July 1, 2015

• Added Keyboard, Mouse class
• Support for loading pre-lit models with SDKMESH
• GamePad implemented using Windows.Gaming.Input for Windows 10
• DirectXTK for Audio updates for xWMA support with XAudio 2.9
• Added FindGlyph and GetSpriteSheet methods to SpriteFont

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2015.7.1.1

• Windows desktop app using VS 2013 Update 4
• Windows 8.1 Store
• Windows phone 8
• Windows phone 8.1

September 5, 2014

• GamePad class: gamepad controller helper using XInput on Windows, IGamepad for Xbox One
• SimpleMath updates; Matrix billboard methods; breaking change: Matrix::Identity() -> Matrix::Identity
• SpriteBatch new optional SetViewport method
• SpriteFont fix for white-space character rendering optimization
• DDSTextureLoader fix for auto-gen mipmaps for volume textures
• Explicit calling-convention annotation for public headers
• Updates for Xbox One platform support
• Minor code and project cleanup

October 28, 2014

• Model support for loading from VBO files
• Model render now sets samplers on slots 0,1 by default for dual-texture effects
• Updates for Xbox One platform support
• Minor code cleanup

October 28, 2013

• Updated for Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 SDK RTM
• Added DGSLEffect, DGSLEffectFactory, VertexPositionNormalTangentColorTexture, and VertexPositionNormalTangentColorTextureSkinning
• Model loading and effect factories support loading skinned models
• MakeSpriteFont now has a smooth vs. sharp antialiasing option: /sharp
• Model loading from CMOs now handles UV transforms for texture coordinates
• A number of small fixes for EffectFactory
• Minor code and project cleanup
• Added NO_D3D11_DEBUG_NAME compilation define to control population of Direct3D debug layer names for debug builds

October 12, 2012

• Added PrimitiveBatch for drawing user primitives
• Debug object names for all D3D resources (for PIX and debug layer leak reporting)

October 2, 2012

• Added ScreenGrab module
• Added CreateGeoSphere for drawing a geodesic sphere
• Put DDSTextureLoader and WICTextureLoader into the DirectX C++ namespace
• Renamed project files for better naming consistency
• Updated WICTextureLoader for Windows 8 96bpp floating-point formats
• Win32 desktop projects updated to use Windows Vista (0x0600) rather than Windows 7 (0x0601) APIs
• Tweaked SpriteBatch.cpp to workaround ARM NEON compiler codegen bug

November 24, 2014

• SimpleMath fix for Matrix operator !=
• DirectXTK for Audio workaround for XAudio 2.7 on Windows 7 problem
• Updates for Windows phone 8.1 platform support
• Updates for Visual Studio 2015 Technical Preview
• Minor code cleanup

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2014.11.24.2

• Windows desktop app using VS 2013
• Windows 8.1 Store
• Windows phone 8
• Windows phone 8.1

November 15, 2012

• Added support for WIC2 when available on Windows 8 and Windows 7 with KB 2670838
• Cleaned up warning level 4 warnings

May 30, 2013

• Added more GeometricPrimitives: Cone, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron
• Updated to support loading new metadata from DDS files (if present)
• Fixed bug with loading of WIC 32bpp RGBE format images
• Fixed bug when skipping mipmaps in a 1D or 2D array texture DDS file

May 31, 2012

• Updated Metro project for Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate changes
• Cleaned up x64 Debug configuration warnings and switched to use "_DEBUG" instead of "DEBUG"
• Minor fix for DDSTextureLoader's retry fallback that can happen with 10level9 feature levels