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python-crontab

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Python Crontab API

Last release 1 months ago
29 Aug 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 3 weeks to 1.4 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 35 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
18 years old
69 releases · first in 2008

Release timeline

69 releases since 2008

2008201020122014

Releases

3.4.029 Aug 2026
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3.3.013 Jul 2025
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3.2.01 Jul 2024
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3.1.022 May 2024
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3.0.0

One column per quarter.

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2.7.122 Dec 2022

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2.6.019 Oct 2021

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2.5.117 May 2020

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2.5.015 May 2020

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2.4.224 Apr 2020

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2.4.123 Mar 2020

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2.4.023 Oct 2019

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2.3.924 Sept 2019

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2.3.811 Jul 2019

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2.3.72 Jul 2019

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2.3.63 Jan 2019

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2.3.53 Sept 2018

Bump version to fix pypi issues

Bump version to fix pypi issues

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2.3.45 Jun 2018

Fix some pylint issues and adjust CronItem API

Fix some pylint issues and adjust CronItem API
Update readme to point to GitLab
Fix #35: Test for specific time as reported.

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2.3.325 May 2018

Protect remove command from bad type use and allow generators to use it

Protect remove command from bad type use and allow generators to use it
Name of repr should be CronItem not CronJob

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2.3.225 May 2018

Remove impropper log configuration from module to fix #32

Remove impropper log configuration from module to fix #32

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2.3.08 May 2018

Add logging tests, bump version, fix pylint issues and depricate py2.6

Add logging tests, bump version, fix pylint issues and depricate py2.6
Fix #22 with new test and range
Fix #16 by detecting mips uses
Add logo and title back in.

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2.2.85 Dec 2017

New version, rst readme and some bug fixes

New version, rst readme and some bug fixes
Fix remaining ReST issues.
We're moving back to restructured text for the readme
Add description for environment variables
Merge commit '64461023c56916b2186086b4880ebd9c548dd40d'
Add explaination to parsing lines
Merge commit '637f85d1bf5be35ccfca8a8d8b6cc2513c5202c5'
Nope
Merge commit 'c7e1628dd209d30a7eb1a87b5cbf03a35edd35af'
Unpick the merge and use a global variable for zero padding.
Merge commit 'cf097be'
Fix #15 with a slightly modified rex

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2.2.78 Nov 2017

Commit changes for 2.2.7 with ansible compatibility

Commit changes for 2.2.7 with ansible compatibility
Output environment variables as they were input
Do not try to parse comments
Do not try to attach comments to jobs
Allow zero-padding of non-dow items
Remove old changelog, use git log

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2.2.626 Oct 2017

Fix issues with allowing lines that will cause errors to be rewritten back

Fix issues with allowing lines that will cause errors to be rewritten back
Fix unlink command
Add tests from issues #11

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2.2.520 Oct 2017

Fix #11 by always using quotes on empty variables

Fix #11 by always using quotes on empty variables

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2.2.43 Aug 2017

Add test for Rudolf's env patch

Bump version
Add test for Rudolf's env patch
Actually pass crontab env variables to jobs
Immediately run pending cronjobs, don't defer them for 2 minutes

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2.2.321 Jun 2017

Fix #7 by managing siblings better

Bump version
Fix #7 by managing siblings better
Small improvements to the readme

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2.2.24 May 2017

Fix #6 with the addition of regular expression support in finding commands

Bump version number
Fix #6 with the addition of regular expression support in finding commands
Fix #5 with better space and quote management

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2.2.128 Apr 2017

Fix #4 using a slighly modified moubctez patch

Bump version to 2.2.1
Fix #4 using a slighly modified moubctez patch
Add test for python3 mutations bug
Fix #3 which thought an empty env meant no link to previous env

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2.2.022 Apr 2017

Bump to new version for new feature

Bump to new version for new feature
Remove env var test since it's not the right place and has been superseeded.
Use system wide coverage modules instead (not sure about this)
Update README with new information for env variable access
Add new environment handling to fix issue #1

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2.1.220 Apr 2017

Up a version to push new github links to pypi

Up a version to push new github links to pypi
Improve markdown for github (will break pypi)
Move to github in readme
Warn when a cron range is backwards
Improve support for older python versions (2.6) with ordereddict use.
Fix iteration issue during removal of items. fixed bug #1628844
Change timeout to -1, which means infinate no timeout for scheduler
Improve readme to help with bug#1638533
Small fixes to tests

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2.1.17 Jul 2016

Create test for and fix unicode issues with code from ~hung-allan fixes lp:1599372

Bump version to 2.1.1.
Create test for and fix unicode issues with code from ~hung-allan fixes lp:1599372
Add backwards range test
Add descriptor as optional setup.py extra

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2.0.23 Jun 2016

Fix sunday issues where cron ranges use ranges incorrectly.

Fix sunday issues where cron ranges use ranges incorrectly.
try a few other asserts to see if it'll fail
Add a new test for bug 1172712 to make sure it's saving.
Add comment for new release variable
bdist_rpm support
Commit patch from Costas for new line variables bug lp:1542272
Fix bug lp:1539178 and make iterators work a bit better
Improve readme to explain write command at the start.

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2.0.14 Jan 2016

Protect against an API misuse (from old documentation)

Version bump
Cover shell
Protect against an API misuse (from old documentation)
Allow python3 to work with tests, fix year issue (damn you leap year)
Add basic scheduler functionality, improve logging and shell support
Improve cronlog testings coverage

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2.02 Jan 2016

Nothing published for this version

1.9.521 Dec 2015

Add an explict frequency per hour

Bump version
Add an explict frequency per hour
Remove weird monkey
Test the utf8 support better
Improve readme for new validation feature
Add slices validator to help when it's needed. Fix validation of special @based values which were very forgiving and could have led to once a day crons being saved as once a minute.

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1.9.323 Mar 2015

Merge in Alan Wong's fix for the 6 part comment issue.

Add test for user replication
Merge in Alan Wong's fix for the 6 part comment issue.
Handle system cron edge case when parsing 6-part comments
Add coverage testing script (not included in installer)
Fix cronlog line error discovered recently
Upgrade test coverage, runner and compatability.
Add comment headers
Fix python 3 compat issue.

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1.9.219 Jan 2015

Fix write_to_user method and improve test case. Fix #1412316

Fix write_to_user method and improve test case. Fix #1412316

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1.9.15 Jan 2015

Fix username requirement for certain platforms

Fix username requirement for certain platforms

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1.9.02 Jan 2015

Add vixie cron system crontab compatability mode

Add vixie cron system crontab compatability mode

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1.8.32 Jan 2015

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1.8.27 Dec 2014

Fix utf filename bug when tests run in pip

Fix utf filename bug when tests run in pip
Commit Jordan Metzmeier's testing flag patch
Add fixes from debian distribution. utf-8 file opening and some test tweaks

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1.8.118 Jun 2014

Add check for divide by zero on sequences

Version bump
Add check for divide by zero on sequences
Fix sunday support and add some more testing for ranges
Merge in patch from Jakub Bug #1328951 and add test and more robustness for utf-8 handling.

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1.815 May 2014

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1.7.315 May 2014

Revise user command to use a more generic pipe method

Revise user command to use a more generic pipe method
Flake8 fixes
Add warning about TypeError when using the wrong package.

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1.7.24 Mar 2014

Add test for bug #1287412 and fix the error. bump version to 1.7.2

Add test for bug #1287412 and fix the error. bump version to 1.7.2

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1.7.16 Feb 2014

Fix windows critical error. Bug #1276040

Fix windows critical error. Bug #1276040
Add write_to_user to readme
Bump python version support
Fix find by time and allow removal all by time
Add the final comparison feature
Further completion of the refactoring process
Add pylintrc and ignore debian
Put two frequency methods back which broke the documented api
Seperate out CronSlices from a simple list into it's own class, REFACTOR

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1.7.06 Jan 2014

Improve writing capability with write_to_user(user=X) function

Improve writing capability with write_to_user(user=X) function
Add missing specials test data
Fix log test for 2014 because it's not year sensitive
Merge in the very kind patch from Kevin Waddle
Fix no user cron exists error from rev 75 for bug #1258926
Fix issue with non-iterable elements
Add a check to the specials test to make sure it can be iterated over
Apply patch from Harun and add test to the frequency suite
Fix no user cron exists error
Add is_match functions and find by match functions.
Update readme file for frequency features
Implement frequency feature and set 0.6.0 version
Fix missing day reference
New username detection added
Attempt to clean up according to pylint
Add test of frequency feature for future.
Some interesting cleanups
Add no fork request and cleaner header comment
Remove command complexity and test the commands and comments generators
Make comment setting/getting more sane and intergrate jonames() feature from ansible's python-crontab copy.
Add len (not sure about it though)
Fix some puthon3 issues and introduce a length for a crontab
Allow setall to set a parsed cron string

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1.6.029 Nov 2013

Complete adding new features, a setall() method, a parse() method, and a flexible remove_all() method. With tests.

Complete adding new features, a setall() method, a parse() method, and a flexible remove_all() method. With tests.

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1.5.112 Oct 2013

Improve min and max checking and add extra value to set them. Better testing and more fixes.

Improve min and max checking and add extra value to set them. Better testing and more fixes.
Updated docs for compatability mode
Improve compatability for SystemV crontabs
Move cronlog dep to allow setup to function

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1.512 Oct 2013

Nothing published for this version

1.4.411 Oct 2013

Add every method to job to improve convience