v0.18.0

[cschleiden]

🎉 A packed release with lots of features, bugfixes and performance improvements. Big thanks to the new contributors 🙇

What's Changed

Breaking Changes / Features

• Use golang-migrate for schema migrations for SQL backends by @cschleiden in Use golang-migrate for schema migrations for SQL backends #261
• Use mediumblob for mysql attributes by @cschleiden in Use mediumblob for mysql attributes #264
• Execute workflows by (custom) name by @cschleiden in Execute workflows by (custom) name #294
• Explicitly evict finished workflow instances from cache by @cschleiden in Explicitly evict finished workflow instances from cache #278
• Add pending workflow tasks metric to stats interface by @cschleiden in Add pending workflow tasks metric to stats interface #279
• Prevent multiple active instances with the same id by @cschleiden in Prevent multiple active instances with the same id #288

Performance

• Store event payloads in separate key by @cschleiden in Store event payloads in separate key #273
• Sqlite: store payloads/attributes in separate table by @cschleiden in Sqlite: store payloads/attributes in separate table #267
• Move mysql attributes to separate table by @cschleiden in Move mysql attributes to separate table #275

Bugfixes

• Fix activity heartbeat by @cschleiden in Fix activity heartbeat #269
• Follow up fix for activity task extension by @cschleiden in Follow up fix for activity task extension #271
• Ignore polling interval for redis backend by @cschleiden in Ignore polling interval for redis backend #277
• fix: redis diagnostics panic by @decibelcooper in fix: redis diagnostics panic #287
• Use correct key for checking whether an instance exists by @cschleiden in Use correct key for checking whether an instance exists #292
• Track newly created instances correctly by @cschleiden in Track newly created instances correctly #297
• Delete and expire event payloads by @cschleiden in Delete and expire event payloads #289

Other Changes

• Unify worker code by @cschleiden in Unify worker code #274

• Use HASH for event payloads by @cschleiden in Use HASH for event payloads #286

• Run activities in parallel for concurrent sample by @cschleiden in Run activities in parallel for concurrent sample #257

• Enable large benchmark for workflow by @cschleiden in Enable large benchmark for workflow #266

• Upgrade test-summary action by @cschleiden in Upgrade test-summary action #276

• Fix flags for scale sample by @cschleiden in Fix flags for scale sample #281

• Fix some linting errors by @cschleiden in Fix some linting errors #290

• Refactor workflow instance creation by @cschleiden in Refactor workflow instance creation #293

New Contributors

• @decibelcooper made their first contribution in fix: redis diagnostics panic #287

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0

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This discussion was created from the release v0.18.0.

[dewrich]

@cschleiden I love where this project is going. Any thoughts on when this might become more "official", instead of beta? I'd like to start taking a closer look for production use cases.

[cschleiden]

@dewrich There is a tracking issue for moving to a 1.0. As of now, there's not much left: #247