Celery 3.1 now supports Django out of the box, please see the new tutorial

Change history

3.1.17

release-date:2015-10-09 04:02 P.M PDT

  • Adds Django migrations

    ... warning:

    Old South migrations have been moved to ``djcelery.south_migrations``,
so if you still use South you need to configure the new location
in ``settings.py``:

.. code-block:: python

    SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = {
        'djcelery': 'djcelery.south_migrations',
    }

  • djcelery.picklefield now compatible with Django 1.8

    Fix taken upstream from django-picklefield.

  • Fixed timezone issues when CELERY_ENABLE_UTC not set.

    Fix contributed by Dmitriy Krasilnikov.

  • Fixed Python 3 compatibility issue in setup_loader (Issue #344, Issue #346).

3.1.16

release-date:2014-09-19 00:00 06:00 P.M UTC
  • Fixed a problem with management commands hanging when djcelery is added to INSTALLED_APPS.

3.1.15

release-date:2014-09-15 00:00 P.M UTC

  • Now depends on Celery 3.1.15

  • Better Python 3 compatibility

    Contributed by Piotr Bulinski.

  • Commands now disables model validation when using Django > 1.7 (Issue #336).

  • No longer shadows the new --no-color option in Django 1.7.

  • Commands now have .stderr and .stdout attributes for Django 1.7 compatibility.

    Fix contributed by artscoop.

  • WorkerState.is_alive() is now accurate with USE_TZ enabled.

    Fix contributed by Rockallite Wulf.

3.1.10

release-date:2014-03-31 04:00 P.M UTC

  • Test suite Django version compatibility fixes

    Contributed by Spencer Ellinor

  • Admin: Model forms now defines fields and exclude attributes (Issue #311)

    Contributed by David Fischer.

  • Models: get_query_set renamed to get_queryset (but alias available) (Issue #308).

    Contributed by David Fischer.

  • Admin: Fixed bug in humanize.py.

    Contributed by koodjo.

  • Support for Django 1.8’s DiscoverRunner.

    Contributed by David Fischer.

  • Snapshot: Fixed time stamp timezone issue.

    Contributed by Michael van Tellingen.

3.1.9

release-date:2014-02-13 04:35 P.M UTC

  • Now depends on Celery 3.1.9

  • TestSuiteRunner should now be working again.

  • Database result backend now works with Python 3.

  • The `celery worker’ management command now gives a proper error message when positional arguments are provided.

    Fix contributed by Brett Gibson.

  • No longer uses manual transaction management to be compatible with Django 1.6.

    This will probably decrease performance considerably, e.g. for clean up of celerycam events and for celerybeat which now needs to commit the transaction for every operation.

  • The celery management command now performs validation checks (Issue #253).

  • Url handlers: Fixed compatibility with Django 1.2

    Fix contributed by dongweiming.

3.1.1

release-date:2013-11-11 07:30 P.M UTC

  • Fixed Python 3 compatibility problems.

    Fix contributed by Anton Novosyolov.

  • Fixed compatibility with Django pre 1.6 (Issue #285).

  • celerycam: Fixed error when expire function returned None (Issue #210)

  • DatabaseScheduler: Now automatically disables periodic task if the schedule model it was connected is deleted (Issue #208).

  • Test runner now sets always eager settings on the app configuration. (Issue #201).

  • TaskRunnerStoringResults stored results in the wrong table.

    Fix contributed by Charlie DeTar.

  • Celerycam: Fixed problem when USE_TZ not enabled.

    Fix contributed by Jens Alm

  • Celerycam: Fixed timezone problem with expires and eta (Issue #275 + Issue #153).

    Fix contributed by Alvaro Vega.

  • Autodiscovery now warns instead of propagating import errors (Issue #226).

3.1.0

release-date:2013-11-10 1:04 A.M UTC

Note

Please test this release in staging first and make sure you read the Celery 3.1 changelog at:

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-3.1.html

If you upgrade from an old version then you must also double check that you have ‘djcelery.setup_loader()’ in your settings.py!

  • Tests passing on Django 1.6
  • Now works with Celery 3.1

3.0.23

release-date:2013-09-03 02:00 P.M BST

  • Now depends on celery 3.0.23

  • djcelery.contrib.test_runner used naive datetimes resulting in RuntimeWarning (Issue #242).

  • Cache backend now compatible with Django 1.5.

    Fix contributed by Weipin Xia.

  • DatabaseScheduler: Periodic task admin form now validates args and kwargs.

    Contributed by Justin Quick.

  • DatabaseScheduler: IntervalSchedule and CrontabSchedule will now be ordered in a more natural way.

    Contributed by Eugene Nagornyi.

  • Django Admin monitor: Worker and Task now supports extra_context.

    Fix contributed by @realitycheck.

  • Django Admin monitor: Now properly formats task tracebacks.

    Fix contributed by Vladislav Poluhin.

3.0.21

release-date:2013-08-26 04:00 P.M BST

  • Now depends on Celery 3.0.21

  • Fixed problems with time zones.

    Fix contributed by Jeffrey Hu

  • Now compatible with Django 2.5

    Fixes contributed by Jay States, AlexRiina

  • Experimental support for Python 3 (using 2to3).

3.0.17

release-date:2013-03-28 05:00 P.M BST

  • Now depends on celery 3.0.17

  • Tests passing on Django 1.5

  • Fixed problem with the deprecated celeryd_multi command when using the --workdir option.

  • Fixed current date handling when used with Django 1.5 and USE_TZ is disabled.

    Fix contributed by Theo Spears.

  • Now makes sure to not attempt converting already aware datetimes.

    Fix contributed by Idan Zalzberg.

  • Admin Monitor: Fixed timezone problem (Issue #183)

    Fix contributed by Scott Rubin.

  • Admin Monitor: Better formatting for task tracebacks.

    Contributed by Vladislav Poluhin.

  • DatabaseScheduler: Now logs if a periodic task is automatically disabled because of invalid JSON in args/kwargs.

    Contributed by Gnrhxni.

  • celerycam: Do update and delete queries in the same transaction when expiring old items.

3.0.11

release-date:2012-10-10 02:30 P.M BST

  • Now depends on celery 3.0.11.

  • Now depends on pytz

  • Fixed Django Admin monitor timezone problem.

    Events still use timestamps that converts to the timezone of the receiving node, but a proper fix is being worked on that will be part of Celery 3.1

  • Fixed error in database close mechanism for Oracle.

    Fix contributed by Dan LaMotte.

3.0.10

release-date:2012-09-21 10:29 A.M BST
  • Now depends on Celery 3.0.10
  • Fixed timezone issues when using the Database periodic task scheduler.
  • Admin: Periodic task form now adds tasks imported using CELERY_IMPORTS, and CELERY_INCLUDE.
  • Memory leak warning is now only output once.
  • Periodic task form in Admin no longer lists the celery built-in tasks.

3.0.9

release-date:2012-08-31 06:00 P.M BST

Important note:

Celery 3.0.9 fixes an issue with periodic tasks and timezones.

If you are using the database periodic task scheduler then you have to reset the last_run_at fields to ensure that no invalid timezones are stored:

$ python manage.py shell
>>> from djcelery.models import PeriodicTask
>>> PeriodicTask.objects.update(last_run_at=None)

  • Now depends on Celery 3.0.9

    See the Celery changelog for more information:

  • Don’t close fds for database connections without a fileno.

  • Fixes Oracle compatibility issue for closing an already closed connection.

    Fix contributed by Dan LaMotte.

  • New test suite runner that stores results in the database: djcelery.contrib.test_runner.CeleryTestSuiteRunnerStoringResult.

    Contributed by Kirill Panshin.

3.0.6

release-date:2012-08-17 11:00 P.M BST

  • Now depends on celery 3.0.6

  • Naive datetime’s received by Celery are now assumed to be UTC.

  • The example demoproject no longer used djcelery.setup_loader.

  • Fixed south migration warning (Issue #149).

    Fix contributed by Roman Imankulov.

  • No longer uses deprecated urls module.

    Fix contributed by Simon Charette.

  • Databases are no longer closed after fork, instead we close the underlying file descriptors, so parent process can continue to use the connection (Issue #161).

    Fix contributed by Alex Stapleton.

3.0.4

release-date:2012-07-26 07:00 P.M BST
by:Ask Solem

  • Now depends on celery 3.0.4

  • CELERY_ENABLE_UTC is now disabled for Django versions before 1.4 (Issue #158).

  • celerycam: No longer overwrites name, args, kwargs and eta if the received event is missing (Issue #148 + Issue #155).

    Fix contributed by Kirill Panshin.

  • Fixed problem with migrations when running the tests.

    Fix contributed by Roger Barnes.

  • New utilities:

    • djcelery.common.respect_language()

      Context manager for the with statement that changes the language used. For example:

      from celery import task
from djcelery.common import respect_language

@task
def my_task(language=None):
    with respect_language(language):
        ...

    • djcelery.common.respects_language()

      Decorator version of the above that adds a language keyword argument to any function that it decorates:

      @task
@respects_language
def my_task():
    pass

my_task.delay(language=translation.get_language())

    Contributed by @ramusus

3.0.1

release-date:2012-07-10 06:00 P.M BST
by:Ask Solem

Important Notes

The 3.0 changelog forgot to mention that two of the database tables has been altered, so you must either use South to migrate the tables or alter the tables manually:

ALTER TABLE celery_taskmeta
    ADD meta TEXT NULL DEFAULT "";

ALTER TABLE djcelery_crontabschedule
    ADD day_of_month VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT "*";

ALTER TABLE djcelery_crontabschedule
    ADD month_of_year VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT "*";

Fixes

  • Now depends on Celery 3.0.1

  • Fixes problems with South migrations (Issue #149)

    Fix contributed by Roman Imankulov.

  • Task monitor must store task eta in UTC (Issue #139).

    Fix contributed by Mike Ivanov.

3.0.0

release-date:2012-07-07 01:00 P.M BST
by:Ask Solem

Important Notes

  • Now depends on Celery 3.0

    It is important that you read the What’s New document for the 3.0 series: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-3.0.html

  • No longer depends on django-picklefield

    And as such the result backend will no longer deepcopy return values or exceptions.

  • Celery 3.0 is the last release to require django-celery

    Starting with Celery 3.1 the django-celery package will no longer be required and Celery will support Django out of the box.

    The django-celery package may still exist for some time to provide additional utilities like the django-admin monitor.

  • django-celery 3.0 is the last series to support Python 2.5.

    Celery will no longer support Python 2.5 starting with version 3.1.

  • New manage.py celery umbrella command replaces older commands.

    All commands except for manage.py celeryevcam can now be started using the new umbrella command:

    $ manage.py celery worker -l info           # <<< NEW
$ manage.py celeryd -l info                 # <-- OLD

$ manage.py celery status                   # <<< NEW
$ manage.py celeryctl status                # <-- OLD

$ manage.py celery beat -l info             # <<< NEW
$ manage.py celerybeat -l info              # <-- OLD

$ manage.py celery multi start ...          # <<< NEW
$ manage.py celeryd_multi start ...         # <-- OLD

$ manage.py celery amqp queue.delete celery # <<< NEW
$ manage.py camqadm queue.delete celery     # <-- OLD

    See manage.py celery help for a complete list of supported commands.

    The old commands will still work, but you are encouraged to start using the new umbrella command.

  • The distribution contrib/ directory is now renamed to extra/.

  • The django-celery source code repository has moved

News

  • New Spanish translation.

    Contributed by Diego Andres Sanabria Martin.

Fixes

  • Fixes an UTC bug when CELERY_ENABLE_UTC was enabled (Issue #131).
  • Database Periodic Task Scheduler: Disabling a periodic task now also resets its last_run_at field. So that the schedule will restart from scratch if re-enabled (Issue #370).
  • Database Periodic Task Scheduler: Now retries the sync operation if database errors occur.

2.5.5

release-date:2012-04-19 01:46 P.M BST
  • Fixed bug where task modules were not imported.

2.5.4

release-date:2012-04-16 06:31 P.M BST
  • Compatibility with celery 2.5.3
  • Database scheduler now imports exchange, routing_key and queue options from CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE.

2.5.3

release-date:2012-04-13 06:16 P.M BST
by:Ask Solem

  • 2.5.2 release broke installation because of an import in the package.

    Fixed by not having setup.py import the djcelery module anymore, but rather parsing the package file for metadata.

2.5.2

release-date:2012-04-13 05:00 P.M BST
by:Ask Solem

News

  • PeriodicTask admin now lists the enabled field in the list view

    Contributed by Gabe Jackson.

Fixes

  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Django < 1.3

    Fix contributed by Roman Barczyski

  • Admin monitor now properly escapes args and kwargs.

    Fix contributed by Serj Zavadsky

  • PeriodicTask admin now gives error if no schedule set (or both set) (Issue #126).

  • examples/demoproject has been updated to use the Django 1.4 template.

  • Database connection is no longer closed for eager tasks (Issue #116).

    Fix contributed by Mark Lavin.

  • The first-steps document for django-celery has been moved to the main Celery documentation.

  • djcelerymon command no longer worked properly, this has now been fixed (Issue #123).

2.5.1

release-date:2012-03-01 01:00 P.M GMT
by:Ask Solem

Fixes

  • Now depends on Celery 2.5.1

  • Fixed problem with recursive imports when USE_I18N was enabled (Issue #109).

  • The CELERY_DB_REUSE_MAX setting was not honored.

  • The djcelerymon command no longer runs with DEBUG.

    To enable debug you can set the DJCELERYMON_DEBUG environment variable.

  • Fixed eventlet/gevent compatability with Django 1.4’s new thread sharing detection.

  • Now depends on django-picklefield 0.2.0 or greater.

    Previous versions would not work correctly with Django 1.4.

2.5.0

release-date:2012-02-24 02:00 P.M GMT
by:Ask Solem

Important Notes

  • Now depends on Celery 2.5.

  • Database schema has been updated.

    After upgrading you need migrate using South, or migrate manually as described below.

    These changes means that expiring results will be faster and take less memory than before.

    In addition a description field to the PeriodicTask model has been added so that the purpose of a periodic task in the database can be documented via the Admin interface.

    South Migration

    To migrate using South execute the following command:

    $ python manage.py migrate djcelery

    If this is a new project that is also using South then you need to fake the migration:

    $ python manage.y migrate djcelery –fake

    Manual Migration

    To manually add the new fields,

    using PostgreSQL:

    using MySQL:

    ALTER TABLE celery_taskmeta
    ADD hidden TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

ALTER TABLE celery_tasksetmeta
    ADD hidden TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

ALTER TABLE djcelery_periodictask
    ADD description TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT "";

    using SQLite:

    ALTER TABLE celery_taskmeta
    ADD hidden BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE;
ALTER TABLE celery_tasksetmeta
    ADD hidden BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE;
ALTER TABLE djcelery_periodictask
    ADD description VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT "";

News

  • Auto-discovered task modules now works with the new auto-reloader functionality.

  • The database periodic task scheduler now tried to recover from operational database errors.

  • The periodic task schedule entry now accepts both int and timedelta (Issue #100).

  • ‘Connection already closed’ errors occurring while closing the database connection are now ignored (Issue #93).

  • The djcelerymon command used to start a Django admin monitor instance outside of Django projects now starts without a celery config module.

  • Should now work with Django 1.4’s new timezone support.

    Contributed by Jannis Leidel and Donald Stufft.

  • South migrations did not work properly.

    Fix contributed by Christopher Grebs.

  • celeryd-multi now preserves django-related arguments, like --settings (Issue #94).

  • Migrations now work with Django < 1.3 (Issue #92).

    Fix contributed by Jude Nagurney.

  • The expiry of the database result backend can now be an int (Issue #84).

2.4.2

release-date:2011-11-14 12:00 P.M GMT

  • Fixed syntax error in South migrations code (Issue #88).

    Fix contributed by Olivier Tabone.

2.4.1

release-date:2011-11-07 06:00 P.M GMT
by:Ask Solem
  • Management commands was missing command line arguments because of recent changes to Celery.
  • Management commands now supports the --broker|-b option.
  • South migrations now ignores errors when tables already exist.

2.4.0

release-date:2011-11-04 04:00 P.M GMT
by:Ask Solem

Important Notes

This release adds South migrations, which well assist users in automatically updating their database schemas with each django-celery release.

News

  • Now depends on Celery 2.4.0 or higher.

  • South migrations have been added.

    Migration 0001 is a snapshot from the previous stable release (2.3.3). For those who do not use South, no action is required. South users will want to read the Upgrading for south users section below.

    Contributed by Greg Taylor.

  • Test runner now compatible with Django 1.4.

    Test runners are now classes instead of functions, so you have to change the TEST_RUNNER setting to read:

    TEST_RUNNER = "djcelery.contrib.test_runner.CeleryTestSuiteRunner"

    Contributed by Jonas Haag.

Upgrading for south users

For those that are already using django-celery 2.3.x, you’ll need to fake the newly added migration 0001, since your database already has the current djcelery_* and celery_* tables:

$ python manage.py migrate djcelery 0001 --fake

If you’re upgrading from the 2.2.x series, you’ll want to drop/reset your celery_* and djcelery_* tables and run the migration:

$ python manage.py migrate djcelery

2.3.3

release-date:2011-08-22 12:00 AM BST
  • Precedence issue caused database backend tables to not be created (Issue #62).

2.3.2

release-date:2011-08-20 12:00 AM BST
  • Fixes circular import of DatabaseBackend.

2.3.1

release-date:2011-08-11 12:00 PM BST

  • Django database result backend tables were not created.

    If you are having troubles because of this, be sure you do a syncdb after upgrading, that should resolve the issue.

2.3.0

release-date:2011-08-05 12:00 PM BST

  • Now depends on Celery 2.3.0

    Please read the Celery 2.3.0 changelog!

2.2.4

  • celerybeat: DatabaseScheduler would not react to changes when using MySQL and the default transaction isolation level REPEATABLE-READ (Issue #41).

    It is still recommended that you use isolation level READ-COMMITTED (see the Celery FAQ).

2.2.3

release-date:2011-02-12 16:00 PM CET
  • celerybeat: DatabaseScheduler did not respect the disabled setting after restart.
  • celeryevcam: Expiring objects now works on PostgreSQL.
  • Now requires Celery 2.2.3

2.2.2

release-date:2011-02-03 16:00 PM CET
  • Now requires Celery 2.2.2
  • Periodic Task Admin broke if the CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE setting was not set.
  • DatabaseScheduler No longer creates duplicate interval models.
  • The djcelery admin templates were not included in the distribution.

2.2.1

release-date:2011-02-02 16:00 PM CET
  • Should now work with Django versions previous to 1.2.

2.2.0

release-date:2011-02-01 10:00 AM CET
  • Now depends on Celery v2.2.0
  • djceleryadm: Adds task actions Kill and Terminate task
  • celerycam: Django’s queryset.delete() fetches everything in memory THEN deletes, so we need to use raw SQL to expire objects.
  • djcelerymon: Added Command.stdout + Command.stderr (Issue #23).
  • Need to close any open database connection after any embedded celerybeat process forks.
  • Added contrib/requirements/py25.txt
  • Demoproject now does djcelery.setup_loader in settings.py.

2.1.1

release-date:2010-10-14 02:00 PM CEST

  • Now depends on Celery v2.1.1.

  • Snapshots: Fixed bug with losing events.

  • Snapshots: Limited the number of worker timestamp updates to once every second.

  • Snapshot: Handle transaction manually and commit every 100 task updates.

  • snapshots: Can now configure when to expire task events.

    New settings:

    • CELERYCAM_EXPIRE_SUCCESS (default 1 day),
    • CELERYCAM_EXPIRE_ERROR (default 3 days), and
    • CELERYCAM_EXPIRE_PENDING (default 5 days).

  • Snapshots: TaskState.args and TaskState.kwargs are now represented as TextField instead of CharField.

    If you need to represent arguments larger than 200 chars you have to migrate the table.

  • transaction.commit_manually doesn’t accept arguments on older Django version.

    Should now work with Django versions previous to v1.2.

  • The tests doesn’t need unittest2 anymore if running on Python 2.7.

2.1.0

release-date:2010-10-08 12:00 PM CEST

Important Notes

This release depends on Celery version 2.1.0. Be sure to read the Celery changelog before you upgrade: http://celery.github.com/celery/changelog.html#version-2-1-0

News

  • The periodic task schedule can now be stored in the database and edited via the Django Admin interface.

    To use the new database schedule you need to start celerybeat with the following argument:

    $ python manage.py celerybeat -S djcelery.schedulers.DatabaseScheduler

    Note that you need to add your old periodic tasks to the database manually (using the Django admin interface for example).

  • New Celery monitor for the Django Admin interface.

    To start monitoring your workers you have to start your workers in event mode:

    $ python manage.py celeryd -E

    (you can do this without restarting the server too:

    >>> from celery.task.control import broadcast
>>> broadcast("enable_events")

    You need to do a syncdb to create the new tables:

    python manage.py syncdb

    Then you need to start the snapshot camera:

    $ python manage.py celerycam -f 2.0

    This will take a snapshot of the events every 2 seconds and store it in the database.

Fixes

2.0.2

Important notes

  • Due to some applications loading the Django models lazily, it is recommended that you add the following lines to your settings.py:

       import djcelery
   djcelery.setup_loader()

This will ensure the Django celery loader is set even though the
model modules haven't been imported yet.

News

  • djcelery.views.registered_tasks: Added a view to list currently known tasks.

2.0.0

release-date:2010-07-02 02:30 P.M CEST
  • Initial release