Oban v2.23.0 has been released.

Sharpens resilience under database outages, catches misconfigured unique constraints at compile time, and optionally scopes telemetry logging to a single instance.

Compile-Time Unique State Checks

Explicit :states lists in unique options have been deprecated for a while, but they still appear in many applications. Two patterns silently break the uniqueness guarantee:

• Lists that omit insert states (:scheduled and :available) fail to deduplicate on insert, so duplicates slip past unconditionally.
• Partial lists like [:available, :executing, :scheduled] leave gaps in the lifecycle where duplicates land between states and break job staging.

Workers with these incomplete patterns now warn at compile time with guidance for how to repair the misconfiguration.

Resilient Retry Exhaustion

Autonomous processes (Pruner, Cron) rely on transactions with a retry behavior. A database outage that outlasts the retry time will crash the process, and trigger a restart loop that could bring down the whole supervision tree.

The Repo.transaction/3 function now accepts an :on_exhausted option that controls what happens when retries run out. The default preserves the existing raising behavior, while :log writes an error without crashing:

Oban.Repo.transaction(conf, fun, on_exhausted: :log)

Internal processes that shouldn’t crash on a transient outage now use :log, so a sustained database hiccup is logged once rather than escalating.

Scoped Telemetry Logging

The telemetry backed default logger, enabled with attach_default_logger/1, now accepts an :oban_name option to restrict logs to a single instance.

Oban.Telemetry.attach_default_logger(oban_name: MyApp.Oban)

When set, multiple loggers can coexist without interleaving, and events from other instances are dropped before they reach the log. This is primarily useful in testing, where multiple Oban instances often run side by side and isolating the output of one of them is otherwise awkward.

v2.23.0

Enhancements

• [Job] Warn when unique :states leave lifecycle gaps

  Explicit :states lists are deprecated, but still exist in many applications. Lists that omit insert states like :scheduled, or :available silently fail to prevent duplicates at all.

  Partial state lists like [:available, :executing, :scheduled] leave gaps in the lifecycle where duplicates slip through or clog job staging.

  Workers defined with these patterns now warn at compile time with recommended changes for missing insert states or partial states.

• [Producer] Jitter producer dispatch to prevent fetch conflicts

  Producers now apply jitter to the cooldown period between fetches. Without jitter, producers across nodes could synchronize on shared signals and stampede the database with simultaneous fetches.

  The configured cooldown is now the average wait rather than the minimum, with actual delays varying between roughly 1ms and 2x the configured value. For example, the default 5ms cooldown will range from 1ms to 10ms.

• [Oban] Tune restart intensity to tolerate queue crashes

  The top level queue supervisor used the default restart strategy, so a single misbehaving queue exceeding that budget could crash every other queue alongside it. This increases the budget to 20 restarts in 60 seconds so that an isolated queue fault stays isolated for longer.

• [Producer] Replace drain polling with a pushed signal

  During queue shutdown, queues polled every 10ms until all jobs were finished. That competed for the producer’s mailbox with the :DOWN messages it was waiting for and sent unnecessary messages. The producer now pushes a single message the moment running empties.

• [Telemetry] Optionally scope the logging to a single instance

  Add an :oban_name option to attach_default_logger/1 and detach_default_logger/1. When set, multiple scoped loggers can coexist, and events from other instances are filtered out by matching the instance name. This is primarily useful for testing environments.

• [Repo] Add exhausted logging to transaction/3

  Intermittent queries ran by autonomous processes like Pruner would crash and enter a restart loop when the database was unavailable longer than the retry budget. Under a sustained outage that could be enough to crash the entire supervision tree.

  A new :on_exhausted retry option now accepts :raise (the default) and :log, to output an error log rather than raising.

Bug Fixes

• [Config] Break extra compile cycle by deferring default modules

  Reference default modules from Config.new/1 rather than as defstruct defaults. Inline module references in struct defaults created compile-time edges to modules that alias Config. That pulls 24 interconnected modules into a compile cycle.

• [Errors] Extract Oban.Errors to prevent circular compile cycle

  A circular chain existed between backoff → exceptions → job → worker, which caused an extra compilation cycle.

• [Repo] Consolidate UndefinedFunctionError retry in transaction/3

  Move UndefinedFunctionError retry into transaction/3’s rescue alongside database errors so retry, backoff, and :on_exhausted semantics apply uniformly.

• [Repo] Retry MyXQL deadlock and lock-wait-timeout errors

  Treat the MyXQL error codes 1213 (deadlock) and 1205 (lock wait timeout) as expected conflicts so transactions retry on the “fast path”. Previously, only Postgres conflicts qualified, so MySQL deadlocks fell through to the slow unexpected-error retry.

• [Cron] Skip ahead by a full day on weekday mismatch

  This is a performance enhancement for expressions that use specific weekdays. Resolution previously advanced by minute through every hour of every intervening day before reaching the next valid weekday. They now jump directly to the next matching day, making expressions like */5 * * * 1 resolve in a handful of steps instead of thousands.

• [Producer] Ignore stray :DOWN messages for released refs

  When a job’s task finishes successfully its ref is demonitored, but a late :DOWN can still arrive if the message was sitting in the mailbox before demonitor ran.

  Now the down handler clause is guarded so the producer survives.

• [Migration] Tolerate non-numeric migration versions

  Custom migrators, like Oban Pro’s DynamicPartitioner, record a comment on the oban_jobs table to indicate the version is managed externally. Parsing that as an integer crashed application startup during validation in testing modes.

• [Peer] Update callback arities to match actual call sites

  The leader? and get_leader callbacks were declared at arity 1, but they’re always invoked as arity 2 with a timeout. Implementing the documented arity wasn’t viable, and mocking libraries like Mox couldn’t generate a usable mock.

  Correct the callback specs to leader?/2 and get_leader/2 so the behaviour matches reality.

• [Validator] Tighten fallthroughs in validation

  Each type clause now matches the success case positively and falls to an explicit error clause, so values that previously slipped past a negative guard and into the :ok catch-all are properly rejected.