Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-11 Thread via GitHub


davsclaus commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2681112670


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL with _contract first_, Camel now also captures JMX 
performance metrics, just as it does with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+We continue to improve the Camel JBang experience. 
+
+For example, we made it easier to do remote debugging for Spring Boot or 
Quarkus (or any other runtime).
+Add the `camel-cli-debug` JAR as dependency to your project, and then run `mvn 
spring-boot:run` and the debugger
+will be activated, and prints the CLI command to execute to attach the Camel 
JBang debugger, as shown below:
+
+![Camel CLI Debug](./cli-remote-debug.gif)
+
+Camel JBang now also comes automatic with history for the last message. This 
makes it very easy to see what happened.
+Suppose you build a Camel application and then try by sending a message into 
Camel or active something, and then want
+to know exactly what happened at each step in the routes. The `camel get 
history` command can show you all of that.
+
+In this release we improved this command, and also added the `--it` mode as 
shown below:
+
+![Camel Get History](./cli-get-history.gif)
+
+You can now also load new routes into existing running Camel JBang 
applications with the `camel cmd load` command:
+
+[source,bash]
+
+$ camel cmd load --source=cheese.java
+
+
+And if you load the same route then its updated, and you can use `--restart` 
to force restarting all routes.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` has been upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the codebase for the upcoming Java 25 release. However, 
this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now supports producer-based health checks (this 
feature must be explicitly enabled).
+
+And the `camel-sql` can now dynamically select the `DataSource` (ie database) 
in the producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
+We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters, just 
like the regular SQL component.
+
+The `camel-smb` component now uses atomic move IO operations instead of copy & 
delete (faster).
+
+## New Component

Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-11 Thread via GitHub


davsclaus commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2681110508


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL with _contract first_, Camel now also captures JMX 
performance metrics, just as it does with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+We continue to improve the Camel JBang experience. 
+
+For example, we made it easier to do remote debugging for Spring Boot or 
Quarkus (or any other runtime).
+Add the `camel-cli-debug` JAR as dependency to your project, and then run `mvn 
spring-boot:run` and the debugger
+will be activated, and prints the CLI command to execute to attach the Camel 
JBang debugger, as shown below:
+
+![Camel CLI Debug](./cli-remote-debug.gif)
+
+Camel JBang now also comes automatic with history for the last message. This 
makes it very easy to see what happened.
+Suppose you build a Camel application and then try by sending a message into 
Camel or active something, and then want
+to know exactly what happened at each step in the routes. The `camel get 
history` command can show you all of that.
+
+In this release we improved this command, and also added the `--it` mode as 
shown below:
+
+![Camel Get History](./cli-get-history.gif)
+
+You can now also load new routes into existing running Camel JBang 
applications with the `camel cmd load` command:
+
+[source,bash]
+
+$ camel cmd load --source=cheese.java
+
+
+And if you load the same route then its updated, and you can use `--restart` 
to force restarting all routes.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` has been upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the codebase for the upcoming Java 25 release. However, 
this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now supports producer-based health checks (this 
feature must be explicitly enabled).
+
+And the `camel-sql` can now dynamically select the `DataSource` (ie database) 
in the producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
+We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters, just 
like the regular SQL component.
+
+The `camel-smb` component now uses atomic move IO operations instead of copy & 
delete (faster).
+
+## New Component

Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-11 Thread via GitHub


ibek commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2680324229


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL with _contract first_, Camel now also captures JMX 
performance metrics, just as it does with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+We continue to improve the Camel JBang experience. 
+
+For example, we made it easier to do remote debugging for Spring Boot or 
Quarkus (or any other runtime).
+Add the `camel-cli-debug` JAR as dependency to your project, and then run `mvn 
spring-boot:run` and the debugger
+will be activated, and prints the CLI command to execute to attach the Camel 
JBang debugger, as shown below:
+
+![Camel CLI Debug](./cli-remote-debug.gif)
+
+Camel JBang now also comes automatic with history for the last message. This 
makes it very easy to see what happened.
+Suppose you build a Camel application and then try by sending a message into 
Camel or active something, and then want
+to know exactly what happened at each step in the routes. The `camel get 
history` command can show you all of that.
+
+In this release we improved this command, and also added the `--it` mode as 
shown below:
+
+![Camel Get History](./cli-get-history.gif)
+
+You can now also load new routes into existing running Camel JBang 
applications with the `camel cmd load` command:
+
+[source,bash]
+
+$ camel cmd load --source=cheese.java
+
+
+And if you load the same route then its updated, and you can use `--restart` 
to force restarting all routes.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` has been upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the codebase for the upcoming Java 25 release. However, 
this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now supports producer-based health checks (this 
feature must be explicitly enabled).
+
+And the `camel-sql` can now dynamically select the `DataSource` (ie database) 
in the producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
+We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters, just 
like the regular SQL component.
+
+The `camel-smb` component now uses atomic move IO operations instead of copy & 
delete (faster).
+
+## New Components

Re

Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678636494


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now has the ability to use producer based health 
checks (need to enable this).
+
+The `camel-sql` can now dynamic select the `DataSource` (ie database) in the 
producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
+We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters like 
the non-stored SQL component.
+
+The `camel-smb` component now uses atomic move IO operations instead of copy & 
delete (faster).
+
+## New Components
+
+We have added many new components to this release.
+
+- `camel-aws2-rekognition` - Manage and invoke AWS Rekognition
+- `camel-aws2-s3-vectors` - Store and query vector embeddings using AWS S3 
Vectors with similarity search
+- `camel-chroma` - Perform operations on the Chroma Vector Database
+- `camel-cli-debug` - Remote CLI debugger
+- `camel-cyberark-vault` - Retrieve secrets from CyberArk Conjur Vault
+- `camel-google-vertexai` - Interact with Google Cloud Vertex AI generative 
models
+- `camel-ibm-watson-speech-to-text` - Convert speech audio to text using IBM 
Watson Speech to Text
+- `camel-ibm-watson-text-to-speech` - Convert text to natural-sounding speech 
using IBM Watson Text to Speech
+- `camel-iggy` - Send and receive message to Apache Iggy streaming platform
+- `camel-once` - Trigger a single message only once at startup (useful for 
development and testing purposes)
+- `camel-opentelemetry-metrics` - Camel metrics based on the Camel Telemetry 
spec
+- `camel-spring-ai-chat` - Perform chat operations using Spring AI
+- `camel-spring-ai-embeddings` - Spring AI Embeddings
+- `camel-spring-ai-tools` - Spring AI Tools and Function Calling Features
+- `camel-spring-ai-vector-store` - Spring AI Vector Store
+- `camel-stri

Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678635452


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now has the ability to use producer based health 
checks (need to enable this).
+
+The `camel-sql` can now dynamic select the `DataSource` (ie database) in the 
producer (ie `to` / `toD`).

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   `camel-sql` can now dynamically select the `DataSource` (ie database) in the 
producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
   ```



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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678635015


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now has the ability to use producer based health 
checks (need to enable this).

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   The `camel-ftp` component now supports producer-based health checks (this 
feature must be explicitly enabled).
   ```



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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678635920


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback 
is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support later in 2026.
+
+There are some 3rd-party libraries that are not yet Java 25 compatible, and we 
are waiting for those
+to release compatible versions.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of 
release.
+
+The `camel-ftp` component now has the ability to use producer based health 
checks (need to enable this).
+
+The `camel-sql` can now dynamic select the `DataSource` (ie database) in the 
producer (ie `to` / `toD`).
+We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters like 
the non-stored SQL component.

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   We also made the SQL stored procedure component support named parameters, 
just like the regular SQL component.
   ```



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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678633997


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.
+
+### Spring AI Integration
+
+Camel 4.17 introduces comprehensive integration with [Spring 
AI](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/), providing four new components 
that bring AI/LLM capabilities to Camel routes:
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-chat**: Perform chat operations with any LLM supported by 
Spring AI. Features include prompt templates, conversation memory 
(message-based and vector-based semantic memory), Retrieval Augmented 
Generation (RAG) with VectorStore, multimodal support (images, audio, 
documents), SafeGuard content filtering, structured output conversion, and 
token usage tracking.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-tools**: Enable function calling / tool use that allows AI 
models to invoke Camel routes as tools during conversations. This enables 
building agentic AI applications where LLMs can execute business logic, query 
databases, call external APIs, and more.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-embeddings**: Compute embeddings using Spring AI embedding 
models for semantic similarity search, text clustering, and RAG pipelines.
+
+- **camel-spring-ai-vector-store**: Store and retrieve documents in vector 
databases with similarity search and metadata filtering.
+
+Together, these components provide a foundation for integrating AI 
capabilities into Camel integration flows, leveraging the AI models and vector 
stores supported by Spring AI.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We continue to prepare the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   We continue to prepare the codebase for the upcoming Java 25 release. 
However, this release does
   ```



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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678632256


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.
+
+
+## Camel Test
+
+We have added `camel-test` modules for JUnit 6 support.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+TODO:
+
+## Observability
+
+TODO: metrics supported added to camel-opentelemetry
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 release.

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   `camel-spring-boot` has been upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.9 
release.
   ```



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Re: [PR] Camel 4.17 - Whats new blog. WIP [camel-website]

2026-01-10 Thread via GitHub


gzurowski commented on code in PR #1469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/1469#discussion_r2678631696


##
content/blog/2026/01/camel417-whatsnew/index.md:
##
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+---
+title: "Apache Camel 4.17 What's New"
+date: 2026-01-14
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus, Croway ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.17 release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.17 has just been [released](/blog/2026/01/RELEASE-4.17.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that 
we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+We have marked up important headers in various EIPs and components for tooling 
and troubleshooting assistance.
+
+If you have the need to trigger only once and are using a timer such as 
`timer:tick?repeatCount=1`,
+then we have added the `once` component to trigger only once on startup, and 
made it much easier to pre configure
+the message body and headers as needed.
+
+When using Rest DSL _contract first_ then Camel now also capture JMX 
performance metrics, as would happen with _code first_.

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   When using Rest DSL with _contract first_, Camel now also captures JMX 
performance metrics, just as it does with _code first_.
   ```



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