TornadoVM 2.1.0

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09/12/25

Improvements

• #754: Support to express Q8_0 tensors as Tornado ByteArray

Compatibility

• #756: [CI] Add night workflow to build and test all supported JDKs (Zulu, OpenJDK, GraalVM, Corretto, Mandrel etc) on Linux x64 runner
• #755: [docs] Refining README and simplifying instructions

Bug Fixes

• #753: [hotfix] Fix Conversion Error from FP16 to FP32

Other Changes

• #752: Update POM files: bump parent version to `2.0.1-dev` across all modules
• #758: [CI] Pre and post release workflows to automate release deployments

How to use TornadoVM SDK

To use the TornadoVM SDK, ensure that the environment variable JAVA_HOME points to a valid JDK 21 installation. After that, select the appropriate sdk distribution for your target architecture and the accelerator backends you intend to use.

Linux Systems

wget https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/releases/download/v2.1.0/tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-linux-amd64.zip
unzip tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-linux-amd64.zip
export TORNADO_SDK="$(pwd)/tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl"
export PATH=$TORNADO_SDK/bin:$PATH
tornado --devices
tornado --version

macOS Systems

wget https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/releases/download/v2.1.0/tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-mac-aarch64.zip
unzip tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-mac-aarch64.zip
export TORNADO_SDK="$(pwd)/tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl"
export PATH=$TORNADO_SDK/bin:$PATH
tornado --devices
tornado --version

Windows (10+) Systems

curl -L -o tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-windows-amd64.zip https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/releases/download/v2.1.0/tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-windows-amd64.zip
tar -xf tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl-windows-amd64.zip
set TORNADO_SDK=%cd%\tornadovm-2.1.0-opencl
set PATH=%TORNADO_SDK%\bin;%PATH%
tornado --devices
tornado --version