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Distributed workflow engine for microservice orchestration

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Zeebe 8.10 alpha cycle is deep in platform refactoring — Spring Boot SDK gets lease support.

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◆Current state
Zeebe is in active alpha development toward version 8.10.0, shipping RC candidates daily while maintaining stable patches on 8.7. The main user-visible addition in alpha5 is the `withLease` property in the Spring Boot SDK's `JobWorkerValue`, which gives job workers explicit control over job activation leases. A specific latency fix addresses secret resolution requiring two round trips for non-cached references — a performance regression in job workers using external secrets.
◆Where it's heading
The 8.10 alpha cycle is primarily architectural: a unified webapp with runtime feature flag support, partition-key changes for cross-partition completion, and a new Admin design system. These are platform improvements that will surface over 8.10 stable. The project runs a parallel LTS (8.7) and development (8.10-alpha) cadence, suggesting organizational discipline but slow user-visible feature velocity in the short term.
◆Prediction
8.10.0 stable will arrive in the next 1-2 months after the RC cycle completes; the Spring Boot SDK lease support and unified webapp will be the marquee user-facing changes. No signal of architectural shifts beyond the current roadmap.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    8.7.27: optimize branch maintenance patch

    A maintenance patch on the 8.7 optimize branch — upgrades the Parsson JSON library to v1.1.9 and applies a plan upgrade fix. Internal dependency maintenance with no user-visible effect.

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  2. 15d ago

    8.10.0-alpha5: Spring Boot SDK lease support and partition key improvements

    Alpha5 exposes `withLease` in the Spring Boot SDK's `JobWorkerValue`, giving developers declarative control over activation lease behavior without custom configuration. Cross-partition holder-completion is also pushed to the partition key, improving distributed completion consistency. These are real but pre-release improvements.

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  3. 16d ago

    Job worker secret resolution: eliminate two-round-trip latency for non-cached secrets

    This fix addresses a specific latency penalty: job workers using non-cached secret references paid two round trips — miss on the first poll, background resolution, then the second poll. The warmup now pre-resolves secrets when a job stays activatable, eliminating the double-round-trip cost. Relevant for anyone running jobs that reference external secrets.

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  4. 16d ago

    CI: add long-poll path to secrets load test coverage

    CI test coverage addition for the long-poll activation path in secret load test scenarios. Ensures the test suite exercises the path the warmup fix covers. Internal quality improvement with no user effect.

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  5. 19d ago

    8.10.0-alpha5-rc3: unified webapp feature flags and design system revert

    RC3 for alpha5 — feature flag support for the unified webapp and a revert on the Admin design system default. Standard RC iteration; no new user features.

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  6. 20d ago

    8.10.0-alpha5-rc2: design system and Liquibase migration fixes

    RC2 for alpha5 — fixes a design system style regression that broke Carbon button rendering and a Liquibase migration issue preventing parallel execution inside a single JVM. Standard pre-release bug fixing.

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