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Apache Karaf Christmas gifts: docker.io, profiles, and decanter

We are heading to Christmas time, and the Karaf team wanted to prepare some gifts for you 😉 Of course, we are working hard in the preparation of the new Karaf releases. A bunch of bug fixes and improvements will be available in the coming releases: Karaf 2.4.1, Karaf 3.0.3, and Karaf 4.0.0.M2. Some sub-project releases are also in preparation, especially Cellar. We completely refactored Cellar internals, to provide a more reliable, predictable, and stable behavior. New sync policies are available, new properties, new commands, and also interesting new features like HTTP session replication, or HTTP load balancing. I will prepare a blog about this very soon. But, we’re also preparing brand-new features. Docker.io I heard some people saying: “why do I need Karaf when I have docker.io ?”. Honestly, I don’t understand this as the purpose is not the same: actually, Karaf on docker.io is a great value. First, docker.io concepts are not new. It’s more or less new on Linux, but the same kind