NEW FEATURE
- Task based jobs with async/await support, internals work in async/await manner
- Support .NET Core / netstandard 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.5.2 and later
- Support for Microsoft.Data.Sqlite via provider name SQLite-Microsoft, the old provider SQLite also still works
- Added preliminary support for SQL Server Memory-Optimized tables and Quartz.Impl.AdoJobStore.UpdateLockRowSemaphoreMOT
- Common.Logging removed from dependencies
- C5 Collections removed from ILMerge process, no longer needed
- Add support for eager validation of job scheduling XML file on plugin start
- Add support for extra custom time zone resolver function in TimeZoneUtil
BREAKING CHANGES
- Jobs and plugins are now in a separate assemblies/NuGet packages Quartz.Jobs and Quartz.Plugins
- ADO.NET provider names have been simplified, the provider names are without version, e.g. SqlServer-20 => SqlServer
- API methods have been revisited to mainly use IReadOnlyCollection, this hides both HashSets and Lists
- LibLog has been hidden as internal (ILog etc), like it was originally intended to be
- SimpleThreadPool is gone, old owned threads are gone
- Scheduler methods have been changed to be Task based, remember to await them
- IJob interface now returns a task
- Some IList properties have been changed to IReadOnlyList to properly reflect intent
- SQL Server CE support has been dropped
- DailyCalendar uses now datetimes for excluded dates and has ISet interface to access them
- IObjectSerializer has new method, void Initialize(), that has to be implemented
- IInterruptableJob removed in favor of context's CancellationToken
KNOWN ISSUES
- Issues with time zone ids between Windows and Linux, they use different ids for the same zone
- No remoting support for .NET Core