8.10.0-alpha2

✨ New Features

• d538b8a - add template for MCP start events (PR #6742 by @tmetzke)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #48496 opened by @tmetzke
• 3e5ca5c - add /outbound endpoint to get information about our outbound connectors (PR #6989 by @johnBgood)
• ae319bc - update Camunda Client API to 8.10 and support job completion listeners (PR #6994 by @maff)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7020 opened by @maff
• 54d7dca - feel: added backoff FEEL function for exponential backoff with jitter (PR #7003 by @azan-baloch)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6710 opened by @vringar
• f8d56d6 - inline-document: Add inline document type (PR #7082 by @ztefanie)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7056 opened by @ztefanie
• 0024df0 - element-template-generator: add @TemplateLinkedResource annotation support (PR #7239 by @shtishiv)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7048 opened by @shtishiv
• d9154bd - documents: Unified source dropdown (PR #7269 by @ztefanie)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7057 opened by @ztefanie
• 0ee23b1 - connector-runtime: add process-definition-cache toggle (PR #7345 by @jonathanlukas)
• 680e7c8 - add processName to ProcessElement and lastUpdatedAt to Health (#7376) (PR #7381 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])

🐛 Bug Fixes

• a924e02 - bump Maven to 3.9.15 — 3.9.14 removed from Apache CDN (PR #7094 by @chillleader)
• f9357f1 - NullPointerException in HTTP REST Outbound Connector (PR #7102 by @claude)
• e3bd30b - ci: install element-templates-cli in e2e-tests job (PR #7122 by @chillleader)
• 9cc8822 - log ERROR ActivityLog when reporting Health.down (PR #7125 by @johnBgood)
• c2de502 - Use MessageDigest based equality for auth string comparisons (PR #7135 by @sbuettner)
• e68f7f9 - agentic-ai: forward configured env vars for STDIO MCP client transport (PR #7163 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #7162 opened by @maff
• 018eaf1 - pin postgresql to 42.7.11 in parent dependencyManagement (PR #7180 by @chillleader)
• 624e7fa - bump opennlp-tools to 2.5.9 (PR #7177 by @chillleader)
• 292dc76 - etg: Ignore static fields (PR #7143 by @ztefanie)
• bbbd00d - et: Fix different et errors (PR #7153 by @ztefanie)
• 997ad06 - agentic-ai: Fix socket and connection timeout config on LLM clients being too short on default settings (PR #7240 by @nikonovd)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #7193 opened by @cafe-camunda-feedback-bot
• e87dd14 - prefer connector virtual thread executor (PR #7233 by @johnBgood)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #7186 opened by @mathias-vandaele
• 37fefd5 - bump netty-transport-native-epoll to 4.2.13.Final (PR #7175 by @chillleader)
• ebe87b8 - uniquet: skip non-JSON files and surface errors (PR #7246 by @chillleader)
• 96040eb - override Tomcat to 11.0.22 for CVE remediation (PR #7248 by @johnBgood)
• 1c68a9d - slack: Does not send plain text with documents (PR #7079 by @ztefanie)
• d9e5e33 - agentic-ai: Ensure that AI agent chat resources are properly closed where possible (PR #7243 by @nikonovd)
• 3f05fd2 - ci: restoring mvnw execute permission in the release workflow (PR #7290 by @Copilot)
• 3f2347c - aws: restore STS dependency to re-enable IRSA authentication (PR #7273 by @johnBgood)
  • ↘️ fixes issue #7271 opened by @johnBgood
• b740e14 - ci: resolve 401 on snapshot deploy by separating mirror and deploy server IDs (PR #7319 by @johnBgood)

♻️ Refactors

• 0361a82 - AWS AgentCore — extract Aws client configuration, update templates to ^8.10, unpublish-gate removal (PR #7075 by @Copilot)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #6950 opened by @maff

✅ Tests

• 17cbbd0 - introduce MockOidcServer to replace hardcoded OIDC URLs in tests (PR #7081 by @johnBgood)
• fdadc57 - agentic-ai: add event handling regression e2e test (PR #7072 by @maff)
• 60af440 - agentic-ai: wait for active inbound executable to fix flaky A2A e2e tests (PR #7100 by @maff)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7033 opened by @maff
• 49c338d - add AI Agent E2E tests via CPT (PR #6940 by @gbetances089)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #49669 opened by @gbetances089
• 341b798 - fix E2E tests that uses OIDC mock server (PR #7247 by @johnBgood)
• 7116245 - congen-cli: smoke test for CLI bootstrap (proves issue, fix to follow) (PR #7354 by @vringar)
  • ↘️ addresses issue #7355 opened by @vringar
• de5fe5f - fix test so that it works on any machine (github runners) (#7369) (PR #7371 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])

🔧 Chores

• d56e72b - secrets: Rotate secrets (PR #7134 by @ztefanie)