Chapter 2. New features


This section highlights new features in Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.13.

You can now configure the deployment to only enable decision management related components and functionality so that jBPM and case management features are disabled.

During configuration of the environment, you can now change the route termination, enable edge termination, and set optional credentials.

You can now configure the custom registry to use specific images during the configuration of the environment.

You can now set the org.kie.jbpm.event.emitters.eagerInit property to true to output the error log when KIE Server starts and initializes the Kafka emitter.

You can now use a secret containing the credentials for the Admin user during KieApp configuration.

During configuration of the environment, you can now change the route termination, enable edge termination and set optional credentials.

2.7. Process Designer

It is now possible to set the priority of a task as an MVEL expression.

2.8. Process engine

It is now possible to get support for exploded installations of Spring Boot business automation applications. If the application working directory is not the default directory, you can set it with the org.kie.maven.resolver.folder=/my-workspace/ variable. Note that for the Spring Boot image you must copy this variable into the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: "-Dorg.kie.maven.resolver.folder=…​" environment variable.

It is now possible to remove the process ID from the EJB timer column. You can now correlate process-instance-id and ejb-timer-id.

2.9. DMN Designer

Red Hat Process Automation Manager now provides runtime support for DMN Specification v1.4 in the Drools DMN engine.

2.10. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Process Instance Migration Service now uses Quarkus instead of Thorntail.

When you deploy Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using the operator installer, by default the deployment uses the OpenShiftStartupStrategy setting. You can now switch to the Controller startup strategy in the configuration user interface if necessary.

2.10.3. Custom hostname routes

You can now set custom hostnames for external routes by using the routeHostname property.

2.10.4. Improved SSL configurability

You can now enable or disable SSL in the operator and expose the SSL route.

You can now specify whether to use a default or user customized CORS configuration.

When deploying a high-availability Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, you can now configure the user name and password for the Red Hat Data Grid component.

2.11. Red Hat build of OptaPlanner

Additional metrics are available for monitoring the OptaPlanner solver with Micrometer.

2.12. Spring Boot

The start.jpbm.org website is no longer available. To create Spring Boot business applications use Maven archetype commands.

2.13. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

2.13.1. Custom host name routes

You can now set custom host names for external routes by using the routeHostname property.

2.13.2. Improved SSL configurability

You can now enable or disable SSL in the operator and expose the SSL route.

You can now specify whether to use a default or user-customized CORS configuration.

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