0.16 Release Notes

The full list of changes in the Qpid 0.16 release incorporates both the issues worked on during the 0.15 development stream and any final touches made during the 0.16 release process. A list of these JIRA issues can be found below.

New Features

QPID-3044 - Implement JCA Adapter for Java JMS client
QPID-3547 - qpid-config currently doesn't display useful information about headers exchange bindings
QPID-3622 - Add Sorted Queue
QPID-3642 - Implement Dead Letter Queue functionality
QPID-3753 - [Java Broker] Improve automatic conversion between 0-8/9/9-1 and 0-10 messages in the broker, including ReplyTo
QPID-3790 - Add a new method getQueueDepth(AMQDestionation, boolean) into AMQSession to allow syncing the session before sending QueueQuery command
QPID-3862 - Static Trace points for System tap / Dtrace

Bugs Fixed

QPID-2020 - AMQConnection.create[Durable]ConnectionConsumer should do something better than just return null
QPID-2243 - 0-10 protocol connections do not have a matching JMX MBean to allow management
QPID-2621 - Calling QueueBrowser.getEnumeration on a stopped connection will hang
QPID-2685 - Java clients 0.6 does not wait for asynchronous messages
QPID-2750 - remove erroneous asserts about LongString lengths in EncodingUtils
QPID-2770 - AMQMessageDelegate_0_10 uses Byte.valueOf() when converting String properties to short, int, and long values
QPID-3052 - Java test profiles do not effectively test all AMQP protocol versions
QPID-3095 - AMQBrokerDetails equals() and hashCode() methods do not adhere to contract
QPID-3180 - Ring queues do not work with --default-queue-limit 0
QPID-3293 - restore ability to set client connection send/receive buffer sizes
QPID-3426 - Test org.apache.qpid.test.client.failover.FailoverTest#test4MinuteFailover is broken
QPID-3440 - the reply-to Destination cache in AMQMessageDelegate_0_10 does not work
QPID-3474 - Principal name appears twice (separated by semicolon) in management logs on JMX connection closing/opening events.
QPID-3477 - Java Broker does not handle a rejection/acknowledgemnt with invalid code correctly
QPID-3481 - Acquired messages are not sent to alternate exchange when queue is deleted and receiver's session closed
QPID-3490 - the default exchange should not be implemented as just a regular direct exchange
QPID-3492 - String values in address are parsed as binary (and sent as vbin16/32 rather than str16)
QPID-3519 - Refactor the logic behind sending of the selector arguments during subscription creation
QPID-3533 - qpid-config does not properly set some options if value evaluates to False
QPID-3539 - NoLocal should occur at the connection level and not the session level (0-10)
QPID-3559 - SimpleDateFormat used in thread unsafe manner in JMX interface
QPID-3564 - C++ test tools - message group validator (msg_group_test) incorrectly handles the "no-senders" and "no-consumers" scenarios.
QPID-3566 - ConnectionCloseTest fails with spurious thread creation
QPID-3574 - Perl bindings are not correctly installed
QPID-3593 - Python Priority Queue tests fail against Java Broker
QPID-3594 - Python exclusive queue declaration test fails against Java Broker
QPID-3595 - Python Alternate Exchange tests fail against the Java Broker
QPID-3596 - Python tests fails as Java Broker does not validate for reserved exchange names on create/bind
QPID-3597 - Python Headers Exchange tests fail against Java Broker
QPID-3598 - Python Fanout Exchange query test fails against Java Broker
QPID-3599 - Python session tests fail against the Java Broker due to unexpected redelivered status
QPID-3604 - If the connection is stopped the client should release all it's messages in the prefetch buffer
QPID-3605 - Durable subscriber with no-local true receives messages on re-connection
QPID-3625 - XASessionImpl Incorrectly sets Session acknowledge mode to AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE when it should be CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE
QPID-3629 - CPP Broker allows credit window to exceed the request size.
QPID-3630 - Remove the "max-session-rate" feature in the C++ Broker.
QPID-3631 - The "Programming in Apache Qpid" book does not cover all Java Connection URL options
QPID-3635 - AMQQConnectionTest incorrect assumes an order in which the tests are run
QPID-3638 - incompatibility with new boost version 1.48
QPID-3640 - When releasing msgs, the JMS client should not mark msgs in the prefetch buffer as "redelivered".
QPID-3643 - Fanout exchange methods isBound(...) return false for bounded queue
QPID-3648 - On shutdown, broker can crash if v1 QMF agents are currently attached.
QPID-3658 - Rolling back with ManagedConnectingMBean sometimes fails to rollback the transaction or results in various exceptions propagated into a client.
QPID-3659 - Java client mishandles tcp_nodelay when specified as part of the broker URL
QPID-3660 - qpid-stat -c columns for "msgIn" and "msgOut" actually display frames, not messages
QPID-3661 - Client OSGi bundle cannot deserialise messages
QPID-3662 - The AMQConnectionURL class reports connection options twice
QPID-3666 - QMF v1 method requests may fail if new object's id overlaps an old deleted object.
QPID-3667 - Python QMF console can provide the incorrect user-id under some circumstances.
QPID-3669 - Path to qpidd_watchdog executable is hard coded in qpidd
QPID-3674 - Windows installer doesn't handle C++ programming examples install correctly
QPID-3679 - Documentation for JMS prefetch could use some correction and amplification
QPID-3680 - Header exchange bindings not being created via JMX Management Console.
QPID-3683 - FailoverBehaviourTest.testPublishClientAcknowledgedWithFailoverMutex/testPublishTransactedAcknowledgedWithFailoverMutex failing regularly on Jenkins.
QPID-3691 - Failover should sync once before indicating successfully failing comepletion
QPID-3697 - SortedQueue synchronization causes deadlock
QPID-3698 - org.apache.qpid.server.store.MessageStoreShutdownTest occasionally fails on Jenkins CI
QPID-3700 - Qpid JCA Adapter incorrectly throws JMSException when calling commit on a closed connection, should be IllegalStateException
QPID-3704 - SortedQueueTest.testTransactedSortedQueue failing occasionally on 0-9-1 profile
QPID-3705 - Thread Deadlock in QpidActivation
QPID-3707 - Unbind queue causes connection failure when using AMQP 0-9-1
QPID-3711 - run_federation_test test script does not actually run any of the federation.py tests
QPID-3712 - QpidBrokerTestCase#isExternalBroker uses incorrect logic to determine if testing with separate Broker process
QPID-3715 - On receiving an empty ObjectMessage java client hangs forever
QPID-3716 - Sun TCK tests expect an IllegalStateException thrown on invoking of Session#getTransacted() on closed session/connection
QPID-3718 - The Ruby bindings failed to properly handle uint8_t types.
QPID-3729 - C++ cmake build does not install python pieces needed for tests
QPID-3733 - QpidRAManagedConnection setup() method is incorrect for non-XA transaction state as well as username/password
QPID-3735 - QpidActivation.start() should not use the JCA WorkManager API control due to JNDI/Classloading issues
QPID-3737 - Patch to make qpid-stat -L option work
QPID-3739 - Java properties qpid.ssl.keyStoreCertType and qpid.ssl.trustStoreCertType have misleading names and would be better called qpid.ssl.[Key|Trust]ManagerFactory.algorithm
QPID-3743 - [Java Broker] Remove catching of Exception during metadata retrieval in BDB store
QPID-3747 - PrefetchBehaviourTest.testLowPrefetchCausesMessagesToBeDistributedBetweenConsumers occasionally fails on spawned profiles.
QPID-3748 - qmf - Methods cannot be invoked when the agent is in external-storage mode
QPID-3755 - Concurrent queue bind on the same queue results in crash
QPID-3756 - ManagedConnectionMBeanTest.testChannels fails on 0-10 spawned profiles
QPID-3762 - forcefully closed 0-9-1 connections can leak their IoSender on the broker
QPID-3763 - AMQConnectionDelegate_0_10 incorrectly prints password to log file
QPID-3764 - QpidResourceAdapter, ConnectionFactoryProperties prints connection URL in trace logs that may contain password info
QPID-3768 - Test org.apache.qpid.server.queue.SortedQueueTest.testGetNextWithAck fails sporadically on CI
QPID-3773 - Creating exchange source routes to different brokers can fail if the channels overlap.
QPID-3780 - [Java Broker] Using multiple consumers on a large (e.g. 1million entries+) queue may become excessively slow
QPID-3782 - CombinedTest failed - java.lang.IllegalStateException: dispatcher is not started (java-bdb.0-9-1)
QPID-3783 - When creating an Address using a toString() of another address object, "None" is used as the subject when it should be Null.
QPID-3786 - When creating an destination from an incomming message, the legacy fields should also be populated.
QPID-3787 - Segfault in SslPlugin during shutdown
QPID-3792 - Test DurableSubscriptionTest.testDurSubAddMessageSelectorNoClose fails sporadically for test profile java-bdb-spawn.0-10
QPID-3793 - Test MessageStatisticsTest.testMessagePeakRates fails sporadically on java-bdb-spawn.0-10 test profile
QPID-3798 - Prevent qmf.console.py from waiting indefinitely on closing a failed connection on connection retry.
QPID-3799 - ACL processing by C++ broker produces unexpected results
QPID-3802 - Broker command line processing --help (-h) and --version (-v) no longer work
QPID-3803 - System tests SortedQueueTest#test<ACK MODE>SortedQueue fail ocasionally on slow machines
QPID-3804 - Rollback or release of an acquired group message may result in message reorder.
QPID-3806 - QpidRASessionFactoryImpl closeSession() method incorrectly calls remove on HashSet
QPID-3809 - Java Broker killed by java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe (killed by uncaught exception handler)
QPID-3810 - [Java broker] stop the acceptor thread exiting when encountering IOExceptions such as too many open files
QPID-3812 - [Java] ExceptionListenerTest sporadically fails on java-mms-0.10
QPID-3814 - the 0-10 client codepath doesnt send the client version number property during the connection process
QPID-3815 - 0-10 connections produce duplicate connection open log messages
QPID-3817 - QueueBrowser creation does not work with Address syntax via 'destination.' entries in JNDI properties files
QPID-3819 - ExhaustiveACLTests can timeout (but still pass) during teardown [0-9-1]
QPID-3820 - ProducerFlowControlTest#testSendTimeout test fails sprodically on 0-10 profiles
QPID-3821 - Uncaught exception thrown in QueueRunner and SubFlushRunner run() could cause them to remain stuck in RUNNING state permanently
QPID-3823 - ServerSession unblock(AMQQueue) can cause NPE when trying to remove a queue from _blockingQueues Map that is not present
QPID-3829 - [Java broker] no-local checking for published messages can prevent 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 connections being garbage collected after they are closed
QPID-3832 - Qpid 0.14 broke transport connection setting
QPID-3835 - [Java broker] DurableSubscriptions without a selector on 0-10 connections will initially be unsubscribed at reconnect following upgrade of a legacy message store
QPID-3836 - no-local does not work for Qpid 0-10 JMS client when using address strings
QPID-3839 - messages fetched through browsing receivers are never accepted
QPID-3843 - Neither properties, no object type is taken into consideration by ACL plugin when ALL is specified for the operation
QPID-3844 - Management ACL lacks the ability to perform queryMBean operation for non-admin users
QPID-3845 - User with read access rights on ShutdownMBean is allowed to shutdown broker via JMX
QPID-3846 - Management console adds empty nodes ("connections", "exchanges" and "queue") for the users without access rights on virtual hosts
QPID-3847 - Object IDs (in console.py) which are learned via qmfv1 publish are not properly regenerated when they contain recursive references
QPID-3854 - SO_REUSEADDR should be applied to server socket before bind()
QPID-3855 - [Java broker] the activeConsumerCount for a queue can be incorrect for certain types of subscriptions
QPID-3857 - Test ConnectionTest#testClientIDVerificationForSameUser fails occasionally
QPID-3867 - AMQQueueMBean#clearQueue|moveMessages|copyMessages should be certain to rollback transactions in the event of exception
QPID-3870 - C++ tests based on python don't always have correct PYTHONPATH on Windows
QPID-3877 - Modifying a message's headers may cause a broker crash.
QPID-3893 - C++ broker appears to segfault during MultipleTransactedBatchProducerTest
QPID-3896 - Broker crash when using auto delete queues in a cluster
QPID-3898 - qpid-tool bounces repeatedly when using SSL
QPID-3899 - Grouped messages with expired TTL will cause the broker to crash.
QPID-3900 - Windows build fails to compile store ms-clfs
QPID-3901 - 0.16 Release issues for Windows
QPID-3905 - NullPointerException is thrown on rejecting messages whilst closing the connection
QPID-3907 - qpid-config fails when listing queues that have alternate exchange
QPID-3911 - Consumer.close() and session.rollback() deadlocks
QPID-3919 - qpid-printevents can't connect to broker
QPID-3920 - Occasional header corruption observed in federated system
QPID-3927 - Java Broker Priority Queue dispatch not working correctly
QPID-3937 - Wrapped Python uses syntax that is incompatible with older Python interpreters
QPID-3938 - qmf-tool fails to create connection against updated Python wrapper
QPID-3939 - Bumps the Ruby gem version to 0.16
QPID-3940 - Includes the spec and features subdirectories in the gemfile for Ruby.
QPID-3944 - Autotools build system doesn't correctly detect python developer libraries
QPID-3946 - Wrapped Python typemap uses "uuid" module that is not available in Python 2.4
QPID-3962 - Added licensing to the Cucumber feature test step definitions.r
QPID-3984 - HA tests fail in distribution
QPID-509 - Messages to topics are sent with mandatory flag set to true, should be false

Improvements

QPID-1505 - PlainSaslServer throws and immediately catches and wraps Sasl Exception
QPID-24 - Extend Qpid transaction functionality to support distributed transactions (JTA)
QPID-2894 - Reload-ACL command is not on any management tools
QPID-3097 - Adapt installer to rearranged C++ examples
QPID-3193 - .NET Binding for Messaging classes need a test to check that binding is still in effect
QPID-3325 - make the ApplicationRegistry unregister its shutdown hook when closed by means other than the shutdown hook
QPID-3518 - Introduce client side ability to detect server side selector support presence
QPID-3537 - Rename the :block option to :sync in Sender.send so that it matches the C++ APIs.
QPID-3551 - Refactors the Qpid::Messaging::Connection APIs.
QPID-3607 - pkg config for qmf2 library
QPID-3608 - Improve consume performance when more data is being written by the broker than read
QPID-3639 - Refactored the APIs for Qpid::Messaging::Session and modified the documentation.
QPID-3641 - ACLV2 Simplifications and Improvements for Java Broker
QPID-3651 - Improve the Qpid::Messaging::Sender APIs and documentation.
QPID-3655 - Improve the Qpid::Messaging::Receiver APIs and documentation.
QPID-3663 - Documentation: The LVQ section of "AMQP Messaging Broker (Implemented in C++)" needs to be updated
QPID-3673 - Don't install the "old" C++ API programming examples
QPID-3676 - Correct issues found by findbugs marked as "blockers".
QPID-3682 - Shutdown Plugin Improvements
QPID-3687 - [Java Broker] Performance Improvements - Enqueuing/Dequeing
QPID-3688 - AMQDestination and children should conform to the JavaBean pattern
QPID-3703 - ACL Test improvements
QPID-3713 - Remove redundant failover test from Java system test suite.
QPID-3714 - [Java] Performance Improvements
QPID-3717 - [Java Broker] Implement Producer Side Flow Control for 0-10
QPID-3720 - [Java Broker] Implement Message Grouping
QPID-3727 - [RUBY] Multiple enhancements to the Ruby client codebase include RSpec tests, new RDocs and bug fixes to Message, Address and Connection.
QPID-3732 - Request/Response JCA example should be enhanced
QPID-3734 - Qpid JCA AdminObjects should be refactored to use AMQDestination JavaBean
QPID-3736 - [Java Broker] Update BDB store to v5 and utilise explicit log flush for significant performance improvement
QPID-3746 - Improve JCA Examples
QPID-3754 - Takes the Ruby bindings to 100% unit test coverage.
QPID-3758 - [Java] Reduce memory overhead of Sessions
QPID-3761 - rename the Java brokers fallback log4j properties file to prevent unexpected usage
QPID-3766 - Cache toString() results in Address class for performance gain
QPID-3774 - [Java Broker] Allow out of order completion of persistent enqueues / dequeues
QPID-3784 - Add special JVM environment variable to run dispatcher thread as daemon/non deamon depending from its value.
QPID-3788 - Remove remaining MINA configuration keys (and those from other retired impls) from the Java Broker's config.xml
QPID-3789 - [Java] Small tidyups to reduce noise on code metric tools
QPID-3800 - [Java broker] allow disabling protocol versions broker-wide in addition to the per-port exclusion feature
QPID-3801 - [Java] Move JMS Selector code to common to remove duplication between client and broker
QPID-3805 - Remove obsolete security plugins allow-all and deny-all
QPID-3807 - Improve the thread safety of JMS session dispatcher
QPID-3813 - [Java broker] enable configuring the default reply to an unsupported protocol version initiation
QPID-3816 - [Java broker] add the client version to the connection open log mesages
QPID-3818 - Replace CombinedTest with a simpler JMSReplyToTest
QPID-3824 - Additional queue statistics, posix memory statistics, and broker-scope statistics
QPID-3830 - remove confusing old client examples
QPID-3831 - the 0-10 Java client should use AcquireMode=PRE_ACQUIRED when using selectors on a Queue destination and server-side selectors are in use
QPID-3837 - [Java broker] improve exception message when attempt is made to redeclare an exchange with a different type on a 0-10 connection
QPID-3840 - Automate testing of qpid-passwd script
QPID-3841 - Improve batching of writes for outbound messages.
QPID-3842 - Java Broker should report platform and memory size on startup
QPID-3848 - [Java broker] relax type checking during passive exchange-declares to allow null/empty type values for consistency with the C++ broker/client
QPID-3850 - Add a switch into default exception handler to prevent broker from exiting on unhandled exception
QPID-3861 - [Java Broker] Run (some of the) Python tests for Message Grouping against the Java Broker
QPID-3865 - CancelTest fails occiasionally on slower CI box (and duplicates the QueueBrowser*Tests)
QPID-3871 - Added --mgmt-publish switch to the C++ broker
QPID-3875 - Reduce processing overhead when updating multiple statistic counters
QPID-3881 - [Java broker] ensure that unroutable 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 messages are not entered into the store
QPID-3888 - make the SimpleQueueEntryList Iterator clean the list node structure during operation
QPID-464 - Fix Broker Exception Handling
QPID-792 - Need to revise QueueBrowser implementation strategy

Tasks

QPID-3600 - Investigate the python tests failing against the Java Broker
QPID-3684 - Remove the Message Store Tool and its associated script and configuration
QPID-3730 - remove ReadWriteJobQueue as it is no longer required
QPID-3775 - Automate the manual persistent store tests
QPID-3779 - Remove/rewrite system tests that depend on old test framework code (and fail occasionally on JDK1.7)
QPID-3882 - [Java broker] remove the unused experimental info plugin