End of Support for the framework?

[buechech]

Hi,

I'm looking at the Support documentation, and v4.0 is marked End of Support in Dec. 2024. I don't see a subsequent version listed - Is this the end of support for the spring-statemachine framework entirely? If so, are there suggestions for alternative state machine frameworks?

Thanks,
Christian

[keeslips]

I'm also interested in the activity of the spring state machine project. We just started to use it and really want to keep on using it in the near future. Otherwise we have to look for another way of handling our processes in our application. Hope for some good news, that state machine is there already for sometime and does a good job, lots of information and work done.

[phonty29]

I hope for the support of this project

[mehmetsalgar]

First let me say, I have no affiliation with Spring State Machine project and I don't know their plans how to proceed with SSM support...

I am just writing to answer this question,

are there suggestions for alternative state machine frameworks?

For my experience, the state machines with Enterprise level of support and capabilities are

Pekko Finite State Machine

or

Camunda

Specially Camunda V7 is really similar to Spring State Machine, you will see that is presented as Workflow Engine but I can do everything I do with SSM in Camunda....

Camunda V8 is little bit more Server / Client design for k8s / Cloud but you can operate V7 very similar to SSM.

Pekko is not that user friendly, it has no direct support of using Eclipse Papyrus for UI Design of an UML State Machine but I wrote a blog how to generate configuration information from Eclipse Papyrus for Pekko, here the link if it would be useful for anybody.

[icirlo]

I'm also interested in the activity of the spring state machine project.

Some news?

[buechech]

Interesting that this was never acknowledged or answered, but someone pushed back the End of Support to November 2025 without telling anyone.

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[winfriedgerlach]

@jvalkeal @fmbenhassine you seem to be the only contributors over the last 12 months - is this project dead? If not, when can we expect at least a maintenance release? It's a bit odd that this component sees so little love while Spring/Boot are pushing new releases over and over...

[fmbenhassine]

Hi All,

While the project has had little activity during the previous months (due to internal reasons), it is definitely not dead! I will be leading the effort to maintain Spring State Machine starting 2025, and the community can expect a maintenance release of the latest line in Q1 2025. The support page has been updated and the v4 line will be supported until 2025-11-21 (same as Spring Boot 3.4.x).

I am excited to share this news with the community and I am looking forward to working with you all!

Best regards,
Mahmoud

[mollydi]

Hi All,

While the project has had little activity during the previous months (due to internal reasons), it is definitely not dead! I will be leading the effort to maintain Spring State Machine starting 2025, and the community can expect a maintenance release of the latest line in Q1 2025. The support page has been updated and the v4 line will be supported until 2025-11-21 (same as Spring Boot 3.4.x).

I am excited to share this news with the community and I am looking forward to working with you all!

Best regards, Mahmoud

Glad to see this. And when will SSM support the AOT feature?

[fmbenhassine]

@mollydi It should be possible to natively compile a SSM app. I will check the current state of things and add a comment on #1080

[fmbenhassine]

Hi,

I just wanted to share an update about the project status here:

https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/21/spring-cloud-data-flow-commercial