It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2025, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). You can find previous year 2024 numbers here. Camel 2025 in Numbers Number of Camel Core / Camel Spring Boot releases in 2025: 25 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2025: 18 Number of Camel Karavan releases in 2025: 3 Number of Camel K releases in 2025: 5
© ‘Camel Caravan’ by D.Damdinsuren Last release of 2025! A present just in time for those celebrating Christmas. And this time, a very big package you’ll be happy to open! Camel K version 2.9.0 is bringing a lot of new features, improved traits and a new shiny GitOps operator assisted strategy. Let’s unfold it together. GitOps operator side During 2025 we have introduced several enhancements around GitOps. We had introduced the possibility to use a Kustomize based overlay structure already in the kamel promote CLI.
The Apache Camel website now generates markdown versions of all documentation pages following the llms.txt specification. This makes our documentation easily accessible to Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI coding assistants. What is llms.txt? The llms.txt specification is a standardized format that helps LLMs discover and consume website content efficiently. Similar to how robots.txt guides web crawlers and sitemap.xml helps search engines, llms.txt provides a structured entry point for AI systems to understand and access documentation.