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* Blog whats new 4.14

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

Author: 3 people

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+title: "Apache Camel 4.14 What's New"
+date: 2025-08-20
+draft: false
+authors: [ davsclaus,gzurowski,christophd]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+preview: "Details of what we have done in the Camel 4.14 LTS release."
+---
+
+Apache Camel 4.14 LTS has just been [released](/blog/2025/08/RELEASE-4.14.0/).
+
+This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post.
+
+## Camel Core
+
+Camel consumers will now eagerly setup MDC logging which makes it possible to include details such as `routeId` in logs while the consumer
+is being created and started up.
+
+The Intercept EIP now includes more details where the message was intercepted (node id and other information).
+
+## Camel Management
+
+We made it easier to control routes by their grouping, for example to stop a set of routes.
+
+Stopping routes will keep their JMX processor MBeans making troubleshooting easier, as you can investigate all the statistics of the processors.
+
+There are now _dump_ methods to dump statistics in JSon format as well.
+
+## Camel JBang
+
+Camel JBang now uses JDK21 as default instead of 17.
+
+We added support for controlling Camel routes by groups, so you can start and stop entire set of routes, using `camel cmd start-group` and `camel cmd stop-group`.
+
+![Group Routes](./camel-group.jpeg)
+
+You can now enable and disable EIPs dynamically using the `camel cmd enable-processor` and `camel cmd disable-processor`.
+
+`camel debug` has undergone many improvements and now runs slightly faster.
+
+`camel debug` now supports debugging Camel Spring Boot applications, by executing `camel debug pom.xml` which will
+detect that it's a Camel Spring Boot Maven project, and then startup Spring Boot via `mvn spring-boot:run` and attach
+the Camel route debugger automatically.
+
+`camel debug` can now step forward to a given _index_ which makes it fast to jump to a position such as if you restart
+the application and want to debug from a problematic spot during troubleshooting.
+
+The `camel kubernetes` plugin now better supports running and exporting a project by a directory name, and referring to a relative directory
+from where the command is being executed; making it more similar to `camel run` command.
+
+The `camel infra` command has been overhauled to better control and manage multiple processors.
+
+`camel test` is a new Camel JBang plugin that enables you to initialize and prototype some automated tests for the Camel routes. 
+You need to add the plugin to your local Camel JBang tooling with `camel plugin add test`.
+Then you can use the plugin commands such as `camel test init` and `camel test run`.
+
+## Camel Groovy
+
+You can now preload shared Groovy sources such as DTOs and common functions, and make those available on the classpath,
+for entire Camel to use, such as from other components, dataformats, and Java.
+
+All you have to do is putting the groovy files in `src/main/resources/camel-groovy`, and add `camel-groovy` as dependency.
+
+This also works to hot update in Camel JBang dev mode, so you can edit the source, and automatically update Camel, making it
+very fast for coding in low-code style.
+
+## Camel Spring Boot
+
+`camel-spring-boot` is upgraded to the latest Spring Boot 3.5.4 release.
+
+## Java 25
+
+We have prepared the code-base for the upcoming Java 25 release. However, this release does
+not officially support Java 25, but we are not aware of any issues (feedback is welcome).
+We will work on official Java 25 support in the following releases.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+Upgraded many third-party dependencies to the latest releases at the time of release.
+
+We made `camel-smb` more resilient and better recover when there are connectivity problems.
+
+`camel-rabbitmq` has improved performance in the producer.
+
+## New Components
+
+- `camel-iso8583` - Create, edit and read ISO-8583 messages
+- `came-langchain4j-agent` - AI Agent
+
+## Upgrading
+
+Make sure to read the [upgrade guide](/manual/camel-4x-upgrade-guide-4_14.html) if you are upgrading from a previous
+Camel version.
+
+If you are upgrading from, for example, 4.4 to 4.8, then make sure to follow the upgrade guides for each release
+in-between, i.e.
+4.4 -> 4.5, 4.5 -> 4.6, and so forth.
+
+The Camel Upgrade Recipes tool can also be used to automate upgrading.
+See more at: https://github.com/apache/camel-upgrade-recipes
+
+## Release Notes
+
+You can find additional information about this release in the list of resolved JIRA tickets:
+
+- [Release notes 4.14](/releases/release-4.14.0/)
+
+## Roadmap
+
+The following 4.15 release is planned for October 2025.
+