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Version: 8.4

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Camunda 8.4​

Release date: 9th of January 2024

End of maintenance: 9th of July 2025

Camunda 8 SaaS - Required cluster update​

caution

By August 30th, 2024 all automation clusters in Camunda 8 SaaS must be updated to the following versions at a minimum:

  • 8.2+gen27
  • 8.3+gen11
  • 8.4+gen7
  • 8.5+gen2

auth0 announced an End-Of-Life for one of the functionalities that is being utilized by previous automation clusters. The new versions are not using this functionality anymore. This update ensures your cluster will work seamlessly after auth0 deactivates the feature in production.

You minimally need to take the following update path:

  • 8.0.x -> 8.2+gen27
  • 8.1.x -> 8.2+gen27
  • 8.2.x -> 8.2+gen27
  • 8.3.x -> 8.3+gen11
  • 8.4.x -> 8.4+gen7
  • 8.5.x -> 8.5+gen2

If you do not update the cluster by August 30th 2024, we will update the cluster for you. Without an update, you would lose access to your cluster.

Camunda 8 Self-Managed clusters are not affected by this.

Form linking​

caution

The form linking feature is impacted by an issue where the wrong forms can get linked with new user task instances, effectively corrupting the user task instance. If you make use of this feature and run either 8.4.0, 8.4.1 or 8.4.2, we urge you to update to the newest 8.4.3 patch that includes the required fix.

Follow the instructions in the form linking documentation to resolve this issue.

Versioning changes in Helm chart​

As of the 8.4 release, the Camunda 8 Helm chart version is decoupled from the version of the application. The Helm chart release still follows the applications release cycle, but it has an independent version. (e.g., in the application release cycle 8.4, the chart version is 9.0.0).

For more details about the applications version included in the Helm chart, review the full version matrix.

Dockerfile numeric ID​

The Dockerfile now uses a numeric user ID instead of a non-numeric user. This will allow the Helm users to use runAsNonRoot=true without the need to explicitly set the ID in the Helm values.yaml file.

Deprecated in 8.4​

The Zeebe configuration properties for Camunda Identity were deprecated in 8.4. Please use the dedicated Camunda Identity properties or the corresponding environment variables.

Versioning changes in Elasticsearch​

As of the 8.4 release, Camunda is compatible with Elasticsearch 8.9+ and no longer supports older Elasticsearch versions. See supported environments.

Support for Amazon OpenSearch​

As of the 8.4 release, Zeebe, Operate, and Tasklist are now compatible with Amazon OpenSearch 2.5.x. Note that using Amazon OpenSearch requires setting up a new Camunda installation. A migration from previous versions or Elasticsearch environments is currently not supported.

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The Helm charts are not yet prepared with the OpenSearch configurations as templates/pre-filled. The Helm charts can still be used to install for OpenSearch, but some adjustments are needed beforehand. Refer to the Helm deployment documentation for further details.

Known limitations​

This release contains the following limitations:

  • In Operate 8.4.0
  • In Camunda HELM 9.0.x
    • Limitation
      • Description: The existing Helm charts use the Elasticsearch configurations by default and are not yet prepared with the OpenSearch configurations as templates/pre-filled. The Helm charts can still be used to install for OpenSearch, but some adjustments are needed beforehand.
      • Reference: n/a
      • Mitigation:
        1. Refer to our docs for the installation, the docs include guidance about necessary adjustments of the Helm chart configuration.
        2. The OpenSearch configuration in Helm charts will be provided in one of our future Helm releases.
  • In Connectors 8.4.x

Camunda 8.3​

Release date: 10th of October 2023

End of maintenance: 9th of April 2025

caution

For existing clusters we recommend updating to 8.3.1 directly and not 8.3.0 due to issues in data migration of Operate, Tasklist, and Optimize that could prolong the migration or even blocking it from finishing.

Breaking change

Zeebe Docker image now runs with unprivileged user by default​

The default user in the Zeebe Docker image changed from root to an unprivileged user with the UID 1000. This was done to provide stronger compliance with the OWASP recommendations on Docker Security.

Please refer to the Update 8.2 to 8.3 guide.

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The update from 8.2.x to 8.3.x performs a migration for nearly all entities stored in Operate, Tasklist, and Optimize to support multi-tenancy. Therefore, migration may take longer.

Deprecated in 8.3​

Web Modeler's beta API was deprecated in 8.3 and will be removed in 8.5. Use v1 instead, see migration hints.

Versioning changes in Elasticsearch​

As of the 8.3 release, Camunda is compatible with Elasticsearch 8.8+ and no longer supports Elasticsearch 7.x. See supported environments.

Versioning changes in Helm chart​

Helm charts versioning changed in July 2023.

Starting from July 2023 (v8.2.8), the Camunda 8 Helm chart version follows the same unified schema and schedule as Camunda 8 applications.

Before this change, the Camunda 8 Helm chart version only followed the minor version.

Camunda 8.2​

Release date: 11th of April 2023

End of maintenance: 8th of October 2024

Release notes Release blog

Update from Web Modeler 8.2 to a later minor version​

Web Modeler versions 8.2.7 to 8.2.12 are affected by camunda/issues#677.

If you are using one of these versions, you should first update to Web Modeler 8.2.13 (or a subsequent patch version) before upgrading to a later minor version (8.3 or higher).

If your current version of Web Modeler is 8.2.6 or earlier, you may directly upgrade to a later minor version.

Do not update to Camunda 8.2.22​

caution

Zeebe release 8.2.22 suffers from camunda/zeebe#16406, which results in a Zeebe broker being unable to start if at least one DMN model is deployed. We urge users to skip this release and update to 8.2.23 right away.

Do not update from Camunda 8.1.X to 8.2.6​

An issue in the Operate 8.2.6 patch was discovered after it was published on June 8th.

You should not update directly from 8.1.x to 8.2.6 (it will require manual intervention as indices break), you either first update to 8.2.5 then 8.2.6 or straight from 8.1.x to 8.2.7.

To prevent this entirely we removed the Operate 8.2.6 artifacts from this release.

As Camunda 8.2.7 was already released on Tuesday Jun 13th, you can just update to 8.2.7 directly, skipping 8.2.6.

OpenSearch 1.3.x support​

  • Operate version 8.2+ support OpenSearch 1.3.x. However, 8.2.x patches will only be released on the OS 1.3 branch until end of 2023 given that OS 1.3 maintenance period ends by then. We recommend customers to go to 8.4.x which supports OS 2.5+.

Optimize and Helm chart compatibility​

For Optimize 3.10.1, a new environment variable introduced redirection URL. However, the change is not compatible with Camunda Helm charts until it is fixed in 3.10.3 (and Helm chart 8.2.9). Therefore, those versions are coupled to certain Camunda Helm chart versions:

Optimize versionCamunda Helm chart version
Optimize 3.10.1 & Optimize 3.10.28.2.0 - 8.2.8
Optimize 3.10.3+8.2.9 - 8.2.22
Optimize 8.2.7+8.2.23+

Camunda 8.1​

Release date: 11th of October 2022

End of maintenance: 10th of April 2024

Release notes Release blog

Do not update to Camunda 8.1.23​

caution

Zeebe release 8.1.23 suffers from camunda/zeebe#16406, which results in a Zeebe broker being unable to start if at least one DMN model is deployed. We urge users to skip this release and update to 8.1.24 right away.

Camunda 8.0​

Release date: 12th of April 2022

End of maintenance: 11th of October 2023

Release notes Release blog

Camunda 8.0.15 release is skipped​

The Camunda 8.0.15 release pipeline lead to corrupted Zeebe 8.0.15 artifacts getting published. The whole Camunda 8.0.15 release was thus skipped and updates from Camunda 8.0.14 should go straight to Camunda 8.0.16.

Deprecated in 8.0​

The DeployProcess RPC was deprecated in 8.0. It is replaced by the DeployResource RPC.

Camunda Cloud 1.3​

Release date: 11th of January 2022

Camunda Cloud is out of maintenance.

Deprecated in 1.3​

The zeebe-test module was deprecated in 1.3.0. We are currently planning to remove zeebe-test for the 1.4.0 release.