Many thanks for the explanation, Gert!

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]
> wrote:

> L.S.,
>
> While testing the release candidate for 5.1.0, we discovered a problem
> when running even the basic quickstart examples.  While they run fine
> at first glance, the context would remain "Creating" the second time
> around.  The root cause appears to be in Karaf 2.3.5 - some changes
> there are causing extra services to be registered in the OSGi Service
> Registry while doing operations that interact with the JAAS
> authentication service (e.g. doing authentication while opening a JMS
> connection) - this causes those Blueprint extender threads to become
> stuck, waiting for the global bundle lock to be released.  Because the
> same version of Karaf is also being used in ServiceMix 5.0.1., that
> has caused us to revert the main download page to point to 5.0.0.  We
> are currently testing with a 5.1.0 build again which has rolled back
> to Karaf 2.3.4 and from the tests I did this morning, things are
> looking good there again.
>
> You're definitely right that the banner needs a bit of clarification
> and perhaps should sound a bit less "dramatic".  If you haven't bumped
> into the problem while testing, I think you're probably fine for now.
> With the 5.0.1 version of ServiceMix, the problem was pretty
> consistent to reproduce.  If the tests with Karaf 2.3.4 are working
> out fine, we will probably do a ServiceMix 5.1.0 release with that
> version and then do a ServiceMix 5.1.1 release as soon as the problem
> in Karaf is fixed in a new release.  Personally, I would be inclined
> to to the same for 5.0.2, do a release there with the older version of
> Karaf but the Camel/Activiti/... upgrades we had, and then follow up
> with a 5.0.3 as soon as we have a Karaf fix.
>
> About the banner on the 5.0.1 page, how about we rephrase that into
> something a bit more descriptive like "Due to a problem in Apache
> Karaf 2.3.5, you may experience problems using services that leverage
> the JAAS authentication mechanism.  We therefore recommend users to
> use Apache ServiceMix 5.0.0 instead."?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert Vanthienen
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:29 PM, jszjsmith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello, I have been using 5.0.1 in our testing environment without issue
> and
> > have recently installed 5.0.1 on production servers ready for deployment.
> >
> > I have just seen today the message: "Because of a problem in the 5.0.1
> > release, we recommend you to use the 5.0.0 release instead!"
> >
> > Before I roll back to 5.0.0 can somebody in the know explain the
> specifics
> > of the problem so I can ascertain whether it is likely to affect us? I
> have
> > tried to find the answer on JIRA but cannot pinpoint what the issue is.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > John.
> >
> >
> >
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