October 27, 2025 (#357)

Author: walbourn

.nuget/directxtk12_desktop_2019.nuspec

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ SpriteBatch - simple & efficient 2D sprite rendering
 SpriteFont - bitmap based text rendering
 VertexTypes - structures for commonly used vertex data formats
 WICTextureLoader - WIC-based image file texture loader</description>
-        <releaseNotes>Matches the July 9, 2025 release on GitHub.</releaseNotes>
+        <releaseNotes>Matches the October 27, 2025 release on GitHub.</releaseNotes>
         <projectUrl>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=615561</projectUrl>
         <repository type="git" url="https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK12.git" />
         <icon>images\icon.jpg</icon>

.nuget/directxtk12_desktop_win10.nuspec

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ SpriteBatch - simple & efficient 2D sprite rendering
 SpriteFont - bitmap based text rendering
 VertexTypes - structures for commonly used vertex data formats
 WICTextureLoader - WIC-based image file texture loader</description>
-        <releaseNotes>Matches the July 9, 2025 release on GitHub.
+        <releaseNotes>Matches the October 27, 2025 release on GitHub.
 
 DirectX Tool Kit for Audio in this package uses XAudio 2.9 which requires Windows 10 or later.</releaseNotes>
         <projectUrl>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=615561</projectUrl>

.nuget/directxtk12_uwp.nuspec

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ SpriteBatch - simple & efficient 2D sprite rendering
 SpriteFont - bitmap based text rendering
 VertexTypes - structures for commonly used vertex data formats
 WICTextureLoader - WIC-based image file texture loader</description>
-        <releaseNotes>Matches the July 9, 2025 release on GitHub.</releaseNotes>
+        <releaseNotes>Matches the October 27, 2025 release on GitHub.</releaseNotes>
         <projectUrl>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=615561</projectUrl>
         <repository type="git" url="https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK12.git" />
         <icon>images\icon.jpg</icon>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Release available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXT
 
 ## Release History
 
+### October 27, 2025
+* GamePad, Keyboard, and Mouse _GameInput_ implementation now supports v0 - v3 of the API
+* Code review, particularly for invalid args validation
+* Added October 2025 GDK projects for VS 2022
+* CMake project update to use 3.21 minimum
+
 ### July 9, 2025
 * GamePad, Keyboard, and Mouse _GameInput_ implementation now supports v0, v1, and v2 of the API
 * Additional bounds checking for CMO and SDKMESH readers

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.21)
 
-set(DIRECTXTK12_VERSION 1.6.3)
+set(DIRECTXTK12_VERSION 1.6.4)
 
 if(XBOX_CONSOLE_TARGET STREQUAL "durango")
   set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE "STATIC_LIBRARY")

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=615561
 
 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
 
-## July 9, 2025
+# October 27, 2025
 
 This package contains the "DirectX Tool Kit", a collection of helper classes for writing Direct3D 12 C++ code for Win32 desktop applications for Windows 11 and Windows 10, game titles for Xbox Series X\|S and Xbox One, and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps for Windows 11 and Windows 10.