# 7.0.0 Early Access 201711 This release was focused on expanding our base building blocks to make sure that they can perform in distributed environments (Docker & Kubernetes). We added monitoring & tracing capabilities to the platform to make sure that we have visibility when things go wrong. As part of this release we aligned our artifacts with [Spring Boot 2.0.0.M6](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-2.0.0-M6-Release-Notes) and [Spring Cloud Finchley.M4](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-cloud/wiki/Spring-Cloud-Finchley-Release-Notes). The following frameworks are now built in in our services: * activiti-cloud-services-tracing: which currently includes integration with Sleuth and Zipkin * activiti-cloud-services-monitoring: which delegate to the Spring Actuator the Job to expose metrics for health checks, readyness and liveness probes. You can find an example of tracing included in our deployment descriptors for Docker Compose & Kubernetes in our Activiti Cloud Examples Repository We have also introduced the first iteration of our Runtime Bundle Security Policies. As described in our RFC document: The second iteration of Activiti Cloud Connectors was released as well, introducing bidirectional channels by default, which allows our connectors to talk back to Process Runtimes as well as receive IntegrationRequestEvents and send back IntegrationResultsEvents. You can find the source code here: [activiti-cloud-starter-connector](https://github.com/activiti/activiti-cloud-connectors) You can find our published artifacts in [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|activiti-cloud) and our Docker Images have been tagged so you can use the 7-EA201711 tag for each of our images. You can find more details on [Activiti in Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/u/activiti/) [We updated our Roadmap and included new Milestones](https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/wiki/Activiti-7-Roadmap). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://activiti.gitbook.io/activiti-7-developers-guide/releases/7-ea201711.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.