v1.4.1 has been released

[sergeybykov]

Improvements and bug fixes since 1.4.0. Addressed the known issue in 1.4.0: "When the silo starts up, it will register IServiceProvider in the container, which can be a circular reference registration when using 3rd party containers such as AutoFac."

• Improvements
  • Fix a cleanup issue in TestCluster after a failure https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2734
  • Remove unnecessary service registration of IServiceProvider to itself, which improves support for 3rd party containers https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2749
  • Add a timeout for socket connection https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2791
  • Support for string grain id in OrleansManager.exe https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2815
  • Avoid reconnection to gateway no longer in the list returned by IGatewayListProvider https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2824
  • Handle absolute path in IntermediateOutputPath to address issue 2864 https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2865, https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2871
  • Rename codegen file to be excluded from analyzers https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2872
  • ProviderTypeLoader: do not enumerate types in ReflectionOnly assembly. https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2869
  • Do not throw when calling Stop on AsynchQueueAgent after it was disposed.
• Bug fixes
  • NodeConfiguration.AdditionalAssemblyDirectories was not 'deeply' copied in the copy constructor https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2758
  • Fix AsReference() in generated code for null values https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2756
  • Avoid a NullReferenceException in SerializationManager.Register(...) https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2768
  • Fix missing check for empty deployment id https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2786
  • Fix to make OrleansPerfCounterTelemetryConsumer still work for grain-specific counters. (part of https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2807)
  • Fix typos in format strings https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2853
  • Fix null reference exception in simple queue cache. https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/pull/2829