package kcas

Release notes

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

0.6.0

• Add timeout support to potentially blocking operations (@polytypic)
• Add explicit ~xt parameter to Xt.call to make it polymorphic (@polytypic)

0.5.3

• Fix to also snapshot and rollback post commit actions (@polytypic)
• Fix Loc.compare_and_set to have strong semantics (@polytypic)
• Fix single location no-op updates to be strictly serializable (@polytypic)
• Add Dllist.move_l node list and Dllist.move_r node list (@polytypic)

0.5.2

• Improve Hashtbl read-write performance and add swap (@polytypic)
• Avoid some unnecessary verifies of read-only CMP operations (@polytypic)

0.5.1

• Add synchronizing variable Mvar to kcas_data (@polytypic)
• Fix to allow retry from within Xt.update and Xt.modify (@polytypic)

0.5.0

• Add nested conditional transaction support (@polytypic)
• Add explicit location validation support (@polytypic)

0.4.0

• Allocation of location ids in a transaction log friendly order (@polytypic)
• Per location operating mode selection (@Dashy-Dolphin, review: @polytypic)
• Injectivity !'a Kcas_data.Dllist.t annotation (@polytypic)

0.3.1

• Added doubly-linked list Dllist to kcas_data (@polytypic)
• Minor optimizations (@polytypic)

0.3.0

• Remove the Tx API (@polytypic)
• Add blocking support to turn kcas into a proper STM (@polytypic, review: @lyrm)
• Add periodic validation of transactions (@polytypic)

0.2.4

• Introduce kcas_data companion package of composable lock-free data structures (@polytypic)
• Add is_in_log operation to determine whether a location has been accessed by a transaction (@polytypic)
• Add Loc.modify (@polytypic)
• Add transactional swap operation to exchange contents of two locations (@polytypic)
• Injectivity !'a Loc.t and variance +'a Tx.t annotations (@polytypic)

0.2.3

• Add support for post commit actions to transactions (@polytypic)
• Bring Xt and Tx access combinators to parity and add compare_and_swap (@polytypic)

0.2.2

• New explicit transaction log passing API based on idea by @gasche (@polytypic, review: @samoht and @lyrm)

0.2.1

• New k-CAS-n-CMP algorithm extending the GKMZ algorithm (@polytypic, review: @bartoszmodelski)

0.2.0

• Complete redesign adding a new transaction API (@polytypic, review: @bartoszmodelski)

0.1.8

• Fix a bug in GKMZ implementation (@polytypic, review: @bartoszmodelski)

0.1.7

• Change to use the new GKMZ algorithm (@polytypic, review: @bartoszmodelski)

0.1.6

• Add preflights sorting and checks (@bartoszmodelski, review: @polytypic)

0.1.5

• Republish in opam (update opam, dune) (@tmcgilchrist, review: @Sudha247)