Apr 27, 2018
Camunda External Task Client (Java) 0.1.0-alpha2 Released
Recently we released the first alpha version of the Camunda External Task Client (Java). Today we are happy to announce the second alpha release. The External Task concept helps to decouple your services from the Workflow Engine. The highlights of this release are: Set variables to the local scope of External Tasks Specify a response timeout to fetch and lock External Tasks (long polling) More serialization formats to exchange object variables (XML and JAVA) You can find the complete release notes here.
Apr 12, 2018
Camunda Modeler 1.13.0 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Modeler version 1.13.0. This release brings new features and improvements to BPMN properties editing. It also ships with the latest BPMN, DMN and CMMN modeling.
Apr 12, 2018
Camunda Node.js External Task Client 0.2.0 Released
We are so excited to announce a new alpha release of camunda-external-task-client-js, an Node.js module that makes it possible to handle your BPMN Service Tasks. This release is focused on making it more flexible to handle variables. It improves setting variables and brings up two major features: setting local variables support for Date & File typed variables The following example will illustrate these features and show how they can be used. Example 1. Setup first, make sure to have Camunda running download the following model and deploy it using the Camunda Modeler create an invoice.txt file with some data and place it in the same folder as the script install camunda-external-task-client-js from npm using: npm install -s camunda-external-task-client-js or: yarn…
Apr 11, 2018
Reporting Security Issues
Maintaining the security of Camunda BPM is an important task for us. In our documentation, we have published our Security Policy which explains how we deal with security issues. Besides our proactive efforts, it is very valuable to us when we get feedback by the community about security issues which may exist in Camunda itself (or much more commonly) in one of the libraries and dependencies we are using. When you report security issues, we can investigate them, assess their impact on different usage scenarios, provide fixes and publish a security notice. To give you an example: In January, Kai Ullrich from Code White approached us and reported that using Camunda’s API, it is possible, once authenticated, to submit a…
By Daniel Meyer
Apr 5, 2018
Camunda Optimize 2.0.0 Released
You had to wait several months and were already desperately longing to try it out. There is good news: no need to wait any longer because finally the second major version of our latest product Camunda Optimize is out! Optimize is an add-on to Camunda that provides continuous monitoring and insights about your deployed business processes. This Big Data solution helps process owners make informed decisions to optimize their processes. The new version allows for a deeper analysis and comes with strong improvement of the continuous monitoring. Version 2.0.0 is again packed with features. The highlights are: Get answers to questions about your process using reports Monitor your business process with dashboards Use more filters to narrow down your view…
Mar 29, 2018
Camunda 7.9.0-alpha3 Released
Camunda BPM platform 7.9.0-alpha3 is here and the highlights are: Spring Boot Starter alpha release Payload in Signal Events Implement Your BPMN Service Task with Node 16 Fixes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. To see a full list of the changes, please check out our Release Notes and the list of Known Issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Spring Boot Starter alpha release As previously announced, the next stable release of Spring Boot Starter will be in May, together with Camunda BPM 7.9. This Spring Boot Starter 3.0.0-alpha1 version comes with the recently released Spring Boot 2.0.0. (Camunda Spring Boot…
Mar 27, 2018
Camunda Modeler 1.12.0 Released
We are proud to announce the release of Camunda Modeler version 1.12.0. This is the first stable release shipping with the completely rewritten DMN modeling that handles large decision tables with ease. We’ve also added the possibility to deploy diagrams directly from the Camunda Modeler.
Mar 27, 2018
Camunda Node.js External Task Client 0.1.1 Released
We recently published the first alpha release of camunda-external-task-client-js, an NPM module that makes it possible to handle your BPMN Service Tasks in Node.js. Today, a new alpha release is ready, bringing up major features that revolve around easily exchanging process variables between Service Tasks and the Workflow Engine. The feature set includes: Accessing single/all variables Creating/Updating single or multiple variables Support for primitive (e.g. Integer) and complex variable types (e.g. JSON) Let’s walk through a basic example to showcase some of these features: Example 1. Running Camunda First, make sure to have Camunda running. 2. Deploying the Workflow Download the following model and deploy it using the Camunda Modeler. 3. Installing the NPM package Install camunda-external-task-client-js from npm using:…
Mar 23, 2018
Camunda External Task Client (Java) 0.1.0-alpha1 Released
We are excited to release the first alpha of the Camunda External Task Client (Java). A Workflow Engine typically calls Service Tasks actively. The Java client allows to break with this principle: remote and independent Service Task workers continuously fetch tasks, perform the work and share the result with the Workflow Engine once the work has been done.
