HangFire 1.7.0-beta2

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

• .NETFramework 4.5

  • Hangfire.Core (= 1.7.0-beta2)
  • Hangfire.SqlServer (= 1.7.0-beta2)
  • Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb (>= 3.0.0)

• .NETStandard 1.3

  • Hangfire.AspNetCore (= 1.7.0-beta2)
  • Hangfire.Core (= 1.7.0-beta2)
  • Hangfire.SqlServer (= 1.7.0-beta2)

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1.7.0-beta2

Hangfire.Core

• Fixed – `MissingMethodException` when using Newtonsoft.Json 11 in .NET Core 2.X with continuations (by @pieceofsummer).
• Ported – Merged updates from versions 1.6.18 – 1.6.20.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – Blocking fetch support for sliding expiration-based fetch to avoid excessive polling.
• Changed – Optimize sliding-expiration-based fetching to use even less CPU time.
• Changed – Use write reordering and fine-grained locking scheme to improve parallelism.
• Ported – Merged updates from versions 1.6.18 – 1.6.20.
   
1.7.0-beta1

Hangfire.Core

• 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 async jobs returning ValueTask<T> and other await-compatible types (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).
• Changed – Decrease the size of serialized payloads and remove version information.
• 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.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – Callback method to allow to open the database with impersonation (by @BjoernHund).
• Changed – Identity columns either converted to the `bigint` type, or entirely removed.
• Changed – Clustered indexes were organized according to the access patterns of their tables.
• Changed – Most of secondary indexes were either removed or made filtered.
• Fixed – Background processing stops when identity columns exceed the `Int32.MaxValue`.
• Fixed – Slowdown of scheduled jobs due to the missing index on the [Set] table.