What's new in Orleans?

v2.1.0 September 28th 2018

• Major changes
  • New scheduler (#3792)
  • Hosted Client (#3362)
  • Distributed Transaction Manager (#3820, #4502, #4538, #4566, #4568, #4591, #4599, #4613, #4609, #4616, #4608, #4628, #4638, #4685, #4714, #4739, #4768, #4799, #4781, #4810, #4820, #4838, #4831, #4871, #4887)
  • New Code Generator (#4934, #5010, #5011)
  • Support for Transfer of Coordination in transactions (#4860, #4894, #4949, #5026, #5024)

v1.5.6 September 27th 2018

Improvements and bug fixes since 1.5.5.

• Non-breaking improvements
  • Make MaxSockets in SocketManager configurable #5033.

v2.1.0-rc2 September 21st 2018

• Major changes
  • New Code Generator (#4934, #5010, #5011).

v2.1.0-rc1 September 14th 2018

• Major changes
  • Transactions (beta2) (#4851, #4923, #4951, #4950, #4953)
  • Support for Transfer of Coordination in transaction (#4860, #4894, #4949)

v1.5.5 September 7th 2018

Improvements and bug fixes since 1.5.4.

• Non-breaking bug fixes

  • Fix programmatic subscribe bugs (#4943 - #3843)
  • Propagate message serialization errors to callers (#4944 - #4907)

• Breaking bug fixes

  • Add StreamSubscriptionHandleFactory to subscribe on behalf feature (#4943 - #3843). While technically a breaking change, it only impacts users of the programmatic subscriptions feature that tried to use it with SMS stream by fixing that scenario (along with #3843).

v2.0.4 August 7th 2018

• Non-breaking bug fixes
  • Use netcoreapp2.0 for msbuild target dll if using dotnet core msbuild but targeting full .net (#4895)

v2.1.0 August 28th 2018

• Major changes
  • New scheduler (#3792)
  • Hosted Client (#3362)
  • Distributed Transaction Manager (beta)(#3820, #4502, #4538, #4566, #4568, #4591, #4599, #4613, #4609, #4616, #4608, #4628, #4638, #4685, #4714, #4739, #4768, #4799, #4781, #4810, #4820, #4838, #4831, #4871, #4887)

v2.0.4 August 7th 2018

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.0.3.

• Non-breaking bug fixes
  • Workaround for CoreFx/#30781 when running on .NET Core (#4736)
  • Fix for .NET Core 2.1 build-time code generation (#4673)

v1.5.4 June 13th 2018

v2.0.3 May 14th 2018

• This is a first patch release with a partial build -- only 9 NuGet packages got updated:
  • Microsoft.Orleans.OrleansRuntime
  • Microsoft.Orleans.OrleansServiceBus
  • Microsoft.Orleans.Runtime.Legacy
  • Microsoft.Orleans.OrleansCodeGenerator.Build
  • Microsoft.Orleans.Core.Legacy
  • Microsoft.Orleans.Transactions
  • Microsoft.Orleans.OrleansCodeGenerator
  • Microsoft.Orleans.Core
  • Microsoft.Orleans.TestingHost

The rest of the packages stayed unchanged at 2.0.0, except for the Microsoft.Orleans.ServiceFabric meta-package which is at 2.0.2.

v2.0.0 March 28th 2018

• Major changes (since 2.0.0-rc2)
  • All included providers obtain ServiceId and ClusterId from the global ClusterOptions and do not have those properties on their own options classes (#4235, #4277, 4290)
  • Use string for ServiceId instead of Guid (#4262)

v2.0.0-rc2 March 12th 2018

• Major changes (since 2.0.0-rc1)
  • A new "facade" API for easier configuration of various aspects of stream providers: Persistent stream configurators

v2.0.0-rc1 February 27th 2018

• Major changes (since 2.0.0-beta3)
  • New provider lifecycle model to replace the old one
  • Builder pattern and options-based configuration of components and extension

v2.0.0-beta3 December 21st 2017

Community Virtual Meetup #15

Orleans 2.0 with the core team December 13th 2017 Presentation

v2.0.0-beta2 December 12th 2017

v1.5.3 December 8th 2017

v2.0.0-beta1 October 26th 2017

• Major new features
  • Most packages are now targeting .NET Standard 2.0 (which mean they can be used from either .NET Framework or .NET Core 2.0) and on non-Windows platforms.

v1.5.2 October 17th 2017

v1.5.1 August 28th 2017

v1.5.0 July 6th 2017

• Major new features
  • Non-static grain client via ClientBuilder enables connecting to multiple Orleans cluster from the same app domain and connecting to other clusters from within a silo.
  • Support for versioning of grain interfaces for non-downtime upgrades.
  • Support for custom grain placement strategies and directors.
  • Support for hash-based grain placement.

v1.4.2 June 9th 2017

v1.4.1 March 27th 2017

Community Virtual Meetup #14

Orleans FSM with John Azariah March 22nd 2017

v1.4.0 February 21st 2017

• Major new features
  • Revamped JournaledGrain for event sourcing with support for geo-distributed log-based consistency providers.
  • Abstraction of Grain Services with fixed-placed per-silo application components with their workload partitioned via cluster consistency ring.
  • Support for heterogeneous silos with non-uniform distribution of available grain classes.
  • Cluster membership provider for Service Fabric.

Community Virtual Meetup #13

Upgrading Orleans Applications with Sergey Bykov and team February 8th 2017 Presentation

v1.4.0-beta February 1st 2017

• Major new features
  • Revamped JournaledGrain for event sourcing with support for geo-distributed log-based consistency providers.
  • Abstraction of Grain Services with fixed-placed per-silo application components with their workload partitioned via cluster consistency ring.
  • Support for heterogeneous silos with non-uniform distribution of available grain classes.
  • Cluster membership provider for Service Fabric.

Community Virtual Meetup #12

Deploying Orleans with Jakub Konecki December 8th 2016 Presentation

v1.3.1 November 15th 2016

Community Virtual Meetup #11

A monitoring and visualisation show with Richard Astbury, Dan Vanderboom and Roger Creyke October 13th 2016

v1.3.0 October 11th 2016

v1.2.4 October 5th 2016

v1.3.0-beta2 September 27th 2016

• Notable new features
  • Support for geo-distributed multi-cluster deployments #1108 #1109 #1800
  • Added new Amazon AWS basic Orleans providers #2006
  • Support distributed cancellation tokens in grain methods #1599

Community Virtual Meetup #10

The roadmap to Orleans 2.0 with the core team August 25th 2016

v1.2.3 July 11th 2016

v1.2.2 June 15th 2016

v1.2.1 May 19th 2016

v1.2.0 May 4th 2016

v1.2.0-beta April 18th 2016

• Major improvements
  • Added an EventHub stream provider based on the same code that is used in Halo 5.
  • Increased throughput by between 5% and 26% depending on the scenario.
  • Migrated all but 30 functional tests to GitHub.
  • Grain state doesn't have to extend GrainState anymore (marked as [Obsolete]) and can be a simple POCO class.
  • Added support for per-grain-class and global server-side interceptors.
  • Added support for using Consul 0.6.0 as a Membership Provider.
  • Support C# 6.
  • Switched to xUnit for testing as a step towards CoreCLR compatibility.

v1.1.3 March 9th 2016

Community Virtual Meetup #9

Nehme Bilal and Reuben Bond talk about deploying Orleans with YAMS and Service Fabric Fabruary 26st 2016

Community Virtual Meetup #8.5

Networking discussion hosted by Jason Bragg February 11th 2016

Community Virtual Meetup #8

Orleans core team present the roadmap January 21st 2016

v1.1.2 January 20th 2016

v1.1.1 January 11th 2016

Community Virtual Meetup #7

Christmas Special - Yevhen Bobrov on Orleankka December 17th 2015

v1.1.0 December 14nd 2015

Community Virtual Meetup #6

MSR PhDs on Geo Distributed Orleansp October 23rd 2015

v1.0.10 September 22nd 2015

v1.0.9 July 15th 2015

v1.0.8 May 26th 2015

Community Virtual Meetup #5

Gabriel Kliot on the new Orleans Streaming API May 22nd 2015

v1.0.7 May 15th 2015

Community Virtual Meetup #4

Reuben Bond on using Orleans at FreeBay April 15th 2015

v1.0.5 March 30th 2015

Community Virtual Meetup #3

Yevhen Bobrov on a Uniform API for Orleans March 6th 2015

Community Virtual Meetup #2

Orleans team live Q&A and roadmap January 12th 2015

Orleans Open Source v1.0 Update (January 2015)

Community Virtual Meetup #1

Jakub Konecki on Event Sourced Grains December 18th 2014