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HELICS v2.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-08-20 // over 3 years ago

  • 🐛 Bug fixes and major logging update

    🔄 Changed

    • 🚀 The build flag function now returns correct debug or release flags depending on the build
    • The debug postfix d is no longer added to the interface libraries
    • 🚚 Spdlog is now being used for logging inside HELICS and the old logger has been removed this results in fewer thread being generated by HELICS.
    • 🏗 CMake will now error if the install directory is set to the build directory
    • Some argument names in the C API have been changed for consistency
    • Output a more descriptive error message for mismatched data sizes when converting types #1521
    • Some C++98 API functions were added and changed for consistency, specifically endpoint get type no returns a char * instead of std::string, and a getCurrentTime function was added to Federate
    • 🌲 logging level properties from a federateInfo structure will be inherited by a core for the first registered federate

    🛠 Fixed

    • String with negative numerical values were not acknowledging the negation Issue #1306
    • 📜 Config file parsing was not acknowledging "unit" string #1512
    • 🐎 A performance issue with the tcpss and tcp cores in some cases has been resolved by setting the no_delay option
    • Inconsistency in type returned by endpoint getType in C++98 API #1523
    • a potential segmentation fault when calling some methods in the C shared library after calling helicsCloseLibrary

    ➕ Added

    • 🌲 Flags for dumplog and force_logging_flush were added to the C API
    • ➕ Added missing C++98 call to getCurrentTime
    • ➕ Added closeLibrary function to the C++98 API
    • ➕ Added a Python benchmark file
    • An option to install the benchmark executables has been added
    • 🌲 Data logging output for both send and receive of messages
    • 🐧 A GitHub Actions workflow to build packages for Linux with the benchmark executables

    ✂ Removed

    • The previous logger including logger.h has been replaced with spdlog