Revival / Upgrades

• Upgraded Gradle and its plugins
• Upgraded various depndencies used
• Improved/unified formatting and style checks

Pinned Executors Refactoring

• PinnedExecutors refactoring
• Pinned#current() utility addition
• detekt/checkstyle upgrade

Affinity Setting Agent

This release adds an affinity setting agent - a javaagent for setting the affinity of threads started by either the JVM itself or 3rd party libraries, allowing developers to achieve thread-level core-shielding like behavior for applications running on top of the JVM.

Kotlin Coroutines Extensions

This release adds pinned versions (both fixed and governed) of Kotlin's CoroutineDispatcher in needle-knitter

Fork-join pool worker threads pinning support

• This release adds an affinity aware version ForkJoinPool called PinnedForkJoinPool
• The PinnedThreadFactory interface (and its implementations) now also implements ForkJoinPool.ForkJoinWorkerThreadFactory (in addition to ThreadFactory)

Initial Stable Release

This release includes the following features

• Windows / Linux OS support
• Core affinity functionalities
• JVM drop-in replacement concurrent extension
• Basic Kotlin integration support
• Maven central publication