v0.9.0

OpenCL v0.9.0

Diff since v0.8.1

Closed issues:

• convert functions for CL_objects (#1)
• Scalar global work size/ local work size variables in cl.call (#2)
• Minimum device alloc size (#3)
• OpenCL 1.2 Functions (#16)
• Support for OpenCL floatN and doubleN types (#18)
• Show build log on kernel build failure (#27)
• Image support (#28)
• Compiling Julia to OpenCL SPIR instead of OpenCL C (#29)
• Integrate OpenCL <-> Julia Event systems (#35)
• Add tests for leaking OpenCL object (#46)
• Bug in examples\hands_on_opencl\ex08\matmul.jl (#64)
• Documentation (#84)
• OpenCL 2.0 problems (#100)
• enqueue_write_buffer and enqueue_read_buffer arguments (#107)
• OpenCL.wait and type stability (#108)
• Apparent OpenCL.read error (#110)
• Unhandled task failure on v0.5 (#111)
• Add high-level support for OpenCL.api.clCreateSubBuffer (#116)
• Conditional load of OpenCL.jl (#120)
• Provide deps/build.jl in OpenCL family of packages (#124)
• Segmentation fault in test/test_array on AMD CPU (#133)
• no method matching unsafe_string(::Ptr{Void}) (#138)
• Travis environment for Linux is broken (#143)
• use VersionParsing.jl to parse version numbers (#151)
• OpenCL test error (#152)
• map_mem / unmap! fails sporadically: array not mapped to buffer (#158)
• Problems with Travis (#163)
• Precompilation failing in Julia v1.0 (#165)
• updated notebook example for fractals, but the kernel doesn't produce correct results (#171)
• create_some_context causes Segmentation fault from REPL (#176)
• Tag a new release? (#181)
• Cannot create a buffer with a size than exceeds a UInt32 (#183)
• Change for behavior in includes? (#185)
• Fails to precompile for Julia v1.4.1 (#186)
• "cl.create_compute_context()" fails with an error on Fedora 32 x86-64 on an Intel NUC (#187)
• nbytes is coerced to UInt32 in Buffer outer constructor (#193)
• Help refactoring package to use OpenCL_jll (#195)

Merged pull requests:

• Always allow package to load (#177) (@jpsamaroo)
• Bump version from "0.8.0" to "0.8.1" (#182) (@DilumAluthge)
• Correct example in README (#188) (@eschnett)
• Added quick reference to README.md (#189) (@miakramer)
• README overhaul (#192) (@carstenbauer)
• Add OpenCL_jll dependence (#196) (@ClaroHenrique)
• Add Buildkite CI (#197) (@ClaroHenrique)