v2024.13

Key Changes:

• Added WebAssembly build support
• Expanded WGSL support: texture intrinsics, synchronization, math, pack/unpack, constructors, derivatives
• Implemented initial Atomic type

This release focuses on WGSL improvements, WebAssembly support, along with various bug fixes

=== Breaking changes ===
dd3d80e Allow lookups of overloaded methods. (#5110)

=== All changes for this release ===
ebee786 Add compile_commands.json to .gitignore (#5169)
6724651 Disable wgpu on linux (#5186) (#5183:quality & productivity)
24f56d0 Fix target switch lowering bug. (#5182)
c55805e Fix bug in translateGlslGlobalVar(). (#5181) (#5027:client support)
5a84e52 Fix hull shader spirv legalization bug. (#5180) (#4914:client support)
afb1405 Fix l-value computation for subscript call. (#5177) (#4971:quality & productivity)
f667593 Add CI step to build WebAssembly version of Slang (#5164) (#5117:forward looking)
2321638 Design proposal for initialization. (#5142) (#5149:client support)
09cbd42 Update slang-rhi (#5176)
68c2834 Add fallback flag for sccache (#5170)
70925fe export CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for cross compilation builds (#5171)
4730d54 Implement texture_storage_Xd in WGSL (#5158) (#5082:client exploration)
958dacf Update slang-rhi (#5160)
5a0224a Move texture format inference to frontend and add reflection api for it. (#5155) (#5148:client support)
7398e1e Always run AD cleanup pass. (#5157)
d752482 Update README.md for platform support
a1f6a0a update slang-rhi (wgpu graphics support) (#5151)
eab9ac8 Remove text on inheritance support in user-guide. (#5154)
03765a6 WGSL texture support for depth and multisampled (#5152)
88623ed Make release note generation script shebang portable (#5145)
84fef05 Fixing bug when writing primitives in metal mesh shaders (#5069)
f5bf5ba Enable emscripten builds to compile slang.dll to WebAssembly. (#5131)
cb1fc34 Fix the incorrect use of GLSL textureGather (#5150)
ef3552d Feature/wgsl intrinsic texture gather (#5141)
3e950e1 Implemented Combined-texture for WGSL (#5130)
14b1098 update slang-rhi with initial wgpu support (#5137)
6912c58 Fix incorrect use of pointer in WGSL (#5144)
53684ed Fix handling of pointer logic in wgsl backend. (#5129)
c42b5e2 WGSL implement texture intrinsics except gather and sampler-less (#5123)
a7fc5b4 Update 003-atomic-t.md
4908349 Initial Atomic<T> type implementation. (#5125) (#5084:client exploration)
b4c851f Add diagnostic to verify the left hand side of a generic constraint. (#5112) (#5113:quality & productivity)
0677956 Re-enable slang-test for WGSL (#5120)
26ca9c5 Synthesize conformance for generic requirements. (#5111) (#5035:client support)
[BREAKING] dd3d80e Allow lookups of overloaded methods. (#5110) (#5090:client support)
9d40ce4 Update spirv-tools version (#5089)
1560326 Add design doc for atomic type. (#5101) (#5100:forward looking)
3861be7 refactor render test to use latest slang-rhi (#5119)
fe71eaf Add WGSL intrinsics for synchronization (#5114) (#5085:client exploration)
c6b702c Use GITHUB_TOKEN if set (#5070)
b7617d2 Fix dx on vk with rhi (#5086)
ccc310f Support IDifferentiablePtrType (#5031) (#4998:client exploration)
1781c29 Update auto-diff user guide (#5071)
b808aa4 Report AD checkpoint contexts (#5058) (#4997:forward looking)
3240799 Lower the priority of looking up the rank of scope (#5065)
2d83875 Add IRWArray interface, and make StructuredBuffer conform to them. (#5097) (#5099:forward looking)
85b996a Add WGSL pack/unpack, constructor, derivatives & misc intrinsics (#5102) (#5080:forward looking)
2f455d3 Fix WGSL frexp and modf that returns a struct (#5096)
0716646 Implement math intrinsics for WGSL (#5078)
25d1559 release-note.sh fixes (#5068)
d866c0b Add API method to specialize function reference with argument types (#4966)
c46ca4c Remove includes of glslang private headers (#5059)
003df7e Fix the issue in resolving the overload functions (#5060) (#4476:client support)