Release camunda-modeler v5.7.0

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What's inside?

General

• added replace menu shortcut R (#3364)
• added support for nested variables to FEEL editor autocompletion (#34)
  • this feature cannot be used yet

BPMN

• added color picker (#221)
• added support for applying and unlinking element templates through replace menu (#207, #219)
• added support for implementation as FEEL expression to script task (#3321)
• added support for error code as FEEL expression (#837)

Forms

• added support for conditional rendering of form fields (#403)
• added text area form field (#283)
• added image form field (#385)
• added datetime form field (#377)
• added support for FEEL to text field form fields (#447)
• added support for prefix and suffix to text field and number form fields (#460)
• added support for decimal numbers to number form field (#421)
• added email and phone validation type to text field form fields (#414)
• added validation of form input JSON in validate view (#386)

Release Checklist

To be done immediately after creating this issue.

• add Slack role to release manager (@modeling-release-manager)
• (optional) update release presentation page

To be done before the code freeze.

• inform QA about the release and its details so they can prepare for testing
• get in touch with the team (PM, UX and Engineering side), to clarify what topics will be included in the Release and their priority. Use this information to start preparing a concept for the blog post (see below) and release info (see below)
  • (optional) if possible, already create feature branch to update Release Info following our guidelines

To be done after code freeze to prepare and test the release.

• make sure changes in upstream libraries are merged and released
  • bpmn-js, dmn-js, *-properties-panel, *-moddle, camunda-bpmn-js, form-js, ...
• make sure dependencies to upstream libraries are updated and can be installed (rm -rf node_modules && npm i && npm run all works)
• close all issues which are solved by dependency updates
• smoke test to verify all diagrams can be created
• update Release Info
  • create a draft following our guidelines and based on priorities which were aligned with the team (PM, UX, and Engineering side)
  • create PR to merge the draft into develop. Assign to PM, UX and Engineering for review
• update CHANGELOG
• verify develop is up to date with master: git checkout master && git pull && git checkout develop && git merge master
• merge to master: git checkout master && git merge develop
• create release candidate (npm run release:rc -- --[prepatch|preminor|premajor]), cf. release schema
  • wait for release build to create the artifacts
• execute integration test on released artifacts
  • Works on Linux
  • Works on Mac
  • Works on Windows
• notify QA about the release so they can test it

To be done to build the release after release testing completed.

• create release (npm run release), cf. release schema
  • wait for release build to create the artifacts

To be done once the release is built.

• publish release on Github Releases
• trigger mirroring of release to Camunda Download Center via Jenkins
• write blog post for the Camunda Blog, see guidelines
  • use the blog post template
  • add your contents to the newly created post
  • set yourself as the post author
  • share the post with your colleagues for review
  • send the draft to Christopher Rogers to double check it and coordinate publishing
• update Camunda Modeler screenshots (and potentially text content) in the docs by running screenshots workflow. Download artifacts and create PRs for:
  • camunda-docs-static
  • camunda-docs-manual
  • camunda-docs-platform
• send all information required to compile the release notice email to the @product-release-presentation-dri role
• request marketing to update the downloads page via request form
• add new version to update server releases

To be done once release is publicly announced on release day.

• publish release via update server (push to live)
• close current milestone

[philippfromme]

The release candidate can be downloaded here: https://github.com/camunda/camunda-modeler/releases/tag/untagged-16dcb27ed74ded9ac169

[philippfromme]

Follow-Up Issues

• Email and Phone validation doesn't take precedence over custom validation #3379
• Entering a date in the past crashes the current DateTime form element #3380
• Overflowing long prefix and suffix values in the form fields #3381
• Restrict number formats in fields "decimal" and "increment" for a number form element #3382
• Disabling and enabling the Datetime field persists the values only in the date field and not in time field #3383
• unclear behavior of increment function in the Number field  #3384
• Validate zeebe:candiateUsers support #3385

[philippfromme]

Blog post will be released shortly. Draft can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DwbsK4KHwoeFZsK0t4CO1LCr1ErJXVU6_jaxFAOMIYE/edit?pli=1#

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Created follow up release issue.

Assigned @nikku as the next release commander.