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Release notes, roadmap updates, and engineering notes from the Camel team and community.
Round 3: making Kamelets AI-ready
A local model knows Camel's components from memory, but hardly knows Kamelets. Once Camel's catalog tools and validator knew them too, Kamelets went from 1 of 15 steps to 47 of 50, …
One request, several agents: semantic routing with Apache Camel and Jev
Bring agent coordination into small, readable Camel routes: semantic decisions, parallel A2A calls, and bounded retries using familiar EIPs.
Thirty years of command-line tools, and nobody knew them all
A Friday thought: my Mac mini ran warm, and an AI found the cause with Unix tools that have been around for most of my career. Nobody ever knew all those tools. Nobody knows all of …
TypeSafe Jev meets Apache Camel: semantic decisions in Camel routes
Use Camel's Semantic language with Jev to classify messages, score ticket severity, validate actions, group related feedback, and review outgoing messages in camel routes.
B.Y.O.A. — Bring Your Own Agent to Camel TUI and Build Integrations with Camel Kit
Camel 4.23 brings ACP coding agents into Camel TUI. Bring your agent's skills and prompts, then use Camel Kit to design and build integrations from the same terminal.
Round 2: a real-world example set, a step-by-step benchmark, and 31 more Camel fixes
The second round of the local-model benchmark moved from thirteen beginner examples to a ladder of real-world ones with a web shop running through them, added a step-by-step mode …
CamelBee: Route Topology and Message Tracing for Deployed Camel Applications
CamelBee is an open-source library that serves a debugger UI from inside a running Camel application: live route topology, a per-hop latency waterfall, and message tracing with …
Extending Apache Camel Simple with Your Own Functions
Apache Camel’s Simple language already covers much of the logic needed in integration routes. Functions can be composed directly in Simple, while custom Java functions provide a …
Authorizing what an AI agent may do in Apache Camel
An AI agent decides which tools to call, and a tool can do real work: issue a refund, read a customer record, delete a file. The model is not a security boundary, so the decision …
The Camel website, rebuilt for humans and for AI
camel.apache.org has a new design and a new job: tell a person, or an AI agent, what Camel is and get them to a running route in a minute. What changed, and what comes next.