It’s the time of the year when we take a look back at 2024, and compile a brief summary (by numbers) of the Apache Camel project(s). You can find previous year 2023 numbers here. Camel 2024 in Numbers Number of Camel Core / Camel Spring Boot releases in 2024: 20 Number of Camel Quarkus releases in 2024: 16 Number of Camel Karavan releases in 2024: 5 Number of Camel K releases in 2024: 7
Apache Camel is officially end of life by end of 2024. We have just released the last Apache Camel 3.22.3 release of Camel 3.x. There will be NO further releases, and support for Camel 3 has officially reached its end of life. There will not be any new releases of Camel 3.x, and users are encouraged to start new development on Camel 4, and plan to migrate existing applications to Camel 4.
Introduction In a recent series of Artificial Intelligence related blog posts, we have learned about the Camel Quarkus LangChain4j extension. It offers possibilities to implement new AI related scenarios like data extraction. The underlying implementation of Quarkus LangChain4j seems to offer interesting abstractions that, for instance make it possible to switch between Large Language Models quite simply. We have also started to see some improvements when it comes to invoking AI services thanks to camel bean binding and annotations.