Bosca 3.3.0: Better Collection Management & Workflow Improvements

We are excited to announce the release of Bosca 3.3.0! This update brings meaningful improvements to how you manage collections and enhanced workflow reliability.

Improved Collection Management

Collections are an important part of any system that wants to organize data. And with this release we've improved the ability to manage them.

Collections in Bosca previously allowed for language variants, but expected them to be launched with the collection. Now, you can manage the lifecycle of the variant in different timelines. Each language variant has its own workflow state, transition history, and job tracking — giving you full control over when and how each variant progresses through its lifecycle.

As before, you can put a single metadata item into a collection and allow the metadata variants to be synced with the collection (ex: Add an English blog post and have the Spanish version automatically get added to the collection). But now, you can ensure items that are added aren't displayed until you publish the collection variant.

We've also added a ready status and visibility controls to collection language variants, making it easier to track which variants are prepared for publishing and which are still in progress.

Workflow & Reliability Improvements

• Distributed Job Locking: The JobRunner now includes a distributed locking mechanism for better reliability in clustered environments, ensuring jobs don't collide across nodes.
• Shared Workflow Logic: Collection and CollectionLanguageVariant now share common workflow logic via the ICollection interface, making behavior more consistent and predictable.

Other Improvements

• Administration: Improved AdvertisedDateTimeInput component behavior.
• Installer: Removed uniqueness constraint on template attribute tool names for greater flexibility.

Check out more in our Changelog.