--- collection: workflow-orchestration collection_name: Background Jobs & Orchestration week_start: 2026-08-03 title: Resilience week: task runners, queues, and session propagation release_count: 18 generated: 2026-08-10 canonical: https://releases.sh/collections/workflow-orchestration/digest/2026-08-03 --- # Resilience week: task runners, queues, and session propagation n8n, Inngest, and Temporal all shipped resilience-focused fixes and features this week, from task-runner recovery in n8n to shard isolation in Inngest's queue. The Inngest JS SDK also flipped session propagation on by default, and Temporal previewed eager activity reservations and a new type converter. ### Making task runners more dependable The biggest story this week is n8n's coordinated push to harden its task-runner infrastructure. The company shipped three patch releases across its 2.33 and 2.34 branches — [n8n 2.33.7](/release/rel_oV-Rfso1Esa2cHkxukxnf-n8n-2-33-7), [n8n 2.34.4](/release/rel_JUhTZo4l1O6veGKRUbWIa-n8n-2-34-4), and [n8n 2.34.3](/release/rel_2EhxsTKViQ0ag6CTX4XvB-n8n-2-34-3) — all carrying a fix for the task runner health check failing, which previously could cause workers to be incorrectly marked as unhealthy and dropped from the pool. The more substantial engineering, though, arrived in [n8n 2.33.4](/release/rel_5vcrTyvYgqcxu_B-EIizI-n8n-2-33-4) and [n8n 2.34.1](/release/rel_EqByNRHiZres5e8wcIBdw-n8n-2-34-1): the task broker is now more resilient when a runner dies mid-task, and unresponsive runners are actively recovered rather than left to hang. For anyone running long workflows with code nodes or agents, this quietly removes a whole class of "stuck job" failures. The 2.34 line also picked up a pair of editor polish items — showing agent tool credentials above configuration and fixing the janky chip spacing in agent capability lists — plus the 2.34 minor release brought [TCP keepalive for AWS Bedrock connections](/release/rel_vi-4LdPUn-aBdFYgE79o6-n8n-2-34-0), a small but welcome durability win for long-running model calls. The older 1.123 branch got its own fixes: a resource locator link preview improvement and an Onfleet trigger content-type backport. ### Inngest: session propagation and queue stability Inngest had a meaningful week on two fronts. In the [JS SDK 4.18.0](/release/rel_jPGeseOmXwGxu94-9gMO7-inngest-4-18-0) release, session propagation is now enabled by default — a breaking change in spirit, though delivered as a minor bump, that means step runs and child workflows will automatically carry session context without explicit configuration. If you've been manually threading session IDs through your functions, this is worth verifying doesn't double-wrap anything. The SDK also picked up SDK feature observations in [4.16.0](/release/rel_wApyHYGx0Xald_zFS2cg0-inngest-4-16-0) (telemetry about which SDK features you're using) and a sandbox enhancement in [4.15.0](/release/rel_KwR6RGbmhiOkvAI6TFzkJ-inngest-4-15-0) letting you set environment variables for managed commands. On the server side, [Inngest Server v1.41.0](/release/rel_dcUFD9QtYOPJMKmUtIer3-v1-41-0) tackles queue availability head-on: operations spanning multiple shards now tolerate unavailable shards and keep returning results from healthy ones, while shard-group workers continue trying healthy lease candidates. That's a real reliability improvement for anyone whose queue work touches failing partitions — the queue no longer takes the whole operation down with one bad shard. The smaller [v1.41.1](/release/rel_wjpHbYQiVar1ha_DawUKm-v1-41-1) is mostly internal tooling. ### Temporal's experimental previews Temporal's [TypeScript SDK v1.22.0](/release/rel_YuPSY-biy1uCQbfASSKqS-v1-22-0) is the week's experimental-playground release. Two additions stand out. First, `TypeInfo` and `TransferTypeConverter` in `@temporalio/common` provide a cleaner path for converting application values to serialization-friendly transfer types — useful if you're building custom converters and want type hints to guide the conversion. Second, workers can now reserve activity slots for eager execution per workflow task via `maxEagerActivityReservationsPerWorkflowTask`, with zero disabling eager activity entirely; this gives you finer-grained control over the eager-execution tradeoff between latency and slot pressure. There's also UpdateWorkflow-backed Nexus operations in the mix, rounding out a release aimed squarely at users pushing the platform's newer edges. The n8n 2.33 and 1.123 patch trains continued with smaller fixes — [2.33.6](/release/rel_D2Kg5xX6PhxhPmSzYI17a-n8n-2-33-6) sends the n8n version on PostHog flag retrieval, [2.33.5](/release/rel_8Vp3DTWUAZa9SExDBOy4g-n8n-2-33-5) fixes Markdown editor focus, and [1.123.69](/release/rel_tI5yPgUu0801i1yq-1E6v-n8n-1-123-69) improves resource locator previews — but the narrative this week is resilience: runners that recover, queues that tolerate failure, and sessions that propagate without a second thought. ## Releases covered ### Inngest - [inngest@4.18.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_jPGeseOmXwGxu94-9gMO7-inngest-4-18-0) - [inngest@4.16.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_wApyHYGx0Xald_zFS2cg0-inngest-4-16-0) - [inngest@4.15.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_KwR6RGbmhiOkvAI6TFzkJ-inngest-4-15-0) - [v1.41.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_dcUFD9QtYOPJMKmUtIer3-v1-41-0) - [v1.41.1](https://releases.sh/release/rel_wjpHbYQiVar1ha_DawUKm-v1-41-1) ### n8n - [n8n@2.33.7](https://releases.sh/release/rel_oV-Rfso1Esa2cHkxukxnf-n8n-2-33-7) - [n8n@2.34.4](https://releases.sh/release/rel_JUhTZo4l1O6veGKRUbWIa-n8n-2-34-4) - [n8n@2.34.3](https://releases.sh/release/rel_2EhxsTKViQ0ag6CTX4XvB-n8n-2-34-3) - [n8n@2.33.4](https://releases.sh/release/rel_5vcrTyvYgqcxu_B-EIizI-n8n-2-33-4) - [n8n@2.34.1](https://releases.sh/release/rel_EqByNRHiZres5e8wcIBdw-n8n-2-34-1) - [n8n@2.34.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_vi-4LdPUn-aBdFYgE79o6-n8n-2-34-0) - [n8n@2.33.6](https://releases.sh/release/rel_D2Kg5xX6PhxhPmSzYI17a-n8n-2-33-6) - [n8n@2.33.5](https://releases.sh/release/rel_8Vp3DTWUAZa9SExDBOy4g-n8n-2-33-5) - [n8n@1.123.69](https://releases.sh/release/rel_tI5yPgUu0801i1yq-1E6v-n8n-1-123-69) ### Temporal - [v1.22.0](https://releases.sh/release/rel_YuPSY-biy1uCQbfASSKqS-v1-22-0)