Changelog for distributed-process-0.5.0
2014-30-05 Tim Watson <watson.timothy@gmail.com> 0.5.0
* Dependency on STM implicitly changed from 1.3 to 1.4, but was not reflected in the cabal file
* Race condition in local monitoring when using call
* mask now works correctly if unmask is called by another process
* Improve efficiency of local message passing
* nsend uses local communication channels
* Link Node Controller and Network Listener
* Label spawned processes using labelThread
* Relaxed upper bound on syb in the cabal manifest
* Bump binary version to include 0.7.*
* Exposed process info
* Exposed node statistics
* Moved tests to https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process-tests
* Added "polymorphic expect"
* Exposed Message type and broaden scope of polymorphic expect
* Added Management API (for working with internal/system events)
* Tracing can no longer be disabled
* We now report node statistics for monitoring/management
* Node.runProcess now propagates exceptions to its caller
* Added simple micro benchmarks
2013-01-27 Tim Watson <watson.timothy@gmail.com> 0.4.2
* Improved exception handling for deferred type checked exit reasons
* Add matchChan primitive (thanks Simon Marlow)
* Expose deferred message handling/checking for AbstractMessage
* Add `getProcessInfo' API
* Add `trace' API backed by the GHC eventlog
2012-11-22 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.4.1
* Make behaviour of 'register' more Erlang-like (register will now fail if the
name is already registered). Patch by Jeff Epstein.
* Functor, Applicative, Alternative and Monad instances for ReceivePort
* Add support for receiveChanTimeout
* Improved documentation
* Avoid name clashes in the TH generation for closures
* Relax package bounds to allow for Binary 0.6
2012-10-23 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.4.0.2
* Fix race condition in spawn
2012-10-04 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.4.0.1
* Relax package boundaries
2012-10-03 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.4.0
* Improved treatment of network failure, using new failure semantics of
Network.Transport.
* Make NodeId Typeable
* Extend Template Haskell support with "remotableDec" so that you can refer to
$(mkClosure 'f) within the body of "f".
* Fix bug in spawnChannelLocal
* Numerous memory leaks plugged
* Relax upper bound on dependency on 'network'
* New primitive 'matchAny'
* Remove 'whereisRemote' (see comment of 'whereisRemoteAsync')
2012-08-16 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.3.1
* Fix memory leaks
* Make Template Haskell support optional
* Relax dependency constraints
2012-08-07 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.3.0
* Extract 'static' into a separate package (C.D.Static)
* Use new package rank1dynamic to proper runtime checks for polymorphic values
2012-08-02 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.3.0
* Expose the constructors of Closure
* Add instance (Typeable a => Serializable (Static a)) and make sure we only
use the internal representation of Static where really necessary
* Improved docs
2012-07-31 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.2.0
* Add exception handling primitives
* Fix runProcess: if the process threw an exception, a 'waiting indefinitely on
MVar' exception would be thrown.
2012-07-21 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.1.4
* Bugfix in the node controller
(one way this bug materialized: when using the SimpleLocalnet backend,
slave nodes could not be reused)
* Improved documentation in Control.Distributed.Process.Closure
2012-07-20 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.1.3
* Improve docs
* Local versions of spawn
2012-07-16 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.1.2
* Base 4.6 compatibility
* Relax constraints on bytestring and containers
2012-07-16 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.1.1
* Relax upper bound on 'time' dependency
2012-07-11 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.1
* Complete redesign of the underlying implementation of static values and
closures.
* Add support for 'spawnChannel'
2012-07-09 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.0.1
* Bugfix: Continue processing messages when a connection breaks.
2012-07-07 Edsko de Vries <edsko@well-typed.com> 0.2.0
* Initial release.