Features:
- Added support for heterogeneous systems in algorithms and dataflow
- Added ForLoop function for parallel index-based loops
- Added extension for MTAPI callback functions
- Added job and task attributes for scheduling based on problem size
- Added functions to retrieve context for OpenCL and CUDA plugins
Changes and improvements:
- Added support for atomic operations provided by C11/C++11
- Optimized spinlock implementation
- Added default constructors for Group and Queue
- Added test for exceptions in mtapi_cpp
- Added initialization of affinity in execution policy constructors
- Added initialization of user_data pointer in task attributes
- Corrected return code for cancelled task in network plugin
- Improved error handling in MTAPI CPP interface
- Enabled reuse of main thread by default
- Added explicit finalization of allocated elements in MTAPI pool
- Removed spinlock from dataflow
- Added initialization of clock listeners in dataflow
- Changed dataflow so that sources are run within slice group
- Changed iterators in containers to return pairs and added documentation
- Added iterators to value pools and changed destruction of elements in object pools
- Added initializers in unit tests
- Resolved Coverity Scan warnings
- Resolved warning when compiling with GCC 7.1
Bug fixes:
- Fixed resource leak in unit test for pool
- Fixed potential resource leak and remote task cancel handling in network plugin
- Fixed MTAPI_CPP affinity test on single-core machines
- Fixed handling of task error conditions encountered during execution
- Fixed wrong allocation size in MTAPI C implementation
- Fixed possible overflow in unit test for algorithms
- Fixed problem in unit test where mutex could be destroyed while still being locked
Build system:
- Added option for generating shared libraries
- Added CMake package finder and use-script for integration of EMB² in applications
- Added output for all options in CMake build script
- Integrated Coverity Scan into Travis CI builds
- Fixed linker problem with CUDA plugin
- Fixed script that creates tarball and zip file
- Updated .travis.yml
Documentation:
- Added sample application (video processing)
- Revised tutorial and converted to markdown format
- Included generation of HTML and EPUB files (in addition to PDF)
- Added example for CUDA plugin
- Improved Doxygen documentation
- Extended CONTRIBUTING file
- Updated README file
- Updated year in license headers
- Fixed typos