What’s New in ElasticJob 3.0.0‑alpha? Features, API Changes, and Release Highlights
ElasticJob 3.0.0‑alpha introduces a Spring Boot starter for ElasticJob‑Lite, one‑time tasks, expanded database support for execution logs, environment‑variable IP declaration, and several API changes including a new Maven groupId, package name, namespace, SPI‑based job types, and modular UI separation.
ElasticJob is a distributed scheduling solution that provides task sharding, elastic scaling, automatic discovery, and support for time‑driven, data‑driven, resident, and temporary tasks, along with fault detection, automatic recovery, failover, retry, and a comprehensive management platform. After three years of inactivity, the project was revived on 2020‑05‑21.
3.0.0‑alpha Release
New Features
Added a Spring Boot starter for ElasticJob‑Lite.
Introduced one‑time task type.
Extended execution record persistence to support more database types.
Supported IP declaration via environment variables.
API Changes
Changed Maven groupId to
org.apache.shardingsphere.elasticjob.
Changed package name to
org.apache.shardingsphere.elasticjob.
Updated Spring namespace to
http://shardingsphere.apache.org/schema/elasticjob.
New job API using SPI to customize job types.
Introduced SPI for configuration strategies.
Separated console and UI from the core job module.
References
ElasticJob: https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere-elasticjob
Distributed scheduling project ElasticJob is set to restart: https://u.nu/-hu3l
ElasticJob 3.0 new features discussion: http://t.cn/A6USVxXZ
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