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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.x.

We have done a total of 78 Camel 3.x releases, since Camel 3.0.0 was released (November 2019) 5 years ago.

Apache Camel 3 - Last year of support

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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.

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Apache Camel 4.7 What's New

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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.

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Apache Camel 4.5 What's New

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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.

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Camel 2023 in Numbers

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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

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Apache Camel 4.3 What's New

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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.

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