ActiveMQ Artemis 2.40.0 Release Notes

Note: This release requires use of Java 17 or above.

Bugs Fixed

  • ARTEMIS-3642 - Management Console -> Browse Queue -> [] Select All broken after first use
  • ARTEMIS-4926 - Throw checked URISyntaxException on bad URL
  • ARTEMIS-5002 - AMQP producer not unblock if the disk space is freed
  • ARTEMIS-5036 - Performance regression with Micrometer
  • ARTEMIS-5053 - OOME during scaledown
  • ARTEMIS-5094 - potential null dereference in QueueImpl
  • ARTEMIS-5107 - Using uninitialized value in ReplicationStartSyncMessage
  • ARTEMIS-5115 - remove needless null checks in ChannelImpl
  • ARTEMIS-5119 - Messages that expire in store-and-forward (sf-) queues should go to original queue’s configured expiry queue
  • ARTEMIS-5133 - FB.UWF_UNWRITTEN_FIELD in ArtemisClientPlugin.java
  • ARTEMIS-5147 - Unreachable code in ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java
  • ARTEMIS-5164 - AMQ222225: Sending unexpected exception to the client.Message count failure
  • ARTEMIS-5182 - STOMP subscriber w/noLocal + selector missing messages
  • ARTEMIS-5183 - STOMP noLocal filter ignores legitimate messages
  • ARTEMIS-5184 - STOMP noLocal is scoped to session not subscription
  • ARTEMIS-5215 - AMQP Federation Queue Consumer can leave a duplicate message on remote broker
  • ARTEMIS-5218 - Stomp Heart beat restarted after shutdown
  • ARTEMIS-5219 - The KubernetesClientImpl doesn’t load all CA certs, can lead to TLS failure during token review
  • ARTEMIS-5226 - Jetty choking on bad URI
  • ARTEMIS-5232 - Cleanup the test suite for speed
  • ARTEMIS-5241 - Remove useless validation for cluster-connection confirmation-window-size
  • ARTEMIS-5248 - Audit log user string contains just the last role rather than the full list
  • ARTEMIS-5249 - Broker chokes on pong WebSocket frames
  • ARTEMIS-5280 - Metrics manager doesn’t inspect temp queue namespace
  • ARTEMIS-5303 - -1 on AddressSettings messages and page sizes means null value (that will be translated as default values)
  • ARTEMIS-5308 - Messages are blocked after sending too large header
  • ARTEMIS-5310 - Check class of Principals in Subject
  • ARTEMIS-5326 - Expose prefetch and maxread paging values into Address Control
  • ARTEMIS-5330 - Use proper address name on retroactive messages
  • ARTEMIS-5338 - Flow control between Mirror Target and AckManager’s size
  • ARTEMIS-5340 - PEM provider not actually optional
  • ARTEMIS-5346 - Check routing-type when creating queue

New Features

  • ARTEMIS-5292 - Introduce jakarta version of artemis-cdi-client
  • ARTEMIS-5319 - Updated and Improved Web Console
  • ARTEMIS-5347 - Support environment variable substitution in bootstrap.xml

Improvements

  • ARTEMIS-5100 - Add support for modifying journal-max-io to create CLI command
  • ARTEMIS-5139 - Improve locking on TypedProperties
  • ARTEMIS-5142 - support never expiring incoming messages
  • ARTEMIS-5250 - AMQP Federation management views for sent and receive counts and producer views
  • ARTEMIS-5258 - Custom list of browsers to execute console smoke tests
  • ARTEMIS-5279 - Add AMQP Federation management views for the remote broker
  • ARTEMIS-5302 - Use QueueConfiguration more
  • ARTEMIS-5304 - Allow AMQP Federation consumer to idle for a period of time when demand is removed
  • ARTEMIS-5305 - Improve performance on paging for multiple producers and optimize locking
  • ARTEMIS-5314 - overhaul JavaDoc formatting & content
  • ARTEMIS-5320 - Expose session count metrics
  • ARTEMIS-5321 - Expose address limit percent via metrics
  • ARTEMIS-5332 - add exportConfigAsProperties operation to server control
  • ARTEMIS-5333 - add support for setting global max size percent of jvm max memory
  • ARTEMIS-5339 - Adjust AMQP federation configuration to avoid accidental federation receiver loops
  • ARTEMIS-5342 - Exposing pending ack sizes from mirror on management attributes

Tests

  • ARTEMIS-5214 - Test improvements, follow up to ARTEMIS-5173

Tasks

Dependency Upgrades

  • ARTEMIS-5222 - Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.20.2 to 10.21.0
  • ARTEMIS-5223 - Bump log4j.version from 2.24.2 to 2.24.3
  • ARTEMIS-5224 - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-text from 1.12.0 to 1.13.0
  • ARTEMIS-5225 - Update to JUnit 5.11.4
  • ARTEMIS-5227 - Bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.3.1-jre to 33.4.0-jre
  • ARTEMIS-5228 - Update to Netty 4.1.119.Final
  • ARTEMIS-5229 - Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.20.2 to 10.21.4
  • ARTEMIS-5230 - Bump mockito.version from 5.14.2 to 5.16.0
  • ARTEMIS-5231 - Bump commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.17.1 to 1.18.0
  • ARTEMIS-5235 - Bump commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils from 1.9.4 to 1.10.1
  • ARTEMIS-5236 - Bump byteman.version from 4.0.23 to 4.0.24
  • ARTEMIS-5243 - Bump owasp.version from 11.1.1 to 12.1.0
  • ARTEMIS-5244 - Bump org.jboss.marshalling:jboss-marshalling-river from 2.2.1.Final to 2.2.2.Final
  • ARTEMIS-5245 - Bump io.micrometer:micrometer-core from 1.14.2 to 1.14.4
  • ARTEMIS-5246 - Bump org.postgresql:postgresql from 42.7.4 to 42.7.5
  • ARTEMIS-5247 - Bump bc-java-version from 1.79 to 1.80
  • ARTEMIS-5256 - Bump com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine from 3.1.8 to 3.2.0
  • ARTEMIS-5257 - Bump selenium.version from 4.27.0 to 4.29.0
  • ARTEMIS-5264 - Update to groovy 4.0.25
  • ARTEMIS-5265 - Update to karaf 4.4.7
  • ARTEMIS-5300 - Bump org.jline:jline from 3.28.0 to 3.29.0
  • ARTEMIS-5301 - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-pool2 from 2.12.0 to 2.12.1
  • ARTEMIS-5309 - Bump commons-logging:commons-logging from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5
  • ARTEMIS-5317 - Update to qpid-jms 1.13.0
  • ARTEMIS-5318 - Update Qpid protonj2 to version 1.0.0-M23
  • ARTEMIS-5328 - Bump testcontainers.version from 1.20.4 to 1.20.6
  • ARTEMIS-5329 - Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.11.4 to 5.12.0
  • ARTEMIS-5331 - Bump slf4j.version from 2.0.16 to 2.0.17
  • ARTEMIS-5335 - Bump jackson.version from 2.18.2 to 2.18.3
  • ARTEMIS-5336 - Bump org.apache.groovy:groovy-all from 4.0.25 to 4.0.26
  • ARTEMIS-5345 - Upgrade keycloak version in security-keycloak example to 24.0.5
  • ARTEMIS-5348 - Update to activemq 5.19.0

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