Engineering
Flowable 6.4.2 release
The 6.4.2 release is mainly a bug fix release. The next release path will be towards Flowable 6.5.0 where we will be adding new features like history cleanup and improved JMS messaging support.
Where to get it:
Download link: https://flowable.org/downloads.htmlMaven (or other): update your dependencies to version 6.4.2The source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/tree/flowable-6.4.2
Highlights
GENERAL
Support has been added for CockroachDB (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach) as an alternative DB option. A blog post with more details and getting started can be found here https://www.flowable.com/blog/getting-started-with-flowable-and-cockroachdb. The full list of changes can be found here #1716
Extracted the event subscription logic from the BPMN engine into a service (similar to the variable and job service for example), so that event subscriptions can also be used from the CMMN engine and possibly other engines in the future.
The manual sql scripts that can be found in the distro download are updated to include convenient scripts that will update and create the engines in one sql script.
Various small bugfixes and improvements all around.
BPMN
Added support for BPMN escalation events.
CMMN
Added support to listen to signal events in a CMMN case model. This enables more options to interact from a BPMN process instance with a CMMN case instance.Added ‘available condition’ to CMMN event listeners (e.g. user or timer event listener) to guard precisely when an event listener becomes available. See the documentation for examples.
Flowable Open Source 7.0.0 release
Today, we are happy to share that we have released Flowable 7.0.0. As a Flowable community user this means, you can start working with Spring Boot 3 and requires Java 17 as a baseline. Read more
Specifying data structure with a new model type: Data Dictionary
Data is a crucial part of modeling and executing cases and processes. Our new module, Data Dictionary, empowers modelers to define which data structures and constraints are needed in the case or process model and all its child models.Read more
Unveiling the new Flowable Design: A closer Look
The new Flowable Design shines with a completely new user interface whilst maintaining backward compatibility to the previous version. In this article, we highlight some of the new features and technical details.Read more
