typelevel/cats-effect v1.4.0

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This release is binary compatible with the 1.x series. It exclusively contains backports from master.

Changes

Enhancements:

• #568 (backport): Make default scheduler remove cancelled tasks.
• #554 (backport): Add Invariant instance for Ref
• #556 (backport): Add Blocker. ContextShift#evalOn omitted for binary compatibility.
• #498 (backport): Add parTraverseN and parSequenceN. Syntax omitted for binary compatibility.
• #560 (backport): Renamed Blocker#evalOn(Blocker) to blockOn and changed Blocker to a value class
• #574 (backport): Add Resource.liftK
• #591 (backport): Add Async.fromFuture

Documentation

• #567 (backport): Align scaladoc with examples from the official docs for IO.shift
• #568 (backport): Fix typo in bracketCase doc

Special Thanks

This release was made possible by:

• @avakhrenev
• @Daenyth
• @Jacoby6000
• @julien-truffaut
• @kubukoz
• @mpilquist
• @rossabaker
• @sideeffffect
• @TomTriple

Thanks to all those involved!