Change Log

Changes Between 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 (in development)

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Changes Between 3.2.0 and 3.3.0 (Mar 31, 2026)

Queue Type Inheritance for Retry and Error Queues

The maxretry handler now inherits the queue type from the worker queue's arguments when declaring retry and error queues.

This can be overridden with the :retry_queue_arguments option.

GitHub issue: #38

Contributed by @chris72205.

Improved Bunny Exception Handling for Consumers

Contributed by @shashankmehra.

GitHub issue: #35

Improved Logger Configuration

Contributed by @cdhagmann.

GitHub issue: #34

Bunny Version Bump

Kicks now requires the latest (at the time of writing) Bunny 2.24.x.

Support Rails 7.2

Contributed by @sekrett.

GitHub issue: #32

Changes Between 3.1.0 and 3.2.0 (Jan 26, 2025)

Improved Support for Bring-Your-Own-Connection (BYOC)

Kicks now supports passing in a callable (e.g. a proc) instead of an externally-initialized and managed Bunny connection.

In this case, it is entirely up to the caller to configure the connection and call Bunny::Session#start on it at the right moment.

Contributed by @tie.

GitHub issue: #29

ActiveJob Adapter Compatibility with Ruby on Rails Older Than 7.2

Contributed by @dixpac.

GitHub issues: #19, #28

Changes Between 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 (Oct 20, 2024)

ActiveJob Adapter

Kicks now ships with an ActiveJob adapter for Ruby on Rails.

Contributed by dixpac.

GitHub issue: #12

Make Queue Binding Optional

It is now possible to opt out of binding of the Kicks-declared exchange and queue.

Contributed by @texpert.

GitHub issue: #13

Changes Between 2.12.0 and 3.0.0 (Oct 19, 2024)

New Project Name and Major Version

Kicks was originally developed by @jondot under the name of Sneakers.

After a group of users and a RabbitMQ core team member have taken over maintenance, it was renamed to Kicks and the version was bumped to 3.0 to clearly indicate the split.

Minimum Required Ruby Version

Kicks now requires Ruby 2.5 or later.

Content Encoding Support

Similar to already supported content type.

Contributed by @ansoncat.

GitHub issue: #449

Changes Between 2.10.0 and 2.11.0

This releases includes bug fixes, support for more queue-binding options, better management of the Bunny dependency, and improved documentation. Following is a list of the notable changes:

Rescue from ScriptError

Fixes a bug that would cause Sneakers workers to freeze if an exception descending from ScriptError, such as NotImplementedError, is raised

Contributed by @sharshenov

GitHub Pull Request: 373

Loosen Bunny dependency to minor version

The dependency on Bunny is now pinned to the minor version instead of patch, allowing users to benefit from non-breaking updates to Bunny without having to wait for a Sneakers release.

Contributed by @olivierlacan

GitHub Pull Request: #372

Support :bind_arguments on bind

It is now possible to set arguments on a queue when connecting to a headers exchange

Contributed by @nerikj

GitHub Pull Request: #358

Other contributions

This release also contains contributions from @ivan-kolmychek (bumping up Bunny dependency), @michaelklishin (improving code style), and @darren987469 (adding examples to the README)

Changes Between 2.8.0 and 2.10.0

This release contains minor breaking API changes.

Worker Timeouts are No Longer Enforced

This is a breaking change for Sneakers::Worker implementations.

Timeouts can be disruptive and dangerous depending on what the workers do but not having them can also lead to operational headaches.

The outcome of a lengthy discussion on possible alternatives to the timeout mechanisms is that only applications can know where it is safe to enforce a timeout (and how).

Sneakers::Worker implementations are now expected to enforce timeouts in a way that makes sense (and is safe) to them.

GitHub issues: #343.

Changes Between 2.6.0 and 2.7.0

This release requires Ruby 2.2 and has breaking API changes around custom error handlers.

Use Provided Connections in WorkerGroup

It is now possible to use a custom connection instance in worker groups.

Contributed by @pomnikita.

GitHub issue: #322

Worker Context Available to Worker Instances

Contributed by Jason Lombardozzi.

GitHub issue: #307

Ruby 2.2 Requirement

Sneakers now requires Ruby 2.2.

Bunny 2.9.x

Bunny was upgraded to 2.9.x.

Server Engine 2.0.5

Server Engine dependency was upgraded to 2.0.5.

Refactored Publisher Connection

Contributed by Christoph Wagner.

GitHub issue: #325

New Relic Reporter Migrated to the Modern API

Contributed by @adamors.

GitHub issue: #324

Configuration Logged at Debug Level

To avoid potentially leaking credentials in the log.

Contributed by Kimmo Lehto.

GitHub issue: #301.

Comment Corrections

Contributed by Andrew Babichev

GitHub issue: #346