What's new in Camunda 8.8
Learn more about important changes in Camunda 8.8 when migrating from Camunda 8.7.
This documentation page is a work in progress and may contain incomplete, placeholder, or evolving content. While the core concepts introduced in Camunda 8.8 are stable, details and sections here are actively being refined.
See release announcements, release notes, and the quality board for more detail on what's included in Camunda 8.8.
Introducing Camunda 8.8
Camunda 8.8 introduces fundamental changes and enhancements as part of our architecture streamlining initiative, unifying former isolated components such as Operate, Tasklist and identity management into one Orchestration Cluster component that serves a unified Orchestration Cluster API.
The simplest possible deployment now becomes running a single Java application or docker container of the Orchestration Cluster Application.
| What's new/changed | Summary |
| Orchestration Cluster | The Orchestration cluster (previously automation cluster) is now the core Camunda 8 component. |
| Identity, authentication, and authorization | Identity is now... |
| APIs and SDKs | New and changed APIs and SDKs for interacting programmatically with the Orchestration cluster. |
| Camunda User Tasks | Deprecation of job-based user tasks, replaced by Camunda user tasks. |
| Camunda Process Test | Deprecation of Zeebe Process Test, replaced by Camunda Process Test. |
| Data and storage | Exporters, etc. |
| Deployment and configuration | Unified components, etc. |
Orchestration Cluster
The Orchestration cluster (previously automation cluster) is now the core component of Camunda 8, powering the automation and orchestration of processes.
Zeebe, Operate, and Tasklist
Zeebe, Operate, and Tasklist are consolidated into the Orchestration Cluster application.
- Zeebe as the workflow engine.
- Operate for monitoring and troubleshooting process instances running in Zeebe.
- Tasklist for interacting with user tasks (assigning, completing, etc.)
Orchestration Cluster Identity
Identity for managing the integrated authentication and authorization.
Orchestration Cluster API
APIs for interacting with the Orchestration cluster programmatically.
Camunda user tasks
The Orchestration cluster (previously automation cluster) is now the core component of Camunda 8, powering the automation and orchestration of processes.
Camunda Process Test
Data and storage
Exporters
A new Camunda Exporter is introduced, bringing the importing and archiving logic of web components (Tasklist and Operate) closer to the distributed platform (Zeebe). This simplifies installation, enables scalability for the web applications, reduces latency when showing runtime and historical data, and reduces data duplication (resource consumption).