ChangeLog

GASNet-EX ChangeLog
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  GASNet-EX is a work-in-progress.
  Many features remain to be specified, implemented, and/or tuned.

  Feedback or questions on any matters related to the EX project are
  welcomed at: gasnet-devel@lbl.gov

  GASNet-EX currently implements the following conduits:
  - InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Shared-memory (smp-conduit)
  - Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Portable MPI (mpi-conduit)
  - Unified Communication X (ucx-conduit) [EXPERIMENTAL]

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20XX-YY-ZZ: PENDING

* Unified Communication X framework (details in ucx-conduit README) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - New configure option `--disable-ucx-atomics` can be used to disable
    compilation of offloaded atomics in ucx-conduit.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4811 - ofi: startup crashes with --enable-segment-everything

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2025-08-28: GASNet-EX 2025.8.0

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - Fixed support for device memory allocated via cuMemMap (bug 4767)

* Cray XC uGNI (aries-conduit)
  - This conduit, deprecated since 2023.9.0, has been removed.
  - Users of Cray XC systems are advised to use the renamed cross-configure
    scripts `cross-configure-cray-xc-slurm` and `cross-configure-cray-xc-alps`,
    which enable ofi-conduit with libfabric's "gni" provider.

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Updates for compatibility of ofi-conduit CUDA UVA memory kinds with
    HPE's Slingshot Host Software (SHS) 12.0.1.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - Setting `GASNET_IBV_PORTS_TYPE=auto` can now be used to automate
    topology-aware assignment of HCAs to processes on a multi-rail system.
    See the description of the `GASNET_IBV_PORTS_*` family of environment
    variables in the conduit `README` for more details.
  - Support for `GEX_FLAG_IMMEDIATE` with AM injection (both FPAM and NPAM) has
    been improved to detect full send queues and completion queues, conditions
    which previously could have resulted in stalls rather than immediate return.
  - NEW: Support for network offload of atomic operations.  See the
    ibv-conduit README for more information, such as supported op/type pairs.

* Unified Communication X framework (details in ucx-conduit README) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Reduced on-the-wire overheads of Active Messages
  - Improved AM Medium bandwidth (bug 4165)
  - Increased default GASNET_UCX_MAX_MEDIUM to 65456

* Shared-memory without a network (details in smp-conduit README)
  - New `gasnetrun_smp` script provides consistency with most other conduits.
    This enables launch of (single-node) smp-conduit jobs using the ssh-, mpi-
    and pmi-spawners, in addition to legacy fork-based job launch.

* Intra-node Shared Memory (PSHM)
  - Existing support for libhugetlbfs can now use an installation outside of
    the default header and library search paths via a the configure option
    `--with-hugetlbfs-home=`, or via the environment variable `HUGETLBFS_HOME`
    set at configure time.
  - The configure option `--enable-hugetlbfs-whole-archive` has been deprecated,
    having been supersede by the more general `--with-hugetlbfs-libs` option.
  - The implementation of PSHM now defaults to avoiding allocation of shared
    memory when there can be no sharing (i.e. in a single-process neighborhood),
    instead using `mmap(MAP_ANONYNOUS)` or similar.
    See the description of the environment variable `GASNET_USE_PSHM_SINGLETON`
    in `README` for more details, including use of this variable to restore
    the old behavior.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.19: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Experimental new `gex_AM_Cancel{Request,Reply}{Medium,Long}()` APIs enable
    a client to abandon a Prepare (called instead of the matching Commit).
  - Experimental new `gex_AM_Commit*_v2()` APIs extend the `Commit` API
    family with a `commit_flags` argument and an `int` return type.  This
    enables use of `GEX_FLAG_IMMEDIATE` at commit time.

* General and Misc.
  - Support for hwloc, used conditionally by ibv- and ofi-conduits, now
    defaults to thread-scope (not process-scope) for the cpuset query.
    See GASNET_HWLOC_QUERY in the top-level GASNet README for details.
  - Improved tracing and statistics support for the `gex_AD_*()` APIs
  - Improved pseudo-random number generation used in many tests.
  - Support for compilation of GASNet-EX with GCC-15

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4165 - ucx: AMMediumRequest bandwidth problems
  - bug4280 - ucx: investigate use of is_sync in AM injection
  - bug4335 - ucx: inefficient AM header layout
  - bug4718 - Diagnose invalid segment binding to primordial endpoint
  - bug4723 - (partial fix) Chapel over ssh-spawner w/ environment modules chokes tcsh
  - bug4726 - RFE: smp-conduit support for conduit-independent spawner
  - bug4732 - configure not respecting disable-auto-conduit-detect for ofi-conduit on Cray EX
  - bug4733 - Intermittent exitcode=9 from ssh-spawner
  - bug4734 - incorrect hwloc-based NIC selection with cxi provider
  - bug4743 - prohibit space characters in $(prefix) and $(DESTDIR) for `make install`
  - bug4744 - uninitialized use of PRNG in some tests
  - bug4746 - support pedantic compiler options in gasnet_portable_platform.h
  - bug4749 - ofi-conduit NPAM support broken on ILP32
  - bug4751 - incorrect segment limit computation on ILP32
  - bug4752 - Incomplete work-around for bug 4376 (FI_EAGAIN when reposting multi-recv buffer)
  - bug4753 - ofi: race condition in multi-receive message accounting
  - bug4754 - intermittent testratomic validation failures on Apple M1 h/w
  - bug4757 - Undefined behavior in ibv-conduit legacy initialization
  - bug4760 - ibv: assertion failure with single-process and GASNET_NUM_QPS>1
  - bug4764 - ibv: progress functions may send AMs in an NPAM prepare/commit interval
  - bug4765 - ucx-conduit flaw in gex_AD_OpNBI for GEX_OP_SET and _GET
  - bug4766 - Executing a NULL pointer via gasnete_barrier_pf
  - bug4767 - CUDA framebuffer memory allocated by cuMemMap failed when registering with GASNet-EX
  - bug4768 - memcpy with NULL destination in collectives
  - bug4772 - regression in low-memory error handling with single-process runs
  - bug4773 - (partial fix) improved error handling in segment allocation
  - bug4774 - Add argument-checking to GASNet object query accessors
  - bug4787 - GCC-15 errors and warnings regarding incompatible pointers-to-function
  - bug4788 - amx/testam.c not C23-compatible
  - bug4797 - Intermittent init-time crash inside gasneti_bootstrapBarrier_am()
  - bug4808 - gex_EP_BindSegment failures with CUDA device memory and SHS 12.0.1

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2024-05-23: GASNet-EX 2024.5.0

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - Memory Kinds support for AMD GPUs extended to ROCm-6 (bug 4686)
  - Use of new option `--enable-memory-kinds=force` makes it an error if
    `configure` cannot detect at least one supported memory kind.
  See docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md for more info on the status of Memory Kinds.

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Negotiated-Payload Active Message (NPAM) Mediums are implemented natively
    for ofi-conduit, replacing use of a portable reference implementation.
    This was measured to improve bandwidth on the HPE Slingshot network when
    using NPAM interfaces with a GASNet-allocated buffer.
  - Output generated by setting `GASNET_OFI_LIST_DEVICES` now includes
    information ranking the distance of a device from the generating process,
    when hwloc 2.0 libraries (or newer) are located by `configure`.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - A new send progress thread can be enabled to process completion events
    related to communication injection, potentially reducing the cost of
    `gasnet_AMPoll()` calls by application threads.  See the ibv-conduit README
    for information on the `GASNET_SND_THREAD*` family of environment variables.
  - The receive and send progress threads can now be kept active for some period
    of time while their completion queues test as empty.  See the ibv-conduit
    README for information on the `GASNET_RCV_THREAD_IDLE` and
    `GASNET_SND_THREAD_IDLE` environment variables.
  - Previously, setting environment variable `GASNET_RCV_THREAD` to a true
    value with a library build configured using `--disable-ibv-rcv-thread`
    was a fatal error.  It now produces a suppressible warning.
  - Output generated by setting `GASNET_IBV_LIST_PORTS` now includes information
    ranking the distance of a device from the generating process, when hwloc
    2.0 libraries (or newer) are located by `configure`.

* Portable UDP support (details in udp-conduit README)
  - Correct the behavior of the `dest_addr` of Long AMs when `nbytes==0`

* Portable MPI support (details in mpi-conduit README)
  - Correct the behavior of the `dest_addr` of Long AMs when `nbytes==0`

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.18: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Specification for AM Longs has been clarified to explicitly permit
    `nbytes==0` even when the destination EP lacks a bound segment.
  - Preprocessor identifiers `GASNET_RCV_THREAD` and `GASNET_SND_THREAD`
    are now available to indicate library builds with the respective
    capabilities.
  - New `GEX_FLAG_DEFER_THREADS` and `gex_System_QueryProgressThreads()`
    provide a mechanism for a client to control launch of a conduit's
    progress thread(s), enabling client control over CPU affinity, among
    other properties.
  - The 'VIS Put Peer Completion' feature is now DEPRECATED and may be
    removed in a future release.
  - The following functions, constants and type are no longer considered EXPERIMENTAL:
    + gex_System_QueryNbrhdInfo()
    + gex_System_QueryHostInfo()
    + gex_System_QueryMyPosition()
    + GEX_FLAG_AM_PREPARE_LEAST_CLIENT
    + GEX_FLAG_AM_PREPARE_LEAST_ALLOC
    + gex_Addr_t

* General and Misc.
  - Off-node algorithms for non-contiguous vector RMA (i.e. `gex_VIS_Vector{Put,Get}*()`
    AKA `gasnet_{putv,getv}_*()`) have been re-designed to leverage piecewise
    RMA (now respecting GASNET_VIS_MAXCHUNK) and streamline transfer throughput.
  - Disable "threadinfo-opt" by default on aarch64 (Linux and macOS)
  - Install a script implementation of the `ident` utility in $prefix/bin
  - Avoid an assertion regarding an unpublished segment when it would mask a more
    informative bounds-checking failure.
  - Reorganization of GASNet-EX and implementation documentation (docs directory):
    + Added new file `memory_kinds.pdf`
      Provides the memory kinds API documentation which was previously available
      only upon request
    + Added new file `implementation_defined.md`
      Describes behaviors of this implemention which are outside the specification
    + Renamed `memory_kinds.md` to `memory_kinds_implementation.md`
      Describes the implemention status of the memory kinds (and related) APIs
    + Updates to `GASNet-EX.txt` provide references to the documents above, and
      remove a section which provided a summary of `memory_kinds.pdf`.
    + Moved list of public header files from `README` to `GASNet-EX.txt`.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug3421: putv/getv should respect GASNET_VIS_MAXCHUNK
  - bug3559: Fix GASNET_PSHM feature definition (predicate #defines)
  - bug4617: SEGV in remote firehose, NDEBUG and clang-16.0.0+
  - bug4682: ibv: rare failure of bogus assertion
  - bug4683: GASNET_FREEZE ignored by udp-conduit with ssh spawn
  - bug4686: Configure failure with ROCm 6
  - bug4688: Incorrect CPU mask computation on 64-bit systems
  - bug4689: GASNET_GET_THREADINFO() assumed non-NULL in `test{gasnet,legacy}.c`
  - bug4690: no actual multi-threaded coverage in PAR builds of `test{gasnet,legacy}.c`
  - bug4709: Incorrect behavior with zero-byte Longs (udp and mpi conduits)
  - bug4712: gasneti_mutex operations crash in pthread_equal() on NetBSD + PAR/DEBUG
  - bug4716: Poor error behavior when hugetlbfs is requested, but unavailable

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2023-12-15: GASNet-EX 2023.9.0

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - This release adds *experimental* memory kinds support for the oneAPI Level
    Zero API of Intel GPUs to ofi-conduit with the cxi libfabric provider (for
    the Slingshot-11 network on HPE Cray EX systems).
  See docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md for more info on the status of Memory Kinds.

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Add initial/experimental support for the AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter via
    "efa" provider. Operation with this provider remains untuned and is not
    yet officially supported.
  - Add `GASNET_OFI_SET_UNIVERSE_SIZE` environment variable to opt-in to
    automatic setting of `FI_UNIVERSE_SIZE` to the job size.
    This partially addresses Bug 4413.
  - The recommendations regarding running MPI hybrid applications on the HPE
    Slingshot-11 network have changed.  Please see the conduit README for details.
  - ofi-conduit now defaults to setting envvars FI_MR_CACHE_MAX_COUNT and
    FI_MR_CACHE_MAX_SIZE for cxi and verbs providers, partially addressing bug 4676.
  - Active message injections now use tx_addr flag FI_INJECT_COMPLETE
  - Transmit CQs now use cq_attr FI_CQ_FORMAT_CONTEXT instead of FI_CQ_FORMAT_DATA

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - Calls to `gex_MK_Create()` for CUDA UVA or HIP memory kinds will no longer
    fail if the necessary kernel support cannot be positively identified, and
    a subsequent `gex_Segment_Create()` will fail instead if the driver support
    is absent.
  - Will now attempt to maximize the `RLIMIT_MEMLOCK` limit of processes by
    default. Set `GASNET_MAXIMIZE_MEMLOCK=0` to disable the new behavior.

* Unified Communication X framework (details in ucx-conduit README) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - `GEX_FLAG_AD_FAVOR_*` flags passed to `gex_AD_Create()` now guide
    algorithmic selection of atomic operations.
  - Support for optional `GEX_TI_{ENTRY,IS_REQ,IS_LONG}` in `gex_Token_Info()`
  - Use of `GASNET_UCX_` or `UCX_GASNET_` to prefix UCX (non-GASNet) environment
    variables has been removed.  It had never functioned as documented.
  - Fix a packaging error that omitted the conduit license file in previous releases.

* Portable UDP support (details in udp-conduit README)
  - Support for optional `GEX_TI_{ENTRY,IS_REQ,IS_LONG}` in `gex_Token_Info()`
  - Improve warning messages about environment variables to more uniformly
    reference the GASNET_-prefixed variable name.

* Portable MPI support (details in mpi-conduit README)
  - Support for optional `GEX_TI_{ENTRY,IS_REQ,IS_LONG}` in `gex_Token_Info()`
  - Finalize MPI more cautiously at exit, in case the client has already done so.

* Cray XC uGNI (details in aries-conduit README)
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future release
    (see aries-conduit/README).

* Platform support/portability
  - configure no longer requires the `cray-pmi` module to be loaded on HPE
    Cray EX systems, although the underlying dependency on Cray PMI remains.
  - Configure will no longer add `-multiply_defined,suppress` to `LDFLAGS` on
    macOS Ventura and newer (bug 4677).  Users may reintroduce it via
    `--with-ldflags=`, if necessary.
  - mpi-spawner: Finalize MPI more cautiously at exit, in case the client has already done so.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.17: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Add new `GASNET_SUPPORTS_TI_*` feature macros
  - Add constants and data type for experimental oneAPI Level Zero "ZE" memory kind.

* General and Misc.
  - New options to `testlarge` and `testsmall` enable testing a wider
    range of conditions.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4172: crash in ucx-conduit atexit handlers when mpi interop is enabled
  - bug4363: ibv-conduit assertion failures regarding incorrect opcode
  - bug4413: (partial fix) set FI_UNIVERSE_SIZE (conflicting provider requirements)
  - bug4594: UCX should not enable native atomics unconditionally
  - bug4598: ucx-conduit + ssh-spawner GASNET_FREEZE support is unusable
  - bug4654: RFE: feature macros for optional GET_TI_* queries
  - bug4655: ucx: bad exits on Summit
  - bug4663: failure compiling pmi-spawner with PMIx 4.2.0 and higher
  - bug4665: Cray PMI configure detection logic should be smarter 
  - bug4669: Some GASNET_OFI_DEVICE_* and GASNET_IBV_PORTS_* settings ignored
  - bug4670: UCX environment personalized prefix not working as we document
  - bug4676: (partial fix) ofi-conduit RMA performance issues (cxi & verbs providers)
  - bug4677: Linker warnings from Xcode 15

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2023-03-31: GASNet-EX 2023.3.0

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Now requires libfabric 1.5 or newer
  - Now enforces documented minimum libfabric versions for certain providers
  - The --{en,dis}able-ofi-mr-scalable configure options have been deprecated
    in favor of newer alternatives which provide finer-grained control.
  - Restore default use of the "RDMADISSEM" barrier, which had been previously
    disabled in favor of a slower barrier implementation due to bug 4427.
  - New envvars GASNET_OFI_LIST_DEVICES{,_NODES} to request a list of
    the available network devices.
  - New opt-in work-around for bug 4461 (failure of the Slingshot-11 cxi
    provider under certain AM traffic patterns) replaces a less effective
    workaround introduced in GASNet-EX 2022.9.0.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - The conduit-specific "IBDISSEM" barrier implementation has been removed.
    The default barrier is now "RDMADISSEM", and "IBDISSEM" is accepted as
    an alias for it.

* GASNet tools (spec v1.20): (details in README-tools)
  - Support specifying the complement of a desired trace or stats mask (via the
    environment variables and library interfaces) by prefixing "^" to the string

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4157: ibv XRC deadlock under certain loads
  - bug4170: RFE: mod and div operations in gasneti_getenv_hwloc_withdefault()
  - bug4171: RFE: support local ranks in gasneti_getenv_hwloc_withdefault()
  - bug4179: ofi: failures specific to verbs provider
  - bug4427: ofi-conduit failures with RDMADISSEM barrier
  - bug4468: RFE: negative form of GASNET_TRACEMASK
  - bug4507: ofi "message too long" errors on enormous RMA
  - bug4517: ofi/verbs 'no associated AM handler function' errors with libfabric 1.11 or older
  - bug4527: Erroneous/confusing startup warning with psm2 provider
  - bug4538: gasnet_client_attach_hook called after registering memory in ofi conduit
  - bug4542: ibv-conduit failures with IBDISSEM and RDMADISSEM barriers
  - bug4561: cxi provider performance regression
  - bug4567: broken support for psm2 provider in libfabric < 1.10
  - bug4568: RFE: support for FI_AV_MAP
  - bug4569: RFE: per-provider version
  - bug4574: RFE: support per-endpoint AVs
  - bug4579: Document tcp provider floor
  - bug4587: Undefined behavior in testinternal
  - bug4591: Fix confusing documentation regarding True Scale IB hardware
  - bug4596: smp-conduit lacks multi-process GASNET_FREEZE support
  - bug4597: ofi-conduit + ssh-spawner GASNET_FREEZE support is unusable
  - bug4606: current aprun not recognized by gasnetrun

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2023-01-13: GASNet-EX 2022.9.2 Release (bug fix release)

This bug fix release addresses issues on HPE Cray EX platforms
discovered since the 2022.9.0 release.

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Add support for providers (including cxi in HPE's libfabric 1.15.2.0)
    in which the FI_MR_PROV_KEY and FI_MR_VIRT_ADDR bits of mr_mode differ.

* General and Misc.
  - Add a new GASNET_USE_HUGEPAGES environment variable to control run-time use
    of hugepages (assuming configure-time support).

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4533: RFE: run-time disable for hugepage support
  - bug4553: cxi provider assertion failure with libfabric/1.15.2.0

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2022-09-30: GASNet-EX 2022.9.0, 20th Anniversary Release

The GASNet team is proudly celebrating **20 years** of providing
high-quality/high-performance middleware for alternative HPC programming
models; the GASNet specification was first published in October, 2002
(https://doi.org/10.25344/S4MW28).  Such a long lifetime for a software
project is only possible with a supportive community of users and
contributors.  Most of you reading this are a part of that community and
have our sincere thanks for making this milestone possible.

* General and Misc.
  - Add a new GASNET_SPAWN_VERBOSE mode that provides more debugging
    information about job creation and teardown operations.
  - gasnetrun*/amudprun now accept `-v` multiple times to increase verbosity
  - envvar `GASNET_VERBOSEENV` now recognizes 'N|n|NO|no|0' to mean false
  - Scaling improvements to startup costs (memory and time) in all conduits
  - New options (and changed defaults) for `testalltoall`
  - More detailed reporting for certain job spawning failure scenarios

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - This release adds Memory Kinds support to ofi-conduit with certain
    libfabric providers, for both Nvidia and AMD GPUs.  Support includes the
    Slingshot-10 and Slingshot-11 networks on HPE Cray EX systems.
  See docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md for more info on the status of Memory Kinds.

* Libfabric (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - The ofi-conduit is no longer "experimental", with caveats:
    + Its use is only recommended on HPE Cray EX (Shasta) systems and
      Linux clusters with Intel Omni-Path (with the psm2 provider)
    + Performance has not been tuned and further enhancements are planned
    Please see the conduit README for more details
  - New support for memory kinds `GEX_MK_CLASS_CUDA_UVA` and `GEX_MK_CLASS_HIP`
  - On HPE Cray EX (aka Shasta) systems, huge pages are now used for
    GASNet-allocated host memory segments by default (where supported) for
    both PSHM and non-PSHM configurations.
  - A new environment variable `GASNET_OFI_MAX_MEDIUM` enables setting the
    size of AM Medium buffers at job launch, and the preexisting configure
    option `--with-ofi-max-medium` is now used to set the default value.
    In the absence of these settings, the default buffer size remains unchanged.
  - Improvements to `--with-ofi-provider` argument handling, as documented
    in the conduit README.
  - --with-ofi-provider=default has been renamed to --with-ofi-provider=generic
  - Opt-in work-around for bugs 4179 (verbs provider) and 4461 (cxi provider)
    in which certain AM traffic patterns may lead to various failures.
    See "Bug 4179" and "Bug 4461" in the conduit README.
  - New support for immediate operations (GEX_FLAG_IMMEDIATE) for most AM and
    RMA operations
  - New support for asynchronous local completion for RMA puts
  - Support for optional `GEX_TI_{ENTRY,IS_REQ,IS_LONG}` in `gex_Token_Info()`
  - Numerous maintainability improvements
  - Support for multiple endpoints

* Platform support/portability
  - System-specific defaults for many configure options have been adjusted
    to align with recommended values when run on an HPE Cray EX platform.
  - `PLATFORM_OS_CNL` and `PLATFORM_OS_WSL` macros have been renamed to
    `PLATFORM_OS_SUBFAMILY_CNL` and `PLATFORM_OS_SUBFAMILY_WSL`.
     These platforms now ALSO define `PLATFORM_OS_LINUX`.
  - Additional variables from *.mak fragments now appear in pkg-config *.pc files
  - Timer calibration output is now controlled by envvar `GASNET_TSC_VERBOSE`
  - Improvements to the startup logic for network hardware detection, 
    resulting in more accurate warnings about inadvisable configurations.
  - Added initial/experimental support for RISC-V architecture

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.16: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - The return type of `gex_EP_BindSegment()` has changed from `void` to `int`
    and this function is now permitted to return non-zero on failure.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4083: incorrect GatherAll algorithm selection at large scale
  - bug4305: Remove GASNETI_SUPPORTS_OUTOFSEGMENT_PUTGET
  - bug4379: HIP support using deprecated context functionality
  - bug4392: Warn when running with --disable-pshm and multiple PPN
  - bug4434: RFE: runtime adjustment of ofi-conduit MaxMedium
  - bug4432: OFI provider selection issues
  - bug4447: GASNET_VERBOSEENV doesn't have an explicit false setting
  - bug4448: smp-conduit incorrectly duplicates GASNET_VERBOSEENV output
  - bug4453: gex_Coll_* should trace more information
  - bug4454: Scaling issues in gasneti_segmentLimit()
  - bug4462: testcoll_p-par validation failures on Summit
  - bug4475: configure --disable-full-path-expansion breaks default MPI_CC
  - bug4483: gethostid() on Perlmutter rarely returns 0, breaking PSHM detection
  - bug4490: startup hang for large GASNET_MAX_SEGSIZE and huge pages > 4MB
  - bug4496: SEGV in gasnete_coll_pf_tm_reduce_TreePutSeg for reduce-to-all
  - bug4509: Non-scalable reduction temporaries

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2022-03-31: GASNet-EX 2022.3.0 Release

* General and Misc.
  - Add docs/gasnet1_differences.md guide for legacy GASNet-1 clients
  - Reduce locking overheads inside AMPoll for single-node runs of
    {udp,mpi}-conduit in PAR mode.
  - A new environment variable `GASNET_HOST_DETECT` controls the
    algorithm used for detecting compute node boundaries in a job.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - Improved reporting of fatal errors reported via IBV completion queues

* Unified Communication X framework (details in ucx-conduit README) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - A new environment variable `GASNET_UCX_MAX_MEDIUM` enables setting the
    size of AM Medium buffers at job launch, and a new configure option
    `--with-ucx-max-medium` can be used to set the default value.
    In the absence of these settings, default buffer size remains unchanged.
  - `GASNET_DISABLE_MUNMAP=1` is now the default for ucx-conduit.

* Libfabric [EXPERIMENTAL] (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - Initial support for the "cxi" provider for the HPE Slingshot-11 network.
    + Added support for providers which set the `FI_MR_ENDPOINT` memory mode bit
    + Added support for providers which do not support multiple endpoints
      reporting TX completions to a single completion queue
  - ofi-conduit is now the recommended conduit for HPE Slingshot (such as 
    present in HPE Cray EX systems) and Intel Omni-Path (OPA) networks
  - A new family of `GASNET_OFI_DEVICE*` environment variables provide
    control over which device is used by a given process.  When configure can
    find (optional) hwloc, this can be based on a process's location in the node
    architecture (e.g. by socket or numa node).
  - The implementation now includes a native implementation of the
    Extended API (Put and Get) in terms of `fi_write()` and `fi_read()`.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.15: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Clarify that src/dst overlap within one operation yields undefined behavior
  - Initial implementation of gex_Segment_Destroy()

* GASNet tools (spec v1.19): (details in README-tools)
  - Add gasnett_exe_name() for exposing the current executable name
  - gasnett_gethostname() now normalizes hostnames to lowercase

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug4211: intermittent udp-conduit exit-time hangs on macOS
  - bug4227: Bogus maybe-uninit warning building libgasnet with GCC-11.1+ 
  - bug4297: incorrect nbrhd construction for some multi-homed hosts
  - bug4321: Intermittent "EBADENDPOINT" failures in single-node udp-conduit
  - bug4339: ucx: many-to-one deadlock
  - bug4345: Multiply defined symbols in aries-conduit w/ recent compilers
  - bug4355: Erroneous memory access when deleting a segment
  - bug4356: Missing bounds checks for Long payloads
  - bug4360: Insufficient fixed exit timeouts (ucx, ibv, ofi)
  - bug4361: (partial fix) reductions on DT_USER of unbounded length
  - bug4366: intermittent exit-time assertion failures from debug memcheck
  - bug4373: ofi: FI_MR_ENDPOINT support
  - bug4374: Update mr_mode handling to OFI 1.5 API spec (or newer?)
  - bug4375: ofi: support multiple tx CQs
  - bug4376: ofi: infrequent FI_EAGAIN when reposting multi-recv buffer
  - bug4399: (partial fix) stronger local address range checks when using kinds

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2021-09-30: GASNet-EX 2021.9.0 Release

* General and Misc.
  - Improved latency for shared-memory RMA operations in all conduits.
  - Improved performance of the conduit-independent RDMA-based barrier,
    used by default by ucx-conduit.
  - NEW: configure options `--enable-rpath` and `--enable-[pkg]-rpath` can
    request addition of directories containing required libraries to the
    runtime library search path (a.k.a. "rpath") via `$(GASNET_LDFLAGS)`.
  - Environment variable GASNET_BACKTRACE_MT is now available to force
    multi-threaded or single-threaded backtraces (where supported).
  - Improved code factorization to ease addition of new network conduits.

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - This release adds Memory Kinds support for AMD GPUs via the HIP API.
  - This release adds ucx-conduit support for `GEX_MK_CLASS_CUDA_UVA` and
    `GEX_MK_CLASS_HIP` on supported hardware and software.
  - Fixed bugs 4148 and 4150, which had significant impact on the usability
    of RMA Put operations involving device memory.
  See docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md for more info on the status of Memory Kinds.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - Performance improvement for RMA Put and AM Long utilizing asynchronous
    local completion and payloads in (roughly) the 4KiB to 64KiB range.
  - Improved memory utilization at large scale.
  - SEQ and PARSYNC builds now set MLX{4,5}_SINGLE_THREADED under
    appropriate conditions to elide locking overheads in libibverbs.
  - Improved scaling with large thread counts by serializing CQ polling.
  - NEW: configure option --with-ibv-fenced-puts=... can be used to set the
    default value for the GASNET_USE_FENCED_PUTS environment variable.
  - Added feature macros to advertise multi-rail configuration to clients.

* Cray XC uGNI (details in aries-conduit README)
  - Fix leak of gex_Event_t for explicit-event local completion of AM Long (bug 4292)

* Unified Communication X framework (details in ucx-conduit README) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - New support for Memory kinds: `GEX_MK_CLASS_CUDA_UVA` and `GEX_MK_CLASS_HIP`
  - Improvements to AM Long payload handling
    + Fix corruption when using UCX-level shared memory communication (bug 4155)
    + Fix crashes when using synchronous local completion (bug 4277)
    + Fix leak of gex_Event_t for explicit-event local completion (bug 4292)
  - Improved handling of non-collective exits
  - Support for multiple endpoints

* Shared-memory without a network (details in smp-conduit README)
  - Performance improvements to remote (inter-process) atomics

* Platform support/portability
  - Made Cray PMI support conduit-independent, allowing it to function on
    non-aries Cray systems like the new "HPE Cray EX" (aka Shasta).
  - This release adds Intel oneAPI as a supported compiler family.
  - This release adds NVHPC (NVIDIA HPC SDK) as a supported compiler family
    on x86-64 and ppc64le, starting at version 20.9.
  - Improved support for GCC 11 by suppressing spurious warnings.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.14: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Allow mixing of root and leaf events in array-based NB event APIs.
  - Add GEX_FLAG_PEER_NEVER_{SELF,NBRHD}
  - Add gex_System_QueryHiddenAMConcurrencyLevel()
  - Add constants and data type for "HIP" memory kind

* GASNet tools (spec v1.18): (details in README-tools)
  - Add gasnett_assume, for exposing annotations to guide optimization
  - gasnett_spinloop_hint() now includes a compiler fence on all CPU
    architectures, not just those with a "pause" instruction (or similar).

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug3420: use -rpath when linking
  - bug3535: additional restrictions for coding standards
  - bug3936: Problems with multi-rail and GASNET_{AM_CREDITS,NETWORKDEPTH}_PP
  - bug4053: ibv: Default to setting MLX5_SINGLE_THREADED=1 for SEQ builds
  - bug4148: ibv/GDR completion issues with multiple communication paths
  - bug4150: ibv/GDR premature local completion of Puts from device memory
  - bug4155: ucx: AM Long test failures when PSHM is disabled
  - bug4162: incorrect return value from gasnet_get_nbi on ucx-conduit
  - bug4178: ofi: testsegment crash with MR_BASIC
  - bug4209: ibv: improve ALC with respect to bounce buffer use
  - bug4212: build failure for ibv conduit with "--with-ibv-max-hcas=1"
  - bug4213: trace AM handler registration
  - bug4215: testslice enhancements to test cross-nbrhd RMA
  - bug4218: Support root/leaf mixing in array-based NB event APIs 
  - bug4223: Problems in VIS PSHM handling with non-primordial segments
  - bug4228: Bogus stringop-overflow warnings from GCC-11.1 LTO
  - bug4230: ssh-spawer de-duplication logic is flawed
  - bug4232: Bogus array-bounds warning from GCC 11.1 on ILP32/NDEBUG
  - bug4237: Option for backtrace to provide the stack on all threads even in threadmode=seq
  - bug4240: ibv: optimize layout of gasnetc_cep_t
  - bug4246: ibv: better behavior of single-rail build on multi-rail system
  - bug4255: Intel 2021.2.0+ erroneous __has_{,cpp_}attribute(__fallthrough__)
  - bug4259/4260/4261/4262: update spinloop constructs in native conduits
  - bug4263: remove "AD_MY_NBRHD" check on smp-conduit
  - bug4264: simplify implementation of GEX_FLAG_AD_{ACQ,REL}
  - bug4265: Collective scratch management is not thread safe
  - bug4266: gex_Coll_ReduceToAllNB is not thread safe
  - bug4277: ucx testam hang with Cray and AMD compilers
  - bug4278: improvements to RDMADISSEM barrier
  - bug4281: Display glitch in VERBOSEENV console reporting
  - bug4291: Configure barfs on balanced double-quotes in arguments
  - bug4292: ucx and aries can leak events from AM Long
  - bug4298: ucx persona_example hang w/o PSHM
  - bug4299: Non-fatal error on BAR1 resource exhaustion in gex_Segment_Create
  - bug4303: Inaccurate expectations regarding GASNET_IBV_PORTS
  - bug4310: use of deprecated Intel compiler options
  - bug4328: ucx: erroneous loop in gasnetc_poll_sndrcv()
  - bug4330: ibv conduit incorrectly implements HIDDEN_AM_CONCURRENCY_LEVEL

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2021-03-31: GASNet-EX 2021.3.0 Release

* General and Misc.
  - Performance improvement for Negotiated-Payload Active Message (NPAM) Long 
    with GASNet-allocated buffer over shared-memory (PSHM) and the reference
    implementation of NPAM (Medium and Long) used by ucx, udp and mpi conduits.
  - Calls to gex_EP_Create() which would exceed GASNET_MAXEPS now return
    GASNET_ERR_RESOURCE rather than aborting.
  - NEW: configure option `--with-maxeps=N` permits setting GASNET_MAXEPS,
    subject to per-conduit limits.
  - Additional debug checks for use of calls which are prohibited in an
    AM handler context, and in the NPAM Prepare/Commit interval.
  - The `GASNetGitHash` ident string is now available in most development builds,
    and `pkg-config --modversion` installed from a development build should
    include the GASNet git hash.

* Memory Kinds (support for non-host memory)
  - This is the first production release to include "Memory Kinds", the GASNet
    feature supporting communication using non-host memory (such as GPU memory).
    See docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md for more information.
  - Users of the "GASNet-2020.11.0-memory_kinds_prototype" release should be
    aware that the behavior of configure in this release differs in that one
    must enable memory kinds explicitly using `--enable-memory-kinds` or an
    `--enable-kind-[...]` option for a specific kind.
  - New preprocessor identifier 'GASNET_HAVE_MK_CLASS_MULTIPLE' (undefined or
    defined to '1') indicates whether kinds support for anything other than
    host memory has been compiled-in.

* InfiniBand Verbs (details in ibv-conduit README)
  - NPAM Long is implemented natively for ibv-conduit in the default FAST
    segment mode, replacing use of the portable reference implementation.
  - Add support for ODP APIs from the Linux "RDMA Core" distribution, where
    previously only the Mellanox variant was supported (bug 4122).
  - Improved startup times on jobs larger than a few tens of nodes with
    multiple processes per-node (bug 4194).
  - A new family of `GASNET_IBV_PORTS_*` environment variables provides more
    control over which InfiniBand ports are used by which processes.
    Support is conditional on configure finding hwloc lib, which is optional.
  - NEW: configure option --with-ibv-ports=... can be used to set a default
    value for the GASNET_IBV_PORTS environment variable.
  - GASNET_DISABLE_MUNMAP=1 is now the ibv-conduit default on 64-bit platforms, 
    regardless of whether ODP is enabled or not.  Previously, enabling ODP
    would change the default to 0.
  - Improved handling of non-default parameter settings for the firehose
    dynamic memory registration library.  Corner cases with default settings
    are also handled better.  See GASNET_FIREHOSE_* in ibv-conduit README.
  - Significantly increase the default firehose resources on modern InfiniBand
    HCAs, leading to improved performance in various circumstances.
  - A new GASNET_PINNED_REGIONS_MAX environment variable allows control over
    the host-wide number of pinned regions (a bounded HCA resource) which may
    be used by ibv-conduit.

* Cray XC uGNI (details in aries-conduit README)
  - A new environment variable GASNET_GNI_MAX_MEDIUM enables selecting the
    size of AM Medium buffers at job launch, and the existing configure
    option `--with-aries-max-medium` now sets the default value.

* Libfabric [EXPERIMENTAL] (details in ofi-conduit README)
  - NEW ofi-conduit, previously available only in GASNet-1, has been partially
    ported to GASNet-EX where it now holds "experimental" status.
  - The work completed to date is believed to be functionally complete and
    correct when run with OFI's sockets provider and default settings.

* Portable UDP support (details in udp-conduit README)
  - udp-conduit now defaults to grouping co-located processes into
    contiguous rank ids. 
  - Interfaces have been added for explicit control over rank assignment 

* Platform support/portability
  - This release adds support for macOS on AARCH64 (aka ARM64, "Apple M1" and
    "Apple Silicon").

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.13: (details in docs/GASNet-EX.txt)
  - Add GASNET_NATIVE_NP_ALLOC_{REQ,REP}_{MEDIUM,LONG} defines
  - Add gex_System_{Get,Set}VerboseErrors()
  - Add gex_System_QueryMaxThreads()
  - Add gex_EP_QueryBoundSegmentNB()

* GASNet tools (spec v1.17): (details in README-tools)
  - Add GASNETT_UNUSED_ARGS*() family of macros
  - Added documentation for an interface providing programmatic control
    of stats/trace features in conduit-mode libraries.
  - Add GASNETT_STATS_DUMP() to allow dumping and optionally resetting stats
    counters at runtime. 
  - Add GASNETT_STATS_PRINTF(_FORCE)() to generate stats output.

* GASNet-1 legacy API
  - Calls to the legacy gasnet_attach() requesting a zero-length segment are
    now silently rounded up to one page.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release: (details at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov)
  - bug2036: Teach AMUDP to respect externally-imposed node ids
  - bug4122: ODP support broken with recent libibverbs releases
  - bug4126: ibv: debug-only exit timeout for large multi-rail jobs on Summit
  - bug4141: SRQ-specific test failures
  - bug4145: Vector/Indexed incorrect with non-primordial teams and loopback/PSHM
  - bug4159: AM max-payload queries do not evaluate arguments
  - bug4166: ibv: debug-only crash at exit from an MPI hybrid application
  - bug4173: ibv: race in firehose on powerpc
  - bug4175: thread-safety of gex_EP_RegisterHandlers()
  - bug4193: Firehose env var "misbehavior"
  - bug4194: ibv: unnecessarily slow startup
  - bug4195: ibv dynamic connection support broken
  - bug4203: Improve error message when passwordless ssh isn't set up
  - bug4208: unfortunate multi-rail interactions with PSHM and XRC

* Removal of unmaintained platform support
  - This release no longer supports the following platforms:
    + IA-64 (aka Itanium)

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2020-10-30: GASNet-EX 2020.11.0 "Memory Kinds" Prototype Release

* General and Misc.
  - Initial implementation of "Memory Kinds": support for GASNet-EX remote
    segments comprised of non-host memory.  This initial version supports only
    UVA-based CUDA device memory and the GASNet-EX RMA APIs.  The file
    docs/memory_kinds_implementation.md provides an up-to-date summary of the
    status of the memory kinds implementation.
  - New GASNet trace/stats tracemask categories:
    + O - Object creation, modification and destruction
    + X - AMPoll

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.11:
  - Deprecate GEX_FLAG_TM_SCRATCH_SIZE_MIN flag and remove the corresponding
    GASNET_COLL_MIN_SCRATCH_SIZE environment variable.
  - Add GEX_FLAG_TM_NO_SCRATCH support in gex_TM_{Split,Create}(), eliminating
    the requirement that a client always provide a collectives scratch space.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.12:
  - Add the following APIs, types and constants as documented in "GASNet-EX API
    Proposal: Memory Kinds, Revision 2020.11.0" (available on request):
    + gex_TM_Pair()
    + gex_Segment_Create()
    + gex_EP_Create()
    + gex_EP_BindSegment()
    + gex_EP_PublishBoundSegment()
    + gex_MK_t
    + gex_MK_Class_t
    + gex_MK_Create_args_t
    + gex_MK_Create()
    + gex_MK_Destroy()
    + GEX_MK_HOST
  - Add the following constants (zero values of the appropriate types)
    + GEX_CLIENT_INVALID
    + GEX_EP_INVALID
    + GEX_MK_INVALID
  - Add constants and data type for "CUDA UVA" memory kind

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2020-10-30: GASNet-EX 2020.10.0 Release

* General and Misc.
  - NEW: Improved compatibility with heap analysis tools like Valgrind
    using new configure option --enable-valgrind. GASNet's valgrind
    suppression file now lives in other/valgrind/gasnet.supp.
  - GASNet trace/stats now categorize AMPoll calls in tracemask category 'X'
  - BLCR integration, deprecated since 1.32.0 (July 2018), has been removed.
  - Improved memory and communication requirements in gex_TM_Split().
  - Improved memory scaling in management of collectives scratch spaces.
  - Initial implementation of gex_TM_Create() sufficient for implementation
    of (at least) efficient Split-like operations with computable membership,
    using less communication than gex_TM_Split.

* Cray XC uGNI (aries-conduit)
  - The parameter GASNET_NETWORKDEPTH is now honored for both the Eager and
    RVous AM algorithms, resulting in GASNET_NETWORKDEPTH_SPACE now being
    rounded down to a multiple of GASNET_NETWORKDEPTH and a power-of-two.
    Connected to this change, the default GASNET_NETWORKDEPTH_SPACE has
    increased from 12K to 16K, resulting in an increased default per-peer
    memory consumption for the Eager AM algorithm (not used at large scale).
  - The parameter GASNET_GNI_ROUTING_MODE is now available to set the
    Aries routing mode, accepting the same values as the parameter
    MPICH_GNI_ROUTING_MODE used by Cray MPICH (see the intro_mpi manpage).

* Portable UDP support (udp-conduit)
  - The amudprun spawning protocol has changed slightly, breaking backwards
    compatibility for amudprun binaries built against earlier versions.

* Unified Communication X framework (ucx-conduit) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Tune the Active Message buffer handling, resulting in improved performance
  - Fix an unreported defect in AM injection with asynchronous LC
  - For details, see ucx-conduit/README

* Platform support/portability
  - Installs on Cray XC systems now default to using linker options for
    low-level libraries that are more resilient to minor system upgrades. 
  - PMI-based spawner cleanups to reduce memory use and improve robustness

* SSH-based job-launch (ssh-spawner)
  - The default scheme for process layout has changed to ignore duplicates
    in a host list (such as GASNET_SSH_SERVERS).  Setting the environment
    variable GASNET_SSH_KEEPDUP=1 restores the previous behavior.
    See other/ssh-spawner/README for details.
  - Job exit no longer runs atexit handlers and static destructors on
    the "hidden" processes used to implement ssh-spawner.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.9:
  - Restrict scratch sizes (query outputs and split inputs) for gex_TM_Split()
    to be single-valued over members of each output team.
  - Add gex_TM_Create() and an associated family of flags
    GEX_FLAG_TM_{GLOBAL,LOCAL,SYMMETRIC}_SCRATCH.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.10:
  - Add gex_TM_Destroy() and associated GEX_FLAG_GLOBALLY_QUIESCED flag.

* GASNet tools (spec v1.16)
  - Add gasnett_fatalerror_nopos
  - In some cases, code including gasnet_tools.h (but not gasnetex.h or
    gasnet.h) must now be explicitly compiled with `-DGASNETT_THREAD_SINGLE`
    if it is to be linked with a PARSYNC conduit library, due to changes in
    how PARSYNC libraries are built.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3806: workaround xpmem startup failures while profiling (eg CrayPat)
  - bug4060: tools atomics using constructs deprecated in C++20
  - bug4061: aries-conduit startup time regression
  - bug4074: cross-configure scripts for KNL now default to --enable-large-pshm
  - bug4075: gex_TM_Split is not thread-safe
  - bug4076: valgrind 'invalid read' errors on GASNet/UPC++ startup
  - bug4079: udp-conduit localhost spawn fails to search PATH for wrappers
  - bug4081: Oversubscription warnings from jsrun
  - bug4086: AM performance bug for --enable-{debug,trace}
  - bug4089: gex_Coll_ReduceToOne failures under some conditions
  - bug4093: partial fix to scale "p2p" data with team size, not job size
  - bug4095: Incorrect algorithms for small scratch and/or large data
  - bug4103: Configure failures with -ffat-lto-objects in CFLAGS
  - bug4127: Overflow for >2G pre-pinned memory (ibv-conduit)
  - bug4135: Aries CE use with multi-domain support hangs
  - bug4138: gasneti_argv_from_sysctl() failure for UPC++ codes on macOS 11
  - bug4143: ibv-conduit GASNET_USE_FIREHOSE=0 support broken
  - bug3630/3828/3842: Various failures on testvis, testratomic, testslice

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2020-03-12: GASNet-EX 2020.3.0 Release

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Negotiated-Payload Active Messages are implemented natively for ibv-conduit,
    replacing use of a portable reference implementation.
  - New environment variable GASNET_AM_GATHER_MIN controls use of gather-on-send
    for AM Medium (and small Long) payloads.  See details in the conduit README.
  - The gather-on-send optimization for AM Medium (and small Long) payloads is
    now applied to out-of-segment sources when using ODP.
  - A new `configure --with-ibv-max-medium` can set the size of AM Medium buffers.
    See details, including supported values, in the conduit README.
  - The default AM Max Medium is now 64KB minus space for headers (up from 4KB).
  - Code paths for AM Long and RDMA Put have been separated, leading to simpler
    (faster and more maintainable) logic for each.
  - Code paths for AM and RMA have been revised to eliminate certain global
    state in favor of per-endpoint state.  This is work toward multi-endpoint and
    multi-segment support to appear in a later release.
  - AM-over-RDMA (not compiled by default since 2019.6.0) has been removed.
  - The environment variable GASNET_PIN_MAXSZ has been removed.  This variable
    was introduced to help work-around a misbehavior not seen in modern HCAs,
    and its support added significant complexity to the critical code paths
    for RMA.

* Cray XC uGNI (aries-conduit)
  - AM Long request injection using GEX_EVENT_NOW may now service incoming AMs
    while stalling for local completion of the outgoing payload.

* Unified Communication X framework (ucx-conduit) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - This NEW conduit is now available for experimental use on Mellanox
    InfiniBand devices including ConnectX-5 or newer.
    The ucx-conduit code was contributed by Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
  - For details, see ucx-conduit/README

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - This conduit, deprecated since 2019.9.0, has been removed.

* Portable UDP support (udp-conduit)
  - Provide more robust default detection of shared-memory peers
    (see GASNET_USE_GETHOSTID in udp-conduit/README for details).
  - Improved startup error checking and reporting for DNS problems

* GASNet tools (spec v1.15)
  - Add runtime version queries gasnett_release_version*()

* Platform support/portability
  - PMI-based spawning now supports PMIx 
  - Improve portable_inttypes to be more trusting of C99/C++11 compilers
  - Improved warning behavior with recent versions of PGI
  - Support for IBM BlueGene/Q has been removed.
  - Support for native atomics on IBM XL compilers for big-endian PPC has been
    removed.  These platforms now default to compiler-provided atomics.
    Little-endian PPC platforms remain unchanged.

* General and Misc.
  - New make targets (run-)tests-installed-{seq,par,parsync} have been
    added for use in post-install validation of the library.
  - Now document and enforce use of GNU make version 3.79 or newer.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug4022: rare resource leak in aries-conduit AM Long protocol
  - bug4024: erroneous behavior from `testam -async-req -np-cb`
  - bug4025: erroneous assertion failure from loopback NPAM
  - bug4035: link failures with GCC 10 or -fno-common
  - bug4042: errors when configured using --with-aries-max-medium=65472

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2019-09-14: GASNet-EX 2019.9.0 Release

* Cray XE/XK uGNI gemini-conduit
  - This conduit, deprecated since 2019.6.0, has been removed.
  - The aries-conduit remains supported and under active development.

* Cray XC uGNI aries-conduit
  - The performance of AMLong with payload of 4KB or larger has been
    significantly improved.  The overhead of injection with synchronous
    local completion is reduced.  The cases of asynchronous local
    completion (both explicit and implicit event) are properly implemented
    where previously they were strengthened to synchronous.
  - New environment variables GASNET_GNI_PACKEDLONG_CUTOVER,
    GASNET_LONG_DEPTH and GASNET_GNI_AMPOLL_BURST provide finer-grained
    control over the AM protocol. See details in the conduit README.

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - New envvars GASNET_IBV_LIST_PORTS{,_NODES} to request a list of
    available InfiniBand HCAs, ports, and their respective status.
  - Internal streamlining of AM paths to reduce code bloat (bug1879)

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future release
    (see pami-conduit/README).

* GASNet tools (spec v1.14)
  - Add GASNETT_FALLTHROUGH

* MPI-based job-launch (mpi-spawner)
  - Improved logic for IBM's jsrun

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3338: ibv_reg_mr failure (EFAULT/Bad address) on read-only data
  - bug3957: GASNET_DISABLE_MUNMAP_DEFAULT=0 when using ODP
  - bug3994: backtrace hangs for forthcoming macOS 10.15
  - bug3995: configure fails sizeof(ptrdiff_t) on Catalina/gcc
  - bug4002: ibv-conduit: XRC and ODP are mutually exclusive

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2019-06-14: GASNet-EX 2019.6.0 Release

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - NEW: Improved support for correct operation on multi-rail InfiniBand systems
  - New envvar GASNET_USE_FENCED_PUTS controls the strictness of ordering
    guarantees for put RMA completion on multi-rail hardware, addressing bug 3447.
  - Compilation of AM-over-RDMA support is now disabled by default
  - Improve error messages for some cases.

* Cray XC uGNI aries-conduit
  - The Aries Collective Engine, if available, is now used to accelerate
    gex_Coll_BarrierNB().

* Cray XE/XK uGNI gemini-conduit
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future release.
  - The aries-conduit remains supported and under active development.

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.8:
  - Add GASNET_HIDDEN_AM_CONCURRENCY_LEVEL
  - The EX spec file has been renamed to docs/GASNet-EX.txt

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3880: XLC 16.1.x ICE compiling ibv-conduit for Power9
  - bug3943: infrequent startup hang with PSHM and over 62 PPN
  - bug3946: Improve gasnetrun support for CPU binding esp with Open MPI

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2019-05-27: GASNet-EX 2019.3.2 Release (bug fix release)

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3943: infrequent startup hang with PSHM and over 62 PPN

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2019-03-15: GASNet-EX 2019.3.0 Release

* Legacy backward-compatibility layer:
  - gasnet.h now implements gasnet_memset{,_nb,_nbi}
  - gasnet.h now conditionally implements the unofficial var-arg gasnet_AM* fns

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Add support for non-default IB Partition Keys - see docs for GASNET_IBV_PKEY
  - Fix compilation problem with alloca.h on FreeBSD 12.0
  - Legacy support for Mellanox FCA has been removed

* General and Misc.
  - Removed outdated subdir license.txt files, where top-level license applies
  - Reduce sub-line interleaving of diagnostic output, especially on smp-conduit

* GASNet tools (spec v1.13)
  - New define GASNETT_SET_AFFINITY_SUPPORT
  - gasnett_set_affinity() now returns zero on success or non-zero otherwise.

* Configure and Build
  - Updated handling for cache line size, see --with-cache-line-bytes

* MPI-based job-launch (mpi-spawner)
  - update logic for IBM's jsrun

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3693: Reduce segment registration failures due to insufficient /dev/shm
  - bug3829: Co-located segment probe failures
  - bug3805: Fix issues with 64-bit SPARC assembly
  - bug3834: GASNet ctype wrappers break for C++ clients
  - bug3853: ibv-conduit AM hang under heavy load
  - bug3854: Fix assertion failure in gex_TM_Split
  - bug3856: Improved crash behavior on Cygwin with multi-threading
  - bug3858: Fix assertion failure in pmi-spawner
  - bug3866: Fix potential x86 timer calibration issue
  - bug3873: gasnetrun w/mpi-spawner losing exit code in some configs

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2018-12-17: GASNet-EX 2018.12.0 Beta release

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Mellanox On-Demand Pinning (ODP) feature now replaces explicit out-of-segment 
    memory registration on systems with appropriate hardware/driver support.
    This resolves bug 495 for clients using SEGMENT_FAST with ODP support.  
    Note that ODP support may interact badly with improper job shutdown 
    (see "GASNet exit" section of README for more information).
  - Add startup checks for required HCA homogeneity properties

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.7:
  - Barriers initiated using gex_Coll_BarrierNB() are now permitted to
    overlap with collectives on the same team (including other barriers).

* Collective Operations
  - Improve serial overheads for out-of-segment collectives
  - Improve congestion tolerance for some cases
  - Improve scalability of large or out-of-segment broadcasts

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Now tolerate unequal GASNET_DOMAIN_COUNT in multi-domain mode

* General and Misc.
  - New GASNET_CATCH_EXIT envvar improves interop with tools like CrayPat
  - Most fatal errors now include the process rank
  - Other minor improvements to fatal error paths

* GASNet tools
  - New define GASNETT_THREAD_SINGLE selects single-threaded build

* Configure and Build
  - cross-configure scripts can now optionally be run without copying them to
    the source directory, by setting $SRCDIR to indicate the source directory.

* SSH-based job-launch (ssh-spawner)
  - Improve error checking and reporting

* Platform support/portability
  - Cray X{C,E,K}: Correct default cache line padding size

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3815: XPMEM incompatibility with gprof
  - bug3812: Intermittent mmap failures at startup: cannot allocate memory
  - bug3803: gasnetrun_* -N command-line support for Open MPI 3.X
  - bug3797: invalid asm on Solaris/SPARC 
  - bug3796: Fix LDFLAGS/LIBS processing for library names
  - bug3790: ibv-conduit AM flow-control hangs with multiple HCAs

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2018-09-26: GASNet-EX 2018.9.0 Release

* GASNet-EX copyright notice and license agreement updated (see license.txt)

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.6:
  - Add gex_Coll_ReduceToAllNB()
  - Add GEX_FLAG_RANK_IS_JOBRANK flag to accelerate gex_AD_Op*() on sub-teams

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - A new Active Message protocol with more scalable memory utilization is now
    available, and automatically enabled for large-scale jobs. See details in
    the conduit README section for GASNET_GNI_AM_RVOUS_CUTOVER
  - Improved reporting for AM buffer utilization, especially on spawn failure
  - Adjust the default GASNET_GNI_{PUT,GET}_FMA_RDMA_CUTOVER thresholds that
    control the GNI-level protocol selection on aries for GASNet RMA

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Multi-rail support is disabled by default, due to bug 3447

* General and Misc.
  - Performance tests now default to in-segment memory (see --help)
  - Average values in STATS now output as floating-point, instead of rounding
  - Silence harmless library compile warnings from gcc 8.*

* Configure and Build
  - Improve configure-time handling of non-EX conduits

* Platform support/portability
  - Improvements to internal logic for handling thread data on platforms
    lacking native register-level support for thread data
  - Internal AM handler dispatch code is now strictly C spec compliant

* Collective Operations
  - Add initial reference implementation of ReduceToAll
  - ReduceToOne now supports user-defined types up to at least 32KB in size,
    and has no limit on vector length for reductions on built-in types.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - bug3742: Atomic CAS failures on PPCle+{pgi,clang}
  - bug3783: broken DEBUG check in gex_AD_Create for sub-teams
  - bug3788: aries-conduit offloaded atomics defect with sub-teams

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2018-06-28: GASNet-EX 2018.6.0 Beta release

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.5:
  - Specified Teams and Collectives APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Add user-defined data types and operators for Reductions
  - Add GEX_OP_TO_(NON)FETCHING()
  - Specified VIS Peer Completion API [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Added a flag to enable VIS Local Completion 
  - Add gex_System_QueryHostInfo() and gex_System_QueryMyPosition()
  - Rename gex_NbrhdInfo_t to gex_RankInfo_t
  - New GEX_FLAG_USES_GASNET1 flag enables gex_Client_Init() for legacy GASNet-1 calls
  - Minor clarifications throughout
  - Consult docs/GASNet-EX.txt for the detailed status of the evolving specification
     
* Major new features implemented in this release:
  - Teams:
    + Full multi-team support across the entire specification, including
      construction of subset teams and rank reordering via gex_TM_Split()
    + Can translate in either direction between team-relative and job ranks
    + All APIs taking (tm,rank) pairs interpret 'rank' relative to 'tm'
  - Collectives:
    + Non-blocking Barrier, Broadcast, and ReduceToOne
   Additional collective operations will be added in future releases
  - Non-contiguous RMA: Vector, Indexed, Strided (VIS)
    + VIS Puts now support notifying (potentially remote) peers of completion.
      For details, see docs/GASNet-EX.txt for gex_VIS_SetPeerCompletionHandler
    + VIS Puts now offer local completion support.
      For details, see docs/GASNet-EX.txt for GEX_FLAG_ENABLE_LEAF_LC
  - gasnet_fwd.h now provides a dependency-free useful subset of the API
    declarations, suitable for inclusion into application-level code.

* Feature implementation status in this release:
  - VIS Peer Completion is well-implemented for shared memory. The distributed-memory 
    implementation is functionally complete and will be tuned in an upcoming release.
  - Collective operations use "reliable performance" algorithms based on Binomial Trees. 
    They have not yet been tuned for shared memory or offload.
  - ReduceToOne supports all operations on built-in types, including user-defined 
    commutative operations, but currently limits the local size of the operands.
  - Teams currently use a dense representation, a scalable implementation is forthcoming.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - Bug3749: assertion failure in PSHM's NP-AM
  - See fixes listed in the GASNet-1 1.32.0 ChangeLog below


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2018-03-28: GASNet-EX 2018.3.0 Release

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.4:
  - Renamed gex_System_QueryNeighborhoodInfo() and associated
    types and constants to gex_System_QueryNbrhdInfo() and similar.
  - Adjusted payload limit queries to accommodate Negotiated-Payload AM.
  - Remote Atomics: added flags for asserting locality properties
  - Remote Atomics: added flags for requesting memory fencing behavior
  - Strided: now supports transpose/reflection operations
  - Added gex_ep (destination endpoint) to gex_Token_Info_t
  - AM Request/Reply/Commit functions may now optionally omit the arg count
    suffix on the function name when using compilers with __VA_ARG__ support
    (added in C99/C++11, may also be available in older compilers).
  - Minor clarifications throughout.

* Major new features implemented in this release:
  - Remote Atomics and Negotiated-Payload Active Messages have been
    further specialized to improve performance on aries-conduit.
  - Remote Atomics performance improvements for shared-memory bypass.
  - Strided has been completely re-implemented and now supports N-d
    transpose/reflection operations. Notable performance improvements throughout.
  - VIS performance improvements, most notably for shared-memory bypass and
    aries-conduit (where some in-memory copies have been removed)
  - The 64k per-thread limit on in-flight explicit handle ops has been removed.
    The number of in-flight ops is now limited only by available heap memory.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - Bug3704: allow gasnet.h and gasnetex.h to be included in either order
  - Improved assertion checks and error messages in various places.

* Feature implementation status in this release:
  - Negotiated-Payload Active Messages are well-implemented for shared memory
    (PSHM and smp-conduit), gemini- and aries-conduits.  All other conduit are
    currently using a portable reference implementation which may result in
    performance less than will eventually be delivered.
  - Remote Atomics are well-implemented for shared memory (PSHM on most systems,
    and smp-conduit) and aries-conduit.  Other conduits with APIs for offloaded
    atomics do not yet utilize them.

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2017-12-20: GASNet-EX 2017.12.0 Beta release

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.3:
  - Specified Remote Atomics API, and corresponding types [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Specified Vector, Indexed, Strided API [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Specified gasnet_QueryGexObjects()
  - Specified gex_System_QueryNeighborhoodInfo() [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Significant alteration to Segment Disposition flags [UNIMPLEMENTED]
  - Minor clarifications throughout
  - Consult docs/GASNet-EX.txt for the detailed status of the evolving specification

* Major new features implemented in this release:
  - Remote Atomic operations: untuned, network-independent implementation 
    + See docs/GASNet-EX.txt for details
  - Vector, Indexed, Strided extensions: untuned, network-independent implementation 
    + See docs/GASNet-EX.txt for details 
  - Cray Aries implementation specializations for the following features:
    + New AM Interfaces, Immediate Operations, Local Completion and Remote Atomics.

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - See fixes listed in the GASNet-1 1.32.0 ChangeLog below

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2017-09-28: GASNet-EX 2017.9.0 Release

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.2:
  - Specified gex_System_QueryJob{Rank,Size}() [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Specified gex_Segment_QueryBound() [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - Significant changes to Negotiated-Payload AM semantics
  - Consult docs/GASNet-EX.txt for the detailed status of the evolving specification

* Major new features implemented in this release:
  - gex_Event_t is no longer thread-specific: one can safely pass a gex_Event_t
    generated in one thread to a Test or Wait call in another thread.
  - New gex_Segment_QueryBound() [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - New gex_System_QueryJob{Rank,Size}() [EXPERIMENTAL]
  - New IS_REQ and IS_LONG queries in gex_Token_Info()
  - Interface changes for negotiated-payload AM calls

* Notable bugs fixed in this release:
  - ibv: assertion failures at shutdown
  - pshm: assertion failure in gasneti_AMPSHM_service_incoming_msg()
  - pshm: SEGV at initialization when using System V shared memory
  - pshm: work-around an assertion failure due to a PGI compiler bug
  - aries/gemini: SEGV at startup with multi-domain enabled

* Other Known Limitations:
  - This release supports Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux, but is
    affected by an OS bug which was fixed starting in build 16278. 
    Details: https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3588

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2017-06-30: GASNet-EX 2017.6.0 Beta release

* Major new features implemented this release: (mostly reference implementation)
  - Explicit Local Completion capability for Active Message and RMA Put APIs
  - Immediate Operations capability for Active Message and RMA APIs
  - New Active Message interfaces - including:
    + Incremental AM handler registration
    + Expanded AM handler registration properties
    + Finer-grained AM payload limit queries
    + Negotiated-payload AM injection interfaces
    + New AM token query interface
  - Job initialization interface rewritten to use EX objects

* GASNet-EX Spec v0.1:
  - Consult docs/GASNet-EX.txt for the detailed status of the evolving specification
  - gasnetex.h is the new public header
  - Major new EX object types have been defined, including:
    + Client - an instance of the client interface to the GASNet library
    + Segment - a client-declared memory segment for use in communication
    + Endpoint - local representative of an isolated communication context
    + Team Member - a collective communication context, used for endpoint naming
    All these objects are restricted to a single instance per process in this version.
  - Interfaces added for Local Completion, Immediates and new AM interfaces (see above)
  - GASNet-1 handles generalized to EX events
  - Most gasnet_ identifiers have new versions in the gex_ namespace
  - Most interfaces now accept flags for extensible fine-tuning of behavior

* Legacy backward-compatibility layer:
  - gasnet.h now contains an implementation of GASNet-1 spec v1.8 in terms
    of the new EX interfaces.
  - Both layers interoperate freely so that legacy client code can be incrementally
    migrated to use of the new EX interfaces and features.

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The remainder of this file contains the unmodified ChangeLog from the GASNet-1
code base, from which the EX code was branched.
Note some entries below do not apply to the EX branch.
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GASNet-1 ChangeLog 
------------------
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07-20-2018: Release 1.32.0

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Improved performance of non-bulk puts beyond the bounce-buffer size
  - Fix bug 3632: aries-conduit SEGV at startup with multi-domain
  - Fix bug 3647: aries-conduit should honor non-default process layouts
  - Fix bug 3695: AMReply injection might corrupt the payload of the
    running AM Medium Request handler.
  - Tweak the interface and documentation of GASNET_GNI_MEM_CONSISTENCY envvar.

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Fix bug 3682: incorrect behavior for non-bulk puts larger than a page
  - Compatibility fixes for libfabric version 1.6

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - GASNET_DISABLE_MUNMAP now defaults to enabled for ibv-conduit.
  - Now use HCA's maximum supported MTU by default, resulting in nearly a 2x
    increase in peak Get bandwidth on modern HCAs.
  - Fix bug 3339: allow ibv-conduit to operate on Omni-Path hardware.
    ofi-conduit and psm-conduit remain the recommended conduits for Omni-Path.

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED.
  - Use of ibv-conduit is recommended for users with InfiniBand hardware.
  - Adjust envvar GASNET_PHYSMEM_{MAX,PROBE} handling to match other conduits

* Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Reduce polling cost on single-supernode runs. smp-conduit remains the
    recommended conduit for use on single-supernode shared-memory systems.

* Portable MPI (mpi-conduit)
  - Reduce polling cost on single-supernode runs. smp-conduit remains the
    recommended conduit for use on single-supernode shared-memory systems.

* GASNet tools (spec v1.12)
  - Numerous improvements to backtrace support, including fixing the
    following bugs:
    + Bug 3624: Improve backtrace fail-over behavior
    + Bug 3625: call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER,...) before backtrace on Linux
    + Bug 3626: prioritize lldb on Mac OS X
    + Bug 3627: unblock the unfreeze signal prior to backtrace
    + Bug 3637: Fix EXECINFO backtrace for *BSD
    + Enable GDB backtrace on Cray systems, when available
  - Bug 3664: GASNETT_PREDICT_{TRUE,FALSE} result value semantics change slightly
  - Add gasnett_unreachable()
  - GASNETT_PLEASE_INLINE has been removed. Recommended replacement is `inline`
  - Improve behavior when installed public headers are passed to a compiler 
    that was not probed at configure time.

* General and Misc.
  - GASNET_MAX_SEGSIZE syntax has been expanded and now defaults to 85% of physical 
    memory, split evenly between co-located processes on a host. 
    Configure option to control this default renamed to --with-max-segsize=
  - GASNET_VIS_{AMPIPE,REMOTECONTIG} is now enabled by default on most conduits
  - GASNET_VIS_MAXCHUNK default value adjusted on many conduits to improve perf
  - New knobs GASNET_VIS_{PUT,GET}_MAXCHUNK for tuning put/get VIS chunk size
  - Fix GASNET_NULL_ARGV_OK for mpi-conduit and mpi-spawner
  - Additional debug checks now detect prohibited overlap in loopback RMA and AMLong.
  - The extended-ref source directory has been re-arranged
  - Clients using gasnet_coll_* must now explicitly #include <gasnet_coll.h>
  - Events leading up to a crash are now more reliably reported in the trace file.

* Platform support/portability
  - Support for Microsoft Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has graduated
    out of BETA status
  - Update MALLOC_OPTIONS setting for OpenBSD 6.x
  - Add gasnetrun support for IBM Job Step Manager (jsrun)
  - Add PLATFORM_COMPILER_C(XX)_LANGLVL to portable_platform (v5)
  - Fix bug 3741: misidentification of IBM XL Compilers 13.1.6 and newer (v6)
  - Fix bug 3743: verify correct KNL processor tuning on CNL
  - Fix bug 3679: AMUDP incompatibility with PGI C++ 17+
  - Public headers are less susceptible to malfunctions when compiled with
    un-prefixed tokens redefined by the preprocessor. C/C++ keywords remain
    reserved, as do tokens prepended by one or more underscores or one of the
    reserved gasnet prefixes (see 'GASNet coding standards' in README-devel)

* Configure and Build
  - Option --enable-strict-prototypes has been removed, see bug 3608.
  - Fix bug 3613: warning on #pragma GCC diagnostic for gcc < 4.6
  - Fix bug 3629: avoid a parallel make bug
  - Add a git hash "watermark" to libraries
  - Warning enable flags are removed from GASNET_C(XX)FLAGS and friends. 
    The flags remain available in GASNET_DEVWARN_C(XX)FLAGS for opt-in.
  - configure --disable-smp-safe is now deprecated. The default is enable-smp-safe.

* Removal of unmaintained platform support
  - This release no longer supports the following platforms:
    + Cray/Tera MTA
    + SGI Altix
  - This release no longer supports the shmem-conduit, which was specific
    to the obsolete Cray X1 and SGI Altix NUMAlink networks.
  - This release removes support for the following compilers:
    + Kuck and Associates (KAI) C++ Compiler
    + PGI compilers older than the 7.2-5 release
    + Pathscale compilers older than 3.0
  - This release removes support for the following compilers which had
    ceased to work with GASNet 1.28.0 due to insufficient support for C99:
    + GCC 2.x
    + LCC (a.k.a. "Local C Compiler" or "Little C Compiler")
  - BLCR integration support is officially deprecated

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08-31-2017 : Release 1.30.0

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Work-around bug 3480.  For more details see gemini-conduit/README (source),
    or share/doc/gasnet/README-{aries,gemini} (installed).
  - Improve the handling of GASNET_PHYSMEM_* env vars to be more user-friendly
  - Improve robustness of exit code
  - The following configure options have been renamed, replacing "gni" by
    "aries" or "gemini" as appropriate:
          --with-gni-max-medium=
          --{en,dis}able-gni-multi-domain
          --{en,dis}able-gni-udreg
  - NOTE to users of PrgEnv-cray: there is a known bug in CCE-8.6 that leads to
    errors when linking libgasnet.  See bug 3589 at https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov
    for the most complete and up-to-date details.

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Improve the handling of GASNET_PHYSMEM_* env vars
    + Make variable names and interpretations more user-friendly
    + Allow configure-time setting of default values
    + Warn user if a slow probe is required for GASNET_PHYSMEM_MAX
    + Improve the corresponding documentation

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Fix bug 3426: Unbounded recursion within gasnetc_ofi_poll()
  - Significant improvements to AM buffer management and wire header overheads
  - Finer-grained control over AM buffering, see ofi-conduit/README
  - Initialization cleanups for stricter compliance with the OFI specification
  - Support for the Intel(R) True Scale Fabric provider, psm, has been removed.
    The Intel(R) Omni-Path Fabric is still supported through the psm2 provider.
  - We now recommend ofi-conduit for the Intel Omni-Path fabric.
  - The conduit has been validated on libfabric version 1.5.0. 
    See ofi-conduit README for known issues regarding specific providers.

* Intel Omni-Path PSM2 (psm-conduit)
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED.
  - Use of ofi-conduit with libfabric's psm2 provider is recommended for users
    of the Intel Omni-Path fabric.

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - Improve latency for AM Medium/Long under 128 bytes, via PAMI_Send_immediate()
  - gasnet.h no longer includes PAMI headers into client code

* GASNet tools (spec v1.10)
  - Fix bug 3448: x86*/Linux timers once again default to use of the TSC due
    to addition of new logic for correct calibration on newer Intel CPUs.
  - Add gasnett_nsleep()

* Configure and Build
  - ${C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS are now respected by configure in the traditional manner.
    Note these do NOT affect MPI_CC or HOST_{CC,CXX}, which have their
    own dedicated FLAGS variables that must be used for those purposes.
  - Environment variable inputs to configure (and their corresponding --with*
    option variants) are now case-insensitive and dash/underscore-insensitive.
  - --with-pmi has been split into --(en|dis)able-pmi and --with-pmi-home=/path
  - All --with-*-libdir options are renamed --with-*-ldflags
  - Most --with-*-includes options are renamed --with-*-cflags
  - --with-{blcr,fca}=/path are renamed to --with-{blcr,fca}-home=/path
  - BLCR support now disabled by default, use --enable-blcr to activate
  - {strict,missing}-prototype warnings are now automatically suppressed
    in GASNet public headers for clang and gcc 4.6+.
  - --enable-strict-prototypes is now deprecated, see bug 3608.
  - --disable-aligned-segments is now the default behavior, and GASNet will
    no longer default to adding -nopie linker flags on Darwin/OpenBSD.
  - Retire several obsolete or subsumed configure options
  - Numerous cosmetic improvements to configure --{help,version} output
  - GASNET_{LIBS,LDFLAGS} exported from .mak fragments more robustly contain
    the documented subset of linker arguments.
  - Improve system tuple handling for cross-configure
  - Fix a few non-portable constructs in shell commands

* General and Misc.
  - GASNet spec v1.8.1 is a new edition of the 1.8 spec document:
    + bug 3575: clarify that loopback contiguous RMA operations with
      overlapping source and destination regions give indeterminate results.
    + Clarify the AMLong source/dest overlap prohibition
    + Correct the specified return type of gasnet_Error{Name,Desc}
    + Significant cosmetic formatting improvements
    + Updated contact information and URLs
    + Correct minor spelling errors and phrasing issues
  - Remove 'register' keyword from public headers for strict C++11/14 compliance 
  - Fix some cosmetic overflows in trace/debug output of large numbers on ILP32
  - Fix bug 3600: SEGV on long command line w/ STATS/TRACE/DEBUG 

* Platform support/portability
  - Add beta support for Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  - Add lldb backtrace support for Mac OS X

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03-17-2017 : Release 1.28.2

* Intra-node Shared Memory (PSHM)
  - PSHM is now enabled by default on nearly all platforms.
    The only exceptions are old Cygwin (1.x) and cross-compiled platforms,
    although most cross-compile scripts enable PSHM explicitly as appropriate.
  - Improved PSHM support on Mac OS X:
    + Now support (and use by default) PSHM-over-POSIX which works well
      without requiring any system configuration changes.
  - Improved PSHM support on Cygwin 2.0+:
    + Now support (and use by default) PSHM-over-POSIX which works without
      requiring the CYGSERVER (and is more reliable than the alternatives).

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Work-around bug 3428: AMRDMA malfunctions on Pathscale optimizer
  - Fix bug 3435: long exit times and exit warnings for certain patterns
  - Fix bug 3441: AMRDMA disable controls

* Intel Omni-Path PSM2 (psm-conduit)
  - Fix bug 3340: Performance loss for puts larger than 16KB
    The PSM2 MQ path is re-enabled for puts and is now semantically correct

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Add experimental support for the GNI provider on Cray hardware
  - Raise the default MaxMedium from 4k to 8k, and provide a new configure 
    --with-ofi-max-medium=SZ flag to set the value
  - Fix non-blocking non-bulk puts to correctly enforce local completion
  - Improved concurrency of conduit code in threaded configurations
  - General performance improvements

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Add support for FMA and MDD sharing. See conduit README for details.
  - Fix bug 3358: Aries performance anomaly for 128-byte Gets

* Platform support/portability
  - Fix several compatibility issues with recent PGI compiler versions

* General performance improvements:
  - Streamline vector put/get handling of empty iovecs with AM pipelining
  - Fix performance degradation from --enable-throttle-poll on conduits
    that do not implement that feature (ibv, mxm, ofi, psm, pami, portals4)

* Configure and Build
  - The cross-configure-cray* scripts have been renamed for clarity
  - configure works harder to find {ofi,psm,mxm} installations
  - configure works harder to resolve opt/debug conflicts in CC/CXX
  - configure --{en,dis}able-dev-warnings now allows toggling the addition
    of compiler warnings, independent of --enable-debug setting. Default unchanged.
  - configure works harder to select flags to suppress spurious warnings
  - Now provide pkg-config .pc files corresponding to each GASNet library
  - GASNet headers now use scoped warning suppression on clang and gcc 6.0+,
    allowing client code to compile with -Wunused without spurious warnings.
  - Fix bug 3351: move -D_GNU_SOURCE: MISC_CPPFLAGS to GASNET_DEFINES 
  - Fix bug 3389: Avoid redundant config.status invocations

* GASNet tools 
  - portable_platform.h has been renamed gasnet_portable_platform.h
  - Fix bug 3322: portable_platform.h more robust to namespace interference
  - Workaround bug 3448: x86*/Linux timers now default to posix-realtime,
    to avoid a problem with native timers on newer Intel CPUs.

* General and Misc.
  - Top-level documentation has been re-arranged:
    + PSHM usage information now lives in top-level GASNet README
    + GASNet developer documentation is no longer distributed/installed,
      but remains available online in the public git repository
  - MPI-based spawning now supports direct mpirun invocation.
    See other/mpi-spawner/README for details.
  - PMI-based spawning is now supported by gasnetrun_{ibv,ofi,mxm,psm}
    See other/pmi-spawner/README for details.
  - New GASNet email lists are now available! See the web page for details

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10-21-2016 : Release 1.28.0

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Updated instructions for configuring with SLURM's srun
  - Modified linker flags for compatibility with dynamic libraries

* Intel Omni-Path PSM2 (psm-conduit)
  - Improved handling of multi-threaded and abnormal exits
  - Support for PSHM supernode size less than procs/node
  - Fix bug 3340 - Assertion failure at gasnete_op_markdone()
  - Work-around bugs 3333 and 3342
    Note that the work-around for bug 3342 has resulted in a loss
    of performance for Puts larger than 16KB, relative to previous
    releases.  We are actively working to restore the prior level
    of performance in a future patch release.  Please see
    psm-conduit/README for more detailed information.

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Enable zero copy in bulk put operations
  - Fix bug 3344 - mxm-seq link failures

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Fixed error in default barrier exposed by libverbs on Omni-Path HCAs

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Improved handling of abnormal exits
  - Corrected default libfabric installation location to be /usr

* Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Restructure network buffer management to provide scalable
    buffer memory utilization to thousands of nodes and beyond.
  - Adjust the set of available environment tuning knobs for better control of
    transfer performance at scale. See udp-conduit/README
  - Adjust default transfer parameters for better performance on 1GbE
  - Numerous misc changes to improve performance
  - Improve stdout/stderr routing to be more robust and use fewer descriptors
  - Restructure AMUDP headers to reduce namespace clutter
  - Fix a compatibility issue with Cray CNL
  - Fix a use-after-free bug in argument processing

* SGI Altix / Cray X1 Shmem (shmem-conduit)
  - This conduit is now DEPRECATED. It relies on system-specific extensions
    to SHMEM implemented in DSM hardware that has now been retired.

* Platform support/portability
  - Cygwin-2.x
    + Improved performance of mutexes
    + Improved backtrace support
    + Fix for compilation issues with Clang
  - Cray Compilers
    + Suppress benign (or incorrect) warnings from recent CCE compilers
  - PGI Compilers
    + Fix bug 3324 by working around a bug in pgcc-16.4 and newer.
  - Pathscale/Ekopath Compilers
    + Fix bug 3343 by working around a bug in version 5.x compilers
  - GNU Autotools
    + Fix bug 3285 - issues with recent automake versions
  - Intel Second Generation Xeon Phi (aka Knights Landing)
    + Now provide an initial cross-configure-intel-knl script
  - Configure script
    + Options --disable-psm, --disable-gemini and --disable-aries now FULLY
      disable the corresponding configure probes

* GASNet tools (spec v1.9)
  - Add a tools wrapper for POSIX reader-writer locks (gasnett_rwlock_t)

* General and Misc.
  - GASNet now requires that the backend C compilers provided to configure
    ($CC and $MPI_CC, if provided) must support a few widely-implemented C99
    features.  See bug 3307 for details.
  - GASNet release version compatibility between client objects and library
    is now enforced at link time, to ensure correct operation.
  - Apply optional MANUAL_* make flags more consistently (see README)
  - Cleanup extern "C" in public headers for more robust C++ client support
  - Add GASNET_LD_REQUIRES_{CXX,MPI} exports from .mak fragments
  - Numerous minor fixes to silence harmless warnings on various systems

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08-01-2016 :  Release 1.26.4

* This bug fix release addresses issues in several conduits that were
  discovered since the 1.26.3 release.

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Clients written in C++ would fail to link with undefined references
    to gasnetc_amrdma_balance.
  - A build of ibv-conduit configured using --disable-ibv-rcv-thread
    would produce numerous warnings due to a type mismatch.  Some C
    compilers may have treated the type mismatch as an error.

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Add locking to enable thread-safety in PAR builds
  - Add diagnostics to OFI provider selection and warn about
    providers that are expected to deliver suboptimal performance.
  - Remove mr to ep binding for compliance with current OFI spec
  - Fix a compilation error on some platforms

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Fix a compilation error on some platforms

* Intel Omni-Path PSM2 (psm-conduit)
  - Fix a compilation error on some platforms

* Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Fix a data corruption issue on 64-bit OSX on PowerPC

* Portable MPI (mpi-conduit)
  - Add a GASNET_MPI_THREAD variable to control MPI-2 threading mode
    requested by AMMPI startup, for use in mixed-mode GASNet/MPI apps.

* General and Misc.
  - Tweak the default ordering of conduits in CONDUITS configure output,
    to reflect intended defaulting priority.
  - Downgrade ofi and portals4 conduits to "portable" conduits in startup
    code that checks and warns about the availability of native conduits.
  - Many improvements to conduit documentation

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05-23-2016 :  Release 1.26.3

* This release fixes three significant bugs affecting udp-conduit:
  - Out-of-order delivery of UDP messages (which can occur on networks
    with multiple paths) was going undetected and could lead to silent
    loss and/or erroneous redelivery of AMs in the presence of
    retransmissions (caused by packet loss or high network load).
  - On Cygwin 2.5 (2016-04-11 and later), ioctl(FIONREAD) always returns
    failure, rendering udp-conduit entirely unusable on that platform.
  - On FreeBSD, ioctl(FIONREAD) may truncate long datagrams to around
    600 bytes, rendering udp-conduit unusable on that platform.

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05-12-2016 :  Release 1.26.2

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Allow configure and build without use of the Cray wrapper compilers
  - Use Cray's UDREG library to ammortize cost of dynamic registration
  - Maximum supported process count doubled to 2^24 (16 million)
  - Maximum AM Medium payload increased from 960 to 4032 bytes without
    a corresponding increase in the buffer allocation footprint
  - Maximum AM Long payload raised to 8MB on Aries (still 1MB on Gemini)
  - Multiple changes to reduce startup overheads
  - Fixes for C99 code compilance

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Fix a (rare) leak in the firehose dynamic memory registration library
    which could have lead to resource exhaustion in applications with
    large memory usage.
  - Fix link failures with "--enable-ibv-conn-thread --disable-ibv-rcv-thread"
  - Move some internal data to shared memory (keeping one copy per node)

* Libfabric (ofi-conduit)
  - Fixes to enable use of the "psm" provider
  - Fixes for C99 code compilance

* Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Support '%P' expansion (for arg[0]) in CSPAWN_CMD

* Intra-node Shared Memory (PSHM)
  - Delay cross-mapping of segments until gasnet_attach() to avoid a temporary
    over-commit of resources (fixes bug 3277 and possibly others).

* Platform support/portability
  - Improved support for Cygwin-2.5

* Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart (BLCR)
  This release is the first to include (experimental) support for
  system-level checkpoint and restart using BLCR
  - Support is currently only available in ibv- and udp-conduits
  - See other/blcr/README-blcr for more information

* General and Misc.
  - Multiple changes to reduce startup overheads
  - Fix gasnetrun_* scripts for perl's deprecation of POSIX::tmpnam()
  - Fix code in test.h for --enable-segment-everything with large node count
  - The cross-configure-intel-mic script has ben renamed to ...-knc to
    more accurately identify the target and to avoid confusion with knl

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10-27-2015 :  Release 1.26.0

* New conduits (network APIs) added:
  This is the first public release of two new conduits: OFI and PSM.
  Both are believed to be complete and correct, but have not yet been
  subjected to as thorough testing and tuning as other conduits.
  - ofi-conduit
    OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is not a vendor or hardware-specific API.
    It is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services
    to applications.  OFI is best described as a collection of libraries
    and applications used to export fabric services.
    The ofi-conduit code was contributed by Intel Corporation.
    See ofi-conduit/README for additional details.
  - psm-conduit
    This conduit runs over the PSM 2.0 API supported by Intel's Omni-Path
    fabric.  There is no support for the PSM 1.x API.
    The psm-conduit code was contributed by Intel Corporation.
    See psm-conduit/README for additional details.

* InfiniBand Verbs (ibv-conduit)
  - Updates for Solaris-11.2

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - Eliminate start-up failures when PSHM is enabled but only one process
    is running per compute node

* Cray uGNI (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Eliminate a rare deadlock
  - Reduce thread contention when polling in PAR builds
  - Reduce resource usage when configured with --enable-gni-multi-domain
  - Aries only: GASNET_GNI_MEMREG is now zero by default (unbounded)

* Portals-4 (portals4-conduit)
  - Fix broken support for --enable-segment-everything

* Portable UDP (udp-conduit)
  - Remove long-deprecated support for job spawning via Berkeley Millennium
    "rexec" and Berkeley NOW "gexec" (GASNET_SPAWNFN values "R" and "G")
  - Reduce start-up and shutdown times (significantly on some systems)
  - Fix issues with quoting by spawner of arguments and working directory
  - Fix unclean exits when client passes non-zero to gasnet_exit()

* Portable MPI (mpi-conduit)
  - Reduce start-up and shutdown times (significantly on some systems)
  - Eliminate use of deprecated MPI_Errhandler_set() with MPI-2 or higher

* PMI-based job-launch (pmi-spawner)
  - Improve configure script to auto-detect more PMI implementations

* SSH-based job-launch (ssh-spawner)
  - Correct a misspelled environment variable name in the documentation
  - Eliminate orphaned processes under certain abnormal exit conditions

* Intra-node Shared Memory (PSHM)
  - Eliminate blocking in gasnet_barrier_notify() by shared memory barrier
    (a behavior which is prohibited by the GASNet specification)
  - Add environment variable GASNET_PSHM_BARRIER_HIER which can be used to
    disable the hierarchical shared memory barrier at runtime
  - Fix bug that prevented use of hugetlbfs without PSHM
  - Enhance BlueGene/Q PSHM support to no longer crash if BG_MAPCOMMONHEAP
    has not been set to 1 (instead GASNet will warn and continue w/o PSHM)

* Platform support/portability
  - Power/PowerPC
    + Add initial (experimental) support for ppc64el (little-endian POWER)
    + Add support for XLC for little-endian POWER (uses clang front-end)
  - SPARC64
    + Fix for Linux/SPARC64 support, which had ceased to work some time ago
  - Intel Xeon Phi (a.k.a. MIC)
    + Add contributed "gasnetrun_mic" for use of Phi without an mpirun
  - ARM and AARCH64
    + Enable support (inline asm, etc.) for clang C and C++ compilers
  - OpenBSD
    + Update to pthreads support for more-recent clang versions
    + Update tests to work with OpenBSD's rand() implementation
  - Cray Compilers
    + Add work-arounds for certain known bugs in CCE 8.3 and 8.4 compilers

* General and Misc.
  - Support calling gasnet_init(NULL,NULL) for clients without access to argv
  - Improve support for C++ clients in Makefile fragments
  - Use relative paths in Makefile fragments to support relocatable clients
  - Disable "threadinfo-opt" on many platforms with good native TLS support
  - Add '-peer' option to gasnet_trace script to bin output by remote node

* GASNet Tools
  - Implement GASNETT_{HOT,COLD} function decorations
  - Add support for obtaining backtraces via the "pstack" utility

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04-27-2015 :  Release 1.24.2

* Cray XE, XK and XC series (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Implemented PSHM-over-hugetlbfs as alternative to XPMEM, when
    configured with "--disable-pshm-xpmem --enable-pshm-hugetlbfs".

* InfiniBand (ibv-conduit for OpenFabrics Verbs)
  - Updated ibv-conduit code for the new OFED XRC interfaces.
  - Added enumeration of supported spawners to Makefile fragments.

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Fixed a race in gasnet_exit().
  - Added enumeration of supported spawners to Makefile fragments.

* IBM BG/Q (pami-conduit)
  - Now fully support building with "bgclang".

* Shared-memory (smp-conduit)
  - Extended API implementation is now fully inlinable.

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Updated PSHM-over-XPMEM for SGI's "xpmem_2" APIs.
  - Added new optional PSHM implementation based on hugetlbfs.
  - Made corrections to behavior when PSHM is not enabled:
    + Coordinate mmapLimit probe per-host (not per-supernode).
    + Correctly initialize gasnet_nodeinfo_t.supernode (all singletons).

* Platform support/portability
  - Updated to far more recent config.guess and config.sub.
  - Fixed support for gcc-5 on Mac OSX / Darwin.
  - Eliminated many warnings from recent clang compilers.
  - Made several fixes for improved Xeon Phi support.
  - Support for ARMv5, v6 and v7 is no longer "experimental"
  - Added initial (experimental) support for ARMv8 (aka AARCH64 or ARM64).
  - Improved support for compiler wrappers like distcc and ccache.

* GASNet Tools
  - Implemented GASNET_MAXIMIZE_RLIMIT_* environment variables.
  - Implemented GASNETT_DEPRECATED function decoration.

* General
  - Fixed bug3153: problems with lib vs lib64 on SUSE Linux distributions.

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10-28-2014 : Release 1.24.0

* Cray XE, XK and XC series (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Fix to allow fork()/system() on Gemini and Aries conduits
  - Support new configuration option --disable-hugetlbfs to disable
    use of hugepages, for instance to allow use of valgrind.

* InfiniBand (ibv-conduit for OpenFabrics Verbs)
  - Reduce startup time spent probing max pinnable memory

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Fix compile failures under FAST and EVERYTHING segment modes
  - Changes to exit flow to avoid hangs with mxm-2.0+
  - Environment variable GASNET_PHYSMEM_NOPROBE now defaults to YES
  - Reduce startup time (if any) spent probing max pinnable memory
  - Support configuration namespaces in mxm-2.1+

* Mellanox Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA)
  - Support running on the "hpcx" Linux distribution

* Portable UDP support (udp-conduit)
  - Remove arbitrary limit on command line length in udp-conduit
    when using ssh-based spawning (GASNET_SPAWNFN=S).

* Platform support/portability
  - Fix bug 3248 - must disable PIE by default on recent OpenBSD.

* General
  - Better support for clients written in C++
    + Probe CXX characteristics even when udp-conduit is disabled
    + Add CXX-related settings to generated .mak files
  - PMI-based spawning now supports PMI2 (ibv, mxm and portals4)

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05-22-2014 : Release 1.22.5 (minor bug fix release)

* Cray XE, XK and XC series (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Fix munmap failures when configured without PSHM support

----------------------------------------------------------------------
05-05-2014 : Release 1.22.4

* Cray XE, XK and XC series (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - Fix Bug 3200 - startup failures on Cray systems with craype-2.x
  - Correct two issues with Cray's CCE-8.2.x (bugs 3189 and 3190)

* IBM BG/Q (pami-conduit)
  - Provide PSHM (shared memory) support on BlueGene/Q (ON by default)

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Several bug fixes and performance improvements

* Platform support/portability
  - Add whitespace after string constants to support C++11 clients

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Implement PSHM via "global heap", used on BlueGene/Q but applicable
    in theory to other systems with a native global address space.

* GASNet Tools
  - Add SWAP (fetch-and-set) operation to the atomics
  - Extend fixed-width atomics to include all defined operations

* General
  - Several fixes for missing or incorrect PowerPC memory fences
  - GASNet development now takes place in a public repository.
    See https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/gasnet
  - Numerous small changes for the switch from CVS to Git

* Removal of unmaintained platform support
  - This release no longer supports the following platforms:
    + Cray X1 and T3E
    + IBM BlueGene/L and BlueGene/P
    + NEC SX Series
    + Sicortex
    + DEC Alpha CPU
    + HP PA-RISC CPU
    + ABIs prior to V8+ on SPARC CPUs
    + LP32 ABI on IA64
  - This release no longer supports the following operating systems:
    + Unicos, Catamount, HP/UX, SuperUX, Tru64 (OSF/1), AIX, IRIX
  - This release no longer supports the following compiler families:
    + Compaq, NEC, SGI, HP on IA64 and PA-RISC, PathScale on MIPS

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10-21-2013 : Release 1.22.0

* Cray XE, XK and XC series (gemini- and aries-conduits)
  - With this release support for the Aries interconnect of the Cray
    XC-30 system has graduated out of BETA status.
  - This release includes a new implementation of Active Messages
    + Memory use scales better (18% less per peer by default)
    + Larger default MaxMedium yields higher peak AM Medium bandwidth
    + MaxMedium may now be changed at configure time
  - This release features a new default barrier: GNIDISSEM
  - Contention among pthreads in a PAR build has been greatly reduced.
  - Optional (experimental) "multi-domain" support to almost entirely
    eliminate contention among pthreads in PAR builds (see the conduit
    README for details and instructions to enable and use this feature).
  - Fix bug 3078 in which use of addresses in PSHM-imported GASNet
    segments as local address in Extended API calls would crash.

* IBM BG/Q (pami-conduit)
  - Support for intra-node shared memory communication (PSHM) is now
    available on BlueGene/Q.  Please see README for
    details of the configuration and environment setup required.
  - Updates to support changes made in the V1R2M1 driver.

* InfiniBand (ibv-conduit for OpenFabrics Verbs)
  - Now support direct PMI-based launch (e.g. srun or hydra)
  - Significantly simpler code in the critical paths for Puts and Gets
  - This release conduit features a new default barrier: IBDISSEM
  - Properly support systems with pagesize larger than 4KB.

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - Now support direct PMI-based launch (e.g. srun or hydra)
  - This release adds support for v2.x of the MXM API.

* Mellanox Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA)
  - While FCA acceleration of collectives is still only available in
    a SEQ (non-pthreaded) build of GASNet, it can now be enabled at
    configure time without disabling compilation of PAR and PARSYNC
    libraries.

* Portals 4.x API (portals4-conduit)
  - The implementation now includes a native implementation of the
    Extended API (Put and Get) in terms of the Portals4 API.

* Portable UDP support (udp-conduit)
  - Support MASTERIP and WORKERIP settings to deal with a much wider
    range of network configurations.  See the counduit README.

* Platform support/portability
  - Initial support for building GASNet with NVIDIA's nvcc compiler
  - Initial support for running GASNet on Intel MIC (a.k.a. Xeon Phi);
    This release only supports running GASNet on MIC in native mode.
  - Fix Bug 3167 - incorrect memory fences with Cray C compiler .

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Fix bug 3181 in which unequal segment requests could lead to either
    failure at attach time, or incomplete sharing of memory.

* General
  - New GASNET_NO_CATCH_SIGNAL environment variable to suppress the
    default signal handling behavior when debugging.
  - Initial prototype implementations of several features slated for
    standardization in a future GASNet specification:
    + Variable argument AM Request and Reply functions
        gasnet_AMRequest{Short,Medium,Long,LongAsync}()
        gasnet_AMReply{Short,Medium,Long}()
      Work just like the fixed-argument versions, but take a "numargs"
      integer argument before the first handler argment (or as the last
      argument when numargs == 0).
    + Unnamed split-phase barrier which can leverage hardware support
      not possible when implementing full (UPC-centric) name matching.
        GASNET_BARRIERFLAG_UNNAMED as flags argument
    + Single-phase barrier (both with and w/o name matching) also able
      to leverage additional hardware support.
        gasnet_barrier(id, flags)
    + Barrier matching results query (for building of hierarchical
      implementation which require UPC-style name matching)
        int is_anonymous = gasnet_barrier_result(&value_if_not_anon);
    + The number of implicit-handle (nbi-suffixed) operations outstanding
      is now unbounded, including when using an nbi access region.
	
* Removal of unmaintained network conduits
  - This release no longer supports the following networks:
    + elan (Quadrics elan3/elan4)
    + gm (Myrinet GM)
    + vapi (legacy Mellanox-specific InfiniBand)
    + lapi (IBM LAPI)
    + portals (Cray Portals for XT series)
    + sci (Dolphin SCI)
    If you require GASNet on one these networks, and can provide
    access to resources for maintenance of the code, please contact us.
	
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04-30-2013 : Release 1.20.2

* Cray XC30 (aries-conduit)
  - This release includes Beta support for the Aries interconnect of
    the Cray XC30 (aka Cascade) system.  This initial implementation
    is believed to be fully correct, but has yet to be fully tuned.

* Cray XE & XK series (gemini-conduit)
  - With this release support for the Gemini interconnect of the Cray
    XE and XK series systems has graduated out of BETA status.
  - Significantly improved performance via uGNI's "RELAXED_PI_ORDERING",
    increased overlap in non-blocking operations, and a lower latency
    mechanism for small Puts.

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - Updated to support BlueGene/Q driver V1R2M0
  - BlueGene/Q users are advised to use V1R2M0 + efix 23 (or newer)
    if using GASNET_PAR mode.  Prior to efix 23, memset() in the BG/Q
    C runtime was not thread safe, and this was responsible for the
    "unexplained failures" noted in GASNet's 1.18.2 release notes.

* NEW Beta support for Portals 4.x API (portals4-conduit)
  - This release includes BETA support for the Portals 4.x API as
    implemented at https://code.google.com/p/portals4/
  - This initial implementation does not yet include "native" Put
    or Get support, using the AM-based reference implementation instead.

* InfiniBand (ibv- and vapi-conduits)
  - Can control the IB MTU size via environment variable GASNET_MAX_MTU.
  - Automatically ignore unsupported iWARP adapters.

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Add the GASNET_SUPERNODE_MAXSIZE environment variable to control the
    grouping of cores on a compute node into multiple GASNet "supernodes".

* Platform support/portability
  - Added support for THUMB2 mode of recent ARM processors
  - Work around a bug in Clang++ building udp-conduit (GASNet bug 3129)

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10-30-2012 : Release 1.20.0

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - With this release PAMI conduit has graduated out of BETA status.
  - This release now implements GASNet's collectives via the PAMI
    collectives, yielding much-improved performance in many cases.
  - A faster default barrier implementation (PAMIDISSEM).

* Cray XE & XK series (gemini-conduit)
  - Improved performance for 129 to 4096 byte transfers.
  - This release includes *experimental* support (OFF by default) for
    improved performance via uGNI's "RELAXED_PI_ORDERING", which can be
    enabled using an environment variable.
    See the conduit README for more information.

* Mellanox ConnectX series HCAs (mxm-conduit)
  - This is the first official release of GASNet support for the "MXM" API
    for recent Mellanox's InfiniBand HCAs.  This is based on the code which
    Mellanox has been distributing for about one year.

* Mellanox Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA)
  - Optional collectives acceleration using Mellanox's FCA which works with
    both ibv-conduit and mxm-conduit on recent Mellanox HCAs.
  - See other/fca/README-fca.txt for details

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Active Messages over shared-memory have been reimplemented using
    Nemesis lock-free queues, yielding improved performance and lowering
    the memory required from quadratic to linear in cores-per-node.
  - Intra-node barrier has been reimplemented for higher performance.
  - Support for up to about 45K processes/node (vs. default of 255) is
    now available as a configure option: --enable-large-pshm.  This has
    been tested to 4096 proc/node.  However, memory and other resources,
    such as file descriptors, will typically impose a much lower limit.

* General
  - A new barrier implementation (an RDMA-based dissemination algorithm)
    replaces the previous default (AM-based dissemination) for most
    network conduits.
  - Barrier matching rules in "corner-cases" have been revised to match
    the semantics expected to appear in the UPC 1.3 specification.  The
    changes legalize some calling cases which were previously erroneous.
    No cases which were legal before have become illegal.
  - SLURM integration in ssh-spawner.

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05-14-2012 : Release 1.18.2

* IBM PAMI (pami-conduit)
  - This release includes a BETA of native support for the IBM PAMI
    (Parallel Active Message Interface) network API, found on the IBM BG/Q
    and on systems running IBM's Parallel Environment (IBM PE) software
    for Linux (both x86-64 and PowerPC architectures).
  - Testing on an IBM Power 775 system (a.k.a. PERCS or Blue Waters) with
    its HFI network passed all GASNet and Berkeley UPC tests.
  - Testing on an IBM BlueGene/Q shows there are still some unexplained
    failures at the time of this release.
  - This code has not yet been tested on IBM PE clusters running PAMI over
    InfiniBand or Ethernet.  Reports of such testing would be appreciated.
    Access to such systems for testing would be GREATLY appreciated.
  - The performance of pami-conduit has not been fully tuned, however we
    believe that the implementation is correct (with only minor bugs
    remaining on BlueGene/Q).
  - This is still only a BETA-quality implementation, and performance
    improvements are anticipated in future releases.

* Cray XE & XK series (gemini-conduit)
  - Added Cray XK series as a supported/tested platform.
  - Reduced by more than 60% the memory used for receiving AMs (bug 3067).
  - Made several code cleanups on the road to production-quality.
  - This conduit is still "BETA" due to known room for improvements.

* InfiniBand (ibv- and vapi-conduits)
  - Improved scalability (time and memory) of startup/shutdown code
    + Switch to native InfiniBand communication earlier in startup.
    + Use more scalable communication pattern for exit coordination.
    + Made communications performance improvements to sockets code in the
      ssh-spawner used for startup when spawning via MPI is unavailable
      or has been disabled.
  - Made improvements to dynamic connection support
    + The dynamic connection code has been more robust in the face of lost
      packets through use of TCP-inspired adaptive timeouts.
    + The dynamic connection code has been made insensitive to the problem
      of inattentive peers (ones not making frequent enough calls to GASNet)
      through the use of an internal thread which wakes up only on arrival
      of network traffic related to dynamic connection setup.
  - Made improvements in the Active Message progress thread
    + The AM progress thread is finally available in ibv-conduit.
    + The maximum wake-up rate of the progress thread can now be limited.
    + See the conduit README file for documentation on GASNET_RCV_THREAD
      and GASNET_RCV_THREAD_RATE environment variables for more info.

* PSHM (intra-node shared memory)
  - Extended PSHM-via-XPMEM support to SGI Altix series, where it is
    available at configure time, but not currently used by default.
  - Support for PSHM over SystemV shared memory no longer requires a
    working implementation of mmap() (bug 3066).
    + This is the first PSHM support for Cygwin.
  - Expanded PSHM docs, including notes for configuration on Cygwin.
    See the top-level GASNet README for details.

* Platform support/portability
  - Ported network-independent code to the IBM BlueGene/Q.
    This provides fully-functioning GASNet-Tools and smp- and mpi-conduits.
  - Implemented native 64-bit atomics for ILP32 builds with Apple XCode-4.x,
    resolving bug 3071 which required disabling them in the 1.18.0 release.
  - Force PGI compilers on MacOS to honor the documented ABI (bug 2150).
  - Made several changes to ssh-spawner sockets code for better portability.
  - Disabled ASLR (address-space layout randomization) in MacOS Lion (and
    newer) via the GASNET_LDFLAGS.
  - No longer trust Cygwin's gethostid(), which has known problem.
  - Added initial support for Clang (bug 3075).
    + Not yet listed in README as officially supported for any target
    + x86 and x86-64 targets have been well tested on Linux and *BSD
    + x86 and x86-64 targets have been lightly tested on MacOS Lion
    + ppc64 target has been lightly tested on BG/Q platforms
  - Made fixes for __attribute__ configure probes
    + The __always_inline__ probe failed incorrectly with gcc-4.7.x.
    + The __format__ probe failed incorrectly with PGI compilers.
  - Improved support for "old" C compilers by removing or reducing
    unnecessary C99 dependencies.

* General
  - Fixed an error in README's instructions for use of the Makefile
    fragments, which was missing "$(GASNET_CPPFLAGS)" in the ".c.o" rule.
  - Continued improvement to signal handling for smp-conduit for fewer
    "orphans" when an application is terminated by a signal or abort().
  - Implemented/documented GASNET_THREAD_STACK_{MIN,PAD} environment vars.
  - Annotated many (but not yet all) known-benign memory leaks in the
    report generated when GASNET_MALLOCFILE is set (for bug 3088).
  - Improved documentation (in code comments) for conduit implementers.

* Build and configure
  - Most instances of "debug vs. optimize compilation conflict" in the
    MPI compiler are now resolved without user intervention.
  - Support for GASNet's error-checking implementation of malloc and its
    associates can now be controlled independent of the --enable-debug
    configure option (but is still enabled by default when configured
    with --enable-debug).  This resolves bug 3089.
    + "--enable-debug-malloc" enables error-checking malloc while not
      enabling other runtime assertions associated with "--enable-debug".
    + "--enable-debug --disable-debug-malloc" yields a debug build without
      GASNet's error-checking wrappers for malloc and related calls.  This
      is useful when an external debugging malloc library is to be used.

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10-30-2011 : Release 1.18.0

* Cray-XE series (gemini-conduit):
  - This release includes a BETA of native support for the Cray XE network.
  - The performance of gemini-conduit has not been tuned, however we believe
    that the implementation is correct (with only minor bugs remaining).
  - This is still only a BETA-quality implementation, and significant
    performance improvements are anticipated in future releases.

* General
  - Implemented faster atomics for x86, x86-64 and PPC64.
  - Improved signal handling for smp-conduit for fewer "orphans" when
    an application is terminated by a signal.
  - Fix output corruption sometimes seen when redirecting stdout/stderr.
  - GASNET_TMPDIR env var to control placement of most temporary files.
  - Better support for systems where gethostid() returns 127.0.0.1.
  - Fixed PSHM-over-SYSV bug with non-contiguous process distributions.
  - Field remote_addr in gasnet_seginfo_t has been removed and the signature
    of gasnet_getNodeInfo() has changed.  If your GASNet client was using
    these undocumented interfaces, then it will need to be updated.

* Platform support/portability
  - Enabled partial backtrace support for Cray-XT and XE series systems.
  - Make allowances for odd sbrk() implementation on Darwin.
  - Probe for /dev/mmtimer on x86-64-based Altix platforms (bug 2880).
  - Improved support for systems lacking an atomic C-A-S (bug 3043).
  - Added work-arounds for Open64 and PathScale compiler bugs.
  - Fixed various warnings seen with recent gcc and icc versions.
  - Made corrections to MIPS support for "o32" ABI.
  - Extended ARM support to a wider range of ISA revisions.

* InfiniBand (ibv- and vapi-conduits):
  - Cleanup/simplify AM code for InfiniBand.
  - Ignore Mellanox HCA ports configured for Ethernet.

* Firehose dynamic-memory registration library (several conduits):
  - Fixed bug 2768: errors with firehose at node counts over 4096.
  - Reduced memory usage in firehose library

* Build and configure:
  - Provide Makefile fragments for GASNet-Tools clients (bugs 2565 and 2940).
  - Fixed problems with autoconf 2.64 and newer (bugs 2648 and 2748).
  - Now ship with updated config.guess and friends.

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10-17-2011 : Release 1.17.6
* A "stable snapshot" - first release candidate for 1.18.0

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09-23-2011 : Release 1.17.4 (gemini-conduit only beta release)

  - This is a Beta release featuring an initial native implementation
    for the Gemini interconnect of the Cray XE.
  - The performance of gemini-conduit has not been tuned, but we believe
    that the implementation is correct.
  - Relative to the previous stable release, 1.16.2, this Beta includes
    several miscellaneous changes not described here.  Most are fixes for
    bugs or improvements to performance, and none are suspected to make
    this release any less stable than 1.16.2.
  - This Beta has been mostly tested on Cray XE6 systems, but is not
    known or suspected to be less stable on any other specific platforms.

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05-18-2011 : Release 1.16.2 (feature and bug fix release)

* General:
  - Fixed bug 2951: exitcode=1 from smp-conduit under unusual conditions
  - Fixed an infrequent race in PHSM debugging code that caused rare crashes
  - Fixed minor bugs in the non-default AMCENTRAL barrier
  - Fixed many additional minor bug fixes and performance improvements

* InfiniBand (ibv- and vapi-conduits):
  - Fixed bug 2950: ibv-conduit page alignment problem on ia64
  - Improved InfiniBand scalability
    + This release adds support for the XRC extension to the InfiniBand
      specification which can greatly reduce the memory and HCA resource
      requirements for large node counts, when used together with SRQ.
      For more details on SRQ and XRC see vapi-conduit/README (source)
      or share/doc/gasnet/README-ibv (installed).
    + This release adds support for operating ibv- and vapi-conduits
      without connecting all pairs of nodes at startup (avoiding the
      associated costs in time, memory and HCA resources).
      For more information see vapi-conduit/README (source) or
      share/doc/gasnet/README-{ibv,vapi} (installed) for documentation
      on the GASNET_CONNECT_* family of environment variables.
    + Several additional reductions in memory use

* IBM SP (lapi-conduit):
  - Enable partial PSHM support when not using lapi-rdma
  - Link w/ "big TOC" by default

* Build and configure:
  - Improved configure support for AIX 6.x

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12-08-2010 : Release 1.16.1 (minor bug fix release)
 
* General:
  - Eliminated an infrequent race in an assertion that caused rare crashes.
  - Fixed a configure problem that would reject OSS12.2's sunCC.
  - Fixed bug 2927: PSHM breaks with greater than 255 processes.
  - Eliminated infinite recursion on some error exits in smp-conduit.
  - Additional small fixes in the collectives and PSHM

* Cray-XT series (portals-conduit):
  - Improved speed of job startup on large-memory nodes.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
11-01-2010 : Release 1.16.0
 
* General:
  - Environment vars to limit which nodes generate various outputs:
    + GASNET_BACKTRACE_NODES - limits GASNET_BACKTRACE output
    + GASNET_TRACENODES      - limits GASNET_TRACEFILE output
    + GASNET_STATSNODES      - limits GASNET_STATSFILE output
    + GASNET_MALLOCNODES     - limits GASNET_MALLOCFILE output

* InfiniBand (ibv-conduit):
  - This release features a (re)implementation of Active Messages for
    ibv-conduit via SRQ (Shared Receive Queue) which greatly reduces
    the memory requirements for large node counts.
  - Implementation now supports (in theory) as many as 65535 GASNet
    nodes (processes), up from 16384.

* Cray-XT and Cray-XE series:
  - Added support for PSHM (requires optional PSHM-over-SystemV)
  - Fixed bug 2435: portals-conduit assertion failures if signalled
  - gasnett_set_affinity() now implemented under CNL/CLE
  - Initial testing on XE series (w/ mpi-conduit, no native support)

* Process-Shared Memory (PSHM) Support
  - Now enabled by default on Linux
  - Enabling PSHM no longer disables conduits lacking PSHM support
  - Optional implementation via SystemV shared memory
  - Optional implementation via mmap()ed files
  - AMPoll operation now O(1), rather than O(procs_per_node)
  - Fix bug 2826: testhsl failures with PSHM + mpi-conduit

* Misc Platform support:
  - Fix bug 2530: bad addressing for 128-bit atomics on x86-64
  - Added gasnett_set_affinity() implementation for Solaris
  - Improved support for SGI Altix models w/ x86-64 CPUs including
    the ICE and UV family platforms.
  - Improved debugger support for MacOSX

* Build and configure:
  - Fix bug 2688: installing extraneous internal headers

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10-24-2010 : Release 1.15.8
* A "stable snapshot" - second release candidate for 1.16.0

----------------------------------------------------------------------
10-17-2010 : Release 1.15.6
* A "stable snapshot" - first release candidate for 1.16.0

----------------------------------------------------------------------
06-28-2010 : Release 1.15.4 (ibv-conduit only beta release)
  - This is a Beta release featuring an initial (re)implementation of
    Active Messages for ibv-conduit via SRQ (Shared Receive Queue).
  - SRQ is an InfiniBand API mechanism for more scalable memory usage as
    the number of connected peers increases.
  - In previous releases of ibv-conduit each additional peer required an
    additional GASNET_AM_CREDITS_PP buffers (32 by default) be allocated
    for receiving AM traffic.  At 4KB per buffer plus additional metadata
    for management, this would amount to about 133KB per peer.
  - The introduction of SRQ allows ibv-conduit to operate with no more
    than 1024 AM receive buffers (4MB + management overheads) independent
    of the number of peers, with little or no performance impact on well-
    behaved applications.
  - This initial implementation is known to deadlock under very rare AM-
    intensive workloads, or when certain settings are reduced to values
    much lower than their defaults.  This will be resolved in the next
    Beta, prior to the 1.16.0 release.
  - There is no SRQ implementation for vapi-conduit.
  - Relative to the previous stable release, 1.14.2, this Beta includes
    several miscellaneous changes not described here.  Most are fixes for
    bugs or improvements to performance, and none are suspected to make
    this release any less stable than 1.14.2.
  - This Beta has been mostly tested on ibv-conduit systems, but is not
    known or suspected to be less stable on any other specific platforms.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
05-20-2010 : Release 1.14.2

* General:
  - Much improved support for heterogeneous compilers (CC, CXX and MPI_CC)
  - Work-around for broken MALLOC_CHECK_ support on some glibc versions
  - Use MALLOC_OPTIONS variable on *BSD as we use MALLOC_CHECK_ on glibc
  - Fix parsing of GASNET_{FREEZE,BACKTRACE}_SIGNAL env vars

* InfiniBand (vapi- and ibv-conduits):
  - Fix bug 2079: stack overflow errors when vapi/ibv compiled with pgcc

* Cray-XT series (portals-conduit):
  - Improved reliability and scalability of job startup and termination code.
  - Fixed a corner-case bug in AM Medium code
  - Preliminary work to support PrgEnv-cray (requires CCE 7.2 or newer)

* IBM BlueGene/P (dcmf-conduit):
  - Fix bug 2756: PAR mode crashes with V1R4M0 drivers
  - Fix bug 2766: performance problem with loopback AM LongAsnyc
  - Fix bug 2781 and 2791: deadlocks with some uses of DCMF collectives
  - Conduit-level support for PSHM (some limitations due to BG/P platform)

* Experimental Process-Shared Memory (PSHM) Support
  - Shared-memory awarness added to default barrier implementations
  - Shared-memory awarness added to Extended API and Collectives

* Misc Platform support:
  - Fix bug 2685: timers broken on variable-frequency x86_64 CPUs
  - Resolve pthread link problems between Apple's and FSF's compilers
  - Preliminary work to support build with Open64 compilers from AMD
  - Preliminary work to support build with GCCFSS compilers from Sun

* Build and configure:
  - Allow client to control behavior on compiler-mismatch (eg for UPCR+GCCUPC)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
11-02-2009 : Release 1.14

* IBM BlueGene/P (dcmf-conduit):
  - Extend support to V1R4M0 driver release
  - Use native DCMF level collectives for several GASNet collectives
  - Implement more useful gasnett_gethostname() (previously gave I/O node name)
  - Minor fix for SEGMENT_EVERYTHING support

* Cray-XT series (portals-conduit):
  - Extended support to PE 2.1.42 and newer
  - Extended support to include PrgEnv-Intel
  - Implement more useful gasnett_gethostname() under Catamount
  - Spawner defaults to node count given in batch submission when no -N passed
  - Spawner improvements to deal intelligently with thread/process pinning
  - Misc. performance and scalability improvements
  - Several bugs fixed
    
* IBM SP (lapi-conduit):
  - Cleanup tentative definitions to eliminate excessive AIX linker warnings
  - Implement AIX-specific code for gasnett_set_affinity()
  - Several bugs fixed

* InfiniBand (vapi- and ibv-conduits):
  - Correct non-compliant use of offsetof() that broke compilation w/ XLC
  - Fixes for anomalous performance on ConnectX HCAs (Mellanox MT25418)
  - Improved performance (and correctness) with segments 2GB and larger
  - Documented settings to work-around failures seen w/ InfiniPath HCAs
    see vapi-conduit/README (source) or share/doc/gasnet/README-ibv (installed)
  - Multiple bugs fixed

* Misc Platform support:
  - Fix mis-aligned use of x86-64 cmpxchg16b instruction
  - Atomics work-around for SiCortex ICE9A processor errata
  - Fixes for aggressive alias analysis in gcc-4.4.x
  - Improved support for XLC on all platforms
  - Improved debug info and warning messages with PathScale compilers
  - Improved gcc TLS support on IA64

* General:
  - Experimental shared memory support (see README)
  - Experimental collective autotuner (see README and autotune.txt)
  - Additional collective algorithms implemented
  - Fixes to some tests for large message sizes or large iteration counts
  - Work around sometimes broken UTF-8 support in perl
  - Improved support for clients with dynamic thread creation
  - Several minor bug fixes in conduit-independent code

* Build and configure:
  - Clean up public headers to enable use of -Wstrict-prototypes by clients
  - More accurate conduit auto-detection (eliminating false-positives)
  - Allow disabling of conduit auto-detection
  - Updates to configure for more recent GNU autotools
  - Better default mpi-conduit configuration on SGI Altix and IRIX
  - Correction to mechanism for detecting an SMP host under FreeBSD

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11-03-2008 : Release 1.12

* New conduits added:
  - dcmf-conduit: High-performance conduit for the IBM BlueGene/P
    using the DCMF communication interface.

* IBM SP/LAPI:
  - Fix a bug that prevented the use of unequal segment sizes across 
    nodes in LAPI-RDMA mode
  - Fix several exit-time crashes
  - Remove deprecated support for Federation LAPI version < 2.3.2.0
  - Lots of misc cleanups and tuning

* Myrinet/GM:
  - Fix some AM performance and correctness problems, esp with AMLong

* CrayXT/Portals:
  - Upgrade to cache local memory registration using firehose library
  - Add GASNET_PORTAL_PUTGET_BOUNCE_LIMIT setting

* InfiniBand/{VAPI,IBV}:
  - Extend "ibv" (InfiniBand) support to Qlogic's InfiniPath adapters

* Platform support:
  - Add support for the BlueGene/P architecture (mpi and dcmf)
  - Add experimental support for ARM processors
  - Add support for PGI compiler on Mac OSX
  - Misc improvements and/or fixes for MIPS, Alpha, PPC and SPARC processors
  - Add Pathscale compilers to supported list for Cray XT machines
  - Improved support for XLC compilers on Linux
  - Add/improve support for MIPSEL/Linux platforms, including SiCortex
  - Add support for the default libpthread on Cray XT CNL 2.1
  - Add support for Playstation 3 PowerPC

* Configure features:
  - Add --disable-mmap support to force the use of malloc for the GASNet segment
  - Add configure option --with-max-pthreads-per-node=N to override the 
    GASNet default limit of 256 pthreads per node
  - Add support for autoconf 2.62 and newer
  - Workaround stability problems in cygwin pthread mutexes (bug 1847)

* GASNet tools:
  - Upgrades to error reporting in the GASNet debug mallocator
  - Add GASNET_MALLOCFILE option and corresponding gasnet_trace support
    to assist in leak detection for libgasnet and apps using debug mallocator
  - Add "strong" atomics to the GASNet-tools interface
  - New gasnett_performance_warning_str() returns a string reporting
    performance-relevant attributes of the current GASNet build

* Misc changes:
  - Workaround for a gcc 4.x (x<3) optimizer bug has changed
      We now encourage updating to gcc >= 4.3.0, though our previously
      documented workarounds remain valid
  - Minor improvements to the collectives environmental interface
  - Fix cross-configure detection of stack growth direction
  - Avoid "capturing" __attribute__ when compiler mismatch is detected

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10-30-2007 : Release 1.10

* IBM SP/LAPI:
  - Upgraded lapi-conduit to use RDMA support on LAPI/Federation systems,
    when available. This provides improved communication performance.

* Myrinet/GM:
  - Fix a race that could result in lost payload data for heavy AM Long
    communication in the presence of multiple client threads.

* CrayXT/Portals:
  - workaround a thread-safety bug in CNL Portals that could result in 
    crashes for AM-heavy workloads

* InfiniBand/{VAPI,IBV}:
  - Expose env vars to manipulate hardware-level retransmission parameters.

* Collectives:
  - Added an initial high-performance implementation of the GASNet 
    collectives. This provides scalable implementations of all the 
    data movement collectives, implemented over Active Messages.

* Misc changes:
  - Improved checking for randomized Linux VM spaces, which inhibit
    the ability to provide GASNET_ALIGNED_SEGMENTS
  - Numerous bug fixes, see https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov for details

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09-13-2007 : Release 1.9.6 (Cray XT only beta release)

* CrayXT/Portals:
  - portals-conduit is now a fully-native implementation, no longer relies
    on any MPI calls
  - support has been added for pthreads on compute-node Linux 
  - fixes to automatically workaround known problems in various PE versions
  - removed the 100 MB limit for SEGMENT_FAST on CNL

* Ethernet/UDP:
  - now supports up to 16K nodes (although buffer utilization remains non-scalable)
  - fix an exit race that could cause some trailing output to be lost

* InfiniBand/{VAPI,IBV}:
  - AM-over-RDMA optimization for small AMs now enabled by default

* Misc changes:  
  - Add node placement support for various job spawners
  - Fix a crash in gasnett_threadkey for C++ clients

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02-01-2007 : Release 1.9.2 (Cray XT3 only beta release)

* New conduits added:
  - ibv-conduit: High-performance conduit using the OpenIB communication
    interface on InfiniBand hardware.

* New platform support:
  - New ports: CrayXT/Linux, K42/PPC64, OpenBSD/x86, SunC/Linux

* Misc changes:  
  - Add backtrace extensibility to GASNet tools
  - Add new features GASNET_FREEZE_SIGNAL and GASNET_BACKTRACE_SIGNAL
    which allow a user to asynchronously freeze a process or print a backtrace
  - Many, many bug fixes, for both specific conduits and general platform
    portability. See https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov for complete details.    

* InfiniBand/VAPI:
  - New AM-over-RDMA optimization significantly improves performance of small AMs

* CrayXT/Portals:
  - portals-conduit now works with PrgEnv-PGI, starting with Cray PE 1.5
  - support has been added for compute-node Linux 

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11-02-2006 : Release 1.8

* New conduits added:
  - portals-conduit: High-performance conduit using the Portals communication
    interface on the Cray XT-3. Initial implementation uses MPI-based active 
    messages and a Portals-based extended API.

* New platform support:
  - New ports: MacOSX/x86, MacOSX/PPC64, Cray XD1 and ucLinux/MicroBlaze

* Misc changes:  
  - Add --help option to all GASNet tests
  - Add internal diagnostic tests
  - Add progress functions
  - Add --disable-aligned-segments configure flag for clusters with disaligned VM
  - Fix ansi-aliasing violations on small local put/get copies
  - Default to allocate-first-touch for segment mmap on Linux and Solaris
  - Many performance and functionality improvements to the GASNet collectives
  - Move most config-related defines off compile line into gasnet_config.h
  - Reorganize source files for faster and more robust builds
  - Barrier algorithm can now be selected at runtime using GASNET_BARRIER 
  - Standardize and simplify our preprocessor platform detection logic system-wide
  - Many, many bug fixes, for both specific conduits and general platform
    portability. See https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov for complete details.    

* GASNet tools support:
  - Add a conduit-independent library implementing the GASNet portability tools - 
    which include portable high-performance timers, atomic operations, memory barriers,
    C compiler annotations, uniform platform identification macros, reliable 
    fixed-width integer types, thread-specific data, and other misc tools.
  - Add Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA) library for gasnett_set_affinity
  - Implement automatic backtrace generation on crash for several popular debuggers
  - Change default timer granularity to nanoseconds, adding _ticks_to_ns()
  - Add __thread (TLS) implementations of gasnett_threadkey

* Expanded local atomic operations support:
  - Add native support for additional compilers, notably including many C++ compilers
  - Add fetch-and-add and fetch-and-subtract operations
  - Add 32-bit and 64-bit fixed-width atomic types
  - Add explicit control of memory fence behavior
  - Add constants defining the range of the atomic type
  - Add uniform support for use of the atomic type for signed values

* General performance improvements:
  - split-phase barriers on most conduits now make progress during any GASNet call
  - initial packing implementations of the GASNet non-contiguous (vector, indexed,
    and strided) put/get functions (currently off by default)

* InfiniBand/VAPI:
  - Implement multi-port and multi-rail striping support
  - Improvements to firehose region management heuristics
  - VAPI recv thread is now disabled by default (but still available via env setting)

* MPI:
  - Significant performance and stability improvements on mpi-conduit,
    especially on systems where the MPI-level flow control is lacking or
    unreliable (eg XT-3, BGL).
  - Split request/reply traffic onto separate MPI communicators to ensure
    bounded AMMPI-level buffer space utilization, even for degenerate cases
  - Added an AMMPI-level token-based flow control solution to prevent the
    crashes observed under heavy MPI unexpected message loads on various
    systems (XT3, Altix)
  - Add workaround for an IBM MPI ordering bug that could cause deadlock
    under heavy communication patterns.
  - Other misc tuning along the primary control paths and new tuning knobs

* Ethernet/UDP:
  - Add cross-platform spawn support for cross-compiled targets

* GASNet spec 1.8:
  - expose the GASNet release version as public macros:
    GASNET_RELEASE_VERSION_MAJOR/GASNET_RELEASE_VERSION_MINOR/GASNET_RELEASE_VERSION_PATCH
  - deprecate GASNET_VERSION in favor of GASNET_SPEC_VERSION_MAJOR/GASNET_SPEC_VERSION_MINOR
  - minor wording clarifications

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08-20-2005 : Release 1.6

* New conduits added:
  - shmem-conduit: High-performance conduit using the shmem communication
    interface on Cray X1 and SGI Altix. May support targeting other shmem 
    implementations in the future.

* New platform support:
    - Add cross-compilation support, specifically including the Cray X-1
    - Experimental support for the Cray XT3 and IBM Blue Gene/L (contact us
      for details)
    - Other new ports: Linux/PowerPC, Cray MTA, NetBSD/x86, Linux/Alpha, 
        FreeBSD/Alpha, HPUX/Itanium, PathScale & Portland Group compilers
    - Linux 2.6 kernel support for gm, vapi, shmem
    
* General performance improvements:
    - Replace default barrier implementation on gm, vapi, sci, mpi, udp with a 
      more scalable barrier implementation.
    - System-wide performance improvements to AM's
    - Improve the performance and functionality of gasnet_trace
                          
* Misc changes:  
    - Output improvements to gasnet tests
    - Added MPI performance tests to the GASNet tests for ease of comparison
    - Many robustness improvements to job spawning on various conduits and systems
    - New environment variable GASNET_VERBOSEENV turns on global reporting of 
      all environment variables in use      
    - Improve the robustness and quality of GASNet's automatic heap corruption detection 
    - Many, many bug fixes, for both specific conduits and general platform
      portability. See https://gasnet-bugs.lbl.gov for complete details.    
      
* Myrinet/GM:
    - gm-conduit now provides interoperability with MPI.
    - add support for spawning with mpiexec
    - several robustness and stability improvements
    
* InfiniBand/VAPI:
    - Use firehose to manage local pinning in SEG_FAST, for performance
    - Add a stand-alone ssh-based spawner, and MPI is no longer 
      required to build vapi-conduit.
    - Numerous performance improvements, especially for AM's, non-bulk puts
      and large put/gets (>128KB)
    - Improve firehose region efficiency, improving performance on LARGE/EVERYTHING
    - Add support for striping and multiplexing communication over multiple 
      queue pairs
    - Add options for controlling the vapi progress thread
    
* IBM SP/LAPI:
    - Change the default GASNET_LAPI_MODE to POLLING, which vastly 
      outperforms INTERRUPT on Power4/Federation
    - Significant performance improvements to barrier
    
* Quadrics/ELAN:
    - Elan4 functionality and tuning work
    - add support for SLURM spawner
    - Improve queue depth, allowing more non-blocking put/gets to be posted without stalling
    
* CrayX1 & SGI Altix/SHMEM:
    - Significant performance improvements to AM's
    - Many correctness fixes to put/gets and AM's
    
* Ethernet/UDP:
    - Improve the performance of loopback AM's
    
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08-27-2004 : Release 1.4

* New conduits added:
  - udp-conduit: a portable conduit that implements GASNet over any standard
    TCP/IP stack. This is the now the recommended conduit for clusters with
    only ethernet networking hardware (faster than mpi-conduit over TCP-based MPI).
    See udp-conduit/README for important info on job spawning. Note that
    udp-conduit requires a working C++ compiler (but when none is available, it can
    be disabled with --disable-udp).
  - sci-conduit: an experimental conduit over Dolphin-SCI. Current
    implementation is core-only, performance improvements are on the way in the
    next version.

* GASNet2 extended API interface extensions:
  - Implement reference version of GASNet collective operations
  - Implement reference version of GASNet vector/indexed/strided put/get operations
  - updated GASNet 2.0 spec to be released soon
 
* GASNet Spec v1.6: 
  - Add gasnet_hsl_trylock()
  - Specify calls to gasnet_hold_interrupts() and gasnet_resume_interrupts()
    are ignored while holding an HSL.
  - Clarify the upper limit of in-flight non-blocking operations is 2^16-1
  - Clarify gasnet_handle_t is a scalar type
  - Small clarifications and minor editorial corrections

* gm-conduit:
  - fix thread-safety problems in firehose library that caused stability
    problems in GASNET_PAR mode
  - detect versions of GM driver with broken RDMA get support and don't use it
    there
  - remove dependency on gethostbyname to improve reliability of static linking
    on Linux
  - improvements to gasnetrun-gm

* vapi-conduit:
  - add SEGMENT_LARGE and SEGMENT_EVERYTHING support
  - many performance improvements

* lapi-conduit:
  - add workaround for a recent LAPI performance bug on Federation hardware
  - gasnet_exit stability improvements

* elan-conduit:
  - upgrades for recent libelan versions

* Configure changes:
  - add autodetection of all conduits, whenever possible. On some systems one
    may still need to  set some environment variables before running configure
    to indicate the install location of network drivers.
  - detect and reject the buggy gcc 3.2.0-2 compilers
  - handle systems lacking pthreads
  - improved sanity checks for MPI_CFLAGS

* Makefile changes
  - Add a set of manual-overrides for compilation of the GASNet libraries and
    tests, ie "make MANUAL_LIBCFLAGS=..." - see README
  - Fix "gmake prefix=/new/path install" to work correctly, even when it
    differs from configure-time prefix
  - Add limited support for parallel make (not recommended for general use)

* GASNet infrastructure ported to Cray X1, AMD Athlon/Opteron, Sun Pro C, HP C

* Add gasnet_trace contributed tool, which automatically parses and summarizes
  GASNet trace files

* Add an experimental spin-poll throttling feature to reduce lock contention
  for GASNET_PAR mode, configure --enable-throttle-poll

* Restructure use of local memory barriers to accommodate architectures
  requiring read memory barriers

* Fix GASNet headers to be C++ friendly

* Many miscellaneous performance, stability and functionality improvements

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11-10-2003 : Release 1.3

* Added InfiniBand support in vapi-conduit - currently only SEGMENT_FAST is supported

* elan-conduit: 
  - updated for the most recent version of libelan
  - fix a few race conditions

* gm-conduit:
  - updated for GM 2.0, including RDMA get support
  - Added 64-bit support
  - Reworked the spawner to work with mpiexec, gexec, MPICH mpirun and a custom spawner

* lapi-conduit:
  - Fix bugs related to varying LAPI uhdr payload size across systems - this is
    now queried automatically at runtime

* GASNet spec: 
  - gasnet_hold_interrupts() and gasnet_resume_interrupts() calls are now
    required to be ignored by the implementation within an AM handler context.
  - Added gasnet_set_waitmode() function

* Add a logGP test program for GASNet conduits

* Add a threaded tester for gasnet threaded clients

* Added a GASNet/MPI test that tests the compatibility of a GASNet conduit with
  MPI calls made by the GASNet client. 

* All GASNet conduits other than gm are now fully compatible with limited MPI
  calls from the GASNet client code. In order to prevent deadlock and ensure
  safety, GASNet and MPI communication should be separated by barriers.

* Factor the firehose page registration system into a new, separate firehose
  library with a public interface, for use by gm-conduit and vapi-conduit
 
* Use "adaptive" pthreads mutexes on Linux (when available), for better SMP performance

* Added support for new platforms: Solaris-SPARC 64-bit 
  and new compilers:  Portland Group C, SunPro C and Intel C

* Add SIGCONT as an additional option for unfreezing a GASNet application
  This is a useful option for debugging GASNet apps which lack debugging symbols
  (but may still have enough info to give you a stack trace, etc) A GASNet app
  frozen by GASNET_FREEZE can now be unfrozen by sending: "kill -CONT pid"
  to each process, or on some systems by typing control-Z on the console to
  suspend the process and then fg to resume it (sends a SIGCONT for you).

* HSL calls now compile away to nothing when HSL's are unnecessary 

* Merged AMMPI v0.8, includes fixes to rare buffer overflows and small memory leaks

* fixed pthread barrier errors caused by a race condition

* Minor semantic change to no-interrupt sections -
  gasnet_{hold,resume}_interrupts() are now officially ignored within a GASNet
  handler context (where interrupts are already suspended anyhow). 

* add new function gasnet_set_waitmode() to control waiting behavior

* Use an atexit handler to make sure we finalize the trace/stats file, even 
  if the client exits without calling gasnet_exit

* Fixes to gasneti_local_membar(), especially for SMP/UNI Linux kernels and PowerPC

* New significant GASNet conduit programming practices:
  gasneti_{malloc,calloc,free}, gasneti_assert, GASNETI_CLIENT_THREADS,
  GASNETI_CONDUIT_THREADS, (N)DEBUG -> GASNET_(N)DEBUG, STATS,TRACE ->
  GASNET_{STATS,TRACE}

* Many minor fixes

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06-28-2003 : Release 1.2

* Greatly increased the number of platforms supported - notably, this release
  adds support for FreeBSD, IRIX, HPUX, Solaris, MSWindows-Cygwin and Mac OSX,
  as well as the SunPro, MIPSPro, Portland Group and Intel C compilers. See the
  top-level README for the complete list of supported platforms.

* Added the smp-conduit, which implements pure loopback to support GASNet
  clients on platforms lacking a network.

* Remove 256-node scalability limit - mpi, elan and lapi conduits now
  theoretically scale to 2^31 nodes. gm conduit scales to 2^16 nodes.

* Merge v0.7 of AMMPI - improved latency performance, better scalability, and
  fixes for LAM/MPI

* Fix bug 120 - gasnet_exit now reliably kills the entire job on all conduits
  in various collective and non-collective invocation situations.

* New switches GASNETE_PUTGET_ALWAYSLOCAL and GASNETE_PUTGET_ALWAYSREMOTE which
  optimize away the locality check for put/gets implemented by
  gasnete_islocal() 

* Updates to the tracing system - separate statistics from tracing to allow
  finer user control controlled by new environment variables - GASNET_STATSMASK
  and GASNET_STATSFILE

* Major cleanup to the gm-conduit bootstrap code

* Internal structural changes to gasnet_extended.h to provide more flexibility
  for conduit overrides

* Minor wording clarifications to the GASNet spec

* Many minor bug fixes

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04-17-2003 : Release 1.1

* Added lots of conduit user and design documentation
* Fix bugs with gasnet_register_value_t functionality, in some cases garbage 
  was returned by gasnet_get_val() in the upper bytes
* Fix bug 51 - endianness bugs on gasnet_*_val()
* Tweak the gcc optimizer settings to ensure that we get full inlining
* Ensure gasnet_exit() or fatal signals always correctly shut down the global 
  job (mpi and elan conduits - gm and lapi still have known problems)
* Add strong configure warnings about using gcc 2.96 - users are highly 
  recommended to avoid this broken compiler
* Ensure configure caching is always on
* Basic infrastructure cleanups to the conduit Makefile fragments
* Fix a shutdown-time crash when tracing
* Add GASNET_CONFIG_STRING to spec & implementation and embed it in library
* Add a number of minor clarifications to the GASNet spec
* Clean up licensing issues

* elan-conduit: 
 - fixups for better handling of elan memory exhaustion
 - preallocate AMLong bounce buffers

* gm-conduit:
 - various stability fixes
 - add spawning scripts for gexec and pbs

* mpi-conduit:
 - add global environment variable exchange to ensure consistent
   gasnet_getenv() results across nodes
 - merge AMMPI release 0.6

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01-29-2003 : Initial Release (1.0)