HISTORY

3.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Minimum Ruby version is now 3.0.0 - Ruby 2.x is no longer supported
• Minimum Sinatra version is now 2.0 - old Sinatra versions (0.9-1.x) are no longer supported
• Rack 1.x is no longer supported - Resque now requires Rack 2.x or greater
• Minimum Rails version is now 7.2 - You can use Resque without Rails, but if you use it with Rails it must be a version that is still supported

Added

• Rack 3 support and switched default Rack handler to Puma (#1912)
• Ruby 3.4 and Rails 8.1 support (#1912 and #1906)
• Upstream Active Job adapter from Rails (#1906)
• Explicit redis (>= 4.0) and base64 (~> 0.1) gem dependencies (#1922)
• Added shutdown hooks - allows plugins and adapters to know when a worker is shutting down, enabling features like Active Job Continuations (#1916, #1924)
• Added support for dynamic interval sleep - workers can now use a faster polling interval that automatically backs off when idle, reducing Redis load (#1920)

Fixed

• Fix circular require from Rails ActiveJob adapter (#1906)
• Fix failed job retried_at timezone data (#1918)
• Fix double Redis get when checking for paused workers (#1919)
• Documentation cleanup (#1903, #1917)

2.7.0

Fixed

• Update README.markdown (#1891)
• Ruby does not allow logging within trap handlers (#1729)
• Fix typo in stat.rb warning: data_strore -> data_store (#1904)
• Ensure ruby 3.3 compatibility (#1907)

2.6.0

Fixed

• resque-web: Fix reflected XSS in queues endpoint (#1865)
• resque-web: Format args in YAML (#1875)
• Fix MiniTest undefined errors (#1879)
• Fix failing reconnect tests (#1880)

Added

• Documents how to make the worker shutdown when the queue is empty (#1873)

2.5.0

Fixed

• Replace File.exists? with File.exist? (#1846)
• Escape Resque.redis_id for stats page (#1834)
• Escape resque info values (#1832)
• Correctly show the values of hash and none type on stats tab (#1838)
• Fix logging the worker name when starting the task (#1837)

Added

• Raise an error when no available Rack server was found (#1836)
• Move code in Resque::Server.helpers block into a module to make it testable (#1851)

2.4.0

Fixed

• Remove thread_safe arg in Redis instantiaons (#1822)
• Updated Test Matrix for Redis 5.0 (#1824)
• Fix redis-rb 4.8 deprecation warnings (#1827)
• Fix redis-rb 5.0 compatibility issues (#1828)

2.3.0

Fixed

• Fix NoMethodError: undefined method 'application' for Rails:Module when Rails module is defined but not a full Rails app (#1799)
• Fix deprecation warnings in Redis#pipelined for redis 4.6 (#1806)
• Add Ruby syntax highlighting to remaining markdown docs (#1802)
• Fix pagination section (#1809)
• Fix before_run undefined local variable or method runner (#1811)

Added

• Added support for pausing all workers by setting the Redis key pause-all-workers to string value "true" (#1803)

2.2.1

Fixed

• Escape HTML from the params to avoid XSS (#1790)
• Remove vegas as a dependency (#1780)

Added

• Add support for specifying queues that workers should ignore when using globs
• Allow plugins to have spaces in their name (#1718)

2.2.0

Added

• Add 'Retry Failed Jobs' button to Failed page

Fixed

• Loading railtie when it did not exist #1765
• Fix closing parent Redis connection in child process after fork
• Fix the failed queues list on /queues UI when the RedisMultiQueue backend is used #1638

2.1.0

Security

• Fix XSS via URL path in admin web UI queues view #1687
• Replace onclick handlers in server code to support Content Security Policies that don't allow 'unsafe-inline'
• Update jQuery from 1.12.4 to 3.6.0

Added

• Add requeue_queue method to Resque::Failure::Multiple #1659

• Confirmation prompt in admin front-end before submitting the retry of all failed jobs. #1753

• Railtie for default rake task setup when in Rails. #1715

• Added two new hooks.

  • queue_empty when the job queue empties and the worker becomes idle
  • worker_exit when the worker exits

  See docs/HOOKS.md for further details. (@jeremywadsack)

Fixed

• live poller shouldn't restart itself until it successds or fails. #1740
• Fix parsing worker_id when queue name includes colon. #1691
• Prune workers which haven't been registered but have set a heartbeat. #1751
• Resque::Failure::Multiple.remove did not pass on the queue parameter

2.0.0 (2018-11-06)

Fixed

• Fix Airbrake failure backend
• Fix failed jobs page "argument out of range" error

Changed

• Remove support for Rubies < 2.3
• Remove support to Rails < 4
• Reduce the number of redis calls when trying to get the list of queues
• Only run eager_load! if Rails.application.config.eager_load is true
• Don't display log message if running without hooks
• Add Support to Redis 4.0
• Drop complex Redis identifier logic in favor of simple inspect
• When a child process is killed, report the signal it was terminated with
• Report a job that pruned worker was processing

Added

• Allow to configure statistic data store

1.27.4 (2017-04-15)

Fixed

• Fix issue where removing a failure from Resque web didn't work when using RedisMultiQueue backend.

1.27.3 (2017-04-10)

Fixed

• Fix issue where initializing a data store would attempt to hit Redis, even when Resque.inline = true

1.27.2 (2017-02-20)

Fixed

• Require "redis/distributed" in worker.rb to allow proper rescuing
• Fallback to server time if Redis time won't work (restores Redis 2.4 support)

1.27.1 (2017-02-13)

Fixed

• Show actual jobs names in web view using ActiveJob (@martnst)

1.27.0 (2017-02-08)

Fixed

• Fix issue where calling Worker.find, Worker.all, or Worker.working from withing a running job would rewrite the PID file with the PID of the forked worker. This causes a change to the Worker#new API that may affect plugin implementations. See Worker#new and Worker#prepare for details. (@jeremywadsack)
• Workers queried out now have the correct hostname (@crazymykl)
• Fix race condition on worker startup (@stevedomin)
• No longer triggers verbose logging if env variables are not set (@ldnunes)
• resque/failed/requeue/all when using Redis::Failure::Multiple no longer raises an exception (@ale7714)
• Improve forking to avoid having a child process escape its code (@dylanahsmith)
• Workers now use server time rather than their own time to maintain heartbeats (@fw42)
• Run eager load hooks for Rails applications versioned 4.x and up (@abhi-patel)
• Fix bug when encountering an error while pruning workers (Joakim Kolsjö and Tomas Skogberg)
• Children write to PIDFILE immediately after forking, fixing issues when reconnecting to Redis is slow (@fimmtiu)

Changed

• Update jQuery from 1.3.2 to 1.12.4 (@chrisccerami)
• No longer user Thread.kill to stop heartbeat (@Sinjo)

Added

• Resque Web UI now prompts for confirmation on clearing failed jobs (Markus Olsen)
• Adds process status to DirtyExit exception when job is killed via signal (@MishaConway)

1.26.0 (2016-03-10)

This changelog is a bit incomplete. We will be much stricter about the changelog for the next release.

• rake: when BACKGROUND, ensure worker.reconnect after daemonizing (@yaauie)
• worker: when searching workers, Worker#pid properly reflects pid of the found worker instead of the current pid. (@yaauie)
• Add support for RESQUE_PROCLINE_PREFIX environment variable to prefix procline strings with a static identifier. (@rbroemeling)
• Resque::Worker logs errors at the correct logging level (@chrisccerami)

1.25.2 (2014-3-3)

• Respect TERM_CHILD setting when not forking (@ggilder)
• implementation of backend connection with a hash (Andrea Rossi)
• require yaml for show_args support (@yaauie)
• use redis-namespace 1.3 (Andrea Rossi)
• fix DOCS link in README (@cade)
• Fix worker prune test to actually run its assertion & cover reality. (@yaauie)
• Eliminate infinite recursion when Resque::Helpers mixed into Resque (@yaml)
• use ruby, avoid shelling out. google++ (@hone)
• Failed Assertions Don't Fail Tests :rage: (@yaauie)

1.25.1 (2013-9-26)

• Actually require Forwardable from the standard library.

1.25.0 (2013-4-16)

• Updates fork method so resque-multi-job-forks monkey patching works again. See discussion at https://github.com/defunkt/resque/pull/895 for more context (@jonhyman)
• Use Redis.pipelined to group batches of redis commands. https://github.com/resque/resque/pull/902 (@jonhyman)
• Fixed uninitialize constant for the module/class that contains the perform method causing job failures to no be reported, #792 (@sideshowcoder)
• Fix Resque::Failure::Base.all to have the correct signature. (@rentalutions)
• Don't close stdio pipes when daemonizing so as to not hide errors. #967 (@sideshowcoder)
• Fix for worker_pids on Windows. #980 (@kzgs)
• Only prune workers for queues the current worker knows about. #1000 (!) (@dsabanin)
• Handle duplicate TERM signals. #988 (@softwaregravy)
• Fix issue with exiting workers and unintentionally deregistering the parent when the forked child exits. #1017 (@magec)
• Fix encoding errors with local date formatting. #1065 (@katafrakt)
• Fix CI for 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 modes due to dependencies. #1090 (@adelcambre)
• Allow using globs for queue names to listen on, allowing things like listening on staging_*. #1085 (@adelcambre)

1.24.1 (2013-3-23)

• Adds a default value for per_page on resque-server for plugins which add tabs (@jonhyman)
• Fix bad logic on the failed queue adapter
• Added missing require 'time' which was causing occasional errors which would crash workers.

1.24.0 (2013-3-21)

• Web UI: Fix regression that caused the failure tab to break when using certain failure backends (@kjg)
• Web UI: Add page list to queues (@ql)
• Web UI: Fix regression that caused the failure tab to break when clicking on "clear all failures" under certain failure backends, #859 (@jonhyman)
• Fix regression for Resque hooks where Resque would error out if you assigned multiple hooks using an array, #859 (@jonhyman)
• Adds ENV["RUN_AT_EXIT_HOOKS"] which when set to 1 causes any defined at_exit hooks to be run on the child when the forked process exits, #862 (@jonhyman)
• Bump up redis-namespace to 1.2.
• Remove multi_json, the JSON gem does the right thing everywhere now.
• Documentation fixes with demo instructions.
• Fixed encoding for worker PIDs on Windows (@kzgs)
• Cache value of PID in an ivar. This way, if you try to look up worker PIDs from some other process (such as the console), they will be correct.
• Add a mutex-free logger. Ruby 2.0 does not allow you to use a mutex from a signal handler, which can potentially cause deadlock. Now we're using mono_logger, which has no locks.

1.23.1 (2013-3-7)

• JRuby and Rubinius are 'allow failure' on CI. This is largely due to Travis weridness and flaky tests.
• Fix link from "queues" view to "failed" view when there's only one failed queue (trliner)
• Making all the failure backends have the same method signature for duck typing purposes (jonhyman)
• Fix log formatters not appending a new line (flavorpill)
• redirect unauthorized resque-web polling requests to root url (trliner)
• Various resque-web fixes (@tarcieri)
• Optional RedisMultiQueue failure backend, can be enabled with FAILURE_BACKEND=redis_multi_queue env var (@tarcieri)
• resque:failures:sort rake task will migrate an existing "failed" queue into separate failure queues per job queue, allowing an easy migration to the RedisMultiQueue failure backend (@tarcieri)
• Disable forking completely with FORK_PER_JOB=false env var (@tarcieri)
• Report a failure when processes are killed with signals (@dylanahsmith)
• Enable registering of multiple Resque hooks (@panthomakos, @jonhyman)

1.23.0 (2012-10-01)

• don't run before_fork hook if Resque can't fork (@kjwierenga, @tarcieri, #672, #697)
• don't run after_fork hook if Resque can't fork (@kjwierenga, @tarcieri, #672, #697)
• retry connecting to redis up to 3 times (@trevorturk, #693)
• pass exceptions raised by the worker into the Failure backend (@trevorturk, #693)

1.22.0 (2012-08-21)

• unregister signal handlers in child process when ENV["TERM_CHILD"] is set (@dylanasmith, #621)
• new signal handling for TERM. See http://hone.heroku.com/resque/2012/08/21/resque-signals.html. (@wuputah, @yaaule, #638)
• supports calling perform hooks when using Resque.inline (@jonhyman, #506)

1.21.0 (2012-07-02)

• Add a flag to make sure failure hooks are only ran once (jakemack, #546)
• Support updated MultiJSON API (@twinturbo)
• Fix worker logging in monit example config (@twinturbo)
• loosen dependency of redis-namespace to 1.x, support for redis-rb 3.0.x
• change '%' to '$' in the 'stop program' command for monit
• UTF8 sanitize exception messages when there's a failure (@brianmario, #507)
• don't share a redis connection between parent and child (@jsanders, #588)

1.20.0 (2012-02-17)

• Fixed demos for ruby 1.9 (@BMorearty, #445)
• Fixed #requeue tests (@hone, #500)
• Web UI: optional trailing slashes of URLs (@elisehuard, #449)
• Allow * to appear anywhere in queue list (@tapajos, #405, #407)
• Wait for child with specific PID (@jacobkg)
• #decode raise takes a string when re-raising as a different exception class (Trevor Hart)
• Use Sinatra's pubilc_folder if it exists (@defunkt, #420, #421)
• Assign the job's worker before calling before_fork (@quirkey)
• Fix Resque::Helpers#constantize to work correctly on 1.9.2 (@rtlong)
• Added before & after hooks for dequeue (@humancopy, #398)
• daemonize support using ENV["BACKGROUND"] (@chrisleishman)
• requeue and remove failed jobs by queue name (@evanwhalen)
• -r flag for resque-web for redis connection (@gjastrab)
• Added Resque.enqueue_to: allows you to specif the queue and still run hooks (@dan-g)
• Web UI: Set the default encoding to UTF-8 (@elubow)
• fix finding worker pids on JRuby (John Andrews + Andrew Grieser)
• Added distributed redis support (@stipple)
• Added better failure hooks (@raykrueger)
• Added before & after dequeue hooks (@humancopy)

1.19.0 (2011-09-01)

• Added Airbrake (formerly Hoptoad) support.
• Web UI: Added retry all button to failed jobs page
• Web UI: Show focus outline

1.18.6 (2011-08-30)

• Bugfix: Use Rails 3 eager loading for resque:preload

1.18.5 (2011-08-24)

• Added support for Travis CI
• Bugfix: preload only happens in production Rails environment

1.18.4 (2011-08-23)

• Bugfix: preload task depends on setup

1.18.3 (2011-08-23)

• Bugfix: Fix preloading on Rails 3.x.

1.18.2 (2011-08-19)

• Fix RAILS_ROOT deprecation warning

1.18.1 (2011-08-19)

• Bugfix: Use RAILS_ROOT in preload task

1.18.0 (2011-08-18)

• Added before_enqueue hook.
• Resque workers now preload files under app/ in Rails
• Switch to MultiJSON
• Bugfix: Finding worker pids on Solaris
• Web UI: Fix NaN days ago for worker screens
• Web UI: Add Cache-Control header to prevent proxy caching
• Web UI: Update Resque.redis_id so it can be used in a distributed ring.

1.17.1 (2011-05-27)

• Reverted exit change. Back to exit!.

1.17.0 (2011-05-26)

• Workers exit with exit instead of exit!. This means you can now use at_exit hooks inside workers.
• More monit typo fixes.
• Fixed bug in Hoptoad backend.
• Web UI: Wrap preformatted arguments.

1.16.1 (2011-05-17)

• Bugfix: Resque::Failure::Hoptoad.configure works again
• Bugfix: Loading rake tasks

1.16.0 (2011-05-16)

• Optional Hoptoad backend extracted into hoptoad_notifier. Install the gem to use it.
• Added Worker#paused? method
• Bugfix: Properly reseed random number generator after forking.
• Bugfix: Resque.redis=(<a Redis::Namespace>)
• Bugfix: Monit example stdout/stderr redirection
• Bugfix: Removing single failure now works with multiple failure backends
• Web: 'Remove Queue' now requires confirmation
• Web: Favicon!
• Web Bugfix: Dates display in Safari
• Web Bugfix: Dates display timezone
• Web Bugfix: Race condition querying working workers
• Web Bugfix: Fix polling /workers/all in resque-web

1.15.0 (2011-03-18)

• Fallback to Redis.connect. Makes ENV variables and whatnot work.
• Fixed Sinatra 1.2 compatibility

1.14.0 (2011-03-17)

• Sleep interval can now be a float
• Added Resque.inline to allow in-process performing of jobs (for testing)
• Fixed tests for Ruby 1.9.2
• Added Resque.validate(klass) to validate a Job
• Decode errors are no longer ignored to help debugging
• Web: Sinatra 1.2 compatibility
• Fixed after_enqueue hook to actually run in Resque.enqueue
• Fixed very_verbose timestamps to use 24 hour time (AM/PM wasn't included)
• Fixed monit example
• Fixed Worker#pid

1.13.0 (2011-02-07)

• Depend on redis-namespace >= 0.10
• README tweaks
• Use thread_safe option when setting redis url
• Bugfix: worker pruning

1.12.0 (2011-02-03)

• Added pidfile writing from rake resque:work
• Added Worker#pid method
• Added configurable location for rake install
• Bugfix: Errors in failure backend are rescue'd
• Bugfix: Non-working workers no longer counted in "working" count
• Bugfix: Don't think resque-web is a worker

1.11.0 (2010-08-23)

• Web UI: Group /workers page by hostnames

1.10.0 (2010-08-23)

• Support redis:// string format in Resque.redis=
• Using new cross-platform JSON gem.
• Added after_enqueue plugin hook.
• Added shutdown? method which can be overridden.
• Added support for the "leftright" gem when running tests.
• Grammarfix: In the README

1.9.10 (2010-08-06)

• Bugfix: before_fork should get passed the job

1.9.9 (2010-07-26)

• Depend on redis-namespace 0.8.0
• Depend on json_pure instead of json (for JRuby compat)
• Bugfix: rails_env display in stats view

1.9.8 (2010-07-20)

• Bugfix: Worker.all should never return nil
• monit example: Fixed Syntax Error and adding environment to the rake task
• redis rake task: Fixed typo in copy command

1.9.7 (2010-07-09)

• Improved memory usage in Job.destroy
• redis-namespace 0.7.0 now required
• Bugfix: Reverted $0 changes
• Web Bugfix: Payload-less failures in the web ui work

1.9.6 (2010-06-22)

• Bugfix: Rakefile logging works the same as all the other logging

1.9.5 (2010-06-16)

• Web Bugfix: Display the configured namespace on the stats page
• Revert Bugfix: Make ps -o more cross platform friendly

1.9.4 (2010-06-14)

• Bugfix: Multiple failure backend gets exception information when created

1.9.3 (2010-06-14)

• Bugfix: Resque#queues always returns an array

1.9.2 (2010-06-13)

• Bugfix: Worker.all returning nil fix
• Bugfix: Make ps -o more cross platform friendly

1.9.1 (2010-06-04)

• Less strict JSON dependency
• Included HISTORY.md in gem

1.9.0 (2010-06-04)

• Redis 2 support
• Depend on redis-namespace 0.5.0
• Added Resque::VERSION constant (alias of Resque::Version)
• Bugfix: Specify JSON dependency
• Bugfix: Hoptoad plugin now works on 1.9

1.8.5 (2010-05-18)

• Bugfix: Be more liberal in which Redis clients we accept.

1.8.4 (2010-05-18)

• Try to resolve redis-namespace dependency issue

1.8.3 (2010-05-17)

• Depend on redis-rb ~> 1.0.7

1.8.2 (2010-05-03)

• Bugfix: Include "tasks/" dir in RubyGem

1.8.1 (2010-04-29)

• Bugfix: Multiple failure backend did not support requeue-ing failed jobs
• Bugfix: Fix /failed when error has no backtrace
• Bugfix: Add Redis::DistRedis as a valid client

1.8.0 (2010-04-07)

• Jobs that never complete due to killed worker are now failed.
• Worker "working" state is now maintained by the parent, not the child.
• Stopped using deprecated redis.rb methods
• Worker.working race condition fixed
• Worker#process has been deprecated.
• Monit example fixed
• Redis::Client and Redis::Namespace can be passed to Resque.redis=

1.7.1 (2010-04-02)

• Bugfix: Make job hook execution order consistent
• Bugfix: stdout buffering in child process

1.7.0 (2010-03-31)

• Job hooks API. See docs/HOOKS.md.
• web: Hovering over dates shows a timestamp
• web: AJAXify retry action for failed jobs
• web bugfix: Fix pagination bug

1.6.1 (2010-03-25)

• Bugfix: Workers may not be clearing their state correctly on shutdown
• Added example monit config.
• Exception class is now recorded when an error is raised in a worker.
• web: Unit tests
• web: Show namespace in header and footer
• web: Remove a queue
• web: Retry failed jobs

1.6.0 (2010-03-09)

• Added before_first_fork, before_fork, and after_fork hooks.
• Hoptoad: Added server_environment config setting
• Hoptoad bugfix: Don't depend on RAILS_ROOT
• 1.8.6 compat fixes

1.5.2 (2010-03-03)

• Bugfix: JSON check was crazy.

1.5.1 (2010-03-03)

• Job.destroy and Resque.dequeue return the # of destroyed jobs.
• Hoptoad notifier improvements
• Specify the namespace with resque-web by passing -N namespace
• Bugfix: Don't crash when trying to parse invalid JSON.
• Bugfix: Non-standard namespace support
• Web: Red backgound for queue "failed" only shown if there are failed jobs.
• Web bugfix: Tabs highlight properly now
• Web bugfix: ZSET partial support in stats
• Web bugfix: Deleting failed jobs works again
• Web bugfix: Sets (or zsets, lists, etc) now paginate.

1.5.0 (2010-02-17)

• Version now included in procline, e.g. resque-1.5.0: Message
• Web bugfix: Ignore idle works in the "working" page
• Added Resque::Job.destroy(queue, klass, *args)
• Added Resque.dequeue(klass, *args)

1.4.0 (2010-02-11)

• Fallback when unable to bind QUIT and USR1 for Windows and JRuby.
• Fallback when no Kernel.fork is provided (for IronRuby).
• Web: Rounded corners in Firefox
• Cut down system calls in Worker#prune_dead_workers
• Enable switching DB in a Redis server from config
• Support USR2 and CONT to stop and start job processing.
• Web: Add example failing job
• Bugfix: Worker#unregister_worker shouldn't call done_working
• Bugfix: Example god config now restarts Resque properly.
• Multiple failure backends now permitted.
• Hoptoad failure backend updated to new API

1.3.1 (2010-01-11)

• Vegas bugfix: Don't error without a config

1.3.0 (2010-01-11)

• Use Vegas for resque-web
• Web Bugfix: Show proper date/time value for failed_at on Failures
• Web Bugfix: Make the / route more flexible
• Add Resque::Server.tabs array (so plugins can add their own tabs)
• Start using Semantic Versioning

1.2.4 (2009-12-15)

• Web Bugfix: fix key links on stat page

1.2.3 (2009-12-15)

• Bugfix: Fixed rand seeding in child processes.
• Bugfix: Better JSON encoding/decoding without Yajl.
• Bugfix: Avoid ps flag error on Linux
• Add PREFIX observance to rake install tasks.

1.2.2 (2009-12-08)

• Bugfix: Job equality was not properly implemented.

1.2.1 (2009-12-07)

• Added rake resque:workers task for starting multiple workers.
• 1.9.x compatibility
• Bugfix: Yajl decoder doesn't care about valid UTF-8
• config.ru loads RESQUECONFIG if the ENV variable is set.
• resque-web now sets RESQUECONFIG
• Job objects know if they are equal.
• Jobs can be re-queued using Job#recreate

1.2.0 (2009-11-25)

• If USR1 is sent and no child is found, shutdown.
• Raise when a job class does not respond to perform.
• Added Resque.remove_queue for deleting a queue

1.1.0 (2009-11-04)

• Bugfix: Broken ERB tag in failure UI
• Bugfix: Save the worker's ID, not the worker itself, in the failure module
• Redesigned the sinatra web interface
• Added option to clear failed jobs

1.0.0 (2009-11-03)

• First release.