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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.4

September 17, 2023

Apache Karaf 4.4.x series brings OSGi R8 support, Pax Web 8.0.x, Pax Logging 2.1.x, and a lot of otther improvements and updates.

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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.3.10

September 20, 2023

This is an important update patch for Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.x series, containing many fixes and dependency updates.

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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.4 has been released! September 17, 2023

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.4 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix race condition between the FeatureService and FeatureDeploymentListener
  • fix --patch-module on Instance startup
  • add exec:groovy shell command
  • a lot of dependency updated including CVE fixes (Johnzon, BouncyCastle, Commons FileUpload, and much more !)
  • better JDK20+ support
  • ...
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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.3.10 has been released! September 20, 2023

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.10 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix race condition between the FeaturesService and FeatureDeploymentListener
  • fix --patch-module on Instance startup
  • add exec:groovy shell command
  • dependency updates including CVE fixes (Johnzon, BouncyCastle, Commons FileUpload, ...)
  • ...
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Karaf Cave project is no longer maintain and has been moved to attic April 15, 2023

As there is no more interest of users and no active contributors, the Karaf team decided to move the Karaf Cave subproject to attic.

The archives are still available for download.

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Karaf Decanter 2.10.0 has been released! February 24, 2023

Apache Karaf Decanter 2.10.0 is a major release on the 2.x series. It provides:

  • bunch of dependency updates
  • fix and improvement on the split parser
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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.3 has been released! January 10, 2023

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.3 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix threads leak in karaf-maven-plugin:verify goal
  • fix JMX RmiServer stub IP address assignation
  • add shell:alias and instance:package shell commands
  • fix SSH client on Windows
  • a lot of dependency updates, especially Pax Web 8.0.15 and Aries JAX RS Whiteboard 2.0.2
  • ...
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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.3.9 has been released! January 14, 2023

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.9 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix threads leak in karaf-maven-plugin:verify goal
  • fix JMX RmiServer stub IP address assignation
  • add shell:alias and instance:package shell commands
  • fix SSH client on Windows
  • a lot of dependency updates
  • ...
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Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.2 has been released! October 23, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.2 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix several race conditions on clean start
  • features version alignement
  • a bunch of dependencies updates
  • ...
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Karaf runtime 4.3.8 has been released! October 23, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.8 is a maintenance release on the 4.3.x series, including many dependency updates, improvements and fixes. Download » Release Notes »

Karaf runtime 4.4.1 has been released! July 14, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.1 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of dependency updates and fixes, especially:

  • fix on the exported system packages
  • fix on the config management in the features service
  • upgrade to Pax Web 8.0.6, Pax URL 2.6.11, Pax Logging 2.1.3
  • upgrade OSGi frameworks (both Felix Framework 7.0.5 and Equinox 3.18.0)
  • upgrade to Spring 5.3.21 and 5.2.22.RELEASE
  • ...
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Karaf runtime 4.2.16 has been released! June 19, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.16 is a maintenance release. This release is supposed to be the last release on the 4.2.x series. It includes:

  • Pax Logging 1.11.15 upgrade
  • Pax URL 2.6.10 upgrade
  • ...
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Karaf runtime 4.4.0 has been released! April 22, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is a new milestone in Karaf runtime roadmap, starting the 4.4.x series. It includes:

  • OSGi R8 support
  • Pax Web 8.0.x upgrade
  • Pax Logging 2.1.x upgrade
  • and much much more!
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Karaf runtime 4.3.7 has been released! April 23, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.6 is a maintenance release on the 4.3.x series, including many dependency updates, improvements and fixes. Download » Release Notes »

Karaf Decanter 2.9.0 has been released! February 20, 2022

Apache Karaf Decanter 2.9.0 is a major release on the 2.x series. It provides:

  • bunch of dependency updates
  • new property in the log collector to include selected loggers
  • make the inclusion of Camel history configurable in the Camel collector
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Karaf runtime 4.3.6 has been released! January 14, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.6 is a release on the 4.3.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Logging 2.0.14, with log4j 2.17.1 fixing CVE-2021-44832
  • prepare support for JDK 18
  • fix issue on Apache Felix FileInstall 3.7.4 fixing deployment issue
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Karaf runtime 4.2.15 has been released! January 14, 2022

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.15 is a release on the 4.2.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Loggin 1.11.13 upgrading to log4j 2.17.1 (fixing CVE-2021-44832)
  • upgrade to Apache Felix FileInstall 3.7.4 fixing deployment issue
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Karaf runtime 4.3.5 has been released! December 19, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.5 is a release on the 4.3.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Logging 2.0.12, with log4j 2.17.0 fixing CVE-2021-45105 and logback 1.2.9 fixing CVE-2021-42550
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Karaf runtime 4.2.14 has been released! December 24, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.14 is a release on the 4.2.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Logging 1.11.12, with log4j 2.17.0 fixing CVE-2021-45105 and logback 1.2.9 fixing CVE-2021-42550
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Karaf runtime 4.2.13 has been released! December 19, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.13 is a release on the 4.2.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Logging 1.11.11 and log4j 2.16.0 fixing CVE-2021-44228
  • upgrade to Apache Felix FileInstall 3.7.2 fixing file polling
  • add kill command to interrupt running threads
  • fix autoRefresh flag behavior in features service
  • and much more!
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Karaf runtime 4.3.4 has been released! December 18, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.4 is a release on the 4.3.x series.It provides important updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • upgrade to Pax Logging 2.0.11 and log4j 2.16.0 fixing CVE-2021-44228
  • add additional system export packages for JDK11+
  • upgrade to Pax URL 2.6.8 fixing big memory consumption related to bnd
  • fix autoRefresh flag behavior in features service
  • several dependencies upgrades to align versions all together
  • and much more !
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Karaf runtime 4.2.12 has been released! September 16, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.11 is a release on the 4.2.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • prevent NPE when creating shell session without in parameter
  • fix on JMX connection with security manager
  • fix on war deployment when the war contains module-info.class
  • fix warning on the org.apache.karaf.specs.locator package
  • bunch of dependency updates
  • and much more!
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Karaf runtime 4.3.3 has been released! September 07, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.3 is a release on the 4.3.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • first round of the specs features repository. This repository use will spread (in Karaf and third party projects) and we will improve it, but this first round introduces the skeleton we need.
  • ssh fix new closing socket cleanly
  • memory leak fix on the blueprint state service
  • fix on JMX exception push back to the client
  • bunch of dependency updates
  • and much more !
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Karaf runtime 4.3.1 has been released! April 02, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.1 is a release on the 4.3.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • java.* packages are now part of system packages
  • fix on configuration with json format
  • jetty alias feature for backward compatibility
  • fix default resolver parallelism value
  • fix on SSH, and log commands
  • improvements on the JMX layer
  • env/prop interpolation support on the SSH client
  • add property to disable auto refresh in features service
  • and much more !
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Karaf runtime 4.2.11 has been released! March 15, 2021

Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.11 is a release on the 4.2.x series. It provides updates, fixes, improvements, especially:

  • Karaf BillOfMaterial
  • JMXMP improvements for Karaf MBean server
  • SSH client fixes
  • log:* commands fixes
  • bunch of dependency updates
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Karaf Decanter 2.7.0 has been released! February 15, 2021

Apache Karaf Decanter 2.7.0 is a major release on the 2.x series. It provides dependency updates, fixes, improvements, and new features, especially:

  • refactoring of the Camel Collector as interceptor strategy
  • improvements on the REST collector
  • new OpenStack collector
  • new Apache Druid collector
  • new Grafana Loki appender
  • new HDFS appender
  • new AWS S3 appender
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Karaf runtime 4.3.0 has been released! October 30, 2020

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.0 has been released. It's a new milestone for the project. This first release on the 4.3.x series brings lot of new features, improvements and fixes especially:

  • OSGi R7
  • JDK 11+
  • JSON configuration format support
  • better feature definition using requirements and capabilities
  • BoM to simplify dependencies management
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Karaf Cellar 4.2.1 has been released! August 21, 2020

Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.1 is a major release on the 4.x series. It provides dependency updates and improvements especially:

  • fix startup of the features synchronizer with JDK 1.8
  • fix hazelcast group manager startup
  • fix a race condition between ConfigurationAdmin and Cellar group manager
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Karaf Cellar 4.2.0 has been released! July 18, 2020

Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.0 is a major release on the 4.x series. It provides dependency updates and improvements especially:

  • possibility to use JCache with appended hazelcast instance
  • all cluster:* commands should use the node alias when possible
  • improve cellar groups configuration synchronisation from hazelcast
  • implement better support to configure Kubernetes API client
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Karaf Decanter 2.5.0 has been released! June 22, 2020

Apache Karaf Decanter 2.5.0 is a major release on the 2.x series. It provides dependency updates and improvements especially:

  • extended REST support in REST collector and appender (REST verbs, basic authentication, custom headers, ...)
  • connected mode on the socket collector
  • streaming mode on the socket appender
  • new Pax Web Jetty handler collector
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.9 has been released! June 9, 2020

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • VerifyMojo performance improvement
  • Disallow calling getMBeansFromURL
  • Prevent JMX rebinding
  • Provide Spring Security 5.3.x feature
See the release note for the librairies update.
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Karaf Decanter 2.4.0 has been released! April 30, 2020

This is a new major release for Apache Decanter 2.x, containing bug fixes, new features, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • New processing layer with first aggregator processor
  • New prometheus collector
  • New elasticsearch collector
  • New configadmin collector
  • New oshi collector
  • New redis collector
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Karaf Decanter 2.3.0 has been released! April 6, 2020

This is a first minor release for Apache Decanter 2.3.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add prometheus appender
  • Improve Decanter alerting by supporting time series and multi-attributes
  • Be able to personalize the email sent by the alerter
  • Avoid blacklisting of the appenders
  • Improve Split and Regex parser by casting data
  • Be able to persist AlertStore data
  • Use JDK8 in Decanter
  • Improve SOAP collector by adding request response time
  • Use a thread pool executor in the collector system
  • Use non typed index in elasticsearch appender
  • Add itest coverage in Decanter
  • Be able to use property/templating in email alerter
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.8 has been released! January 14, 2020

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • HTTP proxy should be able to support several addresses with balancing policies
  • Add filter attribute on command @Reference annotation
  • Maven plugin feature to define custom bundle location prefixes
  • Be able to override the Karaf distribution in KarafTestSupport
  • Improve the jaas command to be able to add a new realm
  • Add JMXMP support
See the release note for the librairies update.
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2019

Karaf Cave 4.2.1 has been released ! November 29, 2019

This is an update patch for Cave 4.2.x series. It brings bug fixes.

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Karaf Cave 4.2.0 has been released ! October 28, 2019

This is the first release in the Cave 4.2.x series. It brings bug fixes, improvements, and a complete refactor to reduce number of bundles and simplify API.

With this new version, you can:

  • Proxy a maven repository with authentication and activate mirroring of the artifacts in local storage.
  • Manage your repositories with the Karaf scheduler.
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.7 has been released ! September 29, 2019

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add flag to mark transitive dependencies
  • Add jetty-proxy bundle in http/jetty feature
  • Add support for elliptic keys in the PublicKeyLoginModule
  • ConfigMBean should reflect config:edit command for factory
  • Move Spring 5.0.x features in spring-legacy features repository
Name Versions
Pax Web 7.2.11 7.2.10
Spring 5.1.9.RELEASE
Aries Proxy 1.1.6
Aries Spi Fly 1.2.2
Felix ConfigAdmin 1.9.16
Felix HTTP 4.0.10
Jetty 9.4.20.v20190813
jline 3.12.1
CXF 3.3.2
JNA 5.4.0
Felix WebConsole 4.3.16
Narayana 5.9.7.Final
Pax Logging 1.11.2
Hibernate-validator 6.0.17.Final
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.6 has been released ! June 10, 2019

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add override property to <config/> in feature
  • Add web:install command
  • Add spring-messaging feature
  • Add option to feature:uninstall to cleanup feature configs/config-files
Name Versions
felix-http 4.0.8
Pax-Web 7.2.10
Quartz 2.3.1
XBean 4.14
Felix WebConsole MemoryUsage plugin 1.0.10
Maven 3.6.1
jansi 1.18
narayana 5.9.5.Final
jline 3.11.0
Pax Web 7.2.9
Jetty 9.4.18
Spring Security 5.1.5.RELEASE
Spring 4.3.24.RELEASE
Spring 5.0.14.RELEASE
Spring 5.1.7.RELEASE
Apache Felix Webconsole 4.3.12
equinox 3.12.100
Pax Logging 1.10.2
ActiveMQ 5.15.9
aspectj 1.9.4
ant 1.10.5
cglib 3.2.9
JNA 5.3.1
commons-beanutils 1.9.3
commons-codec 1.12
commons-fileupload 1.4
commons-pool2 2.6.2
jolokia 1.6.1
serp 1.15.1
Pax JMS 1.0.4
bndlib 3.5.0
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.5 has been released ! April 21, 2019

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add karaf:dockerfile & karaf:docker Maven goals
  • Add SortedProperties class to karaf tooling
  • Add principal info to audit logs
  • Add MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS option to Karaf ssh server
  • Prevent relative path in config install command and ConfigMBean
  • Introduce new property EnabledProtocals for org.apache.karaf.management.cfg
Name Versions
hibernate-validator 6.0.16.Final
Pax-jdbc 1.3.5
Pax-transx 0.4.3
Aries Blueprint Core 1.10.2
Equinox 3.13.300
Narayana 5.9.4.Final
Geronimo Connector 3.1.4
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Karaf Decanter 2.2.0 has been released ! March 22, 2019

This is a first minor release for Apache Decanter 2.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add websocket appender
  • Add InfluxDB appender
  • Add TimescaleDB appender
  • Add SOAP collector
  • Improve the API Parser adding key data as parameter
  • Be able to add property filters on appenders
  • Be able to define the marshaller in log appender
  • Reuse existing karafName, hostAddress, hostName if exist in "bridgeable" collectors
  • Kafka appender should perform send().get()
  • Provide split and regex parsers
  • REST collector should populate the status code when connection doesn't work
Name Versions
Netty and netty handler versions in Karaf Decanter Cassandra 4.0.37.Final
Spring-boot 2.1.3.RELEASE
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.4 has been released ! March 18, 2019

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Ensure karaf-maven-plugin can honor start-level for bootBundles
  • Allow to override/blacklist some features for VerifyMojo
  • Add skip option to karaf-maven-plugin
  • Improve shell:exit help message
  • FeaturesProcessorImpl improvement for bundle override
Name Versions
Aries JPA 2.7.2
Felix ConfigAdmin 1.9.14
Spring 5.1.5.RELEASE
Spring 4.3.22.RELEASE
Felix SCR 2.1.16
Awaitility 3.1.6
ASM 7.1
jline 3.10.0
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Karaf Runtime 4.2.3 has been released ! February 11, 2019

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add operation to get features contained in a feature repository
  • Service wrapper should add selected JAVA_HOME also to the PATH variable
  • Enhance bundle report to reflect effective installed features for custom distributions
  • Create Aries JAXRS whiteboard example
Name Versions
pax-transx 0.4.1
Aries Proxy Impl 1.1.4
pax-web 7.2.7
jaxb 2.3.2
itstack-commons-runtime 3.0.8
Aries JPA 2.7.1
Felix Gogo 1.1.4
Maven Wagon 3.3.1
awaitility 3.1.5
Narayana 5.9.2.Final
pax-cdi 1.1.0
pax-jms 1.0.3
pax-jdbc 1.3.3
pax-transx 0.4.2
pax-web 7.2.7
Hibernate 5.2.17.Final
Felix Framework 5.6.12
javax.annotation 1.3
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Karaf Cellar 4.1.3 has been released ! February 25, 2019

This is a major maintenance release on Cellar 4.1.x series. Especially, it provides:

  • Slave cluster searches log on Master's log path
  • Setting node alias breaks synchonization
  • Extend http service version range in Cellar load balancer

and much more !

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Karaf Cave 4.1.2 has been released ! January 21, 2019

This is a major maintenance release on Cave 4.1.x series. Especially, it provides:

  • Be able to use proxy or storage in Cave Maven
  • Add default Cave Deployer connections store
  • Change implementation of Cave Deployer REST to mimic Cave Server

and much more !

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2018

Karaf Runtime 4.2.2 has been released ! December 18, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

  • Add Felix HTTP feature
  • Add Camel examples
  • Add config management example
  • Add websocket example
Name Versions
easymock 4.0.1
XBean 4.12
maven-bundle-plugin 4.1.0
maven-invoker-plugin 3.1.0
maven-plugin-plugin 3.5.2
maven-scm-publish-plugin 3.0.0
asciidoctor-maven-plugin 1.5.6
JNA 4.5.2
Aries Blueprint Core 1.10.1
Aries Blueprint CM 1.3.1
commons-compress 1.18
commons-lang3 3.8.1
Felix ConfigAdmin 1.9.6
Felix Framework Security 2.6.1
Felix Metatype 1.2.2
Felix SCR 2.1.8
Felix WebConsole Plugin DS 2.1.0
geronimo-atinject_1.0_spec 1.1
maven-dependency-tree 3.0.1
Maven Wagon 3.2.0
hibernate-validator 6.0.13.Final
Ant ServiceMix bundle 1.10.3_1
Apache POM 21
ASM 7.0
Aries SpiFly 1.2
Felix ConfigAdmin 1.9.10
Felix SCR 2.1.14
awaitility 3.1.3
easymock 4.0.2
pax-jms 1.0.2
Spring 4.3.21.RELEASE
Spring 5.0.10.RELEASE
Pax Exam 4.13.1
Pax Web 7.2.5
Felix Utils 1.11.2
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Karaf Runtime 4.1.7 has been released ! November 30, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.1.x, containing bug fixes and improvements.

  • Add Felix HTTP feature
  • Update to Apache Felix Webconsole 4.3.8 and latest jQuery UI 1.12.1
  • ProfilesUri option does not accept multiple values
  • Competitive configurations between various mojos
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Karaf Cellar 4.1.2 has been released ! October 12, 2018

This is a major maintenance release on Cellar 4.1.x series. Especially, it provides:

  • Improve cellar groups configuration synchronisation from hazelcast
  • Upgrade Hazelcast to 3.9.1
  • Upgrade Kubernetes-client to 3.1.0

and much more !

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Karaf Cellar 4.0.5 has been released ! October 12, 2018

This is a major maintenance release on Cellar 4.0.x series. Especially, it provides:

  • Improve cellar groups configuration synchronisation from hazelcast
  • Upgrade Hazelcast to 3.9.1
  • Upgrade Kubernetes-client to 3.1.0

and much more !

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Karaf Cave 4.1.1 has been released ! September 9, 2018

This release contains fixes on the Maven repository management, the Feature gateway, the REST services (for both repository and deployer).

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Karaf Runtime 4.2.1 has been released ! August 21, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.2.x, containing bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Among this new features, we have:

    Docker
    The docker feature allow users to manage their docker containers from the Karaf shell console with new commands docker:xxx. For example, you can create a Docker container using the current running Karaf instance with the command docker:provision my-karaf. You can learn more on the user guide
    Examples
    The Apache Karaf Examples provide different starting point showing how to implement concrete use cases leveraging Apache Karaf capabilities. There is a list of the examples on the documentation page
    Test support
    A new KarafTestSupport class is available in order to help developers for writing the itests of their bundles, features and custom distribution. You can take a look on the itests module of the project to see how it's easy to use !
    JDK compatibility
    We have improved the compatibility with the versions 9 / 10 / 11 of the JDK.
    Dependency upgrades
    A bunch of librairies have been upgraded:
Name Versions
Aries JPA 2.7.0
Aries Proxy Java 10 compliant
Aries Proxy Impl 1.1.2
Aries Transaction Blueprint 2.2.0
ASM 6.2.1
Awaitility 3.1.2
Commons-compress 1.17
Easymock 3.6
Eclipselink 2.7.3
Equinox 3.12.100
Felix Gogo Runtime / Jline 1.0.12
Felix Resolver 1.16.0
Felix EventAdmin 1.5.0
Felix Metatype 1.2.0
Felix Connect 0.2.0
Felix Gogo 1.1.0
Felix ConfigAdmin 1.9.4
Felix SCR 2.1.2
Felix Utils 1.11.0
Hibernate Validator 6.0.12.Final
Jansi 1.17.1
Jline 3.9.0
Jolokia 1.5.0
Maven API 3.5.4
Maven Wagon 3.1.0
Narayana 5.9.0.Final
OpenJPA 3.0.0
Pax JMS 1.0.1
Pax JDBC 1.3.0
Pax Exam 4.12.0
Pax Transx 0.4.0
Pax Web 7.2.3
Jetty 9.4.11.v20180605
ServiceMix Spec Locator 2.10
Spring 4.3.18.RELEASE
Spring 5.0.8.RELEASE
Tagsoup 1.2.1
XBean 4.8
Xerces 2.12.0
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Karaf Runtime 4.1.6 has been released ! August 6, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.1.x, containing bug fixes and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 4.2.0 has been released ! April 9, 2018

This is the first GA release on the 4.2.x series. We invite all users to upgrade to this new stable series, bringing a lot of fixes, improvements and new features.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.9 has been released ! March 2, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing minor bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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Karaf Runtime 4.1.5 has been released ! February 15, 2018

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.1.x, containing bug fixes and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 4.2.0.M2 has been released ! January 2, 2018

This is the second technical preview for the 4.2.x series. This is not a GA. The purpose is to continue the test campaign in preparation for the 4.2.0.GA release. Compared to 4.2.0.M1, 4.2.0.M2 contains bug fixes and improvements, especially around the Java 9 support.

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Karaf Cave 4.1.0 has been released ! January 2, 2018

This is the first release in the Cave 4.1.x series. It brings bug fixes, improvements, and the new Deployer feature.

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2017

Karaf Runtime 4.1.4 has been released ! December 19, 2017

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.1.x, containing bug fixes and improvements.

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Karaf Cellar 4.1.1 has been released ! September 28, 2017

This is the first GA release on the 4.2.x series. We invite all users to upgrade to this new stable series, bringing a lot of fixes, improvements and new features.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.10 has been released ! September 28, 2017

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.1.2 has been released ! August 8, 2017

Apache Karaf 4.1.2 is a maintenance release on the 4.1.x series, bringing bug fixes and updates.

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Karaf Decanter 1.4.0 has been released ! July 23, 2017

Apache Karaf Decanter 1.4.0 is a new major release on the Decanter 1.x serie including bug fixes and couple of new features like the new Apache Camel Event Notifier.

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Karaf Cellar 4.1.0 has been released ! May 15, 2017

Apache Karaf Cellar 4.1.0 is the first release on the Cellar 4.1.x serie, fully compatible with Karaf 4.1.x and bringing important improvements and bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.9 has been released ! April 10, 2017

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.1.1 has been released ! March 31, 2017

This is an update release on the Apache Karaf 4.1.x series, bringing lot of bug fixes and updates.

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Karaf Runtime 4.1.0 has been released ! February 4, 2017

Apache Karaf 4.1.0 is the first release of the new 4.1.x serie. It brings lot of new features (new shell console, improvements of the Karaf Features system, better Maven artifacts resolution, improved web container, ...).

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2016

Karaf Runtime 4.0.8 has been released ! December 18, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing bug fixes.

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Karaf Cellar 4.0.3 has been released ! October 31, 2016

Apache Karaf Cellar 4.0.2 is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x serie including important bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.7 has been released ! September 25, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing bug fixes.

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Karaf Cellar 4.0.2 has been released ! September 19, 2016

Apache Karaf Cellar 4.0.2 is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x serie including important bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.6 has been released ! August 27, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Decanter 1.2.0 has been released ! August 19, 2016

Apache Karaf Decanter 1.2.0 is a major new Decanter release, providing lot of new features (new collectors, new appenders) and bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.8 has been released ! August 11, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and some improvements.

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Karaf Cellar 4.0.1 has been released ! July 17, 2016

This is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x serie including bug fixes and couple of new features.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.7 has been released ! June 20, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf Runtime 3.0.x series, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Decanter 1.1.0 has been released ! April 26, 2016

This is a new major release of Apache Karaf Decanter, starting the 1.1.x serie. It includes lot of new features and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.5 has been released ! April 21, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf Runtime 4.0.x series, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.6 has been released ! February 17, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf Runtime 3.0.x series, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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The Karaf team is proud to announce the launch of our brand new website ! February 4, 2016

After weeks of work, we are delighted to officially announce the launch of our new website. Our goal is to provide a clear and up to date message about Apache Karaf, with a modern look and feel.
We hope you like it. For any questions, suggestions, feedbacks, or comments please send an e-mail to the mailing list !

Karaf Runtime 2.4.4 has been released ! January 25, 2016

WARNING : this is the last release on the 2.x series. This series is now in "Non Active" mode. We encourage users to upgrade to more recent Karaf Runtime versions.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.12 has been released ! January 25, 2016

WARNING : this is the last release on the 2.3.x series. This series is now in "Non Active" mode. We encourage users to upgrade to more recent Karaf Runtime versions.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.4 has been released ! January 13, 2016

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf Runtime 4.0.x series, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements..

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2015

Karaf Decanter 1.0.1 has been released ! November 16, 2015

This is a fix version on the 1.x series. It also brings new features like the file collector.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.3 has been released ! November 10, 2015

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.2 has been released ! October 13, 2015

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.5 has been released ! October 7, 2015

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.

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Karaf Cellar 4.0.0 has been released ! August 19, 2015

This release of Apache Karaf Cellar is the first one of the 4.0.x series.
Apache Karaf Cellar 4.0.0 is a major new release of Cellar designed to work with Karaf 4.0.x versions.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.1 has been released ! August 19, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 4.0.1.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 4.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: Providing Spring 4.2.0.RELEASE, OpenJPA 2.4.0, and JTA 1.2 features. Important dependency upgrades include: Spring 4.1.7.RELEASE, Spring 3.2.14.RELEASE, transaction.blueprint 1.1.1, and Pax-Web 4.2.0.

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Karaf Decanter 1.0.0 has been released ! August 1, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Decanter 1.0.0.
Apache Karaf Decanter 1.0.0 is the first release of Decanter, a complete monitoring and alerting solution for Karaf and related projects (like Camel, ActiveMQ, etc).

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Karaf Runtime 2.4.3 has been released ! July 12, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.4.3.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.4.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: Support for Karaf 4 feature repositories in degraded mode, support for Pax-web 4.x, and updates to FelixFileInstall 3.5.0 and FelixConfigAdmin 1.8.4.

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Karaf Cave 4.0.0 has been released ! July 8, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cave 4.0.0.
This is a complete new Cave version, providing an implementation of OSGi Repository R5 specification. Take a look on the user guide for details.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.4 has been released ! July 2, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 3.0.4.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New features highlights include: Jaas commands to create and list group, bundles in etc/statup.properties shouldn't be uninstalled through feature services, and more secure host SSH key by default.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.0 has been released ! June 26, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 4.0.0.
Apache Karaf 4.0.0 is the first production ready version of the new 4.0.0 branch.
It's a major step forward, including a complete new features resolver, a large set of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.0.M3 has been released ! June 8, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 4.0.0.M3.
This is a technology preview release of Apache Karaf, and should NOT be considered production ready Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M3 represents a major refactoring of the project, and includes numerous new features. We ask that users provide the community with their feed back so that the full Apache Karaf 4.0.0 release can be as feature complete and stable as possible.

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Karaf Cellar 3.0.3 has been released ! May 12, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 3.0.3.
Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.3 is a major update on the 3.0.x series branch.
It includes several big fixes, especially on the bundle sync support.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.6 has been released ! May 12, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.3.6.
Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.6 is a major update on the 2.3.x series branch.
It includes several big fixes, especially on the bundle sync support.

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Karaf Runtime 2.4.2 has been released ! April 25, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.4.2.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.4.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: jaas commands to create and list groups, and bundles in etc/startup.properties should not be uninstalled through feature service (protecting essential features from accidental removal).

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.11 has been released ! April 11, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.11.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.x, containing several bug fixes. Amoung them are a fix for password encryption, txlog files locked during admin clone on windows, and an issue with using LDAPLoginModule with ActiveDirectory is resolved.

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Karaf Cellar 3.0.2 has been released ! March 27, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 3.0.2.
Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.2 is a major update on the 3.0.x series branch.
It includes several big fixes, especially on the Synchronizers.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.5 has been released ! March 27, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.3.5.
Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.5 is a major update on the 2.3.x series branch.
It includes several big fixes, especially on the Synchronizers.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.0.M2 has been released ! February 13, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 4.0.0.M2.
This is a technology preview release of Apache Karaf, and should NOT be considered production ready. Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M2 represents a major refactoring of the project, and includes numerous new features. We ask that users provide the community with their feed back so that the full Apache Karaf 4.0.0 release can be as feature complete and stable as possible.
The 4.0.x line will ship with OSGi Rev5 support via Felix4.4.1 and Equinox 3.9.1-v20140110-1610, and a completely refactored internal framework without Blueprint for internal usage. From a users point of view these changes will yield a smaller, more efficient Karaf core. There will be a Blueprint feature present in Karaf so that you can easily install Blueprint based applications. You will always be capable of using Blueprint in Karaf. So the main difference from a user perspective is that you’d need to depend on the Blueprint service if you need it. New features since the M1 release include: Support for custom command parsers, a verify-features goal to validate the feature with a real OSGi resolution, and a backing engine serivce for org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.publickey.PublickeyLoginModule.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.10 has been released ! February 6, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.10.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.x, containing several bug fixes, and a dependency update. Amoung them are a fix for when config:edit does not correctly handle configuration visibility for factory calls, when User name/password missing in connection factory created with jms:create, and when admin:stop Command Does Not Zero Out Root Runtime PID. This release contains an update to jandex in hibernate feature to avoid wrapping.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.3 has been released ! January 30, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 3.0.3.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New features highlights include: Spring 4.1.2.Release features, and provides ready to use jpa20 and jpa21 features.

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Karaf Cellar 3.0.1 has been released ! January 23, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 3.0.1.
These releases are major upgrade of Cellar, including a change in the sync mechanism to provide a better and more predictable behaviour.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.4 has been released ! January 23, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 3.0.1.
These releases are major upgrade of Cellar, including a change in the sync mechanism to provide a better and more predictable behaviour.

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Karaf Runtime 2.4.1 has been released ! January 2, 2015

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.4.1.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.4.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New features highlights include: Regex support in features commands, added an option to uninstall transitive features, and renamed jpa feature as jpa/jpa20 and jpa21.

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2014

Karaf Runtime 2.3.9 has been released ! November 9, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.9.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.8, containing several bug fixes, and dependency updates. Amoung them are a fix for when Karaf throws a SocketTimeoutException and exits after 49 days, and env variables can now be read while running Karaf as a Linux service. An important dependency update has been made to Aries JPA API 1.0.2/JPA Runtime 1.0.2/JPA Blueprint Aries 1.0.4/JPA Runtime Context 1.0.4.

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Karaf Runtime 4.0.0.M1 has been released ! October 14, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 4.0.0.M1.
This is a technology preview release of Apache Karaf, and should NOT be considered production ready. Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M1 represents a major refactoring of the project, and includes numerous new features. We ask that users provide the community with their feed back so that the full Apache Karaf 4.0.0 release can be as feature complete and stable as possible.
The 4.0.x line will ship with OSGi Rev5 support via Felix4.4.1 and Equinox 3.9.1-v20140110-1610, and a completely refactored internal framework without Blueprint for internal usage. From a users point of view these changes will yield a smaller, more efficient Karaf core. There will be a Blueprint feature present in Karaf so that you can easily install Blueprint based applications. You will always be capable of using Blueprint in Karaf. So the main difference from a user perspective is that you’d need to depend on the Blueprint service if you need it.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.2 has been released ! October 13, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 3.0.2.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.x, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New features highlights include: Support of !$ to recall the last command argument, a command to display bundle id, and automatically create data sources from configuration files.

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Karaf Runtime 2.4.0 has been released ! September 20, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.4.0.
This release represents a new branch of Apache Karaf development. It includes the latest Aries and Pax libraries, Apache Pom 14, add support for role-based JMX authorization, includes heap dumps when we create debugging data from create dump command, blueprint-web feature, support for JAAS groups, and includes Pax CDI feature. There are several hundred items currently in this RC's release notes, so you'll want to spend some time discovering all the hidden gems.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.8 has been released ! September 19, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.8.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.7, containing several bug fixes, and dependency updates. We have introduced support of !$ to recall the last command argument, and improved the command description for osgi:shutdown.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.7 has been released ! September 6, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.7.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.6, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New features include SyncopeLoginModule, and improved documentation for exposing JAAS BackendEngineFactory services for the login module and configfile override behavoir. This patch contains a high priority bug fix for Windows users experiencing console input issues.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.6 has been released ! August 1, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.6.
This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.5, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: Automatically create data sources from configuration files, add backing engine serivce for org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.publickey.PublickeyLoginModule, add a flag to bin/client so that it can read private key from a specified location, and Provide shell:env command.

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Karaf Cave 3.0.0 has been released ! July 4, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cave 3.0.0.
This release is the first one of the Cave 3.0.x series, fully compatible with Karaf 3.0.x.
It includes major updates and bug fixes.

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Karaf Cellar 3.0.0 has been released ! July 27, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 3.0.0.
This release is the first one of the Cellar 3.0.x series, fully compatible with Karaf 3.0.x and powered by Hazelcast 3.2.3.
It includes major updates and bug fixes.

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Update on the website

The Karaf website has changed a little bit. We added a new webpage (accessible directly from the navigation menu on the left) providing an overview of the different Karaf and subprojects branches and the releases schedule.
The purpose is to give you more visibility on the release dates.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.5 has been released ! May 13, 2014

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 2.3.4, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: monitoring etc/user.properties with FelixfileInstall, and adding MSSQL datasource type.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.1 has been released ! May 13, 2014

This is an update patch for Apache Karaf 3.0.0, containing many bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements. New feature highlights include: the addition of Pax CDI to Karaf enterprise feature, monitoring etc/user.properties with FelixfileInstall, and adding MSSQL datasource type.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.4 has been released ! February 17, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.4.
This patch update to the 2.3.x line contains multiple bug fixes, improvements, and dependency updates including; Clone and status commands for instances, Hibernate feature, improved managment & debugging, and dependency updates to Aries Blueprint core 1.4.0, json 20131018, bndlib 2.2.0, and various updates to maven plugins.

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Karaf Cave 2.3.0 has been released ! January 21, 2014

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cave 2.3.0.
Karaf Cave provides an OSGi Bundle Repository (OBR), simple Maven repository, and Karaf Features Repository (KFR).
OBR provides a service that can automatically install a bundle, with its deployment dependencies, from a bundle repository.

Apache Karaf Cave provides the following features :

    Storage
    Karaf Cave provides a filesystem storage. The storage backend is designed with a kind of plugin system, it means that we can change the default filesystem storage by another kind of storage.
    OBR metadata generation
    Karaf Cave automatically creates the OBR metadata for you, using the artifacts presents in the Cave repository.
    OBR registration
    Karaf Cave allows you to directly register a Cave repository into the OBR RepositoryAdmin OSGi service.
    Artifact upload
    You can update any OSGi bundle in a Cave repository, using advanced URL, e.g. mvn:groupId/artifactId/version.
    HTTP Maven/OBR
    Karaf Cave provides a HTTP service where you can > Download artifacts and get OBR information.
    "External" repository proxy
    You can proxy an existing repository (like a Maven one) into a Cave repository. In that case, the artifacts are still resident on the proxied repository, Cave handles the OBR metadata. Cave supports file: and http: like URL, it means that Cave is able to browse a remote HTTP Maven repository.
    "External" repository population
    You can populate your local Cave repository from an external repository. It means that Cave browse the external repository URL (file: or http:), looking for OSGi bundles in the artifacts, and copy the bundles in the Cave repository storage.
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2013

Karaf Runtime 3.0.0 has been released ! December 24, 2013

The Karaf team is tremendously pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 3.0.0.
This is a major new release of Apache Karaf, containing many refactorings, OSGi rev 5 support, wide ranging dependency upgrades, and new commands.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.2 has been released ! October 14, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.3.2.
This release is the second one on the Cellar 2.3.x branch, fully compatible with the Karaf 2.3.x series. All users of a Karaf 2.3.x have to use this Cellar version.
It includes major bug fixes.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.3 has been released ! September 20, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.3.
This patch update to the 2.3.x line contains multiple bug fixes, improvements, and dependency updates including; improvements to the service wrapper to detect java, return correct exit codes, have correct karaf.data information on child instances and operate on Solaris, the log command can now list all the logging levels currently set, and dependency updates to Spring 3.2.4.RELEASE, Pax Logging 1.7.1, easymock 3.2, and jasypt 1.9.1.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.2 has been released ! July 10, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.2.
In this patch update to the 2.3.x line contains multiple bug fixes, improvements, and dependency updates including; restored IBM Java compatibility, DirectoryWatcher for deploy folder now waits for framework start level to reach 60, BundleWatcher now waits for refresh to be finished before updating another bundle, CXF DOSGI feature now included in Karaf repos config, HTTP feature now installs a default web config file, and dependency updates to Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE, Pax Web 1.1.14, Aries Transaction Blueprint 1.0.1, and Pax Url 1.3.6.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.1 has been released ! July 1, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.3.1.
This release is the second one on the Cellar 2.3.x branch, fully compatible with the Karaf 2.3.x series. All users of a Karaf 2.3.x have to use this Cellar version.
It includes major bug fixes.

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Karaf Cellar 2.3.0 has been released ! May 23, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.3.0.
This release is the first one on the Cellar 2.3.x branch, fully compatible with the Karaf 2.3.x series. All users of a Karaf 2.3.x have to use this Cellar version.
It includes a lot of bug fixes and new features.

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Karaf Cellar 2.2.6 has been released ! May 23, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.2.6.
This release of Apache Karaf Cellar is considered a high priority update for users of Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.x. It includes a lot of bug fixes and new features.

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Karaf Runtime 3.0.0.RC1 has been released ! March 15, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 3.0.0.RC1.
This is a technology preview release of Apache Karaf, and should NOT be considered a production ready version. Apache Karaf 3.0.0.RC1 represents a major refactoring of the project, and includes numerous new features. We ask that users provide the community with their feed back so that the full Apache Karaf 3.0.0 release can be as feature complete and stable as possible.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.1 has been released ! March 3, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.1.
In this patch update to the 2.3.x line contains multiple bug fixes, improvements, and dependency updates including; an upgrade to OSGi spec 4.3.1, Spring 3.1.4.RELEASE, Pax Exam 2.6.0, Pax Web 1.1.12, Jetty 7.6.8.v20121106, Aries Blueprint Core 1.1.0, and fixes to the LDAP login module, improved failover lock logic, removes a console shutdown -f hang, and adds a jre-1.8 to jre.properties.

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Karaf EIK 0.9.0 has been released ! February 17, 2013

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf EIK 0.9.0.
This is the first release of Karaf EIK, allowing you to integrate Karaf in your Eclipse environment.

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2012

Karaf Runtime 2.2.10 has been released ! December 21, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.10.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.9. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; Making pom.xml eclipse 3.7 m2e friendly, updating Spring to 2.5.6.SEC03, improved terminal behavior when sshing from windows to unix, and improved lock logic to wait while start level change occurs. Several dependencies were also updated, bringing FelixWebconsole to 4.0.0, pax-logging to 1.6.10, pax-web to 1.0.12, and the Apache pom to version 12.

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Karaf Cellar 2.2.5 has been released ! December 6, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.2.5.
This release of Apache Karaf Cellar is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing a major update to Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.4. It contains a lot of bug fixes and some important new features.
Especially, the bundle and configuration synchronization mechanism have been improved, the local node state (group, producers, consumers, handlers) is now persistent, the cluster commands and MBeans haven been improved, including the addition of cluster:sync command.

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Karaf Runtime 2.3.0 has been released ! October 15, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.3.0.
This release of Apache Karaf sets the stage for the 3.0.x line, introducing OSGi rev 4.3 support, new commands, features, improvements, and a mulititude of dependency updates. At Karaf's core you'll find Equinox 3.8.0.v20120529-1548 and Apache Felixframework 4.0.3. New additions such as Karaf-pax-exam, commands back ported from Karaf 3.x, and command aliases to help make migrating betwen 2.3.x and 3.x easier.

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Welcome Brian Topping as new Karaf committer ! September 3, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce Brian Topping as a new committer.
Welcome aboard Brian !

Karaf Runtime 2.2.9 has been released ! August 18, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.9.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.8. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; An update to fix a NullPointerException when using JDK 6 update 33 or JDK 7 update5, a new JDBC lock implementation for Postgres, a fix for using version with the wrap protocol, and renaming command-watch to watch. Several dependences were also updated, bringing FelixFramework to 3.2.2, pax-logging to 1.6.9, slf4j to 1.6.6, xbean to 3.11.1, aries proxy to 0.3.1, and a multitude of updates to maven plugins.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.8 has been released ! June 25, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.8.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.7. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; A command that can not be loaded no longer breaks the whole completion, removing a KAR now uninstalls the shipped features, and SSH keystore is now compatible with IBM JDK. Several dependences were also updated, bringing ServiceMix Specs to version 2.0, pax-logging to 1.6.7, Jansi to 1.9, JLine to 2.7, FelixUtils to 1.2.0, FelixFileInstall to 3.2.4, and sshd to 0.7.0.

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Karaf Cellar 2.2.4 has been released ! May 20, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.2.4.
This release of Apache Karaf Cellar is considered a high priority update for users of Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3. It includes a lot of bug fixes and new features.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.7 has been released ! April 27, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.7.
This release of Apache Karaf is considered a high priority update for users of Apache Karaf 2.2.6. An issue in which configuration updates were not being persisted to storage was detected, an update to FileInstall version 3.2.2 was made necessary. In addition to the above other bug fixes have been resolved, including; updating the features repo pointer for pax-wicket, removing an unnecessary warning on missing repository name when the name is defined however not presently loaded, the SSHD authorized key provider now logs in DEBUG, and SSH now correctly uses the karaf.base variable. A version update to pax web 1.0.9 has also been included in the dependencies.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.6 has been released ! April 8, 2012

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.6.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.5. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; improved Windows, AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris support in the service wrapper, three new deployer demos showing how to make an OSGi bundle, a features file, and how to wrap a third party jar into a bundle, and support for ssh public key authentication and agent forwarding. A few new commands also appear in this release including; features:status to indicate feature loaded or not, feature:chooseurl to make it easy to install well known feature files, and a watch command to allow users to watch the output of a karaf command like when using the unix watch mechanism. Several dependencies were also updated, bringing Spring to 3.0.7-RELEASE, eventadmin to 1.2.14, Apache Pom to version 10, the maven bundle plugin to 2.3.7, and fileinstall to 3.2.0.

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Karaf Cellar 2.2.3 has been released ! January 20, 2012

The Karaf tema is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.2.3.
This release of Apache Karaf Cellar is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.2. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including: cluster group support for bundles, full access on the Hazelcast configuration file, update to Hazelcast 1.9.4.6 and jclouds 1.3.1, first DOSGi support, new samples including usage with Apache Camel, OBR support in clusters.

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Karaf projects

The Karaf team is pleased to announce three new sub-projects: Cave, EIK, WebConsole. Take a look on the projects page to have more information. We are working to provide a first release of these projects, but the sources are already available.

2011

Karaf Runtime 2.2.5 has been released ! December 25, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.5.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.4. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; multiple JAAS support improvements, better support for Linux systems with certain versions of libc, SCP support, and demos for extending Karaf's console commands and using Karaf Archives (KARs). Several dependencies were also updated, bringing Pax Web to version 1.0.8, Jetty to 7.5.4.v20111024, and Jasypt to 1.8.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.4 has been released ! October 16, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.4.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.3. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; significant improvements to KAR support, and new MBeans (such as Dev, HTTP, Log, OBR, Bundles, Services and System). Several dependencies were also updated, bringing Apache FelixGogo to version 0.10.0, and Pax Web to 1.0.7.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.3 has been released ! September 1, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.3.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.2. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; Optional JDK 7 support, a spring-jms feature, and a macro allowing users to identify the contents of a specific config file. Several dependencies were also updated, bringing Jetty to version 7.4.5.v20110725, Eclispe Equinox to 3.6.2.R36x_v20110210, and Pax web to 1.0.6.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.6 has been released ! July 17, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.6.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.5 and the last planned patch to the 2.1.x branch. It contains a few small bug fixes and improvements, including; updated branding-console documentation, a new warning on osgi:shutdown to avoid inadvertently shutting down the container, and a correction to the Oracle JDBC locking mechanism behavior when the locking table is empty.

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Karaf Cellar 2.2.2 has been released ! July 10, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf Cellar 2.2.2.
This is the first release of Apache Karaf Cellar. Karaf Cellar is clustering solution for Apache Karaf powered by Hazelcast.
Karaf Cellar allows you to manage a cluster of Karaf instances, provising synchronisation between instances.
This release includes bug fixes and new features like jclouds support.
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Karaf Runtime 2.2.2 has been released ! July 3, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.2.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.1. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; improved behavior for the OracleDB locking mechanism and http feature jetty port usage. Several improvements to the shell have been incorporated, such as completion for shell aliases and a warning on osgi:shutdown to avoid inadvertently shutting down the container. There has also been a few small dependency upgrades to felix event admin, Pax URL, and jetty.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.1 has been released ! May 15, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.1.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.2.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.2.0. It contains bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces improvements including; updates to pax-logging, pax-runner, pax-web, jetty, and felix versions. The config commands have has been updated, and kar features are now in features-maven-plugin.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.5 has been released ! April 30, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.5.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.4. It contains several bug fixes identified in the prior release, including; improved Eclipse console karaf shell output, handling TAB characters in feature repository to avoid resoultion errors when adding features to repo, and multiple fixes to the config shell. IMPORTANT: This patch release also updates the FelixFramework from version 3.0.2 to 3.0.9.

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Karaf Runtime 2.2.0 has been released ! February 28, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.2.0.
This release of Apache Karaf contains a multitude of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Some highlights include many new or updated commands, a LDAP JAAS module with login support, an updated feature service, a feature for Aries transaction, JPA & JNDI modules, expanded documentation, and new versions of most dependencies. The help system and manual have also undergone major updates. Please note that if you are using pax-exam with scanFeatures that you also have to upgrade pax-exam to the latest version.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.4 has been released ! February 15, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.4.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.3. It contains several bug fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces several improvements including; better behavior of the features-maven-plugin, documentation for making multiple configuration files available to the bundle context, and a more efficient bundle description for header display.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.3 has been released ! January 11, 2011

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.3.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.2. It contains several bug fixes identified in the prior release, and updates the versions of SLF4j, pax-url-mvn, spring, and pax-exam. For more detail please see the change log below.

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2010

Karaf Runtime 2.1.2 has been released ! November 25, 2010

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.2.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.1. It contains several bug fixes identified in the prior release, and updates the pax-url version.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.1 has been released ! November 14, 2010

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.1.
This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch, representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.0. It contains multiple bug fixes, while introducing a minimal number of changes to dependencies from our last release.

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Karaf Runtime 2.1.0 has been released ! September 24, 2010

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.1.0.
New to this release of Apache Karaf is a JAAS Database Login Module, a way to store passwords in a secured way, a mechanism that allows a karaf application to distinguish between UserPrincipal and RolePrincipal without depending from the Karaf JAAS Module.
The shell console has been enhanced to be available in a plain non-OSGi environment and smart tab completion has been improved, along with various commands.
We have also resolved a number of outstanding issues, and improved support on OS X and IBM Java based systems.

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Karaf Runtime 2.0.0 has been released ! July 23, 2010

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Karaf 2.0.0.
This release is our first as a top level apache project, and includes a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

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Karaf is now a TLP

Today, the Apache Software Foundation board has just established Karaf as a new Top Level Project.
The whole community is thrilled and will strive to make the project even better and more successful.