Registry Jobs are processes designed to be run asynchronously, usually via cron, intended to handle large operations not suitable for a single web transaction. Jobs were originally introduced in Registry v0.9.2 as CronShell, and in v2.0.0 were migrated to JobShell. As of Registry v3.3.0, Jobs are implemented via plugins (except for some existing Jobs, which will migrate to plugins in Registry v4.0.0, CO-1310).
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