Apache Karaf Update Sept 22 - 29, 2012

Since starting with Savoir Technologies one of my weekly routines has been to brief our team on recent development work at Apache Karaf. These updates have generally been tracking whats been going on as per the project Jira. As the issue lists below will show, keeping up with three active branches can be a challenge so I've decided (with permission) to start sharing these reports with everyone.

In the below sections you'll find issues being worked upon, reported, or assigned to various future release versions of Karaf. Yes, this is just one week worth of Jira entires - the Karaf community kicks ass! :)

Apache Karaf 2.2.10:

New issues:
Karaf-1879 admin management bundle has unecessary imports
Karaf-1881 Karaf jaas password authenticator is broken. 

Resolved issues:
Karaf-1856 Merge bundle:diag command
Karaf-1857 Merge bundle:services command
Karaf-1850 feature:list should use alphabetical order

Updated issues:
Karaf-1853 Attached kar deploys to a different snapshot build number than the main artifact
Karaf-1701 Parsing of config for a field with cardinality > 1 is incorrectly processed and displayed on Admin Console

General 2.2.10 issue list.

Apache Karaf 2.3.0:

New issues:
Karaf-1883  Upgrade to ASM 4.1
Karaf-1859 Upgrade to ServiceMix Specs 2.1
Karaf-1862 Upgrade to Felix FileInstall 3.2.6
Karaf-1868 Upgrade aries bundles to 1.0.1 (blueprint-core, jmx-core, transaction-manager, jpa-container-context) 
Karaf-1817 Upgrade to sshd 0.8.0
Karaf-1879 admin management bundle has unecessary imports

Resolved issues:
Karaf-1541 jaas:realm-manage raises a NullPointerException
Karaf-1850 feature:list should use alphabetical order
Karaf-1844 Add command aliases for migration purpose between 2.3.x and 3.x
Karaf-1857 Merge bundle:services command
Karaf-1858 itests look stuck (use 100% CPU)
Karaf-1863 Upgrade to sshd 0.8.0
Karaf-1865 Upgrade to paxlogging 1.7.0
Karaf-1864 Upgrade to jline 2.9
Karaf-1867 Upgrade to felix event admin 1.3.0
Karaf-1816 Upgrade to jline 2.9
Karaf-1882 Provide Level attribute in the LogMBean

Updated issues:
Karaf-1853 Attached kar deploys to a different snapshot build number than the main artifact
Karaf-1336 Release Apache Karaf 2.3.0

General 2.3.0 issue list.

Apache Karaf 3.0.0:

New issues:
Karaf-1859 Upgrade to ServiceMix Specs 2.1
Karaf-1862 Upgrade to Felix FileInstall 3.2.6
Karaf-1868 Upgrade aries bundles to 1.0.1 (blueprint-core, jmx-core, transaction-manager, jpa-container-context) 
Karaf-1817 Upgrade to sshd 0.8.0
Karaf-1869 war deployer fails to find seemingly present jsp
Karaf-1878 Feature bundle start up order by startLvl 

Resolved issues:
Karaf-1541 jaas:realm-manage raises a NullPointerException
Karaf-1738  features-generate-descriptor should support "install" attribute
Karaf-1850 feature:list should use alphabetical order
Karaf-1861 Test failure in exam regression tests : KarafWithBundleTest
Karaf-1863 Upgrade to sshd 0.8.0
Karaf-1865 Upgrade to paxlogging 1.7.0
Karaf-1864 Upgrade to jline 2.9
Karaf-1867 Upgrade to felix event admin 1.3.0
Karaf-1816 Upgrade to jline 2.9
Karaf-1872 Backward224Test should check for the karaf version
Karaf-1873 BaseKarafDefaultFrameworkTest should test for felix framework
Karaf-1877 itests fail on jenkins

Updated issues:
Karaf-1853 Attached kar deploys to a different snapshot build number than the main artifact
Karaf-1245 blueprint deployer and spring deployer should get started before features.core bundle
Karaf-608 Allow for multi-stage boot features installation

General 3.0.0 issue list.

Un-versioned:

Karaf-1851 inconsistent FeaturesNamespaces versions
Karaf-988 Upgrade to Aries Blueprint 0.4