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Apache Karaf Decanter 2.8.0 has just been released. This release includes several fixes, improvements, and dependency updates. I encourage all Decanter users to update to 2.8.0 release ;) In this blog post, I will highlight some important changes and fixes we did in this release. Prometheus appender The Prometheus appender has been improved to expose more gauges. As reminder, the Decanter Prometheus appender is basically a servlet that expose Prometheus compliant data, that Prometheus instances can poll to get the latest updated metrics. Prometheus appender only looking for numeric data (coming from the Decanter collectors) to create and expose gauges. Unfortunately, in previous Decanter releases, Prometheus appender only looking for numeric value for "first level" properties. It means if a collected data property value was a Map , no inner data was considered by Prometheus appender, even if inner values were numeric. That's the first improvem...

Apache Karaf runtime 4.3.3 has been released. This release contains a bunch of fixes, dependency updates, and improvement. I will share some highlights in this release. You can download Apache Karaf runtime here: http://karaf.apache.org/download.html . The release notes are available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311140&version=12350142 . JDK17 support for build and runtime Karaf 4.3.3 now fully supports JDK17 both at build time and runtime. For JDK17 support, we did: new ASM version new JDK options at runtime new packages exported by Karaf Cleanly close SSH connection We identified an issue with the Karaf SSH connections. The SSH connections were not cleanly close, and we had to wait the timeout to close the socket. It means that we can have this state once the SSH client disconnects: $ netstat | grep 8101 tcp6 0 0 localhost:8101 localhost:47844 CLOSE_WAIT 4.3.3 fixes...