--- title: "Standalone Activities: Durable job processing, now in Public Preview #" url: https://daily.dev/posts/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview--od8qmrnvg source_url: https://temporal.io/blog/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview type: article source: "Temporal" published: 2026-08-06T10:37:29.881Z updated: 2026-08-06T10:41:05.082Z tags: ["distributed-systems"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Standalone Activities: Durable job processing, now in Public Preview # **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Temporal has launched Standalone Activities in Public Preview, enabling durable background job processing without the overhead of building and maintaining a custom job queue system. Activities can now run independently outside of Workflows, with built-in retries, exponential backoff, heartbeating, deduplication, lifecycle control, and observability via the Temporal UI and OpenMetrics. Supported across Go, Python, .NET, Java, and TypeScript SDKs, Standalone Activities are available immediately on Temporal Cloud and the latest self-hosted server release. A key advantage is the seamless upgrade path: the same Activity code used as a standalone job can later become a step in a multi-step Workflow without any rewrite. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview--od8qmrnvg)