OpenXR Specification (Source) 1.0.29

OpenXR Specification 1.0.29 (2023-08-25)

This release contains several fixes to the specification, as well as
enhancements to the loader documentation/specification to support architecture
and ABI specific active runtime manifest names on Linux and Android.

• Registry
  • Change PFNEGLGETPROCADDRESSPROC (for eglGetProcAddress) to a locally
    defined type to avoid compiler errors.
    (internal MR 2468)
  • Extension reservation: Register author ID and reserve vendor extensions for
    YVR.
    (internal MR 2832)
  • New vendor extension: XR_META_passthrough_preferences
    (internal MR 2694)
  • XR_HTCX_vive_tracker_interaction: Added new role paths for wrists and ankles.
    (internal MR 2728)
• Specification
  • Change PFNEGLGETPROCADDRESSPROC (for eglGetProcAddress) to a locally
    defined type to avoid compiler errors.
    (internal MR 2468)
  • Fix specification text mentions of eyeVisibility field in Khronos composition
    layer extensions, to match the XML and headers.
    (internal MR 2878)
  • Improvement: Add note to OpenXR styleguide to discourage use of callback
    functions in OpenXR extensions.
    (internal MR 2734)
  • Loader spec: Clarify and deduplicate the loader specification's listing of
    android manifest search paths.
    (internal MR 2829,
    internal issue 2046)
  • Loader spec: Fix description of <queries> element contents: existing
    description would fail to install.
    (internal MR 2840,
    internal issue 2053)
  • Makefile: Remove obsolete cygwin support in spec building target, no longer
    needed and actually caused it to not work under MSYS2.
    (internal MR 2885)
  • New vendor extension specification: XR_META_passthrough_preferences
    (internal MR 2694)
  • Style guide: Document the XML schema of xr.xml
    (internal MR 2875)
  • XR_HTCX_vive_tracker_interaction: Added new role paths for wrists and ankles.
    (internal MR 2728)
  • XR_OPPO_controller_interaction: Fix formatting of path lists.
    (internal MR 2831,
    OpenXR-Docs issue 156,
    internal issue 2047)
  • scripts: Provide better feedback on interface struct erroneously having a
    values attribute.
    (internal MR 2856)
  • scripts: Update regex in xrconventions to allow words in type naming that
    succeed digits but start with a "D"
    (internal MR 2857)
  • scripts: Fix formatting of "basetype" (generally typedef) names to once again
    be monospace "code".
    (internal MR 2890,
    internal issue 2048)