---
# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

blog_post: true
title: Apollo 1.2
author: Hiram Chirino
author_url: http://fusesource.com
created_at: 2012-04-19 12:06:40 -0000
--- 

The [Apache ActiveMQ Project](http://activemq.apache.org) is pleased to announce the 
availability of Apollo 1.2. 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, improves performance and introduces a few
new features like:

 * Support Dead Letter Queues
 * Support dropping messages on queues that are full.
 * Allow customizing the settings of the per subscription queues created when slow_consumer_policy="queue" on a topic
 * Support allowing cross origin resource sharing (CORS) of web admin APIs and websocket APIs.
 * Experimental support for lossy UDP based messaging
 * Experimental support for Swagger based REST API documentation acceisble at http://localhost:61680/api/index.html
 * Include examples of how to use MQTT on Apollo
 * Added a total disk space used to the reporting metrics
 * You can now select the private key to be used for SSL in the keystore
 * Sender IP address is now passed as a JAAS principal
 * You can now force client side certs on SSL connections 

For further information see:

* [Download](${website_base_url}/download.html)
* [Issues Fixed](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12319854&styleName=Text&projectId=12311310&Create=Create)
* [Documentation](${website_base_url}/versions/1.2/website/documentation)

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