SchedulerX:Release notes for the SchedulerX server

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Improvements of Professional Edition

New feature

• Data encryption is supported during data transfer. Sensitive data is encrypted during data transfer when a server and a client communicate with each other.

• Tag-based routing policies are supported. If no tag is added for a job, you can determine whether to schedule the job to a machine with a specified tag.

2025-06-24

N/A

Product optimization

Optimized feature

• The style of menus is optimized.

• The style of updaters in menus is consistent.

• The following issue is fixed: The worker field displayed in the list of MapReduce tasks is incomplete.

• The following issue is fixed: Error dialog boxes cannot be closed.

2025-06-24

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Version management of Kubernetes job scripts in SchedulerX

New feature

Version management of Kubernetes job scripts is supported by SchedulerX instances.

2025-05-31

Kubernetes jobs

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Upgrade of script jobs

New feature

• The entry for editing scripts is adjusted to the Tasks page.

• The PHP script language is added.

• Script templates are added.

• Historical versions of scripts can be managed and compared with the current version.

• System built-in parameters are added for script jobs. You must make sure that the agent version is 1.12.5 or later.

2025-04-20

• Script jobs

• System variables of scripts

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Log queries

Optimized feature

Pagination and filtering by job name are supported.

2025-02-25

Integrate Simple Log Service with SchedulerX 2.0

OpenAPI

Optimized feature

• Incremental updates are supported for applications and jobs.

• Priorities can be configured to create and update jobs.

N/A

Terraform

Optimized feature

Terraform can be used to manage namespaces and application groups.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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SDK for Go

Optimized feature

SDK for Go V1.0.3 is released.

• Supports the graceful shutdown of the SchedulerX SDK for Go.

• Fixes memory leaks in broadcast jobs and MapReduce jobs.

2024-10-16

Golang jobs

ElasticJob jobs

Optimized feature

The ElasticJob plug-in V2.1.5 is released, which is compatible with open source ElasticJob V2.1.5.

Host ElasticJob jobs on the SchedulerX 2.0 platform

Issue fixing

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: other job instances appear in the log query results of a job instance.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Improved capability of Basic Edition

Optimized feature

SchedulerX Basic Edition allows you to configure contacts and contact groups for notifications.

2024-07-28

N/A

Enhanced alert management

Optimized feature

You can select configured contacts or contact groups for alert notifications of a job. You do not need to configure contact information separately for each job.

Notification contacts and notification contact groups

Concurrent Kubernetes jobs

Optimized feature

You can configure a YAML file to specify whether multiple Kubernetes jobs can be run at the same time.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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API update

New feature

API operations are released to create, modify, and query application groups and add version information.

2024-06-28

N/A

Issue fixing

Fixed issue

• Fixed issue: Job logs cannot be queried by workflow.

• Fixed issue: Job logs cannot be queried when the job is running.

• Fixed issue: Users cannot be redirected from the Application Management page to the Tasks page in the Microservices Engine (MSE) console.

• Fixed issue: The log time displayed for Kubernetes jobs is inaccurate.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Notification

New feature

Verification codes can be sent by text message and email.

2024-05-28

N/A

Time type

New feature

Cron expressions can be used for second-level scheduling.

Cron

International site (alibabacloud.com)

New feature

SchedulerX is available on the international site (alibabacloud.com).

N/A

Issue fixing

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: Some email addresses cannot be verified.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

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Enhanced job scheduling

New feature

You can specify the validity periods and start time of cron, fixed-rate, and second-delay jobs.

2024-04-28

• Cron

• Fixed rate

• Second delay

Logging optimized

New feature

The log retention period is extended from two weeks to two months.

Integrate Simple Log Service with SchedulerX 2.0

API update

New feature

After a one-time job is run, you can call the GetJobInstanceList operation to query the information about the job instance.

N/A

Issue fixing

Fixed issue

• Fixed issue: Time zones such as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)-8 are not supported when a job is scheduled based on a UNIX cron expression.

• Fixed issue: An error occurs while exporting workflows.

Manage workflows

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Logging

New feature

Logs are generated in multiple scenarios to facilitate troubleshooting. For example, logs are generated when one-time job execution is complete, failed jobs are retried, or the maximum number of concurrent jobs is reached.

2024-03-27

Integrate Simple Log Service with SchedulerX 2.0

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: The log history of deleted jobs cannot be viewed.

Alerting optimized

New feature

Formatting is supported for email- or text-based alerts. Alerting is supported for Lark.

N/A

Script jobs

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: Script jobs cannot be exported or imported.

• Script jobs

• Job management

HTTP jobs

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: The instance parameters of HTTP jobs cannot be obtained.

HTTP jobs

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

SDK for Java V1.11.1

Fixed issue

Fixed issue: Netty and LogBack have security vulnerabilities. Fixed issue: SchedulerX logs cannot be printed due to log conflicts.

2024-02-29

SDK for Java

Price reduction

New feature

Prices of the compute units (CUs) of managed jobs are significantly reduced, which enables users who require more CUs to enjoy greater discounts.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

SDK for Go

New feature

MapReduce jobs are supported.

2024-01-25

• Connect a Golang application to SchedulerX by using SDK for Golang

• Golang jobs

• SDK for Go

Workflow

New feature

• Workflow charts and lists are supported.

  Note

  You can view the dependency topologies of a workflow in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This helps you quickly troubleshoot the issue of workflow jams. In a workflow list, you can sort jobs by the amount of time consumed and the point in time when scheduling starts. This allows you to locate the most time-consuming job.

• Workflow dependencies can be modified. Operation records are added to help you compare a workflow before and after the modification.

• Batch operations on workflows are supported. You can enable, disable, or delete multiple workflows at a time.

Use workflows to orchestrate jobs

Job management

New feature

Job ID-based import and incremental job export are supported.

Job management

Job instance list

New feature

Workflows and jobs can be sorted in reverse order of scheduling time. A filter condition is added. The filter condition is whether to include workflows.

N/A

Cluster

New feature

Load balancing policies are supported.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

SDK for Go

New feature

Broadcast jobs are supported.

2023-12-14

• Connect a Golang application to SchedulerX by using SDK for Golang

• Golang jobs

• SDK for Go

Workflow

New feature

• Workflow-level O&M operations, such as stop, rerun, pause, cancel pause, skip, and cancel skip, are supported. Workflow import and export are supported. This facilitates workflow migration between various environments.

• The efficiency of saving workflows is improved.

Use workflows to orchestrate jobs

HTTP jobs

New feature

Responses whose size is greater than 1,000 bytes are supported.

HTTP jobs

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

SDK for Go

New feature

You can use SDK for Go to connect Go applications to SchedulerX. This way, you can schedule the Processor interface on a regular basis. The current SDK version supports only standalone jobs. Distributed jobs will be supported in later versions.

2023-10-23

• Connect a Golang application to SchedulerX by using SDK for Golang

• Golang jobs

• SDK for Go

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Logging

Optimized feature

Logs can be isolated by instance group.

2023-08-24

N/A

Job historical record

Optimized feature

• The number of historical execution records that are retained for a job is increased from 10 to 30 for Basic Edition and from 100 to 300 for Professional Edition.

• The most recent execution records can be retained based on the results as needed. You can retain the most recent failed execution records for troubleshooting.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Interface for overview data

New feature

The information about overview data can be queried by using a specific interface.

2023-07-10

N/A

Workflow capability

New feature

A job can be depended on by multiple workflows. Job preview is supported by workflow nodes.

N/A

ActionTrail capability

New feature

Resource Access Management (RAM) users and role-level operation audits are supported by ActionTrail.

N/A

Calendar capability

New feature

Application-level calendars are supported. You can configure a calendar for an application to apply the calendar to all jobs of the application. An application-level calendar has a lower priority than a job-level calendar.

N/A

Kubernetes job

Optimized feature

Pod resources in a Kubernetes job can be cleared when you disable or delete the job. This prevents memory from being occupied by invalid resources for a long period of time.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Workflow capability

New feature

Cross-application job orchestration is supported. User experience with workflow canvas is improved, and specific issues are fixed.

2023-04-27

N/A

Improved Kubernetes job capability

New feature

The sharding capability of Kubernetes jobs is supported. You can use the capability to export backup jobs to standard workloads with a few clicks.

N/A

Improved alerting capability

New feature

Custom webhooks are supported. You can use custom webhooks to send alert events to HTTP interfaces.

N/A

Improved enterprise-grade capability

New feature

ActionTrail is supported. By default, RAM-based authorization is enabled for new users.

Grant permissions to SchedulerX users

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

@Everyone for webhook alerts

New feature

The @everyone feature is supported for webhook alerts. You can use this feature to mention all group members. The templates for webhook alerts are optimized.

2023-03-31

N/A

RAM permissions for resource creation

New feature

Permissions must be obtained before a RAM user can create a namespace or an application.

Grant permissions to SchedulerX users

Templates for Kubernetes script jobs

New feature

The following types of templates are supported for Kubernetes script jobs: standard templates and custom templates.

N/A

Calendar

New feature

Business days and financial transaction days are supported.

N/A

Role-based single sign-on (SSO) logon

New feature

The role-based SSO feature is supported.

N/A

Feature

Type

Description

Release date

References

Workflow management

New feature

• Workflows must be manually saved after modification.

• The coordinates of workflow nodes can be saved.

2023-02-01

N/A

Job management

New feature

• The agent mode is added for HTTP jobs. You can call HTTP interfaces by using an agent whose version is V1.8.3 or later.

• The settings of a Map job can be configured to determine whether a master node is required to execute the job and whether the retry on failure feature is supported for a task. These features are available only if you use an agent whose version is V1.8.3 or later.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

• Job management: Multiple jobs can be deleted at a time.

• Logging: The storage size of user business logs is improved.

2022-11-21

N/A

• More trigger types: Unix cron expressions are compatible with SchedulerX.

• Workflow management: Multiple workflows can be marked as successful at the same time.

• Namespace management: Namespaces can be searched by name and ID.

• Job management: Second-level jobs can be run once for manual debugging.

N/A

Issue fixing

Job management: The issue that query errors occur after Kubernetes jobs are imported into SchedulerX is fixed.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• Kubernetes jobs: Kubernetes native cron jobs can be scheduled.

• Job management: Kubernetes cron jobs can be synchronized to SchedulerX with a few clicks.

2022-10-20

N/A

• Job running: One-time instance parameters are supported for job running.

• New trigger types are added to JobContext. Trigger types:

  • 1: time trigger

  • 3: API trigger

  • 6: manual trigger

N/A

Optimized feature

Alert management: The alert management feature of jobs is improved.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• End-to-end tracing analysis is allowed during the execution of scheduled jobs, and the execution details of the scheduled jobs can be queried in a visualized manner.

• Execution log query and tracing analysis are supported for HTTP jobs.

2022-08-30

Integrate tracing analysis

More job types: Native and scheduled Spring jobs are supported in SchedulerX.

Spring jobs

New feature

Application management: You can obtain application access information with a few clicks.

N/A

New feature

Alert management: Historical alerts can be queried.

2022-08-03

Notification contacts and notification contact groups

• Job alerting: Notifications of job execution successes are sent.

• Permission management: Role-based authentication is supported.

N/A

Optimized feature

Application management: The arrangement of application parameter positions is optimized.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• Alert management: On the alert management page, contacts and contact groups are added, and instance groups can be bound with contact groups for alert notifications.

• Kubernetes jobs: Native Kubernetes pods or jobs can be scheduled in SchedulerX.

2022-06-24

• Notification contacts and notification contact groups

• Kubernetes jobs

Optimized feature

The original page number can be locked after you perform operations in lists.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

Alert notifications can be sent by phone call and WeChat message.

2022-05-13

N/A

Optimized feature

Responses including HTTP return codes, custom JSON data, and custom character strings can be parsed.

HTTP jobs

The processing of unexpected alerts that are generated when the server and executor are busy with publishing is optimized.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

• Jobs can be enabled and disabled in batches.

• Business logs can be filtered by time and displayed on pages. The system also displays the points in time when logs are generated.

• The maximum timeout period for HTTP job execution is 2 minutes.

2022-04-19

• Job management

• Integrate Simple Log Service with SchedulerX 2.0

• HTTP jobs

Optimized feature

The maximum length of an application ID is changed to 64 characters.

N/A

• The description of job execution modes is optimized.

• The explanation for why jobs are forcibly stopped in scenarios is optimized.

• Fixed issue: When the specified worker of a job is disconnected, enabling the automatic switchover of the faulty worker fails.

Job management

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

New features on the Overview page:

• A chart is added to display information about the jobs that are triggered per minute.

• Hyperlinks are added to redirect you to the specific pages from the Overview page.

• The number of online workers is displayed.

2022-03-15

N/A

More features are supported in SchedulerX Professional Edition than SchedulerX Basic Edition. In addition, the features that are provided by SchedulerX Professional Edition are optimized.

N/A

Custom labels can be added to the tasks of a parallel computing job when you configure the tasks. Tasks can be filtered by label in the task list in the SchedulerX console.

MapReduce

SchedulerX can be interfaced with the executor that is developed for elastic jobs.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• The Overview page is added.

• The logging feature is supported.

• Stacks can be viewed. You can view the stacks based on which jobs are run in the SchedulerX console. This helps troubleshoot issues for jobs that are stuck. You must update your agent to 1.4.0 or a later version before you can view stacks.

2022-01-26

Integrate Simple Log Service with SchedulerX 2.0

New feature

• DataWorks jobs are supported.

• One-time jobs are supported.

• XXL-JOB jobs are supported. SchedulerX is compatible with the open source XXL-JOB interface.

• Jobs can be imported and exported.

2022-01-05

• DataWorks jobs

• XXL-JOB jobs

• One Time

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• New API operation: The API operation that you can call to specify a worker is added.

• New API operation: The API operation that you can call to query workflows is added.

2021-12-01

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• Automatic application split is supported. This allows an application to support more than one million jobs.

• RAM authentication is supported.

2021-06-02

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

• New feature: Custom labels are supported by workers. You can schedule jobs to workers that have specific labels.

• New feature: Emails and DingTalk chatbots are supported as alerting methods.

• New feature: Contact groups for alerting can be added based on applications.

2020-12-07

N/A

Optimized feature

• Fixed issue: The number of execution records that the system retains is decreased to 10 after you modify a group ID.

• Fixed issue: The list of workers for tasks cannot be paginated if the SchedulerX agent needs to handle a large number of job instances.

• Fixed issue: No data about execution records is displayed on the Task Management page in the SchedulerX console.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

• New feature: The POP API is supported in the Internet region.

• New feature: AppKey-based authentication is supported. You can use AppKeys to replace AccessKey pairs for authentication.

• New feature: Advanced settings are supported by HTTP jobs.

• New feature: Operation records are generated for operations that are performed to create applications or jobs.

2020-09-30

N/A

Optimized feature

• Fixed issue: The actions in the job instance list cannot be completely displayed on a 14-inch screen.

• Fixed issue: The console interface is prone to security attacks. (Authentication is added when users access the SchedulerX console.)

• Fixed issue: The execution record list is empty if you view the list from the Task Management page in the SchedulerX console.

• Fixed issue: Jobs in the pool may become stuck.

• Fixed issue: Jobs that are scheduled in broadcast mode may become stuck.

• Fixed issue: The system prompts that no workers are available after you manually run an HTTP job in a workflow.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

References

New feature

• New feature: More than 100,000 jobs are supported by an application.

• New feature: Entry to job details is added to the Task Management page in the SchedulerX console.

2020-08-19

N/A

Optimized feature

• Optimized feature: Search performance is optimized.

• Optimized feature: The Select All option is available only when the application drop-down list displays less than 10 applications. The first application is selected if the application drop-down list displays 10 or more applications.

• Optimized feature: The performance of specific query and loading interfaces on the SchedulerX server is optimized.

• Optimized feature: The alert that is generated when no workers are available also displays whether you have specified workers for the corresponding job.

• Fixed issue: After you disable a job, the system fails to change the status of the corresponding job instance in the pool to Terminated.

• Fixed issue: Job instances in the pool become stuck if a database exception occurs.

• Fixed issue: After you delete an application, you cannot create another application that has the same name as the deleted application.

• Fixed issue: Second-delay jobs are terminated after you restart the agent.

N/A

Type

Description

Release date

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New feature

• New feature: HTTP jobs are enhanced.

• New feature: The Post parameter is supported by HTTP jobs.

• New feature: Basic information about HTTP jobs can be retrieved from headers.

• New feature: The timeout period of HTTP jobs is increased to 30 seconds.

• New feature: The POP API is enhanced. The following new version is released: aliyun-java-sdk-schedulerx2-1.0.3.

• New feature: The POP API is supported to create HTTP jobs.

• New feature: The API operations that you can call to grant permissions and revoke permissions are added.

• New feature: Alerts can be generated when the system fails to run a job for a consecutive number of times.

• New feature: Access to applications in a namespace can be granted.

2020-05-27

N/A

Optimized feature

• Optimized feature: The search feature is optimized.

• Optimized feature: Jobs and workflows can be filtered by status.

• Optimized feature: Job instances can be searched by instance ID.

• Optimized feature: Fuzzy match is supported for the applications drop-down list.

• Optimized feature: A precheck is supported to check whether the application that you want to delete contains jobs. You cannot delete applications that contain jobs.

• Optimized feature: The performance of HTTP jobs is improved.

• Optimized feature: The frequency at which alerts are generated when jobs fail is optimized. Fatigue levels are added.

• Optimized feature: A "Contact Us" hyperlink is added to the SchedulerX console.

• Optimized feature: Application names are checked to identify characters other than Chinese characters.

• Fixed issue: The time offset cannot be set to a negative value.

• Fixed issue: The unit of the timeout period cannot be displayed in the SchedulerX console.

• Fixed issue: The workers that you specified are cleared after you switch to the primary SchedulerX server.

N/A