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v2.7.0
latestAccount security tools. See and control where you are signed in, get alerted to sign-ins from new locations, and move jobs in and out as JSON or a crontab.
Added
- Active sessions: a Security page under Settings lists every device signed in to your account with its IP and last-seen time. Sign out any single device, or sign out everywhere but the one you are on.
- New sign-in alerts: an email whenever your account is accessed from an IP address it has not used before, showing the device, IP and time, so you can spot access you did not expect.
- Job import and export: fill the create or edit form straight from a JSON export or a pasted crontab, or export a job as JSON, from an overlay on the form.
Changed
- Settings is reorganized into a left-hand menu (Account, Billing, Security, Danger zone) instead of one long page.
- The status page moved to its own subdomain at status.cronengine.com.
v2.6.0
majorPlan limits are simpler. The Active Time Budget measured in seconds is replaced by a straightforward monthly run allowance, and request timeouts now come from your plan instead of being set per job.
Changed
- Scheduled runs replace the Active Time Budget: each plan now covers a number of runs per 30-day month instead of a budget in seconds. Every tier gained a substantially larger allowance in the process.
- Request timeout is now a plan setting: 20s on Free, 60s Starter, 150s Pro, 300s Business, 600s Enterprise. It applies to every job automatically and is no longer chosen per job.
- Stated active job limits: Free, Starter and Pro allow 5 / 25 / 50 active jobs. Business and Enterprise stay unlimited and are bounded by their run allowance instead.
- Downgrades now email you a summary of exactly what changed, including the new timeout and any jobs that were paused.
Added
- The job form shows what a schedule will cost in runs per month before you save it, along with how much of your allowance is left.
- The dashboard has an active job meter alongside the run allowance meter.
- Jobs paused by a plan limit are resumed automatically when you upgrade again.
Fixed
- Run estimates are now exact for schedules using the last day of the month, day 31, and specific-month restrictions.
- Resuming a job after a downgrade or a recovered payment no longer leaves it scheduled in the past, which could make several jobs fire at once.
v2.5.0
A public status page so anyone can check whether the platform is running, without signing in.
Added
- Status page: live uptime and system health, with 90 days of history and a per-day breakdown. It samples every 5 minutes and counts a missing sample as downtime, so a dead server cannot report itself healthy.
v2.4.0
Clearer job failures, and stronger protection for your data.
Added
- Plain-language run failures: the run history now explains why a job failed (request timeout, DNS lookup, connection refused, HTTP status) instead of showing a raw error string.
Improved
- Nightly off-site database backups, with sensitive tables excluded from the dump.
v2.3.0
Test a job on demand, and a refreshed look across the whole site.
Added
- Test request: fire any job immediately from the create or edit form and see the live response and timing, without waiting for its schedule.
Changed
- Redesigned home, pricing, FAQ, sign-in and job create/edit pages, plus friendlier empty states.
v2.2.0
Live payments, automatic invoices, and dedicated pages for people comparing cron services.
Added
- Live Stripe billing: subscriptions and payments run against Stripe live mode.
- Invoice emails: a receipt is emailed automatically when a payment succeeds.
- Comparison and landing pages: CronEngine versus EasyCron and cron-job.org, a WordPress cron replacement, and a webhook scheduler page.
v2.1.0
Tools to manage jobs at scale: folders, tags, bulk actions and an agenda.
Added
- Job maps: organize jobs into folders and subfolders, such as production, staging, or one per client.
- Tags: color-coded labels to group and find jobs across maps.
- Bulk actions: pause or delete many jobs at once.
- Agenda: a timeline of every upcoming run across all your jobs.
- Run history filters: filter by status, date range, or slow outliers.
v2.0.0
majorComplete platform rewrite. CronEngine v2 is rebuilt from the ground up on PHP, Go and MySQL, with a new dispatcher architecture, full Stripe billing, and a redesigned dashboard.
New
- Dashboard: an overview of all jobs with active and paused counts and per-map grouping.
- Visual schedule builder: pick intervals without writing cron syntax, with raw cron expressions still supported.
- Run history: every execution logged with HTTP status, response body and duration, plus per-job charts to spot slowdowns.
- Next-run preview: see upcoming execution times before activating a job.
- Email notifications: alerts on failure or on every run, configured per job.
- Stripe billing: subscriptions, plan switching, the billing portal, and invoice history across five plans.
- Go dispatcher: a dedicated background service that fires jobs on schedule and records every result.
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