News for cpuid

This file lists the major changes between versions. For a more detailed list of every change, see the Git log.

Latest

• tbd

9.0.1

• Patch: Made Neon detection work on MacOS.

9.0.0

• Major: Use waf-tools 5.
• Minor: Added different AVX-512 extensions.
• Minor: Updated waf.

8.0.0

• Major: Change cmake object library approach.

7.0.0

• Major: Change cmake build to be object library based.

6.5.0

• Minor: Added install step to CMake.

6.4.0

• Minor: Added detection for F16C instruction

6.3.1

• Patch: Added add_subdirectory guard to CMakeLists.txt.

6.3.0

• Minor: Changed resolve step in CMake file.
• Minor: Lowered required cmake version.
• Minor: Upgrade to boost 4

6.2.1

• Patch: Use variable for resolve step in cmake.

6.2.0

• Minor: Improve cmake build file.

6.1.0

• Minor: Added cmake build file.
• Patch: Move options.log to build folder
• Patch: Fix generator to build .o files when dependency and static lib when top-level.

6.0.0

• Major: Moved internal files to the details folder.
• Major: Added inline namespace for versioning.
• Major: Added prepare_release function to wscript.
• Major: Expose objects rather than static lib when used as a dependency.

5.0.2

• Patch: Fix the detection of the AVX2 instruction set on older CPUs. If the CPU does not support the eax=7 input value for the cpuid instruction, then the corresponding query is skipped.

5.0.1

• Patch: Fix the detection of the NEON instruction set on 64-bit ARM CPUs, where Advanced SIMD (NEON) is always available.

5.0.0

• Major: Upgrade to waf-tools 4
• Major: Upgrade to platform 3
• Minor: Upgrade to boost 3
• Minor: Upgrade to gtest 4
• Minor: Added buildbot.py for coverage reports.

4.0.0

• Major: Upgrade to waf-tools 3
• Major: Upgrade to platform 2
• Minor: Upgrade to boost 2
• Minor: Upgrade to gtest 3

3.3.1

• Patch: Added missing cstdint includes

3.3.0

• Minor: Added init_msvc_arm.hpp to enable the NEON instruction set on Windows Phone 8 (and above).

3.2.1

• Patch: Fix version define.

3.2.0

• Patch: On win32 use __cpuidex when detecting extended features (such as AVX2). This bug was reported by Ilya Lavrenov <ilya.lavrenov@itseez.com>.
• Minor: Update to waf 1.8.0-pre1
• Minor: Made python files comply with pep8
• Minor: Added version define.

3.1.0

• Minor: Added detection for AVX2 instruction set
• Patch: Fixed issue with the -fPIC compiler flag on x86.

3.0.0

• Major: Platform detection is now handled by the ‘platform’ library

2.0.0

• Major: Renamed Clang detection macros to always use the name CLANG instead of LLVM.

1.0.0

• Major: Initial release with support for x86 and ARM architectures.