What's new in Karaf 2.2.0
Yesterday, February 28th 2011, Apache Karaf 2.2.0 OSGI container has
been released. It's a serious upgrade, the release notes say:
Some highlights include many new or updated commands, a LDAP JAAS module with login support, an updated feature service, a feature for Aries transaction, JPA & JNDI modules, expanded documentation, and new versions of most dependencies.
and here is a list of the most significative improvment I see:
- XML schema for features descriptor https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-53
- Pax Web 1.0 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-338
- Allow the use of version ranges on dependant features https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-251
- encryption with Jasypt 1.7 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-266
- Pax Logging 1.6 with SLF4J 1.6 support https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-396
- Command to manage users, password and roles https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-188
- 'extract' deployment option, with automatic detection of feature repositories https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-151
Also we have some minor upgrade to Aries, Spring, Jetty, Pax and so on
and something like 50 bug fixes, here's the complete release notes,
find out what's relevant for you.
http://karaf.apache.org/index/community/download/karaf-2.2.0-release.html
