Camel 2.17.0 release (currently in progress)

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the x.y.z release which approx XXX issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

• Upgraded camel-hbase to Hadoop 2.x and HBase 1.1.x
• Camel commands for Spring Boot
• Many improvements to Camel Kura
• Added transacted option to SQL Component when used as a consumer in a transacted route.
• Added support for UPDATE operation to ElasticSearch.
• Allow to reuse existing configured Elasticsearch Client on the ElasticSearch component, instead of creating a client per endpoint. 
• The include and exclude options on File2 and FTP endpoints is now case in-sensitive out of the box.
• Resource based component such as XSLT, Velocity etc can load the resource file from the Registry by using ref: as prefix.
• Upgraded camel-amqp to the latest qpid-jms-client (also AMQP < 1.0 is not supported anymore).
• Many improvements to Camel AMQP component.
• The Metrics Component allows to capture Message History performance statistics with the MetricsMessageHistoryFactory 
• Reduced the number of mbeans enlisted in the services tree, to only include mbeans that has value to be managed.
• The Elasticsearch Component now supports MultiGet operation
• The Throttler has been improved to be more performant and use a rolling window for time periods which gives a better flow.
• The setHeader and setExchangeProperty allows to use a dynamic header key using the Simple language if the name of the key is a Simple language expression.
• Add collate function to Simple language to make it easier to split a message body into sub lists of a specified size. The function is similar to the collate function from Groovy.
• The Camel Run Maven Goal is able to auto detect if its a OSGi Blueprint or CDI project so end users no longer have to explicit configure this on the plugin.
• Camel-Elasticsearch now supports Multiget, Multisearch and exists operation
• Camel-Git now supports Cherry-pick operation
• Stopping the Main class from JMX will now trigger shutdown of the Main class/JVM also, as it does when hitting ctrl + c.
• Added option to skipFirst to the Tokenizer language to make it easy to skip the very first element, when for example splitting a CSV file using the Splitter EIP.

Fixed these issues

• The Swagger Java now parses nested types in the POJO model that has been annotated with the swagger api annotations to use in the schema api model
• Fixed Rest DSL with apiContextPath fail to start if there are 2 ore more rest's in use.
• Paho component name is not limited to 4 characters anymore.
• Fixed Spring Boot not starting Camel routes if running in Spring Cloud.
• Fixed an issue with Swagger Java using api-docs could lead to api-doc route being added multiple times
• Fixed a few things missing in the generated swagger model when using Swagger Java
• Fixed Idempotent Consumer would not propagate exception thrown from IdempotentRepository to Camel's Error Handler such as onException

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

New Components

• camel-kubernetes - Integrates Camel with Kubernetes
• camel-aws - AWS kinesis streams component added
• camel-aws - DynamoDB streams component added
• camel-ignite - for working with Apache Ignite.
• camel-mllp - for working with the HL7 MLLP protocol. This is an alternative to HL7 component.
• camel-spark - bridges Apache Spark computations with Camel endpoints

New DSL

New Annotations

New Data Formats

• MIME-Multipart - mime based data format.

New Languages

New Examples

• camel-example-spring-boot-metrics - showing a Camel spring-boot application that report metrics to Graphite. Requires Graphite running on your network.

New Tutorials

API breaking

Known Issues

Dependency upgrades

• Apache Cassandra from 2.1.8 to 2.2.2
• Apache Deltaspike from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
• Apache Gora from 0.6 to 0.6.1
• Apache Jackrabbit from 2.11.0 to 2.11.3
• Apache Kafka from 0.8.2.2 to 0.9.0.0
• Apache Lucene from 4.10.4 to 5.2.1
• Apache Mina from 2.0.9 to 2.0.10
• Apache OpenEjb from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3
• Apache Solr from 4.10.4 to 5.2.1
• Aws SDK Java to version 1.10.37
• Atmosphere from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1.4
• Cassandra driver from 2.1.8 to 2.1.9
• Cassandra-unit from 2.1.9.2 to 2.2.2.1
• Cglib from 3.1 to 3.2.0
• Classmate from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
• Chunk from 3.0.1 to 3.1.2
• Drools from 6.2.0.Final to 6.3.0.Final
• EHCache from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1
• Elasticsearch from 1.7.3 to 2.0.0
• Embedded Mongodb from 1.50.0 to 1.50.1
• Facebook4j from 2.3.1 to 2.4.1
• GAE from 1.9.26 to 1.9.28
• Google Gson from 2.4 to 2.5
• Hazelcast from 3.5.2 to 3.5.4
• Infinispan from 8.0.1.Final to 8.1.0.Final
• Jackson from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4
• Jboss Xnio from 3.3.1.Final to 3.3.2.Final
• Jboss Weld from 2.3.0.Final to 2.3.2.Final
• Jbpm from 6.2.0.Final to 6.3.0.Final
• Jgit from 4.1.0.201509280440-r to 4.1.1.201511131810-r
• Joda-time from 2.8.2 to 2.9.1
• Json-path from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
• Jt400 from 8.6 to 8.7
• Kie from 6.2.0.Final to 6.3.0.Final
• Maven Exec plugin from 1.2.1 to 1.4.0
• Mongodb Java driver from 3.0.4 to 3.2.0
• Mvel from 2.2.6.Final to 2.2.7.Final
• Ognl from 3.1 to 3.1.1
• Olingo from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5
• Optaplanner from 6.2.0.Final to 6.3.0.Final
• Pax-exam from 4.6.0 to 4.8.0
• Spring 4.1.x to 4.2.x
• Spring-Boot 1.2.x to 1.3.x
• Spring Integration 2.x to 4.x
• slf4j-api 1.6.x to 1.7.x
• Undertow from 1.3.3.Final to 1.3.7.Final
• Vertx from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• Zookeeper from 3.4.6 to 3.4.7

Important changes to consider when upgrading

• Removed camel-hbase as Karaf feature as it did not really work well in OSGi
• camel-infinispan requires Java 8.
• Support for Spring 4.0.x is deprecated.
• Moved some Camel tooling related dependencies (such as maven/plexus) from the Camel Parent BOM to the tooling BOM (to have them separated).
• camel-amqp do not support 0.9 anymore. 
• camel-spring-integration feature has been removed from the Camel karaf.
• The Mail component now requires to configure to, cc, and bcc using lower case keys, eg to=foo@bar.com, instead of To=foo@bar.com as previously.
• If using Bean or Class component and specifying additional parameters in the endpoint uri to configure on the bean, then these options should now be prefixed with bean., eg foo=123 is now bean.foo=123.

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

Source Distributions

Getting the Binaries using Maven 2

To use this release in your maven project, the proper dependency configuration that you should use in your Maven POM is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
  <version>x.y.x</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-x.y.x

Changelog

For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see the:

• release notes for x.y.x