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layout: default_md title: New Features in 5.1 title-class: page-title-activemq5 type: activemq5

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New Features in 5.1

In the 5.1.x release of Apache ActiveMQ there are the following new features:

• You can use the new DestinationSource on an ActiveMQConnection to access the available queues or topics or listen to queues/topics being created or deleted.
• Support for more graceful handling of timeouts within MessageProducer.send
• Add the option for a backup channel that is already connected for the Failover transport
• ActiveMQ configuration can now validate against an XSD which means that it can be embedded in a spring configuration file.
• Stomp can now handle delivering Map and Object messages.