BLIS 1.0 now available

[Field Van Zee]

Friends of BLIS,

BLIS 1.0 is now available.

This release contains several new features and optimizations related to threaded execution, as well as internal changes that improve maintainability and lay the groundwork for future refactoring. The build system and kernel sets saw lots of new code and tweaks to old code, and of course there were many bugfixes.

Please see the release notes for an extensive summary of changes since 0.9.0 [1]. Or, for a full list of commit-level changes, please see the CHANGELOG [2].

Note that this is also the first release of BLIS usings its new, simpler "x.y" version numbering system.

Special thanks to Devin Matthews, Leick Robinson, Jeff Diamond, Edward Smyth, Minh Quan Ho, Nick Knight, Aaron Hutchinson, Lee Killough, Christopher Taylor, Angelika Schwarz, RuQing Xu, Srinivas Yadav, Harihara Sudhan S, Nisanth M P, John Mather, Harsh Dave, James Foster, @moon-chilled, Daniël de Kok, Bhaskar Nallani, Madeesh Kannan, Jed Brown, Mo Zhou, Bart Oldeman, Ajay Panyala, Abhishek Bagusetty, @h-vetinari, Mithun Mohan, Mohsen Aznaveh, Tim Davis, Isuru Fernando, Alexander Grund, Nicholai Tukanov, Barry Smith, Igor Zhuravlov, Kihiro Bando, Robert van de Geijn, and the CPU libraries group at AMD for their helpful bug reports, suggestions, contributions, and help in tracking down issues. Please continue to give us feedback--it is always appreciated!

And if you haven't already, please join us for discussion on the BLIS Discord server [3]!

Best regards,
Field

[1] https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
[2] https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/CHANGELOG
[3] https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/Discord.md