Finally! Camunda BPM 7.1.0-Final is released

1. Improved process engine with Job Definitions, better BPMN coverage and improved performance,
2. All-new BPMN Model API for convenient BPMN model access,
3. New features in the cockpit monitoring web application,
4. Improved Tasklist and Task Forms, including support for HTML5 and Generated Task Forms.
5. Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 12c and JBoss Application Server 7.2 and JBoss EAP 6.1 / 6.2

Enterprise support

The 7.1 release is the basis for the next supported production release for camunda BPM. It is fully supported in the camunda BPM enterprise subscription. Support includes Help Requests based on different SLAs as well as access to camunda BPM maintenance releases. Maintenance releases allow customers to get bug fixes for production systems based on the 7.1 codebase. While the community project will forge ahead for 7.2, we will backport bug fixes to the 7.1 branch and perform maintenance releases reserved for enterprise subscription customers.

There is a Migration Guide targeting existing camunda bpm 7.0 installations.

Detailed Features Overview

The following is a more detailed overview of the new features:

Job Definitions

Allows querying, activating & suspending job execution on a per activity level. This allows you to prevent an activity from being executed. This is particularly useful for fixing technical problems or preparing system migrations or updates: process instances can make progress until they reach a given activity and will then queue up until the activity is activated again.
(Documentation).

Improved BPMN Coverage

Suspension of Process Instances, Process Definitions and Job Definitions:

Many, many improvements were done under the hood, including better build infrastructure (grunt / bower), better UI testing (through protractor) and better developer documentation.

Cockpit Enterprise Subscription-Only Features

History for Process Instances including sophisticated querying and searching for finished process instances and drill down into individual instances, providing:

Audit Log, allowing to follow the path of a process instance through the diagram, visualizing running, completed and cancelled activity instances.

As well as a Variable Log and a User Task log:

Tasklist

HTML5 Embedded Task Forms allow you to implement task forms in plain HTML and JavaScript. They are rendered inside the Tasklist. With the 7.1 release we greatly improve support for Embedded
Taskforms including support for select boxes, radio buttons and custom scripting & validation. (Quickstart Example, Docs).

In addition, we added the Generated Task Forms feature which allows you to define a simple form in camunda Modeler and have it rendered in Tasklist (Quickstart Example, Docs).

Distributions

We now provide a standalone distribution for the web application (Tasklist + Cockpit) as .war file download. This distribution includes an embedded process engine (configured using spring xml) and can be deployed on most application servers.