JS7 JobScheduler Version 2.6.3 released

We are pleased to announce the 2.6.3 maintenance release of the JS7 JobScheduler

The releases bring 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.

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

Branch 2.5 is the current LTS branch of JobScheduler, branch 2.6 adds improvements to cluster capabilities. Both branches share bug-fixes and most features, for details see How long will you support the different versions of JobScheduler and YADE? The YADE File Transfer utility release 1.13.20 is included with JS7 Agents.

• Release Notes
  • Release 2.5.6
  • Release 2.6.3
• Features (minor)
  • JOC-1608: Daily Plan Projections
  • JOC-1637: Allow tagging of workflows
  • JS-2096: Limit processes per Agent
  • JS-2085: Controller and Agent support Java 21
  • JOC-1624: JOC Cockpit supports Java 21
• Bug-fixes (major)
  • JS-2093: Add Order raises OutOfMemoryError
  • JS-2103: Bug: frozen Orders and "Unhandled message StartProcessing"
  • JS-2094: Bug: Exception not caught when maxTries is omitted and Retry is first instruction
  • JS-2089: Orders waiting in a Retry Instruction should support to be immediately cancelled or suspended
  • JS-2105: Cancel or Suspend may crash the Agent
  • JOC-1647: Daily Plan - use of different time zones
  • JOC-1631: The recall function raises SOSJsonSchemaException
  • JOC-1629: Assignment of second factor for authentication should offer FIDO and Certificate Identity Services individually

3rd-Party Vulnerabilities

• JS-2090: Replace akka.http 10.2.10 by Pekko 1.0 due to 3rd-party vulnerability issue CVE-2023-33251
• JOC-1627: Update Jetty from 11.0.15 to 11.0.16 due to vulnerability  CVE-2023-36479
• JOC-1658: Upgrade Jetty 11.0.15 to 11.0.17 due to vulnerability CVE-2023-44487
• JOC-1663: Update parsson to version 1.0.5 due to 3rd party vulnerability CVE-2023-4043
• JOC-1623: Update commons-compress to version 1.24.0 due to 3rd-party vulnerability issue

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.

Download the JS7 JobScheduler

• SourceForge
• SOS Berlin