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Apache ActiveMQ 5.16.3 has been released

Apache ActiveMQ 5.16.3 has been released today. In this blog, I would like to highlights some changes we introduced in this release. Better Camel 3.x support and JMS2 dependency I've rewritten the Karaf features repository in ActiveMQ 5.16.3. Firt, the Karaf features doesn't contain inner repository anymore. The purpose is to let user pickup the version he wants at runtime. Concretely, it means that, in Karaf, ActiveMQ 5.16.3 can already use Spring 5 (fully Spring 5 support including in the ActiveMQ standalone distribution is already done on main branch for ActiveMQ 5.17.x). By the way, I will do similar improvement in Apache CXF and Apache Camel features repositories (removing inner repository to let users pick up at runtime), and Karaf will provides a spec features in a dedicated features repository. I also updated the range to support JMS 2.x dependency, instead of always forcing JMS 1.x. Even if ActiveMQ 5.16.3 doesn't really support JMS 2, you can already