Update changelog and set release-date for 3.0.12

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -120,4 +120,4 @@ Adam DePue, 2012/08/22
 Thomas Meson, 2012/08/28
 Daniel Lundin, 2012/08/30
 Alexey Zatelepin, 2012/09/18
-Sundar Raman, 2012/09/24
+Sundar Raman, 2012/09/24

Changelog

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
 
 3.0.12
 ======
-:release-date: TBA
+:release-date: 2012-11-06 02:00 P.M UTC
 
 - Now depends on kombu 2.4.8
 
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
     - [Redis] Now uses a Redis-based mutex when restoring messages.
     - [Redis] Number of messages that can be restored in one interval is no
               longer limited (but can be set using the
-              ``unacked_restore_limit`` transport option.)
+              ``unacked_restore_limit``
+              :setting:`transport option <BROKER_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS>`.)
     - Heartbeat value can be specified in broker URLs (Mher Movsisyan).
     - Fixed problem with msgpack on Python 3 (Jasper Bryant-Greene).
 
@@ -34,10 +35,6 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
 
     The new URL is: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/master
 
-- Event state's ``tasks_by_name`` applied limit before filtering by name.
-
-    Fix contributed by Alexander A. Sosnovskiy.
-
 - New :setting:`CELERY_QUEUE_HA_POLICY` setting used to set the default
   HA policy for queues when using RabbitMQ.
 
@@ -55,7 +52,7 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
 
 - Fixed strange kombu import problem on Python 3.2 (Issue #1034).
 
-- Workers ETA scheduler now uses millisecond precision (Issue #1040).
+- Worker: ETA scheduler now uses millisecond precision (Issue #1040).
 
 - The :param:`--config` argument to programs is now supported by all loaders.
 
@@ -63,8 +60,8 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
 
     Contributed by Jared Biel.
 
-- Task methods (:mod:`celery.contrib.methods`) can not be used with the old
-  task base class.
+- Task methods (:mod:`celery.contrib.methods`) cannot be used with the old
+  task base class, the task decorator in that module now inherits from the new.
 
 - An optimization was too eager and caused some logging messages to never emit.
 
@@ -72,6 +69,10 @@ If you're looking for versions prior to 3.0.x you should go to :ref:`history`.
 
 - Fixed missing whitespace in ``bdist_rpm`` requirements (Issue #1046).
 
+- Event state's ``tasks_by_name`` applied limit before filtering by name.
+
+    Fix contributed by Alexander A. Sosnovskiy.
+
 .. _version-3.0.11:
 
 3.0.11

docs/configuration.rst

@@ -867,6 +867,13 @@ A dict of additional options passed to the underlying transport.
 
 See your transport user manual for supported options (if any).
 
+Example setting the visibility timeout (supported by Redis and SQS
+transports):
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    BROKER_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS = {'visibility_timeout': 18000}  # 5 hours
+
 .. _conf-task-execution:
 
 Task execution settings