Let me quickly summarize - there appears to be quite some interest from the community (and apparently a number of homegrown solutions to fill the gap) and some plans around a Message History EIP (at the bottom of http://camel.apache.org/camel-30-roadmap.html) for a yet unscheduled future Camel release.
Personally, on this issue I would prefer quality (consistency, sustainability) over time, but just moving this into the future may be not sufficient either. If someone of the PMC plans to attend the ApacheCon EU in November, maybe we can brainstorm a bit or exchange further ideas... regards Christian