Welcome to the the Camel 2.0-M1 release, the first milestone release of the new Apache Camel 2.0 project. We know many of you were expecting it. While it is just the first milestone release and a few changes are still in the pipeline, most of the API changes are in, so that you won't have to migrate twice. The core and most of the components you used for quite a while now are stable.

So what's new? Quite a lot. With about 368 issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes) it is the largest change set in Camel's history. The apache-camel-2.0-M1 version comes with:

New Examples
New Enterprise Integration Patterns: Sort
New Components: Cometd, Freemarker, Restlet, RSS, Web Console (experimental)
New Data Formats: Bindy, JSon, TidyMarkup, Zip, XMLSecurity
New Languages: Mvel, Property
New annotations: @FallbackConverter
major improvements to Jetty for better handling of exception/faults and easier end-user customization how response should be written
major improvements to File for consuming files, now supporting pluggable sorting, filtering and idempotent repositories.
major refactor and improvements to FTP, aligning it with the File component.
minor improvements to JDBC, SQL, Http and Mina
major refactor and improvements to CXF component. CxfBinding, HeaderFilterStrategy, Bus can be looked up from registry and configured at the endpoint level.
Improved tooling being able to retrieve more runtime information from the CamelContext
And much, much more...

Enjoy,
The Camel Riders