Changelog of @hackage/distributed-process 0.7.3

2017-08-31 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.7.3

Drop support for ghc-7.8.* and earlier.

2017-08-31 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.7.2

Fixed build errors with ghc-8.2.1.

2017-08-22 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.7.1

Relax upper bounds in dependencies to build with ghc-8.2.1.

2017-08-21 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.7.0

Change type of message sent by say from a 3-tuple to a proper type (SayMessage) with a proper UTCTime. (#291)
Expose the MonitorRef in the withMonitor call.
Have unmonitor remove the monitor message in the inbox. (#268)
Remove Mx Data Tables. This API isn't used, is easy to replace with various other packages. (#276)
Add Ord instance to SpawnRef.

2016-10-13 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.6

Remove monitors from remote nodes when a process dies. (#295)

2016-10-12 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.5

Use only one connection to communicate between NCs. (#296, #297)
Improve documentation of CQueue.
Implement bidirectional multimaps for links and monitors. (#293, #294)
Fix various warnings. (#292)
Fix some of the intermittent failures in tests.
Improve error messages when node controllers receive invalid requests. (#290)

2016-06-09 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.4

Fixup build errors.

2016-06-09 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.3

Relax template-haskell upper bound.

2016-06-09 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.2

Provide compatibility with ghc-8.0.1
Remove dependency on ghc-prim.
Don't throw exceptions asynchronously.
Bump upper bounds of dependencies.
Fix exception handling in callLocal.
Have spawnLocal inherit the masking state of the caller.
Have nsend send unencoded messages to local processes.

2016-03-03 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.1

Implement MonadCatch, MonadThrow, MonadMask for Process.

2016-02-18 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.6.0

Have nsendRemote skip the transport for local communication.
Unsafe primitives for usend and nsendRemote.
Stop using the transport for local communication.
Skip the transport for whereisRemoteAsync and registerRemoteAsync.
Have nsendRemote skip the transport for local communication.
Have runProcess forward exceptions.
Reimport distributed-process-tests. d-p and d-p-test now can be kept in sync.
Add a stack.yaml file for building tests and d-p all at once conveniently.
Implement unreliable forward (uforward).
Add Functor instance for Match data type
Have spawnAsync not use the transport in the local case.
Fix monitor race in 'call'.
Add compatibility with ghc-7.10: support new typeable, loosen deps, write proper NFData instances, support new TH.
Kill processes on a local node upon closeLocalNode.
Fix getNodeStats function, see DP-97
Return size of the queue in ProcessInfo.
Implement unreliable send (usend).
Implement MonadFix instance for Process.
Introduce callLocal primitive.
Prevent message loss due to timeouts in CQueue.
More informative ProcessRegistrationException. Now includes the identifier of the process that owns the name, if any.
Avoid message loop between threads when tracing received messages.

2015-06-15 Facundo Domínguez facundo.dominguez@tweag.io 0.5.5

Fix dependencies.
Add compatibility with GHC-7.10.
Fix various race conditions (DP-99, DP-103).

2014-12-09 Tim Watson watson.timothy@gmail.com 0.5.2

Fix docstring for register
Added Data instance to ProcessId, LocalProcessId and NodeId
Add static serialiation dictionary for 'Static', for completeness
Add Closure static serialization dictionary
Replacement for modifyMVarMasked for GHC <= 7.4
Document the use of built-in trace flags
Make forkProcess exception-safe
Make -Wall clean

2014-08-13 Tim Watson watson.timothy@gmail.com 0.5.1

Fix cabal docs (thanks Markus Barenhoff)
Expose lifted version of Control.Exception.mask_ (thanks Alexander Vershilov)

2014-05-30 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.