DirectXTex

• DirectCompute 4.0 BC6H/BC7 compressor integration
• texconv utility uses DirectCompute compression by default for BC6H/BC7, -nogpu disables use of DirectCompute

• Support for BC compression/decompression of non-power-of-2 mipmapped textures
• Fixes for BC6H / BC7 codecs to better match published standard
• Fix for BC4 / BC5 codecs when compressing RGB images
• Minor fix for the BC1-3 codec
• New optional flags for ComputeMSE to compare UNORM vs. SNORM images
• New WIC loading flag added to control use of WIC metadata to return sRGB vs. non-sRGB formats
• Code cleanup and /analyze fixes
• Project file cleanup
• Texconv utility uses parallel BC compression by default for BC6H/BC7, -singleproc disables multithreaded behavior

• VS 2013 Preview projects added
• SaveToWIC functions updated with new optional setCustomProps parameter

• Custom filtering implementation for Resize & GenerateMipMaps(3D) - Point, Box, Linear, Cubic, and Triangle
  • TEX_FILTER_TRIANGLE finite low-pass triangle filter
  • TEX_FILTER_WRAP, TEX_FILTER_MIRROR texture semantics for custom filtering
  • TEX_FILTER_BOX alias for TEX_FILTER_FANT WIC
• Ordered and error diffusion dithering for non-WIC conversion
• sRGB gamma correct custom filtering and conversion
• DDS_FLAGS_EXPAND_LUMINANCE - Reader conversion option for L8, L16, and A8L8 legacy DDS files
• Added use of WIC metadata for sRGB pixel formats
• Added BitsPerColor utility function
• Fixed Convert threshold parameter usage
• Non-power-of-2 volume map support, fixed bug with non-square volume maps
• Texconv utility update with -xlum, -wrap, and -mirror options; reworked -if options for improved dithering
• Texassemble utility for creating cubemaps, volume maps, and texture arrays
• DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader sync'd with DirectXTK versions

• Updated alpha-mode metadata details in .DDS files
• Added new control flags for Convert
• Added new optional flags for ComputeMSE
• Fixed conversion handling for sRGB formats
• Fixed internal routines for handling R10G10B10_XR_BIAS_A2_UNORM, R9G9B9E5_SHAREDEXP, and FORMAT_R1_UNORM}
• Fixed WIC I/O for GUID_WICPixelFormat32bppRGBE pixel format files (HD Photo)
• Fixed non-square image handling in GenerateMipMaps3D
• Fixed some error handling in the DDS load code

• Supports reading and writing alpha-mode (straight, premultiplied, etc.) metadata in .DDS files
• Added build option to use WICCreateImagingFactory_Proxy instead of CoCreateInstance to obtain WIC factory

• Added PremultiplyAlpha to DirectXTex; -pmalpha switch for texconv command-line tool
• Fixed problem with forceSRGB implementation for Ex versions of CreateTexture, CreateShaderResourceView, DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader

• Ex versions of CreateTexture, CreateShaderResourceView, DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader
• Fixed BC2 and BC3 decompression issue for unusual color encoding case
• Converted annotation to SAL2 for improved VS 2012 /analyze experience
• Updated DirectXTex, DDSView, and Texconv with VS 2010 + Windows 8.0 SDK project using official 'property sheets'

• Added support for WIC2 when available on Windows 8 and Windows 7 with KB 2670838
• Added optional targetGUID parameter to SaveWIC* APIs to influence final container pixel format choice
• Fixed bug in SaveDDS* which was generating invalid DDS files for 1D dimension textures
• Improved robustness of CaptureTexture when resolving MSAA source textures
• Sync'd DDSTextureLoader, ScreenGrab, and WICTextureLoader standalone versions with latest DirectXTK release

• Added ScreenGrab module for creating runtime screenshots
• Renamed project files for better naming consistency
• New Typeless utilities for DirectXTex
• Some minor code cleanup for DirectXTex's WIC writer function
• Bug fixes and new -tu/-tf options for texconv

• Moved to using XNA Math 2.05 instead of XNA Math 2.04 for USE_XNAMATH builds
• Fixed BGR vs. RGB color channel swizzle problem with 24bpp legacy .DDS files in DirectXTex
• Update to DirectXTex WIC and WICTextureLoader for additional 96bpp float format handling on Windows 8

• Minor fix for DDSTextureLoader's retry fallback that can happen with 10level9 feature levels
• Switched to use "_DEBUG" instead of "DEBUG" and cleaned up debug warnings
• added Metro style application project files for DirectXTex

• Added projects for Windows apps Technical Preview
• Fixed bug with WIC-based mipmap generation for non-WIC supported formats
• Fixed bug with WIC multiframe loader when resizing required
• texconv: Added -nmap/-nmapamp for generating normal maps from height maps
• texconv/texassemble: Updated to load multiframe WIC files (tiff, gif)
• Minor code cleanup

DirectXTex is now licensed under the MIT license rather than the MS-PL

DirectTex's WIC-based writer opts-in for the Windows 8 BMP encoder option for writing 32 bpp RGBA files with the BITMAPV5HEADER