Revision history for Perl extension Parallel::ForkManager.
2.03 2024-08-24
[BUG FIXES]
- Fix invalid default error when using old Moo (GH#41)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Standardize the link to `fork`. (GH#32)
- Fix typo in code example. (GH#31, dimir)
- Fix typo for 'max_proc' argument in `new`.
[STATISTICS]
- code churn: 6 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
2.02 2018-10-08
- Promote to stable release.
[STATISTICS]
- code churn: 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2.01 2018-08-23
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- add 'child_role' attribute for customization.
[STATISTICS]
- code churn: 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
2.00 2018-08-22 (TRIAL)
[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.
0.7.8 2010-08-25
- Make $VERSION compatible with the most perl versions possible
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
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