Introduction

A list of new features present in the next release.

New Features

7th June 2016 - fixed missing LFDS720_PAL_ATOMIC_DWCAS macro for GCC >= 4.1.2 to GCC < 4.7.3.
7th June 2016 - first pass at ARM64 support.
10th June 2016 - new data structure, unbounded single producer single consumer queue
10th June 2016 - libtest is *almost* now bare C89 (one use of bsearch and one use of qsort)
10th June 2016 - now have an x86 Windows XP VM, for running test and benchmark
1st August 2016 - IA64 support on Windows for DWCAS data structures (freelist, stack, ringbuffer, queue (unbounded, many, many))
3rd August 2016 - SMR back in, along with SMR freelist, queue (unbounded, many, many) and stack
8th October 2016 - ARM64 support for GCC 4.6.0 and later
10th October 2016 - freelist and stack support singlethreaded (non-atomic) operations
1st December 2016 - added unbounded, single/single queue
1st December 2016 - added epoch based garbage collection
1st January 2017 - added hazard pointer based garbage collection