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Camunda Alpha Release January 2025

We're excited to announce the January 2025 alpha release of Camunda. Check out what's new.
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We’re excited to share that the latest alpha 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.

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.

Camunda-product-house

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.

Tasklist-file-picker

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

Tasklist-file-picker-2

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

Tasklist-file-picker-3

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

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Document Preview

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

Tasklist-document-preview

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

Tasklist-document-preview-2

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.

Web-modeler-replay

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.

Start the discussion at forum.camunda.io

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