CHANGES IN VERSION 1.28
-----------------------

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o (v 1.27.3) Setting `progressbar = TRUE` for SnowParam() or
    MulticoreParam() changes the default value of `tasks` from 0 to
    `.Machine$integer.max`, so that progress on each element of `X` is
    reported.

    o (v 1.27.3) `tasks` greater than `length(X)` are set to
    `length(X)`. Thus `.Machine$integer.max`, for instance, assures
    that each element of `X` is a separate task.

    o (v 1.27.5) Use of random numbers is robust to the distribution
    of jobs across tasks for SerialParam(), SnowParam(), and
    MulticoreParam(), for both bplapply() and bpiterate(), using the
    RNGseed= argument to each *Param(). The change is NOT backward
    compatible -- users wishing to exactly reproduce earlier results
    should use a previous version of the package.

    o (v 1.27.8) Standardize SerialParam() construct to enable setting
    additional fields. Standardize coercion of other BiocParallelParam types
    (e.g., SnowParam(), MulticoreParam()) to SerialParam() with
    as(., "SerialParam").

    o (v. 1.27.9) By defualt, do _not_ only run garbage collection
    after every call to FUN(), except under MulticoreParam(). R's
    garbage collection algorithm only fails to do well when forked
    processes (i.e., MulticoreParam) assume that they are the only
    consumers of process memory.

    o (v 1.27.11) Developer-oriented functions bploop.*() arguments changed.

    o (v 1.27.12) Ignore set.seed() and never increment the global random
    number stream. This reverts a side-effect of behavior introduced in v.
    1.27.5 to behavior more consistent with version 1.26.

    o (v 1.27.16) Better BPREDO support for previously started BPPARAM, and
    'transient' BPPARAM without RNGseed.

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.27.10) Typo in coercion to SerialParam when only a single worker
    specified. https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/151

    o (v 1.28.1) Fix regression in use of debug() with Serialparam.
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/128

    o (v 1.28.2) Fix regression in progress bar display with bplapply().
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/172

    o (v 1.28.3) Fix default seed generation when user has non-defaultg
    generator. https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/pull/176

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.26
-----------------------

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o (v 1.25.2) bpvalidate() gains an argument to control warning /
    error / silent signaling, and returns a 'BPValidate' object.

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.26.1) bptry(bplapply(X, ...)) returns a list of length X,
    appropriately annotated, when SerialParam(stop.on.error =
    TRUE). See https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/142

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.24
-----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v.1.23.1) bpvalidate() detects variables defined in parent
    environments; warns on use of global variables.

    o (v.1.23.2) bplapply() runs gc() after each evaluation of `FUN()`, so
    that workers do not accumulate excessive memory allocations (memory
    on a per-process basis is not excessive, but cluster-wise could be). See
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/pull/124

    o (v.1.24.1) Add 'topLevelEnvironment' to list of blocked global variable
    exports to address performance regression introduced by testthat 3.0. See
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/127

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.22
-----------------------

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o (v 1.20.2) don't advance random number stream when used 'internally'.
    This behavior alters reproducibility of existing scripts relying
    (probably implicitly) on the advancing stream.
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/110

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.20.1) bplapply(), bpmapply(), bpvec() propagate names on arguments
    more correctly, https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/108

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.20
-----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.19.2) Improve efficiency of MulticoreParam() when state
    does not persist across calls to bplapply().

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.18
-----------------------

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o (v 1.17.6) Initial use of registered BPPARAM does not advance
    random number seed, see
    https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2019-January/014526.html
    
    o (v 1.17.7) Loading package does not advance random number seed, see
    https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2019-January/014535.html

    o (v. 1.17.7) removed deprecated functions bplasterror(),
    bpresume(), bpcatchError() and field catch.error.

    o (v. 1.17.7) Make logdir, resultdir fields of BiocParallelParam.

    o (v. 1.17.7) replaced internal use of BatchJobs:::checkDir()
    (testing existence and read / write ability of log and other
    directories) with BiocParallelParam validity check.

    o (v. 1.17.7) expose 'developer' interface, `?DeveloperInterface`

    o (v. 1.17.11) on Windows, coerce `MulticoreParam(n)` to
    `MulticoreParam(1)` == SerialParam()`

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.17.4) port 1.16.3 (no '>' on SnowParam() worker end) and 1.16.4
    (bpRNGseed<-() accepts NULL)

    o (v 1.17.5) port 1.16.4 (bpRNGseed() can reset seed to NULL),
    1.16.5 (number of available cores defaults to 1 if cannot be
    determined).

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.16
-----------------------

NEW FEATURES

    o (v 1.15.9) BatchtoolsParam() gains resources=list() for template file
    substitution.

    o (v 1.15.12) bpexportglobals() for all BPPARAM exports global
    options (i.e., base::options()) to workers. Default TRUE.

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.15.6) bpiterate,serial-method does not return a list() when
    REDUCE present (https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/77)

    o (v 1.15.7) bpaggregate,formula-method failed to find BPREDO
    (https://support.bioconductor.org/p/110784)

    o (v 1.15.13) bplappy,BatchtoolsParam() coerces List to list
    (https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/82)

    o (v 1.15.14) implicit loading of BiocParallel when loading a third-
    party package failed because reference class `initialize()` methods are
    not installed correctly. This bug fix results in signficant revision
    in the implementation, so that valid objects must be constructed through
    the public constructors, e.g., `BatchtoolsParam()`

    o (v 1.16.3) do not print '>' for each terminating SnowParam() worker

    o (v 1.16.4) allow bpRNGseed() to reset seed to NULL

    o (v 1.16.5) number of available cores defaults to 1 on machines
    where number of cores available cannot be determined. See
    https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/91.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.14
-----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v 1.13.1) bpiterate,serial-method does not unlist the result of
    FUN before passing to REDUCE.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.12
-----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v. 1.11.1) Change registered backend initialization  to first
      invocation, rather than on load.

    o (v 1.11.8) Ensure registry is initiailized before (public) use.
      Issue #65

NEW FEATURES

    o (v. 1.11.2) bpiterate() gains a progress counter.

    o (v. 1.11.5) ipclock(), etc: inter-process locks and counters

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.10
----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v. 1.9.6) use of logdir= no longer tries to double-close log
      file.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.8
----------------------

BUG FIXES

    o (v. 1.7.4) Allow more than 125 MPI nodes,
      https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/55
      
NEW FEATURES

    o Throttle number of cores used on Bioconductor build systems
      (with environment variable BBS_HOME set) to 4

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6
----------------------

NEW FEATURES

    o stop.on.error returns catchable 'remote_error'

    o bplapply() signals a 'bplist_error' when any element is an error.

    o 'bplist_error' includes an attribute 'result' containing
       computed results; when stop.on.error = FALSE, the result vector
       is parallel to (has the same geometry as) the input vector.

    o bpvec() signals a 'bpvec_error' when length(FUN(X)) != length(X)

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Rename bpslaveLoop to (S3 generic) bploop

    o bpiterate() returns values consistent with REDUCE, rather than
      wrapping in list()

    o BatchJobsParam() passes more arguments to BatchJobs'
      makeRegistry(), setConfig(), submitJobs()

BUG FIXES

    o workers=1, tasks=0 assigns all elements of X in one chunk

    o SerialParam() respects stop.on.error

    o bpmapply,ANY,* methods did not honor all arguments, particularly
      MoreArgs.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.0
------------------------

NEW FEATURES

    o Add support for iterative REDUCE in .bpiterate_serial() 

    o Refactor BiocParallelParam class:
      - add 'log', 'tasks', 'threshold', 'logdir', 'resultdir' fields
      - 'tasks' is used by SnowParam and MulticoreParam only

    o MulticoreParam now uses SnowParam(..., type=FORK)

    o Add bpvalidate() 

MODIFICATIONS

    o Add check to bipiterate() for Windows 

    o Invoke REDUCE without '...' in .bpiterate_serial()

    o Update README and bpvec() man page

    o Change default BPPARAM to SnowParam() for Windows

    o Update bpiterate() man pages for Windows 

    o Add note to vignette re: module load in template file
      from Thomas Girke

    o SnowParam:
      - bpmapply() now dispatches to bplapply()
      - remove BPRESUME
      - logging, gc ouput on worker
      - write results or logs to file
      - new error handling with futile.logger

    o Lighten the NAMESPACE by importing only parallel, snow

    o Modify which params are registered at load time:
      - Windows: SnowParam(), SerialParam() 
      - Non-Windows: MulticoreParam(), SnowParam(), SerialParam()

    o bpvalidate() looks for symbols in 'fun' environment, NAMESPACE
      of loaded libraries, and the search path

BUG FIXES

    o Bug fix in bpiterate_multicore(); update doc examples 

    o Bug fix in bpiterate() in ordering results from Martin

    o Bug fix in .bpiterate_serial() when REDUCE is given


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0
------------------------

NEW FEATURES

    o Add vignette sections for cluster managers, AMI

    o Add bpiterate generic and methods 

    o Add REDUCE to bpiterate()

    o Add 'reduce.in.order' to bpiterate()


MODIFICATIONS

    o Update vignette examples, reorganize sections 

    o Allow 'workers' in BiocParallelParam to be character or integer

    o Enhance register() man page; add examples

    o Improve default registration for SnowParam:
      - max 8 cores
      - use detectcores() / mc.cores if available

    o Modify .convertToSimpleError() to convert NULL to NA_character_


BUG FIXES

    o Fix recursion problem for BPPARAM as list 

    o Modify bpaggregate() to run in parallel
