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blog_post: true
title: Apollo 1.6
author: Hiram Chirino
author_url: http://fusesource.com
created_at: 2013-02-24 12:06:40 -0000
--- 

The [Apache ActiveMQ Project](http://activemq.apache.org) is pleased to announce the 
availability of Apollo 1.6. ActiveMQ Apollo is a faster, more reliable, easier 
to maintain messaging broker built from the foundations of the original ActiveMQ. 

This release fixes several bugs especially around Openwire and WebSockets and introduces a few
improvements like:

* [APLO-275] - Add AMQP 1.0 Protocol Support
* [APLO-273] - STOMP 1.1 Over WebSocket
* [APLO-268] - Examples for stompest Python STOMP client
* [APLO-280] - Clarification about message groups
* [APLO-19]  - Support message groups
* [APLO-271] - Integrate jolokia into Apollo for nice REST based access to JMX.
* [APLO-272] - Support creating topics and queues via the REST management api.
* [APLO-274] - Support accessing environment variables via \${env.*} references in the the config file.
* [APLO-278] - Support option on queues to control if a round robin message distribution strategy should be used when multiple consumer are attached to the queue.

For further information see:

* [Download](${website_base_url}/download.html)
* [Issues Fixed](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311310&version=12322470)
* [Documentation](${website_base_url}/versions/1.6/website/documentation)

[Feedback](http://activemq.apache.org/community/index.html) is always welcomed!