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• ActiveMQ
  • Fixes and improvements on the redelivery policy (especially using exponential backoff) in progress
  • New PoC to have better cloud support and features in progress, especially:
    • Add new discovery agent for network of brokers (zookeeper and hazelcast)
    • Evaluate adding replica support on top of kahadb 
• ActiveMQ Artemis
• Upcoming 2.7.0 Release to include following new features, above the normal bug fixing and general improvements
  • Improved Further AMQP Performance Improvement - ARTEMIS-2205
  • Continued progress on ActiveMQ 5.x Features Added
    Support feature gap - http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-artemis-roadmap.html
    
    • Message Group reset via JMSXGroupSeq -1
      
    • Consumer Priorities
    • Advanced destination options
      • Consumers before Dispatch
      • Delay before Dispatch
  • QPID features Added
    • Custom LVQ Key
    • Non-Destructive Queue
• ActiveMQ Other
  • New website progress update
    • A small surge of activity late 2018
    • Design provided and key site structure
    • Site hosted: http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-website/index.html
    • Source: https://github.com/apache/activemq-website
    • A link on the current home page was added to the new site.
    • Next Stages to continue populating core pages with context, contributors welcome.

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(Some of the stats are pulled from reporter.apache.org)

Feature gap between ActiveMQ 5 and Artemis continues to be addres