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Release notes, roadmap updates, and engineering notes from the Camel team and community.
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 mutual TLS to the components that already support TLS. There is an example in camel-examples that runs the whole thing with Docker Compose, with Open Policy Agent deciding what each identity may do.
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.