3.0 release preparations

Author: pjaaskel

CHANGES

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-1.9 Unreleased
-==============
+3.0 May
+=======
 
 Notable User Facing Changes
 ---------------------------
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      OpenCL 3.0; the CTS should also work with devices that report 1.2
    * For the list of supported features & more details,
      see doc/sphinx/source/conformance.rst
+- Support for Clang/LLVM 14.0
 - Text tracing improved - a few new command types traced,
   event dependencies are now also recorded
 - There are now two scripts, which let the user parse & convert the
   outputs of LTTNG and Text tracer into a JSON format, suitable
   for loading into Chromium's trace visualizer (chrome://tracing)
-- Support for generating specialized work-group functions to the PoCL
-  kernel program binaries.
+- Support for generating specialized work-group functions and include them
+  in the PoCL kernel program binaries.
 - SPIR-V input: printf fixed
 
 Notable Bug Fixes

doc/notes-3.0.txt

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+Portable Computing Language (PoCL) v3.0 released
+------------------------------------------------
+
+PoCL is a portable open source (MIT-licensed) implementation of the
+OpenCL standard. It likely supports the minimal v3.0 feature set (official
+conformance stamp not yet applied for).
+
+In addition to being an easily portable multi-device (truly
+heterogeneous) open-source OpenCL implementation, a major goal of this
+project is improving interoperability for diversity of OpenCL-capable
+devices by integrating them to a single centrally orchestrated platform.
+Another key goal is to enhance performance portability of OpenCL
+programs across device types utilizing runtime and compiler techniques.
+
+Upstream PoCL currently supports various CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs via libcuda
+and ASIPs (experimental, see: http://openasip.org). It is also known to
+have multiple (private) adaptations in active production use.
+
+Release Highlights
+------------------
+
+* Minimal OpenCL 3.0 feature set _should_ be now supported (official
+  conformance stamp still to apply for).
+* Support for Clang/LLVM 14.0.
+* Improved tracing and visualization.
+* Support for generating specialized work-group functions and include them
+  in the PoCL kernel program binaries.
+* Fixed printf for SPIR-V.
+* A lot of other fixes and improvements.
+
+Misc. Notes
+-----------
+
+* Please note that there's an official PoCL "maintenance policy" in
+place. This text describes the policy and how you can get your favourite
+project that uses OpenCL to remain regression free in the future PoCL
+releases: http://portablecl.org/docs/html/maintainer-policy.html
+
+* We are still looking for ARM CPU and RISC-V CPU maintainers (and
+any other target of your interest). If you are interested in ensuring
+PoCL stays stable for these processor architectures in the future,
+please contact us.
+
+Acknowledgements
+----------------
+
+Customized Parallel Computing (CPC) research group of Tampere University,
+Finland leads the development of PoCL on the side and for the needs of
+their research projects. This project has received funding from European
+Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant
+Agreement No 871738 (CPSoSaware), Academy of Finland (decision #331344) and
+Business Finland's AISA project.
+
+The financial support is very much appreciated -- it keeps this open
+source project going!
+
+Links
+-----
+Release web page:  http://portablecl.org/pocl-3.0.html
+This announcement: http://portablecl.org/downloads/ANNOUNCEMENT
+Change log:        http://portablecl.org/downloads/CHANGES
+Download:          http://portablecl.org/download.html