Apache Karaf Update Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2012

In this Apache Karaf update report you'll find notes on development progress towards Apache Karaf 2.2.10, 2.3.1, and 3.0.0 as up coming releases. All of the information here is collected from following Karaf's issues mailing list, and cross referencing with the community's issue tracker. The summary form is presented here courtesy of Savoir Technologies to help make keeping up with the community's fast pace a little easier.

Announcements:

Apache Karaf 2.3.0 Released!

Apache Karaf 2.2.10:

New Issues:
N/A

Resolved Issues:
N/A

Updated Issues:
N/A

Apache Karaf 2.3.1:

New Issues:
Karaf-1921 Upgrade to Spring 3.1.x for Karaf 2.3.x
Karaf-1934 Release Apache Karaf 2.3.1
Karaf-1936 LDAPLoginModule not working in 2.3.0 due to missing import of javax.net.SocketFactory
Karaf-1939 ssh bundles should not be in startup.properties
Karaf-1940 admin/instance should be provided as a feature
Karaf-1941 Management bundles should not be in the startup.properties
Karaf-1952 Allow Karaf monitoring using host:port
Karaf-1955 Upgrade to ServiceMix Specs 2.2

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-1801 slf4j 1.7.0
Karaf-1924 Fix the WARN logs from starting a vanilla Karaf 2.3.0
Karaf-1933 Add id for Maven repository
Karaf-1117 Remove workaround for KARAF-1117
Karaf-1949 console shutdown -f hang

Updated Issues:
Karaf-1930 Upgrade to Pax Web 1.1.5

Apache Karaf 3.0.0:

New Issues:
Karaf-1512 enhancement: add self to generated feature in "features-generate-descriptor" goal
Karaf-1936 LDAPLoginModule not working in 2.3.0 due to missing import of javax.net.SocketFactory
Karaf-1940 admin/instance should be provided as a feature
Karaf-1952 Allow Karaf monitoring using host:port
Karaf-1955 Upgrade to ServiceMix Specs 2.2

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-1801 slf4j 1.7.0
Karaf-1893 Upgrade to Jetty 8.1.7.v20120910
Karaf-1903 Refactore osgicore and osgicompendium modules
Karaf-1900 create project for private compendium build for java 7
Karaf-1933 Add id for Maven repository
Karaf-1117 Remove workaround for KARAF-1117
Karaf-1655 ManagementCfg configuratoinPointers in tooling-exam are incorrect
Karaf-1489 Add an itest showing how to correctly use tinybundles with provision in paxexam-karaf

Updated Issues:
Karaf-1835 NPE in jaas:realm-manage command when multiple realm with the same name are present and not login module name is provided.
Karaf-1897 Use dynamic port allocation of integration tests

Un-versioned Issues:

Karaf-1925 Blueprint timeout exceptions after karaf startup
Karaf-1926 Web Console should show Blueprint status
Karaf-1928 Coloring in list shell command
Karaf-1927 Web Console bundles should be color coded
Karaf-1932 Color output in file logs
Karaf-1938 Lock logic should wait for start level change to occur
Karaf-1943 Add support to paxexam-karaf for testng
Karaf-1944 Add support to paxexam-karaf to attach jvm weavers to the process started
Karaf-1945 Add support to paxexam-karaf to support scanDir option for KarafTestContainer
Karaf-1946 Add pax-scanner & full pax-url support to paxexam-karaf
Karaf-1947 paxexam-karaf doesn't support to customize test probe
Karaf-1954 NullPointerException on custom Karaf shell command: ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.felix.service.command.Function not found
Karaf-1957 Allow to mark features as 'aggregate' features
Karaf-1902 Add a friendly option to point karaf-pax-exam to a already unpacked directory