SignalR 2.x feature parity

• Hub discovery preview2
  • Pluggable hub discovery (non reflection based)
• Hub invocation progress (IProgress) (might be deprecated because of streaming)
• Hub invocation pipeline
• Overriding Hub and method names preview1 (Attributes to control Hub binding #625)
• Supporting IUserIdProvider (Add support for IUserIdProvider #604)
• IHubConnectionContext missing properties (IHubClients Properties #734)
  • Caller (Hub only) preview1
  • Others preview1
  • OthersInGroup preview1
  • AllExcept
  • Groups preview1
  • Clients preview1
  • Users preview1

Cross-cutting

• Protocol versioning preview2 Protocol versioning #289
• Auth Auth #552
  • Authorize Attribute on EndPoints
  • Authorize Attribute on Hub
  • Authorize Attribute on Hub methods
  • Specify out pattern for JWT bearer auth. Write a sample at minimum and explore the API. (Specify our pattern for JWT bearer auth. Write a sample at minimum and explore the API. #1018) preview1
• Negotiate
• Bare WebSockets connection to server without Options. (P2 preview1) Don't send OPTIONS request if the user explicitly requests the WebSocket transport #1035
• Logging
  • Connection ID as a token & date/time in each log line preview1 Connection ID as a token & date/time in each log line #553
  • Consistent, configurable logging in TypeScript client Consistent, configurable logging in the JavaScript client #485

Server side

• Move to pipelines preview2 Move Sockets.Abstractions to System.IO.Pipelines #615

• Investigate HubLifetimeManager Refactoring preview2 HubLifetimeManager clean-up #1235

• Streaming hub responses

• Timeouts

• Keep-alive Implement keep-alive #282 preview1

• Hub

  • Hub<IClientProxy>
  • Hub<dynamic> Dynamic Hub<T> implementation #554
  • Hub<interface> Hub<T> where T is an interface implementation #555

• Protocols:

  • JSON
    • Customizing JSON.NET settings (Support specifying custom JSON.NET options for JsonHubProtocol #261)
  • MsgPack Switch to msgpack for binary instead of protobuf #543

• Scale-out

  • ServiceBus (RTM) Write ServiceBusHubLifetimeManager #501
  • Redis Finalize Redis scaleout design and implementation #288 preview1
  • Groups Groups for scaleout  #584 preview1

Client side

• Proxy generation #290 preview2
• Transport Fallback Transport Fallback #1373
• Investigate Adding Reconnects preview2 Investigate Reconnect  #1374
• Client API redesign New client side API design #900 preview2
• Reusable Connection instances on Client. preview1
• Support cancelling Streaming results without client disconnection Support cancelling Streaming results without client disconnection #898 preview1
• Clients:
  • C#
  • JS Browser
    • Typescript consumption (Typescript definition file for the signalr-client.js libary [User Experience] #239) [Open decision: ES5 vs ES6 by default?]
  • JS on Node Implement JS client for Node #556

Fundamentals

• "BrowserStack" (or something similar) for browser testing (Run Browser Functional Tests during CI, across all browsers #1019) preview2
• Performance Measurement Process preview2
• Stress and Scalability Testing Process preview2

Theme for Preview2

• Not feature-complete, fundamentals-complete
• Test coverage:
  • Performance
  • Connection lifetime (timeouts, keep-alives, abnormal terminations...)
  • Security (e.g. connection IDs, leaks)