**Major Enhancements**
+ This version introduces numerous performance and accuracy enhancements to the ParaMonte library.
+ The entire kernel library is now fully documented and verified with over 866 tests that cover close
to 100% of all lines and functions in the kernel.
+ New prebuilt libraries with GNU compilers and Open-MPI on Linux are added.
+ New flags are now added to the build scripts of the library that automate the process of code coverage generation.
+ The `testing` builds are now removed from the ParaMonte release page as this build is mostly useful for development purposes.
+ The issue of Windows file locking, that led to the occasional crashes of the
ParaDRAM and ParaDISE simulations in `multiChain` parallelism mode, is now resolved.
**Minor Enhancements**
+ Minor enhancements to the ParaMonte C/C++/Fortran example build scripts `build.sh` and `build.bat`.
+ The default build settings are now limited to `heap` memory allocation with `dynamic` library builds
for only serial and MPI parallelization for all languages. The `stack` memory allocation results in
a ~10% gain in the efficiency of the code. The benefits of stack-memory builds are marginal and are
often problematic, in particular, for usage with non-compiled languages. However, users can still
build the library with `stack` memory allocation by specifying the appropriate build flags with
the `install.sh` on Unix or `install.bat` script on Windows systems. For further information,
see the installation guidelines on the ParaMonte documentation website.
+ All temporary array creations in debug mode are now resolved,
except when Intel compilers are used, in which case, the debug warning messages are silenced.
**Compiler Compatibility**
| Compiler Suite | Windows (64bit) | Linux | macOS |
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