Camel 1.6.0 release

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 1.6.0 release which approx 169 issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

RedeliveryPolicy added support for ref attribute to reference a existing policy in the Registry
major improvements to Jetty for better handling of exception and faults and easier end-user customization how response should be written
minor improvements to HTTP and MINA
HTTP supports authentication
MINA producer now throws CamelExchangeException in case no response received from remote server when in sync mode (sync=true)
SFTP added support for knownhosts, privatekey files and passive mode
Added onWhen predicate to Exception Clause
Exception Clause is much smarter as it will use caused by exception hierarchy for matching as well (will use bottom ups)
Dead Letter Channel now have onRedeliver to allow custom processing an Exchange before its being redelivered. Allowing you to work on the message being sent.
Message Exchange Pattern can now be changed directly in the DSL.

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

None

New DSL

Scala (work in progress, not fully feature complete)

New Annotations

None

API breakings

From Camel 1.6.0 the camel-cxf producer's serviceClass parameter should be Interface, before that you could specify the serviceClass as a Class or Interface.
From Camel 1.6.0 the camel-jetty producer is removed and camel-jetty component doesn't dependent jetty-client module.

Known Issues

See known issues from previous releases.

Important changes to consider when upgrading

JAXB data format

If you use XJC to create the java class from the schema, you will get a ObjectFactory for you JAXB context. Since the ObjectFactory uses JAXBElement to hold the reference of the schema and element instance value, from Camel 1.6.0 jaxbDataformat will ignore the JAXBElement by default and you will get the element instance value instead of the JAXBElement object form the unmarshaled message body.
If you want to get the JAXBElement object form the unmarshaled message body, you need to set the JaxbDataFormat object's ignoreJAXBElement property to be false.

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution	apache-camel-1.6.0.zip	apache-camel-1.6.0.zip.asc
Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution	apache-camel-1.6.0.tar.gz	apache-camel-1.6.0.tar.gz.asc

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Source Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows	apache-camel-1.6.0-src.zip	apache-camel-1.6.0-src.zip.asc
Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin	apache-camel-1.6.0-src.tar.gz	apache-camel-1.6.0-src.tar.gz.asc

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 is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.6.0</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/camel/tags/camel-1.6.0

Changelog

For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see:

JIRA Release notes for 1.6.0