[ANN] Apache Karaf 2.1.4 Released!

["Jamie G." <ja...@gmail.com>]

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the release of Karaf version 2.1.4.

This release of Apache Karaf is based off of the 2.1.x series branch,
representing an update to Apache Karaf 2.1.3. It contains several bug
fixes identified in the prior release, and introduces several
improvements including; better behavior of the features-maven-plugin,
documentation for making multiple configuration files available to the
bundle context, and a more efficient bundle description for header
display.

 http://karaf.apache.org/

This release is available from http://karaf.apache.org/downloads and Maven:

 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.karaf</groupId>
 <artifactId>apache-karaf</artifactId>
 <version>2.1.4</version>
 </dependency>

Release Notes:

** Bug
   * [KARAF-8] - Improve error reporting for features installer
   * [KARAF-384] - Cannot find some jar in ext directory
   * [KARAF-421] - StringCompleter extension cannot return own strings
   * [KARAF-428] - obr:addurl/removeurl generate incorrect
"obr.repository.url" property
   * [KARAF-436] - Typo mistake in the FeaturesServiceMBean
   * [KARAF-440] - features-maven-plugin throws NullPointerException
maven 3.0.2
   * [KARAF-442] - Wrong EventType called in FeaturesService.uninstallFeature


** Improvement
   * [KARAF-375] - features-maven-plugin always uses transitive features
   * [KARAF-388] - allow specifying a version for a boot feature in
etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg
   * [KARAF-403] - Improve Bundle-Description header display
   * [KARAF-412] - Documentation: Add notes on how to make multiple
configuration files available to the bundle context.
   * [KARAF-422] - If no version was found, features-maven-plugin try
to create an artifact with a null version
   * [KARAF-430] - don't force a karaf deploy to have a lib directory

** New Feature
   * [KARAF-373] - Add option to features-maven-plugin to
automatically include <descriptors> into <repository>

Enjoy!

-The Apache Karaf team.