I’m pleased to announce the availability of Camunda 7.3.0 Final. The release focuses on improving Camunda BPM for large production deployments. The highlights are:
Process instance repair and modification: go back or skip ahead in a process.
Authorizations: restrict access to processes, tasks and administrative actions.
Search for process instances and incidents in Cockpit
Starting new process instance at any activity / set of activities
Tasklist extensibility and customization: extend the Tasklist Web Application with Html and Javascript based plugins.
Sometimes process instances somehow take a wrong turn or end up in a state they should not be in. Or, you need to "rewind", "go back" in order to re-execute some steps with different parameters. Sometimes you also need to skip some steps for whatever reason. Yes, that should not happen but in reality there are all kinds of things that can go wrong in the environment of a process which lead to a situation where you need to "repair" a process instance. Camunda now provides a killer feature for this:
We call this feature Process instance Modification. It allows you to freely start or cancel any activity in a BPMN process or "move" a token by cancelling the current activity and starting another activity as shown in the animation above.
Search for process instances and incidents in Cockpit
In Cockpit, you can now search for process instances and incidents (failures) on the dashboard. You can use all the criteria provided by the historic process instance and incident search api:
Starting new process instance at any activity / set of activities
You can now start a process instance at any activity / set of activities. The following example shows how to create a new process instance which does not start at the start event but at two other activities ("SendInvoiceReceiptTask" and "DeliverPizzaSubProcess"):
This new minor release is fully supported in the Camunda BPM Enterprise Subscription. Support includes Help Requests based on different SLAs as well as access to maintenance releases. Maintenance releases allow customers to get bugfixes for production systems based on the 7.3 branch. While the community project will now start working on 7.4, we will backport bugfixes to the 7.3 branch and perform maintenance releases reserved for enterprise subscription customers.
Upgrading to 7.3.0
There is a Migration Guide targeting existing Camunda BPM 7.2 installations.
Detailed Feature Overview
Here is a more detailed feature overview of both Api and web application features: