• Added AVX512 8-wide CPU device mode, enabled via the OPENVKL_ISA_AVX512SKX_8_WIDE CMake option
• VDB volumes: added support for packed / contiguous data layouts for temporally constant volumes, which can provide improved performance (nodesPackedDense, nodesPackedTile parameters)
• VDB utility library: added repackNodes flag to toggle usage of packed data layouts
• Particle volumes: general memory efficiency and performance improvements
• Superbuild updates to latest versions of dependencies
• Minimum ISPC version is now v1.18.0