May 31, 2018

• VS 2017 updated for Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK (17134)
• Regenerated shaders using Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK (17134)

The VS 2017 projects for Win32 desktop and UWP now require VS 2017 (15.7 update) or later

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2018.6.1

• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2015 Update 3 or VS 2017
• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3 or VS 2017

Starting with this release, the NuGet packages are digitally signed. Also in directxtk_desktop_2015 the DirectX Tool Kit for Audio support always uses XAudio 2.8 which requires Windows 8 or better. For more details, see this blog post