Point Release 1.10.2605

[joaosaffran]

Schedule

• MM/DD/YYYY - Release Candidate 1 (begin Ask Mode¹ for release branch).
  • At this point, cherry-picked changes must be approved by @microsoft/hlsl-release
• MM/DD/YYYY - Final Release Candidate
• 08/12/2026 - Target Release Date

Tasks

Before Build

This part of the release process is to 'prime the pump'—that is, to make sure
that all the various parts of the engineering system are set into place so that
we are confident we can generate builds for the new branch

• Internal branches and build pipelines configured
  • Verify that the engineering system can build:
  • Zip files for github release
  • NuGet package
  • VPack
• Final merge of main into the release branch

After Build

• Update README.md if necessary

Quality Sign Off

• Microsoft Testing Sign-off (Damyan Pepper (@damyanp))
• SPIRV Testing Sign-off

Release

• Tag final release and post binaries

Footnotes

1. Ask Mode
   is a Microsoft-ism to denote when changes require approval before accepting
   merges. For DXC this will require approval from @microsoft/hlsl-release ↩

[s-perron]

The Google testing signoff should be removed from the release template. We are no longer working on DXC.