layout: default_md title: ActiveMQ 5.0.0 Release title-class: page-title-activemq5 type: activemq5

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New Features in 5.0

In the 5.0 release of Apache ActiveMQ there are the following new features:

  • AMQ Message Store (Faster Persistence!)
  • [Message Cursors](Message Dispatching FeaturesFeatures/Message Dispatching Features/Features/Message Dispatching Features/message-cursors) (To handle very large number of stored messages)
  • Blob Messages
  • Command Agent
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns via Camel Integration
  • Logging a warning if you forget to start a Connection
  • [Message Transformation](Message FeaturesFeatures/Message Features/Features/Message Features/message-transformation)
  • [Mirrored Queues](Destination FeaturesFeatures/Destination Features/Features/Destination Features/mirrored-queues)
  • [Producer Flow Control](Message Dispatching FeaturesFeatures/Message Dispatching Features/Features/Message Dispatching Features/producer-flow-control)

Getting the Binary Distributions

Description|Download Link|PGP Signature file of download Windows Distribution|apache-activemq-5.0.0.zip|apache-activemq-5.0.0.zip.asc Unix/Linux/Cygwin Distribution|apache-activemq-5.0.0.tar.gz|apache-activemq-5.0.0.tar.gz.asc

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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>5.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Getting the Source Code

Source Distributions

DescriptionDownload LinkPGP Signature file of download
Source for Windowsapache-activemq-5.0.0-src.zipapache-activemq-5.0.0-src.zip.asc
Source for Unix/Linux/Cygwinapache-activemq-5.0.0-src.tar.gzapache-activemq-5.0.0-src.tar.gz.asc

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/tags/activemq-5.0.0

Changelog

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

JIRA Issues Macro: Data cannot be retrieved due to an unexpected error

Also see the previous ActiveMQ 4.1.1 Release