The Apache Camel project [1] issued this week a new minor release 2.6.0 [2]. This release is the result of 3 months of hard work with an impressive 297 issues resolved, many of them coming as contributions from our growing community. Many thanks for your continued support and for trusting your integration needs to Apache Camel.
Among the issues resolved in this release you can find (in no particular order): * Added features to camel-blueprint component so its on-par with feature set from Spring XML. * Fixed issue in OSGi with refreshing Camel bundles causing a race condition when discovering type converters * Fixed problem installing camel-cxf feature on Apache Karaf. * CXF and CXFRS use the CXF continuation API when using CXF 2.3.x. * You can access the CXF Message from the Camel message header by using the key "CamelCxfMessage" after the CXF consumer. * Easier to debug routes from camel-test using the Debugger * Data Format now supports Service and CamelContextAware callbacks which means its much easier to perform custom initialization logic in your data formats. * Improved File, FTP, Irc, LDAP, Bindy and many other components. * Made it easier to load routes from XML files using loadRoutesDefinition method from CamelContext. * Camel now fails on startup if it cannot load type converters from the classpath. * ... and many more Download [3] Camel now, check out the release notes [2] and enjoy the ride! Hadrian [1] http://camel.apache.org/ [2] http://camel.apache.org/camel-260-release.html [3] http://camel.apache.org/download.html