typelevel/cats-effect v1.2.0

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General 1.2.0 release.

This release is binary compatible with 1.1.0 and the 1.x series.

Changes

Features:

• #395: Adds Deferred.tryGet, via a new TryableDeferred interface
• #437: Adds a map method directly on Resource
• #439: Adds an evalMap method to Resource
• #464: Adds mapK onto Resource

Fixes:

• #442: Fixes #441, the law bracketReleaseIsCalledOnCompletedError assumes generators never fail
• #443: Uses parSequence rather than sequence in RefTests
• #458: Avoids Throwable#addSuppressed & CompositeException
• #462: Lazily create instance of TimeoutException in IO.timeout
• #473: Adds "repeated asyncF evaluation not memoized" law

Chores:

• #457: Ignores any MiMa problems from the internals package
• #474: Updates copyright
• #476: Updates Simulacrum to 0.15.0
• Updates Scala to 2.12.8 link

Documentation changes:

• #372: Adds one ContextShift example out of three provided options
• #394: Adds documentation on throwing in release function (issue #357)
• #434: Adds an awesome data types cheat sheet
• #447: Removes misleading information about Context shift from IO parallel tutorial
• #454: Fixes error in the Ref docs
• #456: Updates the type class diagram
• #463: Various spelling corrections
• #470: Does some doc fixing
• #477: Fixes doc, fusionMaxStackDepth system property referred to as env var

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Special Thanks

This release was made possible by: @alexandru, @andimiller, @Avasil, @ceedubs, @CucumisSativus, @dwijnand, @johnynek, @kubukoz, @ksonj, @ml10, @Odomontois, @prayagupd, @t3hnar, @Slakah, @SystemFw, @XoJIoD89, @Zelenya

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