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Camunda August 2025 Release Enhances User Task Listeners and Unifies APIs
Camunda, a leading platform for enterprise process orchestration and task automation, has announced the release of version 8.8-alpha7. This latest update focuses on user task listener enhancements and foundational bug fixes across key components.
Key Features and Improvements in August 2025 Release (8.8-alpha7)
E2E Process Orchestration
The release introduces significant improvements to user task listeners. Task metadata such as , , and is now embedded directly into task listener jobs' properties, enhancing the clarity and direct accessibility of metadata during task execution. Additionally, user tasks can be filtered by partial user task states, providing better insight into the current lifecycle state of a user task and aiding developers in managing user task progress more effectively.
Identity and Management
The August 2025 update primarily focuses on bug fixes in the Orchestration Cluster Identity and Management Identity components, improving stability and robustness without introducing new major features.
Operate, Tasklist, and Optimize
Each of these components receives bug fixes to improve reliability and performance.
API Enhancements (from Release Notes)
Camunda continues its development of a unified Camunda 8 REST API, consolidating previously fragmented APIs into one coherent interface. This simplification aids developers working across multiple components by providing a consistent API surface.
Contextual Notes
Camunda 8 remains a cloud-native, distributed platform with high scalability and resilience for enterprise process orchestration, including human tasks and AI-driven decisions. The orchestration cluster uses a distributed architecture ensuring no data loss in case of broker failures with minimal downtime, reinforcing enterprise-grade availability.
The August 2025 update is an alpha release, indicating features and improvements are in a testing and iterative phase before a stable production release.
Additional Improvements
- The Data Migrator 0.1.0-alpha5 release brings improvements for customers moving from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8, such as pagination support for history migration and retry option for skipped instances.
- The AI Agent connector now supports Azure OpenAI and Google VertexAI models, and customization in hybrid mode.
- The element template editor now shows errors and warnings, making it easier to create valid element templates that comply with the schema.
- Custom validation messages can be added to form inputs validated with regex patterns in the Desktop Modeler.
- The MCP Client early access release allows tools provided by Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to be used from the AI Agent connector.
The latest alpha/official software release of Camunda is now available for download. For more information, visit the Camunda website.
