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