Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ Minor Version 5.15.6

Posted on: Sep 27, 2018

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.6 brokers on Amazon MQ. This minor version of ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.0. 

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ manages the administration and maintenance of ActiveMQ, which means the underlying infrastructure is automatically provisioned for high availability and message durability to support the reliability of your applications.

We encourage you to consider upgrading Amazon MQ with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about upgrading, please see : Editing Broker Engine Version, CloudWatch Logs, and Maintenance Preferences in the  the Amazon MQ Developer Guide.

Amazon MQ includes the fixes and features of all previous releases of ActiveMQ, and provides support for versions 5.15.0 and 5.15.6. Read the ActiveMQ release notes to learn more: