Blog

A place for announcements, release notes, thoughts and ideas for the project.

Release Notes (v2.8.0)

July 5, 2026

The v2.8.0 release includes major features and improvements.

  • Built-in TLS encryption (enabled by default)

  • Resource-aware task scheduling

  • Resource monitoring

  • Task groups for dependency management

  • Queue-only task submission

  • Rate limiting task execution

  • File-based logging

  • Functional (Python) API

  • Bash and Zsh shell completions

  • Python 3.11–3.14 support (PostgreSQL via psycopg v3)

  • Major bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes (v2.7.0)

May 4, 2025

The v2.7.0 release includes major database features and CLI improvements.

  • Automatic database rotation for SQLite

  • Optional UUIDv7 mode

  • SQLite pragmas

  • SQLite optimization

  • Simplified command-line interface

  • Version info

  • Improved task submission (global tags)

Release Notes (v2.6.6)

April 5, 2025

The v2.6.6 release includes an important bug fix for PostgreSQL.

Release Notes (v2.6.5)

February 15, 2025

The v2.6.5 release includes new installation hardening feature.

  • New HYPERSHELL_PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Release Notes (v2.6.1)

December 31, 2024

The v2.6.1 release includes support for Python 3.9 and minor improvements.

  • Allow Python 3.9

  • Improved optional dependency handling

New Logo and Discord Server

November 15, 2024

We’ve added a new logo to the project ahead of the SC24 conference!

We’ve also created a Discord server to post questions, discuss your project, share with the community, keep in touch with announcements and upcoming events!

Release Notes (v2.6.0)

November 15, 2024

The v2.6.0 release includes performance improvements and new features.

  • Allow --delete with --limit for task update command

  • Add inline tag assignment for task submission

  • Performance improvements and telemetry

  • Update --version behavior

  • Update logging message behavior

Release Notes (v2.5.2)

July 7, 2024

The v2.5.2 release includes important bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • Fix signal handling regression on Windows

  • Improve start-time performance

Release Notes (v2.5.0)

May 18, 2024

The v2.5.0 release includes major new features along with numerous fixes and improvements.

  • New command-line program name.

  • Task update command capabilities.

  • Shell completions.

  • UNIX signal interrupts for graceful shutdowns.

  • Configuration management improvements.

  • Tagging system improvements.

Release Notes (v2.4.0)

June 2, 2023

The v2.4.0 release includes major new features along with numerous fixes and improvements.

  • User-defined tags

  • Walltime limits on tasks

  • Client timeouts for automatic shutdown

  • Autoscaling cluster (fixed and dynamic)

  • New logging style

  • NO_COLOR environment variable support

Release Notes (v2.3.0)

April 13, 2023

The v2.3.0 release includes a number of fixes and improvements. A number of bugs have been fixed and we added better default output formatting of task info from searches.

Release Notes (v2.2.0)

March 23, 2023

The v2.2.0 release of HyperShell includes major new features, a few quality of life improvements, and a fix for SSH-mode.