Milestone Release Notes

This page includes a list of high level updates for each milestone release.

Milestone 78

• Added RELEASE_NOTES.txt file https://review.skia.org/229760
• SkDrawLooper is no longer supported in SkPaint or SkCanvas. https://review.skia.org/230579 https://review.skia.org/231736
• SkPath::Iter::next() now ignores its consumDegenerates bools. Those will so go away entirely https://review.skia.org/235104
• SkImage: new factories: DecodeToRaster, DecodeToTexture https://review.skia.org/234476
• SkImageFilter API refactor started:
  • Provide new factory API in include/effects/SkImageFilters
  • Consolidated enum types to use SkTileMode and SkColorChannel
  • Hide filter implementation classes
  • Hide previously public functions on SkImageFilter that were intended for internal use only https://review.skia.org/230198 https://review.skia.org/230876 https://review.skia.org/231256
• SkColorFilters::HSLAMatrix - new matrix color filter operating in HSLA space. https://review.skia.org/231736
• Modify GrBackendFormat getters to not return internal pointers. Use an enum class for GL formats. https://review.skia.org/233160
• Expose GrContext::dump() when SK_ENABLE_DUMP_GPU is defined. https://review.skia.org/233557
• Vulkan backend now supports YCbCr sampler for I420 Vulkan images that are not backed by external images. https://review.skia.org/233776
• Add SkCodec::SelectionPolicy for distinguishing between decoding a still image or an image sequence for a container format that has both (e.g. HEIF). https://review.skia.org/232839
• SkImage::makeTextureImage and SkImage::MakeCrossContextFromPixmap no longer take an SkColorSpace parameter. It was unused. https://review.skia.org/234579 https://review.skia.org/234912
• SkImage::reinterpretColorSpace - to reinterpret image contents in a new color space. https://review.skia.org/234328
• Removed SkImage::MakeCrossContextFromEncoded. https://review.skia.org/234912
• Add Metal support for GrFence, GrSemaphore, and GrBackendSemaphore https://review.skia.org/233416
• SkMallocPixelRef: remove MakeDirect and MakeWithProc from API. https://review.skia.org/234660
• Remove 4-parameter variant of SkRect::join() and intersect(), and noemptycheck variants of intersect(). https://review.skia.org/235832 https://review.skia.org/237142
• Remove unused sk_sp comparison operators. https://review.skia.org/236942
• Add SkColor4f variant to experimental_DrawEdgeAAQuad for SkiaRenderer. https://review.skia.org/237492
• Deprecated maxCount resource cache limit for Ganesh. This hasn't been relevant for a long time.
• Changed GrContextOptions' fDisallowGLSLBinaryCaching to fShaderCacheStrategy, and allow caching SkSL. https://review.skia.org/238856