We are pleased to announce the availability of the first milestone of the 1.6 version of Spring AMQP.

Some highlights of this release:

• A new jar spring-rabbit-test containing a test harness to help with testing @RabbitListener methods; see the testing chapter.

• Multiple @RabbitListener annotations on a method (when using Java 8) and the @RabbitListeners annotation (for pre-Java 8), each allowing the same method to be the listener method for multiple listener containers.

• Full support for the Delayed Message Exchange RabbitMQ plugin.

• An AsyncRabbitTemplate returning ListenableFuture<?> for request/reply messaging.

• An option to publish ApplicationEvents when listener containers go idle.

For a complete list of new features, see the What's new? as well as the JIRA Release Notes.

Visit the project page for links to downloads, documentation etc.

In addition, the 1.5.4.RELEASE is available with a few minor bug fixes.