Process Orchestration
Welcome to the first-ever edition of “What’s New In Zeebe”, where we share our progress on the journey of building Zeebe, the world’s first high-throughput, resilient, and horizontally-scalable workflow engine.
By Daniel Meyer
Process Orchestration
The Zeebe team is pleased to announce the Zeebe 0.9.0 release. In this post, we’ll provide a brief overview of release highlights along with resources to help you get started.
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Modeler version 1.14.0. This release ships with the possibility to create new diagrams from empty files, Signavio compatibility and the latest BPMN, DMN and CMMN modeling.
Engineering
Camunda BPM platform 7.9.0-alpha4 is here and the highlights are: External Task Notifications for Long Polling Version Tag Binding in Business Rule Task and Call Activity Asynchronous Modification of a Single Process Instance History Cleanup in Multiple Threads Camunda WildFly Swarm Community Extension Integration of the Latest Version of dmn-js 20 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. External Task Notifications for Long Polling With the preceding Camunda 7.9.0-alpha2 release, we introduced a long polling Fetch…
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.1.0-alpha1. This release marks the first alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.1.0. The current alpha version can deal with process instances that were deleted from the engine history and with that also the data import performance was improved significantly. In addition, the interactions with tables have been have been extended, especially for Raw Data Reports.
By Johannes Heinemann, Sebastian Stamm
Engineering
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.
Product
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.
Engineering
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…
Product
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
