6.1.x Feature List

Time Line

Target date - Q4CY27.

Release Managers

• TBD

List of Features planned for the 6.1.x release stream

MPI 5.1 and MPI 5.0 errata:

• various odds and ends if there is a 5.1. There are some errata items for 5.0 that we will want to include

Performance Enhancements:

• Improved MPI ABI handle converter functions
  • error code converters
  • pre-defined datatype converters
• Maybe move fortran bindings to standalone package?

MPIX extensions

• maybe get some accelerator related extensions?

Performance improvements

• Collectives
• Accelerator support

Build infrastructure enhancements

• Open MPI centric skills for AI agents

Things to remove:

• mpi java bindings (already done)
• peruse support (in progress)

Random:

• MPI_T events enhancements (in progress)

Likely to miss the 6.1.0 release