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collection: workflow-orchestration
collection_name: Background Jobs & Orchestration
week_start: 2026-05-18
title: Trigger.dev launches HIPAA readiness, n8n reaches 2.22 with runtime fixes
release_count: 24
generated: 2026-07-11
canonical: https://releases.sh/collections/workflow-orchestration/digest/2026-05-18
---

# Trigger.dev launches HIPAA readiness, n8n reaches 2.22 with runtime fixes

Trigger.dev Cloud achieved HIPAA compliance and shipped AI Prompts as code, while n8n's 2.22.0 brought scheduler isolation improvements and Inngest added an alpha agentic CLI.

### HIPAA and AI prompts land in Trigger.dev

The biggest story of the week comes from [Trigger.dev](/release/rel_shhtUQpVIu9N5cnNGnZkC-trigger-dev-v4-5-0-rc-2), which released a trio of v4.5.0 release candidates capped by the announcement that its cloud platform is now [HIPAA ready](/release/rel_kL7uDGBpRW2-E8Ol_gSF7-trigger-dev-is-now-hipaa-ready). Teams handling Protected Health Information can now sign a Business Associate Agreement and run HIPAA-compliant workloads on Trigger.dev's managed infrastructure — a meaningful move for any background job system serving healthcare or insurance use cases.

Alongside the compliance milestone, Trigger.dev's v4.5.0-rc.0 introduced [AI Prompts](/release/rel_7CKtSYMgm4YyJc_q9NcSF-trigger-dev-v4-5-0-rc-0) as a first-class concept: define prompt templates as code alongside your tasks, version them on deploy, and override text at runtime. This bridges the gap between prompt engineering and CI/CD workflows. The subsequent release candidates (rc.1 and rc.2) patched bugs in `chat.agent` skill handling and added per-turn improvements.

### n8n stabilizes scheduled polls

[n8n 2.22.0](/release/rel_2-66e0alzappCGZgX1Cmj-n8n-2-22-0) shipped on Tuesday with a slate of fixes that received two patch releases by week's end. The standout fix — backported to 2.21.6 and 2.21.7 — acquires an expression isolate for [scheduled polls](/release/rel_yGmYqkTeYEVrGQs2kxHkh-n8n-2-22-2), preventing race conditions when poll-driven workflows evaluate expressions. Earlier in the week, n8n also resolved empty expressions being returned as empty strings in the [VM evaluator](/release/rel_nweGMOURbz9gDhcyMtCgb-n8n-2-20-11), closing a subtle data corruption path on n8n 2.20.x and 1.123.x. Three additional patches across versions (2.22.1, 2.21.5) address credential state stability in the editor and non-empty prompt validation before AI vendor API calls.

### Inngest and Temporal close out the week

[Inngest Server v1.21.0](/release/rel_qSQioPCPjNLJQf_NajiiN-v1-21-0) introduced acceptance of `StepPlanned` events at step execution time, a change that unblocks more reliable step orchestration. The earlier [v1.20.0](/release/rel_cArb-xNBCTstACpResjx7-v1-20-0) added an alpha [agentic CLI](/release/rel_cArb-xNBCTstACpResjx7-v1-20-0) — `npx inngest-cli@latest alpha api --help` — wrapping Inngest's V2 REST APIs in a conversational interface, plus a fix preventing transient gateway errors from disconnecting Connect workers. The [v1.22.0](/release/rel_7fhWM9ork9aJyHXD3nyFi-v1-22-0) patch near week's end enforces batch size limits in the in-memory batching path and fixes function orphaning when resyncing apps that upgraded from pre-v1.15.

Temporal shipped two SDK patches. The [Go SDK v1.44.0](/release/rel_F_DORzKtMYAGEPb7JJdzo-v1-44-0) experimentally supports Stand Alone Nexus Operations — starting and managing Nexus operations outside of a workflow — though currently limited to a pre-release dev server. A [v1.43.1](/release/rel_eyI-8UXe1NSxjKMhXp-rz-v1-43-1) quick-fix resolved a panic when using the latest go.temporal.io/api dependency. The [TypeScript SDK v1.16.2](/release/rel_JMhnYNb8ezOuh4xB6KAZX-v1-16-2) backported a core shutdown fix.

## Releases covered

### Inngest

- [v1.21.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_qSQioPCPjNLJQf_NajiiN-v1-21-0)
- [v1.20.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_cArb-xNBCTstACpResjx7-v1-20-0)
- [v1.22.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_7fhWM9ork9aJyHXD3nyFi-v1-22-0)

### n8n

- [n8n@2.22.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_2-66e0alzappCGZgX1Cmj-n8n-2-22-0)
- [n8n@2.22.2](https://releases.sh/release/rel_yGmYqkTeYEVrGQs2kxHkh-n8n-2-22-2)
- [n8n@2.20.11](https://releases.sh/release/rel_nweGMOURbz9gDhcyMtCgb-n8n-2-20-11)

### Temporal

- [v1.44.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_F_DORzKtMYAGEPb7JJdzo-v1-44-0)
- [v1.43.1](https://releases.sh/release/rel_eyI-8UXe1NSxjKMhXp-rz-v1-43-1)
- [v1.16.2](https://releases.sh/release/rel_JMhnYNb8ezOuh4xB6KAZX-v1-16-2)

### Trigger.dev

- [trigger.dev v4.5.0-rc.2](https://releases.sh/release/rel_shhtUQpVIu9N5cnNGnZkC-trigger-dev-v4-5-0-rc-2)
- [Trigger.dev is now HIPAA ready](https://releases.sh/release/rel_kL7uDGBpRW2-E8Ol_gSF7-trigger-dev-is-now-hipaa-ready)
- [trigger.dev v4.5.0-rc.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_7CKtSYMgm4YyJc_q9NcSF-trigger-dev-v4-5-0-rc-0)