Apache ActiveMQ 5.3 is primarily a maintenance release which resolves 334 issues.

New Features in 5.3

The new features and enhancements in this release include:

• New KahaDB persistent storage
• Camel 2.0.0 along with its web console
• stomp over SSL and NIO support
• Improved configuration - default one production oriented and a lot of use case configuration examples (like scalability and throughput)
• Ability to query broker for statistics from non-Java clients (by sending a message)
• More broker plugins included to help tracing messages in networks, improving logging, etc.
• FTP support for blob messages
• Improved activemq-admin to lookup for local processes if possible
• ... and much more