Roadmap for 6.7.0

Stefan · August 2, 2021, 7:48am

Hi,
on the roadmap wiki, the next release 6.7.0 is mentioned as TBD. What are the timeline we can expect for releae of 6.7.0?
Best regards,
Stefan

joram · August 2, 2021, 1:08pm

Due to a massive amount of work this year (which is a good thing from a certain angle ), we’ve had to postpone it a few times. Right now our goal is to release it this month - but no promises.

Stefan · August 2, 2021, 2:05pm

Thanks for the quick reply.

We currently have a couple of open contributions as Pull Requests:

github.com/flowable/flowable-engine

Fix wait state of asynchronous multi-instance activities

flowable:master ← sap-contributions:fix-async-mi-waitstate

opened 05:58PM - 24 Feb 21 UTC

AlexanderWirthSAP

+190 -7

Without this change a flow node with multi-instance characteristics marked as as…ynchronous is still initially executed synchronously by the ContinueProcessOperation. If a failure happens during the initialization of the multi-instance, e.g. the referenced collection does not exist, then a rollback occurs. However, this rollback disregards that the asynchronous flow node should be a wait state and instead rolls back to the beginning of any previous asynchronous activity. Example: Start Event --> Async Script Task --> Async Multi-Instance Call Activity --> End Event If the multi-instance call activity fails because the collection variable cannot be resolved, then the execution is rolled back all the way to before the script task, whereas the expectation would be that the execution is rolled back only to the beginning of the call activity, because it is marked as asynchronous. This change fixes this by removing the special case for multi-instance activities in ContinueProcessOperation, so that any asynchronous flow node again first commits the transaction and creates a new async-continuation job and is then actually being executed when it is later picked up by the job executor. #### Check List: * Unit tests: YES (MultiInstanceTest::testAsync**Rollback) * Documentation: NA

Do you see chances that they will make it ino the 6.7.0 release? Even if it gets delayed

filiphr · August 9, 2021, 8:28am

Hey @Stefan,

We have merged Minor cleanup of CallActivityBehavior by AlexanderWirthSAP · Pull Request #2749 · flowable/flowable-engine · GitHub.

I’ve left a comment for Maps changed to ConcurrentHashMaps for SharedExecutorServiceAsyncExecutor by tinabandaloemruli · Pull Request #2863 · flowable/flowable-engine · GitHub, I don’t see why we need to change the maps to ConcurrentHashMaps, perhaps you can help me understand it.

We’ll have a look at Fix wait state of asynchronous multi-instance activities by AlexanderWirthSAP · Pull Request #2831 · flowable/flowable-engine · GitHub before the release as well. On first glance it looks good, but we need to have a deeper look, since we did some changes in that area recently as well.

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