rocm-mlir-distro

MLIR wheels built from ROCm/llvm-project @ 46fcb339. Linux x86_64 only; Windows builds pending ccache fix (PR #3313).

v1.3.4

🧠 TL;DR

• ✅ Faster compiler and routing performance
• ✅ Continued Peano compatibility and testing improvements
• ✅ Cleaner IRON programming model and ObjectFifo defaults
• ✅ Improved JIT reliability and Python packaging
• ✅ Ongoing CI, dependency, and infrastructure modernization

🔍 Highlights

⚡ Compiler Performance & Scalability

• Improved compiler scalability by building per-core compile slices from a stripped base module and adopting a shared thread pool for core compilation → @atassis, @jgmelber
• Accelerated routing with dense integer vertex IDs in the Pathfinder router and reduced AIEX memref deduplication from linear to constant time → @jgmelber, @atassis
• Improved compiler parallelism by automatically selecting the number of compilation threads based on available CPUs → @jgmelber

🧩 IRON & Programming Model

• Moved tile placement validation into the compiler, simplifying the IRON tile API while providing earlier error checking → @hunhoffe
• Fixed unsafe cleanup of cached JIT artifacts in the DMA compression flow → @thomthehound

🔧 Peano & Compiler Compatibility

• Continued Peano enablement with expanded lit test coverage and automated version management → @thomthehound, @hunhoffe
• Improved compatibility with LLVM 23 by automatically downgrading newer floating-point and bfloat16 literal forms for Peano toolchains → @erwei-xilinx

🧹 Codebase Modernization, Build, Packaging, & CI

• Removed legacy/obsolete AIE/AIEX dialect operations, legacy AIEVec-to-C++ backend, legacy test suites, and unused Python files as part of continued codebase cleanup → @hunhoffe @jsetoain, @jgmelber
• Improved CI with automated Peano version pinning, lockfile validation, and license header enforcement → @hunhoffe, @andrej
• Updated CMake, nanobind, notebook, GitHub Actions, and other development dependencies to current supported versions → @dependabot, @jgmelber

v1.3.3

v1.3.3

🧠 TL;DR

• ✅ Enhanced IRON JIT workflow and DMA programming capabilities
• ✅ New simulated annealing AIE placer
• ✅ Faster compiler performance and improved Peano support
• ✅ Better Windows, packaging, and Python developer experience
• ✅ CI, build, and documentation improvements

🔍 Highlights

🧩 IRON & Programming Model

• Added multi-dimensional DMA strides (Bd.dimensions) and cross-core L1 buffer sharing for more expressive IRON programming → @hunhoffe
• Unified the @iron.jit compilation workflow across all programming examples and improved JIT caching by binding the target device before compilation → @hunhoffe, @thomthehound

📍 Placement & Compilation

• Added a new simulated annealing-based AIE placer for improved placement exploration → @yenjames
• Reduced compiler compile times by eliminating quadratic symbol lookups during NPU lowering → @atassis
• Improved aiecc lowering for full-ELF compilation and strengthened Peano compatibility and testing → @atassis, @erwei-xilinx, @thomthehound

⚡ Runtime & Platform Support

• Fixed Windows crashes in the Python XRT cached runtime → @thomthehound

🛠️ Developer Experience

• Added Pyright type checking across the Python codebase → @hunhoffe
• Added an aie-kernel-opt skills collection and expanded Linux build documentation for non-Ubuntu and in-tree amdxdna configurations → @hunhoffe, @AndreNijman

🐛 Build, CI & Stability

• Updated GitHub Actions dependencies, self-hosted runner configuration, and LLVM nightly pinning for improved CI stability → @dependabot, @andrej, @atassis, @hunhoffe

🙌 New Contributors

• @atassis
• @AndreNijman

v1.3.2

v1.3.2

🧠 TL;DR

• ✅ New AIE placement infrastructure and unplaced IRON workflows
• ✅ Tracing improvements and declarative trace APIs
• ✅ Expanded ObjectFifo and DMA functionality
• ✅ Improved AIE2/AIEVec lowering and kernel correctness
• ✅ Better NPU2, Windows, and packaging support
• ✅ Broad runtime, routing, and stability fixes

🔍 Highlights

🧩 Placement & IRON

• Introduced new AIE placement pass with flow-, memory-, and route-aware placement → @yenjames, @erwei-xilinx
• Continued migration to unplaced IRON; deprecated sequential placer → @yenjames, @hunhoffe

📡 Tracing & Runtime

• Added declarative trace APIs and improved trace routing/configuration → @yenjames, @FIM43-Redeye @fifield
• Enabled dynamic ObjectFifo lowering, DMA repeat-count support, and expanded ObjectFifo capabilities → @AndraBisca, @yenjames @hunhoffe

⚡ AIE2 & Performance

• Expanded AIEVec/AIE2P lowering support and bf16 optimizations → @erwei-xilinx
• Fixed AIE2 matmul correctness and enabled vectorized matvec kernels → @hunhoffe

🚀 Examples & Platform Support

• Ported MobileNet to IRON and expanded NPU2 support → @hunhoffe, @yenjames
• Added Python ELF and custom DMA examples → @andrej, @yenjames

🐛 Build, Packaging & Stability

• Improved Windows wheel packaging and PyPI readiness → @thomthehound, @hunhoffe
• LLVM/toolchain updates, CI modernization, and supply-chain hardening → @hunhoffe
• Numerous fixes across DMA, routing, ObjectFifos, runtime, and build systems → multiple contributors

🙌 New Contributors

• @FIM43-Redeye

latest-wheels-4

Switch from `latest-wheels-3` to `latest-wheels-4` (#3147)

latest-wheels-no-rtti-2

Bump cmake from 3.27.9 to 4.3.2 in /utils/mlir_wheels (#3080)

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v1.3.1

What's Changed

• Flaky CI Fixes: Add retry policy for downloads and vendor eudsl-python-extras to reduce susceptibility to transient GitHub 502 failures.
• AIE Core To Standard Fixes: Set conv_even rounding mode for bf16 matmul and fix AIE2P control register indices for saturation and rounding.
• Miscellaneous Fixes: Fix xclbin UUIDs, non-deterministic crash in RunOp::verify(), and remove is_placed flag from JIT decorator.
• Peano Optimization Issue Resolved: Workaround flags for Peano -O2 issue removed.
• Pre-push Hook Added: Pre-push hook implemented for the repository.
• Mobilenet v3 Example Added: Design example for Mobilenet v3 included.

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1

v1.3.0

🧠 TL;DR

• ✅ New C++ aiecc compiler replaces Python tooling
• ✅ Major AIE2 vector (aievec) improvements (bf16, FMA, reductions, tanh)
• ✅ More robust runtime + DMA handling
• ✅ Expanded IR features + tracing support
• ✅ Improved CI, packaging, and dev workflows
• ✅ Early Windows support

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🔍 Highlights

🛠 Compiler & Toolchain

• Introduced native C++ aiecc with ELF, xchesscc, aiebu/bootgen, and sim/host support → @jgmelber
• Added pip entry point and deprecated aiecc.py → @jgmelber
• LLVM bump tooling + workflow improvements → @hunhoffe, @erwei-xilinx

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⚡ Performance & Kernels & AIE Vector (aievec)

• Expanded bf16/f32 support (32-lane ops, 256-bit ops) → @erwei-xilinx
• Added FMA fusion, reductions, tanh lowering, bf16 emulation → @erwei-xilinx
• Performance + correctness fixes (fdiv, crashes, lowering flexibility) → @erwei-xilinx
• Softmax kernel optimizations + testing improvements → @amd-jiajli

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🔄 Runtime & Execution

• Added repeat_count to DMA + improved BD handling → @jsetoain
• Fixed memtile DMA/addressing issues → @erwei-xilinx
• Runtime sequence → aiebu asm lowering → @fifield

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🧩 IR & Dialects

• Added AIEX cert ops + event trace configuration → @fifield
• New abstractions: TileLike, logical_tile, tile classification → @yenjames

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🐛 Fixes & Stability & Platform Support & Build & CI

• Initial Windows bring-up + packaging fixes → @thomthehound
• Fixes across DMA, JIT/compile, routing, CI stability → @hunhoffe, @erwei-xilinx, @jgmelber, @fifield
• Switched to latest-wheels-3, improved CI + fork PR support → @erwei-xilinx, @Copilot
• Formatting hooks + logging improvements → @jgmelber, @hunhoffe
• XRT detection + install docs → @jgmelber

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🙌 New Contributors

• @yenjames
• @amd-jiajli
• @RobinMelhuish

latest-wheels-3

Remove deprecated colshift from parse in Makefile (#2855)

v1.2.1

Add e2e tests showing `use_lock` in `dma_configure_task` in core and …