Ultimate Cron enhances Drupal's cron system by allowing individual cron jobs to run in parallel. It provides configurable rules, pool management, and load balancing to optimize cron job execution and offers an overview of jobs, logs, and status messages.
The Ultimate Cron handling for Drupal.
Runs cron jobs individually in parallel using configurable rules, pool management and load balancing.
8.x-2.x
This is a port of the 7.x-2.x branch to Drupal 8, using config entities and the Drupal 8+ plugin system.
See https://befused.com/drupal/ultimate-cron/ and the README for an overview on how the module works and how to discover jobs.
Features
- Works out-of-the box in most cases (or aims to)
- Parallel execution of cron jobs
- Configuration per job (enable/disable, rules, etc.)
- Multiple rules per cron job
- Pool management and load balancing using Background process
- Support for Drupal Queues
- Overview of cron jobs
- Log history of cron jobs
- Status/error messages per cron job, providing easy debugging of troublesome cron jobs
- hook_cron_alter() for easy adding/manipulating cron jobs
- Poormans cron with keepalive a granularity of 1 minute
- Drush support (list, start, enable/disable jobs from the command line)
The feature list is from the 7.x version and might not be 100% compatible with 8.x
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5 tracked projects depend on this one
- Opigno cron 5,827 sites
- Seeds Performance 140 sites
- Ultimate Cron Views Integration 11 sites
- Slack ultimate_cron notifier 7 sites
- Ultimate Cron Summary 6 sites
Activity
Release Timeline
Releases
| Version | Type | Core | PHP | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.x-2.0-beta1 | Pre-release | 9–11 | Nov 28, 2024 | ||
| 7.x-2.11 | Stable | Nov 25, 2024 | |||
| 7.x-2.10 | Stable | Nov 22, 2024 | |||
| 8.x-2.0-alpha8 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| 8.x-2.0-alpha7 | Pre-release | 9–10 | Feb 4, 2024 |