Release Notes¶

Changelog¶

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.23.0] - 2024-05-28¶

Fixed¶

Array alignment problem for stack arrays allocated for kernel arguments. (#1357)
Issue #892, #906 caused by incorrect code generation for indexing (#1377)
Generation of KernelHasReturnValueError error inside KernelDispatcher. (#1394)
Issue #1390: broken support for slicing into dpctl.tensor.usm_ndarray in kernels (#1425)
Support for Wheels package on Windows (#1430)
Incorrect mangled name for kernel function arguments (#1443)
Remove artifacts from conda/wheel packages residing in root level (#1450)
GDB tests to work properly on Intel Max GPU (#1451)
Improper wheels installation on unsupported platforms (#1452)
Ref-counting of Python object temporaries in unboxing code (#1454)
Segfault caused by using malloc to allocate NRT_MemInfo. Replaced with Numba’s NRT alloc (#1458)
Incorrect package name in README.md (#1463)

Added¶

A new overloaded dimensions attribute for all index-space id classes (#1359)
Support for AtomicRef creation using multi-dimensional arrays (#1367)
Support for linearized indexing functions inside a JIT compiled kernel (#1368)
Improved documentation: overview (#1341), kernel programming guide (#1388), API docs (#1414), configs options (#1415), comparison with SYCL API (#1417)
New PrivateArray class in kernel_api to replace dpex.private.array (#1370, #1377)
Support for libsycinterface::DPCTLKernelArgType enum for specifying type of kernel args instead of hard coding (#1382)
New indexing unit tests for kernel_api simulator and JIT compiled modes (#1378)
New unit tests to verify all kernel_api features usable inside device_func (#1391)
A sycl::local_accessor-like API (kernel_api.LocalAccessor) for numba-dpex kernel (#1331)
Specialization support for device_func decorator (#1398)
Support for all kernel_api functions inside the numba_dpex.kernel decorator. (#1400)
Support for dpnp 0.15 (#1434, #1464)
Improvements to pyproject.toml configs to build numba-dpex from source. (#1449)
Load the SPV_INTEL_variable_length_array SPIR-V extension to supporting arrays in private address-space on Intel Max GPU. (#1451)

Changed¶

Default inline threshold value set to 2 from None. (#1385)
Port parfor kernel templates to kernel_api (#1416), (#1424)
Use SPIRVKernelDispatcher for parfor kernel dispatch (#1435, #1448)
All examples use the latest dpctl API (#1431)
Minimum required dpctl version is now 0.16.1
Minimum required numba version is now 0.59.0 (#1462)

Removed¶

OpenCL-like kernel API functions (#1420)
func decorator (replaced by device_func) (#1400)
numba_dpex.experimental.kernel and numba_dpex.experimental.device_func (#1400)

[0.22.0] - 2024-02-19¶

Fixed¶

Bug in boxing a DpnpNdArray from parent (#1155)
Strided layouts and F-contiguous layouts supported in experimental kernel (#1178)
Barrier call code-generation on OpenCL CPU devices (#1280, #1310)
Importing numba-dpex can break numba execution (#1267)
Overhead on launching numba_dpex.kernel functions (#1236)

Added¶

Support for dpctl.SyclEvent data type inside dpjit (#1134)
Support for kernel_api.Range and kernel_api.NdRange inside dpjit (#1148)
DPEX_OPT: a numba-dpex-specific optimization level config option (#1158)
Uploading wheels packages to anaconda (#1160)
flake8 eradicate linter option (#1177)
Support dpctl.SyclEvent.wait call inside dpjit (#1179)
Creation of sycl event and queue inside dpjit (#1193, #1190, #1218)
Experimental kernel dispatcher for kernel compilation (#1178, #1205)
Added experimental target context for SPIRV codegen (#1213, #1225)
GDB test cases in public CI (#1209)
Async kernel submission option (#1219, #1249)
A new literal type to store IntEnum as Literal types (#1227)
SYCL-like memory enum classes to the experimental module (#1239)
call_kernel function to launch kernels (#1260)
Experimental overloads for an AtomicRef class and fetch_* methods (#1257, #1261)
New device-specific USMNdArrayModel for USMNdArray and DpnpNdArray types (#1293)
Experimental atomic load, store and exchange operations (#1297)
Kernel_api module to simulate kernel functions in pure Python (#1304, #1326)
Experimental implementation of group barrier operation (#1280)
Experimental atomic compare_exchange implementation (#1312)
Experimental group index class (#1310)
OpenSSF scorecard (#1320)
Experimental feature index overload methods (#1323)
Experimental feature group index overload methods (#1330)
API Documentation for kernel API (#1332)

Changed¶

Switch to dpc++ compiler for building numba-dpex (#1210)
Versioneer and pytest configs into pyproject.toml (#1212)
numba-dpex can be imported even if no SYCL device is detected by dpctl (#1272)

Removed¶

Kernel launch params as lists/tuple. Only Range/NdRange supported (#1251)
DEFAULT_LOCAL_SIZE global constant (#1291)
Functions to invoke spirv-tools utilities from spirv_generator (#1292)
Incomplete vectorize decorator from numba-dpex (#1298)
Support for Numba 0.57 (#1307)

Deprecated¶

OpenCL-like kernel API functions in numba_dpex.ocldecl module

[0.21.4] - 2023-10-12¶

Fixed¶

Remove dead code to silence Coverity errors. (#1163)

[0.21.3] - 2023-09-28¶

Fixed¶

Pin CI conda channels (#1133)
Mangled kernel name generation (#1112)

Added¶

Support tests on single point precision GPUs (#1143)
Initial work on Coverity scan CI (#1128)
Python 3.11 support (#1123)
Security policy (#1117)
scikit-build to build native extensions (#1107, #1116, #1127, #1139, #1140)

Changed¶

Rename helper function to clearly indicate its usage (#1145)
The data model used by the DpnpNdArray type for kernel functions(#1118)

Removed¶

Support for Python 3.8 (#1113)

[0.21.2] - 2023-08-07¶

Fixed¶

Bugs (#1068, #774) in atomic addition caused due to improper floating point atomic emulation. (#1103)

Changed¶

Updated documentation and user guides (#1097, #879)

Removed¶

Dependency on spirv-tools (#1103, #1108)
floating point atomic add emulation using atomic_ops.cl (#1103)
NUMBA_DPEX_ACTIVATE_ATOMICS_FP_NATIVE configuration option (#1103)

[0.21.1] - 2023-07-17¶

Changed¶

Improved support for queue keyword in dpnp array constructor overloads (#1083)
Improved reduction kernel example (#1089)

Fixed¶

Update Itanium CXX ABI Mangler reference (#1080)
Update sourceware references in docstrings (#1081)
Typo in error messages of kernel interface (#1082)

[0.21.0] - 2023-06-17¶

Added¶

Support addition and multiplication-based prange reduction loops (#999)
Proper boxing, unboxing of dpctl.SyclQueue objects inside dpjit decorated functions (#963, #1064)
Support for queue keyword arguments inside dpnp array constructors in dpjit (#1032)
Overloads for dpnp array constructors: dpnp.full (#991), dpnp.full_like (#997)
Support for complex64 and complex128 types as kernel arguments and in parfors (#1033, #1035)
New config to run the ConstantSizeStaticLocalMemoryPass optionally (#999)
Support for Numba 0.57 (#1030, #1003, #1002)
Support for Python 3.11 (#1054)
Support for SPIRV 1.4 (#1056, #1060)

Changed¶

Parfor lowering happens using the kernel pipeline (#996)
Minimum required Numba version is now 0.57 (#1030)
Numba monkey patches are moved to numba_dpex.numba_patches (#1030)
Redesigned unit test suite (#1018, #1017, #1015, #1036, #1037, #1072)

Fixed¶

Fix stride computation when unboxing a dpnp array (#1023)
Using cached queue instead of creating new one on type inference (#946)
Fixed bug in reduction mul operation for dpjit (#1048)
Offload of parfor nodes to OpenCL UHD GPU devices (#1074)

Removed¶

Support for offloading NumPy-based parfor nodes to SYCL devices (#1041)
Removed rename_numpy_functions_pass (#1041)
Dpnp overloads using stubs (#1041, #1025)
Support for like keyword argument in dpnp array constructor overloads (#1043)
Support for NumPy arrays as kernel arguments (#1049)
Kernel argument access specifiers (#1049)
Support for dpctl.device_context to launch kernels and njit offloading (#1041)

[0.20.1] - 2023-04-07¶

Added¶

Replaced llvm_spirv from oneAPI path by dpcpp-llvm-spirv package.(#979)
Added Dockerfile and a manual workflow to publish pre-built packages to the repo.(#973)

Fixed¶

Fixed default dtype derivation when creating a dpnp.ndarray. (#993)
Adjusted test_windows step to work with intel-opencl-rt=2023.1.0. (#990)
Fixed layout in dpnp overload.(#987)
Handled the case when arraystruct->meminfo is null to close gh-965. (#972)

[0.20.0] - 2023-03-06¶

Added¶

New dpjit decorator supporting dpnp compilation (#887)
Boxing and unboxing functionality for dpnp.ndarray to numba_dpex (#902)
New DpexTarget and dispatcher for compiling dpnp using numba-dpex (#887)
Overload implementation for dpnp.empty (#902)
Overload implementation for dpnp.empty_like, dpnp.zeros_like and dpnp.ones_like inside dpjit (#928)
Overload implementation for dpnp.zeros and dpnp.ones inside dpjit (#923)
Compilation and offload support for dpnp vector style expressions using Numba parfors (#957)
Compilation of over 70 ufuncs for dpnp inside dpjit (#957)
Backported the split parfor pass from upstream Numba. (#949)
Numba type aliases to numba_dpex. (#851)
Numba prange alias inside numba_dpex. (#957)
New LRU cache for kernels (#804) and funcs (#877)
New Range and NdRange classes for kernel submission that follow sycl’s range and ndrange syntax. (#888)
Monkey pacthes to Numba 0.56.4 to support dpnp ufuncs, allocating dpnp arrays (#954)
New config flag (NUMBA_DPEX_DUMP_KERNEL_LLVM) to dump a kernel’s LLVM IR (#924)
A badge to our gitter chatroom (#919)
A small script to update copyright headers (#917)
A new dpexrt_python extension to support USM allocators for Numba NRT_MemInfo (#902)
Updated examples for kernel API demonstrating compute-follows-data programming model. (#826)

Changed¶

CLK_GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE and CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE flags renamed to GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE and LOCAL_MEM_FENCE. (#844)
Switched from Ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu-20.04 for conda package build (#836)
Rename USMNdArrayType to USMNdArray (#851)
Changes to the Numba type to represent dpnp ndarray typess now renamed to DpnpNdarray (#880)
Improved exceptions and user errors (#804)
Updated internal API for kernel interface with improved support for __sycl_usm_array_interface__ protocol (#804)
Pin generated spirv version for kernels to 1.1 (#885)
Rename DpexContext and DpexTypingContext to DpexKernelTarget and DpexKernelTypingContext (#887)
Renamed existing dpnp overloads that used stubs to dpnp_stubs_impl.py (#953)
Dpctl version requirement mismatch is now a warning and not an ImportError (#925)
Update to versioneer 0.28 (#827)
Update to dpctl 0.14 (#858)
Update linters: black to 23.1.0, isort to 5.12.0 (#900)
License in setup.py to match actual project licensing (#904)

Fixed¶

Kernel specialization, compute follows data programming model for kernels (#804)
Dispatcher/caching rewrite to address performance regression (#912, #896)
func decorator qualname ambiguation fix (#905)

Removed¶

Removes the numpy_usm_shared module from numba_dpex. (#841)
Removes the usage of llvmlite.llvmpy (#932)

Deprecated¶

Support for NumPy arrays as kernel arguments (#804)
Kernel argument access specifiers (#804)
Support for dpctl.device_context to launch kernels and njit offloading (#804)
Dpnp overloads using stubs. (#953)

[0.19.0] - 2022-11-21¶

Added¶

Supported numba0.56. (#818)
Supported dpnp0.11 and dpctl0.14.
Added customized exception classes. (#798)

Fixed¶

Fixed a crash when calling take() for input array with non-integer values. (#771)
Fixed pairwise_distance.py to run on machine with no FP64 support in HW. (#806)

[0.18.1] - 2022-08-06¶

Added¶

Implemented support for dpnp.empty() (#728)

Changed¶

numba-dppy package is now renamed to numba-dpex.

[0.18.0] - 2022-02-22¶

Added¶

Run coverage in GitHub Actions and upload results to coveralls.io (#621)
Change black to only allow 80 char lines. Reformat sources. (#631)
Ignore formatting changes from git-blame. (#632)
Add numba_support.py with numba_version (#656)
Add skip_no_numba055 decorator (#662)
Parameterize test for atomics (#661)
Reuse decorator skip_no_opencl_Xpu to skip tests (#663)
Add decorator to skip unsupported atomics (#664)
Support arrays with __sycl_usm_array_interface__ attribute (#629)
Support memory allocation in private address space (#640)
Move skips for opencl to helper (#665)
Support dpctl 0.12 (#669)
Implement compute-follows-data programming model [kernel API] (#598)
Use filter_str to skip tests on missing devices (#672)
Add check for DPNP and pin MKL version in workflow and dev environment (#648)
Add CODEOWNERS for distributing review process (#670)
Add skip_no_dpnp and apply it to all tests (#668)
Test skipping improvements (#675)
Use Python 3.9 in dev environment and pin DPNP (#644)
Add examples into package (#680)
Make possible to force debugging tests (#681)
Refactoring for debugging tests (#682)
Adopt Numba 0.55 debugging features (#654)
Run public CI on pull request (#695)
Support for coverage in internal CI (#708)
Update to dpnp 0.10 (#709)
Update recipe with dpctl and dpnp version for build (#710)

Changed¶

Move dpcpp/llvm-spirv from runtime to testing dependency (#659)

Fixed¶

Fix building with DPNP (#674)
Fix public CI: opencl driver, channel priority, dpctl version (#691)
Fix codestyle black (#696)
Fix documentation generation (#697)
Load dpctl lib on Linux using libDPCTLSyclInterface.so.0 (#707)
Fix search llvm-spirv if dpcpp compiler package is not installed (#703)
Pin dpnp version in runtime to allow dev versions of dpnp (#712)

[0.17.4] - 2021-12-02¶

Changed¶

Move dpcpp/llvm-spirv from runtime to testing dependency by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/659

[0.17.3] - 2021-11-30¶

Changed¶

Use llvm-spirv from dpcpp compiler package by default [cherry picked from #649] (#651)

Fixed¶

Enable offloading for numba.njit in dpctl.deveice_context (#630)
Fix upload conditions for main and release branches (#610)
Fix DeprecationWarning when use version.parse() [cherry picked from #639] (#642)

[0.17.2] - 2021-11-15¶

Changed¶

Use llvm-spirv from bin-llvm during build for Linux and Windows (#626, #627)

[0.17.1] - 2021-11-10¶

Changed¶

Update clang to icx (#622)

[0.17.0] - 2021-11-03¶

Added¶

Use Python 3.9 [public CI] by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/574
Use NUMBA_DPPY_DEBUG for debugging GDB tests by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/578
Preliminary support Numba 0.55 (master branch) by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/583
Workflow for manually running tests using Numba PRs by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/586
Add public CI trigger on tags by @1e-to in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/589
Upload packages for release* branches by @1e-to in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/593
Update to dpctl 0.11 by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/595
Update to dpnp 0.9 by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/599
Improve the documenatation landing page by @diptorupd in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/601
Clean up README by @diptorupd in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/604

Fixed¶

Restrict dpctl to 0.10.* for release 0.16 by @1e-to in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/590
Fix upload from release branch by @1e-to in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/596
Unskip tests passing with dpnp 0.9.0rc1 by @PokhodenkoSA in https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy/pull/606

[0.16.1] - 2021-10-20¶

Changed¶

Fix dpctl to 0.10 (#590)
Add Public CI trigger for tags (#589)

[0.16.0] - 2021-09-28¶

Added¶

Improve build and infra scripts (#544)
Add docs about local variables lifetime (#534)
Public CI for Windows (#536, #558)
Add info about tags in documentation (#543)
Add code coverage configurations (#561)
Add support pytest-cov and pytest-xdist (#562)
Add documentation workflow (#547)
Test numba and numba-dppy API with GDB (#566)
Transform commands scripts for GDB to tests (#568)

Changed¶

Update dpnp 0.8 (#524)
Fix passing strides array to DPNP dot and matmul (#565)
Use older compiler for backwards compatibility (#549)
Update conda recipe dependency for dpnp (#535)
Update dpctl 0.10 (memcpy async) (#529)
Change channels priority in public CI (#532)
Added runtime dependency llvm-spirv 11.* (#523)
Update test matrix in README (#560)
Use dpctl 0.10* and dpnp 0.8* in development configuration (environment.yml)

Fixed¶

Update test and fix typo for atomics (#550)
Delete unused file run_test.sh
Fix Public CI for using development packages (#522)
Removed redundant import in docs (#521)

[0.15.0] - 2021-08-25¶

Added¶

Introduce array ultilites to check, allocate and copy memory using SYCL USM (#489)
Add packaging in run dependencies (#505)
Add skipping tests for run without GPU (#508)
Add CI pipeline on GitHub Actions for Linux (#507)
Enable dpctl.tensor.usm_ndarray for @dppy.kernel (#509)
Enable @vectorize for target dppy (#497)
Add integration channels to GitHub Actions and make workflow consistent with dpctl (#510)

Changed¶

Update to Numba 0.54.0 (#493)
Update to dpctl 0.9 (#514)
Update to dpnp 0.7 (#513)
Use dpcpp compiler package for Linux (#502)
Update go version (#515)

Removed¶

Remove llvmdev from runtime dependecies (#498)

Fixed¶

Fix required compiler flags for processing genreated DWARF symbols (#500)

[0.14.4] - 2021-07-09¶

Fixed¶

Fix emission of debug information (#424)
Fix examples demonstrating GDB usage on a numba_dppy.kernel function. (#455)
Remove address space cast from global to generic inside numba_dppy.kernel (#432)
Fix debugging of local variables (#432)
Assert offload to SYCL devices in tests (#466)
Removed calling opt to convert LLVM IR to LLVM Bitcode (#481)

Added¶

Add examples for debugging (#426)
Added a new NUMBA_DPPY_DEBUGINFO environment variable to control GDB usage (#460)
Add debug option to dppy.kernel decorator (#424)
Enable debugging of nested GPU functions (#424)
Enable setting breakpoints by function names while Debugging (#434)
Various fixes and improvements to documentation about debugging (#479, #474, #475, #480, #475, #477, #468,#450)
Add automatic generation of commands for debugging (#463)
Add tests on debugging local variables (#421)
Enable eager compilation of numba_dppy.kernel (#291)
Increase test coverage for native atomic ops (#435)
Check and deter users from returning values from numba_dppy.kernel (#476)

[0.14.3] - 2021-05-27¶

Fixed¶

Add check for ONEAPI_ROOT dir (#411)
Fix using unquoted environment variable for clang path (#386)
Fix kernel caching (#408)

[0.14.2] - 2021-05-26¶

Added¶

Update documentation: version 0.14 (#378), API docs (#388), note about Intel Python Numba (#389),
Update User Guides about Debugging (#380), recommendations (#323), locals (#394), stepping (#400), configure environment (#402), set up machine (#396), info functions (#405)
Update Developer Guides about DPNP integration (#362)
Update README: add link to docs (#379), add Cython and pytest in dependencies, add test matrix (#305)
Add initial integration testing with dpnp and usm_ndarray (#403)
Introduce type in Numba-dppy to represent dpctl.tensor.usm_ndarray (#391)
Improve error reporting when searching for dpctl. (#368)
Enable Python 3.8 in CI (#359)
Adds a new utils submodule to provide LLVM IR builder helpers. (#355)
Improve warning and error messages when parfor offload fails. (#353)
Extend itanium mangler to support numba.types.CPointer and add test (#339)
Enable optimization level setting (#62)
Improve message printed during parfor lowering. (#337)
Initial tests for debug info (#297)
Add Bandit checks (#264)

Changed¶

Update to dpctl 0.8 (#375)
Update to Numba 0.53 (#279), inluding override get_ufunc_info in DPPYTargetContext (#367)
Update to DPNP 0.6 (#359)
Refactor test function generation (#374)
Ignore the cython generated cpp files inside dpnp_glue. (#351)
Add automerge main to gold/2021 (#349)
Fix dpnp version restriction in conda recipe (#347)
Change all Numba-dppy examples to work wih dpctl 0.7.0 (#309)
Restrict dpnp version (#344)
Feature changes related to dpctl 0.7 (#340)
Rename dpNP to dpnp (#334)
Ignore generated spir files (#333)
Use correct names for other products dpctl, Numba, dpnp (#310)
Remove dead code only if function name is replaced (#303)
Update license in conda recipe (#350)
Update blackscholes examples (#377)

Fixed¶

Fix dppy_rt extension (#393)
Update SYCL Filter String (#390)
Fix atomics (#346)
Fixes memory leaks in the usage of dpctl C API functions. (#369)
Fix SPIR-V validation (#354)
Fix run pre-commit check on main branch
Fix tests to skip if device is not available (#345)
Make Test Matrix table smaller in README (#308)
Fix black action. (#306)
Fix “subprocess.check_call” for Windows (#269)

[0.13.1] - 2021-03-11¶

Fixed¶

Add spir file to package.
Do not modify CC env variable during build.
Use correct version in documentation.

[0.13.0] - 2021-03-02¶

Added¶

Documentation.
Add support for dpctl.dparray.
Support NumPy functions via DPNP: random, linalg, transcendental, array ops, array creation.
Wheels building.
Using Bandit for finding common security issues in Python code.

Changed¶

Start using black code style formatter.
Build SPIRV code in setup.py.
Start using pytest for running tests.
Start using Apache 2.0 license.
Consistency of file headers.
Updated to Numba 0.52, dpCtl 0.6 and dpNP 0.5.1.
Don’t create a new copy of a usm shared array data pointers for kernel call.
Modify test cases and examples to use Level Zero queue.

Fixed¶

Fix incorrect import in examples.

[0.12.0] - 2020-12-17¶

Added¶

numba-dppy is a standalone package now. Added setup.py and conda recipe.
Offload diagnostics.
Controllable fallback.
Add flags to generate debug symbols.
Implementation of np.linalg.eig, np.ndarray.sum, np.ndarray.max, np.ndarray.min, np.ndarray.mean.
Two new re-write passes to convert NumPy calls into a pseudo numba_dppy call site to allow target-specific overload of NumPy functions. The rewrite passes is a temporary fix till Numba gains support for target-specific overlaods.
Updated to dpCtl 0.5.* and dpNP 0.4.*

Changed¶

The dpnp interface now uses Numba’s @overload functionality as opposed to the previous @lower_builtin method.
Rename DPPL to DPPY.
Cleaned test code.
DPPLTestCase replaced with unittest.TestCase.
All tests and examples use with device_context.
Config environment variables starts with NUMBA_DPPY_ (i.e. NUMBA_DPPY_SAVE_IR_FILES and NUMBA_DPPY_SPIRV_VAL)
Remove nested folder dppl in tests.
No dependency on cffi.

Removed¶

The old backup file.

NUMBA Version 0.48.0 + DPPY Version 0.3.0 (June 29, 2020)¶

This release includes:

Caching of dppy.kernels which will improve performance.
Addition of support for Intel Advisor which will help in profiling applications.