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 (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
• Mirrored Queues
• Producer Flow Control

Getting the Binary Distributions

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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>