<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><p><strong>Description</strong></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102,0,51);">Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source message-oriented middleware. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language clients and protocols, comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 2.0, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, Stomp and REST.</span></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(102,0,51);">Activity</span></strong></p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">ActiveMQ</span></span></span><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Continued hardening of AMQP protocol support</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Fixes to some memory leaks and deadlocks added</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Latest release now supports Jetty releases in the 9.3.x family.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><br clear="none"></span></span></span></li></ul></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">ActiveMQ Artemis</span></p></li><ul><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Apache Artemis 1.5.0 released with follow up of 1.5.1 maintenance release. &#160;Highlights:</span></p><ul><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Outgoing AMQP connections supported<br clear="none"></span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">The ability to broker to detect network failures was added</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">CDI Integration was added</span></p></li></ul></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Apache Artemis 2.0.0 is planned which i</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">ncludes major overhaul of the Artemis addressing model</span></p></li><ul><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">New model has been proposed and implemented, highlights include:</span></p></li><ul><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Better support for address naming across protocols added<br clear="none"></span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Ability to define prefixes for specifying pub/sub and point to point messaging requirements added</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Consolidation of JMS and other protocol management/configuration</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><br clear="none"></span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Both projects are now base-lined on Java 8</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Begin blogging about the ActiveMQ project on&#160;<a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="https://blogs.apache.org/">https://blogs.apache.org/</a></span></li></ul><p><strong>PMC changes</strong></p><ul><li>Currently 23 PMC members</li><li>Clebert Suconic was added to the PMC on Thu Oct 27 2016</li></ul><p><strong>Committer base changes</strong></p><ul><li>Currently 58 committers</li><li>Christian Schneider was added as a committer on Wed Jan 04 2017</li></ul><p><strong>Releases</strong></p><ul><li>5.13.5 was released on Mon Dec 19 2016</li><li>5.14.2 was released on Wed Dec 07 2016</li><li>5.14.3 was released on Wed Dec 21 2016</li><li>ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.0 was released on Mon Nov 07 2016</li><li>ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.1 was released on Thu Dec 08 2016</li></ul><pre> </pre><p>(Most of this information is pulled from <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="https://reporter.apache.org/">reporter.apache.org</a>)</p></div>