Blog - Camel 3 is EOL (#1272)

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Co-authored-by: Gregor Zurowski <[email protected]>

* Blog - Camel 3 is EOL

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Co-authored-by: Gregor Zurowski <[email protected]>

Author: davsclaus

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+title: "Apache Camel 3 - End of Life"
+date: 2024-12-23
+authors: [davsclaus,gzurowski]
+categories: ["Roadmap"]
+preview: Apache Camel 3 is end of life
+---
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+Apache Camel is officially end of life by end of 2024.
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+We have just [released](/blog/2024/12/RELEASE-3.22.3/) the last Apache Camel 3.22.3 release of Camel 3.x.
+There will be NO further releases, and support for Camel 3 has officially reached its end of life.
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+There will not be any new releases of Camel 3.x, and users are encouraged to start new development
+on Camel 4, and plan to [migrate existing applications](/blog/2023/10/migrate4/) to Camel 4.x.
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+We have done a total of 78 Camel 3.x releases, since Camel 3.0.0 was released (November 2019) 5 years ago.
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