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On May 27, the Apache ActiveMQ project shipped two releases on the same day: 5.19.7 and 6.2.6. Look at the changelogs side by side and the story is clear — this isn’t a feature drop. It’s a coordinated security-hardening pass applied to both maintained branches of ActiveMQ Classic at once, with the same fixes deliberately backported so that no supported line is left behind.

The latest Apache ActiveMQ releases – 5.19.7 and 6.2.6, both from May 27 – are good releases to apply. They close known dependency CVEs and tighten the broker’s default posture. (We covered the full list of changes in our release overview.) But here’s the catch with any “secure-by-default” update: hardening defaults means turning things off.