News Date and Time
Jul 16 2026 11:00
We are pleased to announce the 2.8.4 last public maintenance release of JS7 JobScheduler branch 2.8
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.
Further maintenance releases in LTS branch 2.8 are available to subscribers of Long Term Support. The next LTS branch with public maintenance releases is branch 2.9 available end of July 2026.
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-2252: User confirmation for fail-over in Controller Cluster and Agent Cluster
- JS-2249: Process limits per Subagent and Subagent Bundle/Cluster
- JOC-2243: Cycle Instruction should work with a period that extends past midnight
- YADE-652: Extend configuration file support for SSHJ provider and allow inline configuration confen
- Bug-fixes (major)
- JOC-2222: Deployment History should consider relocation of workflows
- JOC-2238: No limit on the number of concurrent OIDC sessions
- JOC-2224: Releasing a Calendar or Schedule can result in duplicate Orders
- JS-2258: Controller and Agent stop logging when used with OpenTelemetry Java Agent
- JOC-2228: Daily Plan is closed too early for time zones later than UTC
3rd-Party Vulnerability Remediation
- JOC-2226: Upgrade PostgreSQL Driver to version 42.7.11 due to 3rd party vulnerability CVE-2026-42198
- JOC-2227: Update Jetty from 11.0.20 to 11.0.26 due to vulnerability CVE-2025-5115
- JOC-2216: Upgrade bouncycastle to version 1.84 due to 3rd-party vulnerabilities CVE-2026-3505, CVE-2026-5598
- JS-2256: Upgrade log4j-core to version 2.26.1 due to 3rd-party vulnerability CVE-2025-68161
- JS-2245: Upgrade jackson-databind 2.21.1 to 2.22.0 due to multiple 3rd party vulnerabilities CVE-2026-54512, CVE-2026-54513, CVE-2026-54514, CVE-2026-54515, CVE-2026-54516, CVE-2026-54517, CVE-2026-54518, CVE-2026-50193
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.
