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What's Changed

API:

• Add the ability to implement custom segment storage https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/310
• Add the ability to implement custom loggers https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/313
• New c interface https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/316
• Add metall::manager::read_only() https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/318
• Enhancements on fallback-allocator https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/317 and https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/319

Major Internal Changes:

• Utilize std::filesystem https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/311
• Optimize and brush up on internal file copy operations https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/312

Bugfix:

• Deallocating object cache data https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/306 and https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/307
• Detect Linux in CMake https://github.com/LLNL/metall/pull/315

• Change Metall configuration macros (#293)

  • New macros are in: metall/include/metall/defs.hpp

• New lightweight and performance-optimized object cache (#295)

• Container

  • Add Boost open-addressing set/map containers

• Examples

  • Add logger example
  • Add allocator-aware type example

• etc

  • Remove warnings and many code brush-ups

• CI

  • Use GCC 12 and Boost 1.82
  • Other brush-ups

JSON

• Move JSON headers to metall/json
• Add functions in JSON array
• Add an include guard for boost/json/src.hpp
• Add a macro for linking with Boost.JSON lib
• Bugfix: fixed memory leak in key_value_pair.hpp
• Bugfix: regarding long object key
• Bugfix: JSON swap declaration error
• Bugfix: declaration and include related issues

Code brush up

• Start using ClangFormat
• Remove warnings

Doc

• Update Ripples' build instruction.

• Bug fixes in Metall JSON Container w.r.t. copying Container objects between different allocator instances.
• Bug fixes in the iterators in the adjacency list containers in bench/.

Publish a list of works that use Metall.

STL Allocator Change not to propagate allocator (see details: #253)

JSON Container Change to compliant with the allocator aware container concept.

Internal Change Optimize small allocation performance

CI Test Test with Boost 1.80.0

• Bugfix regarding the sparse copy
• Container: add string_key_store example
• JSON Container: add string equal-to for boost::json::string
• Add new Boost versions for CI tests

Container

Add string_key_store

CMake

Add alias target (Metall::Metall)

Documentation

Add CITATION file Update publication info