Update: The alpha release is officially live for all who wish to download.

Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this June with the 8.8-alpha5 release.

This blog is organized using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. This organization allows us to organize the components to highlight how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

The Zeebe team focused on big fixes for this release.

Operate

For this release, our Operate engineering team worked on bug fixes.

Tasklist

For this release, we have continued to work on bug fixes in Tasklist as well.

Web Modeler

With this alpha release of Web Modeler, we’re introducing powerful new features that streamline process modeling and enhance the developer experience.

Azure Repos Sync

Camunda now supports an integration with Azure DevOps, which allows for direct synchronization with Azure repositories.

FEEL Copilot

Pro- and low-code developers using Web Modeler SaaS can develop FEEL expressions with an integrated editor that pulls process variables and process context, making it easy for anyone to perform business logic in Camunda.

For Web Modeler SaaS customers, it also features the ‘FEEL Copilot’ which takes advantage of integrated generative AI to write and debug executable FEEL (Friendly Enough Expression Language) expressions.

Desktop Modeler

This alpha, we have also provided more functionality for our Desktop Modeler.

Process application deployment

A process application is now deployed as a single bundle of files. This allows using deployment binding for called processes, decisions, and linked forms.

Deployed decision link to Operate

After a DMN file is deployed to Camunda, links to the deployed decisions in Operate are displayed in the success notification.

Enhanced FEEL suggestions

Literal values like true or false are now displayed in the autocompletion for fast and easy expression writing.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler 5.36 release right here.

Optimize

Our Optimize engineering team has been working on bug fixes this release cycle.

Identity

Camunda’s new Identity service delivers enhanced authentication and fine-grained authorization capabilities across both Self-Managed and SaaS environments. Key updates include:

• Self-Managed Identity Management: Administrators can natively manage users, groups, roles, and memberships via the Identity database—without relying on external systems.
  
• OIDC Integration: Supports seamless integration with standards-compliant external Identity Providers (IdPs), including Keycloak and Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure AD), enabling single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management.
  
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Provides resource-level access control with assignable roles and group-based permissions, enabling precise scoping of user capabilities across the platform.
  
• Flexible Mapping: Users, groups, and roles can now be dynamically mapped to resource authorizations and multi-tenant contexts, supporting complex enterprise and multi-tenant deployment scenarios.
  
• Migration Support: Simplified tooling facilitates migration from legacy Identity configurations to the new service, reducing operational overhead and enabling a phased rollout.
  
• Organizational Identity for SaaS: In SaaS deployments, customers can integrate their own IdP, allowing centralized management of organizational identities while maintaining cluster-specific resource isolation.
  
• Cluster-Specific Roles & Groups: SaaS environments now support tenant-isolated roles, groups, and authorizations per cluster, ensuring that customer-specific access policies are enforced at runtime.

Please see our release notes for more on the updates to Identity management.

Console

The Console engineering team has been working on bug fixes this release cycle.

Installation Options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

Self-Managed

For our self-managed customers, we have introduced a graceful shutdown for C8Run by rebuilding how we manage C8Run started processes. This resolves an issue where stopping C8Run during the startup process can create zombie processes.

We have also added features to support supplying image.digest in the values.yaml file instead of an image tag as well as the support for an Ingress external hostname.

Task Automation Components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and connectors.

Connectors

We have introduced two connectors to support agentic AI with Camunda. You can find more on Camunda and Agentic in the Agentic Orchestration section in this blog post.

• The AI Agent connector which was recently published on Camunda Marketplace is now officially included as part of this alpha release and directly available in Web Modeler. This connector is designed for use with an ad-hoc sub-process in a feedback loop, providing automated user interaction and tool discovery/selection.
  
  The connector supports providing a custom OpenAI endpoint to be used in combination with custom providers and locally hosted models (such as Ollama).
  
• The Vector Database connector, also published to Camunda Marketplace, allows embedding, storing, and retrieving Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings. This enables building AI-based solutions for your organizations, such as context document search and long-term LLM memory and can be used in combination with the AI Agent connector for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) use cases.

Agentic Orchestration

With a continued focus on operationalizing AI, this section provides information about the continued support of agentic orchestration in our product components. This new Agentic Orchestration documentation section of our release blog is a great starting point to explore Camunda’s Agentic Orchestration approach. 

To support modern automation requirements, Camunda has adopted orchestration patterns that enable AI agents and processes to remain adaptive by combining deterministic with dynamic orchestration.

This architecture allows agents to incorporate dynamic knowledge into their planning loops and decision processes. The same mechanisms also support continuous learning, by updating and expanding the knowledge base based on runtime feedback.

To support this approach, Camunda has incorporated both our Vector Database connector and AI Agent Outbound connector directly into its orchestration layer.

Together, these capabilities allow Camunda to support agentic orchestration patterns such as:

• Planning loops that select and sequence tasks dynamically
• Use of short-term memory (process variables) and long-term memory (vector database retrievals)
• Integration of event-driven orchestration and multi-agent behaviors through nested ad-hoc subprocesses.

As mentioned in the Connectors section, we have recently released two connectors to support our approach:

• The AI Agent connector is designed for use with an ad-hoc sub-process in a feedback loop, providing automated user interaction and tool discovery/selection.
  
  This connector integrates with large language models (LLMs)—such as OpenAI or Anthropic—giving agents reasoning capabilities to select and execute ad-hoc sub-processes within a BPMN-modeled orchestration. Agents can evaluate the current process context, decide which tasks to run, and act autonomously—while maintaining full traceability and governance through the orchestration engine.
  
• The Vector Database connector which allows embedding, storing, and retrieving Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings. This enables building AI-based solutions for your organizations, such as context document search and long-term LLM memory and can be used in combination with the AI Agent connector for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) use cases.
  

If you would like to see these new connectors in action, we encourage you to review our website and see a video of how Camunda provides this functionality. We also have a step-by-step tutorial for using the AI Agent Connector in our blog.

Camunda 7

There are several updates in this release for Camunda 7.

Support for Spring Boot 3.5

This alpha release features support for Spring Boot 3.5.0.

New LegacyJobRetryBehaviorEnabled process engine flag

Starting with versions 7.22.5, 7.23.2 and 7.24.0, the process engine introduces a new configuration flag: legacyJobRetryBehaviorEnabled.

By default, when a job is created, its retry count is determined based on the camunda:failedJobRetryTimeCycle expression defined in the BPMN model.

However, setting legacyJobRetryBehaviorEnabled to true enables the legacy behavior, where the job is initially assigned a fixed number of retries (typically 3), regardless of the retry configuration.

In 7.22.5+ and in 7.23.2+ the default value is true for legacyJobRetryBehaviorEnabled. For 7.24.0+ the default value is false for legacyJobRetryBehaviorEnabled .

External task REST API and OpenAPI extended

Now the External task REST API is extended with the createTime field. OpenAPI is updated as well along with the extensionProperties for the LockedExternalTaskDto.

You can find the latest OpenAPI documentation here. Thank you for this community contribution.

Camunda 7 to Camunda 8 Migration Tools

With our Camunda 7 to Camunda 8 Migration Tools 0.1.0-alpha2 release, the Camunda 7 to Camunda 8 Data Migrator brings many quality of life improvements for our customers that are moving from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8.

Auto-deployment with Migrator Application

To help you migrate seamlessly, the BPMN diagrams that are placed in ./configuration/resources directory are auto-deployed to Camunda 8 when starting the migrator application.

Simplified Configuration

We’ve also made it easier to configure the Camunda 8 client allowing you to define client settings such as the Zeebe URL directly in the application.yml file.

Logging Levels

In addition, logging has been enhanced with the introduction of logging levels, as well as more specific warnings and errors.

For example, if a Camunda 7 process instance is in a state that cannot be consistently translated to Camunda 8, a warning is logged and the process instance is skipped.

To proceed, these instances must be adjusted in Camunda 7. Once complete, with the recent updates, you can resume migration for previously skipped and adjusted instances.

While the Camunda 7 to Camunda 8 Migration Tools are still in alpha, you can already check out the project and give it a try! Visit https://github.com/camunda/c7-data-migrator.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest minor release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this May 2025 8.8-alpha4 release.

This blog is organized using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. This organization allows us to organize the components to highlight how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

Zeebe engineers have been contributing to streamlining future functionality during this release cycle.

Operate

Our Operate engineering team has been working on bug fixes for this release cycle.

Tasklist

Tasklist engineers have been working on bug fixes for this release cycle..

Web Modeler

With this alpha release of Web Modeler, we have new features that improve change governance and help Self-Managed users deploy and test their processes.

Description field for versions

In addition to the version tag, there is a new dedicated description field on versions that serves as a change log or a Git commit message to track what changed and why.

In previous versions, the version name field was doing too much—sometimes used to indicate the actual version, and other times repurposed as a quick commit message or change summary. This led to confusion and limited clarity during reviews and collaboration.

Shared resources like connector templates now support a description field, allowing developers to document changes meaningfully. Whether you’re publishing to shared resources or consuming a template, you’ll have better context and insight into what’s new.

These enhancements are designed to make versioning more intuitive and collaborative—helping teams stay aligned and reducing ambiguity.

Username/password deployment (Self-Managed)

Web Modeler now supports HTTP Basic Authentication, unblocking teams that rely on username/password authentication to deploy to their Self-Managed environment.

This update makes the deployment experience more flexible and accessible, especially for teams with simpler or legacy authentication needs.

Scenarios support (Self-Managed)

Self-Managed users can now replay scenarios in Play. You can use Play to quickly repeat manual test suites by recording and playing back process instances as scenarios. As you save completed instances as scenarios, Play calculates the percent of elements covered by the scenario suite. This is the first iteration towards a low-code process testing solution in the Web Modeler.

Desktop Modeler

With this release we have provided support for the following features:

Support for upcoming Camunda features

Camunda 7.24 is now supported with Desktop Modeler.

Application settings

You can now select your default execution platform version directly within the application. Configure selected application properties which were previously available only as flags.

Enhanced RPA integration

You can now use keyboard shortcuts to add comments, manage RPA scripts within process applications, and directly open “.rpa” files. If you’re on Windows or Linux you need to update the file associations for “.rpa”.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler v5.35.0 release right here.

Optimize

Our Optimize engineering team has been working on bug fixes for this release cycle.

Identity

In this release cycle, our Identity engineering team has continued to add features around the management of tenants along with bug fixes.

Console

Our Console engineering team has been working on bug fixes for this release cycle.

Installation Options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

Self-Managed

Helm

The following features are available with Helm in this release:

• Improved the definition of Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) by including the kind and apiVersion for configuration in the statefulset PVCs.
  

  

• Corrected one of the  sources of “option is a table” Helm warning with the Elasticsearch suboptions.
• Support for the global.extraManifests can now be used to add arbitrary Kubernetes data to the Helm chart.
• New guide to connect and use external PostgreSQL via Helm Charts.
• Diagnostics collection script automates the process of gathering logs and diagnostics from a Camunda Helm chart deployment running in a Kubernetes deployments to aid in troubleshooting.

C8Run

• The startup message of Camunda 8 Run (C8Run) now adjusts ports dynamically depending on whether C8Run runs with the --docker flag or not.
• The C8Run binaries for MacOS are now signed & notarized and no longer show the pop up “C8Run not opened”.
• C8Run is now available from the Camunda’s Download Center. 
• C8Run now provides a method for fetching JAVA_HOME and JAVA_VERSION automatically for Camunda support.

Task Automation Components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and Connectors.

Connectors

We updated connector functionality and provided some new additional connectors with this release.

• We now offer a new Hubspot connector providing the following:
  • Efficiency: The new connector automates data transfer between HubSpot and Camunda eliminating manual entry and reducing errors.
  • Accuracy: This connector ensures data consistency across both platforms, providing reliable information for decision-making.
  • Productivity: Speed up workflows by automating contact, company, and deal updates between systems using the new Hubspot connector.
  • Integration: Seamlessly connect HubSpot and Camunda, enabling holistic process orchestration.

• Manage and Run: With this release, Camunda provides a consolidated view of all webhooks, message queue subscriptions, and polling subscriptions for efficient monitoring and management for multiple connector runtime instances.
• Secrets are now hidden from the error message in Operate enhancing both security and message clarity.
• We have improved OpenAPI handling with our element template generator.
• REST Connector: customers can now choose if they want to send null values (from the request body).
• Our Email connector now exposes what Message-ID provided in the response or improved traceability, easier correlation, and better integration with systems that may rely on the Message-ID.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Connectors updates in this release right here.

Artificial Intelligence

With a continued focus on AI, this section provides information about the continued support of AI in our product components.

With this release, we have created a preview of our AI Agent with a blueprint of an AI Email Support Agent available in Camunda Marketplace. This blueprint takes advantage of our new Embeddings Vector Database connector to provide support for storage and retrieval of vector embeddings to provide long-term memory to AI Agents.

We encourage you to check out this new functionality. Each blueprint comes with a README and files to help you get started.

The AI Agent and vector database connector will be available in a subsequent alpha release for version 8.8.

C7 to C8 Migration Tools

We started working on the C7 to C8 Data Migrator in April and we are excited to present the very first version, 0.1.0-alpha1. This tool migrates running and completed process instances from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8. We are currently focusing on the runtime process instance migration.

Later this year, we will continue to productize the history process instance migration. The history process instance migration will initially be limited to RDBMS setups. The Data Migrator is a Spring Boot-based standalone application that connects to any C7 database and the C8 REST API.

It is important to ensure that your C7 process models are migrated and deployed to C8 before you continue migrating data. We are still in the early stages, and much work is ahead before the Data Migrator reaches general availability. Nevertheless, you can already check out the source code repository and play around with it—we are interested in your feedback!

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest alpha release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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Please note that we have again released two alphas this month: 8.7.0-alpha5 and 8.8.0-alpha2. Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this March 2025 alpha release.

Introduction to the new release blog

We introduced a new format for our monthly release blog a few months ago. As a reminder, this format organizes the blog using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. We have organized our components as per the image below to show how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

Zeebe engineers have been contributing to streamlining future functionality during this release cycle.

Operate

Our Operate engineering team has been working on bug fixes for this release cycle.

Tasklist

There are no major changes for Tasklist this month. The focus has been on stability improvements, addressing minor bugs, and optimizing performance to enhance overall reliability. Stay tuned for upcoming enhancements!

Web Modeler

With this alpha release of Web Modeler, we have several new features.

Project landscape visualization (0.1)

Project landscape visualization makes it possible to visualize the end-to-end process through a hierarchical view of all related processes, enabling better decision-making and strategic alignment. This feature is released for SaaS and Self-Managed.

Process application versioning

You can now create versions of your process applications, tracking changes and ensuring the right version of the applications are deployed to the right environment.

Process Application Review: Governance (SaaS only)

Our Web Modeler formal review process now provides stronger governance and change control with Web Modeler to ensure safe production deployments for processes with low to medium complexity and criticality.

This second iteration provides a setting to enable production deployments from the Web Modeler UI if the process application has been reviewed as an alternative to using your own deployment pipeline.

Play support for multi-tenancy

With this alpha release, Play now supports multi-tenancy in Self-Managed.

BPMN to text with Copilot (SaaS only)

Documentation is tedious to create, and difficult to maintain with rapid iterations. With this alpha release of Camunda Copilot, you can not only generate BPMN diagrams, but Camunda now offers support to generate text from the BPMN diagram.

This offers many benefits including:

• Rapid draft of process documentation
• Faster enablement for how a process works
• Simpler explanation of process behavior to stakeholders

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Web Modeler 8.7.0-alpha5/8.8.0.alpha2 release!

Desktop Modeler

We are supporting several new features with Desktop Modeler with our latest alpha release.

Support for upcoming Camunda 8 features

You can now create diagrams for Camunda 8.8. We also added support for an updating user task listener.

Better modeling guidance

With this alpha, we have improved our validation of Camunda 8 ad-hoc sub-processes. In addition, customers can now provide their own documentation URLs for validation rules via the core infrastructure provided by linter plug-ins. The modeler picks up these URLs and displays them for error reports.

BPMN modeling improvement

You can now find elements using Camunda-specific search terms and change the event type without losing its implementation details.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler 5.33 release right here.

Optimize

With this alpha release, we have added support for ad-hoc sub-processes into Optimize and worked on various bug fixes.

Unified REST API

Number-based key attributes

For our 8.8.0-alpha2 release, number-based key attributes have been removed from the API to eliminate possible confusion and keep the API clean.

Camunda Java SDK

The Zeebe Java client is now the Camunda Java SDK, featured in the Camunda Spring SDK and used in all internal downstream components. It replaces and extends the Zeebe Java client while preserving the same behavior for commands that exist in the Zeebe Java client. This enables us to support not only Zeebe, but our other products as well like Operate, Tasklist, etc.

Identity

For our 8.8.0-alpha2 release, we have introduced Orchestration Identity’s first end-to-end journey with basic authorization only.

Console

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Console.

Installation Options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

Self-Managed

Helm charts

With the Helm Chart alphas, we have developed a production-focused deployment guide that provides a step-by-step approach to deploying Camunda 8 in a resilient and production-ready manner. This guide minimizes complexity while establishing a reliable foundation for most production use cases.

We have expanded our support to enable Document Handling for both GCP and AWS, and have upgraded to Keycloak version 26.

Additionally, we have completed a guide for setting up the necessary infrastructure to run Camunda 8 on Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), supporting both single-region and dual-region deployments.

Camunda 8 Run now offers greater configurability, including support for customizable parameters such as ports, TLS, keystore, the option to disable Elasticsearch and more.

Task Automation Components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and Connectors.

Connectors

Our document handling has several new features related to connectors:

• Our SendGrid connector now supports document attachments.
• Our Google Drive connector now supports document upload and download.
• Documents can now be used with our Textract connector.
• You can now add attachments to Slack using our Slack REST connector.
• You can configure the proxy using environment variables or system properties, which will then be used by the REST connector.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest connectors releases 8.7.0-alpha5 and 8.8.0-alpha2.

Intelligent document processing (IDP)

With this release, we have introduced an early version of our newest Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) feature.

Powered by AWS Textract and LLM technologies, Intelligent document processing (IDP) helps you integrate automated document processing by extracting desired data fields and using them later into your end-to-end processes.

With this version, you can:

• Create an IDP application that will allow you to configure, test and publish extraction projects.
• Validate your extraction configurations by saving documents as test cases.
• Integrate IDP into your existing processes.

Check out the Getting started guide to get an early insight into the upcoming feature.

Full support for this feature will start from the 8.7 minor release onwards.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

With this release, we have introduced Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as part of the Camunda stack. With this version we support for the following:

• You can create RPA scripts and do local testing within Desktop Modeler.
• You can deploy and manage RPA files in Zeebe.
• RPA tasks are now available within BPMN diagrams for automation.

Check out the Getting started guide to get an early insight into the upcoming features.

Business Solutions

In this section, we provide release details for our various business solutions and product integrations. 

Camunda 7.23.0-alpha4

For information on the latest updates to Camunda 7, please refer to the post in our forum.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest minor release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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Camunda 8 background

Camunda 8 represents an evolution in process orchestration—designed to help businesses realize value today while enabling the enterprise architecture needed to support what comes next. Camunda 8 continues our history of embracing open standards and uniquely composable architecture to orchestrate and automate end-to-end business processes without compromise, but adds support for massive horizontal scale, improved collaboration between the business and IT, enhanced connectivity, and intelligence throughout, from co-pilots to the orchestration of AI, to building and deploying agents.

Camunda 7 Enterprise Edition End of Life—key dates

Today, we announce the extension of the Camunda 7 Enterprise Edition EoL from April 2027 to April 2030. The new EoL dates are:

• New EoL Date: April 9, 2030.
• Minor Releases: Final feature release (7.24) scheduled for October 14, 2025 (no changes).
• Ongoing Patches & Support: Security patches and support are included as part of your subscription fees until April 2030.
• Extended Support Option: Available for an additional fee from April 2030 through April 2032 (previously April 2030).

What this means for you

With this extension, customers on Camunda 7 Enterprise Edition will continue to receive security patches and support until the new EoL date, allowing them more flexibility to prepare for migration.

While we are extending the EoL, we highly recommend customers use this time to understand and plan their migration efforts:

• Leverage the many resources available to you and start discussing migration now by reaching out to your Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager (if applicable), our Consulting team, and your partner, etc.
• Explore the resources linked below for on-demand support and insights. 
• Review the Camunda 8 feature roadmap (and work directly with the Camunda team) to determine an appropriate timeline for your migration.
• Plan and budget your migration project so that you are ready to execute once your targeted Camunda 8 version is available.

Camunda 7 Community End of Life

The EoL date for Camunda 7 Community Edition has not changed. Please note that the final feature release for Camunda 7 (7.24) is still scheduled for October 14, 2025, and the repository will be archived shortly after. After this date, no further releases, including security patches, will be made for Camunda 7 Community Edition. If you need continued support for your solutions running on Camunda 7 Community Edition beyond that date, contact Camunda to explore an Enterprise license and take advantage of extended support timelines.

Resources

• Learn about the Camunda 8 feature roadmap.
• Check out our migration guide. Leave feedback via our forum.
• Review our recent blog post regarding migration strategy.

Camunda remains committed to removing migration blockers between Camunda 7 and Camunda 8. As Camunda continues to innovate and push the boundaries of process orchestration and automation, we are more committed than ever to empowering your organization’s success every step of the way!

If you have any questions or need guidance on migration planning, please contact your Customer Success Manager, the CSM team, or your Technical Account Manager (if applicable).

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Please note that we have released two alphas this month: 8.7-alpha4 and 8.8-alpha1. As explained in our blog post about the 8.7 and 8.8 releases, we have postponed the release of the upcoming architecture streamlining changes. These architecture streamlining changes include: 

• integrating Identity into the orchestration cluster,
• unifying the REST API with the Camunda 8 REST API,
• replacing Importer/Exporter architecture with Camunda Exporter,
• harmonizing the data layer,
• and some core features that were developed on top of that architecture (e.g., Task Listeners). 

While we had previously planned to release these changes with the April 8.7 release, we have moved their release to the October 8.8 release instead (find out more about why in this blog post).

To allow you to preview the architecture streamlining changes nevertheless, we are now releasing two alphas at the same time:

• 8.7-alpha4 based on the 8.6 architecture (Identity as a separate component, dedicated importers for Tasklist and Operate, etc.) with improvements outside of core (e.g., new IDP capabilities). This alpha previews the 8.7 minor release in April.
• 8.8-alpha1 ships the new, streamlined architecture. This alpha previews the 8.8 minor release in October.

Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this month.

Introduction to the new release blog

We introduced a new format for our monthly release blog a few months ago. As a reminder, this format organizes the blog using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. We have organized our components as per the image below to show how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Zeebe.

Operate

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Operate.

Tasklist

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Tasklist.

Web Modeler

We have several items to highlight for our upcoming 8.7-apha4 and 8.8-alpha1 releases.

Rename milestone to version

In this release, we have replaced the term “milestone” with “version” throughout the Web Modeler UI and API. The old milestone API endpoints are deprecated, but will still function.

BPMN Copilot (SaaS only)

Thanks to Camunda’s integrated BPMN Copilot for SaaS, anybody can go from 0 to 80% of a process diagram in minutes. Users can generate process diagrams from natural language descriptions. The simple interface means that even BPMN novices can make meaningful, accurate diagrams. And BPMN Copilot also generates a new version each time it creates a diagram, so you can see the progression of your process.

Process App Review: Basic Review Flow (SaaS only)

The Web Modeler now offers a formal review process for changes made in a process. Building off the process application, visual diffing and versioning functionality, a user can submit a version of a process application for review. If approved, the entire process app version is marked as reviewed.

Ad-hoc subprocesses

The new Camunda version supports a new BPMN element: the ad-hoc subprocess. In BPMN, an ad-hoc subprocess is a collection of tasks that can be executed flexibly at any time, without predefined connections to other parts of the process.

This new kind of subprocess allows more flexible process flows with a compact visual representation. It is the first step towards dynamic processes and execution of ad-hoc activities.

Process Landscape Visualization (SaaS only)

Our MVP process landscape solution addresses challenges around determining the relationship between collections of BPMN processes and reuse of processes by providing a comprehensive, hierarchical view of all related processes.

This solution enables an automation team leader to:

• Visualize the entire process landscape of a project in a single, interactive interface
• Drill down from high-level processes to detailed sub-processes and activities

By providing this holistic view, process landscapes empower automation team leaders to make more informed decisions, ensure top-down visibility for leadership, and help align bottom-up automation projects with the big picture. This release lays the foundation for more strategic, impactful process improvements across the organization.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Web Modeler 8.7.0-alpha4 and 8.8.0-alpha1 releases!

Desktop Modeler

With our Desktop Modeler release, we have also added support for ad-hoc subprocesses. Please see Ad-hoc subprocesses under Web Modeler for more information.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler 5.32 release right here.

Optimize

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Optimize.

Camunda 8 REST API

The Camunda 8 REST API comes with a set of changes in 8.7.0-alpha4 and 8.8.0-alpha1.

With both versions, the default type for key attributes changes from number to string. This allows a uniform consumption across all programming languages and tools used to access the REST API. Key attributes in the API are those ending with “key”. Using the supported Camunda clients, this change is transparent and doesn’t require any changes in your code. Read more about this change and how to handle it in your custom applications if you access the API directly in our update guide.

With version 8.8.0-alpha1, we introduce the Camunda Java client. This is the successor of the Zeebe Java client, providing a unified client experience across all the resources of a Camunda 8 cluster, including process definitions, process instances, user tasks, decisions, and even identity-related resources like users, groups, tenants, and authorizations. The Camunda client supports manipulating data as the Zeebe client does. Beyond that, the Camunda client supports querying cluster resources leveraging the Camunda 8 REST API.

You can fetch the Camunda Java client via the newly created artifact io.camunda:camunda-client-java. The old artifact io.camunda:zeebe-client-java has become a relocation artifact, redirecting your build system to use the new Camunda client artifact. We recommend moving to the new artifact as soon as possible, as it serves as a full drop-in replacement of the Zeebe client artifact. All the Zeebe client classes exist in this new artifact as well, clearly marked as deprecated, so you can easily detect which code to migrate to the new Camunda client classes that serve the same behavior and further enhancements under a new class name.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Camunda 8 REST API 8.7.0-alpha4 and 8.8.0-alpha1 releases!

Identity

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Identity.

Console

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Console.

Task Automation Components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and connectors.

Connectors

The following connector updates are available with both releases this month.

REST connector

The REST connector now supports the return of multiple values of the same header. In certain situations, an upstream server might return multiple values for a single header; for example, in the Set-Cookie header. In this case, the REST connector now returns the list of values inside the header map:

{"headers": {
  "regularHeader": "regularValue", 
  "Set-Cookie": ["1234", "mySpecialAuthToken"] 
}}

Connector SDK

The ConnectorInputException is now handled by the ConnectorJobHandler leading to a failed job without retries (or a technical error). This allows connector developers to raise errors without retrying them. So, when a ConnectorInputException is thrown from the outbound connector code, developers can handle these non-recoverable errors differently.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Connectors releases 8.7.0-alpha4 and 8.8.0-alpha1.

Camunda 7.23-alpha3

For information on the latest updates to Camunda 7, please refer to the post on our forum.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest alpha release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well:

• 8.7-alpha4 release notes
• 8.8-alpha1 release notes

If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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While we initially aimed to release this streamlined architecture in early 2025, internal testing and release hardening have revealed the need for additional time to ensure we meet our high standards for quality and seamless migration. As a result, we have decided to take two actions: postpone our 8.7 release to April, and move the architecture streamlining scope to the 8.8 release in October 2025.

The focus of the upcoming April 8.7 release will be on task automation capabilities:

• Robotic Process Automation (RPA): With release 8.7, Camunda is excited to offer our initial release of RPA which allows organizations to embed RPA directly into comprehensive end-to-end processes using Camunda’s composable architecture. You can seamlessly integrate existing RPA bots or new bots developed with our RPA services, all within the same platform.
• Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) based on Document Handling: As you may have seen in the 8.6 alpha, Camunda now supports document handling. With 8.7, we will provide more functionality with additional support document functions for upload, download and delete for various storage platforms.
  
  This document handling functionality provides the foundation for our intelligent document processing (IDP), which will allow you to automate and simplify how complex documents are handled, reducing manual errors and operational costs. With features to extract document data using AI and LLM, you will have visibility into the documents in your process gaining insight into both structured and unstructured documents identifying patterns and trends promoting strategic decision-making.
• Ad-hoc subprocess powered AI Agents: Our 8.7 release also provides an introduction to AI Agents via ad-hoc subprocesses. Taking advantage of this BPMN standard, these AI agents reparent a task or collection of tasks that can exist for handling a specific case or cases. Tasks within these ad-hoc processes can be executed in any order, executed several times, or skipped. The execution of these tasks is decided by AI.
  
  The ad-hoc subprocess was originally added to the standard to allow for dynamic task interaction—letting users decide which task within the scope can be activated. We’ve innovated on this idea by using this BPMN feature to give AI Agents control over the actions they can perform during a part of the process.
• SAP Integration: Finally, 8.7 includes Camunda integration with SAP. Camunda’s integration with SAP allows organizations to integrate both SAP and non-SAP systems into a single end-to-end process providing visibility and standard adherence. With OData and RFC connectors, you can seamlessly integrate both SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC environments. Camunda also offers BTP integration so SAP customers can render Camunda forms directly in their SAP Fiori tasks.
  
  This integration provides the technical foundation to ensure seamless, standardized integrations and smooth operations across your SAP tech stack.

The 8.8 release, coming in October 2025, will ship the streamlined architecture, with improvements in the core:

• Improved developer experience
  • Unified REST API for former Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, Identity APIs
  • Advanced Search Query API as part of Unified REST API
  • Updated Camunda Java SDK and Spring SDK
    
• Faster production installation and simplified High Availability-Deployments
  • Orchestration Cluster: All-in-one distribution of the core orchestration components
  • New Camunda Exporter: Improved data pipeline, simplified HA-Deployments and unified data schema for Operate and Tasklist components
  • Rearchitected Identity Management (cluster-specific permissions management and removed keycloak dependency)

Our 8.7 release is packed with new task-based capabilities and innovative AI features, and 8.8 will deliver on a streamlined architecture for a substantially improved developer experience. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue to provide the highest-quality releases in the upcoming months.

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Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this January 2025 8.7-alpha3 release.

Introduction to the new release blog

We introduced a new format for our monthly release blog a few months ago. As a reminder, this format organizes the blog using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. We have organized our components as per the image below to show how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

The following features have been added to Zeebe with this alpha release.

User Task Listeners

We have enhanced task lifecycle management with the addition of user task listeners which allow users to react to user task lifecycle events.

• You can now model task listeners for different events including assigning and completing.
• Now developers can use the same job infrastructure to activate and complete task listener jobs.
• You can access and optionally correct the user task data (e.g. assignee) from the listener.
• Optionally, the user task lifecycle transition can be denied from the listener.
• This feature fully supports incident handling in the same way as execution listeners.

These changes both streamline operations and also ensure smoother incident handling by unblocking process execution in a timely manner.

Process Instance Migration

With this release, we have added support for additional BPMN elements for process instance migration. These include:

• The migration of parallel and inclusive gateways is now supported including the following scenarios:
  • Migrating active gateways
  • Migrating gateways where at least one incoming sequence flow

• The migration of compensation and escalation events to maintain error-handling and recovery mechanisms.

Check out the full release notes for Zeebe 8.7-alpha3 release right here.

Operate

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Operate.

Tasklist

With this release, Tasklist now includes Document Handling. This feature enables customers to upload and preview documents, such as PDFs and images, directly within a task.

Camunda’s Document Handling makes use of new components on Form-JS.

File Picker 

You can now choose to include a “file picker” to select a file or multiple files (as configured) to upload to your process instance.

When included on your form, you configure the form element.

When the form has been assigned in TaskList, you can select the Browse button to include the appropriate files.

When files have been successfully uploaded, the name of the file(s) will appear on the form.

Document Preview

Now, you can add a Document Preview to a form to preview documents associated with the process.

When a user is interacting with the form, they will see the document in preview, something like this.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Tasklist 8.7.0-alpha3 release, and check out the full notes right here.

Web Modeler

With this alpha release, Web Modeler has included some additional features and functionality.

Replay Scenarios (Play SaaS only)

You can now use Play to quickly repeat manual test suites by recording and playing back process instances as scenarios. As you save completed instances as scenarios, Play calculates the percent of elements covered by the scenario suite. This is the first step towards bringing automated testing into the Web Modeler and enabling business and IT to collaborate on automated tests.

Process Application GitLab Sync

The Web Modeler now supports a native integration between a process application and a branch of a GitLab repository. Non-technical users in orgs running GitLab can now easily access the files in their source of truth, collaborate cross-platform with Desktop Modeler users and contribute changes to a feature branch that can be easily merged and deployed.

Additional Enhancements

Other enhancements, including the deployment experience for self-managed users and a number of bugfixes,

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Web Modeler 8.7.0-alpha3 release!

Desktop Modeler

This alpha release for Desktop Modeler provides the following:

Element template runtime versions

We now check element templates compatibility with your runtime version for templates that provide compatibility information.

Zeebe user task

The “Zeebe user task” has been renamed to “Camunda user task”. Camunda user tasks are now the preferred implementation for all user tasks.

Enhanced FEEL support

Easily access script task result expressions with the help of context key suggestions.

Document preview component in Forms

Model and preview uploaded documents with the new document preview component. You can see an example of the previous Document Preview section.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler 5.31 release right here.

Optimize

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements for Optimize.

Check out the full release notes for this Optimize 8.7-alpha3 release.

Installation Options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

Self-Managed

Camunda Self-Managed Docker Compose got a new home: It has been moved from the Camunda Platform repository to the Camunda 8 Self-Managed repository. By the Camunda 8.7 release, there will not be a need to clone the entire repository. With that release, you will be able to just download Docker Compose files as an artifact, following the same style we have for other components like Helm charts.

Task Automation Components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and connectors.

Connectors

In this release, we have provided some new connectors outlined below.

AWS S3 connector

Camunda now provides an outbound Amazon S3 connector to interact with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from your BPMN process.

This connector supports the following operations:

• Upload Document: Upload a document to an AWS S3 bucket.
• Download Document: Download a document from an AWS S3 bucket.
• Delete Document: Delete a document from an AWS S3 bucket.

Box connector

With this release, we now have an outbound Box connector to interact with Box.com account content from your BPMN process.

This connector supports the following operations:

• Download File: Download files into the Camunda document store.
• Upload File: Upload files from Camunda to Box.
• Delete File: Delete file items in Box.
• Move File: Move files between folders in Box.
• Create Folder: Create new folders in your Box account.
• Delete Folder: Delete folders from your Box account.
• Search: Search file items using the Box search API.

Document support

Document handling support has also been added for the REST (upload/download a document), and Amazon Bedrock connectors (upload a document).

We have also provided some minor fixes in this release. We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Connectors 8.7.0-alpha3 release.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest minor release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this December 2024 8.7-alpha2 release.

Introduction to the new release blog

Last month we introduced a new format for our monthly release blog. As a reminder, this new format organizes the blog using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. We have organized our components as per the image below to show how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

Additional supported elements for instance migration

With this release, you can migrate process instances to and from compensation and escalation boundary events and event sub processes. We have added support for the following:

• escalation boundary events
• escalation event sub processes (including contained start events and tasks)
• compensation boundary events
• message start events inside event sub processes (this is also backported to 8.6)

Check out the full release notes for Zeebe 8.7.0-alpha2 release right here.

Operate

Listener list related to a flow node

With previous releases, the list of listeners has always been tied to the flow node. With this release, you can now see a list that contains only the listeners related to a specific instance of a given flow node. This is accomplished by selecting this choice on the “Instance History” panel of the process instance page.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Operate 8.7.0-alpha2 release right here.

Tasklist

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements.

User task listener support

You can now define user task listeners in your Camunda 8.7 diagrams, with helpful guidance provided every step of the way. Note that the event names are subject to change prior to the stable release.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Tasklist 8.7.0-alpha2 release.

Web Modeler

Deployment experience improvements in Self-Managed

Enterprise customers running Web Modeler Self-Managed can now authorize deployments with user tokens instead of machine-to-machine (M2M) tokens. This means users no longer need to re-enter credentials each time they deploy to a different cluster.

Rather than restricting deployments entirely or controlling access to client secrets, use fine-grained control in Identity. Set permission in the Identity of each cluster for which users are authorized and to which tenants, and the Web Modeler will inform the user when they’re not authorized to perform a deployment.

REST API supports custom JWKS location and JWS algorithms

Self-Managed customers can now configure JWKS location and JWS algorithms manually. This is especially useful when the information cannot be derived from the OpenID configuration.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Web Modeler 8.7.0-alpha2 release!

Desktop Modeler

We have made several enhancements to Desktop Modeler with this release.

Preview support for task listeners

As noted in Web Modeler, you can now define user task listeners in your Camunda 8.7 diagrams, with helpful guidance provided every step of the way. Note that the event names are subject to change prior to the stable release.

Enhanced variables panel

You can now quickly access the Variables panel from the application footer or toggle it using a keyboard shortcut.

Improved on-canvas search

With this release, you can locate elements and details more efficiently within BPMN diagrams, thanks to upgraded search and filtering capabilities.

Check out the full release notes for the latest Desktop Modeler 5.30.0 release right here.

Optimize

OpenSearch support

In this release, Optimize now fully supports OpenSearch.

We hope you enjoy the latest Optimize 8.7.0-alpha2 release.

Installation options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

OpenSearch on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

We have added deployment instructions for OpenSearch on EKS.

EKS deployment instructions

We have improved the instructions for creating a reference cluster on EKS to deploy Camunda.

The integration instructions for IRSA have also been improved to provide an end-to-end integration from setup to installation of Camunda 8, including OpenSearch and AuroraDB.

Add custom Elasticsearch index prefix

With this release, you can now add a custom Elasticsearch index prefix within your Helm chart. Using this prefix stores the data in indices that contain the prefix in their name aiding in easy retrieval.

Camunda 8 Run improvements

The following improvements have been made to Camunda 8 Run:

• You can change the port for the Camunda web applications (webapps) from 8080 to something else via a command line flag.
• You can enable transport layer security (TLS) by specifying a Java keystore (JKS) via a command line flag.
• You can change the levels for the log file using a command line flag.

Task automation components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and Connectors.

Connectors 

New Connectors

With this release, we have a couple of new Connectors:

• Google Gemini Connector
  
• AWS Comprehend Outbound Connector
  

We also provide document upload support with Webhook. Uploads can now be stored in the document store and are available for further processing for start and intermediate events.

Connector enhancements

We have also made some updates and enhancements to a few of our Connectors with this release.

Email Connector enhancements

The email connector now allows attachments that are stored in the document store. You can provide a custom header to your emails and they can now be sent with plaintext, HTML, or in both formats.

Spring SDK and Camunda 8 REST API migration

A significant milestone was achieved by migrating from the Spring Zeebe to the Camunda 8 REST API and removing dependency on the Operate client.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Connectors 8.7.0-alpha2 release.

Document Handling

A new document handling API is available as part of the Camunda 8 REST API. To support this new feature, several things have been added:

• The Java client has been enhanced to provide support for these new document API methods.
• With this update, we have released the concept of a document store and it is implemented as an in-memory and a Google Cloud Platform (GCP)-based document store.
• With our new Filepicker component for Tasklist, you can select a document to upload to the document store from a form.
• The Connector SDK has been enhanced to provide document support for property/variable bindings.
• The Webhook connector now supports Documents via the documents object.

You can find more about documents object in our documentation.

Camunda 7.23.0-alpha2

For information on the latest updates to Camunda 7, please refer to the post on our forum.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest minor release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

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Important Update

We’re excited to share that the Camunda 8.7 release is scheduled for 11 February 2025! This release represents a significant step in our commitment to provide a composable, open and scalable process orchestration and automation platform. This release specifically focuses on making production installation hassle-free and aims to simplify the developer experience significantly.

Seasoned Camunda users will appreciate 8.7’s streamlined architecture and simplified deployment options. This release will provide a smoother, more efficient developer experience as well as access to all the new capabilities in Camunda 8, including Camunda FEEL Copilot, SAP integration, Document Handling, and soon-to-be-released task-automation capabilities that we just announced at CamundaCon in NYC in October 2024.

Our original timeline targeted a January 2025 release. However, in the spirit of ensuring the highest quality standards, we’ve strategically decided to push the release to February. This adjustment allows us to manage risks more effectively and gives us crucial time for additional quality assurance and team enablement. We believe this approach will serve our community and users better by providing a polished and robust update.

Improved developer experience

We are streamlining the developer experience by creating a unified REST API  for Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, and the Identity components with endpoint parity. This will be a single REST API for the orchestration cluster. Our goal is to provide both a consistent and intuitive API experience to help your teams develop process automation solutions faster.

Initial changes for the REST API for Zeebe started with shifting user task management from Tasklist to Zeebe so that entity management can be centralized and Camunda can provide a more cohesive user experience. Camunda’s objective is that this Zeebe API will cover all aspects of process management, while the Operate and Tasklist APIs support data queries. Ultimately, with the 8.7 release, everything will be covered in a single Camunda REST API. With this shift, the Zeebe API will be updated to include REST endpoints dedicated to user task management.

Note: The Administration and Web Modeler APIs will not be part of the Camunda 8 REST API, as these are platform APIs outside the cluster’s scope.

Over time, there will be a deprecation process for the individual component APIs starting with the former Operate and Tasklist APIs. These will continue to be in the product for the short-term, but it is recommended to begin the adoption of the new API soon. In addition, we will begin to deprecate several Zeebe gPRC endpoints as well.

To facilitate a seamless migration, guides and documentation will be offered, covering:

• Differences between user task types
• Migration how-to guide
• Modeling support

These assets will equip customers with the tools and information for a successful migration. Our goal is to provide customers with the guidance required to transition.

With the unified API, you will be able to work with the orchestration cluster the same way you work with any other REST service. This all-in-one API will simplify learning and ease the installation process.

Faster production installation

As Camunda strives to enhance the production experience, our 8.7 release brings new features to support this goal. We have simplified our deployment options and streamlined our architecture to support an all-in-one distribution of the Camunda 8 core automation components.

With this release, we have reduced dependencies on Keycloak and the required number of databases. We also provide our new Camunda Exporter replacing the Operate and Tasklist Importer including a unified ES/OS schema. This architecture simplifies high-availability deployments.

We are also tightening our enterprise security capabilities with rearchitected Identity Management by making significant enhancements designed to provide great flexibility and control for both Self-Managed and SaaS users.

Path to future releases

The 8.7 release marks an important milestone. Our goal is to empower customers to leverage Camunda for process orchestration across diverse use cases, including those demanding resilience, high performance, high availability, and low latency. This unified distribution, with a single API, enables us to support both straightforward and complex use cases seamlessly.

Especially for the straightforward cases, this release is crucial, and it enhances the simplicity and developer-friendliness that our users have always trusted us to deliver.

Stay tuned for Camunda 8.8 in April

And don’t forget, our Camunda 8.8 release, slated for April 8th 2025, will proceed as scheduled.

Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to February. Get in touch with us if you have any questions. We’re looking forward to sharing these advancements and helping you achieve even more with Camunda!

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Below is a summary of everything new in Camunda for this November 2024 8.7.0-alpha1 release.

Introduction to the new release blog

First, we would like to welcome you to our newly designed release blog. We have organized the blog using the following product house, with E2E Process Orchestration at the foundation and our product components represented by the building bricks. We have organized our components as per the image below to show how we believe Camunda builds the best infrastructure for your processes, with a strong foundation of orchestration and AI thoughtfully infused throughout.

E2E Process Orchestration

This section will update you on the components that make up Camunda’s foundation, including the underlying engine, platform operations, security, and API.

Zeebe

Cancel banned instances

• You can now cancel banned instances. A banned instance occurs when an unexpected, unhandled error happens in the Zeebe engine. When this happens, the process instance is frozen and will never terminate. To avoid causing confusion or taking unnecessary space, you can cancel it, effectively deleting it from the engine.

Check out the full release notes for Zeebe 8.7.0-alpha1 release right here.

Operate

With this release, we have extended the BPMN coverage of process instance migration. You can now additionally migrate process instances active in the following BPMN elements:

• Business rule task
• Error event
• Exclusive gateway
• Event subprocess with the timer start event
• Event-based gateway
• Multi-instance activities
• Script task
• Send task
• Signal event

These features are also available in 8.6 starting with version 8.6.4.

Check out the full release notes for the Operate 8.7.0-alpha1 release right here.

Tasklist

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements. We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Tasklist 8.7.0-alpha1 release.

Optimize

In this release, we worked on future functionality, bug fixes, and minor improvements. We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Optimize 8.7.0-alpha1 release.

Installation options

This section gives updates on our installation options and various supported software components.

SaaS Provisioning

Southeast Asia now available for SaaS customers

SaaS customers can now create automation clusters in the Singapore (asia-southeast1) region, ensuring lower latency and improved processing speed for organizations operating in southeast Asian countries.

Self-Managed – Helm

We have enhanced the Self-Managed Helm installation option with the following:

• We now support setting logging levels for all Camunda components.
• You can now customize the Camunda Identify authentication variables.
• This release supports both “tags” and “custom properties” in the Console.

Task automation components

In this section, you can find information related to the components that allow you to build and automate your processes including our modelers and Connectors.

Web Modeler

Improved deployment experience in Web Modeler Self-Managed

Cluster configuration in Helm chart setup

Enterprise customers running Web Modeler Self-Managed now benefit from a simpler deployment experience. During your Camunda installation, you can now configure your Helm chart to decide which clusters are available from the Web Modeler by default and save their connection information. With this setup, the user only needs to select a cluster from the drop-down and add secrets and tenant ID as necessary.

Deployment stages for process applications

Predefined deployment stages are now also available in Self-Managed for process applications. Select your development, test, stage, and production clusters to ensure process applications flow easily and predictably through your deployment pipeline. Balance speed and control by only assigning a development cluster. This allows you to use Play for rapid prototyping, but then use GitHub Sync and your approved pipeline to progress through the rest of the stages.

Monorepo Git sync

Previously, you could only sync with the root folder which can cause issues. However, the Web Modeler now offers the /path option when using Git sync to unlock new use cases:

• Sync with your main branch to perform visual diffing, collaboration, and manual testing in the Web Modeler.
  

  

• Vary the /path on multiple process applications to integrate the Web Modeler with your existing monorepo containing all your code assets.

Template Generator UI integration

You can now configure and automatically generate a custom Connector template directly in the Web Modeler. You can import an existing API definition, such as an OpenAPI specification or a Postman collection. For example, download a Postman collection as a YAML file, import it into the template generator, and choose which methods to include in the generated template. This tool simplifies creating consistent, deployable templates, making Connector setup quicker and more flexible. See Generate a Connector template for a detailed guide on using the generator.

We hope you enjoy everything in the latest Web Modeler 8.7.0-alpha1 release!

Desktop Modeler

With this release, we have added the following to Desktop Modeler:

• We added support for both Camunda 8 and Camunda 7.23.
• We added new FEEL list functions and associated documentation including:
  • is empty()
  • trim()
  • uuid()
  • to base64()

• We improved FEEL linting for the first item in a collection. Users often tried to access the first time using an index of “0” like in other programming languages. We have provided a clear message for this case.
• We added a file picker component to Forms enabling customers to handle documents within Camunda Forms.

We hope you enjoy the latest updates to Desktop Modeler included with this alpha release.

Connectors

We have included a couple of new Connectors and features in this release as well as some bug fixes.

New Connectors

The following new Connectors are provided:

• Inbound email Connector: This new email Connector catches incoming email.
  

  

• IdP extraction Connector: With this release, we have implemented a new IdP extraction outbound Connector.

New features

We have also provided some additional features to the product.

• Document handling: You can now manage documents within your Camunda process using our runtime Connector for document handling.
  

  

• Proxy: We now have a proxy exception list for handling outbound http Connector addresses.

Bug fixes

The following bug fixes were included in this release.

• SQS: We have removed the pattern validation in runtime and added support for an override description to the template.
• Email Connector: We now provide a tooltip warning and documentation around possible deletion when reading email using a POP3 protocol.
• Email Connector: We have fixed issues around process failures when sending email.
• SQS: Instead of retries, if a queue does not exist, the inbound connector will fail instantly.
• REST: We have added retries to the REST Connector if we cannot authenticate or refresh OAuth credentials.
• Azure OpenAI: We no longer send null values to the REST Connector.
• Prometheus: We have re-added the prometheus default config to the Connector runtime application configuration.
• Webhook: We have fixed the webhook and possible http client null pointer exception.
• Email inbound Connector: We have implemented reconnect and open mechanism functionality.

Check out the full release notes for the Connectors 8.7.0-alpha1 release right here.

Camunda 7.23.0-alpha1

For information on Camunda 7, please refer to the following link on our forum.

Thank you

We hope you enjoy our latest minor release updates! For more details, be sure to review the latest release notes as well. If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

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Editor’s note: Note that this post was last updated on November 15th to reflect the complete functionality that was released with this alpha

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