documentation: Update for Charm 8.0.0

ericjbohm commented 5 months ago

Updates to release oriented documentation for Charm 8.0.0

ericjbohm commented 5 months ago

It looks like choosing a branch with the full version name has triggered some branch locking which makes modification unusually difficult. Not sure how to fix that.

ericjbohm commented 5 months ago

It looks like choosing a branch with the full version name has triggered some branch locking which makes modification unusually difficult. Not sure how to fix that.

Revised branch protection rules so we can revise 7.1.0. Will restore restrictions when candidate is ready.

stwhite91 commented 5 months ago

Some other suggestions for inclusion in the release notes:

Added support for NVIDIA's nvc/nvfortran compilers and Intel's new icx/ifx compilers.
Fixed a bug in location management when doing dynamic insertion and deletion of chare array elements.
Deprecated the "atomic" keyword in SDAG code (in favor of "serial").
Added support for TLSglobals on Apple ARM systems and the ability to disable TLSglobals support at build-time.
Performance optimizations for node group broadcasts.
Added CMI-SHMEM module for optimizing small/medium-sized messages between processes on the same host.
Fixed demand creation via ckcallback::send and enabled passing options to ckcallback::send.
Improved portability and usability of AMPI's automatic global variable privatization methods.

ericjbohm commented 4 months ago

See https://github.com/UIUC-PPL/charm/pull/3816 which includes these changes, but from 8.0 branching instead of 7.1

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documentation: Update for Charm 8.0.0 #3804