Prepare Filament v.1.8.0 (#2787)

README.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'com.google.android.filament:filament-android:1.7.0'
+    implementation 'com.google.android.filament:filament-android:1.8.0'
 }
 ```
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -5,30 +5,38 @@ A new header is inserted each time a *tag* is created.
 
 ## Next release
 
+## v1.8.0
+
 - Improved JavaScript API for SurfaceOrientation and Scene.
 - Updated JavaScript API around Camera construction / destruction (⚠️ **API change**)
-- gltfio now uses high precision for texture coordinates.
+- Add missing JavaScript API for `View::setVisibleLayers()`.
 - Fixed regression in JavaScript IcoSphere that caused tutorial to fail.
 - gltf_viewer now supports viewing with glTF cameras.
+- gltfio now uses high precision for texture coordinates.
 - gltfio now supports importing glTF cameras.
 - gltfio now supports simple instancing of entire assets.
 - gltfio has improved performance and assumes assets are well-formed.
 - gltfio now supports name and prefix lookup for entities.
 - ModelViewer now allows resources to be fetched off the UI thread.
-- Add missing JavaScript API for `View::setVisibleLayers()`.
 - Add support for DOF with Metal backend.
+- New Depth-of-Field (Dof) algorithm, which is more plausible and about an order of magnitude faster
+  (about 4ms on Pixel4).
 - SSAO now has an optional high(er) quality upsampler.
 - Tone mappping now uses the real ACES tone mapper, applied in the proper color space.
 - Tone mapping is now applied via a LUT.
 - `View::setToneMapping` is deprecated, use `View::setColorGrading` instead. (⚠️ **API change**)
 - Color grading capabilities per View: white balance (temperature/tint), channel mixer,
   tonal ranges (shadows/mid-tones/highlights), ASC CDL (slope/offset/power), contrast, vibrance,
   saturation, and curves.
+- New vignette effect.
+- Improved MSAA performance on mobile.
+- Improved performance of the post-process pass when bloom is disabled on mobile.
+- Added support for 3D textures.
+- Fixed private API access on some versions of Android.
+- Many improvements and bug fixes in Metal and Vulkan backends.
 - Fixed bug in the Metal backend when SSR and MSAA were turned on.
 - Fixed Metal issue with `BufferDescriptor` and `PixelBufferDescriptor`s not being called on
   the application thread.
-- New Depth-of-Field (Dof) algorithm, which is more plausible and about an order of magnitude faster
-  (about 4ms on Pixel4)
 
 ## v1.7.0
 

android/gradle.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GROUP=com.google.android.filament
-VERSION_NAME=1.7.0
+VERSION_NAME=1.8.0
 
 POM_DESCRIPTION=Real-time physically based rendering engine for Android.
 

web/filament-js/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "filament",
-  "version": "1.7.0",
+  "version": "1.8.0",
   "description": "Real-time physically based rendering engine",
   "main": "filament.js",
   "module": "filament.js",