Release Notes

Release dates, performance improvements, new features, bug fixes and more

Version 13.0 (Gravity) - September 2nd, 2022

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 13.0 release notes

Version 12.0 (Perseverance) - June 23, 2021

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 12.0 release notes

Version 11.0 (Golden Axe) - September 24, 2020

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 11.0 release notes

Version 10.0 (F-zero) - July 12, 2019

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 10.0 release notes

Version 8.4 (Earthbound) - February 28, 2019

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 8.4 release notes

Version 8.3 (Donkey Kong) - September 27, 2018

ProActive Workflows & Scheduling 8.3 release notes

Version 8.2 (Contra III) - June 26, 2018

  • Database as service : MySQL
  • Copy/cut/past catalog objects in portal
  • Change kind of workflows
  • Edit catalog objects directly in the portal
  • Enriched the contextual right-click menu in the portals
  • Permission per Web validations
  • POSTPONE_TO_NEXT_WORKING_DAY rule in Job Planner
  • Use node-sources from the catalog directly in the RM portal

Version 8.1 (Bubble Bubble) - May 30, 2018

  • New deep learning tasks for image segmentation.
  • New anomaly detection algorithms in the machine-learning bucket.
  • More Data connectors with both export and import modes from SQL, NoSQL, and Cloud-based databases like Azure.
  • Added examples of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) into the deep-learning workflows.
  • Job Planner portal, service and documentation
    • UI Improvements
    • right click functionalities
    • tooltips
    • collapsing menus
    • errors messages
    • plan automation services
    • many more…
  • Cloud automation portal (many UI improvements and more stability).
  • All Portals have now workflows documentation link.
  • Python connector client (Submit your python lambdas to ProActive natively in Python).
  • Scalable rendering of the RM portal (20k responsive nodes without problems).

Version 8.0 (Aladdin) - Mar 2, 2018

Community Version

  • Azure cognitive Services (You want to know if you smile enough in your selfies? Check the Emotion API workflow ;) )
  • Bug Fixes
  • New templates

Enterprise Version

  • Job planner automation portal and service (Never been so easy to schedule a workflow!)
  • Workflow description and documentation link in the cloud & workflow automation portals (You still don’t know what Iris dataset is? Time to read the documentation… )
  • Scala tasks (Yeah scala!)

Version 7.33 - Dec 11, 2017

Community Version

  • Improve catalog display with custom logos

Enterprise Version

  • Machine learning workflows
  • Complete management of buckets at menu level
  • Better support of HostsFileBasedInfrastructure (ex. SSH2)
  • Improvements on the Nodes & Task Recovery
  • Import script in a task by reference from the catalog
  • Submit workflows in the catalog directly using the scheduler api in any task

Version 7.32.1 - Dec 12, 2017

Community Version

  • Python script engine
  • Great boost on the usability of the studio portal

Enterprise Version

  • Workflow catalog with unique names
  • Data Streaming IT Workflow
  • DataVisualization::Visdom
  • Proper Task Variables Inheritance
  • ProActive Packages
  • Proper description of fields and tasks in the studio
  • Ability to select the bucket to use for the templates

Version 7.32 - Oct 15, 2017

Community Version

  • Job permissions per user groups
  • Centralize all workflows in a single place
  • Nodes Recovery
  • Scheduler-aware-rm-policy
  • Reorganised The Studio Menu

Enterprise Version

  • Secure catalog by user groups
  • Fully configure Proactive in WAS
  • MAAS integration in the Connector-iaas
  • New workflows for anomaly detection on log files, and updated Image Analysis workflows for object segmentation in images.

Version 7.30 - Sept 30, 2017

Community Version

  • Centralize all workflows in a single place
  • Nodes Recovery
  • Reorganised The Studio Menu

Enterprise Version

  • Secure catalog by user groups
  • Job permissions per user groups
  • Fully configure Proactive in WAS
  • MAAS integration in the Connector-iaas
  • Scheduler-aware-rm-policy
  • Added new workflows for anomaly detection on log files, and updated Image Analysis workflows for object segmentation in images

Version 7.27 - May 15, 2017

Community Version

  • Perl script engine
  • Models and quality checks for workflow variables at job submission
  • Native scheduler node source infrastructure policy

Enterprise Version

  • New user portal: Cloud Automation workflows
  • Job planner new service
  • Restart and fix an in-error task an unlimited number of times
  • Extended Azure connector with Azure Stack integration
  • DevOps: workflow synchronization (import/export) between schedulers environments (dev, test, prod)

Version 7.25 - Mar 14, 2017

Community Version

  • New LDAP query task, available in Studio predefined tasks
  • Remote visualization task: see example in Studio template
  • Resource management: new node locking/unlocking features
  • Declarative rule based model for workflow variables
  • File Trigger: new tasks for file event monitoring and job triggering (new file, new directory, file change, etc.)

Enterprise Version

  • Email validation and notification with LDAP connection users, groups, projects
  • Workflow Studio catalog with many new features
  • Agile, DevOps: Workflow sync between schedulers Dev, Test, Prod, etc. with import/export
  • Advanced task termination control for Bash and Python

Version 7.23 - Jan 09, 2017

Community Version

  • New powerful GraphQL data-fetching API: get read access to scheduling information from your ProActive Scheduler in an easy and efficient way
  • Generic info interface upgraded with job variable and task variable definition features to improve user experience

Enterprise Version

  • New chaining of workflows added in the Control menu: \SubmitJobNoWait: submit a Job from the current one, and proceed to the next task without waiting for its completion (asynchronous submission); and \SubmitJobAndWait: submit a Job from the current one, then wait for its completion before proceeding to the next task (synchronous submission)