Svetlana Dorokhova

WildFly Swarm is a way to build your Java EE application with just enough of the application server, packaged in one uber-jar. This is usually the way to go, when building microservices architecture, when each service is such kind of Jar, containing the server runtime inside it. For those who want to try it out, the community extension is now available to easily include Camunda Engine and/or Web applications into WildFly Swarm projects.

Camunda BPM platform 7.9.0 is now available, and the highlights are: Clients for External Tasks History Cleanup Performance Improvements Transient Variables New Features in Camunda Cockpit 119 Bug Fixes

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.

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:

We are excited to announce the release of a new Alpha version of the Camunda Spring Boot Starter. As announced at the Community Day in September, the Spring boot starter is now an official part of Camunda BPM. This includes support for our enterprise customers.

Camunda BPM platform 7.8.0-alpha2 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: OR in task queries Sorting and filtering in Admin Extending of locks on external tasks More batch operations in Cockpit: suspend/restart process instance and set retries on external tasks (EE) 18 Bug Fixes Also see the complete list of release notes and the list of known issues. You can download it or run it with docker. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.