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=== Wednesday 9th March 2016 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `perl-Apache-Session-Browseable` to 1.2 in F-24 and Rawhide:
  * Replace MD5 by SHA256
  * Replace serialization by JSON

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `perl-MCE` to 1.700:
 . '''Bug Fixes'''
  * Fixed race condition on Windows for non-threaded workers
  * Updated MCE Models to not fail when running inside an `eval` statement; this addresses [[CPAN:105557|CPAN RT#105557]] and [[CPAN:105559|CPAN RT#105559]]
  * Added new MCE option `loop_timeout` to prevent the MCE Manager process from hanging perpetually; the manager process wrongly assumes a worker is still running when the worker died in an uncontrollable manner ([[CPAN:111780|CPAN RT#111780]])
 . '''Enhancements'''
  * Perl 5.10.1 or later is required to run MCE 1.7; Perl < 5.10.1 lacks '`overloading.pm`'
  * Added code in `MCE::Grep`'s documentation for parsing huge files
  * Added support for running MCE with Perl under `MobaXterm` on Windows
  * `MCE/examples` and `MCE/images` are no longer included with the distribution: these are maintained separately at https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples and https://github.com/marioroy/mce-assets respectively
  * MCE performs channel locking via a pipe or socket depending on platform; previously, locking was through file locking using `flock` - this resolves the slow locking performance on Cygwin
  * Optimized signal handling including improved support on Windows
  * Reduced overhead during spawning and job submissions on Windows and Cygwin; this enables IPC to complete up to 20x faster, thus benefiting Monte-Carlo simulations; e.g. calling `->run(0)` or `->process(...)` repeatedly
  * The `MCE::Flow` and `MCE::Step` Models can take an anonymous array for specifying `use_threads` uniquely for sub-tasks
 . '''New Features'''
  * Added `MCE::Hobo` for running code asynchronously, which provides async/join functionality for processes similarly to async/join in threads; it includes `->is_joinable`, `->is_running`, `->join`, `->kill`, `->list`, `->waitall`, `->waitone`, and other methods not mentioned here
  * Added `MCE::Shared` for sharing objects/data between threads/processes
  * Added `MCE::Shared::{` `Array`, `Handle`, `Hash`, `Ordhash`, and `Scalar` `}`
  * Added `MCE::Shared::{` `Condvar`, `Minidb`, `Queue`, and `Sequence` `}`
  * Added `MCE::Shared::{ Server }`
  * Added methods `->await`, `->enq`, and `->enqp` to `MCE::Step`
  * Added method `->await` to `MCE::Queue`
  * Added option `max_retries => N` for retrying a failed chunk from a worker dying while processing input data or sequence of numbers
  * Added option `posix_exit => 1` to avoid `END` and destructor processing; this is necessary for running with `Tk` and child processes or with `use_threads => 0`
  * Seeds the `Math::Random` generator automatically when present for non-threads to avoid child processes sharing the same seed value as the parent and each other; the new seed is computed using the current seed, thus it's okay to set the seed at the application level for predictable results

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