Apache camel 4.21.0 Release

New and Noteworthy

This release is the new Camel 4.21.0 release.

Supported Java version

This version supports Java 17, 21 and 25.

Getting the Binaries using Maven

To use this release in your Apache Maven pom.xml, import the Camel Bill of Materials (BOM) and then include the camel-core and any other components needed without specifying the version.

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
      <artifactId>camel-bom</artifactId>
      <version>4.21.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-COMPONENT</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

To use this release in a Spring Boot application, use Spring Boot spring-boot-dependencies and Camel camel-spring-boot-bom Bill of Materials (BOM):

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
      <version> SPRING BOOT VERSION HERE </version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
      <artifactId>camel-spring-boot-bom</artifactId>
      <version>4.21.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-COMPONENT-starter</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

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Git tag checkout

Release is tagged with camel-4.21.0 in the Git, to fetch it use:

git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/camel.git
cd camel
git checkout camel-4.21.0

Resolved issues

Here is a list of all the issues that have been resolved for this release

Bug (70)

CAMEL-23835: camel-launcher: 'camel tui' fails with "No BackendProvider found" because embedded plugins are loaded without a classloader
CAMEL-23834: camel-smb forward slashes rejected on Windows System STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID
CAMEL-23824: camel-jbang - dependency list should always include version for Spring Boot and Quarkus runtimes
CAMEL-23821: camel-jbang: camel validate plugin doesn't find any files
CAMEL-23819: camel-milo (browse): NullPointerException in Camel Milo Browse with Siemens S7
CAMEL-23818: camel tui: Actions menu (F2) leaves stray characters when scrolling over emoji rows
CAMEL-23814: camel-core - Optional secret property placeholders in YAML DSL parameters not stripped due to RAW() wrapping
CAMEL-23811: camel-micrometer: app.info gauge value uses weak reference causing NaN values
CAMEL-23809: camel-diagram - the html diagram has garbage chars in the metrics
CAMEL-23805: HTTP endpoint summary not logged on startup when supervised route controller is enabled
CAMEL-23799: Simple language: sort init-block substitution keys by length to prevent prefix collision
CAMEL-23796: Simple language: fix wrong token reported in logical operator right-hand-side error message
CAMEL-23763: camel-xml-io ModelWriter writes kamelet child element as route attribute breaking XML round-trip
CAMEL-23740: LangChain4jAgentConverter WrappedFile converter fails for FTP/SFTP GenericFile — requires manual convertBodyTo workaround
CAMEL-23739: camel-openai: support WrappedFile, byte[], and InputStream bodies for vision models
CAMEL-23735: camel-dynamic-router: default aggregation keeps the FIRST reply, contradicting the documented "last reply" behavior (regression since 4.4.0)
CAMEL-23730: AggregateReifier.mandatoryLookup fails during export dry-run even with lazyBean=true
CAMEL-23719: [camel-micrometer] When ProducerTemplate sends to a SEDA endpoint, Exchange.getFromRouteId() returns null
CAMEL-23708: OpenTelemetry2 - Missing RECEIVED spans for routes consuming from stub/seda in nested async paths
CAMEL-23707: `camel get vault` reports wrong vault type when multiple vault providers are configured with a single secret each
CAMEL-23698: camel-rest-openapi - Producer appends trailing ? to URL when no query parameters are set
CAMEL-23692: BacklogTracer drops late-arriving trace events from async multicast branches
CAMEL-23676: camel-nats - Camel routes body back to the consumer?
CAMEL-23674: camel-jbang - Export silent run fails on non-stubbed components with property placeholders
CAMEL-23662: logMask of camel context not overridden in route
CAMEL-23659: camel-jbang - Stub mode should ignore property bindings for stubbed components
CAMEL-23652: [kamelet] Bean is not registered
CAMEL-23646: BackgroundTask callbacks return inverted boolean in sjms, pgevent, and master causing infinite retry loops after successful recovery
CAMEL-23627: Exception not caught when Slack returns a response code > 299
CAMEL-23608: camel-jbang - CLI commands leak terminal escape sequences from JLine terminal width detection
CAMEL-23603: Build is broken with JDK 25 on CI org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable not found
CAMEL-23602: threads EIP does not respect maxQueueSize when using virtual threads
CAMEL-23594: Content type in kamelets is being URL endoded, leading to errors/timeouts
CAMEL-23571: Google PubSub component leaves orphaned channels when using PubSub emulator
CAMEL-23553: camel-platform-http-vertx: VertxPlatformHttpConsumer fails to resolve RestRegistry
CAMEL-23550: canel-kamelet - AbstractReifier Local Bean Repository Lookup
CAMEL-23547: camel-core - Properties component should eager start custom functions resolver
CAMEL-23542: Main branch has broken tests due to Validator non Null requirements
CAMEL-23534: Schema properties are URL-encoded when passed from Pipe to Kamelet, breaking Protobuf/Avro schema parsers
CAMEL-23523: camel-kafka: batchingIntervalMs timer not reset on new accumulation cycle, causing premature single-message batches after idle periods
CAMEL-23521: camel-core: XML route dumping is missing target element closing tags
CAMEL-23513: completeAllOnStop() does not complete aggregations when used with completionInterval()
CAMEL-23505: camel-splunk-hec: align hostname verification with system default in SplunkHECProducer
CAMEL-23504: camel-keycloak: KeycloakSecurityHelper.parseAndVerifyAccessToken should include the IS_ACTIVE predicate on TokenVerifier
CAMEL-23494: preparingShutdown flag not reset on error handlers after suspend/resume — causes silent transaction rollback and redelivery suppression
CAMEL-23479: camel-main: camel.main.virtualThreadsEnabled does not work
CAMEL-23469: Infinite redelivery loop when child route with NoErrorHandler uses removeHeaders("*")
CAMEL-23464: Camel-AWS-Bedrock: BedrockAgentConfiguration.modelId is required but never used by ingestion operations
CAMEL-23463: Camel-AWS-Bedrock: invokeTextModel throws "Unexpected model" for image/embedding/rerank/Stability/Nova-canvas models declared in BedrockModels
CAMEL-23462: Camel-AWS-Bedrock: invoke*Model operations silently produce no output when pojoRequest body has wrong type
CAMEL-23461: Camel-AWS-Bedrock: applyGuardrail reads guardrail identifier from wrong header
CAMEL-23457: camel-docling: OCR fails to detect footer regions in scanned images
CAMEL-23456: camel-docling: Document title and type metadata not extracted reliably
CAMEL-23448: camel-launcher jolokia fails to attach agent — JAR path unresolvable from nested Spring Boot JAR
CAMEL-23419: camel-nats - Consumer does not work in pull mode
CAMEL-23406: camel-yaml-dsl - camel-jacksonxml: Unknown node id: org.apache.camel.model.dataformat.JacksonXMLDataFormat
CAMEL-23384: camel-kamelet-main: camel export fails with IllegalArgumentException on kamelets using transformDataType EIP
CAMEL-23380: `TracingRoutePolicy.onExchangeBegin` opens scopes and spans that are never closed/ended
CAMEL-23378: camel-spring-boot - Block String to InputStream conversion in SpringTypeConverter
CAMEL-23377: simple language - Multiline init blocks aren't initialized properly
CAMEL-23370: camel.main.routes-include-pattern with classpath:**/*.xml fails in Spring Boot fat JAR (works in IDE, regression since 4.11.0)
CAMEL-23355: camel-jbang: export with kamelet aws-ddb-sink - transformer aws2-ddb is not working
CAMEL-23293: [camel-jbang] Files are not synched in dev-mode with Quarkus runtime
CAMEL-23291: EventHubs and Google PubSub consumers lack ShutdownAware support, causing potential message loss during graceful shutdown
CAMEL-23132: camel-aws2-s3 does not use listObjectV2 for listing objects
CAMEL-23124: camel-docling - Fix CLI mode ProcessBuilder deadlock with sequential stream reading
CAMEL-23120: camel-docling - Implement batchSize sub-batch partitioning in batch processing
CAMEL-21937: camel-ai - Tool route upsets component when step 'stop' is used mid-way
CAMEL-21935: camel-jbang - kubernetes plugin fails to run when knative-service.enabled=true in openshift
CAMEL-20227: Kafka offset advances when using Pausable EIP and messages are lost when resumed

Dependency upgrade (12)

CAMEL-23742: Remove Apache Derby dependencies from camel-examples
CAMEL-23741: camel-infinispan - Upgrade to 16.2
CAMEL-23538: Upgrade testcontainers to 2.0.4+
CAMEL-23498: Cleanup remaining SLF4J 1.x artifacts after upgrade to 2.0.x
CAMEL-23481: Remove Apache Derby dependencies
CAMEL-23442: camel-vertx-http - Does not work with undertow 2.4.0
CAMEL-23401: Upgrade JSch to 2.28.2 (RSA certificate authentication fix)
CAMEL-23375: Upgrade to Http Client 5.6+
CAMEL-23368: camel-spring-boot - Upgrade to SB 4.1.0
CAMEL-23311: Upgrade to Apache Artemis 2.5.x
CAMEL-23296: maven wrapper - upgrade to 3.9.14+
CAMEL-23118: camel-kubernetes - Upgrade to 7.6 client

Improvement (222)

CAMEL-23873: camel-jbang - Introduce shared ToolRegistry for AI tools
CAMEL-23833: camel-core - Add alias to EIP model to map EIP to AI patterns
CAMEL-23830: camel-jbang - TUI shell panel: command echo and error output render in hard-to-read dark red
CAMEL-23820: camel-yaml-dsl-validator-maven-plugin: support other directories
CAMEL-23817: Embed test plugin in Camel Launcher
CAMEL-23816: camel-core-model - Improve descriptions in model
CAMEL-23812: camel-milo - Add support for explicit username and password parameters in Milo client to safely handle credentials with special characters
CAMEL-23808: camel-diagram - Topology dev console to render PNG and html visual diagram
CAMEL-23807: camel-platform-http-main - Use the new html diagram render
CAMEL-23806: Split long documentation pages into focused sub-pages
CAMEL-23804: camel-platform-http-vertx: SSE (text/event-stream) responses buffer events instead of flushing eagerly
CAMEL-23803: camel-jackson-avro / camel-jackson-protobuf: block unsafe polymorphic base types by default in the data format ObjectMapper
CAMEL-23797: Simple language: collapse duplicate evalBinary/evalOther/evalTernary into a single helper
CAMEL-23793: Camel MCP server - expose component headers from catalog
CAMEL-23792: camel-endpointdsl - Build java constant classes with all the component header keys
CAMEL-23789: Improve component docs code examples to be multi-DSL friendly (XML/YAML tabs)
CAMEL-23787: camel-jacksonxml: block unsafe polymorphic base types by default in the XmlMapper
CAMEL-23786: camel-jackson: block unsafe polymorphic base types by default in the data format ObjectMapper
CAMEL-23785: camel-http: mark x509HostnameVerifier with security="insecure:ssl"
CAMEL-23784: camel-splunk-hec: mark skipTlsVerify with security="insecure:ssl"
CAMEL-23783: camel-schematron: harden the rules TransformerFactory against external entities (XXE)
CAMEL-23782: camel-leveldb: apply an ObjectInputFilter to aggregation-repository key deserialization
CAMEL-23777: camel-jbang - Move camel get route-dump to camel cmd route-dump
CAMEL-23776: camel-a2a: Add a2aSubTask YAML route step for scoped progress events
CAMEL-23775: Add YAML DSL extension point for component-provided route step deserializers
CAMEL-23773: camel-cxf - separate ws-security into its own module to avoid opensaml/shibboleth dependency
CAMEL-23772: dataformat: endpoints ignore global camel.dataformat.* configuration in camel quarkus
CAMEL-23769: camel-http-common: apply a configurable ObjectInputFilter when deserializing Java objects
CAMEL-23767: camel-platform-http-main: warn or fail fast when authentication is enabled but no mechanism is configured
CAMEL-23765: camel-ftp/sftp/mina-sftp/azure-files/smb: contain localWorkDirectory downloads within the work directory
CAMEL-23764: camel-as2: fail closed when an inbound signed message cannot be verified
CAMEL-23762: camel-whatsapp: support X-Hub-Signature-256 verification of inbound webhook payloads
CAMEL-23760: camel-oauth: require a JWK set to verify token signatures in UserProfile
CAMEL-23759: camel-spring-ws: apply a HeaderFilterStrategy to inbound SOAP headers
CAMEL-23757: Add Java DSL model writer for full-circle DSL transformation (XML/YAML to Java DSL)
CAMEL-23756: camel-jbang - MCP tool for route transform should support java source
CAMEL-23749: Embrace MCP Java SDK new 2.0.0 API
CAMEL-23747: camel-mail - useHeader* options should default to false for secure-by-default
CAMEL-23745: docs: security page Post-Quantum section should cover message-layer PQC (camel-pqc), not only TLS
CAMEL-23744: camel-xmlsecurity: update XML Encryption docs example from 3DES (TRIPLEDES) to AES-256-GCM
CAMEL-23743: camel-http: expose hostnameVerificationPolicy option to allow opting into httpclient 5.6 handshake-time hostname verification
CAMEL-23738: camel-keycloak: always verify the access token in KeycloakSecurityPolicy regardless of configured roles/permissions
CAMEL-23737: camel-pqc: surface hybrid operations and cross-reference the Hybrid Cryptography section in the docs
CAMEL-23736: camel-main: make the self-signed (dev) certificate key algorithm configurable, default to EC
CAMEL-23726: camel-pqc: Use JSON instead of Java serialization for key metadata in AWS and HashiCorp Vault lifecycle managers
CAMEL-23724: camel-core - Make simple syntax understandable for AIs and tooling
CAMEL-23722: camel-jbang - Break up documentation
CAMEL-23716: camel-salesforce - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23715: camel-core - Improve simple docs with more examples in the function descriptions
CAMEL-23713: camel-jbang - TUI otel span update
CAMEL-23709: camel-opentelemtry2 - Span verbosity for core processors that also emit events
CAMEL-23706: camel-opentelemetry2 - Auto-configure in-memory span exporter for dev profile
CAMEL-23704: camel-ai - Use correlated exchange copy for multi-tool invocations in langchain4j-tools
CAMEL-23702: camel-ai: Camel CLI/Jbang exported project should be adjusted for greater AI relevance
CAMEL-23700: camel-website - Update agents.md and llms.txt
CAMEL-23699: camel-jbang - Rebrand as Camel CLI
CAMEL-23697: camel-langchain4j-agent - support Java class as response format for structured outputs
CAMEL-23695: Langchain4j-agent: improve structured output when Langchain4j 1.16.0 is out
CAMEL-23693: camel-core - Optimize CaseInsensitiveMap hash function for ASCII keys
CAMEL-23691: camel-core - Improve CaseInsensitiveMap with O(1) hash table and header key deduplication
CAMEL-23686: Reduce Exchange memory pressure and fix pooled exchange issues
CAMEL-23685: Expose public token validation API for incoming Bearer tokens (JWT and opaque)
CAMEL-23684: BacklogTracer message history should correlate exchanges by breadcrumb ID for full end-to-end flow
CAMEL-23682: camel-undertow - Expose common UndertowOptions on UndertowHostOptions for server-level configuration
CAMEL-23681: Optimize Exchange memory pressure: copy-on-write headers and lazy initialization
CAMEL-23680: Add group as scope to variables
CAMEL-23669: camel-hl7 - Support converting to XML
CAMEL-23667: Add --stub=remote flag to stub only remote components via catalog resolution
CAMEL-23666: [Kamelet/Route Templates] Support optionals for endpoints uris
CAMEL-23663: camel-jbang - Add config to turn off the banner showing plugins you can install with --help
CAMEL-23661: camel-diagram - Add topology diagram renderer for inter-route visualization
CAMEL-23658: camel-jbang - Add camel dev as alias for camel run --dev
CAMEL-23657: Enhance component metadata to mark destination-identity query parameters for topology matching
CAMEL-23655: Update GitHub topics for better discoverability by AI and developers
CAMEL-23653: camel-jbang - Make it easy to use plugins
CAMEL-23651: camel-netty-http and camel-undertow: align muteException default with the other HTTP components
CAMEL-23650: camel-micrometer - Do not spam log at WARN in dev mode
CAMEL-23643: camel-test-infra - Add service version to metadata - such as Artemis Broker version etc
CAMEL-23641: camel-test-infra - Can we have an infra for OpenTelemetry
CAMEL-23640: camel-jbang - Add restart command to infra service
CAMEL-23638: camel-jbang - Add CLI meta-tools to camel ask for full command access
CAMEL-23637: camel-jbang - TUI add Run Infra Service action to F2 menu
CAMEL-23634: camel-jbang - TUI Send Message dialog
CAMEL-23633: camel-jbang - TUI auto-reselect integration after restart
CAMEL-23632: camel-jbang - Add CLI usage examples (footer) to commands
CAMEL-23631: Route diagram - highlight error path from ErrorRegistry message history
CAMEL-23630: camel-dapr - add HeaderFilterStrategy and avoid copying routing-relevant CloudEvent fields into Camel exchange headers
CAMEL-23629: camel-irc - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23624: camel-jbang - Add camel get error command
CAMEL-23623: camel-jbang - Add error tab using information from error registry
CAMEL-23622: camel-jbang - Avoid readme files in startup summary
CAMEL-23621: camel-langchain4j-tools / camel-langchain4j-agent / camel-spring-ai-tools: tool argument headers should be filtered against declared parameters
CAMEL-23616: camel-management - Add stepId to producer and processor mbeans
CAMEL-23614: Add getFromRouteGroup() method to the Exchange API
CAMEL-23611: camel-yaml-dsl - Add WARN logging about recommendation to use canonical/normalized style
CAMEL-23609: Tighten in-code ObjectInputFilter defaults with JEP-290 graph-shape limits
CAMEL-23600: camel-milo: expose the underlying Eclipse Milo OpcUaClient for custom OPC UA DataType handling
CAMEL-23597: camel-solr - align Exchange header prefix constants with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23596: camel-yaml-io - Replace hand-written YamlWriter with generated direct YAML writer
CAMEL-23595: camel-jbang-examples - Include metadata whether testing is included
CAMEL-23593: camel validate normalize does not handle REST DSL, routeConfiguration, and beans-only files
CAMEL-23592: camel-shiro - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23591: camel-mail - align consumer-side dispatch header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23590: camel-milo - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23589: camel-solr - align Solr field/param header prefixes with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23588: camel-undertow - align websocket header names with Camel naming convention (CAMEL-23532 follow-on)
CAMEL-23587: camel-jt400 - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23586: camel-mongodb-gridfs - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23585: camel-arangodb - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23584: camel-kafka - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23583: camel-google-{functions,secret-manager,vision,text-to-speech,speech-to-text} - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23582: camel-github - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23581: camel-elasticsearch + camel-opensearch - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23580: camel-openstack - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23579: camel-pdf - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23578: camel-web3j - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23577: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention - global sweep
CAMEL-23576: camel-jira - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23575: camel-mongodb-gridfs: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23574: camel-dns - align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23572: camel-tui - Add F2 actions menu with Run an example to overview page
CAMEL-23569: camel-tui: Add support for camel-test-infra services
CAMEL-23566: camel-jbang - Improve --example to source from camel-jbang-examples repository
CAMEL-23565: CI incremental-build should not test all modules when only the root pom.xml changes
CAMEL-23564: Baggage customization doesn't seem to work
CAMEL-23560: camel-jbang - Eliminate the usage of a built time Quarkus Platform version literal
CAMEL-23555: Per-operation HTTP metrics for REST services in RestRegistry
CAMEL-23554: RuntimeEndpointRegistry does not track out hits for InOut consumer endpoints
CAMEL-23549: Need a org.apache.camel.processor.transformer.DataTypeProcessor which can discover fromType/toType at runtime
CAMEL-23548: AWS S3- allow simple expression in destinationBucketPrefix and destinationBucketSuffix
CAMEL-23544: Fix null fromRouteId and endpoint tracking for delegating consumers (e.g. platform-http)
CAMEL-23543: camel-core - Investigate centralizing Camel* inbound header filtering in DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy
CAMEL-23535: camel-api - Enhance documentation and add links to relevant pages in user manual
CAMEL-23533: camel-core - ErrorHandlerRegistry improvements
CAMEL-23532: camel-vertx-websocket / camel-atmosphere-websocket / camel-iggy - use dedicated HeaderFilterStrategy aligned with sibling components
CAMEL-23529: camel-jbang-mcp - Add theme to route diagram so it can return ascii diagram
CAMEL-23528: camel-neo4j: validate property names when building MATCH/DELETE WHERE clause
CAMEL-23526: camel-cxf: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23525: camel-platform-http-main: add optional JWT issuer and audience claim validation
CAMEL-23524: camel-couchdb / camel-couchbase - align Exchange header constant values with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23522: camel-mail: filter mail.smtp.* / mail.smtps.* namespace from producer headers
CAMEL-23520: camel-mail: option to lock recipients/sender/subject to endpoint URI
CAMEL-23519: camel-jbang - TUI to show (n) notifications
CAMEL-23518: camel-jbang - Refactor TUI trace tab with two-level exchange drill-down
CAMEL-23517: camel-jbang - Add history tab to TUI
CAMEL-23516: camel-xmpp - Use dedicated HeaderFilterStrategy aligned with sibling components
CAMEL-23515: camel-nats - Use dedicated HeaderFilterStrategy aligned with sibling components
CAMEL-23514: camel-diagram - Add metric to ascii diagram
CAMEL-23511: camel-jgroups-raft: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23510: camel-jgroups: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23509: camel-lucene: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23508: camel-elasticsearch-rest-client: align Exchange header constant names with Camel naming convention
CAMEL-23507: camel-cometd: Integrate HeaderFilterStrategy for inbound header mapping
CAMEL-23506: camel-aws2-sqs / camel-aws2-sns - align HeaderFilterStrategy with sibling components
CAMEL-23495: Replace Thread.sleep() with Awaitility and fix ~30 flaky tests in camel-core and camel-management
CAMEL-23491: camel-jbang - Add list of known 3rd party plugins
CAMEL-23483: camel-nats - Manual acknowledgement
CAMEL-23477: camel-jbang-mcp: stop re-embedding pomContent inside migrateProject prompt
CAMEL-23476: camel-jbang-mcp: strip null fields from MCP JSON responses
CAMEL-23475: camel-jbang-mcp: make ComponentDetailResult lean by default with option filtering
CAMEL-23474: camel-jbang-mcp: stop echoing input route in camel_route_context response
CAMEL-23473: camel-jbang-mcp: drop verbose description from catalog list responses and lower default limit
CAMEL-23472: camel-jbang-mcp: deduplicate @ToolArg descriptions to shrink tool schema payload
CAMEL-23471: camel-jbang - Diagram action to be visual only
CAMEL-23459: camel-docling: Add TTL cleanup for pending async tasks to prevent memory leak
CAMEL-23454: camel-keycloak: Add token revocation and session logout operations
CAMEL-23452: camel-keycloak: Add Organizations API operations (Keycloak 26+)
CAMEL-23446: camel-solr: Add SSLContextParameters support for TLS configuration
CAMEL-23445: camel-elasticsearch-rest-client: Add SSLContextParameters support for TLS configuration
CAMEL-23444: camel-elasticsearch: Add SSLContextParameters support for TLS configuration
CAMEL-23443: camel-pulsar - Expose enableBatchIndexAcknowledgment as a consumer configuration option
CAMEL-23438: camel-jbang - Wrapper to install scripts as camel instead of camelw
CAMEL-23437: Fix and re-enable flaky DisruptorReconfigureWithBlockingProducerTest
CAMEL-23436: camel-netty - Add type convert from InputStream to ByteBuf
CAMEL-23434: camel-diagram - Adjusting nodeWidth does not adjust padding
CAMEL-23426: camel-console - json response for ArrayList vs JsonArray should be only one kind
CAMEL-23425: camel-openai - Add reasoning_content support and generic response header extraction
CAMEL-23424: camel-diagram - Add option to use description over code
CAMEL-23423: camel-jbang - diagram command to have theme=text
CAMEL-23420: camel-jbang - Add graphical route diagram rendering to TUI monitor
CAMEL-23418: camel-ocsf: Upgrade OCSF schema to 1.8.0
CAMEL-23417: camel-diagram - Add option to make the boxes bigger
CAMEL-23416: camel-diagram - Add dev console
CAMEL-23412: Add getChildren() to NamedNode for uniform model tree traversal
CAMEL-23409: camel-sjms - Disable ObjectMessage by default
CAMEL-23402: camel-core - Route structure dumper does not include doCatch
CAMEL-23399: camel-mina - Upgrade to 2.2.7
CAMEL-23392: camel-vertx: Improve SSL/TLS configuration
CAMEL-23391: camel-salesforce - Improve error resilience in subscription failure handling
CAMEL-23387: camel-telemetry - Add span decorators for AWS
CAMEL-23386: camel-jbang - cmd route-structure to support non running integrations
CAMEL-23385: camel-jbang - Diagram to show live counters
CAMEL-23381: simple language - Set the resulttype directly on xpath and jsonpath functions
CAMEL-23379: camel-core - DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy should be lower-case by default
CAMEL-23374: camel-core - Remove IOConverter for Java serialized objects
CAMEL-23373: camel-jms - Disable ObjectMessage by default
CAMEL-23372: Tighten default ObjectInputFilter to deny java.net.** before java.**
CAMEL-23367: org.apache.camel.management.mbean.ManagedCamelContext generates illegal XML
CAMEL-23363: camel-platform-http-main - NPE if you enable healt-check but lack JAR
CAMEL-23362: camel-mqtt - Use exception handler when ACK fails
CAMEL-23361: camel-aws2-s3 does not return any status code in CamelHttpResponseCode
CAMEL-23359: Jetty Endpoint should return effective port number
CAMEL-23356: camel-micrometer-observability-starter has excessive dep on micrometer-tracing-test
CAMEL-23354: camel-jbang: quarkus-junit5 is deprecated, template should use quarkus-junit
CAMEL-23353: camel-jbang: Support configurable default Maven repositories and dynamic Quarkus platform version resolution from registry
CAMEL-23352: AggregateProcessor: Add configuration option for synchronous Optimistic Locking retry behavior
CAMEL-23346: camel-jbang - Plugin config file has endless backup files
CAMEL-23335: Lazy-load JBang plugins only when the command actually needs them
CAMEL-23312: Opentelemetry2: SpanLifecycleManager.create() missing SpanKind parameter causing incorrect span types
CAMEL-23302: camel-xslt - In dev mode then we could have contentCache=false to make it possible to update xslt live
CAMEL-23250: Security policy enforcement for insecure configuration at startup
CAMEL-23236: camel-jbang - Improve beginner UX with interactive init, top-level doc, and contextual shell help
CAMEL-23220: Camel-atom not longer supports idempotent consumption
CAMEL-23181: [camel-jbang-mcp] Add camel_properties_translate tool
CAMEL-23180: [camel-jbang-mcp] Add camel_component_properties tool
CAMEL-23179: [camel-jbang-mcp]: Add camel_configuration_validate tool for validating Camel configuration properties
CAMEL-22987: camel-yaml-dsl - yaml spec is overly complex and large due to implicits
CAMEL-22760: camel-kafka isn't auto-configured from spring.kafka configuration from Spring Boot
CAMEL-22640: camel-core - Decorate API with NotNull / Null annotations
CAMEL-22544: camel-jbang - Enhance dependency update to Sync Dependencies from Route Definitions
CAMEL-21960: camel-jbang - Should camel run | export auto-detect application.properties and include the file always
CAMEL-21208: camel-jbang: use a template engine for code generation

New Feature (41)

CAMEL-23788: Generate versioned offline documentation bundles for AI coding agents
CAMEL-23771: Add Java DSL model writer to Camel CLI, JMX, and TUI
CAMEL-23718: camel-jbang - Add camel run with java agent
CAMEL-23712: camel-telemetry - Add traceCustomIdOnly option to only trace processors/endpoints with custom IDs
CAMEL-23687: camel-jbang - TUI with otel tab
CAMEL-23683: Create a new camel-shell component
CAMEL-23679: camel-tui - Add structured data access MCP tools
CAMEL-23678: camel-jbang-mcp - Add runtime tools for topology, errors, thread-dump, history, stop, and receive
CAMEL-23656: Add route topology service to compute inter-route relationships
CAMEL-23649: camel-langchain4j-agent: Allow Camel to create the agent internally from AgentConfiguration
CAMEL-23642: Langchain4j-agent : support jsonSchema in internal AIService
CAMEL-23639: Publish the Camel JBang MCP server as a Claude Code plugin
CAMEL-23636: Add embeddable web component to camel-diagram for interactive route visualization
CAMEL-23635: camel-jbang - TUI add a tab for shell for advanced CLI use
CAMEL-23618: camel-tui - Add metrics for payload sizes
CAMEL-23617: camel-core - Add option to capture message payload size for observation
CAMEL-23615: Add getLastExchangeFailureHandledTimestamp() to ManagedRouteGroupMBean and ManagedRouteMBean
CAMEL-23606: camel-jbang - TUI embedded MCP server for AI agent screen observation
CAMEL-23601: camel-jbang - Export container-optimized layered packaging for Camel Main and Spring Boot runtimes
CAMEL-23598: camel-jbang - TUI screenshot action (Shift+F5) to capture screen as ASCII art
CAMEL-23485: camel-diagram - Add theme for ascii art diagrams
CAMEL-23466: Camel-AWS-Bedrock: Add support for Retrieve operation in Bedrock Agent Runtime
CAMEL-23433: [camel-telemetry] Develope includePatterns parameter
CAMEL-23415: [camel-micrometer-observability] Baggage management
CAMEL-23400: camel-test - Generate route diagrams for documentation
CAMEL-23390: Add audio transcription support to camel-openai component
CAMEL-23388: camel-jbang-mcp - Add tool for generating visual route diagram
CAMEL-23342: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for listing blob versions
CAMEL-23341: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for changing access tier of existing blobs
CAMEL-23340: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for blob undelete (soft delete recovery)
CAMEL-23339: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for immutability policy and legal hold operations
CAMEL-23336: camel-mongodb - Expose Resume Token (Change Streams Consumer)
CAMEL-23332: camel-jsoup - Add jsoup simple functions to clean and decode HTML
CAMEL-23330: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for blob version ID access
CAMEL-23329: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for finding blobs by index tags
CAMEL-23328: camel-azure-storage-blob - Add support for blob index tags (set and get)
CAMEL-23327: Langchain4j agent: document and test structured output
CAMEL-23079: camel-core - Registry for capturing errors during routing messages
CAMEL-23063: Add camel-a2a component for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol integration
CAMEL-21975: camel-jbang - Diagram command to show routes visually
CAMEL-17598: camel-bindy: Handle parse failures

Sub-task (1)

CAMEL-23660: Provide a weekly Job on Jenkins CI for JDK 26

Task (40)

CAMEL-23827: camel-threadpoolfactory-vertx: Deprecate
CAMEL-23826: camel-reactive-executor-vertx: Deprecate
CAMEL-23802: camel-jbang - TUI remove tamboui hacks when upgrading to 0.4
CAMEL-23801: documentation - Remove spring boot autoconfiguration
CAMEL-23780: [camel-jbang] camel export with jib profile
CAMEL-23755: camel-spring-boot build compilation error due to jooq requiring Java 21
CAMEL-23750: [build] Multi manifest Camel CLI container image
CAMEL-23733: camel-jbang - TUI properties files should have colors
CAMEL-23689: camel-headersmap - Deprecate
CAMEL-23665: OpenSearch is using deprecated setTlsDetailsFactory which is no more doing anything
CAMEL-23648: check-container-versions workflow should regenerate metadata.json after updating container.properties
CAMEL-23612: example MapStruct build is failing on CI: class org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicAuthCache cannot be cast to class org.apache.http.client.AuthCache
CAMEL-23610: documentation - Migrate YAML DSL to normalized YAML DSL
CAMEL-23607: camel-github - Removed component caused website build error
CAMEL-23573: camel-tui - Refactor CamelMonitor into per-tab classes
CAMEL-23563: Support @CommandLine.Mixin when generating documentation for Camel CLI commands
CAMEL-23552: camel-api - The JSpecify and null/non-null contracts - part2
CAMEL-23531: documentation: Jackson 3 collides with Jackson 2 on dataformats docs
CAMEL-23512: camel-jbang-plugin-tui: TamboUI API misuse, Unicode bugs, and improvements
CAMEL-23500: Document camel-openai usage with OpenAI-compatible providers (OpenRouter)
CAMEL-23492: Can we avoid npm in the doc build
CAMEL-23451: [build] Tests not executed when change affect a non pom.xml directory
CAMEL-23450: Remove usage of unmaintained junit-toolbox
CAMEL-23435: documentation - Getting Started mention Camel Launcher
CAMEL-23432: [camel-telemetry] Distinguish custom process from inner process
CAMEL-23414: camel-hazelcast: Allow customization of SerializationConfig on managed Hazelcast instances
CAMEL-23408: camel-jbang - Route diagram with choice and doTry render a line that does not exist
CAMEL-23407: The "binaryMavenPlugins" attribute is deprecated for removal in v5.0.0. Please replace
CAMEL-23405: camel-core - Remove ReifierStrategy
CAMEL-23404: camel-ftp - Improve doc about need for strictHostKeyChecking
CAMEL-23389: Remove usage of deprecated https://packages.atlassian.com/maven-external/ maven repository
CAMEL-23371: Warning for a misconfiguration of dependabot group related to micrometer and opentelemetry
CAMEL-23364: components are promoted to quickly from preview to stable
CAMEL-22999: camel-examples - Some of these examples does not work/test success
CAMEL-22894: Refactor Simple/CSimple language implementation for better maintainability
CAMEL-22583: [camel-jbang] Replace org.fusesource.jansi dependency
CAMEL-22504: [camel-jasypt] Deprecate and eventually drop CLI entrypoint
CAMEL-19745: camel-cxf-soap - Downloads JARs from 3rd party repo
CAMEL-19549: camel-core: replace Thread.sleep in tests
CAMEL-19517: camel-cxf: replace Thread.sleep in tests

Test (20)

CAMEL-23758: spring boot Camel SalesforceIT test is failing Detected incompatible Protobuf Gencode/Runtime versions when loading ReplayPreset: gencode 4.35.1, runtime 4.34.2
CAMEL-23751: Sns2HeaderFilterStrategyTest.outboundFiltersCamelAndBreadcrumbHeaders is broken
CAMEL-23734: VertxHttpTransferExceptionTest.testTransferException is failing
CAMEL-23711: Proide automated test for camel-test-infra-jaeger
CAMEL-23696: Cxf spring-boot examples have 3 tests failing
CAMEL-23675: ExportTest.shouldGenerateJavaContent(RuntimeType) is broken
CAMEL-23672: InfrastructureITCase.sendMessageTest is broken
CAMEL-23671: ManagePluginsITCase.testPluginInstallation is broken
CAMEL-23619: CouchBaseTest is failing in camel-examples repository - missign migration to 8.0.0
CAMEL-23497: NPE in a management test
CAMEL-23430: Flaky tests in camel-kafka: KafkaConsumerAutoInstResumeRouteStrategyIT and KafkaIdempotentRepositoryEagerIT
CAMEL-23429: Flaky test: TimerRouteAutoConfigIT in camel-opentelemetry-metrics
CAMEL-23428: Flaky test: RabbitMQProducerInvalidExchangeIT in camel-spring-rabbitmq
CAMEL-23427: Flaky test: SpanPropagationUpstreamTest in camel-telemetry-dev
CAMEL-23421: Upgrade Infinispan test container to 16.2+
CAMEL-23410: Very flaky test LangChain4jEmbeddingsComponentInfinispanTargetIT
CAMEL-23365: camel-spring-boot - Ensure camel-kafka-starter integration tests run on Jenkins daily builds
CAMEL-23247: Test MailContentTypeResolverTest.testCustomContentTypeResolver is regularly failing
CAMEL-22539: [camel-core] Flaky unit test
CAMEL-22525: Fix flaky as2 tests with "java.net.BindException: Address already in use"

Wish (1)

CAMEL-23403: camel-jbang - Move route-diagram render to components/camel-diagram

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