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• Deprecate exp_backoff and lin_backoff in favor of exponential_backoff and linear_backoff(thanks @bamorim for the bug report)
• Add Elixir 1.7 support
• Doc updates (thanks @skateinmars)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Change wait-then-else to wait-after-else
• Introduce retry-after-else
• Both macros now include
  • the result in the after clause
  • the error in the else clause

Allow other atoms or atom-result tuples to be retried, courtesy of @rawkode.

Allow rescue_only to be a runtime list, thanks to @jvoegele's PR.

Make with option mandatory again.

• Consolidate whitelisted exceptions as an option
• Tests now run faster
• Phase out support for Elixir 1.3 and include 1.5

Credit to @fredwu for the PR.

Now you can retry on a custom list of exceptions by specifying a list of errors as the first argument to the retry macro.

Thanks @neerfri for the contribution.

• Add initial_delay support to exp_backoff stream
• Fix a number of Elixir 1.4 warnings

Introducing a new wait-then-else macro that simplifies asynchronous workflows.

This release also introduces a couple of breaking changes

• For simplicity, the wait macro no longer takes the with key for the delay stream.
• The old, non-composable retry and backoff macros have been retired in favor of the newer composable counterparts.

Introducing retry_while.