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ActiveMQ 4.0-RC-1 Release Guide

General Release Information

• Current RoadMap
• Release Guide
• Signing Releases
• Apache Mirror Guidelines

Release Manager

Hiram Chirino

Special issues

We are still in the Incubator so need to ensure that all the proper disclaimers are in place and that the artifacts are all properly named incubator-activemq.

Open Issues Holding up the Release

Issues Resolved for this Release

How to Help

Everyone in the ActiveMQ community can help with releases; users, developers, commmiters are all encouraged to test out a release and post any comments to the activemq-dev@ mailing list or create a JIRA issue.

ActiveMQ is available in both source and binary distributions. See Getting Started.