CHANGES.txt

Changelog for Shake (* = breaking change)

0.19.9, released 2026-01-19
    Test with GHC 9.12, improving some errors
0.19.8, released 2024-01-14
    Test with GHC 9.8
    #844, optimise database reading/writing with use unsafeUseAsCString
    #836, add threaded flag to disable using threaded runtime
    #837, require filepath-1.14
0.19.7, released 2022-09-15
    #815, improve corrupt database handling code
    Don't say (changed) for files that don't build
0.19.6, released 2021-09-07
    #810, don't hash files in &%> if you don't have to
0.19.5, released 2021-07-04
    #807, fix space leak in Database module
    #796, fix a bug with newCache dependencies
    #798, optimise dependency checking
0.19.4, released 2021-01-14
    #790, add option shakeAllowRedefineRules
*   #790, remove overrideBuiltinRule
0.19.3, released 2021-01-14
    #789, add overrideBuiltinRule
    #787, more documentation on doesFileExist
0.19.2, released 2020-11-15
    #780, Autodeps should consider a rename as a write to the destination
    #778, AutoDeps shouldn't trigger for files read and written
    #779, merge dependencies in O(n and a bit)
    #779, merge local traces in O(n)
    #768, the embed-files flag work on the executable too
0.19.1, released 2020-06-06
    #757, make sure shared cache writes are atomic
    Remove a small space leak if using the Database module
    #755, add instance IsCmdArgument (NonEmpty String)
    #754, tighten bounds to exclude GHC 7.10
0.19, released 2020-05-23
    #738, improve the help text
    #679, allow Ninja to depend on a directory
*   #748, close stdin by default in cmd
    #748, add NoProcessGroup and InheritStdin to cmd
    Delete stuff deprecated since 2014 - **>, ?>>, *>>, *>, |*>, &*>
    Mark askOracleWith and deprioritize as DEPRECATED
    #753, fix timing information for batch
    #746, optimise file modification times on Linux
    #746, add an instance for CmdArgument ()
    Allow getting FSATrace ByteString as a result
*   Make the FSATrace type polymorphic over the FilePath
    Speed up FSATrace parsing
    Require extra-1.6.19
0.18.5, released 2020-02-02
    Use uninterruptibleMask_ to ensure all cleanup happens robustly
    #742, make the Chrome profile only include the last run
    #740, make CmdArgument an instance of IsCmdArgument
0.18.4, released 2019-12-15
    #734, add Forward.cacheActionWith
    #734, make forward fail if shakeLintInside is empty
*   #701, make shakeSymlink=False the default
    #694, embed data files in the binary (use embed-files Cabal flag)
    #722, don't close file handles in cmd unless CloseFileHandles
    #727, add actionBracket for bracket-like operations
    #720, add --share-sanity to sanity check shared cache contents
    #719, write history key after cached files to ensure it is coherent
    #703, print rebuild warnings in yellow and errors in red
    #706, rename Verbosity's constructors and add Warn
    #443, add getEnvError
    #662, add Partial to command/cmd
    #708, rename deprioritize to reschedule
    #689, allow adding help messages at the end using addHelpSuffix
    #686, rename Build.hs to Shakefile.hs
    #690, make Ninja mode use -j0 by default (more like Ninja)
0.18.3, released 2019-07-01
    Add shakeSymlink to enable/disable symlinks in the shared cache
    Improve cmd on async exceptions with nested processes on Windows
0.18.2, released 2019-05-19
    #678, fix serious bug in writeFileChanged
0.18.1, released 2019-05-19
    #678, fix serious bug in writeFile', deleting the wrong file
0.18, released 2019-05-14
*   Make files copied to the shared cache read-only
    Delete files before writing, giving symlink/readonly safety
    #677, make --help work even if the build system throws errors
*   Use parallelism for Applicative adjacent needs
    Support GHC 8.8
0.17.9, released 2019-05-01
    #675, allow --compact=yes|no|auto
    Make lintTrackAllow work after the lintTrackRead/Write
*   Merge successive Cwd declarations to cmd
    #671, change the file format to permit rsync of caches
    Speed up lint tracking
    #670, make cloud values more portable between machines
    #666, exceptions in --share-list, --share-remove are warnings
0.17.8, released 2019-04-02
    Eliminate a corner case of losing exception messages
    Make FSATrace available as a result type
    Commands which have AutoDeps aren't also linted
    #278, add StdoutTrim - like Stdout, but with trim applied
    #659, require base >= 4.8
0.17.7, released 2019-03-18
    Add back -B as an alias for --rebuild
    Make --help say which other options have changed
    Add --lint-ignore flag to set shakeLintIgnore
    Improve the documentation for produces, call trackWrite
    Make trackWrite/trackRead respect shakeLintIgnore
    Make --lint-fsatrace also add to shakeLintInside
    #656, make --lint-fsatrace work with relative directories
    Make sure --no-build does not destroy previous profile output
    #437, #414, #298 rewrite the profile view
    #588, #521 add end times and traced top-levels to the profile
    Add askOracles
    Generate nested dependency information in profiles
    Don't add .exe add the end of traced cmd calls
    Change the profiling .json format
    #651, remove support for GHC 7.4, 7.6 and 7.8
0.17.6, released 2019-02-17
    Make --progress on Windows work with non-ASCII characters
    #18, add --compact for a Bazel/Buck style output
    Make the progress message display a more traditional count
    #638, add shakeTrace to record start/stop of traced commands
    Show user-added options separately
    #625, make --help show the list of targets
    #625, add addTarget/getTargets to track the available targets
    #416, generalise Forward.cacheAction to be in label and output
    #642, detect files that change with --lint-watch
    #649, add --share-list and --share-remove to work with the cache
    #626, improve the display of error messages with call stacks
    Make sure exceptions don't change based on verbosity setting
    Make sure all thread pool threads terminate before shake returns
    #646, change the identity property to require a Maybe
    Use symlinks for --shared
    #643, add MonadFail Rules
0.17.5, released 2019-02-05
    Remove dependency on heaps
0.17.4, released 2019-01-10
    Add shakeProfileDatabase to generate profile information
    Don't suggest -qb (irrelevant with -qg)
0.17.3, released 2018-12-04
    #632, remove O(n^2) behaviour when constructing user rules
    In diagnostic mode, show the number of actions/rules/user rules
0.17.2, released 2018-11-29
    Make needHasChanged work even between runs
0.17.1, released 2018-11-14
    Add actionCatch, to catch exceptions in Action
    #622, avoid potential maxBound overflow in batch
    Reduce the context required for addBuiltinRule
0.17, released 2018-10-15
    Add Database module for repeated execution from one database
*   Don't export the body of the Typeable type class
    Mark deprecated operators as DEPRECATED
    Improve async exception safety in some corner cases
    Support shakeFiles=/dev/null to avoid any database
    Add reprioritise to change the priority of a running rule
    Add a dependency on heaps package
    #611, fix a race condition in actionFinally that reran handlers
    Remove a potential space leak in the Rules monad
    #412, clarify that removeFilesAfter should be used sparingly
    #409, improve the documentation of newCache
    Generalise operations like versioned to Rules a -> Rules a
    Make the Shake database version string contain os and arch
    Don't delete the whole database when an oracle disappears
    #300, soften the database version change message
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    #590, print "Build completed" timing with better accuracy
    #581, improve the information and display of call stacks
    Add actionRetry to retry actions if they fail
    #143, give locations when several rules match
    Compatibility with unix-2.8
    Add shakeShare, --share and history functions for shared builds
    #574, extensive documentation of Development.Shake.Rule
*   Change how alternative and priority rules interact
    Add versioned for rules
*   Change all the ways of obtaining user rules, see getUserRuleOne
    Improve time recording for unsafeExtraThread, parallel, batch
    #553, improve file-hash performance when nothing changes
*   Require addBuiltinRule to take a BuiltinIdentity argument
*   Make the third argument to BuiltinRun a real ADT
    Disable all the lintTrack functions unless lint is enabled
*   Change the Development.Shake.Rule.track* functions to lintTrack*
    #584, add Semigroup/Monoid instances for Action
    Add produces to declare which untracked files a rule produces
    Add historyDisable to note which rules cannot be cached
    #583, add replaceDirectory1
    Add addOracleHash for oracles with reduced storage requirements
0.16.4, released 2018-04-04
    #185, add addOracleCache which doesn't always rerun
    #576, remove incorrect Cabal description
    #575, print --help message at Quiet verbosity or above
0.16.3, released 2018-02-23
    Allow reading data files from next to the executable
    #566, require extra-1.6.1
    #565, deal with multi-file rules that don't create their contents
    Improve the documentation of getDirectoryContents
0.16.2, released 2018-02-13
    Set the correct lower bound on unordered-containers of 0.2.7
0.16.1, released 2018-02-11
    Support process-1.6.3.0
    #290, add withTempFileInside and withTempDirInside
    #549, Semigroup-Monoid proposal support
    Hadrian-462, fail gracefully if on-disk formats change
    #469, only print timing information at normal verbosity or above
    #340, add runAfter
    #372, deprecate askOracleWith
    #520, only record each dependency once
    #548, rebuild the Ninja files, if they change, restart
    #547, make Ninja --lint checking see through phonys
    #546, support Ninja line continuations in more places
    #470, make --verbose and --quiet help text clearer
    #534, make writeFile' and writeFileChanged create the directory
    #543, add resultHasChanged to track results which have changed
    Add getShakeExtraRules, like getShakeOptionsRules for shakeExtra
    #535, add shakeArgsOptionsWith to manipulate ShakeOptions
    #538, make sure processes can be killed properly
    #502, add needHasChanged to track what in a need has changed
    Weaken the typeclasses required for apply/apply1
    #502, add batch function to batch commands with high startup
    Avoid parallel duplicating local state such as discounting
    Prefer to resume tasks rather than start new ones
0.16, released 2017-09-20
    #536, make --skip work for oracles
    Ensure shakeOutput is used more consistently
    #49, add shakeColor and --color flags
    #490, recommend -threaded as standard
    #517, ignore ./ in FilePattern
    Require extra-1.5.3
    #499, add a filePattern function, like ?== but with the matches
    #474, never spawn user actions unmasked
    Allow user arguments to replace builtin arguments
    #522, make copyFile create directories if necessary
    #516, add an example for withTempDir
    #514, expose more about cmd arguments
    #523, #524, make sure phony doesn't run its dependencies first
    #515, add cmd_ function
    #506, allow duplicate type names in different modules
    #503, require shakeExtra to obey the sensible invariants
    #503, add getShakeExtra/addShakeExtra
    #492, fix the single letter flag documentation
    Expose 'Process' from Development.Shake
    #495, remove dangling link from LICENSE
    #436, remove Assume, switch to Rebuild
    Remove --always-make, use --rebuild instead
    #419, remove --assume-old and --assume-new, which never worked
    Remove support for running Makefile scripts
    Add getShakeOptionsRules, to get ShakeOptions in Rules
    #479, improve the robustness of the Pool tests
    #481, document how to raise errors in Action
    Delete the deprecated system* functions
    #427, check stored value after checking dependencies
    Significant changes to defining custom rules
    Delete the deprecated defaultRule
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    #428, don't persist errors to the database
0.15.11, released 2017-01-18
    #488, make sure parallel tracks dependencies
    #513, permit process-1.4.3.0 and above
0.15.10, released 2016-06-14
    #465, fix phony names which clash with directories
0.15.9, released 2016-06-12
    Documentation tweaks
    Optimise the thread pool
    Fix progress output through wget
0.15.8, released 2016-06-01
    Extra base bounds to rule out building on GHC 7.4
0.15.7, released 2016-06-01
    Require extra-1.4.8
    #457, better error message when calling need on a directory
    #456, use displayException for inner exceptions
    Improve the documentation for priority/alternative
    #448, fix FSATrace on Mac 10.11
    #444, optimise copyFileChanged
    #58, change writeFile functions to MonadIO
0.15.6, released 2016-04-19
    Require the primitive package
    #431, make it an error to need a directory
    #393, add orderOnlyAction, a general version of orderOnly
    #408, explain that alwaysRerun has no immediate effect
    #410, add --digest-not flag to select ChangeModtime
    #416, export ShakeValue from the main module only
    #352, improve the grammar in the profiling document
    #399, explain what in getDirectoryFiles is tracked
    #108, add getDirectoryFilesIO, an untracked version
    #401, document getDirectoryFiles exception behaviour
    #401, fix getDirectoryFiles error on pattern directory missing
    #400, detect indirect recursion in build rules
    #402, give better errors on recursive rules
    #369, clarify the docs for putQuiet/putLoud
    #405, make sure phony targets with \ work on Windows
    Require extra-1.4.3
    #398, only require old-time with GHC 7.4
    #239, make Rules an instance of MonadIO
    #384, add shakeExtra field to ShakeOptions for user data
    #374, make --debug=file write out newlines
    #308, make sure Shell and AutoDeps work together
    #365, fix unicode output with putNormal
    #269, add parallel execution via parallel/forP/par
    #310, preserve quoting around cmd
    #333, optimise the random pool, up to 20% faster
    #335, add deriving Read instances for more types
    Add Development.Shake.Forward for forward-defined systems
    #336, export :->
    #337, fix the docs for &%>
    #297, make <enter> run the query profile viewer
    #305, make profiling work with newer Chrome
    #327, Add AutoDeps feature
    #325, add FileStdin to specify the stdin comes from a file
    Make an empty Stdin different from no Stdin (inherit) in cmd
    #320, add ** as a relative-only alternative to // in patterns
    #283, change the semantics of removeFiles, no implicit deletes
    #283, speed up getDirectoryFiles on patterns involving literals
    Work with stack test
    Add RemEnv cmd option
    Fix a small space leak on Linux
    Fix a space leak in profile summary information
    Properly handle *//* in file pattern (at least one directory)
    #303, allow ninja rule names to have dots in them
    Properly handle /// in file pattern (a wildcard then /)
    Make sure Windows separators work in |%> FilePattern rules
    #296, fix multifile rules when using --digest-and-input
    #286, document the relationship between getEnv and lookupEnv
    #285, improve the documentation for phony/alwaysRerun
    #284, fix the documentation for normaliseEx
    #293, add getProgress
    #270, support MonadFix for Rules, allows recursive cache
    #295, discount time spent waiting for a cache
    #294, give better error messages if you hit GHC bug #10793
    #4, add a lock file to stop corrupting databases
0.15.5, released 2015-08-04
    #279, make usingConfigFile do a need on the config file
    Fix a bug where predicted progress could sometimes be ??
    #264, make the the suite more less non-deterministic
0.15.4, released 2015-06-20
    Undo a locally modified file
0.15.3, released 2015-06-20
    #254, in staunch mode, print out all exceptions
    Require extra-1.3
    #259, discount time waiting for a resource in profiles
    #252, have the docs test configure not in dist
0.15.2, released 2015-05-22
    #248, add another example of using cmd
    #245, initial support for fsatrace lint checking
    Reexport -<.> from filepath where available
    Hoogle #106, trigger on filepath version, not GHC version
    Add AddEnv and AddPath command options
    #243, close fds in child processes when spawning commands
    Make Ninja variable handling more accurate
0.15.1, released 2015-04-25
    If you have Shakefile.hs, pass it all arguments without interp
    Add shakeArgsPrune and shakeArgsPruneWith
    #228, allow running cmd async by collecting the ProcessHandle
    Make getShakeOptions/processorCount of 0 return the used value
    #212, document how to get a full terminal with cmd
    #225, warn if there are no want/action statements
    #232, don't ignore phony order-only dependencies in Ninja
    #226, add escaping for GraphViz labels
    #227, add StdinBS for passing a bytestring as Stdin
    Make cmd Timeout call terminateProcess as well
0.15, released 2015-03-26
    #203, make shakeFiles a directory rather than a file prefix
    #220, add getHashedShakeVersion helper
    #220, add shakeVersionIgnore to ignore version numbers
    #219, run Shakefile.hs from the shake binary
    #218, fix issues with incorrect unchanging with no digests
    #218, fix issue with ChangeModtimeAndDigest on unchanging files
    #216, work around GHC 7.10 RC3 bug 10176
    #213, add phonys, a predicate phony rule
    Add CmdTime and CmdLine results to cmd/command
    Fix parseMakefile for words with multiple escapes in them
    #205, add WithStdout, like WithStderr
    #27, add support for capturing Stdout/Stderr with bytestrings
    Add FileStdout/FileStderr to write a stream direct to a file
    #211, add Stdouterr to capture both Stdout and Stderr streams
    Require extra-1.1 (to use nubOrd)
    Generalise cmd to work with Maybe [String]
    Add unit for use with cmd
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    #209, improve orderOnly dependencies
0.14.3, released 2015-01-07
    Support for the filepath shipped with GHC 7.10
    Add Timeout option to command
0.14.2, released 2014-11-27
    #198, add <//> operator to join FilePatterns
    #198, fix the <.> and other extension methods to work with //
0.14.1, released 2014-11-21
    #196, change the links to point at http://www.shakebuild.com/
    Improve the error messages when &%> or &?> go wrong
    Normalise file patterns used by &?>
0.14, released 2014-11-19
    Make FilePattern on Windows cope with all path separators
    Rename normalise to normaliseEx
    Expose native System.FilePath in Development.Shake.FilePath
    #193, eliminate the custom version of </>
    #193, make need/orderOnly call normalise on their arguments
    #177, use the $PATH variable to resolve cmd
    #182, use js-jquery and js-flot
    #195, add getConfigKeys
    #194, replace *> with %> as the operator for rules
    #188, improve the docs on FilePattern
    #187, removeFiles on a missing directory should do nothing
    #166, add withTempFile and withTempDir in the Action monad
    Ensure Ninja response files are always deleted
    Fix incorrect units when showing profile to the console
    Require the extra library
    #178, make --help show the current executable name
0.13.4, released 2014-09-19
    #171, fix the --demo mode on Linux
0.13.3, released 2014-09-16
    Ensure you wait until the progress thread cleans up
    Add --demo mode
    Add --progress=record and --progress=replay
    Add -j to run with one thread per processor
    Fix progress reporting to work even on the first run
    Apply abbreviations to staunch failure messages
    Fix failure progress messages during staunch mode
    #165, make |*> matching with simple files much faster
    Add toStandard to the FilePath module
    #130, support msvc_deps_prefix in Ninja
    #157, allow variable substitution in include/subninja statements
    #147, add the version in the profile reports
    #147, add --numeric-version flag
    #28, switch to continuation passing style, uses far less threads
    #156, add readConfigFileWithEnv for configs with an initial env
    #129, fix processor count detection on Mac with -threaded
    #155, add --live and shakeLiveFiles
    #153, handle escaped spaces in parseMakefile
    #152, fix typo in the manual
    Add copyFileChanged
    Fix the leaf column in profile reports
    Add Maybe instances for cmd arguments
    Add a --profile flag (alias for --report)
    Switch to an underlying continuation monad
0.13.2, released 2014-06-20
    #95, ensure progress never gets corrupted
    #124, add a profile report demo
    #128, allow long Ninja command lines
    Fix --report=- for builds with no commands in them
0.13.1, released 2014-05-28
    Remove all package upper bounds
    #126, Ninja compatibility if Ninja fails to create a file
    #123, generate Chrome compatible traces
0.13, released 2014-05-27
    #122, make --report=- write a report to stdout
    Improve the profile report summary
    #122, turn shakeReport into a list of files, instead of a Maybe
    #60, improve how command lines are printed out
    #113, print info about copyFile' and removeFilesAfter at -V
    Replace **> with |*> , ?>> with &?> and *>> with &*>
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    #83, support digest rules for files
    #83, add shakeChange parameter and --digest* args
    #83, add equalValue function to Rule typeclass
    Deprecate defaultRule
    Make literal *> matches take precedence over wildcard matches
    #120, add a priority function
0.12, released 2014-05-09
    #62, move to a ReaderT/IORef for the Action monad
    Add DEPRECATED pragmas on system' calls
    Delete Development.Shake.Sys, use command or cmd instead
    Add a 'console' pool to Ninja
    Avoid using System.Cmd (deprecated in GHC HEAD)
    #41, use higher precision file times on POSIX
    #117, use higher precision times for Unicode files on Windows
    #118, add support for Ninja -t compdb
    #119, more test fixes for Linux GHC 7.8
0.11.7, released 2014-05-05
    #119, test fixes for Linux GHC 7.8
0.11.6, released 2014-05-04
    #114, run build.sh in the test suite with sh
    #115, fix the test suite on Linux GHC 7.8
    #116, fix for GHC 7.10
0.11.5, released 2014-04-25
    Include the sources for flot and jQuery in the dist tarball
    Note that .. in FilePattern values is unlikely to be correct
    #109, make removeFiles delete directories that match
    #84, make removeFiles not delete empty unmatched directories
    #111, fixes to the user manual
    #110, don't give a warning if -threaded is turned off
    #103, don't suggest -qg and -qb, they fail without -threaded
    #102, fix up </> when the LHS starts with .
0.11.4, released 2014-03-20
    Work with QuickCheck-2.7 (which defines ===)
    #100, handle GraphViz missing gracefully
    Fix up the profiling report generation
    #99, add getEnvWithDefault
0.11.3, released 2014-02-27
    #97, fix a serialisation bug when > 254 arguments to need
0.11.2, released 2014-02-18
    #96, fix a bug in addPath that caused $PATH to be added twice
0.11.1, released 2014-02-06
    #94, GHC 7.8 support
    Add a Config module
    #89, support :: as a build rule separator
0.11, released 2014-01-03
    Add alternatives to allow overlapping rules
    Make storedValue take a ShakeOptions structure
    Generalise the newCache function
    Improve the performance of the Ninja parser
    Make the database more compact
    #84, ensure you normalise removeFile patterns first
    #82, make -j0 guess at the number of processors
    #81, add --lint-tracker to use tracker.exe
    Add trackRead, trackWrite
    Add trackUse, trackChange, trackAllow
    #85, move rule creation functions into Development.Shake.Rule
    Mark Development.Shake.Sys as DEPRECATED with a pragma
    Change shakeLint to be of type Maybe Lint, instead of Bool
    #50, add shakeArgsAccumulate
0.10.10, released 2013-11-16
    Improve Ninja --lint checking
0.10.9, released 2013-11-15
    #76, add Ninja specific lint checking
    #75, add orderOnly dependencies
    #76, add needed, to assert a need doesn't rebuild
    #78, don't use cabal in the test suite
    #77, add shakeRunCommands and --skip-commands
    #67, add withVerbosity
    #51, add getShakeOptions
    Lots of Haddock improvements
    Deprecate system', use cmd or command instead
    #53, add addPath and addEnv to modify environment variables
    Make all search path things return the native separators
    #73, if Haskell can't write a unicode filename, skip the test
    Print out the entire database in diagnostics mode
    Rewrite database writes, old code could break metadata on error
    #25, optimise building with Ninja
    Fix many bugs in FilePath.normalise
    Require QuickCheck-2.0 or higher
    Change how the makefile parser treats \ characters
    Add a --no-build flag
    #74, allow cmd to be used with result IO
    Add a Util module, with Makefile parsing
0.10.8, released 2013-10-15
    Allow unix-1.5.1 again
    Require Cabal 1.10 or above
    Convert to the cabal test compatible test suite
0.10.7, released 2013-09-26
    Support time-1.2
    #71, fix a bug when requesting all three outputs from command
    #64, add progressProgram and use it in progressSimple
    Remove isRunning, kill the progress thread on completion
    #47, improve the performance of ?==, especially on "//*"
    #68, improve the docs for addOracle
    #55, ensure if you need phony targets you rebuild every time
    #52, ensure all command output is printed
    #20, document preferred compilation flags
    #20, speed up the Shake executable with GHC RTS flags
    #39, print out more of the version string on database change
    #41, require unix-2.6 or above
    #48, make it clear filetimes are hashes
    #43, improve the error messages on lint failures
    #45, avoid use of nub
    #45, avoid use of intersect which is O(n^2)
    #26, add newThrottle to create throttling resources
    #26, add unsafeExtraThread to run more than shakeThreads
    #32, add a check that withResources does not call need
    #614, support unicode filenames
    Require unordered-containers-0.2.1 or above
    Reduce stack usage when lint checking
    #24, create the output directories for the multiple file rule
    Improvements to match Ninja behaviour
0.10.6, released 2013-06-28
    Include command/cmd in the default module
    #16, change the scoping in subninja
    #15, fix up the Ninja default targets
    Fix up --version output
0.10.5, released 2013-06-14
    Improve progress prediction for the first build
    Fix removeFiles when there is a directory argument and a pattern
    Delete shakeDeterministic, shakeThreads=1 has the same effect
0.10.4, released 2013-06-13
    Fix writeFileChanged for line endings on Windows
    Support arguments to --progress
    Set the number of capabilities based on -j flags
    Add shakeTimings, to time the separate stages
    Add AssumeSkip, mostly for benchmarking
    Normalise file arguments before calling want
    Expose ShakeException
    Add isFailure to ShakeProgress, and display in progressDisplay
    Add withResources
    Add -<.> alias for replaceExtension
    Add selectors on Stdout/Stdin/Exit
    Add CmdResult instance for ExitCode
0.10.3, released 2013-05-12
    Upgrade to Flot-0.8
    Small documentation markup fixes
0.10.2, released 2013-03-30
    Require process-1.1 or above
    Improve progress guesses (use exponential decay of work rate)
    Improve profiling report error messages
    Add a Command module, with alternatives to system' etc.
    #593, don't assume doesDirectoryExist = not . doesFileExist
    #594, swap how traced messages are printed out
    Add Chatty verbosity, for what was Loud
    Make repeated --verbose keep increasing the verbosity
    If shakeThreads==1 then always use a deterministic pool
    Add shakeLineBuffering, defaulting to True
    Improve the performance of profiling
    Documentation and corrections improvements
    Eliminate StepKey from the profiling output
    Add a --no-time flag
    Makefile improvements
    Avoid use of ghc-options in .cabal file
0.10.1, released 2013-03-18
    Allow the shake executable to build
0.10, released 2013-03-17
    Add phony, for writing phony actions
    Add removeFilesAfter
    Switch to the new profiling code
    Add actionOnException and actionFinally
    Add shakeArgsWith
    Rename shakeWithArgs to shakeArgs and change the clean argument
    Remove the -f alias for --flush
    Add a shake executable which runs Makefiles
    Rename shake to shake-test
    Change how progress messages are written
    Do not write a beep in progressDisplay, avoids a beep
    Add exe function to FilePath
0.9.1, released 2013-02-28
    GHC head (7.7) compatibility by removing the Rules fundep
0.9, released 2013-02-16
    Make the tests work on Linux
    Fix report generation on machines whose text format is not ASCII
    Make Directory functions work the same on Linux/Mac
    Change shakeVersion to be a String
    Stop alwaysRerun causing lint failures
    Make shakeLint check that the current directory does not change
    Add shakeOutput setting
    Add removeFiles function
    Add Sys module for writing consise system calls
    Add getEnv function
    Add shakeWithArgs and shakeOptDescrs
    Add newCache to cache the parsed contents of files
    Add newResourceIO and move newResource into the Rules monad
    Add shakeStorageLog, to help diagnosing obscure database errors
0.8, released 2013-01-31
    Improve the Oracle documentation
    Allow getDirectoryFiles to operate recursively
0.7, released 2013-01-29
    Change getDirectoryFiles to take a set of file patterns
    Add doesDirectoryExist function
    Add shakeAbbreviations feature
    Add a new Progress module for sensible progress messages
    Spawn shakeProgress on a separate thread, a safer default
    Improve the runtime error messages
    Add a quietly function, to hide traced commands
    Print main status messages when running a traced command
    Display the exit code when a system command fails
    Fix AssumeClean when the result exists but has never been built
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    Change the storage to not write messages on --silent
    Add Applicative on Rules
    Add Applicative on Action
0.6, released 2013-01-09
    Make addOracle return a result of askOracle
    Export the class bodies from Classes
    Don't export ShakeValue from Classes
0.5, released 2013-01-05
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    Add the ShakeValue constraint synonym
    Change the Oracle to be strongly typed
    Add a Classes module
0.4, released 2013-01-02
    Add shakeFlush to control how often flush is called
    Fix a serious space leak in the thread pool
    #502, add shakeAssume to assume files are clean/dirty
    Remove validStored, replace with storedValue
    Remove the default validStored class, almost never right
    Remove Eq/Ord from ShakeOptions (now contains a func)
    #501, add statistics gathering functions to help report progress
    Ensure registering witnesses is thread safe
    Ensure GHC does not over-optimise type registration
0.3.10, released 2012-12-17
    Add Paths.hs so you can run the tests from the tarball
0.3.9, released 2012-12-17
    Don't rely on toList returning a consistent order
    Allow hashable-1.2
0.3.8, released 2012-12-12
    Fix up FilePattern so "foo//bar" ?== "foo/bar"
0.3.7, released 2012-12-02
    Update the cabal file
0.3.6, released 2012-11-27
    Add addOracles, for implementing more advanced oracles
    Add withoutActions, for implementing command line arguments
0.3.5, released 2012-11-27
    #571, vastly improve the correctness of FilePattern
    #574, documentation typos
    Expose rulePriority
0.3.4, released 2012-09-17
    Update documentation with links to ICFP 2012 paper/talk
0.3.3, released 2012-09-17
    Minor refactorings
0.3.2, released 2012-09-12
    Fix cabal specification on non-Windows
0.3.1, released 2012-09-08
    Don't use syntax also stolen by QuasiQuotes
    Avoid warnings about unused monadic values
    Fix up getModificationTime for GHC 7.6
    Don't assume catch is exported by Prelude (GHC 7.6 compat)
    Improve the error message when failing to build with *>> or ?>>
    Introduce a portable flag, to switch to portable FileTime ops
    Improve the error message when failing to build a file
    Ensure errors raised bubble up quickly
    Significant improvements to the profile output
    Only trace the program name by default, not the entire command
    Allow unordered-containers < 0.2 again
    Intern all keys, so they are only stored once
    Optimise modification time checking on Unix
    Optimise modification time checking on Windows
    Make some fields smaller on disk
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
    Switch to ByteString for storing File
    Add shakeDeterministic, along with a default random pool
    Make the Monad/Monoid instance for Rules strict
0.3, released 2012-06-17
    #550, ensure the journal thread is locked
    #550, if your thread dies while reading the database then die
    #550, ensure you reset to before the slop before writing
    If the witness table is completely corrupt give a better error
    Make storage work with exceptions whose messages raise errors
    Journal error conditions, to ensure they don't repeat
    Better messages on invalid database versions
    Complete rewrite of the storage layer and journal design
    IMPORTANT: Incompatible on disk format change
0.2.11, released 2012-05-19
    IMPORTANT: #546, don't save the database to where it was created
0.2.10, released 2012-05-19
    Add systemCwd for running with a particular current directory
    Ensure the database is saved to where it was created
    #545, make sure if shake is killed, it kills its children
0.2.9, released 2012-03-25
    Require unordered-containers 2.1 or higher, fixes bugs
    Allow transformers-0.3.*
    Add a random script generator and tester
    Improve the documentation for withResource
    Fix the unordered-containers constraint, was too loose
    Don't write report generation messages in Quiet mode
    Add ?>> operator, a generalisation of *>>
0.2.8, released 2012-02-24
    Rename shakeDump to shakeReport
    Add profile report generator
0.2.7, released 2012-02-18
    #530, require unordered-containers >= 0.1.4.3
0.2.6, released 2012-02-17
    Improve the documentation code fragments (more links)
    Add support for managing finite resources
0.2.5, released 2012-02-15
    Require hashable-1.1.2.3, which has a TypeRep instance
    Add Data/Typeable instances for ShakeOptions
    Add Data instance for Verbosity
0.2.4, released 2012-02-11
    Include the C example source files
    Significant documentation improvements
0.2.3, released 2012-02-09
    Create the shakeFiles directory if missing
0.2.2, released 2012-02-05
    Allow deepseq-1.3.*
    Add a basic lint checking mode
    Remove the Dirty state entirely (was incorrect)
0.2.1, released 2012-01-28
    Put diagnostics in more places
    Add a C example
0.2, released 2012-01-23
    Add shakeStaunch
    Rename shakeParallel to shakeThreads
    Delete the lint support (never actually worked)
    Completely rewrite the central build algorithm
    Add verbosity Diagnostic
    Improve FilePath.normalise
    Add writeFileChanged
    Add systemOutput
    Add an Oracle module
    Add an explicit Verbosity type
    Change to lower precedence for *> etc
0.1.5, released 2012-01-01
    Allow deepseq-1.2
0.1.4, released 2012-01-01
    Don't export currentRule/currentStack
    Fix **>, was matching the wrong way round
    Fix FilePath normalise so it works properly on Windows
    Properly detect recursive rules, instead of looping
    Add *>> for building multiple files at once
0.1.3, released 2011-12-22
    Fix a bug where a file rule could return with a lazy error
    Make sure all the files are stored in binary, not text
    Fix a pattern match error in getDirectoryFiles
0.1.2, released 2011-12-18
    Add a warning in the description
0.1.1, released 2011-12-18
    Significantly improved documentation
    system' now takes an initial argument for the program
0.1, released 2011-12-18
    Many changes to signatures, some basic documentation
    Additional demo, to build shake itself
0.0, released 2011-12-11
    Initial version, not ready for public use