If your security or compliance team has started asking “does it ship with an SBOM?”, you are not alone. The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will require SBOM delivery for software sold in the EU, US Executive Order 14028 and NIST guidance make SBOMs a federal procurement expectation, and enterprise evaluation checklists increasingly treat SBOM availability as a gate. Apache Camel has shipped SBOMs with every release since 4.0.3 — long before these regulations finalized.
Ask an AI coding assistant to write an Apache Camel route and you will likely get working code on the first try. Ask it to configure a Kafka consumer, wire up an error handler, or transform a message with the Simple language, and the result is usually correct — often surprisingly so. This is not because AI models were specifically trained on Camel. It is because Camel’s 19-year track record has produced exactly the kind of public, high-quality, consistent data that large language models learn best from.
, by Ricardo M., Tomo Igarashi, Paloma Vinaches Melguizo, Dominik Jelínek, Matej Melko
What’s New? Kaoto 2.11 delivers major improvements across three key areas: automated testing through Citrus framework support, enhanced DataMapper capabilities for handling complex schemas, and flexible runtime management options. Built on Apache Camel 4.20.0, this release strengthens Kaoto’s position as a powerful visual integration design tool. Citrus Testing Capabilities The Citrus framework is now fully integrated into Kaoto 2.11, enabling you to create automated tests within the same visual environment where you design your integrations.