NEWS

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pulsar 0.3.13 (2026-03-29)

• Replace mclapply (fork-based) with parLapply (PSOCK cluster) when ncores > 1, fixing OpenMP+fork deadlocks on GCC/Linux (CRAN r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc)
• Multi-core mode now works on Windows

pulsar 0.3.12 (2026-03-19)

• Guard examples and vignettes against missing suggested packages (fixes CRAN noSuggests check failures)
• Pin huge (>= 1.5) in Suggests
• Use arXiv DOI format in Description field

pulsar 0.3.11 (2023-09-24)

• Fixes an issue where all the variability values are lower than the variability threshold, select the lowest possible value in Bounded Stars. Fix by @gnopuz83
• Future-proof changes to Matrix v1.6-2
• Fix change in citation style
• Fix Mac chip instability

pulsar 0.3.9 (2023-01-08)

• Fix BigQuic-dependent tests

pulsar 0.3.8 (2022-08-27)

• Future-proof sparse Matrix convertors for Matrix-1.4-2 in code and docs
• Fix one S3 class check
• Fixed broken urls in docs

pulsar 0.3.7 (2020-08-07)

• Remove the deprecated QUIC package from suggested packages in DESCRIPTION file.
• Replace QUIC with BigQuic (from CRAN) in tests

pulsar 0.3.6 (2019-08-22)

• Better error handling for multicore pulsar jobs.

pulsar 0.3.5 (2019-03-07)

• Fix other-criteria vignette by explicitly importing the Matrix library
• Export update.pulsar

pulsar 0.3.4 (2018-09-02)

• Fixed tests based on deprecated batchtools function
• Added internal refit method for faster parallelization

pulsar 0.3.3 (2018-06-12)

• Fixed tests that violated CRAN policy
• Changed internals method for resolving to batchtools (v0.9.10) default when sourcing a config file
• Fixed refit criterion in 'other-criteria' vignette

pulsar 0.3.2 (2018-03-17)

Changes

• Fixed tests that were failing on Windows.
• Fixed a few typos in the docs.

pulsar 0.3.0

Changes

• Migrate to the new and improved batchtools for batch.pulsar & related functions. BatchJobs is deprecated. ** Updated how default config files and templates are sourced ** Removed the getTempDir function ** Updated documentation ** Deprecated batch.pulsar progressbar arguments, now controlled by batchtools options.
• Fixed some failing tests. Small data tests were too sensitive to parameter choices, substituted larger p datasets.
• Similar fix for problem vignettes.