Release Notes

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Obsidian 4.3.0

Released June 2017.

Features / Enhancements

• REST Endpoint and Embedded API for Licensing Health Check
• Support Markdown and customizable Formatting in Job description and Parameter description annotations
• Support timed wait as the new default on FOR UPDATE statements in Oracle - Advanced Configuration - Database Properties. Old or customized behaviour possible via configuration properties.

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue in DisabledJobCleanupJob that fails to delete disabled jobs with chained and/or resubmitted records.

Obsidian 4.2.1

Released May 2017.

Bug Fixes

• Recurrence schedules in server recovery will fail if last runtime doesn't exist.
• A job that is configured against a job class that has since been removed from the cluster can now be loaded/deleted from the UI.
• Delete Job - If the delete operation fails for any reason and the operator leaves the modal and returns, the error from the previous operation was still visible.

Obsidian 4.2.0

Released March 2017.

Features / Enhancements

• Time Zone support in Cron patterns. Allows a cluster running in a single time zone to run jobs designated in different timezones.

Bug Fixes

• LAST recovery mode wouldn't fire latest job on cluster recovery if the job had never fired or if the last runtime had been deleted by the maintenance job.
• ALL recovery mode would fire first missed job, but the remaining ones wouldn't run and would be set as OVERLAPPED.
• When creating a new schedule that overlaps one or more previously configured future runtimes with parameters, parameters are now deleted from the database.

Obsidian 4.1.0

Released February 2017.

Features / Enhancements

• Folder/tag support for jobs including a REST endpoint and Embedded method.

Bug Fixes

• UI issue in Job Execution Subscriptions and Templates - selected jobs now displaying correctly after save/refresh.
• UpdateConfigurationAction no longer fails in non-native Authentication mode if an empty Users element is provided.

Obsidian 4.0.2

Released October 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• Job Parameters now support an optional description to be displayed in UI Help.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Cron special character L would not work if specified as the only value in a field.
• Fixed 3.8.0 MySQL upgrade script.
• Fixed an issue where Obsidian continued to attempt regular licence verification after a valid site licence had been configured.
• Fixed an issue where table prefixes weren't used in all lookups.

Obsidian 4.0.1

Released August 2016.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where a chained job that became conflicted would not evaluate chain conditions once it was no longer conflicted.
• Fixed catalina.base bug and dos line endings in jetty.sh script in bundled jetty server.
• Fixed job parameter edit box resizing bug.

Obsidian 4.0.0

Released July 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• All New User Interface
• Obsidian is now built using Java 7. No longer supports Java 6.
• Quick Start now uses Jetty.
• Many updated libraries including some that had been updated to Java 7.
  • Breaking Change New H2 library. If you're using the H2 database, you will want to look into exporting and restoring your Obsidian environment's configuration.

Bug Fixes

• GetConfiguration filtering no longer fails when Templates/Subscriptions are job targeted.

Obsidian 3.8.0

Released June 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• Ad Hoc runs now may be submitted multiple times per minute. Chains may result in target jobs multiple times per minute. Existing behaviour of Chain All job configuration remains unchanged.
• Script Job now supports best-effort interruption.
• APIs for GET System Restore Configuration support filtering for both REST and Embedded.
• Context for job execution now supports retrieving the chain source job config, when applicable. See also the Javadoc for Context.
• Host names maximum length increased to 255 characters from 50.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where auto-interrupts were not firing.

Obsidian 3.7.1

Released April 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• Job APIs windows now with improved locking/blocking on schedule modifications.

Bug Fixes

• GET SystemRestoreConfiguration no longer fails when using non-native authentication.

Obsidian 3.7.0

Released March 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• New maintenance job Disabled Job Cleanup Job.
• Support for parameters that are required at runtime.
• Filter job schedules endpoint by start date and/or end date.
• Return runtime parameters for schedule-based one-time runs.

Bug Fixes

• SystemRestoreConfiguration export was only including the last schedule of a job.
• Admin-only hosts fail on startup if not in consistent timezone as cluster.

Obsidian 3.6.1

Released February 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• Enhance JobQueuer to reduce execution time when dealing with large numbers of chain-only jobs.

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue where job that is scheduled and chained is scheduled late after being chained.

Obsidian 3.6.0

Released January 2016.

Features / Enhancements

• Forked Jobs offer support for interruption.
• Job results support replacing job result value(s).
• Classpath com.carfey.properties no longer required. Applicable when using overrides.

Bug Fixes

• AutoInterrupt not being set on jobs from System Restore.
• RunningHostManager can, in rare cases, evaluate job metadata as a HostInformation entry.
• Schedule calculation on outage looks back one minute too far when considering pickup buffer.

Obsidian 3.5.2

Released December 2015.

Bug Fixes

• With native authentication, at least one Admin User must still exist when making Role Changes.
• Cleanup of some internal host management functionality.

Obsidian 3.5.1

Released November 2015.

Features / Enhancements

• Obsidian nodes that are set to different timezones but have the same rules (functionally equivalent such as America/Los_Angeles and PST) may now be run together.
• LDAPAuthenticator now supports non-dn user attribute logins.

Bug Fixes

• My User screen would fail when using LDAPAuthenticator. Now shows authorized roles.
• Stale host and timezone records are predeleted on startup.

Obsidian 3.5.0

Released November 2015.

Features / Enhancements

• Support for scanning and locating CGLIB-enhanced classes in Spring and Grails.
• Improved runtime preview listing performance.
• Automatic logging of Obsidian version number no longer requires special configuration.
• Authenticator implementations including LDAP now support checking user validity when the "remember me" option is used to authenticate.
• Runtime listing REST endpoint and Embedded API now support specifying a sort order, maximum quantity and parameter filtering, and now guarantee ordering by scheduled time.

Bug Fixes

• Capped runtime preview results now respect ascending ordering.

Obsidian 3.4.1

Released September 2015.

Bug Fixes

• Remove undesired field jobHistoryRunningId from runtime listing REST endpoint.
• Fixed standalone scripts that would not shutdown instance when hostname could not be determined.
• Shell scripts should always exit with non-zero code on error.
• Improve forked job shell script compatibility.

Obsidian 3.4.0

Released September 2015.

Features / Enhancements

• Recurrence supports a start datetime.
• Interruptable Jobs support Auto Interruption when maximum expected run length is exceeded.
• Global Parameters support Global Substitution Mode.
• Added jobClass parameter to job search in REST and Embedded APIs.
• Performance improvements in cron and recurrence calculations.
• Add database index for recovery performance.
• Support for disabling internal connection pool.
• Support base HREF overrides for load balancers, etc.
• JobHistoryCleanupJob always cleans up expired schedules according to maxAgeDays parameter.

Bug Fixes

• Default sequence_manager pool to 10% of connections with min of 2.
• Fix issue where parameter order is not maintained consistently on PostgreSQL
• Fix issue where JobHistoryCleanupJob misses cleaning up jobs that are in MISSED state.
• JobHistoryCleanupJob leaves latest runtime record to ensure Recurrence schedules fire at correct time.

Obsidian 3.3.3

Released August 2015.

Bug Fixes

• Chain Skipped and Conflict Missed job runtime enum values corrected to use underscores in REST/Embedded API when listing runtimes.
• In rare cases, outages or queuing delays could prevent first job history from ever being queued.
• Job initial schedule end time not editable via text entry when cloned.

Obsidian 3.3.2

Released June 2015.

Bug Fixes

• Restore missing fields on Runtime and RuntimeError classes for REST/Embedded API.
• Defensive handling of missing JOB_STATE records in chaining.
• Job class field in job edit screen loses content if enter is pressed without match.
• Obsidian version added to dispatcher logs.

Obsidian 3.3.1

Released June 2015.

Features / Enhancements

• Case-sensitive collation support for SQL Server.
• Unicode support on SQL Server (please note that existing schemas will not be upgraded automatically).
• Unicode fixes for all platforms.
• Whitespace characters permitted in between delimited schedules.
• Improved logging on warning and error conditions.

Bug Fixes

• JobSearch not working on Oracle since 3.3.0.

Obsidian 3.3.0

Released May 2015.

Features / Enhancements

• Job parameterization support for picklists of valid values.
• Server-side file listing support.
• Support for multiple Cron schedule patterns.
• Tree visualization of chains.
• Conditional chains now support text ordinal comparisons.
• Added optional chain description.
• Spawning and queuing performance improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Expired job schedules are no longer deleted when new schedules are applied. A patch is introduced in this release to find and create placeholder schedules for these jobs.
• Job History Cleanup Job allowed configuration of maxAgeScheduleDays to be lower than maxAgeDays resulting in schedules being deleted for which there is still job history.