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Profile updates incorrectly overwrite user cron jobs

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #121264 on 24 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a bug where profile installation or update operations replace or delete cron job configurations instead of merging them, causing user-defined and runtime cron jobs to be lost. The work involves changing the merge strategy for distributed cron job data.

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#121264 hermes profile update merges shipped cron jobs instead of replacing the store (#120823, salvage #120910)

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files: cron/job_definition.py, hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py, website/docs/user-guide/profile-distributions.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · superseded by another PR 1

#120824 fix(profiles): merge cron/jobs.json per job so update keeps the installer's jobs · done elsewhere → 68ca2c8, b0aefcc, #120823, #121264, #120910
#120910 fix(profiles): merge distributed cron jobs without replacing runtime state · superseded by another PR → 99b7078, 06c3062, 68ca2c8, 5ae3909, a49f13d, d9a6a13, f17b78f, b0aefcc, #121264

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Closed#120823[Bug]: profile update deletes the user's own cron jobs, and profile install leaves shipped jobs running

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Merged PRs: #121264
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 24 Sep 2026

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