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Apache ActiveMQ 5.17.0 is there!

Finally, after several months of work, Apache ActiveMQ 5.17.0 has been released. This is a major milestone in Apache ActiveMQ roadmap, bringing lot of changes, and already preparing ActiveMQ 5.18.x. Let's take a quick tour on some major changes in ActiveMQ 5.17.0. JDK 11+ If ActiveMQ 5.16.x already supported JDK 11+ at runtime, the build was still using JDK 8. ActiveMQ 5.17.0 now requires JDK 11+ for both build and runtime. Spring 5.x Before ActiveMQ 5.17.0, we used Spring 4.x, a deprecated (not maintained) version of Spring. It was a concern as Spring 5.x includes improvements and fixes, especially CVE fixes. So, it made sense to bump to Spring 5.x (latest available major version right now). From an user standpoint, nothing change, the main conf/activemq.xml is basically the same. Log4j 2.x If ActiveMQ 5.16.4 switched from log4j 1.x to reload4j, in order to fix CVE issues (see Apache ActiveMQ 5.16.4, reload4j and more for details). In ActiveMQ 5.17.x, we decided