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    <title>Release 3.5.0 (2023/01/05)</title>
    <tableofcontents>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Download</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_download</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>System Requirements</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_system_requirements</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Release Summary</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_summary</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>New Features</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_new_features</reference>
    <tableofcontents>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Taskflow Core</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_taskflow_core</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>cudaFlow</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_cudaflow</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Utilities</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_utilities</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Taskflow Profiler (TFProf)</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_profiler</reference>
    </tocsect>
    </tableofcontents>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Bug Fixes</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_bug_fixes</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Breaking Changes</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_breaking_changes</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Deprecated and Removed Items</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_deprecated_items</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Documentation</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_documentation</reference>
    </tocsect>
      <tocsect>
        <name>Miscellaneous Items</name>
        <reference>release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_miscellaneous_items</reference>
    </tocsect>
    </tableofcontents>
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    </briefdescription>
    <detaileddescription>
<para>Taskflow 3.5.0 is the 6th release in the 3.x line! This release includes several new changes, such as pipeline parallelism, improved work-stealing performance, profiling, documentation, examples, and unit tests.</para>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_download">
<title>Download</title>
<para>Taskflow 3.5.0 can be downloaded from <ulink url="https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/releases/tag/v3.5.0">here</ulink>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_system_requirements">
<title>System Requirements</title>
<para>To use Taskflow v3.5.0, you need a compiler that supports C++17:</para>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>GNU C++ Compiler at least v8.4 with -std=c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Clang C++ Compiler at least v6.0 with -std=c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Microsoft Visual Studio at least v19.27 with /std:c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>AppleClang Xcode Version at least v12.0 with -std=c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Nvidia CUDA Toolkit and Compiler (nvcc) at least v11.1 with -std=c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Intel C++ Compiler at least v19.0.1 with -std=c++17 </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Intel DPC++ Clang Compiler at least v13.0.0 with -std=c++17 and SYCL20</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
Taskflow works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_summary">
<title>Release Summary</title>
<para>This release introduces a new data-parallel pipeline programming model, solves the busy-waiting problem in our work-stealing scheduler, and adds a new text-based feature for profiler report.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_new_features">
<title>New Features</title>
<sect2 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_taskflow_core">
<title>Taskflow Core</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added <ref refid="classtf_1_1WorkerInterface" kindref="compound">tf::WorkerInterface</ref> to allow changing properties of workers upon their creations</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Added tf::Executor::loop_until to allow looping a worker with a custom stop predicate</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Added <ref refid="classtf_1_1DataPipeline" kindref="compound">tf::DataPipeline</ref> to implement data-parallel algorithms<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>See <ref refid="DataParallelPipeline" kindref="compound">Data-parallel Pipeline</ref></para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Extended <ref refid="classtf_1_1Executor" kindref="compound">tf::Executor</ref> to include <ref refid="classtf_1_1WorkerInterface" kindref="compound">tf::WorkerInterface</ref></para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Improved parallel algorithms (e.g., <ref refid="classtf_1_1FlowBuilder_1aae3edfa278baa75b08414e083c14c836" kindref="member">tf::Taskflow::for_each</ref>) with tail optimization</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Resolved the busy-waiting problem in our work-stealing algorithm (<ulink url="https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/pull/440">#400</ulink>)</para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_cudaflow">
<title>cudaFlow</title>
<para>This release has no update on <ref refid="classtf_1_1cudaFlow" kindref="compound">tf::cudaFlow</ref>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_utilities">
<title>Utilities</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added tf::unroll to unroll loops using template techniques</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Added <ref refid="structtf_1_1CachelineAligned" kindref="compound">tf::CachelineAligned</ref> to create a cacheline-aligned object</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Replaced <ref refid="cpp/types/aligned_union" kindref="compound" external="/home/thuang295/Code/taskflow/doxygen/cppreference-doxygen-web.tag.xml">std::aligned_union</ref> (deprecated in C++23) with a custom byte type (<ulink url="https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/issues/445">#445</ulink>)</para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_profiler">
<title>Taskflow Profiler (TFProf)</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added a new feature to generate a profile summary report<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>See <ref refid="Profiler_1ProfilerDisplayProfileSummary" kindref="member">Display Profile Summary</ref></para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_bug_fixes">
<title>Bug Fixes</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fixed the compilation error in taking move-only types for <ref refid="classtf_1_1FlowBuilder_1aa62d24438c0860e76153ffd129deba41" kindref="member">tf::Taskflow::transform_reduce</ref></para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Fixed the compilation error in the graph pipeline benchmark</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Fixed the compilation error in unknown OS (replaced with <computeroutput>TF_OS_UNKNOWN</computeroutput>)</para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>If you encounter any potential bugs, please submit an issue at <ulink url="https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/issues">issue tracker</ulink>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_breaking_changes">
<title>Breaking Changes</title>
<para>This release has no breaking changes.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_deprecated_items">
<title>Deprecated and Removed Items</title>
<para>This release has no deprecated and removed items.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_documentation">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Revised <ref refid="ExecuteTaskflow" kindref="compound">Executor</ref><itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added <ref refid="ExecuteTaskflow_1ExecuteATaskflowFromAnInternalWorker" kindref="member">Execute a Taskflow from an Internal Worker</ref></para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Added <ref refid="DataParallelPipeline" kindref="compound">Data-parallel Pipeline</ref></para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-3-5-0_1release-3-5-0_miscellaneous_items">
<title>Miscellaneous Items</title>
<para>We have published Taskflow in the following venues:<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Tsung-Wei Huang and Leslie Hwang, "<ulink url="https://tsung-wei-huang.github.io/papers/hpec22-semaphore.pdf">Task-Parallel Programming with Constrained Parallelism</ulink>," <emphasis>IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)</emphasis>, MA, 2022</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Tsung-Wei Huang, "<ulink url="https://tsung-wei-huang.github.io/papers/hpec22-ot.pdf">Enhancing the Performance Portability of Heterogeneous Circuit Analysis Programs</ulink>," <emphasis>IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)</emphasis>, MA, 2022</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>Dian-Lun Lin, Haoxing Ren, Yanqing Zhang, and Tsung-Wei Huang, "<ulink url="https://doi.org/10.1145/3545008.3545091">From RTL to CUDA: A GPU Acceleration Flow for RTL Simulation with Batch Stimulus</ulink>," <emphasis>ACM International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)</emphasis>, Bordeaux, France, 2022</para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>Please do not hesitate to contact <ulink url="https://tsung-wei-huang.github.io/">Dr. Tsung-Wei Huang</ulink> if you intend to collaborate with us on using Taskflow in your scientific computing projects. </para>
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