The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.8.0 LTS release with 185 new features and improvements. The artifacts are published and ready for you to download from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes. Many thanks to all who made this release possible. On behalf of the Camel PMC, Gregor Zurowski
The first law of software complexity says that “a well-designed system will degrade into a badly designed system over time”. This law can be ruthless for open source projects receiving hundreds of contributions every month. That’s why projects must refactor code, evaluate APIs, review tests, and modernize code to leverage the latest and greatest features from Java. Camel Test Support One area in Camel that has had little attention until recently was our test support code.
Chunking is a crucial aspect of data processing that can significantly impact retrieval quality, query latency, costs, and even the accuracy of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. In this blog post, we’ll explore what chunking is, its importance, and how the new Chunking DSL in Apache Camel 4.8.0 improves data processing workflows. The Problem with Traditional Chunking Approaches Before Camel 4.8.0, applications using Camel would have to implement custom chunking logic or rely on external libraries.