Revision history for Perl extension Parallel::ForkManager.

2.00 2018-08-22
  [ API CHANGES ]
    - Change the guts to be Moo-based. (GH#24)

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 5 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

1.20 2018-07-18
  [ DOCUMENTATION ]
    - Add section about rand() and forked processes. (GH#22)

  [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
    - Expand abbreviations in error messages. (GH#14, Ricardo Signes)
    - Rename variables and simplify `_waitpid` signature. (GH#14, Ricardo
      Signes)

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 6 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

1.19 2016-06-28
  [ DOCUMENTATION ]
    - Typo fixes. (GH#10)
    - Add short discussion on security about the information passing via
      files between master/children processes.
    - Document the problem between PerlIO::fzip and fork(). (GH#11) 

  [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
    - New way to spawn workers via 'start_child'.

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 4 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

1.18 2016-03-29
  [ BUG FIXES ]
    - Storage file between child and parent could have the wrong name, 
      because $$ was used instead of parent_pid. (GH#9, reported by Lucien
      Coffe)

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

1.17 2015-11-28
  - Up Test::More's dependency version to v0.94 (because of 'subtest'). 
    (GH#8, mauke)

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

1.16 2015-10-08
  - wait_one_child wasn't waiting at all. (RT#107634, Slaven Rezic, Yanick)

  [ STATISTICS ]
    - code churn: 10 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 461 deletions(-)

1.15 2015-07-08
  - test's watchdog actually exit if it's being hit. (RT#105747, Zefram)
  - condition to catch children reaped by external forces improved.
    (RT#105748, Zefram + Yanick)

1.14 2015-05-17
  - Add 'reap_finished_children', 'is_child' and 'is_parent'. (GH#6, Nine
    bit)

1.13 2015-05-11
  - Use 'select' instead of sleep in _waitpid_blocking. (GH#5)

1.12 2015-02-23
  - Allow to use true blocking calls. (RT#102305)

1.11 2015-01-30
  - Promote to non-dev release.

1.10_2 2015-01-25
  - Put the problematic test as a TODO.

1.10_1 2015-01-22
  - Increase timeouts in test to address FreeBSD failures.

1.09 2015-01-08
  - Test was failing on Windows platforms. (Yanick Champoux)

1.08 2015-01-07
  - New helper functions 'max_procs', 'running_procs' and
    'wait_for_available_procs'. GH#4 (Yanick Champoux)
  - Play nicer with calls to 'waitpid' done outside of P::FM. GH#3 (Yanick
    Champoux)

1.07 2014-11-10
  - Increase minimal Test::Simple requirement RT #92801
  - Implement better style and practices in the examples in the POD.
    (Shlomi Fish)

1.06 2013-12-24
  - Remove temporary directory only if it was an automatically generated
    one. Now fixed. (Shoichi Kaji) RT #89590 (johantheolive)

1.05 2013-09-18
  - Remove temporary directory only if it was an automatically generated
    one. (reported by Manuel Jeckelmann)

1.04 2013-09-03
  - Require File::Path 2.0 to support Perl 5.8 (Ian Burrell)
  - fix some typos #88358 (David Steinbrunner)
  - documentation fixes #84337 (Damyan Ivanov)

1.03 2013-03-06
  - Use second parameter from new() that was unused in the last few
    released. (Michael Gang)

1.02 2012-12-24
  - Fix test for Windows.

1.01 2012-12-23
  - Disable utf8 test on Windows where it is a perl bug.
  - Change version number scheme to two parts.

1.0.0 2012-12-23
  - Fixing RT 68298 - Insecure /tmp file handling using File::Temp::tempdir
    by John Lightsey (LIGHTSEY)
  - Adding another callback example and several tests Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

0.7 2001-04-04
  - callback code tested, exit status return (Chuck, dLux)
  - added parallel_get.pl, a parallel webget example (dLux)
  - added callbacks.pl, a callback example (Chuck, dLux)
  - documentation updtes (Chuck, dLux)

0.6 2000-11-30
  - documentation tweak fixes by Noah Robin
  - warning elimination fixes

0.5 2000-10-18
  - original version; created by h2xs 1.19

0.7.9 2010-11-01
  - Exclude the example scripts from getting installed.
    (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=62506)

0.7.8 2010-08-25
  - Make $VERSION compatible with the most perl versions possible
    (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=62180)

0.7.7 2010-09-28
  - Small distribution fixes

0.7.6 2010-08-15
  - Added datastructure retrieval (Ken Clarke)
  - Using CORE::exit instead of exit
    (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39003)

0.7.5 2002-12-25
  - Documentation fixes
  - Fix bug if you specify max_procs = 0

0.7.4 2002-07-04
  - on_wait callback now runs from the wait_all_children method
  - run_on_wait can run a task periodically, not only once.

0.7.3 2001-08-24
  - minor bugfix on calling the "on_finish" callback

0.7.2 2001-05-14
  - win32 port
  - fix for the broken wait_one_child

0.7.1 2001-04-26
  - various semantical and grammar fixes in the documentation
  - on_finish now get the exit signal also
  - on_start now get the process-identification also
  - described limitations in the doc