How to read this timeline
Only dated claims with a primary source go in the table. Marketing slides, wiki reconstructions, and “I think 1.0 shipped in April” stay out unless AMD (or a contemporaneous AMD press page) says so. Gaps are marked TODO, not guessed.
2016 — the name ROCm
On 14 November 2016, at SC16 in Salt Lake City, AMD announced a new release of the Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm): software support for then-new Radeon GPU hardware, new math libraries, and a foundation of programming languages for heterogeneous compute. The same release discussed planned OpenCL support and future CPU targets (including then-upcoming Zen).[1][2]
That press release is the clean public naming event. HIP — the C++ API still in the stack — is documented today as part of ROCm and as a way to port CUDA-like code, not as a drop-in CUDA clone.[8]We do not attach a HIP 0.x tag date here without an AMD primary source.
Official version table (5.0 → 10.1)
Current AMD docs publish a release historythat starts at 5.0.0 — 9 February 2022 and runs through10.1.0 — 5 October 2026.[3]Earlier 1.x–4.x numbers are not on that table. Selected rows (full table is at the source):
| Version | Date (AMD table) | Why it is on this page |
|---|---|---|
| 5.0.0 | 9 Feb 2022 | Oldest row on the current official history table. |
| 6.0.0 | 15 Dec 2023 | 6.x line opens. |
| 7.0.0 | 16 Sep 2025 | 7.x line opens. |
| 7.14.0 | 15 Jul 2026 | TheRock becomes the build/release system from 7.14.[6] |
| 7.14.1 | 2 Sep 2026 | 7.14 patch line (dated after 10.0.0 on the same table). |
| 10.0.0 | 26 Aug 2026 | Production 10.0. R9700 / RX 9000 on the device table.[5] |
| 10.1.0 | 5 Oct 2026 | Current notes this guide cites. CLI v0.2.0 in the blog.[6][7] |
Go deeperWhy 7.14.1 is dated after 10.0.0
The official table lists 10.0.0 on 26 August 2026 and 7.14.1 on 2 September 2026.[3]Parallel lines exist. A 7.14.x wheel or image is not “older than 10.0” just because the major number is smaller — check the date and the gfx list on the artifact you actually installed.
TheRock and the 10.x line
ROCm 10.0 and 10.1 notes both state that since ROCm 7.14, ROCm usesTheRock as its build and release system.[5][6]The 10.0 docs include a transition guide.[4]For home users that is the packaging plot twist: amdrocm-* names, scoped prefixes under /opt/rocm, and “do not mix archive rocm” as a first-week failure mode. Walkthrough: install. Policy:versions.
10.1’s public narrative (Infinity Storage / hipFILE, NUMA-aware HIP alloc, LLVM 24,amd-smi, WSL2 preview, ROCm CLI v0.2.0) is the5 October 2026 blog.[7]
What we are not filling in
- TODO: AMD primary source for the first ROCm 1.0 tag date (often claimed as April 2016).
- TODO: AMD primary source for the SC15 “Boltzmann Initiative” announcement, if we add a 2015 row.
- TODO: first HIP public tag (community cites early 2016 HIP releases; not attached here).
- We do not reconstruct 2.x–4.x from blogs or Wikipedia.
If you have an AMD newsroom or docs URL for those rows, they belong insrc/lib/rocm-guide.ts and then here — not in a footnote we invent.
Sources
Every version and support claim on this page points here. If a sentence has no mark, treat it as lab opinion or a TODO — not as AMD policy.