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...)

highlighted issue fixed
Upgraded camel-hbase to Hadoop 2.x and HBase 1.1.x
Camel commands for Spring Boot
Many improvements to Camel 0;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.

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.

`New Enterprise Integration Patterns`

`New Components`

camel-kubernetes - Integrates Camel with Kubernetes
camel-aws - AWS kineses streams component added

`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`

EHCache from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1
Mvel from 2.2.6.Final to 2.2.7.Final
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

`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.

`Getting the Distributions`

`Binary Distributions`

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution	apache-camel-x.y.x.zip	apache-camel-x.y.x.zip.asc
Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution	apache-camel-x.y.x.tar.gz	apache-camel-x.y.x.tar.gz.asc

The above URLs use redirection

The above URLs use the Apache Mirror system to redirect you to a suitable mirror for your download. Some users have experienced issues with some versions of browsers (e.g. some Safari browsers). If the download doesn't seem to work for you from the above URL then try using FireFox

`Source Distributions`

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows	apache-camel-x.y.x-src.zip	apache-camel-x.y.x-src.zip.asc

Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin

apache-camel-x.y.x-src.tar.gz

apache-camel-x.y.x-src.tar.gz.asc

`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:


+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...)
highlighted issue fixed
Upgraded camel-hbase to Hadoop 2.x and HBase 1.1.x
Camel commands for Spring Boot
Many improvements to Camel
 0;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 setExchangePr
 operty allows to use a dynamic header key using the Simple language if the name of the key is a Simple language expression.
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.
New Enterprise Integration Patterns
New Components
camel-kubernetes - Integrates Camel with Kubernetes
camel-aws - AWS kineses streams component added
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
EHCache from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1
Mvel from 2.2.6.Final to 2.2.7.Final
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
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.
Getting the Distributions
Binary Distributions
Description Download Link PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution apache-camel-x.y.x.zip apache-camel-x.y.x.zip.asc
Uni
 x/Linux/Cygwin Distribution apache-camel-x.y.x.tar.gz apache-camel-x.y.x.tar.gz.asc
The above URLs use redirection
The above URLs use the Apache Mirror system to redirect you to a suitable mirror for your download. Some users have experienced issues with some versions of browsers (e.g. some Safari browsers). If the downloa
 d doesn't seem to work for you from the above URL then try using FireFox
Source Distributions
Description Download Link PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows apache-camel-x.y.x-src.zip apache-camel-x.y.x-src.zip.asc
Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin apache-camel-x.y.x-src.tar.gz apache-camel-x.y.x-src.tar.gz.asc
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: