# Standalone Activities: Durable job processing, now in Public Preview

DevFeed: [Standalone Activities: Durable job processing, now in Public Preview](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview-35991.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview>)

Author: Phil Prasek

Published: 2026-05-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [job](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/job.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [preview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/preview.md>), [product-news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-news.md>), [retries](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retries.md>)

## AI overview

Temporal announces the Public Preview of Standalone Activities, which provide durable background job processing with retries, observability, and lifecycle controls across most Temporal SDKs and Temporal Cloud.

## Source excerpt

Temporal Standalone Activities are now in Public Preview, bringing durable job processing, retries, observability, and lifecycle control to Temporal Cloud.