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Activepieces

MKT AUTO
Velocity5.0

Open-source no-code automation tool for connecting apps and building AI-powered workflows.

An open-source automation platform buried under empty release candidates

automationopen-sourceintegrationsrelease-candidatesplatform-maintenance
Current state
Activepieces is an open-source workflow-automation platform (an n8n/Zapier alternative) whose integrations are packaged as reusable "pieces." Its 0.86.3 line is being cut as a long train of release candidates, most of which ship no changes at all. The visible top of the feed is almost pure RC churn.
Where it's heading
The substance is one layer down: per-piece action and trigger visibility controls, externalizing dependencies that broke when inlined (amazon-s3, image-helper, scrapeless), deprecating the AWS Bedrock piece, and S3-compatible storage fixes for OCI. That points to a platform hardening its piece system and cleaning up its integration surface rather than adding headline capabilities.
Prediction
Expect 0.86.3 to finalize once the RC train stops, with the piece-visibility controls and S3/storage fixes as its real payload. The entries don't support a claim beyond incremental platform maintenance.

Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    0.86.3-rc.10 (empty release candidate)

    An empty release candidate with no changes, one of a long RC train ahead of the 0.86.3 cut.

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  2. 6d ago

    0.86.3-rc.9 (empty release candidate)

    No-change release candidate; part of the 0.86.3 RC sequence padding the feed without user-visible effect.

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  3. 6d ago

    0.86.3-rc.8 (empty release candidate)

    Another empty RC in the 0.86.3 line, no user-facing changes.

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  4. 6d ago

    0.86.3-rc.7 (empty release candidate)

    No-change release candidate; RC churn rather than a shipped feature.

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  5. 8d ago

    0.86.3-rc.6 (empty release candidate)

    Empty RC with no changes, continuing the 0.86.3 candidate train.

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  6. 8d ago

    0.86.3-rc.5 (empty release candidate)

    No-change release candidate; the real 0.86.3 work sits in earlier RCs, below this window.

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