QFJ 2.1.0 release notes

General

You need at least Java 8 to run QuickFIX/J.

improvements

• allocation/performance optimizations (https://github.com/charlesbr1)
• improvements when queuing high number of incoming messages - watermark-based queue (https://github.com/mrbald)
• support for FIX5.0SP1/2 in DefaultMessageFactory (https://github.com/ckolek)
• added getOptionalString() and getOptionalDecimal() to FieldMap (https://github.com/egoebelbecker, https://github.com/MartyIX)
• dynamic initiator sessions (https://github.com/andyflury)
• garbled messages can now be rejected instead of ignored (https://github.com/chrjohn)
• additional bug fixes/improvements

Contributors

Many thanks to all the people who have also contributed to this release (hopefully not missing someone, in alphabetical order):

https://github.com/andyflury
https://github.com/bezpredel
https://github.com/charlesbr1
https://github.com/chrjohn
https://github.com/ckolek
https://github.com/david-gibbs-ig
https://github.com/egoebelbecker
https://github.com/Ganet
https://github.com/jasonps01
https://github.com/jonfreedman
https://github.com/MartyIX
https://github.com/mmitya
https://github.com/mrbald
https://github.com/pbyrne413
https://github.com/philipwhiuk
https://github.com/the-thing
https://github.com/tom-smalls

included pull requests

https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/milestone/7?closed=1

JIRA issues

(just for information, since all of the below issues have corresponding pull requests)

Bug

• [QFJ-888] - DefaultMessageFactory does not support FIX5.0 SP1/2
• [QFJ-942] - Connectors sometimes hanging in call to dispose() when stop() was called
• [QFJ-943] - Blocking queue writes from the MINA event loop causing delayed sends, missing heartbeats, spurious disconnects

New Feature

• [QFJ-950] - Provide configuration to have garbled messages rejected instead of ignoring them