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Camunda 8.8-alpha7 Release Introduces Enhancements Across Key Components
Camunda, a leading workflow and decision automation platform, has announced the release of Camunda 8.8-alpha7. This latest version brings numerous new features and improvements across various components, particularly focusing on the Orchestration Cluster, Connectors, Agentic Orchestration, and Data Migrator.
Orchestration Cluster
The Orchestration Cluster sees significant enhancements in this release. User task listener jobs now embed task metadata such as , , and directly into task listener job properties, replacing the use of custom headers. This simplifies job worker development and improves observability of user tasks. Additionally, user tasks can now be filtered by partial user task states, making it easier to track lifecycle states.
The Orchestration Cluster also consolidates Operate, Tasklist, and Identity profiles into a single application, reducing configuration complexity and duplication. Furthermore, this release includes migration support from 8.7 to 8.8, focusing on transferring tenants, roles, and authorizations with the new Orchestration Cluster Identity.
Batch operations like bulk canceling or resolving incidents are now processed by Zeebe, improving reliability and resilience, especially in multi-region deployments.
Connectors
The new CSV connector for SaaS enables reading, filtering, transforming, and writing CSV data directly within processes, speeding up development and reducing technical debt. The release also adds OpenSearch vector store support to the embeddings-vector-db connector. Agentic AI connector improvements include custom data abstractions for messages and tool calling, better tooltips/descriptions in properties panel, and JSON schema de/serialization support.
Agentic Orchestration
The agentic-ai connector has undergone major refactors and enhancements, such as custom abstractions and API improvements. End-to-end tests related to renamed methods have also been improved to increase stability.
Web Modeler and Desktop Modeler
This release does not specify any distinct new features or improvements for the Web Modeler or Desktop Modeler.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
No specific details on enhancements or new features for IDP are mentioned in the 8.8-alpha7 release notes.
Additional Fixes
Bug fixes in Identity, Operate, Tasklist, and Optimize components related to the orchestration platform have been addressed in this release.
Data Migrator
The Data Migrator 0.1.0-alpha5 release brings quality of life improvements for customers moving from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8. These improvements include job type configuration, externally started process instance handling, variable interceptor configuration, history migration improvements, and a retry option for skipped instances.
AI Agent Connector
The AI Agent connector in the alpha release supports Azure OpenAI and Google VertexAI models, customization in hybrid mode, and the MCP Client early access release. This release focuses on bug fixes for the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) component.
This release aims to enhance core orchestration capabilities, improve developer experience with user task metadata handling, increase system reliability in multi-region setups, and extend connectors for SaaS and AI-driven workflows. The latest alpha/official software release of Camunda is now available for download.
[1] Camunda 8.8-alpha7 release notes [2] Camunda Data Migrator 0.1.0-alpha5 release notes [3] AI Agent connector early access release notes
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