All notable changes to databento-dotnet will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Fix ConsolidatedBidAskPair.AskPublisher always 0 — deserialization read from reserved padding at offset 26 instead of the actual
ask_pbfield at offset 28 per the DBN spec. Affects all record types carrying consolidated levels: Cmbp1, Cbbo, and Tcbbo (Issue #36)
stype_inandlimitparameters for metadata APIs —GetCostAsync,GetRecordCountAsync,GetBillableSizeAsync, andGetBillingInfoAsyncnow acceptSType stypeInandulong limitparameters, enabling queries withContinuous,Parent,Smart, and other symbol types (Issue #35)
- Native wrapper updated —
dbento_metadata_get_cost,dbento_metadata_get_record_count,dbento_metadata_get_billable_size, anddbento_metadata_get_billing_infonow passstype_inandlimitthrough to databento-cpp's full overloads
- Add NOMINMAX guards to native wrappers — prevents
<windows.h>min/max macro conflicts that could cause compilation failures with certain build configurations (Issue #24)
- Thread safety documentation — added class-level and method-level thread safety remarks to
ILiveClientandILiveBlockingClientdocumenting the databento-cpp calling convention: complete all Subscribe calls before StartAsync, await each call sequentially - README thread safety callout — added thread safety guidance between LiveClient and LiveBlockingClient API reference sections
- Coding agent guide — updated to v5.3.3, added pitfall #6 documenting concurrent Subscribe call risks with correct/incorrect code examples
- Pin databento-cpp to v0.58.0 to prevent builds from pulling broken intermediate states from main branch (Issue #24)
- Fix FormUrlEncodedContent disposal in retry loops — content was created outside the retry lambda, causing
ObjectDisposedExceptionon retry attempts inAdjustmentFactorsApi,CorporateActionsApi, andSecurityMasterApi(PR #28) - Fix XML doc comments — escape
S&PasS&P, qualifyBatchSubmitJobAsynccref to resolve to correct overload (PR #25) - Fix CA1826 — replace
FirstOrDefault()with direct indexer after count check inFileDataSource.CreateSymbolMappingMessage(PR #27)
- Deprecate caching API —
WithMemoryCache(),WithDiskCache(),CachePolicy,IRecordCache,DiskRecordCache, andMemoryRecordCacheare now marked[Obsolete]with guidance to useWithFileSource()instead (Issue #29) - PlaybackController implements IDisposable — disposes internal
SemaphoreSlim; called automatically byFileDataSourceandHistoricalDataSourceduring disposal (Issue #29) - StreamAsync XML documentation — detailed docs explaining live mode (indefinite until
StopAsync/cancellation) vs backtest mode (ends when data exhausted) (Issue #30) - Add ConfigureAwait(false) across Reference API methods for library best practices (PR #28)
- Simplify reconnect lambda —
async ct => await PerformReconnectAsync(ct)→PerformReconnectAsyncinLiveClientconstructor (PR #28) - Remove CA1805 default initializations — remove explicit
= 0and= falseon fields across 10 files (PR #26) - Remove dead
_apiKeyfield fromLiveClientandReferenceClient(PR #31)
- .NET 9 Support: Now targets both .NET 8 and .NET 9
- Resilience Features: Added comprehensive connection resilience capabilities (non-breaking, opt-in)
RetryPolicyclass with exponential backoff and jitterResilienceOptionsfor configuring auto-reconnect behaviorConnectionHealthMonitorfor detecting stale connections- New builder methods:
WithAutoReconnect(bool)- Enable automatic reconnection on failureWithRetryPolicy(RetryPolicy)- Configure retry behaviorWithHeartbeatTimeout(TimeSpan)- Configure stale connection detectionWithResilienceOptions(ResilienceOptions)- Full resilience configuration
- Pre-built policies:
RetryPolicy.Default,RetryPolicy.Aggressive,ResilienceOptions.HighAvailability - Health monitoring events:
OnReconnecting,OnReconnected,OnReconnectFailed
- CRITICAL: Fixed SEHException (STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN) crash during LiveClient disposal
- Root Cause: databento-cpp's
LiveThreadeddestructor only signals internal thread to stop but doesn't wait for it to terminate, causing race condition where callbacks execute during/after resource cleanup - Solution: Implemented proper thread synchronization using databento-cpp's
BlockForStop()method - Changes:
- Added new native API
dbento_live_stop_and_wait()that synchronously waits for thread termination - Updated
StopAsync()to use new API with 10-second timeout - Updated
dbento_live_destroy()to callBlockForStop()before resource cleanup - Removed SEHException catch workaround from
DisposeAsync()(no longer needed)
- Added new native API
- Impact:
await usingpattern now works reliably without crashes - Files Changed:
src/Databento.Native/include/databento_native.hsrc/Databento.Native/src/live_client_wrapper.cppsrc/Databento.Interop/Native/NativeMethods.cssrc/Databento.Client/Live/LiveClient.cs
- Root Cause: databento-cpp's
- CRITICAL: Fixed
AccessViolationExceptioncrash in Historical, Live, and LiveBlocking clients- Root Cause: v4.0.0-beta removed logger from native client wrappers, passing
nullptrto databento-cpp - Symptoms: Fatal crashes when databento-cpp tried to log messages (particularly on empty query results or warnings)
- Impact: Affected ALL Historical API queries, Live subscriptions, and LiveBlocking operations in v4.0.0-beta
- Fix: Restored
StderrLogReceiverlogger in all three client wrapper implementations - User Reports: Multiple users reported crashes immediately after upgrading to v4.0.0-beta
- Recommendation: All users on v4.0.0-beta should upgrade to v4.0.1-beta immediately
- Root Cause: v4.0.0-beta removed logger from native client wrappers, passing
- InstrumentDefMessage.RawInstrumentId: Changed from
uinttoulongto support venues with 64-bit instrument IDs- Some venues like Eurex (XEUR.EOBI) encode venue/type information in the upper 32 bits for complex instruments (spreads)
- Example: Eurex spread IDs like
0x010002B100000060(72,060,553,270,394,976) exceeduint.MaxValue(4,294,967,295) - Migration: Change any explicit
uintdeclarations toulong. Code usingvaror implicit conversions should work unchanged. - Impact: May affect serialization, database schemas (INT → BIGINT), or API contracts expecting 32-bit values
- See: MIGRATION_GUIDE_v4.md for detailed migration instructions
- New Examples:
IntradayReplay2.Example- Demonstrates LiveClient streaming with replay modeGet_Most_Recent_Market_Open.Example- Market open time calculation and queryingList_Available_Schemas.Example- Schema discovery via MetadataListSchemas
- InstrumentDefinitionDecoder.Example - Renamed to "OHLCV Bar Decoder" and rewritten to use OHLCV-1S schema (Definition schema has no time-series data)
- TestsScratchpad.Internal - Fixed stream lifetime management (added StreamAsync loop to keep program alive)
- Improved documentation distinguishing LiveClient (streaming/push) vs LiveBlockingClient (pull)
- Native Library: Rebuilt with clean, unmodified databento-cpp v0.44.0
- Previous v3.0.27-beta inadvertently included debug-modified databento-cpp dependency
- All functionality remains identical to v3.0.27-beta
- No code changes, only dependency cleanup
This is a maintenance release to ensure production packages use official, unmodified upstream dependencies. All fixes from v3.0.27-beta are included and verified:
- Issue #1: AccessViolationException with future dates - ✅ Working
- Issue #4: InstrumentDefMessage.InstrumentClass always 0 - ✅ Working
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CRITICAL: Fixed AccessViolationException crash in Historical and Batch APIs when server returns warning headers (#1)
- Historical API now correctly handles server warnings for future dates and degraded data quality
- Batch API now safely handles submission errors without crashing
- Native wrapper now properly passes ILogReceiver to databento-cpp instead of NULL pointer
- Server warnings now visible on stderr instead of causing silent crashes
-
CRITICAL: Fixed InstrumentDefMessage deserialization to match DBN v2 specification (#4)
InstrumentClassnow correctly populated (was always returning0/Unknown)StrikePricenow reading from correct offset 104 (was reading from offset 320)- All string fields now reading from correct offsets with correct lengths
- 13 new fields for multi-leg strategy instruments in
InstrumentDefMessage:LegPrice,LegDelta,LegInstrumentId,LegRatioPriceNumerator,LegRatioPriceDenominatorLegRatioQtyNumerator,LegRatioQtyDenominator,LegUnderlyingId,LegCount,LegIndexStrikePriceCurrency,LegRawSymbol,LegInstrumentClass,LegSide
RawInstrumentIdnow reads from correct offset 112 (was reading from incorrect offset)⚠️ Note: Property type changed toulongin later version (see Unreleased section above)
This is a major version release with breaking changes to InstrumentDefMessage deserialization. All applications using instrument definition data from the Historical API must be reviewed and potentially updated.
- CRITICAL: Fixed InstrumentDefMessage deserialization to match DBN v2 specification (#4)
InstrumentClassnow correctly populated (was always returning0/Unknown)StrikePricenow reading from correct offset 104 (was reading from offset 320)- All string fields now reading from correct offsets with correct lengths:
RawSymbol: Now 71 bytes at offset 238 (was 22 bytes at offset 194)Asset: Now 11 bytes at offset 335 (was 7 bytes at offset 242)Currency: Now at offset 224 (was at offset 178)SettlCurrency: Now at offset 228 (was at offset 183)SecSubType: Now at offset 232 (was at offset 188)Group: Now at offset 309 (was at offset 216)Exchange: Now at offset 330 (was at offset 237)Cfi: Now at offset 346 (was at offset 249)SecurityType: Now at offset 353 (was at offset 256)UnitOfMeasure: Now at offset 360 (was at offset 263)Underlying: Now at offset 391 (was at offset 294)
- 13 new fields for multi-leg strategy instruments (spreads, combos):
LegPrice(int64): Leg price for multi-leg strategiesLegDelta(int64): Leg delta for multi-leg strategiesLegInstrumentId(uint32): Leg instrument IDLegRatioPriceNumerator(int32): Leg price ratio numeratorLegRatioPriceDenominator(int32): Leg price ratio denominatorLegRatioQtyNumerator(int32): Leg quantity ratio numeratorLegRatioQtyDenominator(int32): Leg quantity ratio denominatorLegUnderlyingId(uint32): Leg underlying instrument IDLegCount(ushort): Number of legs in multi-leg strategiesLegIndex(ushort): Leg index (0-based)StrikePriceCurrency(string): Strike price currencyLegRawSymbol(string): Raw symbol for leg instrumentLegInstrumentClass(InstrumentClass): Instrument class for legLegSide(Side): Side for leg instrument
- Added
InstrumentClass.Unknown = 0enum value as safety net for undefined values - Added helper methods for reading integers:
ReadInt16,ReadUInt16,ReadInt32,ReadUInt32,ReadInt64,ReadUInt64
- BREAKING:
RawInstrumentIdtype changed fromuinttoulong(correct per DBN spec) - BREAKING: All existing
InstrumentDefMessagefield values will be different (correct values per DBN spec) - BREAKING: Removed obsolete
TradingReferencePricefield (not in DBN v2 specification) - BREAKING: Removed obsolete
TradingReferenceDatefield (not in DBN v2 specification)
Who is affected?
- Applications querying
schema=Definitionon any dataset - Applications using
InstrumentDefMessagefields for filtering or analysis - Applications that cache or persist instrument definition data
What breaks?
- Code filtering by
InstrumentClass == 0will break (previously all instruments returned 0, now returns correct values) - Code comparing
RawInstrumentIdvalues may need casting fromuinttoulong - Code using
TradingReferencePriceorTradingReferenceDatewill fail to compile - Cached/persisted instrument data will have mismatched values compared to new version
Migration required:
- Review all code using
InstrumentDefMessagefields - Update comparisons for
RawInstrumentIdto useulong - Remove references to
TradingReferencePriceandTradingReferenceDate - Invalidate cached instrument definition data
- See MIGRATION_GUIDE_v4.0.0.md for detailed upgrade instructions
- Completely rewrote
DeserializeInstrumentDefMsginsrc/Databento.Client/Models/Record.cs(lines 416-513) - Updated
InstrumentDefMessage.csto add 13 new properties for multi-leg strategies - All byte offsets now verified against databento-cpp
record.hppspecification - Added comprehensive inline documentation of correct DBN v2 offsets
- Zero changes to native DLL (784KB unchanged)
- Zero changes to other record types (MBO, MBP, OHLCV, etc.)
- ✅ Code compiles successfully
- ✅ All byte offsets verified against DBN v2 specification
- ✅ InstrumentClass enum now includes
Unknown = 0value - ✅ All 13 multi-leg fields added with correct types
- ⏳ Awaiting verification with real GLBX.MDP3 data
- Issue: #4 InstrumentDefMessage.InstrumentClass is always 0
- DBN Specification: https://docs.rs/dbn/latest/dbn/record/struct.InstrumentDefMsg.html
- Implementation: Based on databento-cpp record.hpp (520-byte struct)
- CRITICAL: Fixed AccessViolationException crash in Historical and Batch APIs when the Databento server returns warning headers (e.g., querying future dates with degraded data quality). The crash was caused by passing NULL pointer to the
ILogReceiverparameter in the native C++ wrapper. (#1)- Historical API now correctly handles server warnings and continues processing records
- Batch API now safely handles submission errors without crashing
- Server warnings now visible on stderr instead of causing silent crashes
- Example: Querying OHLCV data from 2025-05-01 to 2025-11-15 now receives all 172 records with warning visible, instead of immediate crash
- Native Logging: Improved logging consistency across all client types (Historical, Batch, LiveBlocking, LiveThreaded)
- Log destination changed from stdout to stderr
- Log format changed from
LEVEL: [Component] Messageto[Databento LEVEL] [Component] Message - All four client wrappers now use consistent
StderrLogReceiverimplementation - DEBUG-level logs now visible for enhanced diagnostics
- Impact: ~90% of users unaffected (console output unchanged); ~10% may need to update log redirection scripts (see Migration Guide)
- Added
StderrLogReceiverclass insrc/Databento.Native/src/common_helpers.hpp - Updated
historical_client_wrapper.cpp: Added log_receiver field, passed to Historical constructor - Updated
batch_wrapper.cpp: Added log_receiver field (Batch uses Historical client internally) - Updated
live_blocking_wrapper.cpp: Added log_receiver field, passed to LiveBlocking::Builder - Updated
live_client_wrapper.cpp: Added log_receiver field, passed to LiveThreaded::Builder - Native DLL size unchanged: 784KB
- Zero API surface changes: Fully backward compatible
- All 33 examples pass (100% success rate, up from 32/33)
- Comprehensive testing completed:
- Historical API with future dates: ✅ Fixed (172 records received, no crash)
- Historical API with past dates: ✅ Working (regression test passed)
- Batch API with invalid symbols: ✅ Fixed (proper exception instead of crash)
- Live authentication: ✅ Working (new log format visible)
- Live replay mode: ✅ Working (new log format visible)
- LiveThreaded streaming: ✅ Working (event callbacks functioning correctly)
- All metadata and symbology APIs: ✅ Working
- Zero functionality regressions detected
- Zero performance regressions detected
- Updated
API_REFERENCE.md: Removed crash warnings from GetRangeAsync methods - Created
RELEASE_NOTES_v3.0.24-beta.md: Comprehensive release documentation - Created
LOG_FORMAT_VERIFICATION.md: Log format change documentation and migration guide - Created
ALL_EXAMPLES_REPORT.md: Full test execution report (33/33 examples passing) - Created
TEST_RESULTS_v3.0.24-beta.md: Detailed test results and verification
- Bundle Visual C++ runtime DLLs to fix DllNotFoundException (#2)
- Add crash warnings to API_REFERENCE.md for Historical GetRange methods
- Fixed DllNotFoundException on systems without Visual C++ redistributables installed
This project uses Semantic Versioning:
- MAJOR version for incompatible API changes
- MINOR version for new functionality in a backward compatible manner
- PATCH version for backward compatible bug fixes