ROCm/RELEASE.md

ROCm 6.1.1 release notes

ROCm™ 6.1.1 introduces minor fixes and improvements to some tools and libraries.

OS support

ROCm 6.1.1 has been tested against a pre-release version of Ubuntu 22.04.5 (kernel: 5.15 [GA], 6.8 [HWE]).

AMD SMI

AMD SMI for ROCm 6.1.1

Additions

• Added deferred error correctable counts to amd-smi metric -ecc -ecc-blocks.

Changes

• Updated the output of amd-smi metric --ecc-blocks to show counters available from blocks.
• Updated the output of amd-smi metric --clock to reflect each engine.
• Updated the output of amd-smi topology --json to align with output reported by host and guest systems.

Fixes

• Fixed amd-smi metric --clock's clock lock and deep sleep status.
• Fixed an issue that would cause an error when resetting non-AMD GPUs.
• Fixed amd-smi metric --pcie and amdsmi_get_pcie_info() when using RDNA3 (Navi 32 and Navi 31) hardware to prevent "UNKNOWN" reports.
• Fixed the output results of amd-smi process when getting processes running on a device.

Removals

• Removed the amdsmi_get_gpu_process_info API from the Python library. It was removed from the C library in an earlier release.

Known issues

• amd-smi bad-pages can result in a ValueError: Null pointer access error when using some PMU firmware versions.

See the [detailed changelog](https://github.com/ROCm/amdsmi/blob/docs/6.1.1/CHANGELOG.md) with code samples for more information.

HIPCC

HIPCC for ROCm 6.1.1

Changes

• Upcoming: a future release will enable use of compiled binaries hipcc.bin and hipconfig.bin by default. No action is needed by users. You can continue calling high-level Perl scripts hipcc and hipconfig. hipcc.bin and hipconfig.bin will be invoked by the high-level Perl scripts. To revert to the previous behavior and invoke hipcc.pl and hipconfig.pl, set the HIP_USE_PERL_SCRIPTS environment variable to 1.
• Upcoming: a subsequent release will remove high-level Perl scripts hipcc and hipconfig. This release will remove the HIP_USE_PERL_SCRIPTS environment variable. It will rename hipcc.bin and hipconfig.bin to hipcc and hipconfig respectively. No action is needed by the users. To revert to the previous behavior, invoke hipcc.pl and hipconfig.pl explicitly.
• Upcoming: a subsequent release will remove hipcc.pl and hipconfig.pl.

ROCm SMI

ROCm SMI for ROCm 6.1.1

Additions

• Added the capability to unlock mutex when a process is dead. Added related debug output.
• Added the Partition ID field to the rocm-smi CLI.
• Added NODE, GUID, and GFX Version fields to the CLI.
• Documentation now includes C++ and Python tutorials, API guides, and reference material.

Changes

• Some rocm-smi fields now display N/A instead of unknown/unsupported for consistency.
• Changed stacked ID formatting in the rocm-smi CLI to make it easier to spot identifiers.

Fixes

• Fixed HIP and ROCm SMI mismatch on GPU bus assignments.
• Fixed memory leaks caused by not closing directories and creating maps nodes instead of using .at().
• Fixed initializing calls which reuse rocmsmi.initializeRsmi() bindings in the rocmsmi Python API.
• Fixed an issue causing rsmi_dev_activity_metric_get gfx/memory to not update with GPU activity.

Known issues

• ROCm SMI reports GPU utilization incorrectly for RDNA3 GPUs in some situations. See the issue on GitHub.

See the [detailed ROCm SMI changelog](https://github.com/ROCm/rocm_smi_lib/blob/docs/6.1.1/CHANGELOG.md) with code samples for more information.

Library changes in ROCm 6.1.1

Library	Version
AMDMIGraphX	2.9
hipBLAS	2.1.0
hipBLASLt	0.7.0
hipCUB	3.1.0
hipFFT	1.0.14
hipRAND	2.10.17
hipSOLVER	2.1.0 ⇒ 2.1.1
hipSPARSE	3.0.1
hipSPARSELt	0.2.0
hipTensor	1.2.0
MIOpen	3.1.0
MIVisionX	2.5.0
rccl	2.18.6
rocALUTION	3.1.1
rocBLAS	4.1.0
rocDecode	0.5.0
rocFFT	1.0.26 ⇒ 1.0.27
rocm-cmake	0.12.0
rocPRIM	3.1.0
rocRAND	3.0.1
rocSOLVER	3.25.0
rocSPARSE	3.1.2
rocThrust	3.0.1
rocWMMA	1.4.0
rpp	1.5.0
Tensile	4.40.0

hipBLASLt 0.7.0

hipBLASLt 0.7.0 for ROCm 6.1.1

Additions

• Added hipblasltExtSoftmax extension API.
• Added hipblasltExtLayerNorm extension API.
• Added hipblasltExtAMax extension API.
• Added GemmTuning extension parameter to set split-k by user.
• Added support for mixed precision datatype: fp16/fp8 in with fp16 outk.

Deprecations

• Upcoming: algoGetHeuristic() ext API for GroupGemm will be deprecated in a future release of hipBLASLt.

hipSOLVER 2.1.1

hipSOLVER 2.1.1 for ROCm 6.1.1

Changes

• By default, BUILD_WITH_SPARSE is now set to OFF on Microsoft Windows.

Fixes

• Fixed benchmark client build when BUILD_WITH_SPARSE is OFF.

rocFFT 1.0.27

rocFFT 1.0.27 for ROCm 6.1.1

Additions

• Enable multi-GPU testing on systems without direct GPU-interconnects.

Fixes

• Fixed kernel launch failure on execute of very large odd-length real-complex transforms.