Version Specific Upgrade Notes

Version specific documentation for upgrading to new major versions of Umbraco Workflow.

This page covers specific upgrade documentation for when migrating to Umbraco Workflow version 14.

If you are upgrading to a new minor or patch version, you can find information about the breaking changes in the Release Notes article.

Version Specific Upgrade Notes History

Version 14 of Umbraco Workflow has a minimum dependency on Umbraco CMS core of 14.1.0. It runs on .NET 8.

Breaking changes

Version 14 contains a number of breaking changes, primarily due to the new backoffice introduced in Umbraco 14. The details are listed here:

Behaviour

• A new management API has been introduced at umbraco/workflow/management/api

Dependencies

• Umbraco CMS dependency was updated to 14.1.0

Code

Workflow 14 includes a non-trivial number of breaking code changes, primarily related to namespace changes. The majority of these related to removing the Implement namespace for services, and moving appropriate models to Umbraco.Workflow.Core.ViewModels or Umbraco.Workflow.Core.Interfaces.

• The serialization library has been changed from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json.

• Approval group identifiers changes from int to Guid.

• Workflow instance author identifier changes from int to Guid.

• Workflow task indentifiers for approving user, assigned user and actioning user change from int to Guid.

• Services return Attempt<TResult> or Attempt<TResult, TStatus>, in line with similar changes in the CMS.

Legacy version specific upgrade notes

You can find the version specific upgrade notes for versions out of support in the Legacy documentation on GitHub.