Preparing for Apache Karaf 2.2.7

The seventh maintenance release of the Apache Karaf 2.2.x branch is currently in the works - this patch has been made a priority due to the discovery of a regression that appears in Karaf 2.2.6 (ConfigAdmin update are not flushed into the configuration file).

To prepare I've selected a bottle of Santa Rite Reserva Carmenere 2009 to decant while listening to some Bryan Adams albums.

As this release's purpose to repair a recent regression few other changes are expected to be included. As mentioned in a prior post, the new Apache Karaf 2.3.x branch has been created to collect improvements to the Karaf 2.x line - the 2.2.x should from now on only contain bug fixes.

The wine will of course only be sampled after being gave proper time to breath in its container, after the first release candidate has be up loaded for voting (see our release guide for more details on our process). 

Unfortunately I can't share the wine with you, but I can share a few links to some Bryan Adams videos. 

I'm looking forward to starting the 2.2.7 release process soon. I'll be posting updates to our Twitter stream (#karaf) and on our IRC channel (irc.codehaus.org #karaf).

Apache Karaf 2.2.6 Released!

The Apache Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache 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. For more detail please see the change log below.

To help make the transition from Apache Karaf 2.2.0/2.2.1/2.2.2/2.2.3/2.2.4/2.2.5 to 2.2.6 easier we've put together a table of changed dependencies which you can view here: http://karaf.apache.org/index/documentation/karaf-dependencies/karaf-deps-2.2.x.html

For more information please see the release notes.

As discussed in my prior Apache Karaf 2.2.6 preparation post, I enjoyed listening to Sam Roberts albums throughout the release process and was delighted to try the Finca Flichman Misterio Malbec 2011 -- this time however I had to sample the wine a little early as I'm currently on the road. Pro Tip: Use GNU Screen for connections to remote build infrastructure, it makes life much easier ;)

As a head's up we now have a new branch at Apache Karaf. The 2.3.x series departs from Karaf 2.2.6 creating a home for new features to the 2.x line to be introduced, while allowing 2.2.x continue to collect bug fixes.

Egg-cellent - Apache Karaf 2.2.6 RC is up for vote!

Apache Karaf 2.2.6 RC is up for vote!

While this release candidate is up for vote please take a few moments to help the community by testing this release candidate. Downloading a RC kit and trying out its demos, checking out the 2.2.6 RC tags and building on your local platform, reviewing the documentation -- all of this helps our community produce better releases. If you find any issues please let us know via Karaf's JIRA, our mailing lists, or pop on to our IRC channel and have a chat with us :)