Release Notes

Obsidian 1.5.1

Released February 2013.

Features / Enhancements

• Interruptable Jobs, including new REST API endpoint.
• Spawning improvements to seek minute boundaries more consistently.
• Runtime preview now defaults to start time to current time.
• Improved licence handling for paid licences to increase reliability in case of outages.
• A handful of minor UI tweaks and additions.

Bug Fixes

• Fix connection handling when database connectivity is lost in spawner or queuer threads.
• Fix criteria causing some running conflicts to be not found resulting in conflicted jobs running concurrently.
• Improve messaging and details when failing to connect to MySQL.
• Various UI fixes.
• Events for jobs would sometimes be dispatched for the wrong target.

Obsidian 1.5

Released January 2013.

Features / Enhancements

• REST API for a complete range of job, scheduling and host management features.
• Export support in Excel, CSV and XML in Job History, Job, Job Runtimes, Log and Sent Notifications views.
• Expected job run time parameters - See Expected Length. Events trigger in cases where execution duration is outside of defined threshold.
• Display actual run duration in job history view
• Enhance run once future date pattern to match actual future date. Contributes to consistency in job state absorption in new overlapping state ranges.
• Allow single node to run without valid lease
• Add 90/120 minutes pickup buffer option

Bug Fixes

• Ad hoc submission validation text inconsistent
• Job set to ad hoc active state would not allow one-time immediate submissions.
• Workaround String indexoutofbounds issue with winstone server
• Read-only users can submit one-time job runs.
• Can't save unscheduled active job in postgresql
• After saving new user, help icon disappears
• MySQL - Audit columns hit truncation error when registered user is too long
• Various display bugs

Obsidian 1.4.2

Bug Fixes

• Lock wait timeout fix

Obsidian 1.4.1

Features / Enhancements

• Conditional Chaining support.
• Delete job support.
• Job view filter inclusivity those with only future states.

Bug Fixes

• Default initial sorts case insenstive
• Status scheduling allowed for gaps
• Failed conditional chain prevents scheduling of job
• Schedule preview isn't ordered by effective date
• JobHistory order by clause sometimes ignored

Obsidian 1.4

Features / Enhancements

• View of saved job history results.
• Add schedule shortcut link on Job view

Bug Fixes

• Various display bugs