CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7
----------------------

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 1.5
----------------------

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 bpresume() man page; add examples

    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
