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Zeebe

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Velocity5.0

Distributed workflow engine for microservice orchestration

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Camunda's 8.10 alpha is one feature carried across every API surface at once.

workflow engineprocess orchestrationapi parityalpha releasesbackport maintenance
◆Current state
The alpha4 tag is dominated by Late Business ID Assignment: a protocol definition, engine support for assigning the ID via CompleteJob, forward-propagation semantics, REST and gRPC endpoints, a Java client, and exporter changes so secondary storage reflects it. The rest of the window is process rather than product, with a release candidate carrying a single CI spec-check fix and a maintenance tag backporting dependency bumps to the 8.7 Optimize branch.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is a workflow engine treating its protocol as the unit of work: a capability is not shipped until the engine, both transports, the client library, and the exporters all express it. That discipline is why one feature accounts for an entire alpha. Alongside it, older minor lines keep receiving dependency and security backports on their own tags, so the release stream mixes forward work and long-tail maintenance.
◆Prediction
Late Business ID Assignment currently arrives through CompleteJob with forward propagation; the entries suggest the remaining work is exposing it on the other lifecycle operations rather than starting a new capability before 8.10 stabilizes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    8.10.0-alpha4: late business ID assignment across all APIs

    Late Business ID Assignment lands across the whole stack: protocol definition, engine support via CompleteJob, forward-propagation semantics, REST and gRPC surfaces, the Java client, and exporters writing it to secondary storage. One capability, delivered everywhere at once.

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  2. 4d ago

    8.7.26-optimize: dependency and iframe backports

    A maintenance tag on the 8.7 Optimize branch carrying dependency backports, a stricter iframe rule, and a Docker manifest media type fix. Long-tail upkeep on an older line.

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  3. 8d ago

    8.10.0-alpha4-rc2: OpenAPI version-check fix

    A release candidate containing one fix, for a spec version check that failed on every pull request after a backport. Build tooling only.

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  4. 11d ago

    8.10.0-alpha4-rc1: release candidate for the business ID work

    The first release candidate for alpha4, carrying the same Late Business ID Assignment change set that ships in the final alpha tag. A staging tag rather than distinct work.

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