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Getting StartedProcess Orchestration

Sep 21, 2020

Creating an Extraordinary Contributor Experience for Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is coming! And Camunda is participating, with the opportunity to get a sweet limited-edition Camunda Hacktoberfest t-shirt by making just two pull requests to any of our open source projects. We’ve also put together a guide for open source repository maintainers, to empower you to create an extraordinary contributor experience. Creating an Extraordinary Contributor Experience This document is for open source project maintainers who want to increase community contributions to their project. We’ll look at the Contributor Experience and how you can create an Extraordinary Contributor Experience. So You’re a Maintainer You’re an open source project maintainer. You’re probably also a contributor to the project – maybe the only one. Wouldn’t it be great to have other people making…

By Josh Wulf

Getting StartedProcess Orchestration

Sep 8, 2020

Using FEEL for Expressions – Part 1

Zeebe supports FEEL v1.11 – the “Friendly Enough Expression Language” – to express dynamic behavior in your processes. You can use FEEL expressions in a number of places in your BPMN models. From the Zeebe documentation: The following attributes of BPMN elements require an expression: Sequence Flow on an Exclusive Gateway: condition Message Catch Event / Receive Task: correlation key Multi-Instance Activity: input collection, output element Input/Output Variable Mappings: source Additionally, the following attributes of BPMN elements can define an expression optionally instead of a static value: Timer Catch Event: timer definition Message Catch Event / Receive Task: message name Service Task: job type, job retries Call Activity: process id Gateway The most obvious place that you use an expression…

By Josh Wulf

ProductReleases

Sep 8, 2020

Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14.0-alpha3 Released

We are happy to share the third alpha release of Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14 with you! This release features the following improvements: Improved External Task Fetch and Lock Cleanup of History Cleanup Logs REST API: Fetch Telemetry Configuration Cockpit: Asynchronously Set Variables to Process Instances Cockpit: Plugin Point for Batch Operations Support for WildFly 20 11 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Improved External Task Fetch and Lock In situations where’re you’re using highly concurrent requests to fetch external tasks (e.g. when you run…

By Camunda Platform Team

Engineering ExcellenceProcess Orchestration

Aug 25, 2020

Orchestrating Cloud Events with Zeebe

Disclaimer: This blog post is about Cloud-Native software, containers, Cloud Events, and Workflows. It describes a concrete example that you can run yourself using Kubernetes, Helm, and Zeebe. You should be familiar with Kubernetes and Helm to follow along and will learn about Zeebe and CloudEvents on your way. While working with Kubernetes the chances are quite high that you’ll find services written in different languages and using different technologies stacks. CloudEvents (CloudEvents / CloudEvents Specifications) was born to enable these systems to exchange information by describing their events in a standard way, no matter which transports these services are using (HTTP, Messaging AMPQ/JMS, Protobuf, etc).  In such scenarios, where you have events being produced and consumed by different systems, there are common requirements that start to arise when…

By Mauricio Salatino

Process OrchestrationProduct

Aug 17, 2020

Announcing Zeebe 0.23.5 and 0.24.2

New patch releases for Zeebe are available now: 0.23.5 and 0.24.2 and contain various bug fixes as well as minor enhancements. You can grab the releases via the usual channels: Docker Hub GitHub Maven Central Zeebe 0.24.2 is fully compatible with 0.23.4 and 0.24.1, as is 0.23.5 with 0.23.4. This means it is possible to perform a rolling upgrade for your existing clusters. For Camunda Cloud users, Zeebe 0.24.2 is already the latest production version, meaning your existing clusters should have been migrated by the time you see this post. Without further ado, here is a list of the notable changes. Zeebe 0.23.5 All bug fixes in 0.23.5 are part of 0.24.2 as well, except one, which was already part…

By Camunda Cloud Team

ProductReleases

Aug 11, 2020

Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1 Released

We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1. In this first alpha release of Optimize 3.2.0, you can get an early look at some improvements and features in advance of the stable Optimize 3.2.0. This release adds following new capabilities: The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can <a href="#how-to-get-it">try out a free trial of Camunda Optimize</a>. New Variable Filter for Process and Decision Reports With this release we are introducing a new type of Variable filter for Process and Decision Reports. Within the Variable Filter modal you can now choose to use ‘contains’ or ‘does not contain’ when filtering process or decision instances based on variables: Alerts to multiple recipients For situations where you would…

By Felix Mueller

Product

Aug 11, 2020

All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit starting with Camunda BPM 7.14

We are happy to announce, that Camunda BPM 7.14 (scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020) includes an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. It replaces the current AngularJS 1.8 based plugin system and enables you to extend Cockpit with domain-specific information written in the web-technologies of your choice. What are Plugins Webapp plugins are user extensions that provide custom functionality to Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin, which Camunda does not provide out of the box. It allows you to embed domain-specific information into Camunda tooling without switching applications. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be React, Angular, or just plain Javascript. Cockpit is the first webapp to receive…

By Martin Stamm

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