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Overview

This second Release Candidate of Apache ServiceMix Kernel includes a few bug fixes and a few new features.
The main change is that the system folder that contains the OSGi bundles to install in the runtime is now
organized as a maven 2 repository, though it should not directly affect users. A more detailed changelog
is following.

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Release notes

This second Release Candidate of Apache ServiceMix Kernel includes a few bug fixes and a few new features.
The main change is that the system folder that contains the OSGi bundles to install in the runtime is now
organized as a maven 2 repository, though it should not directly affect users. A more detailed changelog
is following.

  • Bug
    • SMX4KNL-34 - snapshot jar name mismatch in startup.properties and in the system folder
    • SMX4KNL-52 - Deployment of pain spring files does not work when using xml extensions because these are not available in the classpath
    • SMX4KNL-53 - During starting, files are redeployed several times, one each time a new Deployer is registered in OSGi
    • SMX4KNL-54 - Kernel does not start if system property "felix.cache.profiledir" is not defined
    • SMX4KNL-56 - Kernel does not start on Windows if classpath contains spaces
    • SMX4KNL-58 - Hot-deploy capability of FileMonitor does not update bundles properly on Windows.
    • SMX4KNL-63 - Possible deadlock at startup caused by the filedeployer not running in its own thread the first time
    • SMX4KNL-64 - The list of repositories for the features shell is not persisted across restart
    • SMX4KNL-65 - After copying or moving the kernel, it does not start in a very clean way anymore
    • SMX4KNL-68 - failed to start smx4
  • Improvement
    • SMX4KNL-51 - Add a configuration file for the maven url handler so that adding default repositories is easy enough
    • SMX4KNL-55 - Use maven shade plugin on the main module so that sources jar is correct
    • SMX4KNL-66 - When the file monitor loads configuration for the config admin, allow the use of system properties using ${xxx}
  • New Feature
    • SMX4KNL-61 - Organize the system folder as a maven 2 repository
    • SMX4KNL-67 - Allow the features service to obtain a list of features to install at startup
  • Task
    • SMX4KNL-57 - Extract bundles from the svn tree
    • SMX4KNL-59 - Upgrade to spring 2.5.5 / spring-dm 1.1.0