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Release notes, roadmap updates, and engineering notes from the Camel team and community.
We had a frontier AI coach a small local model through Camel. It found 99 things wrong for humans too
A frontier model ran the harness, a 22 GB local model on a laptop did the work, and Camel was what we changed between runs: from 0 to 12 of 13 beginner examples over twenty runs, …
Workload identity in Apache Camel with SPIFFE and SPIRE
Camel 4.23 adds camel-spiffe. Routes can fetch and validate SPIFFE identity documents from the local Workload API, and an SSLContextParameters backed by SPIFFE gives rotating …
GenAI Observability with Spring Boot and the Camel Observability Stack
Take Camel GenAI observability from CLI/TUI prototypes to production — Spring Boot, camel infra run observability, per-model Perses dashboards, and VictoriaTraces.
Observe Your Camel AI Routes with GenAI OpenTelemetry
Apache Camel 4.23 adds GenAI observability — OpenTelemetry spans and Micrometer metrics for LLM routes. Prototype it in minutes with the Camel CLI, Ollama, and the Camel TUI.
Real-Time Analytics with Apache Camel and ClickHouse
Apache Camel 4.22 adds a dedicated ClickHouse component for high-throughput OLAP ingestion and queries — here's why it exists, how it works, and three routes you can copy today.
Camel TUI: A Low-Code YAML Editor in Your Terminal
The Camel TUI now includes a built-in YAML DSL editor with intelligent Tab completion, validation on save, and support for four AI providers in the AI prompt panel.
Camel Routes as AI Tools: Unified Tooling and MCP Server in Camel 4.22
Camel 4.22 introduces a unified AI tool abstraction and a built-in MCP server. Define a tool once as a Camel route, and it works with LangChain4j, Spring AI, and OpenAI. Tag it, …
Built to Patch Fast: Apache Camel's Security Response in 2026
Camel 4.21.0 shipped with 32 security fixes, and both LTS lines were patched within four days. Here is how the release process makes that possible, why so many advisories landed at …
Introducing Camel TUI — A Terminal Dashboard for Apache Camel
Camel TUI is an interactive terminal dashboard that gives you a live view of your Camel integrations — route topology, message tracing, error diagnosis, and AI agent integration, …
Echonect: Fifteen Years on Apache Camel
A five-part, fifteen-year story of building and running Echonect, one of Europe's larger SMS gateways, on Apache Camel. From a twelve-month rebuild deadline in 2011 to 500+ …