- cache relied on uniqueness of  python id()
- id may be reused if object is freed
-> object must be held alive
-> kernel keeps all it arguments it was ever called with, alive (problematic in terms of memory consumption)

previously the value was taken from the cell next to the boundary cell (i.e. the inner cell)

-> smaller block

-> moved llvm and dot import in try-except block

- VC 15 (2017) does not set an environment variable any more
- fallback to filesystem search

- abstraction layer for selecting CUDA block and grid sizes
  - line based (was implemented before)
  - block based (new, more flexible)
-  new conditional (if/else) ast node, which is necessary for indexing schemes (guarding if)

- bugfix for CUDA kernels with variable field sizes
- extended tests for pystencils gpu kernels

- this extension is necessary for more generic boundary treatment
- cells can now be structs, i.e. contain different data types
- instead of having numeric index dimensions, one can use the index per cell to adress struct elements

- use data type class consistently instead of strings (in TypedSymbol, Field and jit module)
- new datatype class is based on numpy types with additional specifier information (const and restrict)
- translation between data type class and other modules (numpy, ctypes)

- getShearRelaxationRate is a free function now -> works also with cumulant methods
- better error message when calling kernels with wrong or too few parameters
- entropic & incompressible is not working by default due to pdf shift -> added NotImplemented exception
- new creation function for 'raw_mrt' where all relaxation rates can be independently specified
- enhanced entropic creation funtion, supports omega output field now

- windows support
- automatic caching and creation of shared library with all generated kernels
- restrict keyword and function prefixes are preprocessor macros now -> easier to generate one code for linux, cuda, windows

- due to unordered containers  the same method could produce different but functionally equivalent code
- this behaviour is bad for caching

-> switched to ordered containers