v0.0.5 - MAUI integration & Vulkan 1.4 🎨

Zenith.NET v0.0.5 - MAUI integration & Vulkan 1.4 🎨

This release refines .NET MAUI integration, completes iOS and MacCatalyst control support, and upgrades the Vulkan rendering backend to 1.4.

🔄 Changes

Zenith.NET.Views

Change	Description
iOS / MacCatalyst	Completed native control support, lifecycle and safe-area fixes for iOS and MacCatalyst.
Vulkan 1.4	Vulkan backend updated to 1.4 with pipeline and synchronization adjustments.

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10.0 or later

🗺️ Roadmap

• Metal backend (macOS / iOS)
• SkiaSharp integration

⚠️ Note

Pre-release: APIs and platform details may change in future versions.

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Full changelog: v0.0.4...v0.0.5

v0.0.4 - UI Framework Refactoring

Zenith.NET v0.0.4 - UI Framework Refactoring 🎨

This release focuses on refactoring UI framework controls in Zenith.NET.Views with unified frame scheduling.

🔄 Refactoring

Zenith.NET.Views

Change	Description
Unified Frame Scheduler	Introduced FrameScheduler class to centralize frame timing and scheduling across all UI frameworks
Adaptive Frame Rate	Frame interval now auto-adjusts (30-120 FPS) based on device memory throughput performance

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10.0 or later

🗺️ Roadmap

• Metal backend (macOS / iOS)
• SkiaSharp integration

⚠️ Note

This is a pre-release version. APIs may change in future versions.

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Full Changelog: v0.0.3...v0.0.4

v0.0.3 - Bug Fixes & Sample Updates

Zenith.NET v0.0.3 - Bug Fixes & Sample Updates 🔧

This release focuses on Vulkan backend fixes and enhanced sample demonstrations with advanced rendering techniques.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Vulkan Backend

Issue	Description
Acceleration Structure Descriptor Binding	Fixed incorrect descriptor set creation for acceleration structures in ray tracing pipelines
ImageView ViewType Selection	Fixed ViewType selection for single-layer textures — now correctly uses 1D, 2D, Cube instead of array variants

✨ Sample Updates

SponzaScene

The Sponza scene demo has been significantly enhanced with new rendering passes:

Pass	Description
RTGI	Ray Traced Global Illumination — realistic indirect lighting using hardware ray tracing
SVGF	Spatiotemporal Variance-Guided Filtering — advanced denoising for ray traced effects

🖼️ Preview

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10.0 or later

🗺️ Roadmap

• Metal backend (macOS / iOS)
• SkiaSharp integration

⚠️ Note

This is a pre-release version. APIs may change in future versions.

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Full Changelog: v0.0.2...v0.0.3

v0.0.2 - Initial Public Preview

Zenith.NET v0.0.2 - Initial Public Preview 🎉

We're excited to announce the first public preview of Zenith.NET — a modern, cross-platform graphics and compute library for .NET!

✨ Highlights

• Unified GPU API — A backend-agnostic abstraction layer for GPU programming
• Multiple Graphics Backends — DirectX12 and Vulkan support (Metal planned)
• UI Framework Integrations — Seamless integration with popular .NET UI frameworks
• AOT Compatible — Full support for Native AOT compilation

📦 Packages

Core

Package	Description
Zenith.NET	Core graphics abstraction library

Backends

Package	Description	Status
Zenith.NET.DirectX12	DirectX12 backend implementation	✅
Zenith.NET.Metal	Metal backend implementation	🚧 planned
Zenith.NET.Vulkan	Vulkan backend implementation	✅

Extensions

Package	Description	Status
Zenith.NET.Extensions.ImageSharp	ImageSharp texture loading extension	✅
Zenith.NET.Extensions.ImGui	Dear ImGui integration	✅
Zenith.NET.Extensions.Skia	SkiaSharp integration	🚧 planned
Zenith.NET.Extensions.Slang	Slang shader compiler extension	✅

Views

Package	Description
Zenith.NET.Views	Shared UI view abstractions
Zenith.NET.Views.Avalonia	Avalonia UI integration
Zenith.NET.Views.Maui	.NET MAUI integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WinForms	Windows Forms integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WinUI	WinUI 3 / Uno Platform integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WPF	WPF integration

🖥️ Supported Platforms

Framework	DirectX12	Vulkan
Avalonia	✅	✅
MAUI	✅	✅
WinForms	✅	✅
WinUI	✅	✅
WinUI (Uno)	✅	✅
WPF	✅	✅

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10.0 or later

🚧 Coming Soon

• Metal backend (macOS / iOS)
• SkiaSharp integration

⚠️ Note

This is an early preview release. APIs may change in future versions.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/qian-o/Zenith.NET/commits/v0.0.2