---
title: "May 2026 — SpiffWorks Newsletter"
description: "New website at spiff.works, service retries, reliable message handling, deeper test coverage, and three community contributors."
source_url: https://spiff.works/newsletters/may-26/
---

Newsletter

# May 2026

May 01, 2026

Our new website is live at [spiff.works](https://spiff.works). Everything is now in one place: our workflow editor, full documentation, and real-time release updates. Please let us know what you think — hit reply and send us your feedback.

# Smarter Integrations: Service Retries

External services fail. Now SpiffWorkflow handles it automatically. Configure the number of retry attempts and the timing between them.

# Reliable Message Handling

Processes no longer miss messages that arrive before they are ready to receive them. SpiffWorkflow now holds messages briefly in a queue, so fast-moving data always reaches its destination. You can also launch a process by submitting a web form directly from the workflow editor.

# Deeper Test Coverage

Our Visual Workflow Editor now shows how thoroughly your automated tests cover every path through a workflow, including sub-processes. You can verify that a process completed correctly, and when something goes wrong, improved diagnostics help you find the problem fast.

# Performance

Permission checks and process-group management are faster. Large deployments will notice the difference.

# Bug Fix

Milestone report permissions now work correctly with the standard permission system.

# Documentation

All documentation lives at [spiff.works/learn](https://spiff.works/learn) — updated examples, new guides for service tasks and form building, and a fresh look to match the site.

# Community Contributors

Three contributors made this release stronger:

- [Bret Mogilefsky](https://github.com/mogigoma) closed 108 security vulnerabilities and added automated security tooling.
- [Byler Burton](https://github.com/bylerburton) expanded the data store and strengthened the structure of API calls.
- [Milan Lesnek](https://github.com/milanlesnek) added type annotations and corrected documentation in our core library. (We lost track of your pull request — our apologies, and our thanks.)

# Under the Hood

We removed dead code and modernized to current Python conventions. SpiffWorkflow now supports Python 3.10 through 3.14.

[← All Issues](/learn/)