News Date and Time
Sep 26 2025 18:00
We are pleased to announce the 2.8.1 LTS maintenance release of the JS7 JobScheduler
The release brings a number of bug-fixes and features to the JobScheduler Controller, Agent and JOC Cockpit. JobScheduler is rebranded to JS7 JobScheduler to indicate major changes to architecture and features. Branch 2.8 receives Long Term Support for 4 years.
JS7 is the next generation Open Source Job Scheduler designed for performance, resilience and security.
Getting Started
- The JS7 Online Demo is available for immediate access.
- Consider the Getting Started section of the Product Knowledge Base.
Release
- Release Notes
- Features (major)
- JS-2203: Add month range to Admission Time Scheme of Job Instruction and Cycle Instruction
- JS-2205: Add option to terminate jobs that exceed Admission Times
- JS-2214: Offer metrics for Prometheus
- JS-2215: Offer dashboard for Grafana
- JOC-2114: Running Task Log - configurable mode (file-based / event-based)
- JOC-2095: Enforcement of dependencies
- JOC-2097: Offer English language context help to GUI
- JOC-2088: Provide Self-Test suite for health checks, inventory checks, performance tests
- Bug-fixes (major)
- JS-2213: Job executes on wrong Subagent in an Agent Cluster after upgrade from 2.7.1 to later releases
- SET-236: YADE Standalone Client - missing Bouncy Castle 3rd-party libraries
- JOC-2080: Daily Plan is created just once after start of JOC Cockpit
- JOC-2102: OIDC Authorization Flow for OAuth version 2.
3rd-Party Vulnerability Remediation
- JOC-2020: Update eddsa version 0.3.0 due to 3rd Party Vulnerability issue CVE-2020-36843
- JOC-2085: Upgrade PostgreSQL Driver to version 42.7.7 due to 3rd party vulnerability CVE-2025-49146
- JOC-2086: Upgrade commons-lang3 to version 3.18.0 due to 3rd party vulnerability CVE-2025-48924
- JOC-2121: Upgrade dompurify to 3.2.6 due to 3rd party vulnerability CVE-2025-48050
Important
- Branch 1.13 of JobScheduler reached its end-of-life in August 2023.
- Users of JobScheduler branches 1.x should consider changes and migration tools being available to upgrade to JS7.
- Please also take note of our Change Management information.
