Engineering
Camunda BPM Platform 7.8.0 is here, significantly improving the process engine’s performance. Besides that, we have made numerous improvements for Cockpit. The highlights are: Batch Operations for Process Restart, Suspend/Resume and State Modification Deletion of Process Definitions Inspecting and Editing JSON and XML variables Seeing the number of technical incidents within a process diagram Faster rendering of BPMN diagrams
Engineering
We are excited to announce the first officially supported release of the Camunda Spring Boot Starter – v. 2.3.0. Camunda Spring Boot Starter makes it super easy to include a ready-to-use, preconfigured Camunda engine in your Spring Boot application. It offers a very convenient way to adjust the most used configuration settings, but still allows to use the full power of configuration for experienced users.
Engineering
Camunda BPM platform 7.8.0-alpha6 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Significant improvement of engine’s performance due to batching of SQL Statements Support for Microsoft Sql Server 2016 (docs) Support for Microsoft Edge (docs) 29 Bug Fixes The complete release notes are available in Jira. List of known Issues. You can Download Camunda For Free If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Community
The first Camunda community day in San Francisco took place on November 9th. More than 80% of people registered actually dropped by which is really great considering that registration was free. It was great to welcome attendees from all over the bay area, including Autodesk, SAP, LinkedIn, Gainsight, Intuit and Zymergen. The highlight of the day was the presentation given by Jimmy Floyd from 24 Hour Fitness. 24 Hour Fitness “is the world’s largest (by memberships) privately owned and operated fitness center chain” (Wikipedia) with more than 400 locations. Jimmy explained how they use Camunda BPM for running their core business processes. They have more than 190 processes in production. BPMN given them great visibility into their business. Before mapping…
By Daniel Meyer
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Modeler version 1.11.0. Thanks to a contribution by the community it ships with templating support for connectors.
Engineering
We are proud to announce the latest release of Camunda Optimize! With version 1.5.0 we fixed several bugs and made usability improvements that help you make informed decisions in order to optimize your processes. Check out our documentation and get in touch with us to find out how you can use Camunda Optimize to improve your processes. Great Things are Coming The next major version of Camunda Optimize is in the works! This new version will give you even more insights about your deployed business processes, especially in the context of continuous monitoring. There are a lot of features to be built for Optimize 2.0 so don’t be alarmed if there is no new Camunda Optimize release in the next…
Engineering
Camunda BPM 7.8.0-alpha5 is here and it has great new improvements. This month the highlights are mostly in Cockpit: Internationalization (i18n) for Cockpit & Admin Faster rendering of BPMN diagrams Metrics about cleaned up data Batch modification interface cleanup and new cancel feature Persistent configurations in Process Instance Search 28 Bug Fixes If you are interested you can see the complete list of release notes and the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Internationalization (i18n) for Cockpit & Admin ¿Cómo estás? Since Camunda BPM 7.2, Tasklist provides i18n support. This means that in addition to the English language, further translations can be added in a simple way….
Community
Process applications basically consist of process model(s) and Java code which both exist side by side and are edited in different tools. For the process models you will most likely use the Camunda Modeler, for the Java code the IDE of your choice. However, no one checks whether model and code are aligned beforehand, e.g. if a bean referenced in a delegate expression actually exists in the code. With the viadee Process Application Validator (vPAV, Open-Source), you can validate your process application regarding these inconsistencies with a simple JUnit test. You can also ensure that specific best-practices are met (e.g. naming conventions). If you feel addressed by now, we might give it a try. It is as easy as adding…
Engineering
The External tasks concept was introduced in v. 7.4. So far, only two operations existed to deal with external tasks: Fetch & Lock and Complete (read more in our docs). These operations may be enough in most of the use cases, but can also cause a lot of inconveniences:
