https://camel.apache.org/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Apache Camel Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-always-on/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-always-on/ Apache Camel has shipped 272 production releases over 19 years without a single month of inactivity. The project averages a new release every 15 days, maintains up to 10 release lines in parallel, and has accumulated 100,000+ commits from over 1,500 contributors since 2007. This track record is not a recent development — it has been sustained continuously since well before the current wave of AI-driven open-source activity. This post presents the evidence. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-bug-fix-track-record/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-bug-fix-track-record/ Apache Camel has fixed 7,070 out of 7,081 reported bugs — a 99.8% resolution rate — with a median fix time of 1 day. That track record spans 19 years, 350+ connectors, and 272 production releases. This is not a recent improvement — the project has maintained a 1-day median resolution for 17 of the last 19 years. Here is the data. We pulled the numbers from JIRA, GitHub, and Maven Central to see what 19 years of Apache Camel bug data actually looks like. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-dna-19-years/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-dna-19-years/ On March 19, 2007, at 10:54 UTC, James Strachan pushed commit 77b260b6 with the message “Initial checkin of Camel routing library.” It contained 42 files across two modules: camel-core and camel-jms. Nineteen years later, the repository has crossed 100,000+ commits from 1,600+ contributors, ships 350+ integration components, and runs in production from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to UPS processing tens of billions of messages per day. Through all of that — through the rise and fall of ESBs, the SOA-to-microservices migration, the cloud-native revolution, Kubernetes, serverless, and now AI coding agents — the core DNA has remained remarkably stable. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/community-showcase-banking-etl-rewrite/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/community-showcase-banking-etl-rewrite/ Rewriting critical banking ETL applications is risky because these systems handle business data that must stay accurate, stable, and traceable. In his JEurope 2025 talk, Dzmitry Paddubnik explains how his team rebuilt more than 20 banking ETL applications in Java without losing control of production risk. The main lesson is simple: a rewrite is not just a coding project. It is a testing and validation project. Key takeaways Legacy ETL systems often contain years of hidden business rules. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/ When the first commit landed on March 19, 2007, Apache Camel was a routing library with a handful of components and a single contributor. Nineteen years later, the git repository has crossed 100,000 commits from 1,500+ contributors representing 450+ companies across more than 20 countries. The project ships 311 integration components, has published 300+ releases, and runs in production at organizations where downtime means grounded flights, blocked payments, or missed diagnoses. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-monitor-operator/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/06/camel-monitor-operator/ During the last years we’ve worked hard to bring cloud native operations capabilities for your Camel workloads on Kubernetes. Camel K was the first historic initiative and it gave us the possibility to experiment several features that we’ve decided to move off into a brand new project: Camel Monitor Operator (formerly known as Camel Dashboard operator). Whilst Camel K will keep the focus and excel on the building and deploying part of a Camel application on the cloud, the goal of the new project is to focus on the monitoring part only. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/wanaku-0.1.1/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/wanaku-0.1.1/ We’re excited to announce Wanaku 0.1.1, a significant milestone that showcases how Apache Camel’s powerful integration capabilities can be seamlessly exposed to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This release introduces Service Catalogs and Service Templates — features that leverage Apache Camel as the integration runtime to bridge the gap between AI and enterprise systems. What is Wanaku? Wanaku is an open-source MCP router and capability management platform that acts as a smart intermediary between AI agents and integration capabilities. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-release-3.36.0/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-release-3.36.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.36.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-karaf-4.14.7/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-karaf-4.14.7/ Camel Karaf 4.14.7 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-karaf-4.18.2/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-karaf-4.18.2/ Camel Karaf 4.18.2 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-3.27.4/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-3.27.4/ Camel Quarkus 3.27.4 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-3.33.1/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/05/camel-quarkus-3.33.1/ Camel Quarkus 3.33.1 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-quarkus-release-3.35.0/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-quarkus-release-3.35.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.35.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel420-whatsnew/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel420-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.20 has just been released. This release is an expedited security fix release on top of the previous 4.19 release. JDK25 compatibility This is the first release supporting JDK25. However, there are a few 3rd party libraries that does not yet fully support JDK25, see more in CAMEL-22114. Camel JBang You can now easier configure HTTPS for development purposes with self-signed certificates, so you can host services via HTTPS locally in Camel. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.20.0/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.20.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.20.0 release with 25 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.14.7/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.14.7/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.7 patch release with 3 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.18.2/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.18.2/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.18.2 LTS release with 26 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-karaf-4.18.1/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-karaf-4.18.1/ Camel Karaf 4.18.1 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.14.6/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.14.6/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.6 patch release with 26 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel419-whatsnew/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel419-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.19 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Spring Boot This is our first release that supports Spring Boot v4. Spring Boot v3 is no longer supported. Camel Jackson 3 Components Four new components have been added which provide Jackson 3 support - they are named similarly to the previously existing camel-jackson components. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/email-triage-agent/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/email-triage-agent/ Recent Camel releases introduced several features that work well together for AI-powered integrations: the camel-openai component (4.17), the SimpleFunction interface, chain operator, and structured output with JSON Schema (4.18), and Gmail DataType Transformers (4.19). To show how these pieces fit, I built an email triage agent that classifies Gmail messages using an LLM, moves them to labels, and drafts smart replies. The whole thing runs with Camel JBang. No Maven project, no framework setup. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.19.0/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/RELEASE-4.19.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.19.0 release with 283 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-k-2-10/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/04/camel-k-2-10/ © Smithsonian Magazine Here a new fresh release of Camel K: version 2.10.0 is ready to go. We’ve worked to several improvements around the GitOps and Git features introduced lately. We’ve stabilized a few bugs discovered and upgraded dependencies as well. GitOps Pipe We’ve worked to make sure the Camel GitOps is available not only for Integrations but also for Pipes. The principle is exactly the same. You need to configure the gitops trait on the Pipe you want to include in your GitOps flow and the operator will be in charge to provide a PR on the Git repository with the Pipe custom resource. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/RELEASE-4.18.1/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/RELEASE-4.18.1/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.18.1 LTS release with 51 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-quarkus-3.33.0/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-quarkus-3.33.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.33.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/kaoto-release-2.10.0/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/kaoto-release-2.10.0/ What’s New in Kaoto 2.10? Kaoto 2.10 represents a major leap forward in visual integration design, now powered by Apache Camel 4.18.0. This release bridges the gap between API-first design and integration development with full REST DSL and OpenAPI support, while significantly expanding DataMapper capabilities to handle complex multi-file schemas. Combined with production-ready drag-and-drop functionality, building sophisticated integrations has never been more intuitive. Here are the key highlights of this release: REST DSL Support with OpenAPI Integration Kaoto 2. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-karaf-4.14.5/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-karaf-4.14.5/ Camel Karaf 4.14.5 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-quarkus-3.27.3/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/camel-quarkus-3.27.3/ Camel Quarkus 3.27.3 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/CAPIGateway/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/03/CAPIGateway/ Four years ago, I started writing an API Gateway. Not because I wanted to build a product — but because we needed more from the tools we had. I was working inside a government institution running a complex hybrid environment — services spread across on-premises data centers and cloud, strict security and compliance requirements, and a growing number of APIs that all needed to be managed, secured, and observed. We were using a well known API Gateway product, a capable and powerful platform, but for our use case, it was too heavy. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-k-gitops-apps/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-k-gitops-apps/ With Camel K version 2.9 we have enhanced the GitOps capability of the operator to run a builtin opinionated GitOps strategy. In this blog we are going to expand with a complete example and show how to enabled with a sample Camel application we build on an environment and we promote to another environment controlled with a gateway. The process will be the following: a development team (the “citizen integrator”?) is in charge to develop and test a given Camel application on a development environment. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-quarkus-3.32.0/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-quarkus-3.32.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.32.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-karaf-release-4.8.9/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-karaf-release-4.8.9/ Camel Karaf 4.8.9 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel418-whatsnew/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel418-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.18 LTS has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core Added the possibility to add note(s) to EIPs. This is intended for developer notes or other kind of notes, that is convention to have at the source code. The note has no impaction on the running Camel. Another use case is to build tutorials with half complete code, and have note(s) that describe what to do. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.18.0/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.18.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.18.0 LTS release with 174 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.14.5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.14.5/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.5 patch release with 21 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.10.9/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/RELEASE-4.10.9/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.10.9 LTS patch release with 7 bug fixes and improvements. Please note that this is the last patch release for the 4.10.x branch. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-jbang-mcp/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/camel-jbang-mcp/ Working with Apache Camel means dealing with over 300 components, dozens of Enterprise Integration Patterns, multiple DSL formats, and a rich set of configuration options. Keeping all of that in your head while writing integration routes is not trivial, and AI coding assistants have become a natural companion for this kind of work. The problem is that general-purpose LLMs lack deep, structured knowledge of Camel’s catalog, its component options, its URI syntax rules, and its security best practices. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/2025-downloads/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/02/2025-downloads/ In 2025, Apache Camel’s adoption continued to surge, as shown by monthly download statistics from Maven Central. The graph below tracks downloads over the last 12 months (December 2024 to December 2025). It starts at approximately 29 million downloads in December 2024 and shows steady overall growth, with some fluctuations along the way. Monthly figures rose progressively, reaching peaks around 47 million in July and over 50 million in October, before settling at about 44. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/log-analyzer/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/log-analyzer/ In this blogpost, we’ll walk through a modern approach to developing Apache Camel applications. We’ll build a distributed log analyzer that automatically detects errors and uses an LLM for root cause analysis. Along the way, we’ll explore how tools like Camel JBang and Kaoto make development incredibly productive, and why Apache Camel’s YAML DSL is a perfect match for LLM-assisted development. Why Apache Camel? Before diving into the implementation, let’s address why Apache Camel is an excellent choice for this kind of system. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.31.0/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.31.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.31.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.20.4/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.20.4/ Camel Quarkus 3.20.4 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-openai/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-openai/ The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise applications has become increasingly important. Whether you’re building intelligent document processing pipelines, automated customer support systems, or data privacy solutions, the ability to seamlessly connect your integration flows with AI capabilities is essential. Apache Camel 4.17 introduces the new camel-openai component, providing native integration with OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible APIs for chat completion. In this post, we’ll explore the component’s features and demonstrate a practical use case: Personal Identifiable Information (PII) redaction using structured output. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.17 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling and troubleshooting assistance. If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as timer:tick?repeatCount=1, then we have added the once component to trigger only once on startup, and made it much easier to pre configure the message body and headers as needed. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.17.0 release with 160 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.14.4/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.14.4/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.4 patch release with 10 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.27.2/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/camel-quarkus-3.27.2/ Camel Quarkus 3.27.2 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/2025-numbers/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/2025-numbers/ It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2025, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). You can find previous year 2024 numbers here. Camel 2025 in Numbers Number of Camel Core / Camel Spring Boot releases in 2025: 25 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2025: 18 Number of Camel Karavan releases in 2025: 3 Number of Camel K releases in 2025: 5 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.14.3/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.14.3/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.3 patch release with 29 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/12/camel-k-2-9/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/12/camel-k-2-9/ © ‘Camel Caravan’ by D.Damdinsuren Last release of 2025! A present just in time for those celebrating Christmas. And this time, a very big package you’ll be happy to open! Camel K version 2.9.0 is bringing a lot of new features, improved traits and a new shiny GitOps operator assisted strategy. Let’s unfold it together. GitOps operator side During 2025 we have introduced several enhancements around GitOps. We had introduced the possibility to use a Kustomize based overlay structure already in the kamel promote CLI. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/12/RELEASE-4.10.8/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/12/RELEASE-4.10.8/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.10.8 LTS patch release with 23 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-quarkus-3.30.0/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-quarkus-3.30.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.30.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-website-llmstxt/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-website-llmstxt/ The Apache Camel website now generates markdown versions of all documentation pages following the llms.txt specification. This makes our documentation easily accessible to Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI coding assistants. What is llms.txt? The llms.txt specification is a standardized format that helps LLMs discover and consume website content efficiently. Similar to how robots.txt guides web crawlers and sitemap.xml helps search engines, llms.txt provides a structured entry point for AI systems to understand and access documentation. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/kaoto-release-2.8.0/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/kaoto-release-2.8.0/ What’s New in Kaoto 2.8? This release represents a major step forward in DataMapper maturity, with extensive XML Schema support improvements, better visual feedback, and numerous stability fixes. We’ve also enhanced the canvas experience with contextual menus and improved the forms system for better configuration management. Here are the key highlights of this release: DataMapper XML Schema Support Enhancements Kaoto 2.8 brings improvements to XML Schema handling in the DataMapper: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel416-whatsnew/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel416-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.16 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core You can now add note(s) to EIPs in the DSL. The notes have no impact on running Camel, but makes it consistent to include code comments or other notes that are valuable for developers for maintaining. You can of course still use code comments, but note make them available for Camel tooling. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/RELEASE-4.16.0/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/RELEASE-4.16.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.16.0 release with 123 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-quarkus-3.27.1/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/camel-quarkus-3.27.1/ Camel Quarkus 3.27.1 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/RELEASE-4.14.2/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/11/RELEASE-4.14.2/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.2 patch release with 40 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-quarkus-3.29.0/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-quarkus-3.29.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.29.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-quarkus-3.20.3/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-quarkus-3.20.3/ Camel Quarkus 3.20.3 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-karaf-release-4.10.7/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-karaf-release-4.10.7/ Camel Karaf 4.10.7 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/wanaku-and-camel/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/wanaku-and-camel/ The biggest challenge for enterprises in the rapidly evolving world of Generative AI isn’t just building “smarter” LLMs or agents — it’s securely connecting that AI to the decades of business logic and data locked away in enterprise systems. How do you let an AI agent interact with your Salesforce data, your Kafka topics, or your internal databases without rewriting everything or creating a massive security hole? It turns out the answer may already be running in your organization. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-docling/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel-docling/ In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered applications, the ability to process and understand documents has become increasingly crucial. Whether you’re dealing with PDFs, Word documents, or PowerPoint presentations, extracting meaningful insights from unstructured data is a challenge many developers face daily. In this post, we’ll explore how Apache Camel’s new AI components enable developers to build sophisticated RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines with minimal code. We’ll combine the power of Docling for document conversion with LangChain4j for AI orchestration, all orchestrated through Camel’s YAML DSL. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel415-whatsnew/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/camel415-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.15 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core You can now easier extend Camel via 3d-party dependencies via Java ServiceLoader using the ContextServicePlugin SPI. You can add custom sensitive keys to camel.main.additionalSensitiveKeywords which Camel will mask in logging. Camel JBang camel debug now also supports debugging Camel Quarkus applications, by executing camel debug pom. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/RELEASE-4.15.0/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/RELEASE-4.15.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.15.0 release with 123 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/RELEASE-4.14.1/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/10/RELEASE-4.14.1/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.1 patch release with 45 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/RELEASE-4.10.7/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/RELEASE-4.10.7/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.10.7 LTS patch release with 38 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/camel-k-2-8/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/camel-k-2-8/ © Paul Klee - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Here we are with Camel K 2.8.0. We are please to announce the general availability of a new Camel K version. There are a few new exciting features we want to share within this release. Git branch/tag/commit In version 2.7.0 we announced the possibility to build a Camel application directly from Git source. We have worked in this release to include the possibility to specify a branch, tag or generically a commit to the configuration. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/camel-quarkus-3.27.0/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/camel-quarkus-3.27.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.27.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/RELEASE-4.8.9/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/RELEASE-4.8.9/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.8.9 LTS patch release with 14 bug fixes and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/kaoto-release-2.7.0/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/09/kaoto-release-2.7.0/ What’s New in Kaoto 2.7? We’re excited to announce the release of Kaoto 2.7, bringing significant enhancements to the visual integration design experience for Apache Camel. This release focuses on expanding DataMapper capabilities, improving developer productivity, and delivering a more intuitive canvas experience. Here are the key highlights of this release DataMapper JSON Support One of the most significant additions in Kaoto 2.7 is comprehensive JSON support for the DataMapper. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/camel-quarkus-3.26.0/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/camel-quarkus-3.26.0/ Camel Quarkus 3.26.0 release https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/camel414-whatsnew/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/camel414-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.14 LTS has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core Camel consumers will now eagerly setup MDC logging which makes it possible to include details such as routeId in logs while the consumer is being created and started up. The Intercept EIP now includes more details where the message was intercepted (node id and other information). https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/RELEASE-4.14.0/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/08/RELEASE-4.14.0/ The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.14.0 release with 107 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/07/camel-jbang-infra/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/07/camel-jbang-infra/ Introduction In this blog post, we’ll explore how Apache Camel JBang’s Infrastructure Command can help you rapidly prototype end-to-end integration scenarios and adapt to changing requirements. We’ll walk through a realistic development scenario where requirements evolve over time, demonstrating how Camel’s flexibility makes it an ideal choice for proof-of-concept development. Camel JBang Infrastructure: Your Prototyping Toolkit We already know and love Camel JBang (if you don’t, check out Claus Ibsen’s YouTube channel for excellent tutorials). https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/07/camel413-whatsnew/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/07/camel413-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.13 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core We have made management possible for BackOff, ForegroundTask, and BackgroundTask which are used as internal tasks to perform repetitive tasks, usually related to re-connection or recovery. Some of the Came components uses these features, and other components has native recovery built-in from the underlying library. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/05/camel412-whatsnew/ Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/05/camel412-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.12 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The camel-xml-io XML DSL now has a generated XSD Schema that is independent of the classic Camel Spring XSD. This allows tooling and end users to use this schema instead and ensure the schema matches exactly the capabilities of the camel-ml-io XML DSL. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/04/camel411-whatsnew/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/04/camel411-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.11 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The component verifier extension has been deprecated. This functionality has not been in use for many years, and we will start to deprecate more of these unused features in camel-core going forward. Recipient List, Split and Multicast EIP In parallel processing mode, you can also enable synchronous=true to force these EIPs to process the sub-tasks using the upper bounds of the thread-pool. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/04/camel-kserve/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/04/camel-kserve/ Introduction In the previous blog posts (camel-tensorflow-serving and camel-torchserve), we discussed the recent release of Apache Camel 4.10 LTS, which introduced three new AI model serving components. 1 TorchServe component TensorFlow Serving component KServe component We previously wrote about the TorchServe and TensorFlow Serving components. This post introduces the KServe component, concluding the series. KServe Component KServe is a platform for serving AI models on Kubernetes. KServe defines an API protocol enabling clients to perform health checks, retrieve metadata, and run inference on model servers. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/03/camel-observability/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/03/camel-observability/ Observability is a pillar of any distributed Microservices oriented architecture. As the number of services to govern may rise in number, it’s very important to have a clear and easy way to understand (observe) what’s going on in a distributed system at any time. And this feature become even more important when you’re running your application in the cloud. What is Observability from Camel perspective The term Observability is often used with a wide perspective and may provide misunderstanding about what it really encompass. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel-tensorflow-serving/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel-tensorflow-serving/ Introduction As noted in the previous article, the recent release of Apache Camel 4.10 LTS introduced three new AI model serving components into its supported component family. 1 TorchServe component TensorFlow Serving component KServe component Previously we wrote about the TorchServe component, this time we introduce the TensorFlow Serving component. TensorFlow Serving component TensorFlow Serving is the serving feature provided by the popular machine learning framework TensorFlow. By using the Camel TensorFlow Serving component, you can invoke AI models deployed on the TensorFlow Serving model servers through their gRPC Client APIs. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/connecting-edi-to-the-enterprise-with-camel-and-smooks/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/connecting-edi-to-the-enterprise-with-camel-and-smooks/ Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) underpins the flow of information in numerous industries. From healthcare, retail, and aviation, to finance, manufacturing, and logistics, EDI is the workhorse carrying billions of transactions across applications in these industries. Historically viewed as a long, complex and costly journey, connecting EDI to the enterprise is traditionally thought to belong in the realm of expensive proprietary software or organisations with sizeable in-house IT teams. The goal of this blog post is to dispel this perception. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/langchain-structured-output/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/langchain-structured-output/ Introduction This has been several blog posts now where we have learned about how to use generative AI for data extraction from a Camel route. Starting from the initial inception, we have then focused a lot on how to best combine Camel and Quarkus LangChain4j. In this blog post, we will reap the benefit of this great combination to improve the accuracy of our data extraction almost for free. Almost for free really? https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel-torchserve/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel-torchserve/ Introduction In the just released Apache Camel 4.10 LTS, AI-related components have been further enhanced. Among others, three new components related to AI model serving have been added. 1 TorchServe component TensorFlow Serving component KServe component My previous article Apache Camel AI: Leverage power of AI with DJL component demonstrated how the DJL component can be used to perform AI model inference within the Camel routes. Starting from 4.10, in addition to the in-route inference by DJL, these new components will allow the Camel routes to invoke external model servers to perform inference. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel410-whatsnew/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/02/camel410-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.10 LTS has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core Added customize to RouteBuilder to make it easier to configure a specific Camel component / dataformat, service in a Java lambda style, such as follows: @Override public void configure() throws Exception { customize(KServeComponent.class, k -> { k.getConfiguration().setTarget("localhost:8888"); }); from("timer:kserve?repeatCount=1") .to("kserve:model/metadata?modelName=myModel") .log("${body}"); } This makes it possible for low-code users that want to have a single Java file with the Camel route and all the Java based configuration done entirely from the same configure method. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/01/langchain4j-bean-name/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/01/langchain4j-bean-name/ Introduction In a previous blog post related to Artificial Intelligence with Camel, we introduced the resolution of AI services by interface. This feature brings Camel and Quarkus LangChain4j closer than ever so that it takes less code to invoke a LangChain4j AI service from a route. In this blog post, we would like to introduce a related feature that should be released in the next Camel Quarkus version. This time, we’ll do the same kind of operation, except that we will resolve the bean by its name. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/01/2024-numbers/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2025/01/2024-numbers/ It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2024, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). You can find previous year 2023 numbers here. Camel 2024 in Numbers Number of Camel Core / Camel Spring Boot releases in 2024: 20 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2024: 16 Number of Camel Karavan releases in 2024: 5 Number of Camel K releases in 2024: 7 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/camel3-eol/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/camel3-eol/ Apache Camel is officially end of life by end of 2024. We have just released the last Apache Camel 3.22.3 release of Camel 3.x. There will be NO further releases, and support for Camel 3 has officially reached its end of life. There will not be any new releases of Camel 3.x, and users are encouraged to start new development on Camel 4, and plan to migrate existing applications to Camel 4. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/langchain4j-bean-interface/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/langchain4j-bean-interface/ Introduction In a recent series of Artificial Intelligence related blog posts, we have learned about the Camel Quarkus LangChain4j extension. It offers possibilities to implement new AI related scenarios like data extraction. The underlying implementation of Quarkus LangChain4j seems to offer interesting abstractions that, for instance make it possible to switch between Large Language Models quite simply. We have also started to see some improvements when it comes to invoking AI services thanks to camel bean binding and annotations. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/kaoto-release-2.3.0/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/kaoto-release-2.3.0/ Following the Apache Camel 4.9.0 release, we’re happy to announce the release of Kaoto 2.3. What’s New in Kaoto 2.3? We’re thrilled to announce the release of Kaoto 2.3, bringing new features, improvements, and bug fixes to enhance your integration experience. This release also brings the first technical preview of a long awaited feature: the Kaoto DataMapper with the ability to perform data transformations using Camel. Here are the key highlights of this release Kaoto DataMapper technical preview In this release, we are introducing the new Kaoto DataMapper, a graphical way of authoring data mappings inside your routes using Kaoto. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/camel49-whatsnew/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/12/camel49-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.9 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core Added startup condition feature to let Camel perform some checks on startup, before continuing. For example to check if a specific ENV exists, or wait for a specific file to be created etc. The supervised route controller now emits RouteRestartingEvent when routes are attempted to be started again after a previous failure. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/11/langchain4j-granite3/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/11/langchain4j-granite3/ Introduction In a previous blog post, we have seen how Camel parameter binding annotations could be used in conjunction with LangChain4J AI services to easily create Camel routes using Large Language Models. All this work is best reflected in a Camel Quarkus example. While building this example, poor care was taken about the choice of the LLM as this was not the initial priority. Thinking a bit more, this situation is a great opportunity to experience the switch of an LLM inside of a Camel application. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/10/modernizing-test-code-how-to/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/10/modernizing-test-code-how-to/ Earlier I wrote a blog post about a multi-release effort to clean up some of the legacy test code for Camel 4. In this blog post, I will dive into more details about how to adjust your code to use the modernized interfaces. New Interfaces Camel 4.9 will introduce two new interfaces to CamelTestSupport that will help users adjust their code and will help us with future maintenance of the test support code. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/10/camel-upgrade-recipes-release-4.8.0/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/10/camel-upgrade-recipes-release-4.8.0/ This blog post introduces a Camel Upgrade Recipes project and shows an example of its usage. Introduction Migrating Apache Camel code can often be a tedious and error-prone process, especially when it involves repetitive tasks like renaming classes, updating method signatures, or adapting to new Camel API changes. To address this need, Camel Upgrade Recipes project based on OpenRewrite was developed. The project is not designed to provide fully automated migration but rather to assist with manual migrations, making them more efficient and less error-prone. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel-karavan-4.8.0/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel-karavan-4.8.0/ We’re excited to announce the release of Apache Camel Karavan 4.8.0, the ultimate toolkit for efficient and accelerated integration development with Apache Camel. This version is fully synchronized with the latest Apache Camel Framework 4.8.0, ensuring seamless compatibility and allowing you to take advantage of the newest features for an optimized development experience. What’s New in Apache Camel Karavan 4.8.0? Our latest release brings a slew of improvements aimed at making your integration development more efficient and intuitive. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/kaoto-release-2.2.0/ Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/kaoto-release-2.2.0/ Following the Apache Camel 4.8 release, we are happy to announce the release of Kaoto 2.2 with many improvements to enhance the user experience. This time, the theme was to improve the visualizations and the user experience in the Canvas, as well as to provide more flexibility to the users. Read on to discover the key highlights of this release and how they can improve your workflow with Kaoto. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel48-whatsnew/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel48-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.8 LTS has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The simple language has new functions such as a iif (ternary if). The @BindToRegistry now supports init/destroy methods, and can be declared as lazy as well. The log EIP can more easily configure its logger name using dynamic patterns. Add poll EIP as an easier and simpler version of pollEnrich EIP which is also more tooling friendly. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/data-extraction-example/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/data-extraction-example/ This blog post shows a concrete example of transforming raw unstructured text into structured Java objects with Camel Quarkus and Quarkus LangChain4j. Introduction Following previous experiments about unstructured data extraction, some directions were given about how a large language model could be setup to transform unstructured data into its structured counterpart. In this blog post, we will see a ready to use example that could serve as a starting point to create your own Camel route performing data extraction. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/modernizing-test-support/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/modernizing-test-support/ The first law of software complexity says that “a well-designed system will degrade into a badly designed system over time”. This law can be ruthless for open source projects receiving hundreds of contributions every month. That’s why projects must refactor code, evaluate APIs, review tests, and modernize code to leverage the latest and greatest features from Java. Camel Test Support One area in Camel that has had little attention until recently was our test support code. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/chunking-dsl/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/chunking-dsl/ Chunking is a crucial aspect of data processing that can significantly impact retrieval quality, query latency, costs, and even the accuracy of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. In this blog post, we’ll explore what chunking is, its importance, and how the new Chunking DSL in Apache Camel 4.8.0 improves data processing workflows. The Problem with Traditional Chunking Approaches Before Camel 4.8.0, applications using Camel would have to implement custom chunking logic or rely on external libraries. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel-ai-examples/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/09/camel-ai-examples/ Apache Camel AI is a set of components that allow various AI-related technologies to be integrated with Camel. Nowadays, LLMs such as OpenAI ChatGPT and Meta Llama are gaining a lot of attention, and many frameworks and tools are exploring ways to utilise them. Camel AI also includes the LangChain4j component suite, and there are already blog posts about how you can utilise LLMs using LangChain4j in the Camel Blog: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/08/camel-springboot-remote-debug-to-openshift-from-vscode/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/08/camel-springboot-remote-debug-to-openshift-from-vscode/ How to Camel Debug a Camel Spring Boot route deployed on OpenShift from VS Code Requirements This how-to will not cover in details the following points, it is assumed that it is installed/preconfigured: VS Code with the Extension Pack for Apache Camel with a folder opened Active connection to an OpenShift cluster JBang available on Command-Line Interface (CLI) Maven available on CLI Note that this tutorial was made with the following versions: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/08/camel-quarkus-remote-debug-to-openshift-from-vscode/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/08/camel-quarkus-remote-debug-to-openshift-from-vscode/ How to Camel Debug a Camel Quarkus route deployed on OpenShift from VS Code Requirements This how-to will not cover in details the following points, it is assumed that it is installed/preconfigured: VS Code with the Extension Pack for Apache Camel with a folder opened Active connection to an OpenShift cluster JBang available on Command-Line Interface (CLI) Maven available on CLI Note that this tutorial was made with the following versions: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/camel-karavan-4.7.0/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/camel-karavan-4.7.0/ We’re thrilled to announce the release of Apache Camel Karavan 4.7.0, your ultimate toolkit for streamlined and expedited integration development using Apache Camel! This new version is meticulously aligned with the latest Apache Camel Framework 4.7.0, ensuring seamless compatibility and enabling you to leverage the newest features for an enhanced development experience. What’s New in Apache Camel Karavan 4.7.0? Our latest release brings a slew of improvements aimed at making your integration development more efficient and intuitive. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/data-extraction-first-experiment/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/data-extraction-first-experiment/ This blog is based on experiments done about extracting structured data into its structured counterpart. More precisely, in this post, we’ll give directions about how to convert a conversation transcript into a Java object. Introduction Reading articles like this over the net, it seems that folks have a lot of unstructured data at the disposal while not being able to take advantage on it. So probably, in the future we might expect to deal more and more with unstructured data extraction in integration flow. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/kaoto-release-2.1.0/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/kaoto-release-2.1.0/ After the previous 2.0 GA release, we are happy to announce the release of Kaoto 2.1, packed with exciting new features, bug fixes, and various improvements to enhance the user experience. This update introduces the capability to choose your preferred Runtime version among other notable upgrades. Read on to discover the key highlights of this release and how they can improve your workflow with Kaoto. New Features Catalog: Empower users to pick a runtime and specific version to display the right components with their precise configurations. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/camel47-whatsnew/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/07/camel47-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.7 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The route template has some fixes and improvements, such as that a full local copy of the template is created when creating routes from the template; this prevents unforeseen side effects when the same template is used later to create new routes. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/06/kaoto-release-2.0.0/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/06/kaoto-release-2.0.0/ After previously releasing 3 technical previews, we are thrilled to finally announce the release of Kaoto 2.0, marking the first big release after the project aligned to be much closer to Apache Camel. What is Kaoto? Kaoto, short for Kamel Orchestration Tool, is a low-code and no-code integration designer that allows users to create and edit integrations based on Apache Camel. It is extendable, flexible, and adaptable to various use cases, making it a versatile tool for integration projects. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/05/camel-karavan-4.6.0/ Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/05/camel-karavan-4.6.0/ We’re announcing the release of Apache Camel Karavan 4.6.0, your ultimate toolkit for streamlined and expedited integration development using Apache Camel! This new version is aligned with the latest Apache Camel Framework 4.6.0, ensuring compatibility and leveraging the newest features. While this release may seem modest, it introduces a series of subtle enhancements aimed at simplifying the daily tasks of integrators. These improvements, though minor at first glance, are designed to reduce the need for frequent documentation lookups, thereby saving significant time and effort in larger projects. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/05/camel46-whatsnew/ Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/05/camel46-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.6 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel JBang We fixed some issues using Camel JBang with Windows, but we would still like more feedback from Windows users. Camel JBang is primary intended to be Camel standalone only. However, we added support for running with Spring Boot or Quarkus directly. You use the --runtime option to specify which platform to use, as shown below: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/04/camel-karavan-4.5.0/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/04/camel-karavan-4.5.0/ We’re announcing the release of Apache Camel Karavan 4.5.0, your ultimate toolkit for streamlined and expedited integration development using Apache Camel! This new version is aligned with the latest Apache Camel Framework 4.5.0, ensuring compatibility and leveraging the newest features. While this release may seem modest, it introduces a series of subtle enhancements aimed at simplifying the daily tasks of integrators. These improvements, though minor at first glance, are designed to reduce the need for frequent documentation lookups, thereby saving significant time and effort in larger projects. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/04/sourceless-ck-springboot/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/04/sourceless-ck-springboot/ In the last 2.2.0 version release, Camel K added an interesting feature that gave the users the possibility to build their Camel application externally and run via the operator with certain limitations. In this blog we’re trying to analyze those limitations and provide some example that will show you how to possibly leverage this feature. What is a “sourceless” Integration? With a great effort of creativity (sarcasm), we have named this feature as “sourceless” Integration. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/camel45-whatsnew/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/camel45-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.5 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core When using Kamelets and/or Rest DSL then Camel will now hide their intermediate routes and only show user routes. The number of routes that Camel logs on startup is thus only the number of user routes. This also avoids cluttering up the list of routes in monitoring and management tools. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/camel-karavan-4.4.0/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/camel-karavan-4.4.0/ There should have been an AI-generated image of animated camels in a setting vaguely related to the plot of this post. But I think we have already had enough of them ;-) We are announcing the Apache Camel Karavan 4.4.0, your one-stop shop for simplified and accelerated integration development with Apache Camel! This release packs a punch with a plethora of improvements, making your integration journey smoother and more efficient than ever. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/language-support-release-0.16.0/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/03/language-support-release-0.16.0/ There is a new release of VS Code extension Language Support for Apache Camel 0.16.0. Available at Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX Registry. This blog post is covering changes made during multiple releases. Latest blog posted changes were for Language Support for Apache Camel v0.9.0. But all listed below is available in latest published v0.16.0 extension release. What’s changed Embedded Language Server for Apache Camel 1.18.0. Updated default Camel Quarkus Catalog from 2. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/02/camel44-whatsnew/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/02/camel44-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.4 (LTS) has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The simple language has been improved with hash function, and further improved the embedded functions for jsonpath, jq and xpath making it easier to grab data from JSon or XML within your simple expression or predicates. We have optimized data formats to avoid converting payload to byte[] when unmarshalling, but allowing each data format to unmarshal the payload as-is. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/02/camel-whatsapp-langchain4j/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/02/camel-whatsapp-langchain4j/ This blog shows how Apache Camel can help integrate multiple systems with an AI model, in particular, the camel-whatsapp component is used to build a chat on WhatsApp; so that a user can easily communicate with the LLM (large Language Model) via WhatsApp. Overview The objective is the following, I’d like to have specific conversations about some topic, in this case, how to contribute to Apache Camel, with an LLM via WhatsApp. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/01/hawtio-v3/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/01/hawtio-v3/ The Hawtio development team is really excited to announce the general availability of Hawtio 3.0.0 to the Apache Camel community! Hawtio is a classic tool for managing Java/JVM applications with a web UI. It has long been a core favourite among Java and Camel engineers as a web GUI management console for Java and Camel applications. However, it was based on stale JavaScript frameworks 1, which made further enhancements and maintenance difficult. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/01/2023-numbers/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2024/01/2023-numbers/ It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2023, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). You can find previous year 2022 numbers here. Camel 2023 in Numbers Number of Camel Core releases in 2023: 33 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2023: 13 Number of Camel K releases in 2023: 7 Number of Camel Kafka Connector releases in 2023: 5 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel3ending/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel3ending/ We have just released Apache Camel 3.22 as the last new minor release of Camel 3.x. This marks the end of new development of Camel 3, and there are no more releases planned. Camel 3.14 and 3.20 reached end of life by end of 2023. And therefore, the only supported releases of Camel 3.x are as follows: Version Supported Until 3.21.x Jun 2024 3.22.x Dec 2024 Camel 3.21.x is supported first half of 2024, and Camel 3. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel43-whatsnew/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel43-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.3 (non LTS) has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core Added basic support for Java 21 virtual threads. Note this is experimental and there is more work to complete to have full support for virtual threads. More details at threading model. The simple language can now work better with JSon and XML with inlined jq/jsonpath/xpath functions. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel-data-types/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/12/camel-data-types/ Since Camel 4, users are able to apply data types to their individual Camel routes in order to transform the processed message content in a declarative way. The data type functionality has been added on top of the well-known Transformer EIP that is a part of Apache Camel since the beginning. This post gives a short introduction to the concept of data types and continues with several examples that show how to use those data types in Camel for instance as a form of Camel route contracts. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel-4-performance-improvements-2/ Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel-4-performance-improvements-2/ Introduction Apache Camel has always been committed to delivering top-notch performance. As the development of Camel 4 progressed, so did the dedication to enhancing its performance. In this blog post, we’ll explore the advances made in the pursuit of efficiency, focusing on key improvements introduced between Camel 4.1 and 4.2, with a few important improvements for the upcoming 4.3. Camel 4.1: A Leap Forward in Type Conversion One of the notable enhancements in Camel 4. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel42-whatsnew/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel42-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.2 (non LTS) has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Java 21 This is the first release that officially supports running on Java 21. Camel Core We continue to fine-tune the new type converter that was introduced on Camel 4.1.0. This version brings a few cleanups to the code, some fixes to the type converter resolution logic, caching improvements and micro optimizations to the type matching algorithm. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel-karavan-4.1.0/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/11/camel-karavan-4.1.0/ Apache Camel Karavan 4.1.0 has been launched! Custom Kamelets Development With this release, Apache Camel Karavan is featuring the addition of Custom Kamelet Developmenet. Kamelets allows users to connect to external systems via a simplified interface, hiding all the low level details about how those connections are implemented. Furthermore, apart from simplifying connections, Kamelets can package reusable integration logic, making it easily deployable in various projects. With this release, Karavan now offers full-fledged Kamelet development support right at your fingertips: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/jbang-video/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/jbang-video/ For the past year, we have worked on Camel JBang, that is becoming ready to be more widespread known among Camel users. In this blog I just want to quickly refer to a number of recent video recordings of Camel JBang in action. Apache Camel 4.0 with Camel JBang MQTT demo - by Claus, How to quickly build a Camel prototype with MQTT using Docker Camel JBang - Run Camel as Script using JBang by Jasvinder, with first impressions of Camel JBang Apache Camel JBang - Reload quickly running Camel via copy/paste - by Claus, a poor man’s iPaaS with Apache Camel Karavan and Camel JBang https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/camel41-whatsnew/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/camel41-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 4.1 (non LTS) has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core We continue with our performance optimizations in the core. This release brings an optimized type converter, that works around JDK issue 8180450, and can bring improved performance for many scenarios, such as the content-based router and filter. DSL The XML and YAML DSL now have better support for defining bean which can be configured with properties, and references to other beans. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/migrate4/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/10/migrate4/ Apache Camel 4 was released a few months back. This blog post is a general guideline for Camel users that are seeking information how to migrate from Camel 2 or 3. We plan to launch a series of blog posts in the near future with more specific details on migrating, such as migrating from Camel Karaf to Camel 4 on Spring Boot or Quarkus. Apache Camel 4.0 is a fork of Camel 3. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/09/camel-karavan-4.0.0/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/09/camel-karavan-4.0.0/ We are delighted to unveil Apache Camel Karavan 4.0.0. This release introduces a range of new features, enhancements and updates, making integration development more versatile and user-friendly. Here are the key highlights of this release: Enhanced Platform Support With this release, Apache Camel Karavan expands its compatibility across multiple platforms, offering developers greater flexibility in integration deployment. Karavan 4.0.0 is now compatible with the following platforms: Docker (New!) - The primary benefit of utilizing Docker is to reduce infrastructure complexity, thereby speed-up platform utilization and accelerating adoption. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/09/camel-4-on-camel-k/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/09/camel-4-on-camel-k/ This blog announce the availability of Camel K Runtime version 3.2.0 which will gives you the possibility to run Camel 4 workloads on Kubernetes with Camel K. Release details Apache Camel K Runtime 3.2.0 Apache Camel Quarkus 3.2.0 Apache Camel 4.0.0 How to run Camel 4 with Camel K If you are on Camel K 2.0, this is quite straightforward. If you recall, one of the major feature of version 2 is the ability to run any Camel K runtime. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/08/camel4-whatsnew/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/08/camel4-whatsnew/ After 10 months of development, with 3 milestones, and 2 RC releases, we are releasing Apache Camel v4 today as LTS release. The Camel 4.0.x is a LTS release, and we will support it for 1 year. This blog post highlights some noteworthy new features and improvements in Camel v4. The features are based on work since January 2023, which was the time when we switched main branch to be Camel v4 based. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/08/camel-k-micrometer/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/08/camel-k-micrometer/ We already explained how to take monitor your Integrations in the previous blog post about monitoring operations on Camel K. The good news is there are only a few changes with the move to Micrometer Metrics. From Microprofile to Micrometer Camel K 2.0 was the occasion to move from one technology (Microprofile) to another (Micrometer) for the Prometheus trait configuration implementation. The reason is the deprecation notice from Quarkus Microprile’s implementation in favor of using Micrometer Metrics. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/07/camel-k-gitops/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/07/camel-k-gitops/ In this blog post we’ll be talking about GitOps and we’ll provide some approach that we hope can help you understand better how you can do such kind of operations togheter with Camel K. As we’re talking about processes, all the discussion we’re going to provide can be different in each company, environment and according the set of tools you’re using. The idea of the blog is to show the possibilities offered by Camel K in order to help you understand better how you can adapt your own tools and process to Camel K deployment model. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/06/camel-k-maven-proxy/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/06/camel-k-maven-proxy/ One of the main effort we’re putting in Camel K version 2 is to have a enterprise grade building system. Not that Camel K version 1 has not this capability, but some of the key features are not very explicit. So I thought that, while waiting for Camel K version 2 release, where we’re making all this configuration explicit, I can share some tip on how to improve the capacity to build and have a production enterprise ready environment also in Camel K 1. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/05/camel-debezium-quarkus/ Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/05/camel-debezium-quarkus/ In this article, we will explore how to use Debezium and Apache Camel in conjunction with Quarkus to build a reactive application efficiently and send real-time changes from a database to a destination, such as webservice or message queue or another database. What is Debezium? Debezium is a distributed, event-driven data change platform used to capture data changes in database systems and send them to other systems in real time so that applications can respond to all database insertions, updates and deletions made by other applications. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/05/camel-4-performance-improvements/ Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/05/camel-4-performance-improvements/ Introduction We are thrilled to share the remarkable advancements in the performance of Apache Camel 4, achieved through our diligent efforts in addressing a critical JVM issue (JDK-8180450). In this article, we will delve into the details of our investigation, the tools employed, and the subsequent optimizations that have propelled Apache Camel 4 to new heights of speed and efficiency. Identifying the Performance Challenge The JVM issue JDK-8180450, known for its potential performance penalties during type checking, became our focal point. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/04/camel-observation/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/04/camel-observation/ The Spring Observability Team has added native observability support for Spring Applications with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3. You can read more about the feature in the Spring blog where the Micrometer team explains what Observability and Micrometer Observation projects are. This blog post will explain how to set up Micrometer Observation and how you can add observability to your Camel projects. Setting up the ObservationRegistry The following snippet of code shows how to set up basic metrics and tracing capabilities for an ObservationRegistry. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/03/camel-k-telemetry/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/03/camel-k-telemetry/ Tracing is an important approach for controlling and monitoring the experience of users, it allows us to gather more information about an integration’s performance. Camel K has been providing support for distributed tracing using OpenTracing since long time. At the beginning of 2022, the CNCF announced that they were archiving the OpenTracing project in favor of the OpenTelemetry project. OpenTelemetry is the latest solution created by merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus. As a result, we decided in Camel K 1. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/camel-k-yaks/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/camel-k-yaks/ This post describes the steps to test a Camel K integration with YAKS both locally and on the Kubernetes platform. What is YAKS? YAKS is an Open Source test automation platform that leverages Behavior Driven Development concepts for running tests locally and on Cloud infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes or OpenShift). This means that the testing tool is able to run your tests both as local tests and natively on Kubernetes. The framework is specifically designed to verify Serverless and Microservice applications and aims for integration testing with the application under test up and running in a production-like environment. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/karavan-intro/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/karavan-intro/ Karavan is an Integration Toolkit for Apache Camel, which makes integration easy and fun through the visualization of pipelines, integration with runtimes and package, image build and deployment to kubernetes out-of-the-box. This is a short Karavan introduction aimed to help to understand if this tool is right for your needs. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/2022-Numbers/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2023/01/2022-Numbers/ It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2022, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). Camel 2022 in Numbers Number of Camel Core releases in 2022: 19 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2022: 15 Number of Camel K releases in 2022: 11 Number of Camel Kafka Connector releases in 2022: 4 Number of commits in 2022: 6162 [1] https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/camel320-whatsnew/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/camel320-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.20 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Core The Split EIP has been optimized to perform faster and reduced overhead when splitting by a String literal or a regular expression. When working with EIPs you may want to temporarily disable one or more EIPs. Today you have to comment out code, or remove the EIPs. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/camel-context-reloading-secret-refresh/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/camel-context-reloading-secret-refresh/ Starting from Camel 3.19.0 we have four cloud services supported for loading properties as secrets: AWS Secret Manager Google Cloud Secret Manager Azure Key Vault Hashicorp Vault One of the problems we faced in the development was related to finding a way to automatically refresh the secret value on the secrets update. The main players in the cloud game are providing solutions based on their services: AWS provides multiple ways to be notified about secret updates and secret rotations through AWS Cloudtrail or AWS Cloud events, GCP leverages Google Pubsub to deliver messages with events related to secret, while Azure provides multiple ways of getting notified about events related to a vault in the Azure Key Vault service, mostly by using Azure Eventgrid as an intermediate service. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/quarkus-insights/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/quarkus-insights/ A few weeks ago I presented Camel JBang at the Quarkus Insights show and one of the demos I did was to quickly run Camel 1.0 route copied with the latest Camel. This is a 4-minute recording of that demo. If you want to see more, then I recommend to watch the Quarkus Insight session. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/run2007today/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/12/run2007today/ Apache Camel was recently showcased at the Quarkus Insights show (#110). The session runs 1 hour and 10 minutes, where Peter first give an overview of Apache Camel, then Claus presents the latest update on Camel JBang, and with live demos. And the last 40 minutes is focused on Camel Quarkus where Zineb shows a live coded demo. The recording can be watched from YouTube. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/11/camel-k-jbang/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/11/camel-k-jbang/ Testing is probably one of those operations we use to repeat most of the time while building any application. Applications in Camel world are no difference. With the advent of Camel JBang, we have a unified place that can be used to perform our testing/fine tuning locally before moving to a higher environment. During the last years of development, we have noticed that testing or fine tuning an integration directly connected to a Cloud Native environment can result a bit cumbersome. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/ContentBasedRoutingWithCamelDroolsQuarkusKogitoAltasMapApacheKafka/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:56:35 +0200 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/ContentBasedRoutingWithCamelDroolsQuarkusKogitoAltasMapApacheKafka/ In this post I want to share with you how to implement a complete, end-to-end Content Based Routing solution using Apache Camel, AtlasMap and Quarkus as a developer platform, including: Drools DMN Engine, Kogito. Apache Kafka is used in this solution as a message broker. Content based routing overview Here is the Enterprise Integration Pattern (EIP) diagram of the flow, annotated with some details of the components used: The focus of this solution is routing healthcare-related messages; for this demo example, messages are routed accordingly to the following decision table rules: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/camel319-whatsnew/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/camel319-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.19 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel JBang (Camel CLI) In this release we continue the expansion of Camel CLI. You can now easily manage local running Camel integrations. For example to list all running Camel processes: camel ps PID NAME READY STATUS AGE 61818 sample.camel.MyCamelApplica… 1/1 Running 26m38s 62506 dude 1/1 Running 4m34s To see a bit more information, you can use camel get. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/camel-k-cicd/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/10/camel-k-cicd/ In Camel K version 10, we’ve released the CLI `promote feature that provides Camel K an opinionated way of promoting an Integration through the stages of software development. This feature unlock the possibility to combine Camel K with external tooling and let the user develop according to any automated release process. We always ear about CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and/or Deployment), and in this blog we’re going to see how to make it for any Camel K integration. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/pluralsight-training/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/pluralsight-training/ Announcing Author-led Training on Camel I’m happy to announce the release of a new course on Apache Camel at Pluralsight. The course, “Fundamentals of Integration with Apache Camel”, by Michael Hoffman, is intended to help you learn the foundations of Camel as well as how to apply it at an enterprise scale. Demonstrations are provided for implementing ETL, Event-Driven Architecture with RabbitMQ and Kafka, and finally, serverless with Camel-K. Please note, Pluralsight is a paid subscription service. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/ApacheCon-Asia-2022-videos/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/ApacheCon-Asia-2022-videos/ Video recordings from ApacheCon Asia 2022 are now available for viewing on YouTube. The five sessions on the Integration Track can also be viewed embedded here. Enjoy! Sharing the architecture of DevLake, a research and development performance data integration platform by 陈映初 (Chen Yingchu) ¬ Citizen Streaming Engineer - A How To by Timothy Spann ¬ Camel K goes Quarkus Native by Pasquale Congiusti ¬ Integrating systems in the age of Quarkus, serverless and Kafka by Zineb Bendhiba https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/camel-idea-plugin-release-0.8.13/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/08/camel-idea-plugin-release-0.8.13/ Apache Camel IDEA Plugin 0.8.13 has just been released. In this release, we mainly focused on improving the Camel Debugger user experience thanks to a set of improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Camel Debugger UX Enable the Camel Debugger seamlessly In this version, in the case of the Standalone/Main and Spring Boot runtimes, it is now possible to enable the Camel Debugger seamlessly when launching a Camel application or a test by using respectively the Java Launcher or the JUnit Launcher as shown below: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/secrets-properties-functions-part-2/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/secrets-properties-functions-part-2/ In Camel 3.16.0 we introduced the ability to load properties from vault and use them in the Camel context. This post aims to show the updates and improvements we’ve done in the last two releases. Supported Services In 3.16.0 we’re supporting two of the main services available in the cloud space: AWS Secret Manager Google Cloud Secret Manager In 3.19.0, to be released, we’re going to have four services available: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/camel-k-monitoring-ops/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/camel-k-monitoring-ops/ Camel K offers a wide list of operations you can execute once your Integration has been deployed (likely in a production environment). When we talk about operations, the most typical question we got is “How to monitor a Camel K Integration?”. Fortunately, we have all the ingredients needed to let you manage this operation as smooth as possible. I’ll walk you through the different tools and configuration needed in this blog post. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/camel-designer-jbang/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/07/camel-designer-jbang/ \ A new input mapping system has been added to Camel Designer. But what that even means ?!? Well, better to be seen, but if explained, it’s an effort to provide a more intuitive configuration system for Camel route steps. On one hand, it simplifies the view of a route by compacting route steps, and on the other hand, it provides an easy drag-and-drop mapping ability to map process variables to activity inputs. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/06/Optimizing-Camel-K-Integration-Build-Time/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/06/Optimizing-Camel-K-Integration-Build-Time/ The Integration is the resource which represents the actual Camel application and building a container image that packages the integration within an elevated cloud platform (be it locally in a Minikube or K8s hosted cluster to Openshift clusters) takes ample amount of time. Enhancing the Camel-K Integration build time Our goal was to reduce overhead and improve user experience. We were able to narrow down the major contributors that had a significant influence on the integration build time. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/06/camel3x-top10-features/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/06/camel3x-top10-features/ At the end of 2019 Camel 3 arrived. Some main features were modularization of the core and support for Java 11. A bunch of other changes were mentioned in Claus Ibsen’s blog: Apache Camel 3 What’s New (top 10) In this blog, we focus on the top 10 of features that arrived since the 3.0 release. As an overview, but also to give some attention to features not everyone is aware of. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/05/camel317-whatsnew/ Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/05/camel317-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.17 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Java 17 (runtime) support Camel 3.17 is the first release where we have official support for Java 17, really easy to remember :) That said, the Java 17 support is runtime only, meaning that we do not add special support for new Java 17 language features such as Java records. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/camel316-whatsnew/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/camel316-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.16 has just been released. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Resume from Offset This release brings a new API to simplify consuming data at scale: the resume API V2. Please check the blog post we wrote to introduce it to our community. Load properties from valut/secrets cloud services This release brings a new feature: the ability to retrieve properties values from a Vault/Secrets cloud services. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/secrets-properties-functions/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/secrets-properties-functions/ In the last weeks, together with Claus, we’ve been working on a new feature: loading properties from Vault/Secrets cloud services. It will arrive with Camel 3.16.0, currently on vote and to be released by the end of this week (24/3). This post introduces the new features and provide some examples. Secrets Management in Camel In the past there were many discussions around the possibility of managing secrets in Camel through Vault Services. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/camel-release-stats/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/camel-release-stats/ Many developers know that Apache Camel is one of the most active Apache projects. Consider the top 3 Apache Code Authors in 2021: Andrea Cosentino: 4,447 commits (352,346 insertions, 399,815 deletions) Claus Ibsen: 2,974 commits (555,245 insertions, 567,896 deletions) Mark Thomas: 2,509 commits (186,889 insertions, 117,182 deletions) The first two places are occupied by Camel committers. In 2021 the Camel project also reached the second place when it’s about the number of commits (9541), just behind Superset. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/resume-api-v2/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/03/resume-api-v2/ The need to process larger quantities of data has been a growing concern and necessity within our community. For the last few releases we have been working to create mechanisms to simplify how our users can consume data at scale. Although Camel is no stranger to consuming data at scale, recent trends in computing and systems architecture introduce the need for behaviors that improve agility, speed and scalability when doing so. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/02/camel-test-infra/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/02/camel-test-infra/ For Camel 3.16.0 we are removing the deprecated container-based test modules and replacing them with a new set of modules called Camel test-infra. They continue to support container-based tests via TestContainers, however they abstract the underlying test infrastructure. One of the great benefits for our project is that they allow us to more easily switch from container-based tests, to external instances. Previously, we would need to create a new test or implement a more complex design if we wanted to test both a container instance and an external service instance (i. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/02/camel315-whatsnew/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/02/camel315-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.15 has just been released. This release has dropped support for Java 8, and therefore Java 11 is required. Because this is first release where we upgrade from Java 8 to 11, then some effort has been made to migrate various Maven plugins and settings to make this upgrade possible. This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/01/camel-keda/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/01/camel-keda/ NOTE: this post has first appeared in the author’s blog. KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscalers) is a fantastic project (currently CNCF incubating) that provides Kubernetes-based autoscalers to help applications to scale out according to the number of incoming events when they are listening to several kinds of event sources. In Camel K we’ve long supported Knative for providing a similar functionality for integrations that are triggered by HTTP calls, so supporting KEDA was something planned since long time, because it enables full autoscaling from a wider collection of sources. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/01/dynamic-router-eip-component/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2022/01/dynamic-router-eip-component/ Apache Camel 3.15.0 introduces a new Dynamic Router EIP component. Although Camel core includes a Dynamic Router processor, I wanted a Dynamic Router implementation that was much closer, and more adherent, to the EIP specification. The Dynamic Router as a “glue” component, not a messaging server It is important to note that, while this implementation of the Dynamic Router is a component, it is not meant to be a component for some type of messaging system (like JMS, etc. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/camelDebuggerForIntelliJ/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/camelDebuggerForIntelliJ/ The recent release of the Apache Camel plugin for IntelliJ version v0.8.0 includes the first tech preview of the Camel Route Debugger. The debugger is currently available on Maven-based Camel projects and routes defined in the XML DSL. The minimum recommended Camel version is 3.15.0-SNAPSHOT (older versions also may work, but the functionality is limited). Features The first tech preview includes the following features: Breakpoints inside Camel routes in XML DSL; https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/camel314-whatsnew/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/camel314-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.14 has just been released. This is the last LTS release supporting Java 8, and therefore we have extended the support period from 1 to 2 years. This blog post first details the noteworthy changes since the last 3.11 LTS release from 6 months ago. So what’s in this release (6 months of work) This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/api-management-infra/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/api-management-infra/ I’m an engineer working at the OSS solution center of Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd. is a company that provides IT services & platforms in Japan and other countries. In our organization, OSS solution center, we are working on providing the IT services with the OSS. In my case, I’m working on Keycloak, 3scale and Camel, providing the technical support and considering the use cases of them. And I’m also an open source contributor for Keycloak. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/log4j2/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/12/log4j2/ Apache Camel is NOT using log4j for production Apache Camel does not directly depend on Log4j 2, so we are not affected by CVE-2021-44228. If you explicitly added the Log4j 2 dependency to your own applications, make sure to upgrade. Apache Camel is using log4j for testing itself Apache Camel does use log4j during testing itself, and therefore you can find that we have been using log4j v2.13.3 release in our latest LTS releases Camel 3. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/11/camel-karavan-release-0.0.8/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/11/camel-karavan-release-0.0.8/ Karavan Serverless What’s new in Karavan preview release 0.0.8? In addition to VSCode extension and Standalone application, Karavan could be deployed in Serverless mode alongside Camel-K on Kubernetes. Karavan Serverless gets and applies Integration Custom Resources directly from/to Kubernetes. Try Karavan Serverless mode on Minikube Install Minikube Install Camel-K Install Karavan serverless git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/camel-karavan cd camel-karavan/karavan-demo/serverless kubectl apply -k karavan -n default Get Karavan URL minikube service camel-karavan --url The output should be like the following: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/09/camel-kafka-consumer-changes/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/09/camel-kafka-consumer-changes/ We recently started to review, investigate and fix reliability issues with the Kafka component. As part of that, we refactored the code to avoid problematic concurrency patterns, remove calls to deprecated Kafka client code and simplify the overall maintainability of the code. This led to many changes in the internal implementation of the component, which we will talk about in this blog post. Motivation The ground work related to these changes can be traced back to the following set of issues reported on our Jira. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/08/DeployingCamelRouteInAWSLambda/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/08/DeployingCamelRouteInAWSLambda/ Do you fancy running camel route as functions in AWS Lambda. Well I did a small Proof Of Concept to test this and the results were interesting. Thanks to the Quarkus and Camel-Quarkus communities for their efforts to make this technically possible. You can find the working sample in the Camel Quarkus Examples github repo #Deploying a Camel Route in AWS Lambda : A Camel Quarkus example This project uses the following framework https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/07/camel-jbang/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/07/camel-jbang/ Bringing the world of Java scripting to Camel https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/06/Camel311-Whatsnew/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/06/Camel311-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.11 has just been released. This is a LTS release which will be supported for 1 year with regular patch and security releases. This blog post first details the noteworthy changes since the last 3.10 release from last month. For readers that are upgrading from the last 3.7 LTS release then we have added a summary section that highlights all the important new features and changes (3.7 to 3. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/Camel310-Whatsnew/ Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/Camel310-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.10 has just been released. This is a non-LTS release which means we will not provide patch releases. The next planned LTS release is 3.11 scheduled for June/July 2021. So what’s in this release This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Reduced object allocations We have optimized the remainder of the most complex EIPs to avoid excessive object allocations, and also to support exchange pooling. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/plantuml-diagram/ Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/plantuml-diagram/ Hello Camel riders! I created a tool which allows to draw a PlantUML activity diagram from a running Camel context (not at design time). The above image shows what kind of diagram you can expect. I find it useful when I need to have a overall view of interactions between all the routes and endpoints, or to have a visual representation for better understanding and documentation. You can find all the details on the public GitHub repository. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/new-camel-k-logging-features/ Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/new-camel-k-logging-features/ New Camel K Logging Features for Camel K 1.5 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/multicast-failure-routing/ Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/05/multicast-failure-routing/ Problem description Multicast is a powerful EIP which supports parallel execution paths in asynchronous manner. There are various ways a Camel user can configure a multicast EIP. Check out the extensive documentation here One can configure to execute all the child paths independently and continue routing the last reply as the outgoing message (default behavior unless you provide an aggregation strategy) Additionally, you can plug in an implementation of a Camel aggregation strategy with user-defined logic to aggregate the output from each of those child paths before continuing further downstream routing. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/04/s3-streaming-upload-3.10.0/ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/04/s3-streaming-upload-3.10.0/ The S3 Streaming upload feature will arrive on Camel 3.10.0 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/03/Camel39-Whatsnew/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/03/Camel39-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.9 has just been released. This is a non-LTS release which means we will not provide patch releases. The next planned LTS release is 3.11 scheduled for June 2021. So what’s in this release This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Reduced object allocations We have optimized the core by dramatically reducing object allocations - in fact the routing engine will produce ZERO or little objects during routing. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/02/Camel38-Whatsnew/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/02/Camel38-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.8 has just been released. This is a non-LTS release which means we will not provide patch releases. The next planned LTS release is 3.10 scheduled for June 2021. So what’s in this release This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Startup and Shutdown Logging A noticeable difference is we changed the logging noise during startup and shutdown of Camel. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/01/camel-quarkus-configuration-tips/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2021/01/camel-quarkus-configuration-tips/ Some tips related to configuration in Camel Quarkus https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/Camel-kafka-connector-070-Whatsnew/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/Camel-kafka-connector-070-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel Kafka Connector 0.7.0 has just been released. This is based on the LTS release of Apache Camel 3.7.0, this means we will provide patch releases, as Camel 3.7.x is an LTS release. So what’s in this release? This release introduce bug fixes, improvements, new features and new connectors obviously New connectors The new connectors introduced in this release are the following: AtlasMap: Transforms the message using an AtlasMap transformation Kubernetes Custom Resources: Perform operations on Kubernetes Custom Resources and get notified on Deployment changes Vert. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/CKC-idempotency-070/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/CKC-idempotency-070/ In the next Camel Kafka connector release (0.7.0, on vote soon) there will be a new feature: the idempotency support on both source and sink connectors. The aim of this post is giving some hints on how and when to use the idempotency feature. What is Idempotency? The Idempotent Consumer from the EIP patterns is used to filter out duplicate messages: it essentially acts like a Message Filter to filter out duplicates, as reported in the Camel documentation https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/Camel37-Whatsnew/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/12/Camel37-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.7 LTS has just been released. This is a LTS release which means we will provide patch releases for one year. The next planned LTS release is 3.10 scheduled towards summer 2021. So what’s in this release This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Pre compiled languages We continued our avenue of making Camel faster and smaller. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/mocking-beans-with-camel-quarkus/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:02:10 +0200 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/mocking-beans-with-camel-quarkus/ Even implementing a simple stateless micro-service, one could face situations where testing becomes hard. A lot of tools and techniques could help, but having something at hand quickly is very handy. In this post, I’m introducing a Quarkus feature that plays nice with Camel in order to mock beans for test purpose. Camel and Quarkus together for mocking beans It’s long known that Camel offers great support for Java beans. Every time a developer needs custom code, this feature comes to the rescue. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/Camel36-Whatsnew/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/Camel36-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.6 has just been released. This is a non-LTS release which means we will not provide patch releases but use the release as-is. The next planned LTS release is 3.7 scheduled towards the end of the year. So what’s in this release? This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Spring Boot We have upgraded to the latest release at this time which is Spring Boot 2. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/ApacheCon-at-Home-videos/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:27:14 +0200 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/ApacheCon-at-Home-videos/ This year’s ApacheCon was an overwhelming success, with many tracks running in parallel. If you missed some of the talks on the Camel/Integration or would like to revisit your favorites, video recordings from ApacheCon @Home 2020 are now available on The Apache Software Foundation YouTube channel. You can watch the content from all three days in one playlist, with over 10 hours of content. For convenience, we listed the talks as they appear in the schedule here along with the slides shared by the speakers. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/camel-aws2-eventbridge-intro/ Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/10/camel-aws2-eventbridge-intro/ In Camel 3.6.0 we will introduce the camel-aws2-eventbridge among others new cool components. The aim of this blog post is showing what you can do with the Eventbridge AWS Service and the related camel component. What is AWS Eventbridge? The definition from the AWS official website is the following: Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/09/Camel-kafka-connector-050-Whatsnew/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/09/Camel-kafka-connector-050-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel Kafka Connector 0.5.0 has just been released. This is based on the non-LTS release of Apache Camel 3.5.0, this means we will not provide patch releases, but use the release as-is. So what’s in this release? This release introduce bug fixes, improvements and new connectors obviously New connectors The new connectors introduced in this release are the following: ArangoDB: Perform operations on ArangoDb when used as a Document Database, or as a Graph Database. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/09/Camel35-Whatsnew/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/09/Camel35-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.5 has just been released. This is a non-LTS release which means we will not provide patch releases, but use the release as-is. The next planned LTS release is 3.7 scheduled towards end of the year. So what’s in this release? This release introduces new set of features and noticeable improvements that will we cover in this blog post. Java 14 This is the first release that supports Java 14. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/08/Camel-kafka-connector-0.4.0-RELEASE/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/08/Camel-kafka-connector-0.4.0-RELEASE/ We recently released camel-kafka-connector 0.4.0. This is the first release of the latest project in the Camel’s ecosystem, based on an LTS camel release. The main features of this release are: Introduction of aggregation support Introduction of marshalling and unmarshalling support on both sink and source connectors Upgrade to the latest Apache Camel release 3.4.2 Addition of new examples in the camel-kafka-connector-examples repository Integration tests added for HDFS (sink), Cassandra/CQL (source), Slack (Source), JDBC (sink) and MongoDB (sink/source). https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/07/command-line-utility-with-camel-quarkus/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/07/command-line-utility-with-camel-quarkus/ Camel and Camel Quarkus are typically used to create integration applications that run as long living processes, a.k.a. daemons or services. In this blog post, we are going to explain a slightly different use case: using Camel Quarkus in programs that exit by themselves after performing some desired tasks. Where can this be useful? The enterprise is full of scheduled batch processing. Say, some system exports some sort of reports daily at 4 a. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/06/camel34-whatsnew/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/06/camel34-whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3.4 is the first LTS (Long Term Support) release of Camel 3. This release will be actively supported with regular patch releases containing important bug and security fixes for 1-year. For more details about LTS vs non-LTS releases see this blog post. So what’s in this release? This release is mostly about robustness and bug fixes. We have also continued the work to make Camel more modular and lighter. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/05/Camel33-Whatsnew/ Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/05/Camel33-Whatsnew/ A few days ago Apache Camel 3.3 was released. This is a continuation of the work we are doing on Camel leading up to the first long term support release (LTS) that will be the next release v3.4. In case you have missed this, the release model in Camel 3.x is following the principe of LTS and non-LTS releases (like Java JDKs). For more details see this blog post. What this means is that we will not do patch releases for Camel 3. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/05/CdcWithCamelAndDebezium/ Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/05/CdcWithCamelAndDebezium/ Change Data Capture (CDC) is a well-established software design pattern for a system that monitors and captures data changes, so that other software can respond to those events. Using a CDC engine like Debezium along with Camel integration framework, we can easily build data pipelines to bridge traditional data stores and new cloud-native event-driven architectures. The advantages of CDC comparing to a simple poll-based or query-based process are: All changes captured: intermediary changes (updates, deletes) between two runs of the poll loop may be missed. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/Camel-Kafka-connector-release-0.1.0/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/Camel-Kafka-connector-release-0.1.0/ The Apache Camel community is pleased to announce the first release (0.1.0) of Camel-Kafka-connector project. This release is an early opportunity for the community to try the project and share feedback about usage of the autogenerated connectors as well as features ideas and use cases for the next development iterations. The project provides a tiny integration layer between camel and kafka connect frameworks and generate one kafka connector for each existing camel component. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/100Camels/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/100Camels/ Today I continue me practice on youtube and recorded a 10 minute video on creating a new Camel and Quarkus project that includes Rest and HTTP services with health checks and metrics out of the box. Then comparing the memory usage of running the example in JVM mode vs native compiled with GraalVM. Then showing for the finale how to quickly run 100 instances of the example each on their own TCP port and how quick Camel are to startup and service the first requests faster than you can type and click. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/Camel32-Whatsnew/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/04/Camel32-Whatsnew/ A few days ago Apache Camel 3.2 was released. This is a continuation of the work we are doing on Camel leading up to the first long term support release (LTS) that would be either Camel 3.3 or 3.4. In case you have missed this, the release model in Camel 3.x is following the principe of LTS and non-LTS releases (like Java JDKs). For more details see this blog post. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/03/Camel3-AWS2-Whatsnew/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/03/Camel3-AWS2-Whatsnew/ In Camel 3.2.0 we’ll release the complete set of Camel AWS2 components. In Camel 3.1.0 we already have a bunch of AWS2 components living together with the original AWS components. The aim of this post is giving a full perspective of what will change for the end users and the roadmap for new features. New components Except camel-aws-xray, which is a particular component needing much more work to be migrated, all the original AWS components have been migrated to AWS SDK v2. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/01/CustomWebApiComponent/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/01/CustomWebApiComponent/ Have you built a new great Web API for your product? Wouldn’t be wonderful to have it available as a part of the great Apache Camel component family? We would love it. The community just released Camel 3 which is more modular, lightweight and already includes lots of components (300+) to quickly integrate various systems consuming or producing data. All of these components can be used with the same integration domain specific language (DSL) based on the famous Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs). https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/01/capi-gateway/ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2020/01/capi-gateway/ I’ve been working at the European Commission for the last 4 years as a Software Architect, working for a unit responsible for developing reusable components, and advocating open source software. In this context, we organized already a couple of Hackathons and Bug bounties open to all the open source communities. In the team, we worked already a couple of times with Apache Camel, and I like the elegance and performance compared with other integration frameworks. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/12/2019-Numbers/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/12/2019-Numbers/ It’s the time of the year where we take a look back at 2019, and compile a brief summary of the Apache Camel project. The big news of 2019 was the much anticipated release of Apache Camel 3. Family of projects It was also in 2019 that the Camel project became a family of projects by introducing: Camel K Camel Quarkus Making Apache Camel a trilogy. But it does not stop there; in early 2020 three will become five when we release: https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/12/Camel3-Whatsnew/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/12/Camel3-Whatsnew/ Apache Camel 3 was released last thursday November 28th 2019, which also happens to be the day of the US Thanksgiving. This was not intentionally but we can say its a big thanks from us to the community with a brand new major version of Camel - this does not come often by. In fact, its 10 years since Camel 2 hit the streets. So this 3rd generation is long overdue. https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/11/ASF-Report-2019/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/11/ASF-Report-2019/ The ASF Annual 2019 Report includes 25 highlights where Apache Camel is referred twice as a top-5 project: Top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits: Camel, Hadoop, HBase, Beam, and Flink; GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources –visits: Spark, Camel, Flink, Kafka, and Airflow; https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/09/ApacheConNA-2019/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:45:32 +0200 https://camel.apache.org/blog/2019/09/ApacheConNA-2019/ Apache Camel is part of ApacheCon 2019 in North America this year celebrating the 20th year anniversary of Apache Software Foundation. On the Integration track you will find out all about the state of Apache Camel from Claus Ibsen, Sami Adranly will present Camel based data integration platform at Uber called Medley Nicola Ferraro and Andrea Tarocchi will be talking about Camel K and Camel K with Knative, Bob Paulin will make the cloud integration friendly in Configuring Apache Camel for the Cloud and Michael Costello will talk about serverless integration with Camel.