TheRock is an interesting open-source build platform for ROCm and HIP that has taken shape over the past year. It’s become an official ROCm effort albeit still in early stages and relying on community contributions for enhancements for different consumer GPU targets and more. To date its users have largely relied on running the latest TheRock Git while today TheRock v7.10 was tagged.
For those preferring stable points rather than habitually pulling the latest Git, TheRock 7.10 was tagged earlier today. It’s also the first time seeing TheRock in tagged release form aside from some test release builds recently that appeared to be about working through their build/release automation.
There aren’t any release notes or other insight into this first tagged release of TheRock, but for anyone interested it’s now available via GitHub. Long story short it seems to be the first stable point in the project’s history and a sign of its growing maturity as a useful ROCm/HIP build system.
For those wondering about “v7.10” as the first tagged TheRock release, presumably this is being driven for an upcoming/imminent ROCm 7.10 release. ROCm 7.1.1 is the latest stable release but as a reminder ROCm 7.9 was announced in October as part of their new Core SDK and working in preview form toward the next major release next year… That ROCm 7.9+ versioning is a bit awkward to reflect their development builds toward their next major release (ROCm 8.0?). Presumably this TheRock 7.10 build tag is in preparation for ROCm 7.10 as an upcoming development release.
