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New Features in C++26


features in C++26 ISO releases new C++ language standards on a three-year cadence; now that it's been more than a year since the finalization of C++23, we have a good idea of what features could be adopted for C++26 — although proposals can still be submitted until January 2025. Of particular interest is the addition of support for hazard pointers and user-space read-copy-update (RCU).

ISO releases new C++ language standards on a three-year cadence; now that it's been more than a year since the finalization of C++23, we have a good idea of what features could be adopted for C++26 — although proposals can still be submitted until January 2025. The library also keeps track of some information to determine when all readers have finished with the old version of the object, allowing the writing thread to free it. This change is potentially useful because it permits programmers to use templates to implement the passkey idiom, a technique for exposing given methods only to particular classes.

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