1.7.21

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• 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.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – Ensure connection is disposed immediately when exception is thrown during lock release.
• Fixed – "A network-related or instance-specific error" when using DisableConcurrentExecution for long-running jobs.

1.8.0-beta1

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• Added – Display deleted jobs in the Realtime and History graphs when supported by storage.
• Added – DeletedState now have the persisted Exception property.
• Added – JobContinuationOptions.OnlyOnDeletedState to create continuations after a failure.
• Added – Exception job parameter is passed to continuation when UseResultsInContinuations method is used.
• Added – FromExceptionAttribute to deal with an antecedent exception in a background job continuation.
• Added – Allow to filter exception types in AutomaticRetryAttribute by using the new OnlyOn property.
• Added – IBackgroundProcess.UseBackgroundPool now allows to pass thread configuration logic.
• Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseJobDetailsRenderer method for custom renderers.
• Added – BackgroundJobServerOptions.WorkerThreadConfigurationAction option
• Added – Allow to pass custom data to ApplyStateContext and ElectStateContext instances.
• Added – Preserve custom data dictionary between the entire filter chain.
• Added – Fetch "Retries" metric with other statistics when supported by storage
• Added – IGlobalConfiguration.UseDashboardMetrics extension method to pass multiple metrics at once.
• Added – State renderer for the DeletedState to display its new exception property.
• Added – Virtual JobStorage.GetReadOnlyConnection method intended to return JobStorageConnection for replicas.
• Added – Virtual JobStorage.HasFeature method for querying optional features.
• Added – Optional GetSetCount and GetUtcDateTime methods for the JobStorageConnection class.
• Added – Optional AcquireDistributedLock and RemoveFromQueue methods for the JobStorageTransaction class.
• Added – Support for transactional acknowledge using new storage method for better handling some data loss scenarios.
• Added – Factory, StateMachine and Performer properties to context classes to avoid injecting services.
• Added – Allow to pass transaction to background job state changer when new methods implemented.
• Added – Optional ParametersSnapshot property for BackgroundJob and JobData classes to minimize roundtrips in future.
• Changed – Use the AttemptsExceededAction.Delete option by default in the global automatic retry filter.
• Changed – Move job to the DeletedState instead of SucceededState when its invocation was canceled by a filter.
• Changed – FromParameterAttribute-based logic now always overwrites arguments, even with non-null values.
• Changed – Improved display of real-time chart with more accents on failed and deleted jobs.
• Changed – Ignore some members when serializing a JobFilterAttribute instance to decrease size
• Changed – ServerHeartbeatProcess now uses ThreadPriority.AboveNormal to prioritize heartbeats.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – Recommended Schema 8 migration with fixed JobQueue.Id column to use bigint type.
• Added – SqlServerStorageOptions.PreferMicrosoftDataSqlClient option to use the corresponding package.
• Added – SqlServerStorage.SchemaVersion metric for Dashboard UI.
• Added – Implement optional experimental transactional acknowledge for SQL Server (UseTransactionalAcknowledge option).
• Changed – Sliding invisibility timeout-based fetching method is now used by default with 5 minute timeout.
• Fixed – Ensure connection is released when exception is thrown when during lock release.

Hangfire.NetCore and Hangfire.AspNetCore

• Added – IApplicationBuilder.UseHangfireServer that accepts custom factory for IBackgroundProcessingServer.

1.7.20

Release Notes

Please see https://www.hangfire.io/blog/2021/03/19/hangfire-1.7.20.html for details, manual changes required to fix potential problems when using Hangfire.SqlServer as a job storage for those who already migrated to Schema 6 and 7. This problem will be also fixed in a new migration in Hangfire 1.8.0.

Hangfire.Core

• Added – Norwegian translations (PR #1794 by @khellang).
• Fixed – Correction on brazilian portuguese translations (PR #1828 by @Prestini).
• Fixed – Changing time zone of recurring job without changing cron expression causes immediate execution.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – Schema 6 migration now fixes problem that prevents 2,147,483,648th job from being enqueued.

Hangfire.NetCore and Hangfire.AspNetCore

• Added – An overload for AddHangfireServer utilizing IServiceProvider (PR #1800 by @penenkel).
• Added – IBackgroundJobClientFactory and IRecurringJobManagerFactory interfaces to fix the following bug.
• Fixed – Dashboard UI is unable to 'requeue' job on other then default JobStorage.

1.7.19

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• Added – German (Deutsch) Dashboard UI localization (PR #1772 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 (PR #1786 by @jr01).
• Fixed – Avoid ArgumentException: Item has already been added when preserving an original exception.
• Project – Add repository link to nuspec files (PR #1749 by @jeremyhayes).

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – Return null instead of throwing FormatException when job id can't be parsed.
• Project – Run the entire Hangfire.SqlServer test suite against the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient package.

1.7.18

Release Notes

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – SqlServerStorageOptions.DeleteExpiredBatchSize option to remove more expired records in a single pass.
• Fixed – Don't throw from SqlServerStorage.ToString method when using custom factory or existing connection.

1.7.17

Release Notes

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – SqlException "Incorrect syntax near 'throw'" after upgrading to 1.7.15 when using SQL Server 2008 or 2008R2.

1.7.16

Release Notes

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – Blocking problems when using multiple storages with the same queue names in the same process (appeared in 1.7.9).

1.7.15

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• 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.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Fixed – Avoid deadlocks when using the SetJobParameter method without introducing issues for older schemas.
• Fixed – Remove duplicate sorting in the SqlServerMonitoringApi.GetJobs method which is used by a lot of queries.

1.7.14

Release Notes

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Changed – Use better queries for jobs with 3 and 4 parameters, this is a common case.
• Fixed – Duplicate entries in the JobParameters table after upgrading to version 1.7.13.
• Fixed – Extensive retries on a method that has a retry attribute after upgrading to 1.7.13.
• Fixed – "ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. Key: RetryCount" in SqlServerMonitoringApi.

1.7.13

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• 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).

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – UseIgnoreDupKeyOption for SQL Server storage configuration (changes to [Set] and [Hash] tables required).
• Fixed – Don't truncate too long keys silently, throw exceptions instead.
• Fixed – Add missing null checks for methods in the SqlServerWriteOnlyTransaction class.
• Fixed – Change holdlock hint to xlock in merge statements in transaction to prevent deadlocks.
• Fixed – Don't rethrow "Lock request time out period exceeded" exceptions from expiration manager.
• Fixed – Increase [Server].[Id] column's length to 200 for new installations.