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List of new/changed features in C++11, general links and feature-specific internal pages.

• ISO C++: Home of Standard C++
  • ISO C++11 Overview
  • ISO C++ Super-FAQ
• Bjarne's C++11 FAQ (obsoleted by ISO C++ Super-FAQ above)
• Ten C++11 Features Every C++ Developer Should Use
• C++11 Features Every C++ Programmer Should Know
• The Biggest Changes in C++11 (and Why You Should Care)
• Learn from Folly source code the new C++11 features.
• What's New in C++11
• C++11 compiler support

• C++11 keywords
• C++11 data types
• C++11 language features

Constantly being shuffled around; this list will be used as the basis for the more specific pages listed above.

• right angle brackets

• alignas/alignof
• decltype
• char16_t, char32_t
• nullptr
• New string literals (Unicode, raw)
• User-defined literals
• auto type deduction
• constexpr (here?)
• type traits

Any other new character types?

• Initializer lists
• Overloading and “= delete” for non-member functions
• Trailing return types (mostly for templates)

• Range for loops
• for_each, non-member begin() and end()

• Inline namespaces

• scoped enums
• forward enum declarations
• strongly-typed enums (n2347.pdf)

• Delegating constructors
• Inheriting constructors
• Move semantics (tied to rvalues)
• “= default”
• “= delete”

• Basic rvalue references
• Rvalue references for *this

• Non-static data member initializers
• Explicit conversion operators
• Extended friend declarations

• override
• final

• auto_ptr (deprecated)
• unique_ptr
• shared_ptr
• weak_ptr

• Template aliases
• variadic templates (parameter pack, sizeof…)
• Trailing return types
• extern template (explicit instantiation declaration)
• Extended friend declaration
• Local and unnamed types as template parameters(?)

• noexcept

• static_assert()

• With the approval of C++11, TR1 is officially incorporated into standard C++ standard, along with new libraries that have been added since TR1.
• threading library
• relies heavily on move semantics
• New algorithms here
• tuple

• Atomic operations
• Threads and thread-local storage
• async()

• extern template
• Regular expressions
• C99 preprocessor (__cplusplus??)
• Unrestricted unions
• Attributes
• ref-qualifiers (move semantics?)
• Dynamic pointer safty (garbage collection)
• I/O manipulators