Version 0.6

Added features

• add vcpkg manifest #700
• add missing license identifier in all source files #707
• add View::extents() #718
• add View::blobs() accessor #719
• add a CUDA viewcopy benchmark #721, #834
• allow string literals and reflection in/of record dimension #737
• add Stacked accessor #755
• support RecordRef::at<"str">() #757
• specialize std::hash for RecordRef #758
• add a concept for View #759
• demonstrate mapping detecting false sharing #772
• add Locked accessor #773
• add a compile time benchmark #796, #805, #806
• add oneAPI SYCL n-body #799
• allow SubView to default construct inner view #801
• add gather/scatter to SIMD traits #815
• support a color palette and custom text color for toSvg() #846

Breaking changes

• require Boost 1.74 #710
• rename forEachADCoord to forEachArrayIndex #763
• upgrade to alpaka 1.0 #771
• rename linearizers towards mdspan jargon #784
• align AoSoA sub arrays #786
• relicense all LGPL-3.0+ content to MPL-2.0 #808

Bug fixes and improvements

• extend output of FieldAccessCount #703
• small improvements to Heatmap #704
• improve LHCb HEP analysis example #706, #711, #731, #741, #746, #824, #825, #826, #827, #828
• CI fixes and improvements: #708, #720, #723, #725, #732, #745, #747, #748, #750, #752, #756, #762, #764, #778, #781, #783, #785, #789, #791, #807, #812, #820, #775, #749
• documentation fixes: #709, #714, #727, #731
• unit test improvements: #712, #765, #770, #779
• add diagnostic when CUDA is not found #726
• remove nvcc flattener workaround for nvcc > 11.6 #734
• small refactoring #740, #701, #761, #769, #774, #802, #810
• small internal fixes #716, #735, #736, #742, #743, #776, #804, #836, #837, #840
• improve color hashing for dumping images #744
• drop nested ArrayIndex requirement for mappings #751
• make view transformations forward views #753
• make RecordRef weakly-equality-comparable #760
• allow STREAM with larger problem sizes #767
• add SSE4a implementation of NT-store accessor in STREAM #768
• separate record dim flattening from field permutations #782
• annotate all public APIs with LLAMA_EXPORT #787
• improve n-body #798, #813, #814, #816, #818, #822, #823, #829, #832, #833, #794,
• fix structName for single letter structs #800
• improve benchmark plots and reported statistics #803
• generalize blob copying functions #809
• extend viewcopy benchmark and improve llama::copy #811, #842, #843, #844
• improve SIMD loading/storing #817
• implement SIMD load/store between different record dimensions #819
• align BabelStream with alpaka version #831
• add missing host/acc macro to decayCopy #835
• fix initialization of device memory from host in async blur example #838
• add a dump test for packed AoSoA4 #845
• refine AnyView concept and test semiregularity #847
• update readthedocs config to version 2 #849
• fix most documentation issues #850

Removed features

• drop support for nvcc < 11.6 #766, #797
• remove support for clang < 12 #792, #802
• disable alpaka PIC example for recent MSVC #793
• drop support for g++-9 #830
• remove deprecated tree mapping #839