• Improved shadow ray performance (10% to 100% depending on the scene).
• Added initial support for ray streams (10% to 30% higher performance depending on ray coherence in the stream).
• Added support to calculate second order derivatives using the rtcInterpolate2 function.
• Changed the parametrization for triangular subdivision faces to the same scheme used for pentagons.
• Added support to query the Embree configuration using the rtcDeviceGetParameter function.