Release Notes

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Obsidian 4.4.1

Released January 2018.

Features / Enhancements

• Job Queuer, Spawn Locking, Last Recovery performance improvements, includes a new database index.

Bug Fixes

• Admin UI restores previous search filter settings. In cases where the last job with a given Job Folder was deleted, the Job Folder filter was still applied but not visible resulting in no results returned. Now, any invalid Job Folders are automatically removed.
• Last Recovery in rare cases would recover too far back.

Obsidian 4.4.0

Released October 2017.

Features / Enhancements

• Fixed Hosts now support Blacklists
• Job Results now support Custom Serialization/Deserialization and default Gson JSON for complex objects.
• Configuration values may be specified as System Properties/Environment Variables.
• Obsidian upgrades now support data-only upgrades (structural changes are pre-applied offline).
• Job classes may now be partially introduced into the cluster and subsequently scheduled/executed without being attempted on missing hosts avoiding failures (via JobSpawner parameter skipSpawnAttemptsForUnavailableJobs).
• Embedded API and REST APIs now return basic audit values (created/updated user/time)

Bug Fixes

• Obsidian upgrades spanning multiple structural and data changes to a given table no longer fail.

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.