Feature Changelog
Deploy your Worker to a Cloud Run Worker Pool in your own Google Cloud project. Temporal watches your Task Queue, adds instances when work builds up, and scales back to zero when the queue is empty.
September 29, 2026
Add a short description to each Temporal Cloud namespace so your team can quickly understand its purpose.
Cloud UI Strict Session Mode provides a 15-minute inactivity timeout and a 12-hour maximum session duration for SAML-authenticated users.
September 15, 2026
Standalone Activities are GA across all six SDKs, letting you run background jobs with durable execution, priority and fairness, Start Delay, and lifecycle controls without building a job platform.
Projects provide a first-class way to organize Temporal Cloud resources including namespaces, Nexus endpoints, and more.
Serverless Workers for Google Cloud Run allows Temporal to control the scaling of Worker Pools in Cloud Run, allowing for direct responses to available work and more efficient autoscaling.
Serverless Workers for AWS Lambda allows Temporal to control the scaling and lifecycle of Workers running as Lambda functions, enabling direct responses to available work and automatic autoscaling without any infrastructure to manage.
June 25, 2026
Custom Roles, now available in Pre-Release, let you define granular permissions in Temporal Cloud, giving your team precise control over who can perform specific actions on specific resources in your account.
Stable IPs for Namespace Endpoints is now Generally Available. Configure your Namespace Endpoint to resolve to fixed, public IP addresses. Useful for allowlisting in your firewall if you don't use Private Connectivity.
May 14, 2026
We're excited to announce that the fully-featured Temporal Rust SDK is in public preview.
Task Queue Priority & Fairness are now Generally Available. No more custom logic or queueing systems — you can manage it all with Temporal.
The Temporal Worker Controller is now Generally Available. It's now even easier for teams utilizing K8s to manage the entire lifecycle of their Temporal workers: deployment, versioning, tuning, and scaling.
Improve accountability and traceability for Workflow Executions with Principal attribution. Now in pre-release for both Cloud and Self-hosted users.
April 16, 2026
The OpenAI Agents SDK integration is now extended to support sandbox environments
April 8, 2026
Users can now offload large payloads to external storage providers and pass small token references through the Event History instead.
Our OpenMetrics endpoint for Temporal Cloud is Generally Available
Our High Availability features are Generally Available
Worker Versioning is now in GA with Upgrade on Continue-as-New and Worker Controller Autoscaling entering Public Preview