product · May 16, 2026

Temporal Introduces Task Queue Priority and Fairness Features

Temporal released Task Queue Priority and Fairness on May 12, 2026, now Generally Available across all SDKs. Users assign integer priority levels from 1 highest to 5 lowest to Workflows, Activities, or Child Workflows for FIFO processing at equal levels. Fairness uses weighted round-robin dispatch with floating-point weights to allocate proportional execution time across buckets. No Worker code changes are required. Temporal Cloud charges an additional 0.1 Actions per Action per hour when Fairness is enabled in a Namespace.