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MKT AUTO
Velocity6.3

Workflow automation platform with fair-code license

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n8n flips private credentials on by default as its AI-agent and MCP surface hardens

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◆Current state
n8n is a workflow-automation platform now firmly in an AI-agent-building phase: Instance AI, the AI Assistant, and MCP tooling dominate recent work, running alongside a steady enterprise-governance track (private credentials, RBAC scopes, security-and-policies APIs). Release discipline is high, with fixes fanned across four maintenance lines (1.123.x, 2.29.x, 2.30.x, 2.31.x).
◆Where it's heading
The direction is consolidation rather than expansion: harden the agent-builder and MCP integration surface, broaden model support (custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints, AWS Bedrock inference params), and flip enterprise-safe defaults like private-credentials-on. Most of each cycle is bug-fix and backport volume, signalling a maturing platform stabilizing features it already shipped.
◆Prediction
Expect the next releases to keep extending the AI Assistant's model-endpoint flexibility and the security-policy API surface, with continued backport cadence across the maintenance branches.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13h ago

    n8n 2.31.0: private credentials default-on, MCP + AI Assistant fixes

    The cadence release for the current arc: a large bug-fix roll-up that also enables private credentials by default, adds MCP OAuth/split-hostname support, allows custom OpenAI-compatible model endpoints in the AI Assistant, and expands AWS Bedrock inference params. Consolidates the AI-agent-plus-governance push rather than opening a new front.

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  2. 14h ago

    n8n 2.29.11: backported executions-visibility & webhook fixes

    A maintenance backport cherry-picking three fixes (executions visibility, webhook promise settling, Notion ASCII keys) into the 2.29 line. Same fixes appear across the 2.30 and 2.31 branches this week.

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  3. 1d ago

    n8n 2.30.4: same executions & webhook fixes backported

    The same trio of fixes as 2.29.11, backported to the 2.30 maintenance line. Routine cross-branch patching, no user-facing change beyond the fixes themselves.

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  4. 1d ago

    n8n 1.123.65: webhook-promise fix backported to the 1.123 line

    A single fix — settle the webhook execution promise on early errors — backported to the older 1.123 maintenance branch. Pure stability upkeep.

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  5. 4d ago

    n8n 2.29.10: AI Assistant thread-state fix

    One fix keeping AI Assistant thread state intact on editor hand-off, on the 2.29 line. Minor reliability patch within the assistant work.

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  6. 4d ago

    n8n 2.30.3: same AI Assistant thread-state fix on 2.30

    The same AI Assistant thread-state fix as 2.29.10, backported to the 2.30 line. Cross-branch consistency patch, no visible behavior change.

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