OpenBLAS 0.3.19 version

general:

• reverted unsafe TRSV/ZRSV optimizations introduced in 0.3.16
• fixed a potential thread race in the thread buffer reallocation routines
  that were introduced in 0.3.18
• fixed miscounting of thread pool size on Linux with OMP_PROC_BIND=TRUE
• fixed CBLAS interfaces for CSROT/ZSROT and CROTG/ZROTG
• made automatic library suffix for CMAKE builds with INTERFACE64 available
  to CBLAS-only builds

x86_64:

• DYNAMIC_ARCH builds now fall back to the cpu with most similar capabilities
  when an unknown CPUID is encountered, instead of defaulting to Prescott
• added cpu detection for Intel Alder Lake
• added cpu detection for Intel Sapphire Rapids
• added an optimized SBGEMM kernel for Sapphire Rapids
• fixed DYNAMIC_ARCH builds on OSX with CMAKE
• worked around DYNAMIC_ARCH builds made on Sandybridge failing on SkylakeX
• fixed missing thread initialization for static builds on Windows/MSVC
• fixed an excessive read in ZSYMV

POWER:

• added support for POWER10 in big-endian mode
• added support for building with CMAKE
• added optimized SGEMM and DGEMM kernels for small matrix sizes

ARMV8:

• added basic support and cputype detection for Fujitsu A64FX
• added a generic ARMV8SVE target
• added SVE-enabled SGEMM and DGEMM kernels for ARMV8SVE and A64FX
• added optimized CGEMM and ZGEMM kernels for Cortex A53 and A55 cpus
• fixed cpuid detection for Apple M1 and improved performance
• improved compiler flag setting in CMAKE builds

RISCV64:

• fixed improper initialization in CSCAL/ZSCAL for strided access patterns

MIPS:

• added a GENERIC target for MIPS32
• added support for cross-compiling to MIPS32 on x86_64 using CMAKE

MIPS64:

• fixed misdetection of MSA capability

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OpenBLAS 0.3.18 version

general:

• when the build-time number of preconfigured threads is exceeded
  at runtime (by an external program calling BLAS functions from
  a larger number of threads), OpenBLAS will now allocate an
  auxiliary control structure for up to 512 additional threads
  instead of aborting
• added support for Loongson's LoongArch64 cpu architecture
• fixed building OpenBLAS with CMAKE and -DBUILD_BFLOAT16=ON
• added support for building OpenBLAS as a CMAKE subproject
• added support for building for Windows/ARM64 targets with clang
• improved support for building with the IBM xlf compiler
• imported Reference-LAPACK PR 625 (out-of-bounds access in ?LARRV)
• imported Reference-LAPACK PR 597 for testsuite compatibility with
  LLVM's libomp

x86_64:

• added SkylakeX S/DGEMM kernels for small problem sizes (MNK<=1000000)
• added optimized SBGEMM for Intel Cooper Lake
• reinstated the performance patch for AVX512 SGEMV_T with a proper fix
• added a workaround for a gcc11 tree-vectorizer bug that caused spurious
  failures in the test programs for complex BLAS3 when compiling at -O3
  (the default for cmake "release" builds)
• added support for runtime cpu count detection under Haiku OS
• worked around a long-standing miscompilation issue of the Haswell DGEMV_T
  kernel with gcc that could produce NaN output in some corner cases

POWER:

• improved performance of DASUM on POWER10

ARMV8:

• fixed crashes (use of reserved register x18) on Apple M1 under OSX
• fixed building with gcc releases earlier than 5.1

MIPS:

• fixed building under BSD

MIPS64:

• fixed building under BSD

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OpenBLAS 0.3.17 version

common:

• reverted the optimization of SGEMV_N/DGEMV_N for small input sizes
  and consecutive arguments as it led to stack overflows on x86_64
  with some operating systems (notably OSX and Windows)

x86_64:

• reverted the performance patch for SGEMV_T on AVX512 as it caused
  wrong results in some applications

SPARC:

• fixed compilation with compilers other than gcc

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OpenBLAS 0.3.16 version

common:

• drastically reduced the stack size requirements for running the LAPACK
  testsuite (Reference-LAPACK PR 553)
• fixed spurious test failures in the LAPACK testsuite (Reference-LAPACK
  PR 564)
• expressly setting DYNAMIC_ARCH=0 no longer enables dynamic_arch mode
• improved performance of xGER, xSPR, xSPR2, xSYR, xSYR2, xTRSV, SGEMV_N
  and DGEMV_N, for small input sizes and consecutive arguments
• improved performance of xGETRF, xPORTF and xPOTRI for small input sizes
  by disabling multithreading
• fixed installing with BSD versions of the "install" utility

RISCV:

• fixed the implementation of xIMIN
• improved the performance of DSDOT
• fixed linking of the tests on C910V with current vendor gcc

POWER:

• fixed SBGEMM computation for some odd value inputs
• fixed compilation for PPCG4, PPC970, POWER3, POWER4 and POWER5

x86_64:

• improved performance of SGEMV_N and SGEMV_T for small N on AVX512-capable cpus
• worked around a miscompilation of ZGEMM/ZTRMM on Sandybridge with old gcc
  versions
• fixed compilation with MS Visual Studio versions older than 2017
• fixed macro name collision with winnt.h from the latest Win10 SDK
• added cpu type autodetection for Intel Ice Lake SP
• fixed cpu type autodetection for Intel Tiger Lake
• added cpu type autodetection for recent Centaur/Zhaoxin models
• fixed compilation with musl libc

ARM64:

• fixed compilation with gcc/gfortran on the Apple M1
• fixed linking of the tests on FreeBSD
• fixed missing restore of a register in the recently rewritten DNRM2 kernel
  for ThunderX2 and Neoverse N1 that could cause spurious failures in e.g.
  DGEEV
• added compiler optimization flags for the EMAG8180
• added initial support for Cortex A55

ARM:

• fixed linking of the tests on FreeBSD

md5sum:
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OpenBLAS 0.3.15 version

common:

• imported improvements and bugfixes from Reference-LAPACK 3.9.1
• imported LAPACKE interface fixes from Reference-LAPACK PRs 534 + 537
• fixed a problem in the cpu detection of 0.3.14 that prevented cross-compilation
• fixed a sequence problem in the generation of softlinks to the library in GMAKE

RISC V:

• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG

POWER:`

• fixed LAPACK testsuite failures seen with the NVIDIA HPC compiler
• improved CGEMM, DGEMM and ZGEMM performance on POWER10
• added an optimized ZGEMV kernel for POWER10
• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG

x86_64:

• added support for Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
• reverted the DOMATCOPY_RT code to the generic C version
• fixed a bug in the AVX512 SGEMM kernel introduced in 0.3.14
• fixed misapplication of -msse flag to non-SSE cpus in DYNAMIC_ARCH
• added support for compilation of the benchmarks on older OSX versions
• fixed propagation of the NO_AVX512 option in CMAKE builds
• fixed compilation of the AVX512 SGEMM kernel with clang-cl on Windows
• fixed compilation of the CTESTs with INTERFACE64=1 (random faults on OSX)
• corrected the Haswell DROT kernel to require AVX2/FMA3 rather than AVX512

ARM:

• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG
• fixed a potential overflow in IMATCOPY/ZIMATCOPY and the CTESTs

ARM64:

• fixed spurious reads outside the array in the SGEMM tcopy macro
• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG
• fixed a segmentation fault in DYNAMIC_ARCH builds (reappeared in 0.3.14)

MIPS

• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG
• fixed a potential overflow in IMATCOPY/ZIMATCOPY and the CTESTs

##/MIPS64:

• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG

SPARC:

• fixed a potential division by zero in CROTG and ZROTG

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OpenBLAS 0.3.14 version

NOTE: this has a (now) known regression in AVX512 SGEMM

common:

• Fixed a race condition on thread shutdown in non-OpenMP builds
• Fixed custom BUFFERSIZE option getting ignored in gmake builds
• Fixed CMAKE compilation of the TRMM kernels for GENERIC platforms
• Added CBLAS interfaces for CROTG, ZROTG, CSROT and ZDROT
• improved performance of OMATCOPY_RT across all platforms
• Changed perl scripts to use env instead of a hardcoded /usr/bin/perl
• Fixed potential misreading of the GCC compiler version in the build scripts
• Fixed convergence problems in LAPACK complex GGEV/GGES (Reference-LAPACK #477)
• Reduced the stacksize requirements for running the LAPACK testsuite (Reference-LAPACK #335)

RISC V:

• Fixed compilation on RISCV (missing entry in getarch)

POWER:

• Fixed compilation for DYNAMIC_ARCH with clang and with older gcc versions
• Added support for compilation on FreeBSD/ppc64le
• Added optimized POWER10 kernels for SSCAL, DSCAL, CSCAL, ZSCAL
• Added optimized POWER10 kernels for SROT, DROT, CDOT, SASUM, DASUM
• improved SSWAP, DSWAP, CSWAP, ZSWAP performance on POWER10
• improved SCOPY and CCOPY performance on POWER10
• improved SGEMM and DGEMM performance on POWER10
• Added support for compilation with the NVIDIA HPC compiler

x86_64:

• Added an optimized bfloat16 GEMM kernel for Cooperlake
• Added CPUID autodetection for Intel Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake cpus
• improved the performance of SASUM,DASUM,SROT,DROT on AMD Ryzen cpus
• Added support for compilation with the NAG Fortran compiler
• Fixed recognition of the AMD AOCC compiler
• Fixed compilation for DYNAMIC_ARCH with clang on Windows
• Added support for running the BLAS/CBLAS tests on Windows
• Fixed signatures of the tls callback functions for Windows x64
• Fixed various issues with fma intrinsics support handling

ARM:

• Support compilation for embedded Cortex M4 targets via a new option EMBEDDED

ARM64:

• Fixed the THUNDERX2T99 and NEOVERSEN1 DNRM2/ZNRM2 kernels for inputs with Inf
• Added support for the DYNAMIC_LIST option
• Added support for compilation with the NVIDIA HPC compiler
• Added support for compiling with the NAG Fortran compiler

md5sum:
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OpenBLAS 0.3.13 version

common:

• Added a generic bfloat16 SBGEMV kernel
• Fixed a potentially severe memory leak after fork in OpenMP builds
  that was introduced in 0.3.12
• Added detection of the Fujitsu Fortran compiler
• Added detection of the (e)gfortran compiler on OpenBSD
• Added support for overriding the default name of the library independently
  from symbol suffixing in the gmake builds (already supported in cmake)

RISC V:

• Added a RISC V port optimized for C910V

POWER:

• Added optimized POWER10 kernels for SAXPY, CAXPY, SDOT, DDOT and DGEMV_N
• Improved DGEMM performance on POWER10
• Improved STRSM and DTRSM performance on POWER9 and POWER10
• Fixed segmemtation faults in DYNAMIC_ARCH builds
• Fixed compilation with the PGI compiler

x86:

• Fixed compilation of kernels that require SSE2 intrinsics since 0.3.12

x86_64:

• Added an optimized bfloat16 SBGEMV kernel for SkylakeX and Cooperlake
• Improved the performance of SASUM and DASUM kernels through parallelization
• Improved the performance of SROT and DROT kernels
• Improved the performance of multithreaded xSYRK
• Fixed OpenMP builds that use the LLVM Clang compiler together with GNU gfortran
  (where linking of both the LLVM libomp and GNU libgomp could lead to lockups or
  wrong results)
• Fixed miscompilations by old gcc 4.6
• Fixed misdetection of AVX2 capability in some Sandybridge cpus
• Fixed lockups in builds combining DYNAMIC_ARCH with TARGET=GENERIC on OpenBSD

ARM64:

• Fixed segmentation faults in DYNAMIC_ARCH builds

MIPS:

• Improved kernels for Loongson 3R3 ("3A") and 3R4 ("3B") models, including MSA
• Fixed bugs in the MSA kernels for CGEMM, CTRMM, CGEMV and ZGEMV
• Added handling of zero increments in the MSA kernels for SSWAP and DSWAP
• Added DYNAMIC_ARCH support for MIPS64 (currently Loongson3R3/3R4 only)

SPARC:

• Fixed building 32 and 64 bit SPARC kernels with the SolarisStudio compilers

md5sum:
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OpenBLAS 0.3.12 version

common:

• Fixed missing BLAS/LAPACK functions (inadvertently dropped during
  the build system restructuring to support selective compilation)
• Fixed argument conversion macro in LAPACKE_zgesvdq (LAPACK #458)

POWER:

• Added optimized SCOPY/CCOPY kernels for POWER10
• Increased and unified the default size of the GEMM buffer
• Fixed building for POWER10 in DYNAMIC_ARCH mode
• POWER10 compatibility test now checks binutils version as well
• Cleaned up compiler warnings

x86_64:

• corrected compiler version checks for AVX2 compatibility
• added compiler option -mavx2 for building with flang
• fixed direct SGEMM pathway for small matrix sizes (broken by
  the code refactoring in 0.3.11)
• fixed unhandled partial register clobbers in several kernels
  for AXPY,DOT,GEMV_N and GEMV_T flagged by gcc10 tree-vectorizer

ARMV8:

• improved Apple Vortex support to include cross-compiling

md5sums:
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OpenBLAS 0.3.11 version

NOTE there appear to be several defects in this version unfortunately - this should not be redistributed or used in a production environment

common:

• API change:

      the newly added BFLOAT16 functions were renamed to use the
      letter "B" instead of "H" to avoid potential confusion with
      the IEEE "half precision float" type, i.e. the 0.3.10
      SHGEMM is now SBGEMM and the corresponding build option
      was changed from "BUILD_HALF" to "BUILD_BFLOAT16".
  

• Reduced the default BLAS3_MEM_ALLOC_THRESHOLD (used as an upper
  limit for placing temporary arrays on the stack) to be compatible
  with a stack size of 1mb (as imposed by the JAVA runtime library)
• Added mixed-precision dot function SBDOT and utility functions
  shstobf16, shdtobf16, sbf16tos and dbf16tod to convert between
  single or double precision float arrays and bfloat16 arrays
• Fixed prototypes of LAPACK_?ggsvp and LAPACK_?ggsvd functions
  in lapack.h
• Fixed underflow and rounding errors in LAPACK SLANV2 and DLANV2
  (causing miscalculations in e.g. SHSEQR/DHSEQR, LAPACK issue #263)
• Fixed workspace calculation in LAPACK ?GELQ (LAPACK issue #415)
• Fixed several bugs in the LAPACK testsuite
• Improved performance of TRMM and TRSM for certain problem sizes
• Fixed infinite recursions and workspace miscalculations in ReLAPACK
• CMAKE builds no longer require pkg-config for creating the .pc file
• Makefile builds no longer misread NO_CBLAS=0 or NO_LAPACK=0 as
  enabling these options
• Fixed detection of gfortran when invoked through an mpi wrapper
• Improve thread reinitialization performance with OpenMP after a fork
• Added support for building only the subset of the library required
  for a particular precision by specifying BUILD_SINGLE, BUILD_DOUBLE
• Optional function name prefixes and suffixes are now correctly
  reflected in the generated cblas.h
• Added CMAKE build support for the LAPACK and multithreading tests

POWER:

• Added optimized support for POWER10
• Added support for compiling for POWER8 in 32bit mode
• Added support for compilation with LLVM/clang
• Added support for compilation with NVIDIA/PGI compilers
• Fixed building on big-endian POWER8
• Fixed miscompilation of ZDOTC by gcc10
• Fixed alignment errors in the POWER8 SAXPY kernel
• Improved CPU detection on AIX
• Supported building with older compilers on POWER9

x86_64:

• Added support for Intel Cooperlake
• Added autodetection of AMD Renoir/Matisse/Zen3 cpus
• Added autodetection of Intel Comet Lake cpus
• Reimplemented ?sum, ?dot and daxpy using universal intrinsics
• Reset the fpu state before using the fpu on Windows as a workaround
  for a problem introduced in Windows 10 build 19041 (a.k.a. SDK 2004)
• Fixed potentially undefined behaviour in the dot and gemv_t kernels
• Fixed a potential segmentation fault in DYNAMIC_ARCH builds
• Fixed building for ZEN with PGI/NVIDIA and AMD AOCC compilers

ARMV7:

• Fixed cpu detection on BSD-like systems

ARMV8:

• Added preliminary support for Apple Vortex cpus
• Added support for the Cavium ThunderX3T110 cpu
• Fixed cpu detection on BSD-like systems
• Fixed compilation in -std=C18 mode

IBM Z:

• Added support for compiling with the clang compiler
• Improved GEMM performance on Z14

md5sums:
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OpenBLAS 0.3.10 version

common:

• Improved thread locking behaviour in blas_server and parallel getrf
• Imported bugfix 394 from LAPACK (spurious reference to "XERBL"
  due to overlong lines)
• Imported bugfix 403 from LAPACK (compile option "recursive" required
  for correctness with Intel and PGI)
• Imported bugfix 408 from LAPACK (wrong scaling in ZHEEQUB)
• Imported bugfix 411 from LAPACK (infinite loop in LARGV/LARTG/LARTGP)
• Fixed mismatches between BUFFERSIZE and GEMM_UNROLL parameters that
  could lead to crashes at large matrix sizes
• Restored internal soname in dynamic libraries on FreeBSD and Dragonfly
• Added API (openblas_setaffinity) to set thread affinity
  programmatically on Linux
• Added initial infrastructure for half-precision floating point
  (bfloat16) support with a generic implementation of SHGEMM
• Added CMAKE build system support for building the cblas_Xgemm3m
  functions
• Fixed CMAKE support for building in a path with embedded spaces
• Fixed CMAKE (non)handling of NO_EXPRECISION and MAX_STACK_ALLOC
• Fixed GCC version detection in the Makefiles
• Allowed overriding the names of AR, AS and LD in Makefile builds

POWER:

• fixed big-endian POWER8 ELFv2 builds on FreeBSD
• Fixed GCC version checks and DYNAMIC_ARCH builds on POWER9
• Fixed CMAKE build support for POWER9
• fixed a potential race condition in the thread buffer allocation
• Worked around LAPACK test failures on PPC G4

MIPS:

• fixed a potential race condition in the thread buffer allocation
• Added support for MIPS 24K/24KE family based on P5600 kernels

MIPS64:

• fixed a potential race condition in the thread buffer allocation
• Added TARGET=GENERIC

ARMV7:

• fixed a race condition in the thread buffer allocation

ARMV8:

• Fixed a race condition in the thread buffer allocation
• Fixed zero initialisation in the assembly for SGEMM and DGEMM BETA
• Improved performance of the ThunderX2 DAXPY kernel
• Added an optimized SGEMM kernel for Cortex A53
• Fixed Makefile support for INTERFACE64 (8-byte integer)

x86_64:

• Fixed a syntax error in the CMAKE setup for SkylakeX
• Improved performance of STRSM on Haswell, SkylakeX and Ryzen
• Improved SGEMM performance on SGEMM for workloads with ldc a
  multiple of 1024
• Improved DGEMM performance on Skylake X
• Fixed unwanted AVX512-dependency of SGEMM in DYNAMIC_ARCH
  builds created on SkylakeX
• Removed data alignment requirement in the SSE2 copy kernels
  that could cause spurious crashes
• Added a workaround for an optimizer bug in AppleClang 11.0.3
• Fixed LAPACK-TEST failures with Intel Fortran
• Fixed compilation and LAPACK test results with recent Flang
  and AMD AOCC
• Fixed DYNAMIC_ARCH builds with CMAKE on OS X
• Fixed missing exports of cblas_i?amin, cblas_i?min, cblas_i?max,
  cblas_?sum, cblas_?gemm3m in the shared library on OS X
• Fixed reporting of cpu name in DYNAMIC_ARCH builds (would sometimes
  show the name of an older generation chip supported by the same kernels)

IBM Z:

• Improved performance of SGEMM/STRMM and DGEMM/DTRMM on Z14

md5sum
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