Version 3.2.0

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Adding support for various thread placement policies.
• Improvements to the threadtools.h API; some basic NUMA functionality is added.
• A patch on hsynch.c for supporting the various thread placement policies.
• Improvements of the performance of synchResched for many multicore machines (e.g., AMD, Intel, etc.).
• Improvements of the performance of the synchGetMachineModel function in the case of multiple calls.
• The performance of algorithms based on hsynch.c is substantially improved (more than X2 in many cases).
• Various fixes and improvements.

Version 3.1.4

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Documentation updates.

Version 3.1.3

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Fix for the chlhash.c and dsmhash.c concurrent hash-tables.
• Fix for the functionality of synchFastRandomRange32 and synchFastRandomRange provided by fastrand.c.
• Improvements for the benchmarking infrastructure of hash-tables.
• Adding code for validating the data-structures provided by clhhash.c and dsmhash.c.
• Increasing code coverage by codecov.

Version 3.1.2

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Expanding validate.sh to cover a few more concurrent objects.
• Increasing code coverage by codecov.
• Enhancing the API of threadtools.h.
• Code cleanup for the provided benchmark files.

Version 3.1.1

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Bug fix for the pool objects on the recycling functionality.

Version 3.1.0

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• A new high-performant, optimized implementation for the flat-combining synchronization technique. This new implementation provided by the Synch framework is written from the scratch.
• A few API fixes.

Version 3.0.1

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• README.md updated.
• Adding the JOSS paper to the repository.

Version 3.0.0

This release introduces the following changes/improvements:

• Header-files cleanup in order to provide a better and consistent API.
• Adding the Synch prefix to all structs provided by the runtime/primitives to the end-user.
• Adding the synch prefix to all functions provided by the runtime/primitives to the end-user.
• Extensive documentation for the API.
• Create a doxygen configuration file for auto-generating man-pages/documentation.
• API documentation is now provided at GitHub pages: https://nkallima.github.io/sim-universal-construction/index.html.
• A code coverage report is provided through codecov.io for the validation script.
• Support for installing the framework.
• Improvements on the build environment.
• Expansion of the CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Providing a short discussion (see PERFORMANCE.md) of the expected performance for the various objects provided by the framework.
• The bench.sh and validate.sh scripts use similar arguments as the provided benchmarks.

Version 2.4.0

The most important changes/improvements of v2.4.0 are the following:

• Adding the LCRQ Queue implementation (Adam Morrison and Yehuda Afek, PPoPP 2013, http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/projects/lcrq).
• Memory reclamation for SimStack is supported.
• Adding support for 128 bit Compare&Swap.
• Documentation improvements; a memory reclamation section was added in README.md.

Version 2.3.1

The most important changes/improvements of v2.3.1 are the following:

• Improvements on validate.sh for better error reporting.
• Enhancements on README.md.
• Improved logo.