<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h2>New Features in 5.1</h2>

<p>In the 5.1.x release of Apache ActiveMQ there are the following new features:</p>

<ul><li>You can use the new <a shape="rect" href="http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemq-core/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/advisory/DestinationSource.html">DestinationSource</a> on an ActiveMQConnection to access the available queues or topics or listen to queues/topics being created or deleted.
<h2>New Features in 5.1</h2></li><li>Support for more graceful handling of <a shape="rect" href="http://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1517">timeouts within MessageProducer.send</a></li><li>Add the option for a <a shape="rect" href="http://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1572">backup channel that is already connected for the Failover transport</a></li><li>ActiveMQ configuration can now validate against an XSD which means that it can be embedded in a spring configuration file.</li><li>Stomp can now handle delivering Map and Object messages.</li></ul>


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