Changelog

This page contains an overview of the released versions and highlights the major changes from a user point of view (i.e. focus on features). The complete changelog, including the patch versions, can be found on the GitHub release page.

1.18

Zeebe: 8.6.0Camunda Platform: not yet

Built-in functions:

• New built-in function is empty() to check if a list is empty
• New built-in function trim() to remove leading and trailing spaces of a string
• New built-in function uuid() to create a UUID (Universally Unique Identifier)
• New built-in function to base64() to encode a string in Base64 format

See the full changelog here.

1.17

Zeebe: 8.3.0Camunda Platform: 7.21.0

Expressions:

• Overhauled error handling. Instead of failing the evaluation, for example, because of a non-existing variable or context entry, it handles these cases and returns null.

Built-in functions:

• New built-in function duplicate values() to find duplicate list items
• New built-in function get or else() to handle null values
• New built-in function assert() to fail the evaluation if a condition is not met

See the full changelog here.

1.16

Zeebe: 8.2.0Camunda Platform: 7.20.0

Built-in functions:

• New built-in function get value() to access a context with a dynamic path
• New built-in function context put() to insert a nested value in a context
• New built-in function last day of month() to get the last day of a month
• New built-in function date and time() to get a date-time for a timezone
• New built-in function random number() to get a random number

See the full changelog here.

1.15

Zeebe: 8.1.0Camunda Platform: 7.19.0

Expressions:

• New @ notation for temporal literals

See the full changelog here.

1.14

Zeebe: 1.3.1Camunda Platform: 7.18.0

Built-in functions:

• New function extract() that applies a regular expression to a given a string
• New function string join() that merges a list of strings into a single string
• New range functions to compare ranges and scalar values
• New functions to round numeric values:
  • round up()
  • round down()
  • round half up()
  • round half down()
• Extend function abs() for duration values

See the full changelog here.

1.13

Zeebe: 1.0.0Camunda Platform: 7.15.0

Expressions:

• Access the property weekday of date and date-time values
• Allow escape sequences in string literals

Built-in functions:

• New function context() that creates a context from a given key-value list
• New function put() that extends a context by a given entry
• New function put all() that merges the given contexts

See the full changelog here.

1.12

Zeebe: 0.25.0Camunda Platform: 7.14.0

Built-in functions:

• New function now() that returns the current date-time
• New function today() that returns the current date
• New function week of year() that returns the number of the week within the year
• New function month of year() that returns the name of the month
• New function day of week() that returns name of the weekday
• New function day of year() that returns the number of the day within the year

See the full changelog here.

1.11

Zeebe: 0.23.0Camunda Platform: 7.13.0

Expressions:

• Access the element of a list using a numeric variable
• Disable external functions by default for security reasons

See the full changelog here.