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# Elsa Roadmap
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This roadmap is a product direction document, not a fixed release calendar. Elsa is developed through a mix of core maintainer work, customer-funded work, and community contributions, so sequencing can change when real-world demand changes. The intent is stable: make Elsa the most productive, dependable, and extensible workflow platform for the .NET ecosystem.
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This version is grounded in the current `elsa-core`, `elsa-studio`, and `elsa-extensions` repositories, including source code, open issues, open pull requests, releases, and discussions where available.
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## North Star
Elsa should feel like the natural workflow engine for .NET teams:
- productive enough for application developers to model real business processes quickly
- dependable enough for production operations, rolling deploys, multi-tenant systems, and distributed workloads
- open enough to embed, customize, extend, and automate without fighting the framework
- powerful enough to connect systems, run long-lived processes, expose human tasks, and observe what is happening
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## Capability Checklist
Legend: `[x]` shipped foundation, `[~]` partially shipped or needs productization, `[ ]` roadmap candidate.
### Engine
- [x] Non-blocking activity execution
- [x] Fork, join, and explicit flowchart merge modes
- [x] State machine core activity
- [~] State machine Studio authoring, docs, and examples
- [~] Graceful shutdown and interrupted recovery
- [ ] Full workflow execution recovery UX
- [ ] Compensation / saga support
- [ ] Variable history tracking
- [ ] Native workflow-aware background execution
- [ ] Actor-runtime abstraction
### Runtime And Operations
- [x] Runtime admin pause, resume, status, and force-drain endpoints
- [x] Distributed runtime package
- [x] Structured logs
- [x] Console logs
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- [x] Studio structured-log, console-log, and OpenTelemetry diagnostics foundations
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- [x] Durable structured log persistence
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- [~] Operational dashboard API and Studio dashboard productization
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- [~] Scheduler and message-bus foundations through Quartz, Hangfire, MassTransit, Kafka, and Azure Service Bus
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- [~] OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend and default workflow metrics
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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- [ ] Scheduler/message reliability hardening for clustered production workloads
- [ ] Production security guide
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- [ ] Enterprise deployment platform and checklist
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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### Authoring And Studio
- [x] Visual designer foundation
- [x] Modular Studio shell, feature system, menus, widgets, themes, localization, and remote feature gating
- [x] Studio custom elements for embedding definition editors, instance viewers, and workflow lists
- [x] Activity unit testing helpers
- [x] ElsaScript experimental DSL
- [~] React Flow, sequence, and state-machine designer foundations
- [~] Workflow organization with labels/categories/folders
- [~] Workflow progress/timeline surface
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
2026-05-30 20:52:01 +00:00
- [x] Studio OIDC and identity modules
docs: refresh roadmap
2026-07-28 22:08:31 +00:00
- [~] External-authentication broker, Studio SSO connection management, and configurable login themes (merged to `release/3.8.0`; release finalization pending)
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
2026-05-30 20:52:01 +00:00
- [~] Studio diagnostics pages for structured logs, console logs, and OpenTelemetry
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
2026-05-20 20:00:30 +00:00
- [~] Studio alterations module
- [ ] Designer reliability/regression hardening
- [ ] Input validation and activity version visibility
- [ ] Async dispatch/run UX
- [ ] User preferences, table state, and layout persistence
- [ ] First-class workflow debugging
- [ ] Designer extensibility, embedding, and white-label recipes
- [ ] Tenant/role-based activity visibility
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
2026-05-30 20:52:01 +00:00
- [~] AI-assisted workflow generation and copilot foundations
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
2026-05-20 20:00:30 +00:00
### Integrations
- [x] HTTP, scheduling, scripting, and persistence provider foundations
- [x] Connections and Secrets foundations
- [x] Extension packages for SQL, CSV, Email, Slack, Telnyx, GitHub DevOps, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus, Kafka, MassTransit/RabbitMQ, Quartz, Hangfire, Dapper, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry, Logging, Agents, OpenAPI, Webhooks, OrchardCore, IO, compression, and ProtoActor-backed runtime/caching
docs: refresh roadmap
2026-07-21 22:07:49 +00:00
- [~] MQTT publish and message-trigger foundation (main-only; release and production hardening pending)
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
2026-05-20 20:00:30 +00:00
- [~] Modular package loading and manifest metadata
- [~] OpenAPI activity/provider foundations
- [ ] Connector SDK
- [ ] Marketplace/plugin installation
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
2026-05-30 20:52:01 +00:00
- [~] Agent provider matrix, with MCP/tool lifecycle still roadmap
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
2026-05-20 20:00:30 +00:00
- [ ] Dynamic activity generation from OpenAPI, Azure Functions, registered methods, and schemas
- [ ] Azure DevOps, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Docs, and Google Sheets integration strategy
- [ ] SQL authoring quality: Studio drag/drop reliability and IntelliSense
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- [~] Dapper package split and MongoDB secrets parity
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- [ ] MassTransit v9 strategy
- [ ] Azure Functions / worker-service hosting guidance
- [ ] WatchFileSystem and command-line automation activities
- [ ] Data pipeline / ETL primitives
- [ ] BPMN interoperability
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## Current Foundations
These are already present in the codebase and should be treated as foundations for the next roadmap slices:
- Multi-targeting for `net8.0`, `net9.0`, and `net10.0` in [`src/Directory.Build.props`](src/Directory.Build.props).
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- The `3.7.0` release train shipped across [Core](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/releases/tag/3.7.0), [Studio](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/releases/tag/3.7.0), and [Extensions](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/releases/tag/3.7.0) in May 2026, promoting shell integration, Studio authentication, workflow diagnostics, and extension package metadata into released foundations. The [Core](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/releases/tag/3.8.0-preview1) and [Studio](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/releases/tag/3.8.0-preview1) `3.8.0-preview1` releases on June 1, 2026 then added the next preview slice of graceful shutdown, richer diagnostics, secrets, and newer designer surfaces. The `3.7.1` patch train then shipped across [Core](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/releases/tag/3.7.1), [Studio](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/releases/tag/3.7.1), and [Extensions](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/releases/tag/3.7.1) on June 21, 2026, tightening Azure Service Bus startup reliability, aligning Studio with the released Core API client, and hardening Quartz durability and endpoint-name pressure in Extensions.
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- Modular core packages under [`src/modules`](src/modules), with code-first features and CShells shell features documented in [`doc/wiki/module-system.md`](doc/wiki/module-system.md).
- A modular server host using CShells and Nuplane package loading in [`src/apps/Elsa.ModularServer.Web`](src/apps/Elsa.ModularServer.Web).
- Runtime admin, quiescence, drain, and interrupted recovery infrastructure in [`Elsa.Workflows.Runtime`](src/modules/Elsa.Workflows.Runtime) and runtime admin endpoints in [`Elsa.Workflows.Api`](src/modules/Elsa.Workflows.Api/Endpoints/RuntimeAdmin).
- Distributed runtime support in [`Elsa.Workflows.Runtime.Distributed`](src/modules/Elsa.Workflows.Runtime.Distributed).
- Structured diagnostics with recent/live capture plus SQLite persistence in [`Elsa.Diagnostics.StructuredLogs`](src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.StructuredLogs) and [`Elsa.Diagnostics.StructuredLogs.Persistence.Sqlite`](src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.StructuredLogs.Persistence.Sqlite).
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Raw stdout/stderr console diagnostics in [`Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs`](src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs), with the post-3.7 console pipeline now carrying workflow and activity execution context through [PR #7536](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7536).
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- Core `main` now includes `Elsa.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry`, which provides OTLP ingestion, bounded in-memory storage, REST APIs, SignalR live updates, collector configuration, permissions, and tests in [`src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry`](src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry). The productization gap is no longer "does a backend exist?" but rather release packaging, default workflow semantic metrics, and diagnostics correlation.
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- Core `main` includes [`Elsa.Dashboard.Api`](src/modules/Elsa.Dashboard.Api), a read-only operational-dashboard backend with overview, trends, attention, recent-activity, and workflow-hotspot endpoints plus independent diagnostics capability states ([#7529](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7529), [#7532](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7532)). Its remaining product work is a released, polished Studio dashboard with robust deep links and unavailable-state handling.
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- Core `main` now includes `Elsa.AI.Abstractions`, `Elsa.AI.Host`, `Elsa.AI.Copilot`, and `Elsa.AI.Persistence.EFCore` through [PR #7523](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7523), and Studio `main` now includes `Elsa.Studio.AI` through [elsa-studio#900](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/900). That gives Weaver both server and Studio workspace foundations, while proposal actions, broader authoring contracts, and polished product UX remain roadmap work.
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- State machine core activity support in [`Elsa.Workflows.Core/Activities/StateMachine`](src/modules/Elsa.Workflows.Core/Activities/StateMachine).
- ElsaScript DSL and blob storage integration in [`Elsa.Dsl.ElsaScript`](src/modules/Elsa.Dsl.ElsaScript) and [`Elsa.WorkflowProviders.BlobStorage.ElsaScript`](src/modules/Elsa.WorkflowProviders.BlobStorage.ElsaScript).
- Activity unit testing helpers and guidance in [`src/common/Elsa.Testing.Shared`](src/common/Elsa.Testing.Shared) and [`doc/qa/test-guidelines.md`](doc/qa/test-guidelines.md).
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- Label infrastructure now spans Core and Studio: [`Elsa.Labels`](src/modules/Elsa.Labels) exposes label and workflow-label endpoints, and [`Elsa.Studio.Labels`](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/tree/main/src/modules/Elsa.Studio.Labels) adds label management pages plus workflow-definition label editing. Folder views, broader metadata search, and richer organization UX remain roadmap work.
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- Elsa Studio is already a modular Blazor product shell with workflow authoring, instance browsing, designer modules, diagnostics, authentication, localization, branding, custom elements, and early React wrapper work in [elsa-workflows/elsa-studio](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio).
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Studio `3.7.0` shipped the modern authentication framework, Elsa Identity and OIDC modules, activity call-stack visualization, incident count badges, pending-instance filtering, and custom theme/DataPanel extensibility.
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- Studio `3.8.0-preview1` shipped the server logs module, console logs module, structured-log storage diagnostics, the OpenTelemetry diagnostics page from [elsa-studio#834](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/834), sequence and state-machine designer foundations, the secrets module, and the alterations designer.
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- The unreleased `release/3.8.0` line now contains a protocol-neutral external-authentication broker with configuration- or database-backed OIDC connections, PKCE, secret handling, identity linking/JIT users, session management, persistence, and tests ([#7889](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7889)). Its Studio companions add Settings-based SSO connection management and a generic login-method UI ([elsa-studio#920](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/920)), plus configurable login themes ([elsa-studio#921](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/921)). This is a partially shipped foundation: the release line still needs final solution-level verification, release packaging, and operational documentation.
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- Elsa Extensions is an active modular integration repository with 70+ module projects in [elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions), targeting `net8.0`, `net9.0`, and `net10.0`.
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- Extensions already provide broad integration foundations: Connections, Secrets, Agents, OpenAPI, SQL/CSV/data tooling, messaging, schedulers, cloud storage, logging, webhooks, persistence providers, LDAP, and external system activities.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Extensions `3.7.0` adds package manifest metadata, infrastructure attributes, shell features for MassTransit/Quartz/Webhooks, Dapper and MongoDB activity execution-chain lookups, Dapper bookmark queue filtering, Kafka multitenancy/schema-trigger work, Quartz lifecycle/job cleanup fixes, and other operational hardening.
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- Extensions `main` now includes an MQTT module with publish and message-received trigger activities, broker/TLS/QoS configuration, Studio UI hints, and focused tests ([elsa-extensions#157](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/157)). It remains a main-only foundation; its documented MQTT 5, advanced TLS, binary-payload, and error/DLQ gaps keep release and operational productization on the roadmap.
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The public roadmap issue remains useful history: [elsa-workflows/elsa-core#3232](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/3232). Several items in that issue are now done in code but still open in the issue body, so this file should be considered the current working roadmap.
## 1. Production Confidence
**Goal:** Operators should trust Elsa during deploys, restarts, scale-out, tenancy changes, and partial failures.
High-value items:
- Complete the graceful-shutdown operational slice: back-pressure-aware bookmark queueing, health checks, pause persistence across reactivation, and contract tests. The remaining task list is visible in [`specs/002-graceful-shutdown/tasks.md`](specs/002-graceful-shutdown/tasks.md).
- Close the workflow recovery story around interrupted, crashed, and stuck-running instances. This directly addresses [#4833](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/4833) and should include Studio-facing recovery states, operator actions, and clear audit records.
- Harden distributed execution semantics: child workflow completion, bookmark races, duplicate dispatch, timer/delay behavior, and clustered refresh/reload. Community signal shows this repeatedly in [discussion #5857](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/5857), [#7397](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7397), [#7405](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7405), and related FlowJoin/bookmark issues.
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- Treat scheduler and messaging correctness as release-blocking infrastructure. The new `3.7.1` patch line improved Azure Service Bus startup behavior and stable instance naming in Core ([#7732](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7732), [#7736](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7736), [#7742](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7742)) and tightened Quartz durable trigger scheduling in Extensions ([elsa-extensions#162](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/162)). That progress is useful, but active issues around Quartz clustering and recovery ([elsa-extensions#109](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/109), [elsa-extensions#101](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/101)), Hangfire duplicate jobs ([elsa-extensions#121](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/121)), MassTransit stimulus routing ([elsa-extensions#72](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/72)), Kafka extensibility ([elsa-extensions#134](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/134)), and Azure Service Bus backlog/startup pressure ([#7735](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7735), [#7737](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7737)) all point to the same production theme: clustered workload behavior must be boring, observable, and customizable.
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- Turn the draft native background execution architecture into an implementation plan. [#7356](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7356) and [#7313](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7313) point toward an engine-owned, workflow-aware runtime that can evolve toward an actor-model abstraction without coupling Elsa to Orleans, Proto.Actor, or any single backend.
- Treat persistence and migration reliability as a product feature: provider-specific migration validation, large-tenant performance tests, safer defaults, and upgrade notes that cover SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, and MongoDB scenarios.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Promote the Elsa Deployment Platform PRD into scoped implementation work. [#7469](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7469) defines the right product boundary: declarative environment manifests, immutable deployment artifacts, dry-run validation, deployment history, and GitOps-compatible reconciliation should manage control-plane state without reconciling runtime execution state.
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- Maintain a security hardening track: document scripting trust boundaries, production-safe Docker posture, OIDC setup, default auth patterns, and secrets redaction. [#7096](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7096) is a reminder that optional code execution must be explained and guarded clearly.
Recommended success measures:
- rolling deploys do not leave workflows ambiguous or unrecoverable
- every runtime admin action is observable and auditable
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- deployments can be previewed, validated, promoted, rolled back, and audited without copying databases or reconciling runtime state
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- core distributed scenarios have component tests, not only unit coverage
- upgrade guides call out migrations, package renames, and production security implications before users hit them
## 2. Authoring Productivity
**Goal:** Developers and business users should be able to create, understand, test, and change workflows without ceremony.
High-value items:
- Ship workflow organization as a coherent feature: labels/categories, folder-like views, search/filter by metadata, and Studio support. This consolidates [#5872](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/5872), [#6307](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/6307), the existing `Elsa.Labels` module, and workflow definition `CustomProperties`.
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- Make designer reliability a visible workstream. Recent Studio issues show expression/input rendering regressions after 3.6 ([elsa-studio#791](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/791), [elsa-studio#781](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/781), [elsa-studio#795](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/795)), persistent browser/JS failures ([elsa-studio#903](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/903)), and fragile Playwright automation ([elsa-studio#919](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/919)). These should drive a regression harness for designer rendering, property editors, expression descriptors, drag/drop, stable test identifiers, deterministic canvas state, and WASM/Server parity.
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- Make workflow progress visible to application users: a current-state/step API, timeline model, and embeddable progress component. This responds to [discussion #6012](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/6012) and should reuse execution logs, activity records, call-stack tracking, and real-time workflow updates.
- Finish the state machine product surface. The core activity exists, but [#5085](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/5085) should be closed only when JSON serialization, Studio authoring, docs, and examples make state machines approachable.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Build first-class workflow testing and debugging: test runners for full workflows, breakpoint-like inspection, replay from execution logs where feasible, better failed-activity retry flows, child/descendant workflow instance navigation, and Studio affordances for fault investigation. The Studio `3.7.0` activity call-stack viewer is a useful foundation, but requests for child workflow visibility ([elsa-studio#152](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/152)) and breakpoint debugging ([elsa-studio discussion #662](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/discussions/662)) still need a coherent debugging experience.
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- Improve Studio authoring fundamentals: input validation ([elsa-studio#15](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/15)), activity version indicators ([elsa-studio#284](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/284)), async `/dispatch` instead of blocking `/execute` where appropriate ([elsa-studio#811](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/811)), designer image export ([elsa-studio#585](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/585)), and expression evaluation controls ([elsa-studio#643](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/643)).
- Improve designer extensibility, embedding, and white-labeling: custom activity property editors, custom list actions, embeddable designer/viewer recipes, custom elements, React wrapper direction, auth modes, base-path hosting, branding/theme, and clear Blazor/WASM/Server guidance. Community demand appears in [#4743](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/4743), [#6685](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/6685), [discussion #7246](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/7246), [elsa-studio#137](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/137), and [elsa-studio discussion #665](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/discussions/665).
- Ship user preference and UI state persistence as a Studio platform feature. [elsa-studio#703](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/703) already scopes theme, layout, table state, local/session storage, reset behavior, and future server profile storage.
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- Promote ElsaScript from experiment to useful authoring path: stable syntax, import/export round-tripping, editor diagnostics, examples, and clear boundaries with JSON and visual authoring. See [#7055](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7055) and the current [`Elsa.Dsl.ElsaScript`](src/modules/Elsa.Dsl.ElsaScript) module.
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- Decide the Studio UI framework direction before broad UX work. [elsa-studio#714](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/714) proposes a MudBlazor-to-Radzen migration, while current work still touches both ecosystems; roadmap work should avoid expensive churn.
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Recommended success measures:
- teams with 100+ workflow definitions can find and govern them without naming hacks
- a developer can unit test an activity, integration test a workflow, and debug a failed instance from documented recipes
- common Studio customization no longer requires replacing entire pages or reverse engineering internals
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- designer regressions are caught before release across Blazor Server, WASM, and embedded component scenarios
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## 3. Integrations And Ecosystem
**Goal:** Elsa should make external systems feel like native workflow building blocks.
High-value items:
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- Create an Extension Platform track. Package manifests, shell-feature discovery, Connections/Secrets adoption, generated activity providers, test harness patterns, documentation, and contribution templates should make extensions feel like product-quality packages rather than repo-adjacent samples.
- Create an OpenAPI activity provider that turns an OpenAPI document into typed designer activities. This is a recurring ask in [#2961](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/2961) and [#6360](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/6360), and it is the best foundation for a broad connector story. The existing Extensions OpenAPI work should be reconciled with this product goal.
- Define a connector SDK before adding many one-off integrations. The SDK should cover authentication, secrets, generated activities, testing, metadata, versioning, packaging, Studio property editors, and manifest-driven installation.
- Continue marketplace and plugin infrastructure. The Nuplane modular server, sample package, extension package manifest metadata, and [#7310](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7310) point to a compelling future where Elsa distributions can install safe custom modules without users maintaining a separate host app.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Promote Agents to a strategic integration lane: provider matrix, OpenAI and Claude PR resolution, local/OpenRouter/custom endpoints, MCP/tool lifecycle, tool selection in Studio, and auditability. The Extensions source already contains Agents, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, persistence, API, and Studio modules, while [elsa-extensions#58](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/58), [elsa-extensions#98](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/98), and [elsa-extensions#63](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/63) show the provider matrix and Claude/OpenAI work are still actively moving.
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- Prioritize enterprise productivity integrations by leverage: Azure DevOps has a concrete implementation path ([elsa-extensions#124](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/124), [elsa-extensions#125](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/125)); Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Docs, and Google Sheets should follow a shared connector model rather than separate bespoke designs.
- Treat dynamic activity generation as a platform primitive. Azure Functions ([elsa-extensions#39](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/39)) and registered-method activities ([elsa-extensions#48](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/48)) both point toward schema/method-driven activity generation that can also serve OpenAPI, SDK-generated connectors, and internal enterprise APIs.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Improve data and automation authoring quality: SQL result typing ([elsa-extensions#153](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/153), [elsa-extensions#154](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/154)), SQL drag/drop reliability ([elsa-extensions#79](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/79)), SQL IntelliSense ([elsa-extensions#88](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/88)), Dapper package splitting ([elsa-extensions#131](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/131), [elsa-extensions#132](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/pull/132)), MongoDB secrets parity ([elsa-extensions#126](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/126)), WatchFileSystem ([elsa-extensions#90](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/90)), and command-line activities ([elsa-extensions#36](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-extensions/issues/36)).
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- Resolve the MassTransit strategy after the v9 licensing change. [discussion #6583](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/6583) raises a practical ecosystem risk; Elsa should either provide a clean split or reduce dependency weight through a smaller messaging abstraction.
- Clarify Azure Functions and worker-service hosting patterns. [discussion #4707](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/4707) and [discussion #7420](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/7420) show demand for non-traditional hosts, Windows services, and serverless-adjacent deployments.
- Add data movement and streaming workflow primitives. [#4809](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/4809) frames this as datasets, linked services, transforms, and stream-oriented processing inspired by Azure Data Factory and stream analytics.
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- Treat BPMN as a strategic Elsa 4.0 candidate. A maintainer now says BPMN support is coming to Elsa 4.0 and has shared an early alpha screenshot ([#39 comment](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/39#issuecomment-5085835900)). No public implementation branch or PR is available yet, so scope, interoperability commitments, and delivery sequencing remain roadmap work rather than a shipped promise.
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Recommended success measures:
- a team can connect to a REST API from its OpenAPI spec without hand-building HTTP activities
- marketplace packages can declare features, dependencies, settings, infrastructure needs, and security posture
- integrations are tested with the same rigor as core modules, not shipped as opaque examples
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- extension maturity is visible to users as released, main-only, PR open, proposal, or needs-maintainer
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## 4. Observability And Operations
**Goal:** Elsa should be easy to inspect from Studio and from standard production telemetry stacks.
High-value items:
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- Finish the diagnostics trilogy: structured logs, console logs, and OpenTelemetry. Structured and console logs now exist; Studio `3.8.0-preview1` ships an OpenTelemetry diagnostics page from [elsa-studio#834](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/834), and Core `main` now includes the OpenTelemetry backend module in [`src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry`](src/modules/Elsa.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry). The remaining product work is to release and operationalize that Core backend, document collector setup, and correlate this with workflow incidents.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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- Add default workflow semantic metrics: started, resumed, suspended, faulted, completed, active, activity executed/faulted, queue depth, recovery count, drain count, and dispatch latency. [#5988](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/5988) remains the durable demand signal, while [#7537](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7537) supplies the first current module boundary.
- Build Studio diagnostics pages that are useful under pressure: live console, structured logs, OpenTelemetry traces/metrics/logs, workflow incident timelines, source health, dropped-event counters, source selection, filters, URL state, export/copy affordances, and direct deep links to workflow instances.
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- Make execution history easier to reason about: distinguish faulted, interrupted, cancelled, crash-recovered, retried, and operator-modified workflows consistently across API, Studio, logs, and metrics.
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- Connect diagnostics to workflow navigation: trace/span IDs, log source IDs, child workflow chains, alterations, runtime admin actions, and recovery actions should be correlated instead of presented as isolated tables.
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Recommended success measures:
- local developers can troubleshoot from Studio without opening server logs
- production operators can answer "what is stuck, why, and what changed?" from first-party telemetry
- diagnostic modules have safe redaction defaults and bounded memory behavior
## 5. Security, Identity, And Enterprise Readiness
**Goal:** Elsa should be straightforward to secure in real enterprise hosts.
High-value items:
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- Productize the external-authentication and SSO foundation for Blazor Server, WASM, separate server/studio, all-in-one hosts, and reverse-proxy sub-path deployments. The unreleased `release/3.8.0` work adds an Elsa-owned extensible broker and OIDC adapter in Core ([#7889](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7889)), Settings-based SSO administration and generic login composition in Studio ([elsa-studio#920](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/920)), and configurable login themes ([elsa-studio#921](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/921)). Finish solution-level verification, operational recipes, migration/release guidance, and broad provider hardening without conflating upstream identity claims with Elsa authorization.
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- Provide a production security guide: API keys, JWT/OIDC, default admin bootstrap, scripting trust levels, C# expression risks, Docker demo boundaries, secret masking, tenant isolation, and permission design.
- Expand authorization coverage tests around workflow instances, runtime admin, diagnostics, labels, tenants, and HTTP endpoint activities.
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- Add Studio governance controls: tenant/role-based activity visibility, granular permission-aware menus/routes, feature-gated modules, and clear behavior for hidden activities in existing workflow definitions. [elsa-studio#584](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/584) captures the authoring side of this enterprise need, and new issue [elsa-studio#908](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/908) sharpens the need for the Studio UI to honor granular permissions consistently.
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- Complete localization and white-label readiness: translation contribution docs, coverage status, missing key checks, branding hooks, and supportable customization patterns. Studio issues and discussions show setup/coverage friction in [elsa-studio#771](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/771), [elsa-studio discussion #695](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/discussions/695), and [elsa-studio discussion #678](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/discussions/678).
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- Improve multi-tenant ergonomics: tenant-agnostic workflows, high tenant counts, tenant validation modes, cache isolation, and clear migration guidance after the 3.6 tenant ID convention changes.
- Create an enterprise deployment checklist for Kubernetes, reverse proxies/base paths, TLS/custom CAs, database migrations, health checks, backups, and disaster recovery.
Recommended success measures:
- a new enterprise adopter can stand up Elsa behind their identity provider from docs alone
- optional dangerous capabilities are explicit opt-ins with plain-language warnings
- tenant and permission regressions are caught by targeted tests before release
## 6. AI-Assisted Workflow Engineering
**Goal:** AI should make workflows more transparent, not less.
High-value items:
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- Build AI-assisted workflow generation that produces multiple visible activities from intent rather than hiding logic in one script activity. This direction is proposed in [discussion #7367](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/7367), and merged [#7523](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/pull/7523) now provides the first Weaver AI Copilot server foundation with AI abstractions, provider/session contracts, chat/tool endpoints, audit events, proposal persistence, EF Core storage, and integration/unit tests.
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- Provide an Elsa MCP/tooling surface for reading, validating, editing, and explaining workflow JSON/ElsaScript. This would make Elsa a strong fit for AI-enabled .NET development environments.
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- Align AI authoring with the Extensions Agents work: provider abstractions, MCP tools, OpenAI/Claude/local model support, tool approval, secrets handling, and Studio UX should share contracts instead of creating parallel AI stacks.
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- Productize the Studio copilot foundation that landed in [elsa-studio#900](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/pull/900): proposal review/apply flows, validation, generated activity metadata, designer APIs, diagnostics links, and test scaffolding should be available before AI generation becomes prominent. [elsa-studio#553](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-studio/issues/553) remains the durable demand signal, and the current Studio workspace still depends on Core exposing more proposal/action endpoints.
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- Add "explain this workflow", "find risky activities", "suggest tests", and "generate migration notes" capabilities backed by workflow graph metadata.
- Pair AI generation with validation: generated workflows should include test scaffolds, required input/output definitions, secrets handling, and clear review diffs.
Recommended success measures:
- AI-generated workflows remain inspectable in Studio
- generated workflows come with runnable tests or validation plans
- teams can use AI to refactor workflows without losing visibility, auditability, or review discipline
## Recommended Sequencing
Near term:
1. Finish runtime confidence work: graceful shutdown remaining tasks, recovery clarity, distributed runtime regressions, security documentation, and OIDC recipes.
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2. Stabilize Studio authoring: designer regression harness, input/property-editor fixes, async dispatch/run UX, state machine Studio/docs completion, and a clear UI framework direction.
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3. Complete the diagnostics trilogy: release and operationalize the Core OpenTelemetry backend, connect it to the Studio OpenTelemetry page, document collector setup, and correlate traces/logs/metrics with workflow incidents.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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4. Make workflow authoring easier to manage at scale: organization, search, progress/timeline APIs, testing docs, and user preference/table-state persistence.
5. Reconcile shipped extension foundations with roadmap status: package manifests, Connections/Secrets, OpenAPI, Agents, schedulers, messaging, and integration maturity labels.
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Mid term:
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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1. Promote [#7469](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/7469) from deployment-platform PRD into an implementation spec covering manifests, immutable artifacts, dry-run validation, deployment history, and API/CLI surfaces.
2. OpenAPI activity provider plus connector SDK.
3. Extension Platform: generated activities, contribution harnesses, Studio extension recipes, package manifest maturity, and marketplace/plugin installation path built on Nuplane and shell features.
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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4. Workflow debugging, replay-oriented incident analysis, child workflow navigation, and operator recovery UX.
[codex] Fix console log metadata and type resolution (#7542) * Avoid null endpoint DTO metadata in tests * Enforce console logs hub read permission * Remove unused console logs hub import * Support mapped endpoint metadata in auth tests * Reduce console log capture throughput impact * Address Copilot console logs review * Refactor task scheduling to support tenant-level background work and enhance logging functionality. * Introduce ConsoleStreamHook for stdout/stderr tee and enhance logging validation. Adjust test cases and startup warnings for distributed lock provider usage. * Refactor console logging pipeline with capture optimization and new ConsoleLogsHost; update tests accordingly. * Add Ansi SGR parser for console logs and associated unit tests * Remove ANSI color renderings and parsers; integrate ConsoleLogScopeAccessor for improved logging context with workflow instance ID support. * Address console logs code quality feedback * Address PR review feedback * Preserve console logs extension points * Stabilize console logs host lifecycle * Address final automated review comments * Tighten console log capture shutdown * Address console log review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Cover final review feedback * Avoid recursive console provider initialization * Guard console host lease shutdown * Preserve console log scope and provider lifetime * Correlate console log scope fallback * Tighten console scope correlation * Expose host services during provider construction * Redact ANSI-normalized console lines * Add OpenTelemetry diagnostics backend foundation * Add OTLP HTTP ingestion parsing * Document OpenTelemetry diagnostics setup * Enforce OpenTelemetry hub permissions * Remove `ConsoleCaptureTee` and related services and tests * Add OpenTelemetry HTTP ingestion integration test * Use pipeline contributors for console log context * Update CShells package versions to 0.0.24-preview.132 * Add OpenTelemetry ingestion security tests * Add OpenTelemetry API authorization tests * Filter live console logs by workflow instance * Add OpenTelemetry hub tests * Add OpenTelemetry gRPC metadata hook * Assert OpenTelemetry workflow tags survive ingestion * Mark OpenTelemetry core build verified * Enhance console logging with activity execution metadata and extend test coverage. * Address console logs stream consumption comment * Wire OpenTelemetry diagnostics into core sample * Address Core diagnostics review feedback * Address Core Copilot follow-up feedback * Add OpenTelemetry metric instrument names * Address Core Copilot provider feedback * Address Core Copilot diagnostics follow-up * Address Core Copilot live feed feedback * Address Core Copilot store feedback * Integrate OpenTelemetry for logging, tracing, and metrics in ModularServer and update launch settings and docker-compose configuration. * Refactor to replace `ConsoleLogStream.Core` with `ConsoleLogStreaming.Core` across codebase and update `ConsoleStreamHook` installation. * Add diagnostics OpenTelemetry backend * Fix OpenTelemetry live hub subscription * Fix modular OpenTelemetry exporter endpoints * Add CShells logging configuration in appsettings.json * Remove obsolete unit tests and helper classes * Restore default activity exception handling * Simplify type serialization and alias management This commit refactors the internal type serialization and alias management system to reduce boilerplate, improve robustness, and simplify the developer experience: - Removed numerous explicit `ExpressionOptions` type alias registrations across various modules. - Updated `TypeJsonConverter` and polymorphic serialization to reliably handle types using assembly-qualified names when a short alias is not explicitly registered. - Streamlined `ExcludeFromHashConverter` to strictly adhere to `ExcludeFromHashAttribute` for hash calculations, removing complex `JsonIgnoreCondition` logic. - Eliminated several helper classes (`WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`, `WorkflowTypeValidator`, `IWorkflowTypeRegistry`, `WorkflowFactoryDictionary`, `JavaScriptExceptionTypeAliasRegistrar`, `WorkflowRuntimeTypeAliasRegistrar`) and their associated unit tests, simplifying the codebase. Additionally, this commit introduces a comprehensive markdown document (`product-website-feature-source.md`) outlining Elsa's core features, Studio capabilities, extension ecosystem, and architectural selling points, intended as source material for the product website. * Refine type serialization for improved robustness and alias handling This commit further enhances the type serialization and deserialization mechanisms: * Centralizes type resolution and alias management through `IWellKnownTypeRegistry` and `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Prioritizes registered type aliases when serializing type metadata in `PolymorphicObjectConverter`, resulting in more concise JSON output. * Enhances deserialization in `PolymorphicObjectConverter` and `VariableMapper` to gracefully handle unknown or non-instantiable types, providing fallbacks and logging warnings. * Simplifies `TypeJsonConverter` by delegating complex type resolution logic to the `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. * Adds `JsonArray` to the well-known type aliases for direct recognition. * Fix console logs packaging and workflow type resolution * Fix console log metadata and type resolution * Address Copilot review feedback * Enhance type resolution, improve console log handling, and update tests - Streamlined `WorkflowDictionaryExtensions` for better workflow registration validation. - Refined `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with the new `SetJsonRequest` helper to improve test requests handling. - Updated `OrderDefinition` to ignore JSON serialization for `KeySelector`. - Enhanced `WorkflowRuntimeFeature` for improved workflow registration and type alias configuration. - Added tests to ensure `ConsoleLogProvider` metadata filtration in various scenarios. - Improved type serialization logic in `WorkflowJsonTypeResolver`. - Updated README to fix references related to diagnostics. - Optimized `ExcludeFromHashConverter` for property serialization conditions. - Modified `TriggerIndexer` for streamlined trigger management. - Tested payload checks in `PublishEventTests`. - Adjusted `Endpoint` in `ConsoleLogs` for automatic JSON request handling. - Ensured registration of workflow type aliases in `WorkflowsFeature`. * Restore CLR workflow registration compatibility * Align JSON island serialization fixtures * Add Console Logs Services and Enhance Endpoint Handling - Introduced `ActivityExecutionsEndpointTests` to validate route exposure. - Added `ConsoleLogCaptureHostedService` for console log streaming. - Implemented `ConsoleStreamJsonConverter` for JSON conversion of console streams. - Developed `ElsaConsoleLogRecentBuffer` to handle recent log buffering. - Updated `ConsoleLogsAuthorizationTests` with new test cases for stream filter mapping. - Consolidated console log provider dependencies and registration, including recent buffering. - Enhanced `ElsaConsoleLogProvider` to use recent buffer for filtering. - Adjusted `Program.cs` for streamlined logging service setup. * Enhance type resolution and test coverage; streamline console log integration - Added `ConsoleStreamHook` for streamlined log streaming. - Updated `WorkflowJsonTypeResolverTests` to improve type resolution and test new scenarios. - Simplified type resolution by removing trusted assembly checks. * Fix CI smoke and package restore failures * Fix Docker smoke image project paths * Fix Docker Python runtime packages * Fix Docker CA smoke teardown * Refresh Elsa roadmap * Implement background processors and mediation coordination - Added `BackgroundCommandProcessor`, `BackgroundJobProcessor`, and `BackgroundNotificationProcessor` classes for handling commands, jobs, and notifications, respectively. - Introduced `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` to coordinate the execution of all background processors. - Implemented `MediatorBackgroundTask` for wrapping `MediatorBackgroundProcessingCoordinator` in `BackgroundTask`. - Added unit tests for `MediatorBackgroundTask` to ensure proper start and stop behavior. - Refactored `BackgroundCommandSenderHostedService` to utilize `BackgroundCommandProcessor`. - Introduced 'elsa-roadmap-refresh' skill configuration for roadmap updates. * Address workflow type resolution review feedback * Address follow-up review feedback * Restore recent console logs execute path * Address Copilot follow-up review * Decouple workflow JSON aliases from expressions * Fix workflow management unit test setup * Fix console logs recent endpoint handler shape * Respect workflow JSON strict type aliases * Remove unused console log contracts reference * Address Copilot review feedback * Address Copilot follow-up comments * Synchronize ring buffer dropped count * Address background processor strategy replay
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5. Weaver AI Copilot productization and Agents provider matrix/MCP lifecycle, with Studio UX that keeps generated workflows inspectable.
Add updated roadmap
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Longer term:
1. Native workflow-aware background execution and actor-runtime abstraction.
2. Data pipeline/stream processing primitives.
docs: refresh roadmap
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3. BPMN for Elsa 4.0, with public scope and implementation evidence still to be established.
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4. AI-assisted authoring and workflow MCP tools.
## Maintainership Recommendations
- Keep this roadmap in source control and mirror major changes to [#3232](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/issues/3232). Users are explicitly asking for roadmap visibility in [discussion #7202](https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/7202) and the latest roadmap issue comment.
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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- Use labels, milestones, or GitHub Projects to connect Core, Studio, and Extensions issues to these roadmap themes. Many high-value issues are currently unlabeled, which makes demand hard to see.
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- Close or update stale roadmap items that are already implemented, especially state machine, activity testing, ElsaScript, diagnostics, and graceful shutdown foundations.
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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- Prefer platform primitives over one-off features: connector SDK before many connectors, Extension Platform before bespoke package work, plugin system before bespoke managed extensibility, runtime abstraction before framework-specific actor work.
Add updated roadmap
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- Do not hide reliability work under "maintenance". Recovery, distributed correctness, migrations, security posture, and observability are core product features for a workflow engine.
docs: add security & quality assessments Add comprehensive security and software-quality artifacts (architecture patterns, ISO‑25010 profile, technology profile, software quality scan, and findings) and publish an updated roadmap. Also integrate Elsa.Diagnostics.ConsoleLogs into the solution and ModularServer app, and apply small config/whitespace fixes to support the addition. These documents are intended for review and human validation; no runtime behavior changes are introduced beyond the project wiring and minor appsettings/formatting fixes.
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- Enable GitHub Discussions for `elsa-extensions` or explicitly route roadmap discussion into labeled issues/projects. Right now extension demand is visible, but fragmented across issue comments and open pull requests.
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