The Karaf team is pleased to announce the release of Karaf version 2.2.6. Apache Karaf is a small OSGi distribution which provides a ready to use container for server side applications.
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. http://karaf.apache.org/ This release is available from http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/download.html#Karaf2.2.6 and Maven: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.karaf</groupId> <artifactId>apache-karaf</artifactId> <version>2.2.6</version> </dependency> Release Notes: There are 78 resolved issues included in this release, as such we've documented them on the 2.2.5 release notes page: http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/download/karaf-2.2.6-release.html For those interested in a detailed look at the dependencies in Karaf 2.2.6 you may review the Karaf 2.2.x dependencies table: http://karaf.apache.org/index/documentation/karaf-dependencies/karaf-deps-2.2.x.html Enjoy! -The Apache Karaf team.
