Apache Karaf update Dec 16 - 22, 2012

In this Apache Karaf update report you'll find notes on development progress towards Apache Karaf 2.2.11, 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 2.2.10 Released!

Apache Karaf 2.2.11:

New Issues:
Karaf-1327 Client: can't execute alias command
Karaf-2078 Create the shell:date command

Resolved Issues:
N/A

Updated Issues:
Karaf-2053 HTTP feature should install a default etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg file
Karaf-933 War feature installation failed with Java 5
Karaf-1386 feature install war fails if http-whiteboard is already installed

Apache Karaf 2.3.1:

New Issues:
Karaf-2069 Provide less command
Karaf-2070 Add support of !$ to recall the last command argument
Karaf-2078 Create the shell:date command
Karaf-2035 Not able to clone the root instance

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-2065 Upgrade to Felix SCR 1.6.2
Karaf-1770 Unable to feature:install webconsole under apache-karaf minimal package
Karaf-2068 Upgrade to ASM 4.1
Karaf-2047 config:edit -f command doesn't work on Windows platform
Karaf-2071 Minimal distribution doesn't start
Karaf-2072 Spelling correction
Karaf-2009 Error on visualize Licences page
Karaf-2073 Progress bar sometimes goes backwards
Karaf-2074 ensure admin service always load storage file instance.properties before each operation
Karaf-2057 NOTICE and LICENSE files are not correct
Karaf-2079 upgrade to pax web 1.1.10
Karaf-2080 Upgrade to slf4j 1.7.2
Karaf-2081 Upgrade to JUnit 4.11
Karaf-2083 Remove icu4j dependency

Updated Issues:
Karaf-2053 HTTP feature should install a default etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg file

Apache Karaf 3.0.0:

New Issues:
Karaf-2069 Provide less command
Karaf-2070 Add support of !$ to recall the last command argument
Karaf-2078 Create the shell:date command
Karaf-2035 Not able to clone the root instance

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-2065 Upgrade to Felix SCR 1.6.2
Karaf-2012 Upgrade to Pax Web 3.0.0.M1
Karaf-2068 Upgrade to ASM 4.1
Karaf-2072 Spelling correction
Karaf-2009 Error on visualize Licences page
Karaf-2074 ensure admin service always load storage file instance.properties before each operation
Karaf-2057 NOTICE and LICENSE files are not correct
Karaf-2080 Upgrade to slf4j 1.7.2
Karaf-2081 Upgrade to JUnit 4.11

Updated Issues:
Karaf-2053 HTTP feature should install a default etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg file
Karaf-2011 dev:watch looks in an incorrect local maven repository
Karaf-1149 Karaf MBeanServer is not usable behind firewall

Un-versioned Issues:

Karaf-2059 Extend features:install command to support given a repository name as input
Karaf-2067 instance-script terminates with NoClassDefFoundError
Karaf-2075 Shutdown Karaf but the bundle stop is not follow the start-level
Karaf-1278 Comands: History does not work, can not edit current comand
Karaf-2076 Add a pojosr unit test to validate that we can use OSGI Config Admin with value encrypted (JAAS - Jasypt)
Karaf-2077 Exported package names cannot be zero length. when karaf 2.3 starts within unit test using openengsb
Karaf-2082 Jasypt unit tests fail
Karaf-1973 NullPointerException when performing log:clear then log:tail