We’re excited to share that the latest alpha release of Camunda is now live and available for download. For our SaaS customers who are up to date, you may have already noticed some of these features as we make them available for you automatically.
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.
Table of contents
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.
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