Changes in version 0.5.5:

NEW FEATURES

    o   multicoreWorkers() determines the number of workers based on
	operating system (Windows: 1), user preference (via the global
	option options(mc.cores=...)), or system capability
	(detectCores()).

    o   bpparam() selects a default BiocParallelParam, from global options
	or, if that fails, the most recently registered() back-end.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Rename argument controlling resumption on error as BPRESUME

    o   Default to parallel back-end (multicore on non-Windows; snow on
	Windows).

BUG FIXES

    o   bpvec,ANY,MulticoreParam-method with fewer tasks than cores
	evaluates only the cores for which tasks are defined.

Changes in version 0.5.2:

NEW FEATURES

    o   mclapply(), pvec() require only length, [, and (for mclapply) [[.

    o   pvectorize() creates a parallel version of its vectorized function
	argument.

    o   MulticoreParam, SnowParam, DoparParam (foreach-derived),
	SerialParam to parameterize back-ends.

    o   bplapply, bpvec as parallel evaluation models.

    o   bpstart, bpstop, bpisup for back-end management.

    o   bpvec has a new argument AGGREGATE, a function to specify how
	results are to be combined.

    o   Support for BatchJobs back-end added, via GSOC Michel Lang.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   BPPARM is now used as the argument name for passing
	BiocParallelParam instances to functions.

    o   bplapply and bpvec now only dispatch on X and BPPARAM.