I am happy to announce the second milestone, M2, of Activiti Cloud 7.1.0 release train. In this 7.1.0.M2 release you will find the following:Added support for BPMN embedded sub-processes in the Activiti Modeling Application and Activiti CloudProcess diagram available from query service -> GET /qu Read more...

Five months ago I published the Alfresco Process Services SDK on my GitHub account, this module is dedicated to create extensions for APS in a consistent way. The idea behind this contribution started for these two reasons:Help attendees during official APS courses to better understand the platformH Read more...

First of all, we would like to thank Mauricio Salatino (“Salaboy”), for all his fantastic work and commitment to the Activiti open source project. Mauricio has been a great contributor helping us in our mission of building the first truly open source, cloud-native BPMN process automation software.Ou Read more...

Today I am stepping down as the Activiti Cloud OSS Tech Lead @ Alfresco. We had so much fun with the Activiti Cloud OSS team during this last two years, designing and implementing the first iteration of Activiti Cloud. We (Alfresco and I) have different opinions on how to move the project forward, t Read more...

I am happy to announce the first milestone of Activiti Cloud 7.1.0 release train. For 7.1.0 we are focused on adding more support for BPMN elements and maturing each component to provide more features. We want to make sure that people creating applications with Activiti Cloud can test these applicat Read more...

Last week week we presented at the at London DevOpsour experience with Jenkins Xto automate, release and manage 40+ repositories, which includes Java Libraries, Docker Images, HELM charts and deployments to environments which execute Acceptance tests against them. We are working quite hard to refine Read more...

Last week we released Activiti Cloud SR1 containing some major compatibility improvements. At the same time we triaged the issues for our 7.1.0.M1 Milestone that you can follow here: (https://github.com/activiti/activiti/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A7.1.0.M1)There are still issues being Read more...

I am happy to announce the first Service Release for Activiti Cloud and Activiti Core artefacts. After getting a lot of community feedback from our first GA iteration we are now releasing 7.0.0.SR1improving mostly on compatibility with Spring Boot 2.0.x and JDK 8 support in addition to JDK11.You can Read more...

Last week we worked on stabilizing our 7.0.x and 7.1.x release trains while we updated the docs and prepare the final details of our SR1 release which includes some fixes but major compatibility improvements allowing easier integrations with other frameworks and other versions of JDK and Spring Boot Read more...

Last week we started a round of refinements and platform upgrades. We defined the path for the 7.0.x Release train (7.0.x branch in our repositories) and 7.1.x Release train (develop branch in our repositories). We started to look into 7.1.0.M1 release and we are trying to set the scope right to pro Read more...

Last week it was all about the GA release. We worked hard to improve our coverage and acceptance test to make sure that we reduce the potential issues after releasing. You can find more about the GA release here, and you can keep track of the Service Release 1 (SR1) that will follow if critical issu Read more...

I am happy to announce that Activiti Cloud 7.0.0.GAhas been released! After a hard year of work we are closing this first iteration providing building blocks to create Business Automation applications in a Cloud Native approach.Activiti Cloud 7.0.0.GA is providing a Business Automation layer for Kub Read more...

Last week we work hard on improving acceptance tests coverage and rest endpoint refiningments. As you can see there was a quite active week all over the place. We got great contributions from @daisuke-yoshimotorefining warning and runtime behaviour for our services. Our pipelines are improving every Read more...

Last week we had an amazing time in Alfresco DevCon 2019in Edinburgh. We had a lot of face to face discussions about what is going to be priority right after the GA release. We have identified some areas that we need to improve and some services that we need to expand to provide a better experience. Read more...

We had an amazing time here in Edinburgh, Scotland with the Alfresco community. We (Elias de Medeiros and myself) presented what we are planning to do in 2019 and we announced live in the stage Activiti Cloud RC1. Ryan Dawson presented a quick tour around the main features in Activiti Cloud and the Read more...

Last week we worked hard on getting RC1 out of the door with support for JDK 11 and a new Notification Service providing GraphQL queries and subscriptions. You can see the release notes here. We are quickly moving to a GA release so we are polishing our APIs, Docker Images and HELM charts to provide Read more...

I am really happy to announce that Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud RC1 are now released and ready to be used by all our community members.In this release we included pretty big changes and refinements. We are now running with JDK 11 and we included the next iteration for our GraphQL based notificat Read more...

Last week we work hard to upgrade all our builds, pipelines and repository to use JDK 11. This is a major change that requires the use of JDK 11 in all the consumers of the libraries. We also included tests and new APIs conformance tests and we started with the preparations for DevCon. Part of the t Read more...

DevConis getting closer and we are working hard on making sure that we get Activiti Cloud RC1 out of the door. We are focusing on Priority 1 issues that will impact the APIs and configurations of our building blocks. We will also increase the conformance testing on our distributed environments which Read more...

Last week, after a week of festive holidays, we worked hard in closing as many issues that we could to get Beta5 out of the door. New conformance sets were added to Activiti/Activiti and serves as the basis for our Acceptance and Conformance tests for our distributed services. We are now running aut Read more...

I am happy to announce that Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud Beta5 has been released. You can find the released artifacts in Maven Central, Docker Hub and in our GitHub repository for HELM Charts. The focus of the Beta5 release was to add more Conformance and Acceptance tests. We are now working wit Read more...

We are closing an amazing 2018 for Activiti. We’re moving the Activiti project forward to the cloud with Activiti Cloud, we moved from design, proof of concept to implementation and stabilisation of the first set of Cloud Native Building blocks. Being an Open Source project we believe that this is a Read more...

Last week we released Activiti Cloud Beta4 and moved straight away to the Beta5 planning. We are aiming to release Beta5 during the first week of January and currently we have 35 open issues: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3ABeta5There has been also huge Read more...

I am happy to announce that Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud Beta4 has been released!You can find the released artifacts in Maven Central, Docker Hub and in our GitHub repository for HELM Charts.The focus of the Beta4 release was to improve data consistency between the different services and maturit Read more...

Last week we worked hard to close Beta4, which will be released later today. The full team is focused on making the release process smooth so we can include more fixes and features in every milestone. In Beta4 we managed to close 41 issues and you can check our next milestones here: https://github.c Read more...

IntroductionActiviti 7 is an evolution of the battle-tested Activiti workflow engine from Alfresco that is fully adopted to run in a cloud environment. It is built according to the Cloud Native application concepts and differs a bit from the previous Activiti versions in how it is architected. There Read more...

IntroductionSo far in this article series about Activiti 7 we have just used out-of-the-box deployments with preconfigured business processes and business logic. What you really want to do is define your own business process and business logic and deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. In this article w Read more...

IntroductionActiviti 7 Beta 2 comes with a new BPMN modeling application that we will have a look at in this article. It supports the BPMN 2.0 standard. It’s been developed with the help of the Alfresco Application Development Framework (ADF). The source code is available here.Activiti 7 Deep Dive A Read more...

IntroductionActiviti 7 is an evolution of the battle-tested Activiti workflow engine from Alfresco that is fully adopted to run in a cloud environment. It is built according to the Cloud Native application concepts and differs a bit from the previous Activiti versions in how it is architected. There Read more...

Last week we worked hard into stabilizing all projects for Beta4. While working on new features and bug fixes we also improve our pipelines and release scripts making sure that as soon as we are doing with merging all the involved PRs we can do Beta4. We are hoping to be able to release by the end o Read more...