Hangfire 1.7.4

https://www.hangfire.io/blog/ 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. 1.7.4 Hangfire.Core • 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. Hangfire.SqlServer • Fixed – Potential deadlocks cause by suboptimal queries when using `SlidingInvisibilityTimeout` fetching. • Fixed – Prevent zero delays between fetch retry attempts when lock acquisition failed without blocking. • Fixed – Specify float precision explicitly for the `Score` column in the `AddToSet` method. 1.7.3 Hangfire.Core • 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. Hangfire.SqlServer • Fixed – Wrong error message in migration script, when @CurrentSchemaVersion has a NULL value (by @penenkel). 1.7.2 Hangfire.Core • 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. Hangfire.AspNetCore & Hangfire.NetCore • Added – Automatically resolve `ITimeZoneResolver` service for the `DashboardOptions.TimeZoneResolver` property. • Fixed – Allow to resolve `IJobFilterProvider` service from the `AddHangfire` method. Hangfire.SqlServer • Fixed – Occasional "DataException: Error parsing column" error when using blocking fetch. 1.7.1 Hangfire.Core • 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. Hangfire.NetCore • Added – Worker Service host support for .NET Core without unnecessary dependencies to ASP.NET Core. Hangfire.SqlServer • Changed – Use blocking fetch implementation only for sub-second polling intervals. • Fixed – Don't fail with an exception when can't connect to MSSQL instance during start-up. • Fixed – Don't access the `JobQueue` table when using blocking query and don't have results. 1.7.0 Hangfire.Core • 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<T> (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. Hangfire.AspNetCore • Added – Full .NET Core 2.0 support by explicitly targeting .NET Standard 2.0. • Added – An overloaded AddHangfire method with `IServiceProvider` parameter (by @ericgreenmix and @denis-ivanov). • Added – `BackgroundJobServerHostedService` class based on `IHostedService` interface. • Added – `IServiceCollection.AddHangfireServer` method to register the server during configuration. • Changed – Custom services for factory, performer and state changer interfaces will be picked up only when all of them registered. Hangfire.SqlServer • Added – Full .NET Core 2.0 support by explicitly targeting .NET Standard 2.0. • Added – `Schema 7` migration to fix the `IX_HangFire_Set_Score` index to include the `Key` column. • Added – `Schema 6` migration with less indexes, better physical layout and `bigint` support (disabled by default). • Added – Blocking fetch support for sliding expiration-based fetch to avoid excessive polling. • Added – `SqlServerStorageOptions.EnableHeavyMigrations` switch to automatically install even heavy migrations. • Added – `SqlServerStorageOptions.DisableGlobalLocks` property to avoid custom locking scheme. • Added – `SqlServerStorageOptions.UsePageLocksOnDequeue` property to use less CPU consuming fetch. • Added – Callback method to allow to open the database with impersonation (by @BjoernHund). • Added – `SqlServerStorageOptions.UseRecommendedIsolationLevel` option to set the minimum possible level. • 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. • Changed – Optimize sliding-expiration-based fetching to use even less CPU time. • Changed – Use write reordering and fine-grained locking scheme to improve parallelism. • Changed – Monitoring API doesn't check state data to see state transition time. • Changed – Allow to use zero-based poll interval when sliding invisibility timeout. • Changed – Short paths for the `CreateExpiredJob` method to avoid some round-trips. • Changed – Set `SqlParameter` types explicitly to not to duplicate query plans. • Changed – Batch support for `AddToQueue` method when default provider is used. • Changed – Check `FetchedAt` has expected value to prevent prolonging others' work. • Changed – Use more recent Dapper 1.50.7 on all platforms except .NET Framework 4.5. • Changed – Dapper package is internalized now even on .NET Core to avoid possible conflicts. • Fixed – Avoid unnecessary waits in state changer when job was already expired. • Fixed – Cannot resolve the collation conflict in `CountersAggregator`. • 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.