async-std v1.6.0-beta.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-05-07 // almost 4 years ago
  • ➕ Added

    • ➕ Added task::spawn_local. (#757)
    • ➕ Added out of the box support for wasm. (#757)
    • ➕ Added JoinHandle::cancel (#757)
    • ➕ Added sync::Condvar (#369)
    • 🔀 Added sync::Sender::try_send and sync::Receiver::try_recv (#585)
    • ➕ Added no_std support for task, future and stream (#680)

    🔄 Changed

    • Switched underlying runtime to smol. (#757)
    • 🔀 Switched implementation of sync::Barrier to use sync::Condvar like std does. (#581)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👍 Allow compilation on 32 bit targets, by using AtomicUsize for TaskId. (#756)