CHANGELOG.txt

0.7.1 (2014/03/17)
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+ Added: Support for SLURM (Thanks EBo!)
+ Added: Fallback to standard map when application launched without -m scoop
+ Fixed: Distribution ordering issue that translated in loss of performance when multiple maps were used
+ Fixed: Multiple SIGINT would cancel remote process cleanup and result in zombie workers
+ Fixed: Support for csh and its variants
+ Improved: SCOOP's logger
+ Improved: Queues (Broker and Worker) are now all FIFOs
+ Improved: Debugging information on launching process
+ Improved: Documentation

0.7.0 (2014/01/30)
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+ Improved: Garbage collection of Futures.

0.7.0-RC2 (2013/11/13)
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+ Fixed: Bug sharing lambda function (referenced elements could not unpickle)
+ Fixed: Bug sharing method (elements would falsely be treated as methods)

0.7.0-RC1 (2013/08/02)
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+ Fixed: Local launches could generate zombie processes
+ Added: map_as_completed() in the futures API interface
+ Added: Benchmark utilities
+ Added: Support for multi-brokers
+ Improved: Documentation
+ Improved: mapReduce() now won't communicate intermediary results
+ Improved: Future results are now sent back directly to its destination
+ Improved: Reduction has now a tree communication scheme (logarithmic reduce)
+ Improved: Various socket optimizations

0.6.2 (2013/07/02)
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+ Fixed: Process cleanup on csh/tsh shell variants
+ Fixed: Using partials could crash - switched Future callable identification from __name__ to its hash()

0.6.1 (2013/03/04)
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+ Fixed: Support for Python 2.6
+ Fixed: Logging configuration contamination
+ Added: Preliminary support for Object-Oriented paradigm (Parallel method executions)
+ Added: Support for lambda execution
+ Added: Pool discovery features
+ Improved: A Future can now return None

0.6.0 (2013/01/21)
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+ Improved: Launching submodule
+ Improved: Network handling
+ Improved: Debugging output
+ Improved: Documentation and examples
+ Changed: Default verbosity is now level 1
+ Added: --quiet flag
+ Added: Nicing levels for local workers

Special thanks to:
+ Stijn De Weirdt <stijn.deweirdt <at> gmail.com>

0.6.0-RC2 (2012/12/28)
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+ Added: Shared constants and functions
+ Added: Examples for newly available features
+ Added: Support for interactive sessions

0.6.0-RC1 (2012/11/22)
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+ Fixed: Backported modules conflicting with Python 3 installation
+ Fixed: Memory leak in the Futures queues
+ Improved: Time-based future buffer (instead of count-based)
+ Improved: Cleaning remote workers after termination
+ Added: Remote broker launching
+ Added: mapReduce and mapScan functions


0.5.3 (2012/08/24)
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+ Improved worker ouput to standard output
+ Fixed: Launching distribution shown in verbose mode
+ Fixed: Python 2.6 launching issue
+ Fixed: Remote worker cleanup upon abnormal program termination


0.5.2 (2012/08/14)
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+ Improved networking
+ Improved bootstrapping
+ Added unit tests
+ Fixed: Memory leak on exception handling
+ Fixed: Memory leak on Futures handling


0.5.1 (2012/07/29)
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+ Substantially improved documentation
+ Improved grid scheduler support (SGE and Torque)
+ Improved hostfile support
+ Added: Python 2.6 support (see documentation)
+ Added: Default number of workers is now the number of local CPUs
+ Fixed: Bug on some Future return value
+ Fixed: Memory leak on a specific Future usage


0.5.0 (Alpha) (2012/05/11)
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+ Greenlet based task handling
+ ZeroMQ based networking
+ Master-Slave paradigm implemented named Broker <-> Worker
+ Tasks caching features implemented (Thresholds named high and low water marks)