elsa-workflows/elsa-core 3.6.0-rc2

3.6.0 RC2

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Compare: 3.6.0-rc1...3.6.0-rc2

⚠️ Breaking changes / upgrade notes

• CI / SDK: GitHub workflow now uses .NET SDK 10.x (was 9.x). (b22956c) (fa2254f) (72597f7)
• Bookmarks model change: Bookmark moved from a positional record to a mutable class (serialization/back-compat oriented). (ca268c1) (#7161)
• DistributedLock package: Elsa.Common now references DistributedLock.Core instead of DistributedLock. (#7169)

✨ New features

Activity hosts / host-method activities

• Introduced host-method activities: expose public methods on configured CLR types as workflow activities. (#7172)
  • Parameter binding extensibility (e.g. DI-backed parameters using [FromServices]). (#7172)
• Added a sample activity host (Penguin) and registered it in Elsa.Server.Web. (#7172)

Commit strategies (defaults)

• Added support for global default commit strategies (fallback when no explicit strategy is configured). (#7148)

Resilience / transient exception detection

• Added transient exception detection infrastructure and registration. (ca268c1) (#7161)

Workflow dispatch notifications

• Added new notifications emitted by the background dispatcher. (#7157)

Tenant task lifecycle & dependencies

• Introduced TenantTaskManager and dependency ordering support ([TaskDependency], TopologicalTaskSorter). (#7174)

🔧 Improvements

• Distributed runtime lock resilience: Polly retry around distributed lock acquisition (with transient exception detection), and safer lock release behavior. (#7161)
• Mediator background services: improved cancellation handling to avoid noisy failures. (ca268c1) (#7161)
• Xunit logging: suppress “no currently active test” errors from late background log writes. (ca268c1) (#7161)
• Small cleanups:
  • Make correlationId parameter non-optional in WorkflowExecutionContext constructor. (fa798b0)
  • Remove unused ClearCompletionCallbacks from WorkflowExecutionContext. (79a64e9)

🐛 Fixes

• Literal inputs: ActivityExecutionContext.TryGet(...) correctly handles Literal references by returning the literal’s value directly. (#7075)

🧩 Developer-facing changes

• Attribute usage expanded:
  • ActivityAttribute: now valid on classes, interfaces, and methods. (3778a14)
  • InputAttribute: now valid on properties and parameters. (3778a14)
  • OutputAttribute: now valid on properties, classes, methods, and return values. (3778a14)

🧪 Tests

• Added/expanded coverage for:
  • Host method activity registration & descriptor behavior. (#7172)
  • Distributed lock resilience (acquisition retries + release failure behavior). (#7161)
  • Literal input handling. (#7075)
  • Default workflow/activity commit strategy behavior. (#7148)
  • Workflow dispatch notifications. (#7157)
  • Tenant task dependency ordering / topological sorting. (#7174)
  • Transient exception strategy & detector behavior. (ca268c1) (#7161)
• Replace flaky Task.Delay with TaskCompletionSource for deterministic test synchronization. (2ff1693)

🔁 CI / Build

• Workflows updated:
  • Triggers include release/*. (fa2254f) (b22956c)
  • base_version set to 3.6.0. (72597f7)
  • .NET SDK set to 10.x. (b22956c)

📦 Full changelog (short)

• Improves tenant task management with dependencies (#7174)
• Make correlationId parameter non-optional in WorkflowExecutionContext constructor. (fa798b0)
• Remove unused ClearCompletionCallbacks method from WorkflowExecutionContext. (79a64e9)
• Merge remote-tracking branch origin/patch/3.5.4 into release/3.6.0. (4e9b6d0)
• Update base_version to 3.6.0 in GitHub workflow configuration. (72597f7)
• Merge remote-tracking branch origin/main into release/3.6.0. (8f6ce7e)
• Enhances distributed lock handling with resilience (#7161)
• Restore Literal handling in ActivityExecutionContext.TryGet (#7075)
• Update branch check in release workflow to include release/* branches. (b22956c)
• Update GitHub workflows to include release/* branch targeting. (fa2254f)
• Adds activity host registration support (#7172)
• Update AttributeUsage targets for InputAttribute, OutputAttribute, and ActivityAttribute. (3778a14)
• Merge pull request #7157 from elsa-workflows/copilot/add-workflow-dispatch-notification (#7157)
• Replace flaky Task.Delay with TaskCompletionSource for deterministic test synchronization. (2ff1693)
• Merge branch release/3.6.0. (3ed1833)
• Replace DistributedLock meta-package with DistributedLock.Core in Elsa.Common (#7169)
• Merge pull request #7148 from dwoldo/dwoldo/add-commit-strategy-defaults (#7148)