Being an experimental research framework, Mitsuba 2 does not follow the Semantic Versioning convention. That said, we will strive to document breaking API changes in the release notes below.
TBA
July 27, 2020
Fix warnings, build and tests on Windows (MSVC)
July 22, 2020
Instancing support via shapegroup and instance plugins (#170)
Various sampler plugins: stratified, multijitter, orthogonal,
ldsampler (#187)
bumpmap BSDF plugin (#201)
normalmap BSDF plugin
Raytracing API improvements (#209)
Differentiable surface interaction (#209)
Add <path> XML tag (#165)
BlenderMesh shape plugin
Projector emitter plugin
Add support for textured area light sampling
Add Mesh::eval_parameterization to parameterize the mesh using UV values
Various bug fixes and other improvements
May 19, 2020
May 18, 2020
xml.load_dict() for Mitsuba scene/object construction in Python (#122)
Scene traversal mechanism enhancement (#108)
Support premultiplied alpha correctly (#104)
Spot light plugin (#100)
Add Blender mesh constructor (40db7be)
Irradiancemeter sensor plugin (b19985b)
Radiancemeter sensor plugin (#83)
Distant emitter plugin (#60)
Custom shape support for Embree raytracing backend (2c1b63f)
Add ability to specify Python default variant (4472b55)
Add pytest -m “not slow” option (4597466)
Moment integrator and Z-tests (74b2bf6)
Spatially-varying alpha for roughconductor and roughdielectric (cac8741)
Various bug fixes and other improvements
March 3, 2020
Initial release