0.14 Release Notes

The full list of changes in the Qpid 0.14 release incorporates both the issues worked on during the 0.13 development stream and any final touches made during the 0.14 release process. A list of these JIRA issues can be found below.

New Features

QPID-2519 - Allow Windows Broker to run as a Service
QPID-3346 - Support message grouping with stricted sequence consumption across multiple consumers.
QPID-3362 - Creates the Qpid gem file for distribution on RubyGems.org
QPID-3384 - Support DTX in a cluster.
QPID-3417 - Support for timestamping messages on arrival at the broker.
QPID-3626 - Provide access to the AMQP 0.10 timestamp delivery property for the python client

Bugs Fixed

QPID-1347 - Broker doesn't clearly report missing configuration files such as password file.
QPID-2655 - "qpid-server.bat -run:jpda" does not work
QPID-2672 - unroutable persistent messages should be immediately removed from or never flushed to the message store
QPID-2703 - Transaction Rollback/Recover does not restore consumer credit
QPID-2873 - incorrect handling of exchange bindings for queues in the configuration file
QPID-2899 - SelectorTest#testRuntimeSelectorError fails against the Java broker when running the 0-10 profiles
QPID-2901 - A number of tests sporadically fails with 0.10 profiles on attempt to commit transaction due to exception in org.apache.qpid.transport.Session#sync
QPID-2904 - RollbackOrderTest#testOrderingAfterRollback fails on java.0.10 test profiles
QPID-3064 - queues will prevent GC of a closed subscription if it was the last used subscription and no more messages are enqueued
QPID-3157 - 'removed' subscriptions may be held in memory by the queues SubscriptionList or 'lastSubscriptionNode' reference
QPID-3252 - Regression: broker no longer explicitly flushes messages to store on execution.sync or when sync command bit set.
QPID-3263 - Java (org.apache.qpid.client) XAResourceImpl always returns false for isSameRM
QPID-3267 - Java broker authentication does not work on JRE's other than Sun's
QPID-3304 - Tagged federation messages in a transaction can cause subsequent dequeue to fail
QPID-3307 - ClassNotfound Exception when using Qpid java client in Complex classloading Environments.
QPID-3309 - Management broker object port is not set if broker started with port number set to 0
QPID-3315 - SSL port not picked from configuration
QPID-3330 - Address strings unable to have empty strings as option values
QPID-3332 - Occasional test failures from TransactionTimeoutTest under default test profile under Jenkins
QPID-3335 - Remove duplicate and buggy type conversion code from Management Agent.
QPID-3337 - eliminate guest/guest default username/password and use an explicit sasl mechanism list
QPID-3339 - Occasional test failures from ExternalACLTest under java.0.10
QPID-3344 - Comparisons of const DataAddr objects are incorrect
QPID-3348 - Qmf broker proxy method create() does not handle keyword arguments, only regular parameters
QPID-3352 - Federation bridge doesn't recover from session errors
QPID-3355 - Client aborts when replaying sender after connection recovery
QPID-3359 - FailoverMethodTest.testNoFailover unreliable since QPID-2815
QPID-3363 - broker allows unbind on default exchange
QPID-3372 - Asserting on arguments does not work for exchanges; incorrectly throws exception
QPID-3373 - Java client: connectionFactory.createConnection method should not rewrite stored credentials
QPID-3382 - Incorrect exceptions thrown from qpid::messaging::Connection::open()
QPID-3385 - 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 based connections share an ID generator, but 0-10 connection use their own
QPID-3386 - subscriptions on 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 based connections share a ID generator, but subscriptions on 0-10 connection use their own
QPID-3387 - QueueEntries can hold the Subscriptions which rejected them in memory after they are closed
QPID-3390 - the Java broker does not validate the exchange-declare arguments are supported
QPID-3393 - CRAM-MD5 does not work
QPID-3394 - Broker "leaks" messages that require async completion.
QPID-3399 - Qpidd possible memory leaks
QPID-3400 - Released (and redundant) delivery records not removed
QPID-3410 - Queue configuration error - priority queue created by default.
QPID-3411 - Can't turn off x-reconnect-on-limit-exceeded
QPID-3412 - Python and C++ clients use link name option differently
QPID-3415 - CRAM-MD5-HASHED not supported by 0-10 protocol (+ no suppport for custom SASL mechanisms).
QPID-3416 - Incorrect credentials reported by client as "[error code 320: context in use]" on 0-10 code path
QPID-3419 - qpid-config --file-size parameter's help text uses incorrect units
QPID-3425 - Using create mode (e.g. for x-bindings) with standard exchanges does not work
QPID-3428 - Verification of unique client ID does not work with Java Broker
QPID-3429 - SSL is broken on the Java broker
QPID-3432 - Test SyncWaitTimeoutDelayTest fails
QPID-3435 - Reconnect during Session::close can cause an infinite loop
QPID-3438 - cluster auth failure increments cnx count
QPID-3442 - qpid-tool schema descriptions repeated / duplicated
QPID-3443 - the C++ broker uses the wrong exception type when clients try to modify the default exchange
QPID-3444 - the Java broker does not reject 0-10 exchange delete/bind/unbind commands which use empty strings for the exchange name
QPID-3445 - Assertion, and unexpected exception in qpid::messaging::decode
QPID-3446 - Deadlock observed during broker shutdown with simultaneous closing of connection and attempted message delivery
QPID-3447 - Creating invalid federation link causes file descriptor leak
QPID-3448 - JMS Client throws unchecked SessionExceptions to client application
QPID-3452 - Test JMSPropertiesTest#testQpidExtensionProperties sporadically fails in CI for a 0.10 trunk build (Received frames for an already detached session)
QPID-3453 - Test PersistentStoreTest fails on java-bdb-spawn.0-10 profile
QPID-3454 - System test StreamMessageTest would not detect regression in StreamMessage buffer expansion.
QPID-3455 - Large message sent over sasl_wrapper encryption layer causes infinite loop in broker
QPID-3459 - Test org.apache.qpid.management.jmx.MessageStatisticsDeliveryTest sporadically fails on 0.10 profiles
QPID-3463 - Qpid Broker process fails to terminate on errors thrown on startup
QPID-3465 - byteDepth is only uint32
QPID-3467 - ManagementActorLoggingTest fails on 0-10 codepath with an ID error (close != open)
QPID-3475 - Clustered brokers ignore authentication settings when joining a cluster
QPID-3476 - Timer warnings are too verbose
QPID-3482 - Unable to switch off logging to syslog when qpidd runs as daemon
QPID-3487 - Client should send completions when closing a receiver
QPID-3488 - Setting receiver capacity to zero does not always stop the message flow
QPID-3492 - String values in address are parsed as binary (and sent as vbin16/32 rather than str16)
QPID-3493 - FailoverMethodTest.testFailoverSingleDelay occasionally fails on slow CI box
QPID-3496 - Removes erroneous namespace usage.
QPID-3498 - Broker race condition means that it tries to respond before IoSender thread is running
QPID-3501 - LogMonitor can corrupt test logs files and cause tests subclassing AbstractLoggingTests to fail.
QPID-3502 - Durable messages not acked on queue-based federation route
QPID-3507 - Calling receive while MessageListener is set causes a NPE doing consumer close
QPID-3508 - Subscription queue not unbound or deleted on Receiver::close()
QPID-3512 - ConnectionCloseTest occasionally fails on java-mms.0-9-1 profile
QPID-3515 - the qpid-server script does not work correctly if the QPID_HOME or QPID_WORK environment variables contain spaces/parentheses
QPID-3517 - Inconsistent SSL configuration keys in Java Broker may cause user confusion
QPID-3522 - SASL EXTERNAL mechanism no longer works
QPID-3524 - Transacted session for 0.10 does not support failover
QPID-3525 - On invoking Session#recover() in MessageListener the current message is acknowledged after being released in recover()
QPID-3526 - Message#acknowledge() may not acknowledge messages immediately in 0-10 client
QPID-3527 - Messages may not acknowledged immediately after receiving in AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE mode on 0-10 client
QPID-3528 - qpid --help has wrong description of sasl-config parameter
QPID-3534 - 0-9-1 client attempts to reuse the connection after sending ConnectionCloseOk
QPID-3535 - On protocol negotiation 0-9-1 client sends ConnectionClose command when broker protocol version is not supported by a client.
QPID-3543 - C++ Broker: auto-acknowledged messages are not being dequeued properly
QPID-3544 - ACL denials while replicating exclusive queues to a newly joined node
QPID-3546 - client can reject/release up to the first <total number of messages received on the session> sent by the broker following the first rollback after failover
QPID-3549 - A queue created with qpid.last_value_queue=0 behaves like a last-value-queue
QPID-3553 - C++ broker does not handle multiple ConnectionTuneOk cleanly
QPID-3561 - an excessively large buffer is used by default when persisting the 0-10 message metadata
QPID-3562 - the 0-10 client path does not act as expected with asynchronous consumers using a prefetch of 1 on transacted sessions
QPID-3563 - Unprotected access to accept tracking state can cause crash
QPID-3570 - persisted 0-10 message content/meta-data gets orphaned in the store until recovery removes it
QPID-3577 - An empty (null string) message group identifier is not assigned to the default group.
QPID-3578 - qpid-queue-stats doesn't support multiple filters (despite --help saying it does)
QPID-3582 - Client reporting "Unable to load custom SASL providers" during connection
QPID-3586 - Changes for QPID-3464 break cmake build in tar.gz distribution
QPID-3592 - Python test fails to receive more messages against the Java Broker after sending message.stop and then issuing more credit
QPID-3606 - Qpid.pc pkgconfig file isn't sufficient to compile programs using qpid API
QPID-3611 - IoReceiver calls shutdownInput on an SSLSocketImpl, which is not supported
QPID-3615 - Deprecate the "max-session-rate" feature in the C++ Broker.
QPID-3617 - AMQQueueMBean.viewMessages: Viewing message without priority set ends with NullPointerException
QPID-3654 - ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism does not work on Java client
QPID-713 - Plugin Manager should not hardcode API version

Improvements

QPID-2442 - make TemporaryQueue.delete perform the delete on the broker
QPID-2498 - Upgrade Mina to 1.1.7
QPID-2627 - Remove the dependency on Mina for the Java broker and client
QPID-2815 - Refactor broker startup to enable a uniform method of starting the broker
QPID-3275 - QMF Console asynchronous correlation-id should be scoped to the session, not the specific agent
QPID-3283 - Make AuthenticationManager pluggable
QPID-3306 - Provides a more Ruby-like set of APIs on top of the bindings created by swig.
QPID-3336 - Need to add Qpid version jars to Maven Central repository
QPID-3341 - Remove unused/dead transport code
QPID-3342 - Rationalise transport layer by introducing common interfaces shared by all protocols
QPID-3343 - Refactor testprofiles to allow for the testing of all protocols with client/broker residing in the same VM.
QPID-3345 - Make new transport implementations pluggable
QPID-3354 - Change default configure/build instructions for UUID headers from e2fsprogs-devel to libuuid-devel
QPID-3358 - Improve performance testing tools for the Java client
QPID-3360 - Ruby implementation of Qpid example applications
QPID-3365 - Improvements to build system to support client-plugins modules
QPID-3367 - FileUtils improvements
QPID-3381 - Allow the AMQP 0-10 routing key to be retrieved via the message properties
QPID-3395 - Parsing exception of JNDI file should not be swallowed in Java library
QPID-3414 - Plugin Manager Improvements
QPID-3420 - Make C++ broker's help text use consistent kibibyte abbreviations
QPID-3423 - Timing and Performance Improvements in QMF Libraries
QPID-3430 - Cannot exclude protocol from SSL ports on command line
QPID-3434 - Refactor 0-8..0-9-1 code paths to reuse same SSL configuration classes as 0-10
QPID-3439 - stop importing Signal handling classes directly to break reliance on sun.misc heirarchy and prevent the associated compiler warnings
QPID-3449 - 0-10 code path hardcodes session timeout to 60 seconds.
QPID-3451 - c++ version of drain only drains one message by default...
QPID-3464 - Build improvements (was fix build on Debian squeeze)
QPID-3473 - [Java] Replace use of MINA IO with IO layer developed for the Java 0-10 client
QPID-3480 - Directly encodes and decodes message content in Ruby
QPID-3484 - QMF Main-Loop Integration
QPID-3486 - Make connector server port used for JMX configurable
QPID-3504 - add the bdb backed store implementation for the Java broker to our ASF repo as an optional build module
QPID-3506 - qmf-tool - Improved command line options
QPID-3513 - Avoid use of shell script clean-dir during test cycle
QPID-3514 - Allow SSL and non-SSL connections on the same port
QPID-3545 - Ignore default exchange in qpid-config binding list
QPID-3558 - Maven artifacts for the broker
QPID-3568 - Update BDB version
QPID-3610 - set TCP_NODELAY true by default in the Java client to improve general performance

Tasks

QPID-3310 - Principal/Subject refactoring
QPID-3433 - Remove non existing and passing java tests from excludes in java test profiles. Raise JIRAs for non-passing tests where it is necessary.
QPID-3441 - Correct spelling error in C++ broker's QMF schema
QPID-3469 - JIRA clean up for Java client/broker
QPID-3511 - Removal of unused system property "qpid.default_wait_on_send" from Java Client
QPID-3516 - Docbook recent changes to Java client system properties