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Future

The following features will be included in next releases.

Complete the C++11 missing features, in particular
- #6227 C++11 compliance: Use of variadic templates on Generic Locking Algorithms on compilers providing them.
Add some minor features, in particular
- #7589 Synchro: Add polymorphic lockables.
Add some features based on C++ proposals, in particular
- #8273 Synchro: Add externally locked streams.
- #8514 Async: Add a thread_pool executor with work stealing.
Add some of the extension proposed in A Standardized Representation of Asynchronous Operations or extension to them, in particular
- #7446 Async: Add when_any.
- #7447 Async: Add when_all.
- #7448 Async: Add async taking a scheduler parameter.
- #8516 Async: Add future/shared_future::then taking a scheduler as parameter.
And some additional extensions related to futures as:
- #8517 Async: Add a variadic shared_future::then.