added default panic-recover handling for the cron jobs

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 - Return the hidden record data fields for superusers realtime subscribers ([#7721](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/7721)).
 
+- Added default panic-recover handling for the cron jobs to avoid terminating the application on panic.
+
 
 ## v0.39.0
 

tools/cron/cron.go

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/tools/routine"
 )
 
 // Cron is a crontab-like struct for tasks/jobs scheduling.
@@ -222,7 +224,7 @@ func (c *Cron) runDue(t time.Time) {
 
 	for _, j := range c.jobs {
 		if j.schedule.IsDue(moment) {
-			go j.Run()
+			routine.FireAndForget(j.Run)
 		}
 	}
 }

tools/routine/routine.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func FireAndForget(f func(), wg ...*sync.WaitGroup) {
 
 		defer func() {
 			if err := recover(); err != nil {
-				log.Println("RECOVERED FROM PANIC (safe to ignore):", err)
+				log.Println("[FireAndForget] RECOVERED FROM PANIC:", err)
 
 				stack := make([]byte, 2<<10) // 2 KB
 				length := runtime.Stack(stack, false)