The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the Camel 4.10.9 LTS patch release with 7 bug fixes and improvements. Please note that this is the last patch release for the 4.10.x branch. 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,
Working with Apache Camel means dealing with over 300 components, dozens of Enterprise Integration Patterns, multiple DSL formats, and a rich set of configuration options. Keeping all of that in your head while writing integration routes is not trivial, and AI coding assistants have become a natural companion for this kind of work. The problem is that general-purpose LLMs lack deep, structured knowledge of Camel’s catalog, its component options, its URI syntax rules, and its security best practices.
In 2025, Apache Camel’s adoption continued to surge, as shown by monthly download statistics from Maven Central. The graph below tracks downloads over the last 12 months (December 2024 to December 2025). It starts at approximately 29 million downloads in December 2024 and shows steady overall growth, with some fluctuations along the way. Monthly figures rose progressively, reaching peaks around 47 million in July and over 50 million in October, before settling at about 44.