> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://activiti.gitbook.io/activiti-7-developers-guide/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://activiti.gitbook.io/activiti-7-developers-guide/releases/7.1.0-m7.md).

# 7.1.0-M7

7.1.0-M7

You can consume all the Activiti artifacts for this release from Alfresco Nexus:

```markup
<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>activiti-releases</id>
    <url>https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/activiti-releases</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>
```

*Activiti Cloud:*

```markup
<dependencyManagement>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.activiti.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>activiti-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
       <version>7.1.0-M7</version>
       <scope>import</scope>
       <type>pom</type>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </dependencyManagement>
```

*Activiti Core*

```markup
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.activiti</groupId>
        <artifactId>activiti-dependencies</artifactId>
        <version>7.1.0-M7</version>
        <scope>import</scope>
        <type>pom</type>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
```

### In the 7.1.0-M7 release you will find the following [main fixes & features](https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/milestone/31?closed=1):

* \*\*Error handling for cloud connectors: \*\*see the section [Error handling](/activiti-7-developers-guide/components/activiti-cloud-application/cloud-connectors.md#error-handling) for Cloud Connectors more details.
* Possibility do **explicitly define the variable type** while starting a process via REST API. The variables should be provided in the format `key`/`value` where `key` is going to be the variable name and `value` can be either directly the actual value (in which case Activiti will try to guess the type) or a complex object having two fields: `value` with the string representation of the value and `type` explicitly defining the type. The example below uses a mix of these two options:

```markup
"variables":{
      "dateValue":{
         "type":"date",
         "value":"1970-01-01T01:01:01.001Z"
      },
      "date": "1970-01-01T01:01:01.001Z",
      "stringValue":{
         "type":"string",
         "value":"name"
      },
      "string":"name",
      "bigDecimalValue":{
         "type":"BigDecimal",
         "value":"10.00"
      },
      "intValue":{
         "type":"integer",
         "value":"10"
      },
      "int":10
      "booleanValue":{
         "type":"boolean",
         "value":"true"
      },
      "boolean":true,
      "doubleValue":{
         "type":"double",
         "value":"10.00"
      }
      "double":10.0
   }
```

* Improve information provided by `PROCESS_CANCELLED_EVENT`
* Fix support of `${initiator}` expression.
* Provide candidates info when fetching a task by ID.
* Update to Spring Boot `2.1.13.RELEASE`.

## Known issues / Changes from previous milestones

* **`jaxb-api` dependency at the engine level:** the dependency to `jaxb-api` was added directly at the engine level, so this extra dependency doesn't need to be declared along side with `activiti-cloud-starter-runtime-bundle`, as in the previous milestones.
* **Maven artifacts refactoring:** the number of different `groupIds` produced by `Activiti` and `Activiti Cloud` has been reduced to only two (`org.activiti` and `org.activiti.cloud`). This is a breaking change compared with previous milestones: `org.activiti.cloud.<suffix>` will become `org.activiti.cloud` and `org.activiti.<suffix>` will become `org.activiti`.
* **Fix semantic versioning:** use `-` character instead of `.`: `7.1.0-M7` and not `7.1.0.M7`.
* **Milestone artifacts are no longer published to Maven Central:** so far, milestone artifacts are going to be published to Alfresco Nexus.

```markup
<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>activiti-releases</id>
    <url>https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/activiti-releases</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>
```

* **Java 8 support has been dropped**
* \*\*Git repositories restructuring: \*\*carrying on the work started in the previous milestone, several git repositories were merged together and so far *Activiti* projects use only five main repositories:
  * [Activiti](https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti): holds **Activiti Core** related code.
  * [activiti-cloud](https://github.com/Activiti/activiti-cloud): holds **Activiti Cloud** related code.
  * [activiti-cloud-application](https://github.com/Activiti/activiti-cloud-application): holds **Activiti Cloud BoM file** (`org.activiti.cloud:activiti-cloud-dependencies`) and example Spring Boot applications used to generate example Docker images.
  * [activiti-modeling-app](https://github.com/Activiti/activiti-modeling-app): holds **Activiti Modeling Application** related code.
  * [activiti-cloud-full-chart](https://github.com/Activiti/activiti-cloud-full-chart): holds **Helm Charts** for Activiti Cloud.