This pre-release contains a lot of new features of an upcoming Hangfire 1.4.0 – continuations, time zone support for recurring jobs, new dashboard ui, new configuration classes.

Release Notes

Hangfire.Core

• Added – Job continuations, please see new BackgroundJob.ContinueWith methods.
• Added – Time zone support for recurring jobs using TimeZoneInfo class.
• Added – Single place for global configuration, please see GlobalConfiguration class.
• Added – Made configurable the ‘Back to Site’ path in the dashboard (by @ysasaki1985).
• Added – Ability to plug in custom dashboard pages and modify navigation.
• Added – Ability to add custom metrics to the Home page in Dashboard.
• Added – Test coverage badge from Coveralls application.
• Added – Dedicated page for retrying jobs to distinguish them from other scheduled jobs.
• Added – Show expiration time on Job Details page.
• Added – More methods for built-in storage through JobStorageConnection and JobStorageTransaction classes.
• Added – Paging support for Recurring Jobs page.
• Added – New OWIN’s IAppBuilder extension methods: UseHangfireDashboard and UseHangfireServer.
• Changed – New look and feel for Dashboard. New navigation, less colors, more accents.
• Changed – Determine job type of a current object when MethodCallExpression has Object property set.
• Changed – Making Product Version and File Version on the dll match the Assembly Version (by @fire-eagle).
• Changed – Use different log level for exceptions occurred within automatic retry wrapper.
• Fixed – Recurring Page throws exception from CronExpressionDescriptor library.

Hangfire.SqlServer

• Added – Make the expiration check interval configurable (by @travisblakeney).
• Changed – Automatically aggregate records in Hangfire.Counter table.
• Changed – Add indexes to prevent blocking rows by Expiration Manager.
• Changed – Remove the with tablock hint from the expiration cleanup (by @travisblakeney).

Hangfire.SqlServer.Msmq

• Changed – Speed up GetCount method with native implementation.
• Fixed – Incorrect order of fetching when multiple queues used.

Hangfire.RabbitMQ

• Added – Allow a URI to be used for RabbitMQConnectionConfiguration (by @dennyferra).