parallel/NEWS

20101113

* Using -j myfile the number of jobs can be changed while GNU Parallel
  is running simply by changing the content of myfile.

* Implemented --profile to use different .parallel/config for
  different situations.

* Ugly newlines in $PARALLEL and .parallel/config are no longer
  needed.  Instead you have to use \ in front of special shell
  characters.

* --workdir puts the files transferred to remote machines in a
  specified directory.

* $PARALLEL_PID is set to the process id of GNU Parallel.

* $PARALLEL_SEQ is set to the sequence number of the job.

* -v now only shows the command to run. Use -v -v to show the
   ssh/rsync wrapping.

* Slow spawning error is now only a warning.

* If stdin is a tty and input is read from stdin you now get a
  warning.

* GNU sql: \n and \x0a in arguments is replaced with newline.

* Patch for Debian package and spelling mistakes. Thanks to Rogério
  Brito <rbrito at ime dot usp dot br>

* Mac OS X Homebrew package. Thanks to Jonathan Palardy <jonathan dot
  palardy at gmail dot com>

* FreeBSD port. Thanks to Chris Howey <howeyc at gmail dot com>

* Pardus package. Thanks to Fethican Coşkuner
  <fethicanc at gmail dot com>

* First review in Chinese. Thanks to 曾義峰:
  http://antbsd.twbbs.org/~ant/wordpress/?p=2876

* First review in print:
  http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2010 Nov 2010

* First review in Spanish:
  http://www.muylinux.com/2010/10/18/gnu-parallel-computacion-paralela-a-golpe-de-comando

* First review in Dutch thanks to Koen Vervloesem <koen at vervloesem
  dot eu>:
  http://techworld.nl/technologie/33493/gebruik-al-je-processorkernen-met-gnu-parallel.html

* Blog review thanks to R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox dot org>:
  http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/2010/11/gnuparallel_changed_my_life

* 5000 views of the intro video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ

* As usual a bunch of bugfixes and more usage examples in the man
  page.

* GNU Parallel was presented at FSCONS 2010-11-07:
  http://www.fscons.org/fs/gnu-parallel Hopefully the
  video will be online soon.


20100922

* See GNU Parallel live at FSCONS 2010-11-07:
  http://www.fscons.org/fs/gnu-parallel

* Untested Debian and xUbuntu packages available through OpenSUSE
  build service:
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=parallel&project=home%3Atange

* Using --retries a job will be retried on another computer if it
  fails. This is useful if some jobs fail for no apparent reason (such
  as network failure).

* BSD xargs -o (open /dev/tty) is now default for the job running in
  foreground. Useful for interactive commands like:
  ls | parallel -Xuj1 vi

* GNU sql now supports SQLite.

* Renamed .dburl.aliases to .sql/aliases and /etc/sql/aliases.

* GNU sql now support --list-tables

* Alias for DBURL can contain '?query' part with %-quoting.


20100906

* Using --shebang GNU Parallel can be used as the parser for a script.
  E.g: #!/usr/bin/parallel --shebang traceroute (followed by lines of
  hosts)

* First community generated bugfixes

* Alt Linux package of GNU Parallel. Thanks to Michael Shigorin <mike
  at altlinux dot org>

* Sunfreeware package of GNU Parallel. Thanks to Steven M. Christensen
  <sunfreeware at gmail.com>

* Untested CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat, and SUSE packages
  available through OpenSUSE build service:
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=parallel&project=home%3Atange

* Review of GNU Parallel. Thanks to Andrew McFague amcfague at wgen dot net
  http://www.andrew-mcfague.com/linux/utilities-linux/
  commands-every-serious-nix-user-should-know/#parallel

* First 1000 views of the intro video

* sql - a small script to access sql bases from the command line which
  is a handy companion to parallel --colsep


20100822

* Counting semaphore functionality: start a job in the background. If
  N jobs are already running, wait for one to complete. Examples:
  sem 'sleep 2; echo foo'; sem 'sleep 1; echo bar'; sem --wait
  sem -j2 'sleep 2; echo foo'; sem -j2 'sleep 1; echo bar'; sem --wait

* With --colsep a table can be used as input. Example:
  cat tab_sep_table | parallel --colsep '\t' echo col1 {1} col2 {2}

* --trim can remove white space around arguments.

* --sshloginfile '..' means use ~/.parallel/sshloginfile

* Zero install package. Thanks to Tim Cuthbertson <tim3d dot junk at
  gmail dot com>

* OpenSUSE package. Thanks to Markus Ammer <mkmm at gmx-topmail dot
  de>

* NixOS package. Thanks to Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu dot org>

* Web review http://oentend.blogspot.com/2010/08/gnu-parallel.html
  Thanks to Pavel Nuzhdin <pnzhdin at gmail dot com>

* Web review http://psung.blogspot.com/2010/08/gnu-parallel.html
  Thanks to Phil Sung <psung at alum dot mit dot edu>


20100722

* Arguments can now be given on the command line. Example:
  parallel bzip2 ::: *.txt

* xapply like functionality. Example:
  parallel diff {1} {2} :::: filelist1 filelist2
  parallel diff {1} {2} ">"{1.}-{2.}.diff :::: filelist1 filelist2

* Arch Linux package. Thanks to Peter Simons <simons at cryp dot to>

* Mandriva package. Thanks to Sandro Cazzaniga <kharec at mandriva dot
  org>

* -L -l -n -s now implies -X unless -m is set


20100620

* New video showing the new options.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ or at
  http://tinyogg.com/watch/TORaR/ and http://tinyogg.com/watch/hfxKj/

* 100% options complete with xargs. All options for xargs can now be
  used in GNU Parallel - even the more exotic.

* --basefile for transferring basedata. When running jobs on remote
  computers --basefile will transfer files before the first jobs is
  run. It can be used to transfer data that remains the same for each
  job such as scripts or lookup tables.

* --progress shows progress. To see how many jobs is running on each
  server use --progress. It can be turned on even after GNU Parallel
  is started.

* --eta shows estimated time left in seconds.

* --halt-on-error stops if an error occurs. GNU Parallel will default
  to run all jobs - even if some of them fail. With --halt-on-error
  GNU Parallel can ignore errors, wait for the currently running jobs
  to finish, or stop immediately when an error occurs.


20100601

* GNU Parallel now has support for running jobs on remote machines

* Intro video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlXDtd_pRaY
  http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/video/xdmqwz_gnu-parallel-script-processing-and_tech 


20100424

* GNU Parallel is now official GNU software