attributes from offline-cache key of compile-config (4770) (by **PGZXB**)
- [doc] Update install instruction with "--upgrade" (4775) (by **Yuanming Hu**)
- Expose VboHelpers class (4773) (by **Ailing**)
- Bump version to v1.0.1 (4774) (by **Taichi Gardener**)
- [refactor] Merge Kernel.argument_names and argument_annotations (4753) (by **dongqi shen**)
- [dx11] Constant buffer binding and AtomicIncrement in RAND_STATE (4650) (by **quadpixels**)

Supported Data Types
Argument Packs are currently compatible with a variety of data types, including `scalar`, `matrix`, `vector`, `Ndarray`, and `Struct`.

Limitations
Please note that Argument Packs currently do not support the following features and data types:
- Ahead-of-Time (AOT) Compilation and Compute Graph
- `ti.template`
- `ti.data_oriented`

2. Improvements