v0.99.7

This release includes 16 new APIs, including new streams combinators, Futures concurrency macros, and extensions to the sync and io submodules.

example using future::join

use async_std::future;

let a = future::ready(1);
let b = future::ready(2);
let c = future::ready(3);

let f = future::join!(a, b, c);
assert_eq!(f.await, (1, 2, 3));

Added

• Added future::join macro as "unstable"
• Added future::select macro as "unstable"
• Added future::try_join macro as "unstable"
• Added future::try_select macro as "unstable"
• Added io::BufWriter struct
• Added stream::Extend trait
• Added stream::Stream::chain method
• Added stream::Stream::filter method
• Added stream::Stream::inspect method
• Added stream::Stream::skip_while method
• Added stream::Stream::skip method
• Added stream::Stream::step_by method
• Added sync::Arc struct from stdlib
• Added sync::Barrier struct as "unstable"
• Added sync::Weak struct from stdlib
• Added task::ready macro as "unstable"

Changed

• Correctly marked the pin submodule as "unstable" in the docs
• Updated tutorial to have certain functions suffixed with _loop
• io traits are now re-exports of futures-rs types, allowing them to be
  implemented
• stream traits are now re-exports of futures-rs types, allowing them to be
  implemented
• prelude::* now needs to be in scope for functions io and stream traits
  to work