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h1. Camel 1.6.3 release

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h2. New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 1.6.3 release which approx 39 issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

* Use UTF-8 as the default charset
* Locale independent upper case in Getter/Setter introspection
* Backport per message priority and expiration from 2.x in [JMS] 
* Fix for sending to wrong address in the [Mail] component
* Fix for asynchronous processing in [DLC|Dead Letter Channel] endpoint breaking message handling
* OSGi related fixes
* Fix multithreading bug that caused getBody() to sporadically return null
* Fixes in the [CXF], [File], [XSLT], [JDBC], [JPA] components

h3. New [Enterprise Integration Patterns]

h3. New [Components]

h3. New DSL

h3. New Annotations

h3. New [Data Formats|Data Format]

h3. New [Languages]

h3. New [Examples]

h3. New [Tutorials]

h2. API breaking

h2. Known Issues

h2. Important changes to consider when upgrading

* Upgraded jetty to version 6.1.22
* Upgrade to use JavaMail 1.4.3

h2. Getting the Distributions

h3. Binary Distributions

|| Description || Download Link || PGP Signature file of download ||
| Windows Distribution | [apache-camel-1.6.3.zip|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3.zip] | [apache-camel-1.6.3.zip.asc|http://www.apache.org/dist/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3.zip.asc] |
| Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution | [apache-camel-1.6.3.tar.gz|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3.tar.gz] | [apache-camel-1.6.3.tar.gz.asc|http://www.apache.org/dist/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3.tar.gz.asc] |
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h3. Source Distributions

|| Description || Download Link || PGP Signature file of download ||
| Source for Windows | [apache-camel-1.6.3-src.zip|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3-src.zip] | [apache-camel-1.6.3-src.zip.asc|http://www.apache.org/dist/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3-src.zip.asc] |

| Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin | [apache-camel-1.6.3-src.tar.gz|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3-src.tar.gz] | [apache-camel-1.6.3-src.tar.gz.asc|http://www.apache.org/dist/activemqcamel/apache-camel/1.6.3/apache-camel-1.6.3-src.tar.gz.asc] |

h3. Getting the Binaries using Maven 2

To use this release in your maven project, the proper dependency configuration that you should use in your [Maven POM|http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html] is:
{code:xml}
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.6.3</version>
</dependency>
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h3. SVN Tag Checkout

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svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-1.6.3
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h2. Changelog

For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see the:
* [release notes for 1.6.3|http://issues.apache.org/activemq/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11020&styleName=Html&version=12182]