v0.19.0

This release includes an introduction of task retention after successful processing. With Retention option, you can specify how long the task should be retained in the queue as a completed task.

Changed

• NewTask takes Option as variadic argument
• Bumped minimum supported go version to 1.14 (i.e. go1.14 or higher is required).

Added

• Retention option is added to allow user to specify task retention duration after completion.
• TaskID option is added to allow user to specify task ID.
• ErrTaskIDConflict sentinel error value is added.
• ResultWriter type is added and provided through Task.ResultWriter method.
• TaskInfo has new fields CompletedAt, Result and Retention.

Removed

• Client.SetDefaultOptions is removed. Use NewTask instead to pass default options for tasks.

v0.18.6

This release fixes CLI import issue

Changed

• Updated github.com/go-redis/redis version to v8

Fixes

• Fixes tool import issue described in #325

v0.18.5

This release includes one addition to the server config.

Added

IsFailure config option is added to Config to determine whether error returned from Handler counts as a failure.

v0.18.4

This release includes one fix.

Fixed

• Scheduler methods are now thread-safe. It's now safe to call Register and Unregister concurrently.

v0.18.3

This release includes minor change around task typename and critical performance fix for tooling (CLI, Web UI).

Changed

• Changed Queue function to not to convert the provided queue name to lowercase. Queue names are now case-sensitive.
• QueueInfo.MemoryUsage is now an approximate usage value.

Fixed

• Fixed latency issue around memory usage (see #309)

v0.18.2

This release includes one change.

Changed

• Queue function is updated to not to convert the provided queue name to lowercase.

v0.18.1

This release includes a minor change and critical fix in the task recovering logic (tasks left in active state due to server crash).

Changed

• Changed to execute task recovering logic when server starts up; Previously it needed to wait for a minute for task recovering logic to exeucte.

Fixed

• Fixed task recovering logic to execute every minute

v0.18.0

Asynq 0.18 includes major API changes and changes to the tooling (WebUI and CLI).
The inspeq sub package is removed, and all types and functions from the package are moved to asynq package.
The upgrade guide is available here

Package API changes

Task

• NewTask function takes array of bytes as payload.
• Task Type and Payload is accessed by a method call (previously these were fields on Task).

Server

• Server API has changed. Renamed Quiet to Stop. Renamed Stop to Shutdown. Note: As a result of this renaming, the behavior of Stop has changed. Please update the existing code to call Shutdown where it used to call Stop.

Scheduler

• Renamed Stop to Shutdown.

Client

• Client.Enqueue returns TaskInfo (Previously returned Result struct)

Inspector

• inspeq package is removed. All types and functions from the package is moved to asynq package.
• Inspector.RunTaskByKey is replaced with Inspector.RunTask
• Inspector.DeleteTaskByKey is replaced with Inspector.DeleteTask
• Inspector.ArchiveTaskByKey is replaced with Inspector.ArchiveTask
• WorkerInfo field names have changed.
• Inspector.CancelActiveTask is renamed to Inspector.CancelProcessing
• Inspector List methods (e.g. ListActiveTasks) returns slice of TaskInfo

CLI changes

• asynq task delete|run|archive commands takes take ID as well as the queue name (previously required task key)
  For example:

asynq task delete --queue=QUEUE --id=TASK_ID

Web UI (asynqmon) changes

• Payload now shows "non-printable bytes" if the payload bytes are not human readable (e.g. binary format)

Redis

• Requires redis v4.0+ for multiple field/value pair support
• Internal redis keys/values has changed (please see the migration guide)

v0.17.2

This release includes one bug fix.

Fixed

• Free unique lock when task is deleted (#275).

v0.17.1

This release includes one bug fix.

Fixed

• Fixed internal RDB.memoryUsage method.