The Karaf team is pleased to announce the release of Karaf version 2.3.1. Apache Karaf is a small OSGi distribution which provides a ready to use container for server side applications.
In this patch update to the 2.3.x line contains multiple bug fixes, improvements, and dependency updates including; an upgrade to OSGi spec 4.3.1, Spring 3.1.4.RELEASE, Pax Exam 2.6.0, Pax Web 1.1.12, Jetty 7.6.8.v20121106, Aries Blueprint Core 1.1.0, and fixes to the LDAP login module, improved failover lock logic, removes a console shutdown -f hang, and adds a jre-1.8 to jre.properties. http://karaf.apache.org/ This release is available from http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/download.html#Karaf2.3.1 and Maven: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.karaf</groupId> <artifactId>apache-karaf</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency> Release Notes: There are 99 resolved issues included in this release, as such we've documented them on the 2.3.1 release notes page: http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/download/karaf-2.3.1-release.html Enjoy!