In the 4 series, whenever the GUI makes a change, it involves two calls to the server.
In the 5 series version, we support auto-sync, which effectively combines the two separate commands into one.
This reduces the latency for GUI and python clients and improves responsiveness.
This has been removed from the code base and replaced with std::unique_ptr
This has been replaced with std::regex
The codebase has been upgraded to c++11 using CLANG. See Using clang tidy to upgrade code base to c++11