Apache Karaf update Feb 3 - 9, 2013

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.

Apache Karaf 2.2.11:

New Issues:
N/A

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-2161 Incorrect LGPL license info in Notices file

Updated Issues:
Karaf-1748 Karaf startup fails with NullPointerException when logfile can't be written
Karaf-1851 inconsistent FeaturesNamespaces versions

Apache Karaf 2.3.1:

New Issues:
N/A

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-2156 Upgrade aries utils
Karaf-2161 Incorrect LGPL license info in Notices file
Karaf-2105 Karaf features for Spring should all be same name and use version ranges
Karaf-2163 Add a jre-1.8 to jre.properties
Karaf-2078 Create the shell:date command
Karaf-2171 Start Karaf as service shows 'Activator' error in wrapper.log
Karaf-2175 Add the sonatype standard snapshot repository to the karaf repositories

Updated Issues:

Karaf-1748 Karaf startup fails with NullPointerException when logfile can't be written
Karaf-2147 Upgrade to Aries JMX 1.1.1
Karaf-2162 Upgrade to Pax Web 1.1.12
Karaf-1968 Uninstalling jndi feature leads to hanging Karaf
Karaf-1851 inconsistent FeaturesNamespaces versions

Apache Karaf 3.0.0:

New Issues:
Karaf-2164 Create shell:wc command

Resolved Issues:
Karaf-2159 add option to resolve transitive feature-dependencies in InstallKarsMojo
Karaf-2158 Test InstanceServiceImplTest#testToSimulateRenameInstanceByExternalProcess fails when run isolated
Karaf-2160 add options to only create tar.gz or zip archive in CreateArchiveMojo
Karaf-2161 Incorrect LGPL license info in Notices file
Karaf-2163 Add a jre-1.8 to jre.properties
Karaf-2078 Create the shell:date command
Karaf-1206 Child instance doesn't start
Karaf-2171 Start Karaf as service shows 'Activator' error in wrapper.log
Karaf-2175 Add the sonatype standard snapshot repository to the karaf repositories
Karaf-2124 Adapt the chapter about extending the console to changes made by KARAF-1001
Karaf-2176 Upgrade to Pax URL 1.5.1

Updated Issues:

Karaf-1748 Karaf startup fails with NullPointerException when logfile can't be written

Karaf-2147 Upgrade to Aries JMX 1.1.1

Karaf-2069 Provide less command

Karaf-1518 Avoid to depend to OSGi Compendium

Karaf-1385 Be able to disable the default PropertiesLoginModule

Karaf-1851 inconsistent FeaturesNamespaces versions

Karaf-1379 Provide exit alias and improve shell:logout command

Karaf-222 mvn karaf:run plugin, like jetty:run

Un-versioned Issues:

Karaf-2146 Add a log command to log from shell to the log
Karaf-2153 wrong path in JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS and JAVA_EXT_DIRS in bin/karaf script from snapshots
Karaf-2077 Exported package names cannot be zero length. when karaf 2.3 starts within unit test using openengsb
Karaf-2167 org.apache.karaf.tooling.exam.container.internal.adaptions.KarafManipulatorFactory creates invalid version qualifier
Karaf-2168 Rename sync property to clusterStartSync
Karaf-2173 karaf-maven-plugin ci-build-profile failures
Karaf-2174 activate ci-build-profile on ci
Karaf-1972 karaf-maven-plugin should respect scope