update zenodoo and changelog for release 2.1

Author: psychocoderHPC

.zenodo.json

@@ -2,20 +2,15 @@
   "title": "alpaka: Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration",
   "description": "The alpaka library is a header-only C++20 abstraction library for accelerator development. Its aim is to provide performance portability across accelerators through the abstraction (not hiding!) of the underlying levels of parallelism.",
   "creators": [
-    {
-      "name": "Widera, René",
-      "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
-      "orcid": "0000-0003-1642-0459"
-    },
     {
       "name": "Bocci, Andrea",
       "affiliation": "CERN",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-6515-5666"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Almarzouqi, Abdulrahman",
-      "affiliation": "University of Bahrain",
-      "orcid": "0009-0001-7712-8139"
+      "name": "Widera, René",
+      "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
+      "orcid": "0000-0003-1642-0459"
     },
     {
       "name": "Balducci, Simone",
@@ -27,11 +22,6 @@
       "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-8218-3116"
     },
-    {
-      "name": "Lenz, Julian",
-      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-5250-0005"
-    },
     {
       "name": "Michailidi, Maria",
       "affiliation": "CERN",
@@ -41,18 +31,15 @@
       "name": "Perego, Aurora",
       "affiliation": "CERN",
       "orcid": "0009-0002-5210-6213"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Reinhard, Anton",
-      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
-      "orcid": "0009-0004-6483-2137"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "Yusufoglu, Mehmet",
-      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf"
     }
   ],
   "contributors": [
+    {
+      "name": "Almarzouqi, Abdulrahman",
+      "affiliation": "University of Bahrain",
+      "orcid": "0009-0001-7712-8139",
+      "type": "Other"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Bastrakov, Sergei",
       "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
@@ -129,6 +116,12 @@
       "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
       "type": "Other"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Lenz, Julian",
+      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-5250-0005",
+      "type": "Other"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Martin-Haugh, Stewart",
       "affiliation": "STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory",
@@ -149,7 +142,8 @@
     {
       "name": "Narwal, Tapish",
       "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-5726-2330"
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-5726-2330",
+      "type": "Other"
     },
     {
       "name": "Nash, Phil",
@@ -162,6 +156,12 @@
       "orcid": "0000-0003-3266-4357",
       "type": "Other"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Reinhard, Anton",
+      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
+      "orcid": "0009-0004-6483-2137",
+      "type": "Other"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Rogers, David M.",
       "affiliation": "Oak Ridge National Laboratory",
@@ -226,6 +226,11 @@
       "orcid": "0000-0001-9841-4057",
       "type": "Other"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Yusufoglu, Mehmet",
+      "affiliation": "CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",
+      "type": "Other"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Zacharias, Malte",
       "affiliation": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf",

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,41 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
+
+## [2.1.0] - 2026-12-XX
+
+### Added
+
+- Implement creation of CUDA/HIP Queue with external Stream #2531
+- Implement `alpaka::transform` #2544
+- Implement `concept alpaka::concepts::Acc` #2547
+- Implement `alpaka::exec<Tag>` #2550
+- Implement `alpaka::allocAsyncBuf()` for SYCL devices #2565
+- Implement compile-time warp size for SYCL, when available #2570
+- HIP: add `ALPAKA_ARCH_AMD` definition #2577
+- Feature accessors and span conversion for buffers # 2579
+- Add new backends: CUDA and HIP backends of oneAPI #2580
+- 
+### Changed
+
+- Use `__builtin_assume_aligned()` to promise the correct alignment #2537
+- Update Catch2 to v3.8.1 #2539
+- Separate ViewAccessOps for host and device views #2562
+- Extend `alpaka::allocAsyncBuf()` to N-dimensional buffers on CUDA/HIP devices #2566
+- Provide `atomicInc/Dec` overloads with deduced limit values #2583
+- Specialize DevType for accelerator Tags #2584
+- 
+### Fixed
+
+- Add missing `#include` for SYCL tags #2534
+- Fix windows operation system detection #2558
+- Fix version macros #2561
+- Do not crash if a SYCL platform is invalid or empty #2564
+- Do not include the null terminaton character in the demangled string_view #2571
+- Fix `SYCL_SUBGROUP_SIZE` macro for Sycl #2576
+- Fix `atomicDec()` for CPU #2581
+
+
 ## [2.0.0] - 2025-06-25
 
 ### Added