.. _changelog: ================ Change history ================ This document contains change notes for bugfix releases in the 4.x series, please see :ref:`whatsnew-4.2` for an overview of what's new in Celery 4.2. 4.2.2 ===== :release-date: 2019-03-20 4:00 PM IST :release-by: Omer Katz - **Kombu**: Limit Kombu version to 4.3 at maximum. Contributed by **Omer Katz** 4.2.1 ===== :release-date: 2018-07-18 11:00 AM IST :release-by: Omer Katz - **Result Backend**: Fix deserialization of exceptions that are present in the producer codebase but not in the consumer codebase. Contributed by **John Arnold** - **Message Protocol Compatibility**: Fix error caused by an invalid (None) timelimit value in the message headers when migrating messages from 3.x to 4.x. Contributed by **Robert Kopaczewski** - **Result Backend**: Fix serialization of exception arguments when exception arguments are not JSON serializable by default. Contributed by **Tom Booth** - **Worker**: Fixed multiple issues with rate limited tasks Maintain scheduling order. Fix possible scheduling of a :class:`celery.worker.request.Request` with the wrong :class:`kombu.utils.limits.TokenBucket` which could cause tasks' rate limit to behave incorrectly. Fix possible duplicated execution of tasks that were rate limited or if ETA/Countdown was provided for them. Contributed by :github_user:`ideascf` - **Worker**: Defensively handle invalid timelimit header values in requests. Contributed by **Omer Katz** Documentation fixes: - **Matt Wiens** - **Seunghun Lee** - **Lewis M. Kabui** - **Prathamesh Salunkhe** 4.2.0 ===== :release-date: 2018-06-10 21:30 PM IST :release-by: Omer Katz - **Task**: Add ``ignore_result`` as task execution option (#4709, #3834) Contributed by **Andrii Kostenko** and **George Psarakis**. - **Redis Result Backend**: Do not create PubSub subscriptions when results are ignored (#4709, #3834) Contributed by **Andrii Kostenko** and **George Psarakis**. - **Redis Result Backend**: Result consumer always unsubscribes when task state is ready (#4666) Contributed by **George Psarakis**. - **Development/Testing**: Add docker-compose and base Dockerfile for development (#4482) Contributed by **Chris Mitchell**. - **Documentation/Sphinx**: Teach autodoc to document tasks if undoc-members is not set (#4588) Contributed by **Leo Singer**. - **Documentation/Sphinx**: Put back undoc-members option in sphinx test (#4586) Contributed by **Leo Singer**. - **Documentation/Sphinx**: Sphinx autodoc picks up tasks automatically only if `undoc-members` is set (#4584) Contributed by **Leo Singer**. - **Task**: Fix shadow_name issue when using previous version Task class (#4572) Contributed by :github_user:`pachewise`. - **Task**: Add support for bound tasks as `link_error` parameter (Fixes #3723) (#4545) Contributed by :github_user:`brabiega`. - **Deployment**: Add a command line option for setting the Result Backend URL (#4549) Contributed by :github_user:`y0ngdi`. - **CI**: Enable pip cache in appveyor build (#4546) Contributed by **Thijs Triemstra**. - **Concurrency/Asynpool**: Fix errno property name shadowing. Contributed by **Omer Katz**. - **DynamoDB Backend**: Configurable endpoint URL (#4532) Contributed by **Bohdan Rybak**. - **Timezones**: Correctly detect UTC timezone and timezone from settings (Fixes #4517) (#4519) Contributed by :github_user:`last-partizan`. - **Control**: Cleanup the mailbox's producer pool after forking (#4472) Contributed by **Nick Eaket**. - **Documentation**: Start Celery and Celery Beat on Azure WebJob (#4484) Contributed by **PauloPeres**. - **Celery Beat**: Schedule due tasks on startup, after Beat restart has occurred (#4493) Contributed by **Igor Kasianov**. - **Worker**: Use absolute time when task is accepted by worker pool (#3684) Contributed by **Régis Behmo**. - **Canvas**: Propagate arguments to chains inside groups (#4481) Contributed by **Chris Mitchell**. - **Canvas**: Fix `Task.replace` behavior in nested chords (fixes #4368) (#4369) Contributed by **Denis Shirokov** & **Alex Hill**. - **Installation**: Pass python_requires argument to setuptools (#4479) Contributed by **Jon Dufresne**. - **Message Protocol Compatibility**: Handle "hybrid" messages that have moved between Celery versions (#4358) (Issue #4356) Contributed by **Russell Keith-Magee**. - **Canvas**: request on_timeout now ignores soft time limit exception (fixes #4412) (#4473) Contributed by **Alex Garel**. - **Redis Result Backend**: Integration test to verify PubSub unsubscriptions (#4468) Contributed by **George Psarakis**. - **Message Protocol Properties**: Allow the shadow keyword argument and the shadow_name method to set shadow properly (#4381) Contributed by :github_user:`hclihn`. - **Canvas**: Run chord_unlock on same queue as chord body (#4448) (Issue #4337) Contributed by **Alex Hill**. - **Canvas**: Support chords with empty header group (#4443) Contributed by **Alex Hill**. - **Timezones**: make astimezone call in localize more safe (#4324) Contributed by **Matt Davis**. - **Canvas**: Fix length-1 and nested chords (#4437) (Issues #4393, #4055, #3885, #3597, #3574, #3323, #4301) Contributed by **Alex Hill**. - **CI**: Run `Openstack Bandit `_ in Travis CI in order to detect security issues. Contributed by **Omer Katz**. - **CI**: Run `isort `_ in Travis CI in order to lint Python **import** statements. Contributed by **Omer Katz**. - **Canvas**: Resolve TypeError on `.get` from nested groups (#4432) (Issue #4274) Contributed by **Misha Wolfson**. - **CouchDB Backend**: Correct CouchDB key string type for Python 2/3 compatibility (#4166) Contributed by :github_user:`fmind` && **Omer Katz**. - **Group Result**: Fix current_app fallback in GroupResult.restore() (#4431) Contributed by **Alex Hill**. - **Consul Backend**: Correct key string type for Python 2/3 compatibility (#4416) Contributed by **Wido den Hollander**. - **Group Result**: Correctly restore an empty GroupResult (#2202) (#4427) Contributed by **Alex Hill** & **Omer Katz**. - **Result**: Disable synchronous waiting for sub-tasks on eager mode(#4322) Contributed by **Denis Podlesniy**. - **Celery Beat**: Detect timezone or Daylight Saving Time changes (#1604) (#4403) Contributed by **Vincent Barbaresi**. - **Canvas**: Fix append to an empty chain. Fixes #4047. (#4402) Contributed by **Omer Katz**. - **Task**: Allow shadow to override task name in trace and logging messages. (#4379) Contributed by :github_user:`hclihn`. - **Documentation/Sphinx**: Fix getfullargspec Python 2.x compatibility in contrib/sphinx.py (#4399) Contributed by **Javier Martin Montull**. - **Documentation**: Updated installation instructions for SQS broker (#4382) Contributed by **Sergio Fernandez**. - **Celery Beat**: Better equality comparison for ScheduleEntry instances (#4312) Contributed by :github_user:`mariia-zelenova`. - **Task**: Adding 'shadow' property to as_task_v2 (#4350) Contributed by **Marcelo Da Cruz Pinto**. - Try to import directly, do not use deprecated imp method (#4216) Contributed by **Tobias Kunze**. - **Task**: Enable `kwargsrepr` and `argsrepr` override for modifying task argument representation (#4260) Contributed by **James M. Allen**. - **Result Backend**: Add Redis Sentinel backend (#4144) Contributed by **Geoffrey Bauduin**. - Use unique time values for Collections/LimitedSet (#3879 and #3891) (#3892) Contributed by :github_user:`lead2gold`. - **CI**: Report coverage for all result backends. Contributed by **Omer Katz**. - **Django**: Use Django DB max age connection setting (fixes #4116) (#4292) Contributed by **Marco Schweighauser**. - **Canvas**: Properly take into account chain tasks link_error (#4240) Contributed by :github_user:`agladkov`. - **Canvas**: Allow to create group with single task (fixes issue #4255) (#4280) Contributed by :github_user:`agladkov`. - **Canvas**: Copy dictionary parameter in chord.from_dict before modifying (fixes issue #4223) (#4278) Contributed by :github_user:`agladkov`. - **Results Backend**: Add Cassandra options (#4224) Contributed by **Scott Cooper**. - **Worker**: Apply rate limiting for tasks with ETA (#4251) Contributed by :github_user:`arpanshah29`. - **Celery Beat**: support scheduler entries without a schedule (#4235) Contributed by **Markus Kaiserswerth**. - **SQS Broker**: Updated SQS requirements file with correct boto3 version (#4231) Contributed by **Alejandro Varas**. - Remove unused code from _create_app contextmanager (#4204) Contributed by **Ryan P Kilby**. - **Group Result**: Modify GroupResult.as_tuple() to include parent (fixes #4106) (#4205) Contributed by :github_user:`pachewise`. - **Beat**: Set default scheduler class in beat command. (#4189) Contributed by :github_user:`Kxrr`. - **Worker**: Retry signal receiver after raised exception (#4192) Contributed by **David Davis**. - **Task**: Allow custom Request class for tasks (#3977) Contributed by **Manuel Vázquez Acosta**. - **Django**: Django fixup should close all cache backends (#4187) Contributed by **Raphaël Riel**. - **Deployment**: Adds stopasgroup to the supervisor scripts (#4200) Contributed by :github_user:`martialp`. - Using Exception.args to serialize/deserialize exceptions (#4085) Contributed by **Alexander Ovechkin**. - **Timezones**: Correct calculation of application current time with timezone (#4173) Contributed by **George Psarakis**. - **Remote Debugger**: Set the SO_REUSEADDR option on the socket (#3969) Contributed by **Theodore Dubois**. - **Django**: Celery ignores exceptions raised during `django.setup()` (#4146) Contributed by **Kevin Gu**. - Use heartbeat setting from application configuration for Broker connection (#4148) Contributed by :github_user:`mperice`. - **Celery Beat**: Fixed exception caused by next_transit receiving an unexpected argument. (#4103) Contributed by **DDevine**. - **Task** Introduce exponential backoff with Task auto-retry (#4101) Contributed by **David Baumgold**. - **AsyncResult**: Remove weak-references to bound methods in AsyncResult promises. (#4131) Contributed by **Vinod Chandru**. - **Development/Testing**: Allow eager application of canvas structures (#4576) Contributed by **Nicholas Pilon**. - **Command Line**: Flush stderr before exiting with error code 1. Contributed by **Antonin Delpeuch**. - **Task**: Escapes single quotes in kwargsrepr strings. Contributed by **Kareem Zidane** - **AsyncResult**: Restore ability to join over ResultSet after fixing celery/#3818. Contributed by **Derek Harland** - **Redis Results Backend**: Unsubscribe on message success. Previously Celery would leak channels, filling the memory of the Redis instance. Contributed by **George Psarakis** - **Task**: Only convert eta to isoformat when it is not already a string. Contributed by **Omer Katz** - **Redis Results Backend**: The result_backend setting now supports rediss:// URIs Contributed by **James Remeika** - **Canvas** Keyword arguments are passed to tasks in chain as expected. Contributed by :github_user:`tothegump` - **Django** Fix a regression casuing Celery to crash when using Django. Contributed by **Jonas Haag** - **Canvas** Chain with one task now runs as expected. Contributed by :github_user:`tothegump` - **Kombu** Celery 4.2 now requires Kombu 4.2 or better. Contributed by **Omer Katz & Asif Saifuddin Auvi** - `GreenletExit` is not in `__all__` in greenlet.py which can not be imported by Python 3.6. The import was adjusted to work on Python 3.6 as well. Contributed by **Hsiaoming Yang** - Fixed a regression that occured during the development of Celery 4.2 which caused `celery report` to crash when Django is installed. Contributed by **Josue Balandrano Coronel** - Matched the behavior of `GroupResult.as_tuple()` to that of `AsyncResult.as_tuple()`. The group's parent is now serialized correctly. Contributed by **Josue Balandrano Coronel** - Use Redis coercion mechanism for converting URI query parameters. Contributed by **Justin Patrin** - Fixed the representation of `GroupResult`. The dependency graph is now presented correctly. Contributed by **Josue Balandrano Coronel** Documentation, CI, Installation and Tests fixes: - **Sammie S. Taunton** - **Dan Wilson** - :github_user:`pachewise` - **Sergi Almacellas Abellana** - **Omer Katz** - **Alex Zaitsev** - **Leo Singer** - **Rachel Johnson** - **Jon Dufresne** - **Samuel Dion-Girardeau** - **Ryan Guest** - **Huang Huang** - **Geoffrey Bauduin** - **Andrew Wong** - **Mads Jensen** - **Jackie Leng** - **Harry Moreno** - :github_user:`michael-k` - **Nicolas Mota** - **Armenak Baburyan** - **Patrick Zhang** - :github_user:`anentropic` - :github_user:`jairojair` - **Ben Welsh** - **Michael Peake** - **Fengyuan Chen** - :github_user:`arpanshah29` - **Xavier Hardy** - **Shitikanth** - **Igor Kasianov** - **John Arnold** - :github_user:`dmollerm` - **Robert Knight** - **Asif Saifuddin Auvi** - **Eduardo Ramírez** - **Kamil Breguła** - **Juan Gutierrez**