Services

Red Hat sponsors this Open Source project and employs its core developers. Additionally, Red Hat offers enterprise support and consultancy for this community project, as part of a Red Hat product subscription.

Red Hat has:

Solution Architects to implement POC’s
Consultants to help deliver reliable production implementations
A 24/7 support team

Community and enterprise comparison

The community download delivers everything you would expect from an Open Source project, including all features. The enterprise subscription fills the missing gaps for enterprise use. Both community and enterprise use the same code base.

	Community	Enterprise subscription
Functionality
All features	Includes all enterprise features too
All bugfixes	Master branch only	Supported maintenance branches too
Documentation
Backport bugfixes to maintenance branches	Not released	Released in maintenance releases
Security (CVE) watch for maintenance branches	Eventually released from master branch only	Released as backported bugfix
Testing
Unit testing		On certification matrix
Integration testing		On certification matrix
Stress testing
Performance testing and sizing
QA certification		Cross matrix of OS’s, JDK’s, application containers, databases, … See supported configurations.
Help
Roadmap impact	Use our forum, issue tracker or send a Pull Request	Prioritized above community requests
Public questions	Use Google Groups	Or call 24/7 support instead
Private 24/7 support		By web or phone, guaranteed response time (SLA)
Red Hat consultancy, training and POC assistance		Talk to your account manager
Release schedule
Stable releases	Final usually every 3 weeks	GA every 3 months
Maintenance releases	Use latest instead	Usually every 6 weeks
One-off release for an urgent customer critical issue		Also rolled up in the next maintenance release
Information
Open source (Apache License)		but distribution available from customer portal only

Community

Enterprise subscription

Functionality

All features

Yes Includes all enterprise features too

Yes

All bugfixes

Yes Master branch only

Yes Supported maintenance branches too

Documentation

Yes

Backport bugfixes to maintenance branches

Not released

Yes Released in maintenance releases

Security (CVE) watch for maintenance branches

Eventually released from master branch only

Yes Released as backported bugfix

Testing

Unit testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Integration testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Stress testing

Yes

Performance testing and sizing

Yes

QA certification

Yes Cross matrix of OS’s, JDK’s, application containers, databases, … See supported configurations.

Help

Roadmap impact

Yes Use our forum, issue tracker or send a Pull Request

Yes Prioritized above community requests

Public questions

Yes Use Google Groups

Yes Or call 24/7 support instead

Private 24/7 support

Yes By web or phone, guaranteed response time (SLA)

Red Hat consultancy, training and POC assistance

Yes Talk to your account manager

Release schedule

Stable releases

Yes Final usually every 3 weeks

Yes GA every 3 months

Maintenance releases

Use latest instead

Yes Usually every 6 weeks

One-off release for an urgent customer critical issue

Yes Also rolled up in the next maintenance release

Information

Open source (Apache License)

Yes

Yes but distribution available from customer portal only

To migrate from the community to product binaries, simply add the customer maven repository and adjust the version numbers to include the -redhat suffix.

Enterprise overview

KIE functionality overview

jBPM is a fully supported component (called Red Hat Process Automation Manager) of the following products:

Red Hat Process Automation Manager

Important News

Take a look at jBPM 7.8

Mon 2 July 2018 - Latest and greatest version of jBPM is available for download. Take it for a test drive.
Take a look at jBPM 7.7

Mon 26 March 2018 - Another version of jBPM has just been released, a good reason to try it out!
Take a look at jBPM 7.6

Wed 31 January 2018 - jBPM 7.6 has just been released, see what's new comes out with it.
Take a look at jBPM 7.5

Wed 6 December 2017 - Release of jBPM 7.5 was just released, ready to be used at scale.
Take a look at jBPM 7.4

Tue 10 October 2017 - 7.4 of jBPM has just been released, time to take it for a spin.
Take a look at jBPM 7.3

Mon 4 September 2017 - And here it comes, jBPM 7.3 is out!
Take a look at jBPM 7.2

Tue 15 August 2017 - Release of jBPM 7.2 was just pushed to Maven repositories so it's ready to be used.
Take a look at jBPM 7.1

Fri 14 July 2017 - First minor release of version 7 is now available.
Take a look at jBPM 7.0

Tue 4 July 2017 - Introducing case management, new admin APIs, dashboards, and much more!
jBPM 6.5.0.Final release

Tue 25 October 2016 - A few more requested features are now available in the jBPM 6.5 release.
jBPM 6.4.0.Final release

Tue 19 April 2016 - A new look and feel and more features in jBPM 6.4.
jBPM 6.3.0.Final release

Mon 28 September 2015 - A lot of powerful new features were added in the jBPM 6.3 release.
jBPM 6.2.0.Final released

Fri 6 March 2015 - jBPM 6.2 bits have been released ! Find out everything you need to know, including the new features, in the announcement.
jBPM 6.1.0.Final available

Wed 10 September 2014 - jBPM 6.1 is now available ! Check out the new features, documentation and how to get started.
Deep Dive into jBPM6

Fri 9 May 2014 - Presentation and demo on jBPM6 from Red Hat Summit 2014 now available on demand.
Red Hat announces JBoss BPM Suite (supporting jBPM6)

Thu 13 March 2014 - As a result, you can now get official support for developing and deploying your jBPM6 applications.

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