• Feature: New graph model to better support C and C++ binaries relationships, compilation, and linkage.
• Feature: New documented public Python API, for user automation
• Feature: New build system integrations, more flexible and powerful, and providing transparent integration when possible, like CMakeDeps and CMakeToolchain
• Feature: New custom user commands, that can be built using the public PythonAPI and can be shared and installed with conan config install
• Feature: New CLI interface, with cleaner commands and more structured output
• Feature: New deployers mechanism to copy artifacts from the cache to user folders, and consume those copies while building.
• Feature: Improved package_id computation, taking into account the new more detailed graph model.
• Feature: Added compatibility.py extension mechanism to allow users to define binary compatibility globally.
• Feature: Simpler and more powerful lockfiles to provide reproducibility over time.
• Feature: Better configuration with [conf] and better environment management with the new conan.tools.env tools.
• Feature: Conan cache now can store multiple revisions simultaneously.
• Feature: New extensions plugins to implement profile checking, package signing, and build commands wrapping.
• Feature: Used the package immutability for an improved update, install and upload flows.