Release 1.9.2607 (July 2026) Patch 1

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Schedule

• 08/31/2026 - Release Candidate 1 (begin Ask Mode¹ for release branch).
  • At this point, cherry-picked changes must be approved by @microsoft/hlsl-release
• 09/03/2026 - Final Release Candidate
• 09/07/2026 - Target Release Date

Tasks

After Fork

• Update README.md if necessary
• Create draft of Release post on GitHub

Quality Sign Off

• Microsoft Testing Sign-off (Damyan Pepper (@damyanp))
• NVIDIA Testing Sign-off (Diego Novillo (@dnovillo) / Gregory Roth (@pow2clk))

Release

• Tag final release and post binaries
• Add the new compiler to Compiler Explorer
• Email LunarG the release tag and update the release spreadsheet.
• Publish the new compiler NuGet package.

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 ↩