Camel 2.5.0 release (currently in progress)

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 2.5.0 release which approx XXX issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

• Added suspend/resume operations to CamelContext for warm restarts, or as the preferred way to temporary stop a running Camel application, and then later resume it. Those operations is also available in JMX.
• Improved management of routes in JMX. You can now suspend/resume routes which support suspension. There is a new removeRoute to remove a route from JMX. Routes with autoStartup=false is now also listed in JMX, to allow you to start the routes manually.
• FTP now supports MSV file systems. The ftp consumer will now traverse the directory structure using a cd <dir>, list files in cur dir pattern, as opposed to a list files <dir> style.
• Fixed issue with using multiple HTTP endpoints with the only difference being httpClient parameters.
• Fixed issue with Stream caching and deleting temporary files on Windows.
• Server thread pool settings can be configured on Jetty component.
• Easier to configure general HTTP/SSL socket connector properties on Jetty component.
• Fixed issue with sending an InOut message to Dead Letter Channel would cause Camel to expect a reply. Now the message will always be send to the DLQ as InOnly.
• Fixed issue when sending to a JMS destination, the option disableReplyTo was not used.
• Added two new functions to XPath to leverage Properties component and Simple language.
• Fixed issue when running Jetty server under heavy load throwing IllegalStateException
• JMS uses Asynchronous Routing Engine for Request Reply messaging over JMS.
• Fixed issue with a route could mistakenly pick up a route scoped OnException from another route.
• Fixed an issue with starting CamelContext after it had been shutdown, leading to routes not properly being re-initialized and started.
• The File and FTP consumers now support using preMove together with either noop or delete options.
• Fixed issue when starting a Camel application using autoStartup=false on CamelContext should still startup but just not start the route consumers. This ensures Camel JMX is started and you can manage the Camel application and manually start the routes afterwards.

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

New Components

• Shiro Security

New DSL

New Annotations

New Data Formats

New Languages

New Examples

• camel-example-reportincident-ws-security-osgi

New Tutorials

API breaking

Known Issues

• The Tracer may not output all details for some situations such as when using onCompletion or intercept etc.
• Not all Examples have ANT build.xml files to run the example using ANT.

Important changes to consider when upgrading

• Support for JMS API 1.0.2 has been removed.
• The stopRoute method on CamelContext now leverages Graceful Shutdown when stopping. This is more intuitive to stop routes in a graceful and safe manner. You can the stop method with a timeout if you want to force stopping, which was the old behavior.

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

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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>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-2.5.0

Changelog

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

• release notes for 2.5.0