Chapter 1. What's New

Abstract

This section describes the main features and changes in version 6.1.

New Features

The following list describes the main features in version 6.1:

Full support for AMQP 1.0. Out-of-the-box wire-level compatibility across connections. See Qpid JMS Client API.
Broker configuration modification no longer requires restarting the services. See Modifying a Running Standalone Broker's XML Configuration.
Improved high availability (HA). Embedded message store for shared-nothing HA configuration.
Certification of the JBoss A-MQ resource adapter with JBoss EAP 6. See Red Hat JBoss A-MQ - Integrating with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Support for the MQTT 3.1.1 draft specification. See Connection Reference - MQ Telemetry Transport(MQTT) Protocol and Camel Component Reference - MQTT.
Extensive connectors library. More than 200 out-of-the-box-connectors with Apache Camel and new Salesforce connectors and SAP connectors.
New Fuse Management Console. Improved out-of-the-box management console based on the hawt.io Web console. You can now start, stop, measure and trace Camel routes on-premise or in the cloud.

The following features are provided as a technology preview and are not fully supported in version 6.1:

Insight metrics for Kibana and ElasticSearch profiles.
Process manager (for more details see Fabric8 Process Containers).
Fabric partition (for more details see Fabric8 Partitions).
Fabric Gateway, providing a TCP and HTTP/S gateway for discovery, load balancing and failover of services running in a fabric.
Replicated LevelDB persistence adapter, that synchronizes all slave LevelDB stores with the master LevelDB store. See Using the Replicated LevelDB Persistence Adapter.
Java driver for LevelDB store on non-Linux or OS-X operating systems.
JMS Qpid Client API
Hadoop integration. See Camel Component Reference - HDFS.
Fabric8 Maven Plug-In, making it simpler to create or update a fabric profile from your Maven project.

Note

For details on what technical preview means, see https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/.

The following features are deprecated from version 6.1:

Fabric Application Bundle (FAB). You can package modules directly in OSGi bundles.
Java Business Integration (JBI). You can configure JBI containers to use Camel routes.
Normalized Message Route (NMR). You can configure bundle-to-bundle communication to use direct-vm Camel routes, or JMS message transport.
ActiveMQ Web console. You can use the ActiveMQ tab on the Fuse Management Console instead.