v1.8.0

Highlights

• We now build test server into native executables!
• WorkflowImplementationOptions.setLocalActivityOptions has been added allowing specification of local activity options on workflow configuration.
• worker_task_slots_available metric was added.
• Some metrics were renamed for consistency across SDKs. Old metric names were deprecated, check io.temporal.worker.MetricsType for reference.
• Maven release was reworked to include broad ranges of supported dependencies instead of strict versions.

What's Changed

• Expose turning off time skipping for WorkflowRule and WorkflowExtension by @tsurdilo in #967
• Remove "Resolved versions" dependencies resolution strategy during Nexus publishing by @Spikhalskiy in #965
• Fix WorkflowServiceStubsOptions#rpcRetryOptions wiring by @Spikhalskiy in #972
• Improve WorkflowServiceStubsOptions#setRpcTimeout javadoc by @Spikhalskiy in #973
• Make GraalVM exe generation part of the build by @mmcshane in #974
• Upgrade protobuf-java-util for CVE-2021-22569 by @h7kanna in #980
• Split out temporal-test-server module by @mmcshane in #978
• Provide configuration hooks extending usage of standard SDK configuration functionality by @Spikhalskiy in #984
• Synchronize activity metric names with Core and GoSDK, old names are deprecated by @Spikhalskiy in #985
• Fix a problem with LocalActivityWorker ignoring initial and maximum intervals by @Spikhalskiy in #990
• Remove deprecated name.remal.check-updates plugin by @Spikhalskiy in #992
• Add Jackson jdk8 support in JacksonJsonPayloadConverter by @tsurdilo in #993
• Adding additional Optional deserialization example by @Spikhalskiy in #994
• Rework and cleanup Worker metrics and contexts by @Spikhalskiy in #987
• Add worker_task_slots_available metric and worker_type tag by @Spikhalskiy in #997
• Expose WorkflowInfo.getCronSchedule by @tsurdilo in #996
• Introduce GH actions for native-image builds by @mmcshane in #1000
• Add WorkflowImplementationOptions.setLocalActivityOptions (#975) by @imalao in #1001
• Workflow input defaults should be strings by @mmcshane in #1002
• Polish #1001 by @Spikhalskiy in #1003
• Retain strong references to all Gauges by @Spikhalskiy in #1006
• Prevent Windows 2022 being used for native-images by @mmcshane in #1008
• Adds a prep-release workflow by @mmcshane in #1018
• Dependencies upgrade by @Spikhalskiy in #1020
• Rework slf4j version to a version range by @Spikhalskiy in #1021
• Release v1.8.0 by @Spikhalskiy in #1022

New Contributors

• @h7kanna made their first contribution in #980
• @imalao made their first contribution in #1001

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0