PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-09-13

Wednesday 13th September 2017

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Apache-Session-Browseable to 1.2.6 in F-27 and Rawhide:

    • Force allow_nonref option (GH#14)

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.830 in F-27 and Rawhide:

  • Bug Fixes
  • Enhancements
    • Added Coro and Win32::GUI to list for enabling posix_exit

    • Added support for Haiku to get_ncpu in MCE::Util

    • Allow gathering to a shared array in MCE::Candy

    • Improved CPU count on the AIX platform in MCE::Util

    • Improved signal handling, including nested parallel-sessions
    • Improved running MCE::Hobo inside MCE workers

    • Improved running MCE with PDL

    • Refactored logic for MCE->do, bi-directional callback feature

    • Preserve lexical type for numbers during IPC: MCE->do and MCE::Queue

    • No longer loads threads on the Windows platform in MCE::Signal; this enables MCE::Hobo 1.827 to spin faster, including lesser memory consumption (threads isn't required to run MCE::Hobo)

    • Removed extra white-space from POD documentation
    • Validated MCE on SmartOS

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.828 in F-27 and Rawhide:

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed bug in MCE::Shared::Queue

  • Enhancements
    • Refactored MCE::Hobo, MCE::Shared and MCE::Shared::Server

    • Preserved lexical type for numbers during IPC
    • Added Coro and Win32::GUI to list for enabling posix_exit

    • Added encoder and decoder methods for overriding serialization

    • Added parallel HTTP get demonstration using AnyEvent to MCE::Hobo

    • Added Inline::Python, Logger, and Tie::File demonstrations to MCE::Shared

    • Added DBM-Sharing section to the POD documentation

    • Added iterator method to MCE::Cache

    • Improved auto-dereferencing for shared arrays, hashes, and scalars
    • Improved open method for non-shared file-handles in MCE::Shared::Handle

    • Improved shared-PDL support; updated MCE::Cookbook on Github

    • Improved signal handling, including nested parallel-sessions
    • Improved running MCE::Hobo and MCE::Shared with PDL

    • Improved taint mode via perl -T

    • In MCE::Hobo, waitall and waitone are now aliases to wait_all and wait_one respectively for backwards compatibility

    • No longer loads threads on the Windows platform in MCE::Shared::Server; this enables MCE::Hobo to spin faster, including lesser memory consumption

    • Removed extra white-space from POD documentation
    • Validated MCE::Hobo and MCE::Shared on SmartOS

    • Bumped MCE dependency to 1.830

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-MCE to 1.830 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.828 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Regexp-Parser to 0.22:

  • Updated perl-Test2-Suite to 0.000077:

    • Add Test2::Tools::GenTemp


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