It’s the time of the year where we take a look back at 2019, and compile a brief summary of the Apache Camel project. The big news of 2019 was the much anticipated release of Apache Camel 3. Family of projects It was also in 2019 that the Camel project became a family of projects by introducing: Camel K Camel Quarkus Making Apache Camel a trilogy. But it does not stop there; in early 2020 three will become five when we release:
Apache Camel 3 was released last thursday November 28th 2019, which also happens to be the day of the US Thanksgiving. This was not intentionally but we can say its a big thanks from us to the community with a brand new major version of Camel - this does not come often by. In fact, its 10 years since Camel 2 hit the streets. So this 3rd generation is long overdue.
The ASF Annual 2019 Report includes 25 highlights where Apache Camel is referred twice as a top-5 project: Top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits: Camel, Hadoop, HBase, Beam, and Flink; GitHub traffic: Top 5 most active Apache sources –visits: Spark, Camel, Flink, Kafka, and Airflow;