Time marches on, and we minimally support Elixir 1.12+, PostgreSQL 12+, and SQLite 3.37.0+
🪶 SQLite3 Support with the Lite Engine
Increasingly, developers are choosing SQLite for small to medium-sized projects, not just in the
embedded space where it's had utility for many years. Many of Oban's features, such as isolated
queues, scheduling, cron, unique jobs, and observability, are valuable in smaller or embedded
environments. That's why we've added a new SQLite3 storage engine to bring Oban to smaller,
stand-alone, or embedded environments where PostgreSQL isn't ideal (or possible).
There's frighteningly little configuration needed to run with SQLite3. Migrations, queues, and
plugins all "Just Work™".
To get started, add the ecto_sqlite3
package to your deps and configure Oban to use the
Oban.Engines.Lite
engine:
config :my_app, Oban,
engine: Oban.Engines.Lite,
queues: [default: 10],
repo: MyApp.Repo
Presto! Run the migrations, include Oban in your application's supervision tree, and then start
inserting and executing jobs as normal.
⚠️ SQLite3 support is new, and while not experimental, there may be sharp edges. Please report any
issues or gaps in documentation.
👩🔬 Smarter Job Fetching
The most common cause of "jobs not processing" is when PubSub isn't available. Our troubleshooting
section instructed people to investigate their PubSub and optionally include the Repeater
plugin. That kind of manual remediation isn't necessary now! Instead, we automatically switch back
to local polling mode when PubSub isn't available—if it is a temporary glitch, then fetching
returns to the optimized global mode after the next health check.
Along with smarter fetching, Stager
is no longer a plugin. It wasn't ever really a plugin, as
it's core to Oban's operation, but it was treated as a plugin to simplify configuration and
testing. If you're in the minority that tweaked the staging interval, don't worry, the existing
plugin configuration is automatically translated for backward compatibility. However, if you're a
stickler for avoiding deprecated options, you can switch to the top-level stage_interval
:
config :my_app, Oban,
queues: [default: 10],
- plugins: [{Stager, interval: 5_000}]
+ stage_interval: 5_000
📡 Comprehensive Telemetry Data
Oban has exposed telemetry data that allows you to collect and track metrics about jobs and queues
since the very beginning. Telemetry events followed a job's lifecycle from insertion through
execution. Still, there were holes in the data—it wasn't possible to track the exact state of your
entire Oban system through telemetry data.
Now that's changed. All operations that change job state, whether inserting, deleting, scheduling,
or processing jobs report complete state-change events for every job including queue
, state
,
and worker
details. Even bulk operations such as insert_all_jobs
, cancel_all_jobs
, and
retry_all_jobs
return a subset of fields for all modified jobs, rather than a simple count.
See the 2.14 upgrade guide for step-by-step instructions (all two of them).
Enhancements
-
[Oban] Store a
{:cancel, :shutdown}
error and emit[:oban, :job, :stop]
telemetry when jobs
are manually cancelled withcancel_job/1
orcancel_all_jobs/1
. -
[Oban] Include "did you mean" suggestions for
Oban.start_link/1
and all nested plugins when a
similar option is available.Oban.start_link(rep: MyApp.Repo, queues: [default: 10]) ** (ArgumentError) unknown option :rep, did you mean :repo? (oban 2.14.0-dev) lib/oban/validation.ex:46: Oban.Validation.validate!/2 (oban 2.14.0-dev) lib/oban/config.ex:88: Oban.Config.new/1 (oban 2.14.0-dev) lib/oban.ex:227: Oban.start_link/1 iex:1: (file)
-
[Oban] Support scoping queue actions to a particular node.
In addition to scoping to the current node with
:local_only
, it is now possible to scope
pause
,resume
,scale
,start
, andstop
queues on a single node using the:node
option.Oban.scale_queue(queue: :default, node: "worker.123")
-
[Oban] Remove
retry_job/1
andretry_all_jobs/1
restriction around retryingscheduled
jobs. -
[Job] Restrict
replace
option to specific states when unique job's have a conflict.# Replace the scheduled time only if the job is still scheduled SomeWorker.new(args, replace: [scheduled: [:schedule_in]], schedule_in: 60) # Change the args only if the job is still available SomeWorker.new(args, replace: [available: [:args]])
-
[Job] Introduce
format_attempt/1
helper to standardize error and attempt formatting
across engines -
[Repo] Wrap nearly all
Ecto.Repo
callbacks.Now every
Ecto.Repo
callback, aside from a handful that are only used to manage aRepo
instance, are wrapped with code generation that omits any typespecs. Slight inconsistencies
between the wrapper's specs andEcto.Repo
's own specs caused dialyzer failures when nothing
was genuinely broken. Furthermore, many functions were missing because it was tedious to
manually define every wrapper function. -
[Peer] Emit telemetry events for peer leadership elections.
Both peer modules,
Postgres
andGlobal
, now emit[:oban, :peer, :election]
events during
leader election. The telemetry meta includes aleader?
field for start and stop events to
indicate if a leadership change took place. -
[Notifier] Allow passing a single channel to
listen/2
rather than a list. -
[Registry] Add
lookup/2
for conveniently fetching registered{pid, value}
pairs.
Bug Fixes
-
[Basic] Capture
StaleEntryError
on unique replace.Replacing while a job is updated externally, e.g. it starts executing, could occasionally raise
anEcto.StaleEntryError
within the Basic engine. Now, that exception is translated into an
error tuple and bubbles up to theinsert
call site. -
[Job] Update
t:Oban.Job/0
to indicate timestamp fields are nullable.
Deprecations
-
[Stager] Deprecate the
Stager
plugin as it's part of the core supervision tree and may be
configured with the top-levelstage_interval
option. -
[Repeater] Deprecate the
Repeater
plugin as it's no longer necessary with hybrid staging. -
[Migration] Rename
Migrations
toMigration
, but continue delegating functions for backward
compatibility.