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Author: Claus Ibsen <cl...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 6 08:03:56 2026 +0200
blog: Apache Camel's bug fix track record
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <no...@anthropic.com>
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+---
+title: "Apache Camel's Bug Fix Track Record: 1,178 Bugs Fixed in 3 Years"
+date: 2026-06-06
+draft: true
+authors: [ClausIbsen]
+categories: ["Features"]
+preview: "A data-driven look at how the Apache Camel community responds to and fixes bugs — 1,178 resolved in 3 years, with a median resolution time of 1 day."
+---
+
+When you adopt an open-source integration framework, you're making a bet on the community behind it.
+Can they keep up? Will bugs get fixed, or pile up? What happens when something breaks at 2 AM?
+
+We pulled the numbers from [JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CAMEL) and
+[GitHub](https://github.com/apache/camel) to see what three and a half years of Apache Camel bug data actually looks like.
+
+The short version: **11 open bugs across 300+ components, and half of all bugs are fixed within 24 hours.**
+
+## 1,178 bugs fixed since January 2023
+
+Over the past three and a half years, the Apache Camel community has resolved **1,178 bugs**.
+That's roughly one bug fix every single day.
+
+Here's how the numbers break down by year:
+
+| Year | Bugs Reported | Bugs Fixed | Avg Resolution | Median Resolution | Fixed Same/Next Day |
+|------|--------------|------------|----------------|-------------------|-------------------|
+| 2023 | 308 | 313 | 34.3 days | 2 days | 49% |
+| 2024 | 383 | 391 | 27.6 days | 1 day | 55% |
+| 2025 | 313 | 315 | 10.7 days | 1 day | 57% |
+| 2026 (to date) | 162 | 161 | — | 1 day | — |
+
+A few things stand out:
+
+- The **median resolution time dropped from 2 days to 1 day** between 2023 and 2024 and has stayed there.
+- The **average resolution time fell from 34 days to 11 days** — a 3x improvement. The average is pulled up by occasional old bugs
+ that get cleaned up, but the trend is clearly downward.
+- The percentage of bugs **fixed same-day or next-day rose from 49% to 57%** — the community is getting faster.
+
+## The backlog never grows
+
+Every year, the community resolves slightly more bugs than are reported.
+The ratio has been ~1.0x for three and a half years straight.
+
+| Year | Reported | Resolved | Net |
+|------|----------|----------|-----|
+| 2023 | 308 | 313 | +5 |
+| 2024 | 383 | 391 | +8 |
+| 2025 | 313 | 315 | +2 |
+| 2026 H1 | 162 | 161 | -1 |
+
+This matters because it means the project never accumulates a growing pile of unresolved issues.
+Bugs come in, bugs go out, and the backlog stays near zero.
+
+As of today, the entire project has **11 open bugs** across over 300 components — one open bug per 27+ components.
+
+## Bugs reported per month
+
+Here's the monthly incoming bug rate across the full period:
+
+| Month | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
+|-------|------|------|------|------|
+| Jan | 22 | 22 | 24 | 31 |
+| Feb | 27 | 31 | 43 | 39 |
+| Mar | 30 | 35 | 30 | 30 |
+| Apr | 21 | 34 | 36 | 24 |
+| May | 24 | 30 | 25 | 32 |
+| Jun | 26 | 28 | 25 | |
+| Jul | 21 | 29 | 27 | |
+| Aug | 37 | 32 | 22 | |
+| Sep | 33 | 47 | 16 | |
+| Oct | 28 | 40 | 26 | |
+| Nov | 19 | 27 | 24 | |
+| Dec | 20 | 28 | 15 | |
+
+The incoming rate holds steady at roughly **25–30 bugs per month**. The 2024 spike (peaking at 47 in September)
+correlates with users migrating to Camel 4.x from 3.x — a natural bump when a major version goes mainstream.
+By late 2025, the rate settled back to baseline as the migration wave completed.
+
+## More components, same bug rate
+
+Between Q3 2025 and Q1 2026, the community added over 50 new components — AI connectors, MCP support,
+document processing, and more. The project's surface area grew by approximately 15%.
+
+The incoming bug rate? Unchanged.
+
+New features shipped without destabilizing existing ones. The project's modular architecture and testing
+discipline hold up even during periods of rapid growth.
+
+## Commit activity
+
+The Apache Camel community remains one of the most active open-source integration projects.
+
+| Year | Commits | Contributors | Releases |
+|------|---------|-------------|----------|
+| 2023 | 6,130 | 204 | 28 |
+| 2024 | 5,484 | 158 | 20 |
+| 2025 | 4,440 | 150 | 27 |
+| 2026 H1 | 3,226 | 92 | 11 |
+
+2026 is on pace to match or exceed 2025 in commits, with Q1 2026 posting the highest single-quarter
+commit count (1,893) since early 2023 — achieved with fewer contributors, reflecting rising
+productivity per person.
+
+The release cadence has been consistent: roughly **2 releases per month**, giving users a short path from
+bug fix to production.
+
+## 77% of bugs fixed within a week
+
+Looking at the full 3-year dataset:
+
+- **54%** of bugs are fixed same-day or next-day
+- **77%** are fixed within 7 days
+- Only the remaining 23% take longer, typically because they involve complex edge cases,
+ hard-to-reproduce environments, or deliberate scheduling for a specific release
+
+When you report a bug to the Camel community, the most likely outcome is a fix within the same week.
+
+## What the 11 remaining open bugs look like
+
+The current open bugs are all relatively recent — the oldest is from April 2025. There are no
+ancient, multi-year-old issues gathering dust. The community actively triages, resolves, or
+closes bugs rather than letting them accumulate.
+
+## What this means for users
+
+If you're evaluating Apache Camel for your integration needs, the bug data tells a clear story:
+
+- **Bugs get fixed fast.** Median 1-day resolution, sustained for over two years.
+- **The project doesn't accumulate debt.** Resolved-to-reported ratio stays at 1.0x, year after year.
+- **Growth doesn't break things.** 50+ new components added without increasing the bug rate.
+- **Releases ship constantly.** ~2 per month, so fixes reach you quickly.
+- **The community is large and active.** Hundreds of contributors, thousands of commits, every year.
+
+This track record is the result of a global community of contributors, committers, and users
+who care about quality. Whether you're running Camel in production today or considering it
+for a new project, the data shows a community that shows up — every single day.
+
+## Try it yourself
+
+The numbers in this post are fully verifiable. Browse the
+[Camel JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CAMEL) and
+[GitHub repository](https://github.com/apache/camel) to see for yourself.
+
+If your organization uses Apache Camel and would like to be listed on our
+[user stories](/community/user-stories/) page, we'd love to hear from you — reach out
+on the [mailing list](/community/mailing-list/) or open a
+[GitHub discussion](https://github.com/apache/camel/discussions).