Apache ActiveMQ 5.2 is primarily a maintenance release which resolves

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New Features in 5.2

The new features and enhancements in this release include:

  • Additional advisory messages for messages delivered/consumed fast producers/slow consumers, Usage limits, Slaves become masters etc.
  • Enhanced ssl context configuration through spring/xbean
  • New individual acknowledge mode for message consumption
  • Ability to configure the automatic discarding of the items being sent to the dead letter queue
  • Ability to limit the maximum number of connections to a Broker
  • Ability to configure separate lock Datasource for JDBC Master slave.
  • activemq-camel and activemq-connection-pool now have their own modules, no longer in activemq-core
  • The default ActiveMQConnectionFactory brokerUrl now uses the failover transport.
  • Uses Apache Camel 1.5.

Getting the Binary Distributions

Description Download Link PGP Signature file of download
Windows Distribution apache-activemq-5.2.0-bin.zip (no Safari) apache-activemq-5.2.0-bin.zip.asc
Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution apache-activemq-5.2.0-bin.tar.gz (no Safari) apache-activemq-5.2.0-bin.tar.gz.asc
Do not use Safari to download, the above URLs use redirection

The above URLs use the Apache Mirror system to redirect you to a suitable mirror for your download. Some users have experienced issues with some versions of browsers (e.g. some Safari browsers). If the download doesn't seem to work for you from the above URL then try using FireFox

Getting the Binaries using Maven 2

To use this release in your maven project, the proper dependency configuration that you should use in your Maven POM is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
  <artifactId>activemq-core</artifactId>
  <version>5.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Getting the Source Code

Source Distributions

Description Download Link PGP Signature file of download
Source for Windows apache-activemq-5.2.0-src.zip apache-activemq-5.2.0-src.zip.asc
Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwin apache-activemq-5.2.0-src.tar.gz apache-activemq-5.2.0-src.tar.gz.asc

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/tags/activemq-5.2.0

Changelog

For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see the release notes

Also see the previous ActiveMQ 5.1.0 Release

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