Realtime graduated to first-class status in the TypeScript SDK with improved developer experience across channels, topics, and subscribing, deprecating the separate @inngest/realtime package. TypeScript SDK v4 entered beta with rewritten middleware, Standard Schema support for event validation, parallel step execution enabled by default, and structured logging, alongside traces UI enhancements that added timeline zooming and response header inspection for long-running functions.

Inngest shipped several expansions to its platform in February 2026, moving beyond workflow-specific durability into broader development patterns. The release of Durable Endpoints brought the framework's retry, recovery, and observability capabilities into standard API handlers through a new inngest.endpoint() wrapper and step.run() primitives, launching in public beta for Next.js and Bun. Simultaneously, Inngest Agent Skills emerged as a set of pre-built capabilities for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, covering project configuration, event design, durable functions, workflow composition, flow control, and middleware to streamline AI-assisted development within Inngest. On the infrastructure side, the team published an official Helm chart as an OCI artifact in v0.3.0, simplifying self-hosted deployments while incorporating Kubernetes best practices through improved labels support and enhanced probes.