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Rabbit Technologies announce acquisition by SpringSource 13 April 2010

Rabbit Technologies Ltd. (RTL), the company behind RabbitMQ, today announced that the company is to be acquired by SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc.. RTL was founded in February 2007 and is a spin out from LShift Ltd., the UK software consultancy, and Cohesive FT, the US virtualization and cloud computing company.

The Rabbit Team are very excited about the deal. “RabbitMQ is an extremely successful technology and forms the backbone for many varied cloud messaging systems,” said Alexis Richardson, chief executive officer and co-founder, Rabbit Technologies, Ltd. “By providing a multi-protocol, completely open, portable messaging system, our technology can be a key enabler of tomorrow’s applications. By joining with enterprise leaders, SpringSource and VMware, RabbitMQ expects to continue to be at the forefront of the movement toward cloud computing. Users and customers will benefit from an organization offering deep and immediate experience with the challenges of managing highly available and stable operations.”

RabbitMQ will continue to be open source and distributed in the same way as before. The RabbitMQ community can expect to see increased investment in this outstanding technology which should result in significant improvements to the open source release.

RabbitMQ customers will see an increase in availability of training, professional services and support offerings as the RabbitMQ business is integrated with SpringSource.

For more details please see the full press release.

Contacts:

SpringSource and VMware
Charlie Purdom, cpurdom@vmware.com
Ross Levanto or Christine McKeown, springsource@schwartz-pr.com

Rabbit Technologies Ltd.
Alexis Richardson, alexis@rabbitmq.com

LShift Ltd.
Mike Rowlands, press@lshift.net

Cohesive FT
Dwight Koop, dwight.koop@cohesiveft.com

Acknowledgements:

Rabbit Technologies would like to thank Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (London) for acting as counsel throughout the acquisition process. Visit their website.
Alexis will be speaking at Cloud & Grid Exchange 2010 12 April 2010

Alexis Richardson, Rabbit Technologies CEO, will be speaking at the Cloud & Grid Exchange in London, 23rd April. In his talk, Alexis will present use cases for cloud messaging: what is messaging and why it is useful for cloud computing? This talk will answer these questions by way of illustrating use cases from RabbitMQ customers.

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RabbitMQ 1.7.2 release 16 February 2010

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.7.2.

This release fixes yet more bugs specific to Windows in regards to memory monitoring, and works around various bat inadequacies. Other fixes include enforcing codec size limits, and handling some corner cases of basic.qos.

The rabbitmqctl tool has been extended with several new commands. There have also been enhancements to the plugin system, and network performance over high-latency links. The exception reporting in the Java client has been improved and there are several bug fixes and enhancements to the AMQP Tracer tool.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place.

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ 1.7.1 release 25 January 2010

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.7.1.

This release fixes a number of bugs specific to Windows, several problems in the ssl support and plug-in system, some race conditions and corner cases in the AMQP protocol and connection lifecycle handling, breakages in Debian and RPM package removal, as well as some minor bugs in rabbitmqctl.

There are also some noteworthy enhancements, such as the support for complete short node names in all the startup and control scripts (making it easier to install RabbitMQ on systems with changing host names), improved memory monitoring and producer throttling, an extension of the AMQP codec with array types, better support for MacPorts, and improved performance and error reporting in the Java and .Net clients.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place.

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ Wins 2009 Cloudies Award for Best Cloud Application Provider 05 January 2010

RabbitMQ was listed as one of the Best Cloud Application Providers in John M Willis second annual 'Cloudies' awards. John has worked in the IT management industry for 30 years and is known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog.
RabbitMQ is now in Fedora and EPEL 07 December 2009

RabbitMQ 1.7.0 is now in Fedora 10, 11, and 12, and EPEL. So, for all Fedora users RabbitMQ is now just a yum install rabbitmq-server away!

For the full package details see the Fedora Project website.
Rabbit Technologies and Canonical announce teaming agreement 08 October 2009

Rabbit Technologies Limited, the company behind RabbitMQ, today announced the signing of a formal teaming agreement with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical. The goal of the partnership is to promote open standards in the emerging cloud computing space.

"We want to be sure our users can navigate safely into the cloud", said Simon Wardley, software services manager for Canonical, "and we see this working according to three rules. Rule one is to build on their own infrastructure. Rule two is moving between their infrastructure and an external provider. Rule three is switching between providers. RabbitMQ provides an important message bus in the cloud that enables applications to interoperate without dependency upon a proprietary solution. It will play a significant role in the future of cloud switching."

For details see the full press release.
RabbitMQ 1.7.0 release 07 October 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.7.0.

This release has 'beta' status and introduces a number of new features, such as native SSL support, a plugin mechanism, and a Windows installer for the .net client. There are also improvements to error reporting and diagnostics, performance and stability, the windows bundle (which now includes the .net client and a more recent version of Erlang/OTP), server installation and configuration. Finally, there are a number of small bug fixes.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ provides VMware users with a reliable cloud bus based on open AMQP messaging 30 September 2009

We are delighted to be providing RabbitMQ open messaging to support the VMware vCloud™ Initiative, their customers and the growing cloud ecosystem," Alexis Richardson, CEO, RabbitMQ. "Customers want choice, and RabbitMQ delivers choice by lowering the cost of scale, and by removing lock-in. RabbitMQ is the market leading implementation of AMQP, the interoperable open business messaging protocol, and is distributed on most major development platforms. Already businesses are using RabbitMQ to scale up business-critical application functionality on multiple leading public and private cloud infrastructures. Our support for the VMware vCloud™ Initiative is a natural extension. RabbitMQ has an open source license making it ideal for elastic deployments, and for integration in platforms such as Spring and Ruby on Rails.

The virtual appliance is available to download for free from the VMware virtual appliance marketplace.
Catch up online 22 July 2009

The RabbitMQ team have been busy giving presentations about the use of RabbitMQ at events like Google London, Oxford Geek Night, Erlang Factory etc. Many of these presentations were filmed, and you can catch up online.

Check out these bookmarks on Delicious.

There have also been many exciting developments in the RabbitMQ community recently. Keep an eye on this page for a summary of who is doing what, and how, with RabbitMQ.
Kaazing adds support for AMQP and RabbitMQ 15 July 2009

Kaazing Corporation, makers of gateways that connect web-based applications to high-volume, real-time message traffic, today announced support for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) in the most recent release of the company's flagship product, Kaazing Enterprise Gateway (KEG).

For details see the full release.
RabbitMQ 1.6.0 release 17 June 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.6.0.

This release has 'beta' status and introduces a number of new features, such as prefetch count limiting, headers exchanges, fine-grained access control, and alternate exchanges. There are also improvements to performance and stability under high load, improved compatibility with other software (such as ejabberd and PowerShell), and a number of small bug fixes.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ is now included in the Fedora Linux distribution 03 June 2009

RabbitMQ is now included in the Fedora Linux distribution. See fedoraproject.org for the package details.

So, for all Fedora users RabbitMQ is now just a yum install rabbitmq-server away.

Thanks go to the Fedora community for their guidance in getting our RPM packages into shape for inclusion.
RabbitMQ 1.5.5 release 20 May 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.5

This release has 'final' status and fixes a small number of bugs in the server, the startup and control scripts on Windows, and the Debian/RPM packaging. Also included are some minor enhancements to the way the server can be configured. The RabbitMQ clients have remained unchanged.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
Canonical adds RabbitMQ AMQP to Ubuntu 9.04 23 April 2009

Yes, Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, aka "Jaunty Jackalope", now includes support for the emerging standard for messaging through RabbitMQ.

See Canonical's press release for more information on the release.

We look forward to hearing more from Ubuntu users and would welcome more feedback, bug requests and other contributions. Talk to us on irc.freenode.net #rabbitmq (see logs), or join our mailing list (or see archived messages).
RabbitMQ 1.5.4 release 6 April 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.4.

This release has 'final' status and fixes a small number of bugs in the server, the startup and control scripts on Windows, and the Debian/RPM packaging. Also included are some minor enhancements to the way the server can be configured. The RabbitMQ clients have remained unchanged.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ and AMQP team speak at QCon 16 March 2009

The RabbitMQ and AMQP team gave a presentation at QCon London last week. Slides presented are available here:
- RabbitMQ slides
- AMQP chairman's slides
See also:
- What people are saying on Twitter
- Gojko Adzic's review
If you're looking for a place to start try here.
RabbitMQ team is at Qcon London 11 March 2009

The LShift/RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce its second visit to Qcon London, please do come and say hello.

In honour of the event, and while we work on a new website, we produced this overview of how to use RabbitMQ.
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.3. 24 February 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.3.

This release has 'final' status and fixes a number of bugs in the server, the Java client, the .net client, and the Debian/RPM packaging.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place, at http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html.

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.1. 21 January 2009

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.1.

This release has 'final' status and fixes a number of bugs in the server, the .net client, and the Debian/RPM packaging.

For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place, at http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html.

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.0. 18 December 2008

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.5.0.

This release has beta status and focuses on the following areas:
- removal of tickets and realms
- implementation of 'queue.unbind'
- producer throttling when running low on memory
- improved scalability of queue and binding creation and deletion
- disabled Nagle for more consistent latency
- added several management/info commands to rabbitmqctl
- bug fixes in the area of connection and channel closure
- support the latest Erlang/OTP release (R12B-5)
- improved configurability via environment variables
For details see the release notes.

Binary and source distributions of the new release can be found in the usual place, at http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html.

We recommend that all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ upgrade to this latest release.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list at rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.
RabbitMQ talk this Thursday 16th in London 14 October 2008
There is a talk on RabbitMQ this Thursday October 16th. The agenda will be:
1. Overview - why RabbitMQ and AMQP
2. How we got away with less then 5k LOC in the server
3. Ben's hackathon showing what you can do and how
It will start at 6:30pm and be at the LShift offices in London. A few beers may be provided and some RabbitMQ t-shirts are available for people who don't have one. Please let us know if you're coming.
RabbitMQ Tech Talk at Google London 30 September 2008

Matthias Radestock (LShift TD), Tony Garnock-Jones (LShift Senior Developer) and Alexis Richardson (CohesiveFT CEO) spoke at the Google London meeting.

The presentation dealt with the AMQP protocol, how we built our Erlang implementation of it (RabbitMQ), and how it might address, eg., Twitter's scaling problems.

Further details are available at Google's developer blog..
RabbitMQ version 1.4.0 released 30 July 2008

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.4.0.

This release has beta status, and switches to the use of a DFSG-free JSON-formatted specification document, includes bug fixes for a number of race conditions and non-compliances with the protocol specification, includes several performance improvements for large numbers of queues, fixes aspects of the Debian and RPM packaging, and improves upon the error reporting and general performance of the server.

Further details are available here.
RabbitMQ .Net/C# AMQP client library 1.4.0 released 18 July 2008
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of the RabbitMQ .Net/C# AMQP client library 1.4.0.
This release has beta status and focuses on the following areas: bug fixes for a number of race conditions, improved shutdown protocol, bug fix for usage of read timeouts in .Net sockets. Further details are available here.
AMQP: Secure business messaging for the future 09 July 2008
Intel believe the remarkable results of RabbitMQ perfomance tests in their Low Latency Lab indicate that AMQP is set to revolutionise the financial messaging industry AMQP: Secure business messaging for the future.
RabbitMQ 1.3.0 released 01 April 2008
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.3.0.
This release has beta status. It fixes a number of race conditions and other bugs, improves performance and has better error reporting. Further details are available here.
RabbitMQ 1.2.0 released 27 September 2007
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.2.0.
This release has beta status. It improves performance when running a server close to capacity and simplifies cluster configuration, along with the usual bug fixes and minor enhancements. Further details are available here.
RabbitMQ 1.1.1 released 29 August 2007
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.1.1.
This release has beta status and focuses on two areas: improved interoperability with Qpid M1 Java client and server, and some bug fixes and minor enhancements. Further details are available here.
RabbitMQ 1.1.0 released 01 August 2007
The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 1.1.0.
This release has alpha status and contains several bug fixes and enhancements in the RabbitMQ server, the Java client libraries, and the examples, as well as improvements to the documentation and packaging. Further details are available here.
Rabbit Technologies joins AMQP working group18 March 2007
Rabbit Technologies, a joint venture between LShift and Cohesive FT, is pleased to announce its appointment to the AMQP Working Group. The goal of the working group is to create specifications for defining and building messaging infrastructure that provides developers with a simple and more powerful way of constructing messaging dependent applications. You can read the full press release here.
Launch of RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging08 February 2007
LShift and CohesiveFT have launched RabbitMQ, a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. You can read the full press release here.

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