Release History

v0.0.23 (2025-10-31)

Added

  • Support for children of Ophyd Async devices.

  • history_clear was extended to accept the optional size and item_uid parameters for trimming the history.

  • Extended options for qserver CLI tool to allow trimming the history.

Fixed

  • The issue that caused restart of RE Manager due to EAGAIN 0MQ error caused by automated scans of 0MQ port.

v0.0.22 (2025-05-18)

Added

  • Support for bluesky.protocols.NamedMovable protocol.

  • Support for the new CLI parameters: --ipython-connection-dir, --ipython-connection-file, --ipython-shell-port, --ipython-iopub-port, --ipython-stdin-port, --ipython-hb-port, --ipython-control-port.

  • Support for the new environment variables: QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_CONNECTION_FILE, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_CONNECTION_DIR, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_IOPUB_PORT, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_HB_PORT, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_CONTROL_PORT, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_SHELL_PORT, QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_STDIN_PORT.

  • Support for the new parameters in the worker section of RE Manager config file: ipython_connection_file, ipython_connection_dir, ipython_shell_port, ipython_iopub_port, ipython_stdin_port, ipython_hb_port, ipython_control_port.

  • New parameter for setting 0MQ message encoding added to RE Manager and the clients: --zmq-encoding CLI parameter, QSERVER_ZMQ_ENCODING_FOR_SERVER environment variable and network/zmq_encoding config file parameter.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with handling of collections.abc.Iterable plan parameter type.

Changed

  • The built-in feature that allowed instantiation and configuring Run Engine was removed. Now Run Engine must be instantiated and configured in the startup code.

  • The following CLI parameters were removed: --kafka-topic, --kafka-server, --zmq-data-proxy-addr, --use-persistent-metadata and --databroker-config.

  • RE Manager accepts --keep-re CLI parameter. The value of the parameter is ignored. RE Manager always work as if the option is enabled. Deprecation message is printed.

  • The run-engine section is removed from the config file (use_persistent_metadata, kafka_server, kafka_topic, zmq_data_proxy_addr, databroker_config). The server accept startup/keep_re parameter. The parameter value is ignored, deprecation message is printed.

  • The following packages are removed from dependencies: bluesky-kafka, databroker, event_model, msgpack, msgpack_numpy.

  • Now RE Manager can successfully load startup code, which does not create an instance of Run Engine (environment_open operation would fail in the past). In this case, RE Manager returns status parameter re_state: None and attempts to start the queue or individual plan fail with appropriate error messages. Clients are still able to execute scripts or functions in the environment. Run Engine may be instantiated and configured (e.g. by uploading a script) before any plans are executed.

v0.0.21 (2024-09-29)

Fixed

  • Bluesky builtin plans that use the @plan decorator are now correctly identified by queueserver.

v0.0.20 (2024-07-25)

Added

  • Compatibility with Pydantic v2 and Python 3.12.

  • New default parameter types: __READABLE__, __MOVABLE__, __FLYABLE__ and __CALLABLE__.

  • Support for bluesky.protocols.Readable, bluesky.protocols.Movable, bluesky.protocols.Flyable, collections.abc.Callable and typing.Callable in plan headers.

  • Extemded support of types in plan annotation. New supported types: typing.Iterable, bluesky.protocols.Configurable, bluesky.protocols.Triggerable, bluesky.protocols.Locatable, bluesky.protocols.Stageable, bluesky.protocols.Pausable, bluesky.protocols.Stoppable, bluesky.protocols.Subscribable, bluesky.protocols.Checkable.

  • RE Manager is now adding a prefix to each Redis key name. The default prefix is qs_default. Custom prefix can be passed with --redis-name-prefix CLI parameter or set as `network/redis_name_prefix` parameter in YML config file.

Changed

  • The temporary directory created by RE Manager in demo mode if IPython kernel option is enabled is renamed from qserver to qserver_<username>, so that each user has individual temporary directory. The directory is used to create temporary copy of profile_collection_sim in demo mode. It is never used in production.

  • By default, RE Manager is adding qs_default prefix to each Redis key. To access plan queue and history created by older versions of RE Manager, pass "" (empty string) to --redis-name-prefix CLI parameter or network/redis_name_prefix parameter in the YML config file.

Fixed

  • The name of temporary directory used by qserver-console and qserver-qtconsole to store IPython kernel config file now contains user name (/tmp/qserver_<username>/kernel_files).

v0.0.19 (2023-06-28)

Added

  • New CLI parameters for ‘start-re-manager’ (and matching parameters for ‘qserver-list-plans-devices’): --use-python-kernel (values ON/OFF, config file parameter worker/use_ipython_kernel, boolean, env. variable QSERVER_USE_IPYTHON_KERNEL, boolean); --ipython-dir (IPython directory, overrides default directory or IPYTHONDIR, config file parameter startup/ipython_dir); --ipython-matplotlib (accepts the same values as --matplotlib parameter of IPython, config file parameter worker/ipython_matplotlib, used only in the IPython kernel mode); --ignore-invalid-plans (values ON/OFF, boolean config file parameter startup/ignore_invalid_plans); --device-max-depth (integer, config file parameter startup/device_max_depth, restricts maximum depth for device components included in the list of existing devices).

  • An option to start IPython kernel in the worker process. The option is selected by starting RE Manager with the option --use-ipython-kernel=ON, setting config file parameter worker/use_ipython_kernel=True or environment variable QSERVER_USE_IPYTHON_KERNEL=true. Users may connect to the kernel directly using Jupyter console. The mode may be useful when transitioning from the existing IPython workflow or for debugging purposes.

  • New RE Manager status parameters: ip_kernel_state (None - environment is closed, disabled - IP kernel is not started or not used in the current mode, starting - startup in progress, idle, busy); ip_kernel_captured (None - environment is closed or the kernel is not used, True/False - indicates if the kernel is running tasks started by RE Manager, clients may connect to IP kernel directly and start tasks only when the kernel is not captured);

  • New worker environment state (env_state status parameter): failed. Indicates that the environment failed to start and will be closed. The state is used internally and is unlikely to be reported.

  • is_ipython_mode() function may be used in startup code to detect if the code is executed in IPython environment. The function returns correct result even if the code is running in the Python-based worker environment with monkeypatched IPython package. The use cases are similar is_re_worker_active().

  • register_plan and register_device functions for using in startup code. Currently, register_plan allows to explicitly exclude a given plan from processing by Queue Server (may be useful for problematic plans) and register_device allows to exclude a given device or set maximum depth for the device. This is experimental feature. Functionality may be added in the future.

  • RE Manager status returns the new plan_queue_mode/ignore_failures boolean parameter, which indicates if the mode is enabled.

  • queue_mode_set API now accepts a value for ignore_failures mode.

  • The ignore_failures mode may be enabled/disabled using qserver CLI tool (qserver queue mode set ignore_failures True and qserver queue mode set ignore_failures False).

  • New queue_autostart API (enable/disable AUTOSTART mode by passing True/False with the enable parameter).

  • New queue_autostart_enabled status parameter, which indicates if the queue is in the ‘autostart’ mode.

  • CLI options to enable/disable autostart: qserver queue autostart enable/disable.

  • Each item in the list of current runs (re_runs API) now contains scan_id (integer) of the current scan.

  • The history items (history_get API) now contains a list of scan IDS (scan_ids, list(int)) in addition to the list of uids.

  • New config_get API. Currently returns IPython kernel connect info (ip_connect_info key).

  • New parameter of start-re-manager: --ipython-kernel-ip sets IP address of the kernel, the respective config file parameter is worker/ipython_kernel_ip and environment variable QSERVER_IPYTHON_KERNEL_IP.

  • qserver-console CLI tool, which downloads kernel connection info and starts Jupyter Console.

  • qserver config option for qserver CLI tool.

  • qserver-qtconsole entry point (starts Jupyter Qt Console).

  • New CLI parameters for qserver-list-plans-devices: --startup-profile, --use-ipython-kernel and --ipython-dir. If --use-ipython-kernel=ON, then the startup code is loaded as part of initializing IPython kernel. The IPython kernel is created in a separate process and initialized to load startup code (same as in the worker process of RE Manager), but never started.

  • Changed handling of CLI parameters by qserver-list-plans-devices. The parameters --startup-dir, --startup-script, --startup-module, --startup-profile and --ipython-dir are now handled identically to start-re-manager.

  • New API: environment_open and kernel_interrupt.

  • CLI implementation: qserver environment open and kernel_interrupt.

Changed

  • re_pause API calls are now accepted whenever Run Engine is in the running state. For example, the API may be used to pause the plan that was started in IPython kernel directly using Jupyter console and not managed by RE Manager.

v0.0.18 (2022-10-31)

Fixed

  • Improved manager and worker stability in case of malfunctioning plans (plans that block Run Engine event loop).

Added

  • New timeout parameter for ZMQCommSendThreads.send_message(), ZMQCommSendAsync.send_message() and zmq_single_request() functions. The timeout overrides the default timeout timeout_recv set during instantiation of the respective classes for the particular request.

  • Support for managing parameters to RE Manager using configuration YML files.

  • New CLI parameter --config and environment variable QSERVER_CONFIG for passing the path to config file to RE Manager.

v0.0.17 (2022-10-02)

Changed

  • Now requires bluesky>=1.7.0.

  • Default user group name is changed from admin to primary. Users of applications that rely on default user group name should change the group name in user_group_permissions.yaml file.

Removed

  • Removed built-in protocol support, now relies on bluesky.protocols.

v0.0.16 (2022-07-30)

Added

  • New parameter update_lists added to script_upload API. The parameter accepts boolean value (True by default) and allows to disable update of lists of existing and allowed plans and devices after execution of the script. The parameter allows to improve efficiency of execution of scripts that do not add or modify plans and devices in RE worker namespace. Update of the lists may be disabled from CLI as qserver script upload <path-to-file> keep-lists.

  • New lock, unlock and lock_info API. The API are accessible from CLI using qserver lock and qserver unlock commands.

  • qserver-clear-lock CLI tool for unlocking RE Manager if the lock key is lost and the emergency lock key is not set or unknown.

Fixed

  • Support for happi v1.14.0.

Changed

  • Foreground tasks (started using script_upload and function_execute API) are now executed in the main thread of RE Worker.

v0.0.15 (2022-06-24)

Added

  • Plan results (in plan history) now include error message (msg key), which contains error message or full traceback in case of failing plan.

  • Support for environment_destroy API in creating_environment RE Manager state. Now the requests to destroy environment are accepted when status["worker_environment_exists"] is True or status["manager_state"] == "creating_environment".

  • API functions generate_zmq_keys, generate_zmq_public_key, validate_zmq_key can now be imported directly from bluesky_queueserver

  • Patching of IPython-style startup scripts: __file__ variable now returns the path to the original unpatched script.

Fixed

  • Capturing console output with updating progress bars (Python 3.8, 3.9).

  • A bug in the code for management of exceptions that occur during preparation of plans for execution.

  • A bug that prevented single character device/plan names to be properly handled by the code that converts device/plan names to the respective objects.

Changed

  • The plan exit_status (in plan history) now takes values completed, failed, stopped, aborted, halted, unknown.

  • The stopped plans (re_stop API) are considered successful and no longer pushed back in the queue. The stopped plans are inserted in the back of the queue in LOOP mode.

  • Standard names for parameters for CLI tools: --zmq-control-addr is used to pass address of RE Manager control socket and --zmq-info-addr is used to pass the address of RE Manager information socket (currently used for publishing console output). Old parameter names are deprecated, but still supported.

  • Standard names for environment variables: QSERVER_ZMQ_CONTROL_ADDRESS_FOR_SERVER, QSERVER_ZMQ_CONTROL_ADDRESS, QSERVER_ZMQ_INFO_ADDRESS_FOR_SERVER, QSERVER_ZMQ_INFO_ADDRESS are used to pass control and information socket address to the server (start-re-manager) and clients (qserver, qserver-console-monitor). An address passed as a parameter overrides the address passed as environment variable. Old environment variable names are deprecated, but still supported.

  • Changed name of the environment variable used to pass the private encryption key to start-re-manager to QSERVER_ZMQ_PRIVATE_KEY_FOR_SERVER. (QSERVER_ZMQ_PRIVATE_KEY is still supported, but deprecated.) Public key is still passed to qserver using QSERVER_ZMQ_PUBLIC_KEY.

  • The components of Area Detectors are no longer included in the list of available devices.

  • Improved handling of IPython-style startup scripts.

  • Minor change in representation of plan execution results in items of the plan history. If plan execution fails, the msg parameter contains a brief message that identify the error (may not be helpful) and traceback parameter contains full traceback. The parameters are empty strings in case the plan succeeds.

  • Similar change to representation of task execution results returned by task_result API. Now return_value is None in case the task fails and msg and traceback contain brief error message and traceback of the raised exception.

  • Improved default handling of strings in the parameter processing code. Now any string (any combination of characters) can be passed with a parameter, which does not have type annotation. The strings that match one of the allowed device or plan names are going to be converted to the respective objects.

v0.0.14 (2022-04-08)

Fixed

  • Capturing console output with updating progress bars (Python 3.8, 3.9).

v0.0.13 (2022-04-05)

Added

  • Implementation of subscribe() and unsubscribe() methods in ReceiveConsoleOutput and ReceiveConsoleOutputAsync classes

  • ReceiveConsoleOutputAsync.stop() method now accepts an optional unsubscribe parameter that controls if 0MQ socket is unsubscribed when the acquisition is stopped. Default is True.

  • Timestamps time_start and time_stop are now added to result dictionary of each item in plan history.

Fixed

  • Implemented proper handling of non-JSON or invalid JSON requests.

v0.0.12 (2022-03-08)

Fixed

  • Bug in handling of negative indices by queue_item_move and API.

  • proper update of plan_queue_uid by queue_item_execute API.

Changed

  • Renamed parameters of permissions_reload API: reload_permissions is renamed to restore_permissions, reload_plans_devices is renamed to restore_plans_devices.

  • Default BEC: no longer plot with best effort callback (improves performance).

v0.0.11 (2022-02-27)

Fixed

  • Fixed handling of negative item indices by queue_item_add API (pos=-1 now adds an item to the back of the queue).

Added

  • New task_status API. The API may be called for a single task from CLI as qserver task status <task-uid>.

Changed

  • status API is now returning Queue Server version number as part of msg, e.g. "RE Manager v0.0.11".

  • Extended re_pause API. Now the option parameter is optional. The default value is "option": "deferred".

v0.0.10 (2022-02-08)

Fixed

  • A bug that allowed classes defined in the global scope of the startup script and recognized as bluesky.protocols.Movable, Readable or Flyable (e.g. ophyd.Device) to be included in the list of existing devices. Only instantiated class objects are currently included in the list.

  • A deficiency in the code that loads Python scripts (not startup scripts from the folder as in IPython profile_collection) into the environment that failed to load scripts containing definitions of devices with components.

Added

  • Support for passing subdevice names as values of plan parameters.

  • Support for regular expressions in the lists of names defined in plans and devices sections of parameter_annotation_decorator. Keywords __MOTOR__, __DETECTOR__, __READABLE__ or __FLYABLE__ can be used in conjunction with regular expression to select device of the respective types.

  • New boolean parameters of the plan parameter annotation (convert_plan_names and convert_device_names) for explicitly enabling/disabling conversion of names of plans and/or devices passed as parameter values. Setting those parameters overrides the default behavior and should be used with caution.

  • Support for subdevice names in ‘user_group_permissions.yaml’.

Changed

  • The algorithm for processing of user group permissions has changed. The old ‘user_group_permissions.yaml’ may no longer work as expected. If the stock ‘user_group_permissions.yaml’ is used for the project, replace it with the updated file from the repository. Otherwise update the existing file using following guidelines:

    • If the project uses custom ‘user_group_permissions.yaml’, then insert : before each regular expression in the lists (e.g. change "^count" to ":^count", "^det" to ":^det" etc.).

    • In previous versions, only the lists with regular expressions were supported. Now the lists may include explicitly listed plan, device or subdevice names, such as "count", "det1", "det1.val" (there is no need to use regular expressions such as ":^count$" to allow the plan count).

    • The supported patterns allow to control which subdevices are included. For example, the pattern :^det includes all devices with names starting with det, but no subdevices. The pattern ":^det:?.*" selects all subdevices with unlimited depth. Patterns may include the parameter depth that limits maximum depth for subdevices, for example ":^det:?.*:depth=2" adds subdevices and subdevices of subdevices. See Configuring User Group Permissions for more detailed instructions.

Removed

  • Built-in types AllDetectors, AllMotors, AllFlyers and AllPlans can no longer be used in parameter annotations of defined in parameter_annotation_decorator. Use regular expressions in conjunction with keywords __MOTOR__, __DETECTOR__, __READABLE__ or __FLYABLE__ to create lists of devices of respective types. Use built-in types __PLAN__, __DEVICE__, __PLAN_OR_DEVICE__ in parameter annotations to selectively enable conversion of names for all plans and/or devices without creating lists of names. Alternatively, use convert_plan_names or convert_device_names parameters of the annotation in order to explicitly enable/disable conversion of all plan/device names.

v0.0.9 (2022-01-04)

Fixed

  • Numerous fixes related to reliability of Queue Server operation.

  • Implemented changes to make Queue Server compatible with aioredis v2.

Added

  • The new --update-existing-plans-devices CLI parameter of start-re-manager was added that controls when the file that stores existing plans and devices is updated.

  • A new parameter of permissions_reload 0MQ API: reload_plans_devices (boolean, the default value is False). If set True, the parameter forces RE Manager to load the list of existing plans and devices from the disk file. The API may be called with reload_plans_devices=True using qserver CLI tool as qserver permissions reload lists.

  • A new parameter of permissions_reload 0MQ API: reload_permissions (boolean, the default value is True). If True, permissions are reloaded from the disk file (if allowed), otherwise the currently used permissions are used in computations.

  • Extended the number of states of worker environment. Currently used states include initializing, idle, executing_plan, executing_task, closing, closed.

  • A new status fields (status 0MQ API): worker_environment_state, worker_background_tasks, task_results_uid, plans_existing_uid, devices_existing_uid.

  • Extended the number of sections in specification of user group permissions (e.g. in user_group_permissions.yaml file). The new sections (allowed_functions and forbidden_functions) define conditions for names of functions that are accessible using function_execute API by users from each user groups.

  • New 0MQ API: script_upload, function_execute, task_result, plans_existing, devices_existing. CLI implementation: qserver script upload (script_upload API), qserver function execute (function_execute API), qserver task result (task_result API), qserver existing devices (devices_existing API), qserver existing plans (plans_existing API).

  • A new 0MQ API: permissions_set and permissions_get that allow uploading and downloading user group permissions. CLI support for the new API: qserver permissions set <fln.yaml> and qserver permissions get.

  • A new parameter of start-re-manager CLI tool: --user-group-permissions-reload. The parameter accepts values NEVER, ON_REQUEST and ON_STARTUP.

  • A new section in documentation on management of user group permissions.

Changed

  • Refactoring of the code for management of user group permissions and lists of existing and allowed plans and devices to make it more consistent. The identical lists of user permissions and existing plans and devices are now maintained by worker and manager processes.

  • The lists of existing plans and devices used by RE Manager (both manager and worker processes) is automatically updated each time plans and devices in are changed in RE namespace (currently RE namespace is changed only when a new worker environment is opened).

  • All sections for user group permissions are now optional. The forbidden_plans, forbidden_devices and forbidden_functions sections could be skipped if there are no forbidden items that need to be excluded. Skipping allowed_... section disables all items (plans, devices or functions) for the group, e.g. if allowed_plans is skipped, users from this group will not be able to submit or run any plans. Since rules for the root group are applied to the lists accessible by users from all other groups, skipping allowed_plans for root disables all plans for all other groups.

v0.0.8 (2021-10-15)

Maintenance release.

v0.0.7 (2021-10-06)

Fixed

  • Behavior of re_pause 0MQ API: if re_pause is called past the last checkpoint of the plan, the plan is considered successfully completed and execution of the queue is stopped. The stopped queue can be started again using queue_start API request.

  • JSON schemas and code using validation of JSON schemas was modified for compatibility with jsonschema v4.0.1. Queue server still works with older versions of jsonschema.

Added

  • A new boolean flag (pause_pending) added to dictionary returned by status API. The flag is True when request to pause a plan (re_pause API) was accepted by the Queue Server, but not processed by the Run Engine. The flag is set in case of immediate and deferred pause request. The flag is cleared automatically (set to False) when the request is processed and the plan is paused or the queue is stopped (if deferred pause is requested after the last checkpoint of the plan).

v0.0.6 (2021-09-16)

Added

  • New API: ReceiveConsoleOutputAsync (async version of ReceiveConsoleOutput) for receiving console output from RE Manager in asyncio-based applications (e.g. HTTP Server).

Changed

  • Renamed parameters of start-re-manager: --zmq-publish is renamed to --zmq-publish-console, --zmq-publish-addr is renamed to --zmq-publish-console-addr.

  • Parameters default, min, max and step of parameter_annotation_decorator now must be python expressions of supported types (default) or int or float numbers (min, max and step). In previous versions the parameter values had to be converted to strings in user code.