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Apache Qpid M4 Released

January 28th, 2009  |  Published in AMQP, Announcements, JMS, Middleware, Open Source, Qpid  | Add to del.icio.us

The Apache Qpid community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Qpid M4!

Apache Qpid (http://qpid.apache.org) is a cross platform enterprise messaging solution which implements the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (http://www.amqp.org).
It provides brokers written in Java and C++ and clients in C++, Java (including a JMS implementation), .Net, Python, and Ruby.

New features included in this release are:

  • .NET, WCF and excel support for AMQP 0-10
  • SSL added for C++ broker and all clients
  • Windows port for C++ client & broker
  • C++ Broker
    • ACL
    • Active-Active clustering
    • Federation, push bridges & dynamic routes
    • RDMA for C++ broker & C++ client (70-80us, yes us max latency on a well setup machines)
    • Support for message TTL
    • Queue options
      • added RING/ STRICT ring
      • LVQ
    • Exchange options
      • LVE
      • message sequencing
    • XQuery based XML Exchange now as plugin
  • Performance work
  • Management for AMQP 0-10
    • QMF C updates (console)
      • Python
      • C++
    • QMF Agent
      • C++
    • QMan JMX bridge for QMF
    • Alerts/ logger for QMF events
  • JMSXUserId
  • Java broker
    • Message Priority
    • bug fixes
    • some prep work for AMQP 0-10

It is available to download from:
http://www.apache.org/dist/qpid/M4/

Complete release notes are available here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310520&styleName=Html&version=12313279