Apache Camel: 19 Years of Continuous Development — 272 Releases, 100,000 Commits, Zero Gaps
, by Claus IbsenApache Camel has shipped 272 production releases over 19 years without a single month of inactivity. The project averages a new release every 15 days, maintains up to 10 release lines in parallel, and has accumulated 100,000+ commits from over 1,500 contributors since 2007. This track record is not a recent development — it has been sustained continuously since well before the current wave of AI-driven open-source activity. This post presents the evidence.