What is the Future API

Looking at the firmware release, changelog, I noticed this:

Which says

[PR #1245]17 Particle.publish() now able to use Future API

What is the Future API?

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I think they are refering to C++ futures which along with promises form a way of working with multithreaded code that is easy to use:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/future

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