Description

Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source message-oriented middleware. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language clients and protocols, comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 2.0, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, Stomp and REST.

Activity

• ActiveMQ
  • The 5.x broker continues to see ongoing bug fixing and stabilization work.
    

• ActiveMQ Artemis

• Continued work on broker performance especially around the AMQP protocol.

• Artemis now uses Netty Epoll on platforms that support it providing improved performance at the network layer.
  
• ActiveMQ Other
  • A new tooling project aimed at provided a simple means of migrating data from existing ActiveMQ 5.x brokers to Artemis install has started.
  • The ActiveMQ NMS project had its SVN repositories migrated to Git to make future contributions simpler. 
  • Discussion in the community around donation of work on a new ActiveMQ NMS AMQP client implementation.
    

PMC changes

• Currently 24 PMC members
• Clebert Suconic was added to the PMC on Thu Oct 27 2016

Committer base changes

• Currently 58 committers
• Christian Schneider was added as a committer on Wed Jan 04 2017

Releases

• ActiveMQ 5.14.4 was released on Wed Mar 01 2017
• ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.3 was released on Sun Feb 19 2017
• ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5.4 was released on Sun Mar 12 2017
• ActiveMQ Artemis 2.0.0 was released on Sun Mar 19 2017
• ActiveMQ-CPP v3.9.4 was released on Wed Feb 22 2017

Report submitted on 11 Apr 2017

(Most of this information is pulled from reporter.apache.org)