What’s new in Camunda 8.8?!
Summary of important changes
Important changes introduced in Camunda 8.8 are summarized as follows:
| What’s new | Summary |
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| Agentic Orchestration | Improved features and new connectors for building and orchestrating AI agents within your BPMN-based workflows. |
| Orchestration Cluster | The Orchestration Cluster (previously automation cluster) is now the core Camunda 8 component. |
| Identity, authentication, and authorization | Identity management is now split into two scopes for improved access management, performance, and flexible integration with any OIDC-compatible Identity Provider:
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| APIs & tools | New and changed APIs & tools are introduced in Camunda 8.8. |
- See release announcements and release notes for more detail on what's included in Camunda 8.8.
- Ready to upgrade? See the upgrade guides to learn more about upgrading from Camunda 8.7 to 8.8.
Why upgrade to Camunda 8.8?
Camunda 8.8 introduces important architectural changes and enhancements to simplify deployment, improve maintainability, and empower both operations teams and developers.
Upgrading to Camunda 8.8 delivers significant benefits:
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Agentic orchestration: Build and orchestrate AI agents within your BPMN-based workflows, enabling human tasks, deterministic rule sets, and AI-driven decisions to collaborate in a robust, end-to-end process.
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Unified platform: Camunda 8.8 combines core components into a single Orchestration Cluster, reducing system complexity, centralizing operations, and simplifying both deployment and maintenance.
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Enhanced productivity: This upgrade introduces streamlined identity and access management, a consolidated configuration model, and modernized & consolidated APIs and SDKs, making development, integration, and permission handling faster and more intuitive.
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Increased efficiency: The new unified exporter architecture improves performance with accelerated data visibility in Operate and Tasklist, as well as available via query APIs. It also enables easier operation and administration, and improves resilience when deploying across multiple data centers.
To learn more about the benefits of upgrading to Camunda 8.8, see the blog posts streamlined deployment with Camunda 8.8 and introducing enhanced Identity Management in Camunda 8.8.