Camel 2.0-M3 release

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 2.0-M3 release which approx 109 issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

Complete removal of specialized Exchange using generics
Performance improvements
JMS improvements and fixes
Fixes for Camel Maven Archetypes
Spring DSL fixes
Added SSL support to Camel IRC
Many fixes in the CXF, FTP, Log, Mail and others
Major improvements and fixes in Bindy
Removed platforms specific encoding from kits
Fixed issues related to class loading in OSGi
Bean also supports lookup in OSGi registry
Upgraded to Junit 4.5
Error handler improvements
Introduced <pacakgeScan> in Spring XML that supports ANT path style filtering
Introduced PollingConsumerPollStrategy as pluggable strategy for fine grained error handling with Polling Consumer
Stream caching is disabled by default
Jetty connector can now be shared among multiple CamelContext

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

None

New DSL

New pollEnrich() added for Content Enricher
New AOP added

New Annotations

Added qualifier option to many annotations to specify which CamelContext it should apply in case multiple CamelContext is used.

API breaking

Camel Core

All specialized Exchange classes have been removed. You should use org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultExchange instead.

Renamed DSL in SpringBuilder: bean -> lookup

Option delay renamed to redeliveryDelay in RedeliveryPolicy.

Debugger removed

Components

Known Issues

See known issues from previous releases.

Important changes to consider when upgrading

If you specialized existing components and used specialized org.apache.camel.Exchange classes, your code will need updating to use org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultExchange instead.

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution	apache-camel-2.0-M3.zip	apache-camel-2.0-M3.zip.asc
Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution	apache-camel-2.0-M3.tar.gz	apache-camel-2.0-M3.tar.gz.asc

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Source Distributions

Description	Download Link	PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows	apache-camel-2.0-M3-src.zip	apache-camel-2.0-M3-src.zip.asc

Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin

apache-camel-2.0-M3-src.tar.gz

apache-camel-2.0-M3-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>2.0-M3</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-2.0-M3

Changelog

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

JIRA Release notes for 2.0-M3