Camel 1.6.1 release

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 1.6.1 release which approx 93 issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

Performance enhancement when sending high load of messages through Camel
Fixes for thread safety for LDAP, Validation, JAXB data format.
Use Nexus for releases.
Fixed issue with start/stop state machine.
Upgraded to CXF 2.2.
Security improvements for Jetty.
HL7 fixes on Windows platforms.
Fixes for header propagation in Bean component.
Fixes for using injected Endpoint.
Message Exchange Pattern can now be changed directly in the DSL.

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

None

New DSL

None

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 doesn't need the dependent jetty-client module.

Known Issues

See known issues from previous releases.

Important changes to consider when upgrading

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution	apache-camel-1.6.1.zip	apache-camel-1.6.1.zip.asc
Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution	apache-camel-1.6.1.tar.gz	apache-camel-1.6.1.tar.gz.asc

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Source Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows	apache-camel-1.6.1-src.zip	apache-camel-1.6.1-src.zip.asc
Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin	apache-camel-1.6.1-src.tar.gz	apache-camel-1.6.1-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>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-1.6.1

Changelog

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

JIRA Release notes for 1.6.1