The company says the release preserves compatibility with Camunda 7 CE at the data-schema and API levels and is tested and supported on Java 17, 21, and 25. Its stated technology base includes Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7.
The release also adds a runtime-independent Health SPI and an optional /health endpoint for the portable run distribution, returning HTTP 200 (UP) or 503 (DOWN). The article describes updates to REST and Kafka connectors, including configuration through BPMN service-task specifications. Nashorn has been removed in favor of GraalVM JavaScript; the authors caution that existing scripts may need migration review. The announcement describes product capabilities and the vendor's testing approach; it does not independently establish performance gains or compatibility for every deployed application.