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Camunda 8.10 alpha cycles through broad platform bug fixes while 8.7 gets routine security patches

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◆Current state
Camunda is a monorepo platform spanning Zeebe (workflow engine), Operate, Tasklist, and Optimize. The 8.7 line is in maintenance mode—receiving dependency security patches and Jetty/log4j CVE bumps. The 8.10 alpha series is active, working through a wide backlog of correctness issues: Raft reconfiguration deadlocks, RDBMS physical tenant bugs, CSL authentication failures in Optimize, and a write-retry backoff regression that had slowed Zeebe processing 3–16x.
◆Where it's heading
The 8.10 alpha indicates Camunda is working toward a release that resolves accumulated platform debt across the distributed engine, secondary storage, and observability stack. The scale of the bug list—covering everything from Raft membership changes to Swagger UI regressions—suggests 8.10 is a stabilization release rather than a feature milestone. No major architectural or capability-surface changes are visible in this window.
◆Prediction
8.10 will move to beta once the Raft, RDBMS physical tenant, and CSL authentication issues are resolved. The pattern of fixing fundamental distributed-engine correctness bugs suggests the team is clearing blockers before announcing a GA.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    8.7.28-optimize

    8.7.28 patches log4j CVE-2026-49844, Jetty CVEs, and aligns Jackson and Spring Security on the 8.7 maintenance branch. No user-visible behavior changes.

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  2. 7d ago

    Camunda 8.10 CI dryrun (internal)

    Internal CI dry-run tag on the 8.10 branch. Not a public release; contains a single scoped history assertion fix.

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  3. 13d ago

    8.7.27-optimize

    8.7.27 patches multiple CVEs (netty, httpclient5, micrometer, Spring Framework) and bumps Jetty on the maintenance branch. Standard quarterly security update.

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  4. 15d ago

    Camunda 8.10.0-alpha5: Raft, RDBMS, and Zeebe performance regression fixes

    8.10 alpha5 works through a large backlog: Raft deadlock fixes, CSL authentication failures in Optimize, a 3–16x Zeebe processing regression from write-retry backoff, RDBMS physical tenant correctness, and Operate UI issues. The breadth signals platform stabilization work ahead of a beta.

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  5. 15d ago

    Secret resolution warmup for long-poll workers (internal branch)

    Internal development branch that pre-warms secret resolution for long-poll workers to reduce activation latency. Authored with Claude assistance; not a released tag.

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  6. 15d ago

    Load test baseline: long-poll path for secret resolution (internal)

    CI tooling change that exercises the long-poll worker path under load testing by disabling streaming. Internal infrastructure for the secret resolution performance work.

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