Hangfire.Core 1.7.28

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Please see https://docs.hangfire.io/en/latest/upgrade-guides/upgrading-to-hangfire-1.7.html to learn how to upgrade from 1.6.X.

1.7.28 • Fixed – Reduce the number of attempts in BackgroundJobStateChanger to avoid infinite loops. • Fixed – Typos in German translation (by @saxx). • Fixed – Translations in Turkish translation (by @can-zengin).

1.7.27 • Added – Turkish language support for the Dashboard UI (by @csarigul). • Fixed – Trigger button in the Dashboard UI doesn't respect a custom time zone resolver. • Fixed – Dispatchers stopped when unable to add the ExecutionId data for an exception instance. • Fixed – Safari's zoom feature breaks the Dashboard UI (by @oguzhantopcu). • Fixed – Some typos in XML documentation comments (by @GitHubPang).

1.7.26 • Security – Fix "Dashboard UI accessible from outside by default since 1.7.25" regression.

1.7.25 • Changed – Upgrade Bootstrap from 3.3.7 to version 3.4.1 in Dashboard UI. • Changed – Upgrade Chart.js from 2.7.3 to version 2.9.4 in Dashboard UI. • Changed – Upgrade jQuery from 2.2.4 to version 3.6.0 in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Check background job existence before adding a continuation id to job parameters. • Fixed – Incorrect validation for the HeartbeatInterval option (by @GitHubPang). • Fixed – Use better stacking for succeeded/failed charts in the Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Move explicit styles to CSS to fix possible CSP errors in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Reset default sync auth filter when async one is specified in Dashboard UI.

1.7.24 • Added – Support for async auth methods via the DashboardOptions.AsyncAuthorization property (by @rosenbjerg). • Fixed – Error alert in Dashboard UI is now correctly shown when sidebar is present (by @danillewin). • Fixed – Reference an empty favicon in Dashboard UI to prevent backend 404s (by @dan2468). • Fixed – Back-to-site link text in Dashboard UI is now hidden on small screens (by @danillewin). • Fixed – Avoid memory leak in the AppBuilderExtensions class (by @LordJZ). • Fixed – Make the TypeHelper class public instead of internal to use it outside.

1.7.23 • Added – JobId property to JobPerformanceException for error logging purposes (by @Plasma). • Fixed – JsonSerializationException when using IdempotentCompletionAttribute. • Fixed – Unreported yet corner case related to daylight time transition by upgrading Cronos to 0.7.1 (by @aidmsu). • Fixed – Dashboard issue: recurring job table doesn't handle very long cron strings. • Fixed – Add missing argument-is-null check for the DeserializePayload method. • Project – Replace deprecated PerformContext ctor usage to avoid alerts in SonarQube (by @kumaheiyama). • Project – Avoid possible NullReferenceException in tests to fix alerts in Fortify analyser. • Project – Release connections properly in tests to fix alerts in Fortify analyser.

1.7.22 • Fixed – Fonts-related regression in Dashboard UI after upgrading Bootstrap in 1.7.21.

1.7.21 • Changed – Upgrade jQuery from 2.1.4 to 2.2.4 in Dashboard UI. • Changed – Upgrade Bootstrap from 3.3.5 to 3.3.7 in Dashboard UI. • Changed – Upgrade Moment.js to 2.29.1 in Dashboard UI. • Project – Update RazorGenerator.MsBuild package from 2.4.7 to version 2.5.0. • Project – Update 7-Zip.CommandLine package from 9.20.0 to version 18.1.0.

1.7.20 • Added – Norwegian translations (by @khellang). • Fixed – Correction on brazilian portuguese translations (by @Prestini). • Fixed – Changing time zone of recurring job without changing cron expression causes immediate execution.

1.7.19 • Added – German (Deutsch) Dashboard UI localization (by @d-oit). • Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseMaxArgumentSizeToRender method to avoid "VALUE TOO BIG" messages. • Changed – Remove "readonly" keyword from the JobMethodCallRenderer.MaxArgumentToRenderSize field to support .NET 5.0. • Fixed – Race condition in AspNetShutdownDetector leads to NullReferenceException (by @jr01). • Fixed – Avoid ArgumentException: Item has already been added when preserving an original exception. • Project – Add repository link to nuspec files (by @jeremyhayes).

1.7.15 • Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseMaxLinesInExceptionDetails option to cap the size of stack traces. • Changed – Only the first 100 lines of a stack trace will be preserved now by default in Failed state. • Fixed – Don't let exceptions with huge stack traces take up too much storage space.

1.7.13 • Added – Catalan translation for Dashboard UI (based on Spanish translation, by @agausachs). • Added – Support for configuring recommended serializer settings via callback (by @Yaevh). • Fixed – Use correct wording for job parameters in Job Details page, add it to resources. • Fixed – Don't push negative points to the realtime graph in dashboard. • Fixed – Don't depend on history collection type returned from Storage API. • Project – Execute tests one by one to ensure exit code isn't being lost (by @willchis).

1.7.12 • Added – Display actual job payload and exception message on job details page when could find the method. • Added – French translation for Dashboard UI (by @PaulARoy). • Added – Expose IStorageConnection.GetRecurringJobs(IEnumerable ids) to public. • Changed – Bump thread priority in heartbeat process for constrained environments. • Changed – Display job properties in a dedicated row in job details page. • Fixed – Avoid storage round-trip when displaying continuations on job details page.

1.7.11 • Added – Display recurring job exceptions directly in the Dashboard UI. • Added – Add built-in support for reliable shutdown detection of ASP.NET apps. • Changed – Unify exception handling in recurring job scheduler. • Changed – Internal feature to perform state changes without calling any filters. • Changed – Decrease the number of retry attempts for recurring jobs to 5. • Fixed – Let workers to ignore any state change filters when all previous attempts to call them failed. • Fixed – Don't let RecurringJobScheduler to stall the pipeline when extension filters throw an exception. • Fixed – Don't let DelayedJobScheduler to stall the pipeline when state filters throw an exception. • Fixed – JobLoadException when new methods deployed, caused by overlapped recycles in ASP.NET applications. • Fixed – Configuration changes aren't taken into account, caused by overlapped recycles in ASP.NET. • Fixed – Zombie servers shown on the "Servers" page that aren't stopped automatically unless app pool is recycled. • Fixed – Pass the whole exception to the Error field of a recurring job. • Fixed – Re-schedule recurring jobs with unsupported versions, instead of stopping the pipeline. • Fixed – Don't stumble over non-existing recurring jobs in a scheduler. • Fixed – Add another check before removing non-existing jobs from delayed jobs to avoid race conditions. • Fixed – Avoid throwing NullReferenceException instead of InvalidOperationException when deserializing a job. • Fixed – Don't transform queue names to upper case in the Dashboard UI.

1.7.10 • Added – Farsi translation for Dashboard UI (by @sepehr1101). • Added – Portuguese translation for Dashboard UI (by @GeErghon). • Added – PrefixPath in DashboardOptions (by @shenjielx). • Added – Allow PageUrl to be overridden by subclass (by @brendonparker).

1.7.9 • Fixed – Additional Chinese translation for Dashboard UI (by @brookqin). • Fixed – Added null checks for expired failed jobs in Dashboard UI (by @ppkale1995-cimpress). • Fixed – Add word break to definition lists for state cards in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Render long recurring job identifiers correctly in Dashboard UI.

1.7.8 • Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseResultsInContinuations method to globally enable results for continuations. • Added – Ability to push antecedent job's result to continuations via job parameters with ContinuationsSupport. • Added – JobParameterInjectionFilter server filter to inject job parameters as arguments. • Added – Allow to specify a custom thread factory in UseBackgroundPool methods. • Changed – Add retry attempts for recurring jobs instead of immediately disabling them. • Fixed – CultureInfo.InvariantCulture is now restored properly in background jobs. • Fixed – Recurring jobs aren't triggered early after changing their cron expressions. • Fixed – Don't trigger recurring job when it can't be scheduled due to errors. • Fixed – Argument with a null value is skipped when displaying job arguments in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Add a workaround for resolving System.Diagnostics.Debug type in .NET Core 3.0. • Deprecated – Deprecate the JobActivatorScope.InnerScope property as it wasn't implemented.

1.7.7

Core • Changed – Produce a trace log message with details when updating a recurring job. • Changed – Return early from CoreBackgroundJobFactory.Create when storage returns null. • Project – Minor changes for the Readme.md file (by @231293). • Project – Add netcoreapp3.0 target framework for Hangfire.Core.Tests. • Project – Add support for MSBuild 15.0 (VS 2019) when building *.cshtml files.

Dashboard UI • Added – Allow modification of the Dashboard UI title (by @tbertenshaw). • Added – Support for HTML tags on the Dashboard UI title (by @augustoproiete). • Added – Buttons for 1,000 and 5,000 items per page in dashboard. • Added – Links to previous/next pages to the top of the dashboard page. • Changed – Expose the RazorPage.Context property as a public member. • Fixed – Supplementary Chinese translation (by @mccj). • Fixed – Don't update real-time chart when too much time passed since the last update.

1.7.6 • Changed – Add support for dash characters (-) in queue names (by @augustoproiete). • Fixed – Show actual error in Dashboard UI when recurring job can't be scheduled. • Fixed – Ensure backward compatibility when JSON payloads are serialized with field names only. • Fixed – Non-awaited continuations can bring down the whole app when TaskScheduler is set to null. • Fixed – Timeout value is not respected in some cases in the WaitOneAsync method.

1.7.5 • Fixed – Show error message when there's an error loading the statistics in Dashboard UI (by @prochnowc). • Fixed – Properly handle recurring jobs with null or empty 'Job' field. • Fixed – Disable recurring job when we can't schedule it due to an error. • Fixed – Use LazyThreadSafetyMode.PublicationOnly to avoid caching "JobStorage.Current is null" exceptions.

1.7.4 • Added – BackgroundJobClient.RetryAttempts property to make job creation resilient to transient exceptions. • Added – Dashboard localization support in pt-BR (by @candidodmv). • Changed – Protect background dispatchers from moving from stopped state to non-stopped one. • Changed – Unify WaitOne and WaitOneAsync methods with timeout and cancellation token for WaitHandle class. • Fixed – Don't hide an original fatal exception occurred in dispatchers in some cases. • Fixed – Dashboard UI to display "await" keyword on all task-like methods. • Fixed – Display links properly in an informational message on the Servers page in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – Wait for the heartbeat process before shutting down a server.

1.7.3

• SECURITY – Use HtmlEncode in all remaining places in Dashboard UI to prevent XSS attacks.

• Added – Added Dutch language, and updated missing translation on "Servers" page (by @r-win). • Added – Cron.Never method for adding manual recurring jobs that never fire (by @michaltalaga). • Fixed – Add missing AddOrUpdate extension methods for the IRecurringJobManager interface. • Deprecated – Unused HtmlHelper.FormatProperties method is now obsolete.

1.7.2 • Added – DashboardOptions.TimeZoneResolver property to handle custom time zone resolvers in Dashboard UI. • Fixed – RecurringJob.AddOrUpdate method is now able to update a broken recurring job. • Fixed – Recurring job scheduler now properly handles recurring jobs whose job method or time zone is wrong. • Fixed – Don't throw an exception on Recurring Jobs page when time zone can't be resolved.

1.7.1 • Added – DashboardOptions.IgnoreAntiforgeryToken property to disable token validation in Dashboard UI. • Added – Display hints regarding server status on Servers page in Dashboard UI. • Added – Highlight recurring jobs with no next execution in Dashboard UI. • Added – Show actual error in Dashboard UI when recurring job has an invalid Cron expression. • Fixed – InvalidOperationException when AllowSynchronousIO option isn't set in ASP.NET Core 3.0. • Fixed – Set NextExecution value to null when existing recurring job has an invalid Cron expression. • Fixed – Make dashboard charts to be more culture-specific to use correct time format. • Fixed – Obsolete UseSerializationSettings comment now contains correct method name (by @PaitoAnderson). • Project – resx files now re-generated automatically when building a project.

1.7.0 • Added – Full .NET Core 2.0 support by explicitly targeting .NET Standard 2.0. • Added – IGlobalConfiguration.SetDataCompatibilityLevel to enable rolling upgrades from version 1.6. • Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseRecommendedSerializerSettings method for new installations. • Added – Assemblies now loaded automatically when resolving a type when using default type resolver. • Added – Custom TaskScheduler can now be specified in BackgroundJobServerOptions for workers. • Added – IdempotentCompletionAttribute filter to enforce strict order for continuations. • Added – IBackgroundJobClient.ContinueJobWith methods to replace ContinueWith ones in future for clarity. • Added – JobStorage.LinearizableReads virtual property to avoid unnecessary waits in state changer. • Added – Allow async methods to run their continuations on worker thread by disabling TaskScheduler. • Added – Multi-stage shutdown to wait for graceful completion before starting to abort jobs. • Added – Asynchronous checks for job cancellation, IJobCancellationToken can be replaced with CancellationToken (by @pieceofsummer). • Added – Possibility to create millions of recurring jobs without stressing the scheduler. • Added – Second-based recurring jobs are fully supported now with 6-part cron expressions. • Added – Support for custom TimeZoneInfo resolvers in recurring jobs for interoperability purposes. • Added – Package now explicitly targets .NET Standard 2.0, and .NET Framework 4.6 target added as well. • Added – Type roundtrip support between .NET Core and .NET Framework for most common types. • Added – Allow to specify queue names based on job arguments with QueueAttribute via patterns. • Added – PerformContext.Storage property to allow server filters to spawn connections. • Added – GetFirstByLowestScoreFromSet connection method overload that returns multiple items (by @cdschneider). • Added – Entry point for custom job naming strategies available for dashboard (by @pieceofsummer). • Added – JobDisplayNameAttribute class for displaying jobs in dashboard, available on .NET Core (by @pieceofsummer). • Added – Support for async jobs returning ValueTask (by @pieceofsummer). • Added – Support for asynchronous background processes, opens the road toward async storage. • Added – Circuit breaker pattern for background processes to reduce the logging pressure. • Added – Processing server is now able to detect it was expired, and restart itself with the new id. • Added – Ability to use custom delays for automatic retries of a background job. • Added – ThreadAbortException and ThreadInterruptedException handling to keep the background process running. • Added – Support for complex Cron expressions, including the L, W, # characters. • Added – JobActivator.BeginScope method overload with the full PerformContext (by @jeroenvervaeke). • Added – Support for read-only view for dashboard (by @mikechamberlain). • Added – Storage property to control the job expiration time (by @rsilvanet). • Added – Decrease the size of serialized type payloads and remove version information. • Changed – Make TaskScheduler.Default the default scheduler for async jobs to avoid breaking changes. • Changed – Split serializer setting to Internal and User scopes to isolate them (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Don't allow to affect internal serialization even by JsonConvert.DefaultSettings (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Share the same type binder between Hangfire itself and Newtonsoft.Json (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Use more compact representation of dates when using SerializeDateTime (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Stop using special case for DateTime argument serialization (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Don't serialize unused AwaitingState.Expiration field (Version_170 Switch). • Changed – Specify parameter type when serializing arguments to allow using TypeNameHandling.Auto option. • Changed – Use case sensitive search when resolving a type as by default in .NET. • Changed – Make SucceededState constructor public to allow state serialization. • Changed – Add IBackgroundJobFactory.StateMachine property (breaking change for low level API). • Changed – Replace Rickshaw with Chart.js to have beautiful charts with less headache. • Changed – DelayedJobScheduler is able to use the new storage method to query multiple jobs at once. • Changed – RecurringJobScheduler now uses index-based checks to fetch only those jobs that should be scheduled. • Fixed – Worker now logs an error, when all the state change attempts failed due to an exception. • Fixed – Don't serialize arguments multiple times when showing job details in dashboard. • Fixed – DateTimeOffset conversion error when it was serialized with TypeConverter. • Fixed – Remove duplicate of argument deserialization code for obsolete Job class methods. • Fixed – Decorate all the exceptions with the SerializableAttribute. • Fixed – ArgumentNullException when job class contains method with non-resolvable generic arguments. • Fixed – "Failed to initialize CoreCLR" error, by removing reference to Microsoft.NETCore.Portable.Compatibility. • Fixed – Possible race conditions in RecurringJobScheduler that may lead to job duplicates. • Fixed – Configuration inconsistency introduced in 1.6.18 leading to issues with custom JobActivator. • Fixed – Triggering the recurring task doesn't update its last execution time. • Fixed – Recurring job which don't have next execution (intentionally or not) don't cause exception. • Fixed – Dashboard recurring jobs sorting is random (now it's based on next execution time). • Fixed – Performance problems with huge amount of recurring jobs. • Fixed – NextExecution field of a recurring job has delay in value getting set. • Fixed – Dashboard graphs have improper sizing. • Fixed – Server disappears from the list, but still performing the background processing. • Fixed – Logging is too aggressive on transient errors. • Fixed – Daylight saving time transitions now handled perfectly in recurring jobs thanks to Cronos. • Fixed – Confusing Cron scheduling, when both day-of-week and day-of-month fields set. • Project – Add DataCompatibilityRangeFact and DataCompatibilityRangeTheory classes for compatibility checks. • Project – Reduce test execution time by removing unnecessary waits.