8.9.0-alpha5-rc1

✨ New Features

• 4bc4463 - fetch active process definitions (PR #6056 by @chillleader)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #3227 opened by @johnBgood
• 13883ee - error-expression: Add ignoreError function to complete jobs v… (PR #6157 by @sbuettner)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #5955 opened by @adrienboucherssg
• 78d341e - Add instructions to prevent META-INF file generation (PR #6249 by @jonathanlukas)
• 0335c77 - slack: added reactions.add operation (PR #6225 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6211 opened by @chillleader
• 237c5ca - webhook: added XML support for webhook connector (PR #6301 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6100 opened by @chillleader
• c7dfc49 - google-gemini: update model versions to latest stable Gemini models (PR #6032 by @vringar)
• 050bb28 - http: improve HTTP status incident message (PR #6093 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #5820 opened by @chillleader
• 0c610df - ms-email-inbound: Introduce Microsoft 365 inbound email connector (PR #5886 by @vringar)
• e39485f - http-client: add JDK HTTP client proxy configuration support (PR #6334 by @maff)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6333 opened by @maff
• 65044f1 - mcp: configure HTTP proxy from connectors proxy vars on MCP connections (PR #6335 by @maff)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6250 opened by @maff
• 40f79a0 - agentic-ai: Add title to MCP models and add @nullable to optional fields using @AgenticAiRecord (PR #6313 by @nikonovd)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 403a7bd - ETG: Fix group generation for element templates (PR #6179 by @sbuettner)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6178 opened by @sbuettner
• 4875cc8 - operation: Fix exception ConnectorException handling (PR #6201 by @sbuettner)
• e70c150 - agentic-ai: fix broken agentic AI e2e tests (PR #6209 by @mdii)
• 83f5b35 - disable @feel support for outbound connectors (PR #6210 by @johnBgood)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6208 opened by @johnBgood
• d89ab06 - apply A2A test case fix to connector tests (PR #6221 by @maff)
• 3a6e8df - slack: fix plaintext wrapping and formatting #5807 (PR #6260 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #5807 opened by @chillleader
• 1774eeb - only show ignoreNullValues flag for HTTP methods with request body (PR #6253 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6252 opened by @chillleader
• 2a853d9 - improve error messages for invalid result and error expression types (PR #6212 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6202 opened by @chillleader
• 207b73b - ci: ensure sanitize step runs even when build fails (PR #6314 by @vringar)
• 03f2596 - agentic-ai: Investigate flaky e2e tests (PR #6312 by @maff)
• 347f8e6 - OutboundConnector: add variables to fail JobCommand (PR #5988 by @vringar)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #5979 opened by @vringar
• 298c73d - agentic-ai: override default /mcp and /sse endpoint default settings to avoid breaking the configured URL (PR #6394 by @maff)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6393 opened by @maff
• 90f8ef8 - a2a: set default agent card path in A2aAgentCardFetcher implementation (PR #6317 by @vthiery)
• a42965a - idp-extraction-connector: updated input for classification (PR #6380 by @reiballa)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6379 opened by @reiballa
• 00cc673 - disable test profile in SaaS context test (PR #6431 by @chillleader)
• c202785 - security: Prevent XXE attacks on SOAP connector (PR #6326 by @ztefanie)
• 2811382 - hugging-face: updated hugging face connector template (PR #6309 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6302 opened by @ztefanie
• 57fef5d - implement missing businessId methods in test dummies (PR #6466 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6465 opened by @azan-baloch
• d706d39 - idp-extraction-connector: add new idp templates to ignore-templates.json (PR #6471 by @reiballa)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #6470 opened by @reiballa
• 9a2abb5 - update SourceAware imports after camunda-client-java refactoring (PR #6475 by @vringar)
• 9a6f618 - google-gemini: add missing versioned v2 template and bump to v3 (PR #6427 by @vringar)
• a9295b0 - add filtering for start events when activating older versions (PR #6478 by @chillleader)

♻️ Refactors

• 946aa82 - agentic-ai: Add mcp-sdk based mcp-client implementation (PR #6226 by @nikonovd)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6273 opened by @nikonovd
• d46b894 - agentic-ai: Rename "Interrupt tool calls" event handling option to "Cancel tool calls" (PR #6278 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6277 opened by @maff
• f426b88 - agentic-ai: Remove langchain4j MCP framework implementation, consolidate on mcp-sdk (PR #6279 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6274 opened by @nikonovd
• 0db13a7 - Extract element template generator annotations (PR #6337 by @sbuettner)
• d599140 - agentic-ai: Decouple MCP models from core models (PR #6444 by @maff)
• d3b1645 - Use minimus image for SaaS (PR #6472 by @sbuettner)

✅ Tests

• 293bc50 - agentic-ai: Add integration test for MCP connector standalone operations (PR #6096 by @nikonovd)
• eaf5dbe - add CSV E2E tests (PR #6217 by @johnBgood)
• 23ef80d - update test workflow to try continue-on-error (PR #6243 by @johnBgood)
• e914db8 - agentic-ai: Add MCP authentication e2e tests (PR #6254 by @maff)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #5760 opened by @maff
• f86b429 - fix HTTP E2E tests using dynamic process instead of a static one (PR #6341 by @johnBgood)
• 0e43f74 - agentic-ai: make e2e incident error assertions more resilient (PR #6452 by @maff)

🔧 Chores

• 84f89a0 - only disable analyze execution of maven dependency plugin in e2e tests, not the whole plugin (PR #6106 by @maff)
• 13f15e1 - pr-review: Use auto-assign for PR reviews (PR #6235 by @sbuettner)
• 66264f5 - docs: Update docs (PR #6207 by @sbuettner)
• deac61c - ci: Use GH app for team members (PR #6266 by @sbuettner)
• 3c3ce7f - actuator endpoint for clearing the cache (PR #6308 by @chillleader)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6267 opened by @chillleader
• 71c54d7 - version: Bump camunda version to latest rc (commit by @ztefanie)