The following features are added in the 2017 R1 release.
- Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017 Support
- Eclipse* Oxygen (4.7) and Neon (4.6) IDEs Support
- New Operating Systems Support:
- Microsoft Windows* 10 Creator Update support including full compatibility with latest Intel Graphics driver (15.46)
- Ubuntu* 16.04 support including full compatibility with latest OpenCL™ 2.0 CPU/GPU driver package for Linux* OS (SRB5)
- CentOS* 7.3 support
- Enhanced tools support for 6th and 7th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors on Microsoft Windows* and Linux* operating systems
- Usability enhancements and bug fixes
- Improved OpenCL™ 2.1 and SPIR-V* support on Linux* OS
- OpenCL 2.1 development environment with the experimental CPU-only runtime for OpenCL 2.1
- SPIR-V generation support with Intel® Code Builder for OpenCL™ offline compiler and Kernel Development Framework including textual representation of SPIR-V binaries
- New features in Kernel Development Framework
- Workflow support allowing build, execution and analysis of applications with multiple kernels
- Build from binary to reduce compilation time for complex kernels
- Latency analysis on 6th and 7th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors
Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017 includes all the features for OpenCL development for Windows* previously available in Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Application 2016 R3 and all features for Linux* development which available in Code Builder for Intel® Media Server Studio.