Release Camunda Modeler v4.5.0

[MaxTru]

What's inside?

• Sticky Headers and first column in DMN decision tables (Make decision table header / footer sticky bpmn-io/dmn-js#269)
• Fixed local element templates (Templates located in .camunda/element-templates directory are not listed #2012)
• Fix to set external resource script value for I/O parameters (Cannot set resource attribute for InputMapping inside Connector #2007)
• Fix unescaped template properties to blow up the variables overview (Template Property Containing Unescaped Characters Breaks Properties Panel #2031)
• Fix literal expression styles (Literal Expression Styles Broken #2019)
• Feature to allow isCollection marker (I can model data object isCollection marker bpmn-io/bpmn-js#381)
• Feature to deal with versioned element templates (Intuitive handling of updated/changed/deleted element templates is implemented #1969) ((!) This needs to be released in parallel with https://github.com/camunda/cloud-connect-modeler-plugin/issues/29)
• Feature toggle-off CMMN https://github.com/bpmn-io/internal-docs/issues/220

Release Checklist

To be done immediately after creating this issue.

• put up code freeze appointment in calendar (include modeling, qa, infra, and Team-Support)
• put up release appointment in calendar (include modeling, DevRel and Marketing [ Charley Mann & Christopher Rogers ])
• add Slack role to release manager (@modeling-release-manager)

To be done after code freeze and prior to the release day to prepare and build the release.

• make sure changes in upstream libraries are merged and released
  • bpmn-js, dmn-js, cmmn-js, *-properties-panel, *-moddle, ...
• 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
• verify develop is up to date with master: git checkout master && git pull && git checkout develop && git merge master
• smoke test to verify all diagrams can be created
• update CHANGELOG
• merge to master: git checkout master && git merge develop
• create release candidate (npm run release), e.g. v1.0.0-rc.0
  • wait for Travis to build the executables
• execute integration test on released artifacts
  • Works on Linux
  • Works on Mac
  • Works on Windows
• trigger QA for fuzzy testing
• write blog post for the Camunda Blog
  • create a draft post on Wordpress
  • send the draft to Charley Mann for review
  • send the reviewed draft to Christopher Rogers to coordinate the publishing Charley handled that

To be done after integration test was successful or if not issues were fixed.

• create release (npm run release), cf. release schema
  • wait for Travis to build the executables
• send all information required to compile the release notice email to the @product-release-presentation-dri role

To be done on release day to announce the release and making it publically available.

• publish release on Github Releases
• trigger mirroring of release to https://camunda.org/release/camunda-modeler/ via Jenkins
• update download version of Camunda Modeler by reaching out to David Paradis
• send the release notice email to Roman Smirnov
• add new version to updates-server releases JSON file. Merge this file to master/live branches.
• close current milestone

[barmac]

Camunda Modeler 4.5.0 is relaesed.