Chapter 5. Deprecated components

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager and features and will be removed in a future release.

Both OptaPlanner 7 and OptaPlanner 8 are included with Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.12, but OptaPlanner 7 is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. For information about migrating your OptaPlanner 7 projects to OptaPlanner 8, see Upgrading your Red Hat build of OptaPlanner projects to OptaPlanner 8.

The following OptaPlanner tooling in Business Central is part of OptaPlanner 7. It is deprecated and might be removed in a future release.

Support for JDK 8 is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager and might be removed in a future release.

For a complete list of supported JDK configurations, see Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 Supported Configurations.

The legacy kie-pmml dependency was deprecated with Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.10.0 and will be replaced in a future Red Hat Process Automation Manager release. For more information, see Designing a decision service using PMML models.

Support for integration with the OSGi framework is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager. It does not receive any new enhancements or features and will be removed in a future release. The decision and process engine integration with the OSGi framework is currently incompatible in Fuse version 7.8. If you intend to use the OSGi framework, continue to use Red Hat Process Automation Manager version 7.9 with Fuse version 7.7 until Fuse version 7.9 is available and certified.

The Red Hat Process Automation Manager RuleUnit API is now deprecated due to incompatibility with the Kogito RuleUnit API.

The legacy Test Scenarios tool was deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager version 7.3.0. It will be removed in a future Red Hat Process Automation Manager release. Use the new Test Scenarios designer instead.

From Red Hat Process Automation Manager version 7.5, images and templates for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.x are deprecated. The deprecated images and templates are not supported with new features but remain available until the end of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 3.x support. For more information about the full support lifecycle phase for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 3.x, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy (non-current versions).

Consider deploying Red Hat Process Automation Manager using the operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x.

The legacy process designer in Business Central was deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.6.0. The legacy process designer does not receive any new enhancements or features. If you intend to use the new process designer, start migrating your processes to the new designer and create new processes in the new process designer. For information about migrating projects to the new designer, see Managing projects in Business Central.