trigger.dev v4.4.4

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Self-hosted Docker image: ghcr.io/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev:v4.4.4

Release notes

Read the full release notes: https://trigger.dev/changelog/v4-4-4

What's changed

Highlights

• Add support for setting TTL (time-to-live) defaults at the task level and globally in trigger.config.ts, with per-trigger overrides still taking precedence (#3196)
• Large run outputs can use the new API which allows switching object storage providers. (#3275)

CLI Improvements

• Add platform notifications support to the CLI. The trigger dev and trigger login commands now fetch and display platform notifications (info, warn, error, success) from the server. Includes discovery-based filtering to conditionally show notifications based on project file patterns, color markup rendering for styled terminal output, and a non-blocking display flow with a spinner fallback for slow fetches. Use --skip-platform-notifications flag with trigger dev to disable the notification check. (#3254)

MCP Server improvements

• Add get_span_details MCP tool for inspecting individual spans within a run trace. (#3255)
• Span IDs now shown in get_run_details trace output for easy discovery
• New API endpoint GET /api/v1/runs/:runId/spans/:spanId
• get_query_schema — discover available TRQL tables and columns
• query — execute TRQL queries against your data
• list_dashboards — list built-in dashboards and their widgets
• run_dashboard_query — execute a single dashboard widget query
• whoami — show current profile, user, and API URL
• list_profiles — list all configured CLI profiles
• switch_profile — switch active profile for the MCP session
• start_dev_server — start trigger dev in the background and stream output
• stop_dev_server — stop the running dev server
• dev_server_status — check dev server status and view recent logs
• GET /api/v1/query/schema — query table schema discovery
• GET /api/v1/query/dashboards — list built-in dashboards
• --readonly flag hides write tools (deploy, trigger_task, cancel_run) so the AI cannot make changes
• read:query JWT scope for query endpoint authorization
• get_run_details trace output is now paginated with cursor support
• MCP tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint) for all tools
• get_query_schema now requires a table name and returns only one table's schema (was returning all tables)
• get_current_worker no longer inlines payload schemas; use new get_task_schema tool instead
• Query results formatted as text tables instead of JSON (~50% fewer tokens)
• cancel_run, list_deploys, list_preview_branches formatted as text instead of raw JSON
• Schema and dashboard API responses cached to avoid redundant fetches
• Adapted the CLI API client to propagate the trigger source via http headers. (#3241)
• --readonly flag hides write tools (deploy, trigger_task, cancel_run) so the AI cannot make changes
• get_run_details trace output is now paginated with cursor support
• MCP tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint) for all tools
• get_query_schema now requires a table name and returns only one table's schema (was returning all tables)
• get_current_worker no longer inlines payload schemas; use new get_task_schema tool instead
• Query results formatted as text tables instead of JSON (~50% fewer tokens)
• cancel_run, list_deploys, list_preview_branches formatted as text instead of raw JSON
• Schema and dashboard API responses cached to avoid redundant fetches

Bug fixes

• Fix dev CLI leaking build directories on rebuild, causing disk space accumulation. Deprecated workers are now pruned (capped at 2 retained) when no active runs reference them. The watchdog process also cleans up .trigger/tmp/ when the dev CLI is killed ungracefully (e.g. SIGKILL from pnpm). (#3224)
• Fix --load flag being silently ignored on local/self-hosted builds. (#3114)
• Fixed search_docs tool failing due to renamed upstream Mintlify tool (SearchTriggerDev → search_trigger_dev)
• Fixed list_deploys failing when deployments have null runtime/runtimeVersion fields (#3139)
• Fixed list_preview_branches crashing due to incorrect response shape access
• Fixed metrics table column documented as value instead of metric_value in query docs
• Fixed dev CLI leaking build directories on rebuild — deprecated workers now clean up their build dirs when their last run completes
• Fixed search_docs tool failing due to renamed upstream Mintlify tool (SearchTriggerDev → search_trigger_dev)
• Fixed list_deploys failing when deployments have null runtime/runtimeVersion fields (#3139)
• Fixed list_preview_branches crashing due to incorrect response shape access
• Fixed metrics table column documented as value instead of metric_value in query docs
• Fixed dev CLI leaking build directories on rebuild — deprecated workers now clean up their build dirs when their last run completes

Server changes

These changes affect the self-hosted Docker image and Trigger.dev Cloud:

• Add admin UI for viewing and editing feature flags (org-level overrides and global defaults). (#3291)

Other improvements:

• Add allowRollbacks query param to the promote deployment API to enable version downgrades (#3214)

• Add automatic LLM cost calculation for spans with GenAI semantic conventions. When a span arrives with gen_ai.response.model and token usage data, costs are calculated from an in-memory pricing registry backed by Postgres and dual-written to both span attributes (trigger.llm.*) and a new llm_metrics_v1 ClickHouse table that captures usage, cost, performance (TTFC, tokens/sec), and behavioral (finish reason, operation type) metrics. (#3213)

• Add API endpoint GET /api/v1/runs/:runId/spans/:spanId that returns detailed span information including properties, events, AI enrichment (model, tokens, cost), and triggered child runs. (#3255)

• Multi-provider object storage with protocol-based routing for zero-downtime migration (#3275)

• Add IAM role-based auth support for object stores (no access keys required). (#3275)

• Add platform notifications to inform users about new features, changelogs, and platform events directly in the dashboard. (#3254)

• Add private networking support via AWS PrivateLink. Includes BillingClient methods for managing private connections, org settings UI pages for connection management, and supervisor changes to apply privatelink pod labels for CiliumNetworkPolicy matching. (#3264)

• Reduce run start latency by skipping the intermediate queue when concurrency is available. This optimization is rolled out per-region and enabled automatically for development environments. (#3299)

• Extended the search filter on the environment variables page to match on environment type (production, staging, development, preview) and branch name, not just variable name and value. (#3302)

• Set application_name on Prisma connections from SERVICE_NAME so DB load can be attributed by service (#3348)

• Fix transient R2/object store upload failures during batchTrigger() item streaming.

  • Added p-retry (3 attempts, 500ms–2s exponential backoff) around uploadPacketToObjectStore in BatchPayloadProcessor.process() so transient network errors self-heal server-side rather than aborting the entire batch stream.
  • Removed x-should-retry: false from the 500 response on the batch items route so the SDK's existing 5xx retry path can recover if server-side retries are exhausted. Item deduplication by index makes full-stream retries safe. (#3331)

• Concurrency-keyed queues now use a single master queue entry per base queue instead of one entry per key. Prevents high-CK-count tenants from consuming the entire parentQueueLimit window and starving other tenants on the same shard. (#3219)

• Reduce lock contention when processing large batchTriggerAndWait batches. Previously, each batch item acquired a Redis lock on the parent run to insert a TaskRunWaitpoint row, causing LockAcquisitionTimeoutError with high concurrency (880 errors/24h in prod). Since blockRunWithCreatedBatch already transitions the parent to EXECUTING_WITH_WAITPOINTS before items are processed, the per-item lock is unnecessary. The new blockRunWithWaitpointLockless method performs only the idempotent CTE insert without acquiring the lock. (#3232)

• Strip secure query parameter from QUERY_CLICKHOUSE_URL before passing to ClickHouse client. This was already done for the main and logs ClickHouse clients but was missing for the query client, causing a startup crash with Error: Unknown URL parameters: secure. (#3204)

• Fix OrganizationsPresenter.#getEnvironment matching the wrong development environment on teams with multiple members. All dev environments share the slug "dev", so the previous find by slug alone could return another member's environment. Now filters DEVELOPMENT environments by orgMember.userId to ensure the logged-in user's dev environment is selected. (#3273)

All packages: v4.4.4

@trigger.dev/build, @trigger.dev/core, @trigger.dev/python, @trigger.dev/react-hooks, @trigger.dev/redis-worker, @trigger.dev/rsc, @trigger.dev/schema-to-json, @trigger.dev/sdk, trigger.dev

Contributors

Eric Allam, Oskar Otwinowski, Matt Aitken, James Ritchie, @nicktrn, Saadi Myftija, @D-K-P, @isshaddad, github-actions[bot], @chengzp, Dinko Osrecki

Full changelog: v4.4.3...v4.4.4