v1.8.6

• Use a regular space instead of non-breaking (#55) 3ba6e2d
• Clarify functions for jobs must be defined when worker is started (#53) a61239d
• Add build badge to README 0f3b27b
• Switch to GitHub Actions (#46) 65c0885
• Fix two more instances of cat 1e41772
• Ensure we are using the real cat (#47) c18959a

v1.8.5...v1.8.6

v1.8.5

• Fix async_start_worker on zsh 5.0.2 and below e3550a3

v1.8.4...v1.8.5

v1.8.4

• Fix async_start_worker when noclobber is set c7f35ec

v1.8.3...v1.8.4

1.8.3

Changes

• Avoid warning when WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL is active (#41) (fa94826)
• Close fd on error condition (72c965f)

1.8.1

Changes

• Workaround for main shell stderr being reassigned to /dev/null (8ce4ed6)

1.8.0

Changes

Since 1.7.2

• Only set ZLE watcher after a callback has been registered (317d19e)
• Improve worker startup procedure in async_start_worker (#39) (361dc17)
• Improved error state handling (#37) (32548d3)

Since 1.7.1

• travis: Fix building of zsh 5.0.2 and 5.0.8 (#32) (98d32af)
• Prevent infinite loop in case of broken zpty file descriptor (#31) (43de5e0)
• travis: Switch to using .tar.xz since .tar.gz is unavailable (e6d9372)

Since 1.7.0

• Ensure coproc spawned by async_worker_eval is closed (847a9d8)
• travis: Test on zsh 5.6.2 (14f9ac8)

v1.7.0...v1.8.0

1.7.0

Changes

• New: Introduce async_worker_eval for updating the worker environment (#29)
  • For example, async_worker_eval my_worker cd $PWD, would change the current working directory inside the worker, which would also be inherited by subsequent jobs
  • Can be used as an alternative to passing $PWD to every async job
• Fix: Prefix async job output to prevent external corruption (#28)
  • This also fixes some cases of invalid arguments being passed to the callback when the output buffer becomes corrupt

v1.6.2...v1.7.0

1.6.2

It's been a while since I wrote release notes for zsh-async, I think it's about time.

Changes from v1.5.2 to v1.6.2

• Avoid creation of implcit global variables
• Add 6th parameter when invoking callback functions, has next, indicates that callback will be invoked again within this event loop
• Replace async.plugin.zsh symlink with source for better compatibility
• Add ASYNC_VERSION environment variable
• Avoid array quoting on error states in async_process_results

v1.5.1...v1.6.2

1.5.1

Changes

• Fix problem in async_job when RC_EXPAND_PARAM was set (#15), thanks @derimagia

1.5.0 consequential-canary

Changes

• ZLE watchers are now used on all versions of zsh (the SIGWINCH kill signal is no longer needed to notify when a job is complete)
  • Tested to work on at least zsh versions: 5.0.2, 5.0.8 and 5.1.1
• Small improvements to async_flush_jobs (via _killjobs)

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Full changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0