2016 08 16 Quartznet 3.0 Alpha1 Released

This is the first alpha release from the long-awaited v3 branch. This is a big overhaul (and still in progress). Internals are being modernized whilst still trying to keep sane upgrade path.

A big thank you goes to Mike Rousos who really made it possible to get Quartz.NET working on .NET Core. Daniel Marbach also contributed a lot with ideas and code to async side. And of course never forgetting the community members that have provided feedback and fixes.

Please see the migration guide that is a work in progess.

Use at your own risk, might not be that production ready yet

What does alpha mean?

• All existing (and new) tests passing
• Cheese might still get moved, alpha means that APIs can change, features can come and go

NEW FEATURE

• Task based jobs with async/await support, internals work in async/await manner
• Support .NET Core / netstandard 1.3
• Separate NuGet package Quartz.Serialization.Json to enable JSON based AdoJobStore serialization (no binary serialization available in .NET Core)
• Common.Logging removed from dependencies
• C5 Collections removed from ILMerge process, no longer needed

BREAKING CHANGES

• .NET 4.5/netstandard1.3 required
• SimpleThreadPool is gone, old owned threads are gone
• Scheduler methods have been changed to be Task based, remember to await them
• IJob interface now returns a task
• Some IList properties have been changed to IReadOnlyList to properly reflect intent
• SQL Server CE support has been dropped
• DailyCalendar uses now datetimes for excluded dates and has ISet interface to access them
• IObjectSerializer has new method, void Initialize(), that has to be implemented
• IInterruptableJob removed in favor of context's CancellationToken

KNOWN ISSUES

• Issues with time zone ids between Windows and Linux, they use different ids for the same zone
• No remoting support
• Documentation lacking

Check NuGet for pre-release packages.