This is a feature-oriented release, with a large number of major features planned (full list below). The features are more of a wish-list, so they do not hold-up the release.

'''Major Features:'''

1. MPICH/CH4
   1. Scalable communication with large number of peers
   2. Improvements for fine-grained communication (message rate and such)
   3. OFI support
   4. UCX support
   5. Portals4 support
2. MPI+thread optimizations
   • Thread arbitration optimizations
   • Fine-grained threading optimizations
3. Topology function improvements (Comm_split_type and Cart/graph_create)
4. Derived datatypes
   • Loop computation optimizations (DAME infrastructure)
   • Dataloop comparison functionality
5. ptmalloc support