RabbitMQ
- Category
- Databases and data
- Latest
- 4.4.0
- Released
- Oct 16, 2026
- Docs outline
- 16 sections
Official docs outline
rabbitmq.com- AMQP 0-9-1 Concepts
Producers, consumers, exchanges, queues, bindings, routing keys and channels.
- Exchanges and Routing
Direct, fanout, topic and headers exchanges and routing semantics.
- Queues
Queue properties, durability, exclusivity, TTL, length limits and priorities.
- Publishers
Publishing messages, mandatory flag, routing failures and message properties.
- Consumers and Prefetch
Push consumption, basic.get, acknowledgements, prefetch (QoS) and consumer priorities.
- Publisher Confirms and Acknowledgements
Publisher confirms, consumer acks and nacks, requeueing and delivery guarantees.
- Reliability Guide
Message durability, persistence, delivery acknowledgements and at-least-once handling.
- Dead Letter Exchanges and TTL
Dead lettering, message and queue TTL, retries and poison messages.
- Quorum Queues
Raft-based replicated queues, leader election, poison message handling and data safety.
- Streams
Append-only replicated log, non-destructive consumption and offsets.
- Classic Queues
Classic queue storage, lazy queues and performance characteristics.
- Clustering
Nodes, partitions handling, cluster formation and queue replication.
- Virtual Hosts and Access Control
Vhosts, users, permissions and authentication mechanisms.
- Flow Control and Resource Alarms
Memory and disk alarms, connection blocking and credit flow.
- Monitoring
Metrics, Prometheus, management UI and health checks.
- Federation and Shovel
Moving messages between brokers and clusters.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
Versions and support
6 release lines| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | Oct 20, 2026 | 4.4.0 | Until Jul 31, 2027 |
| 4.3 | Apr 23, 2026 | 4.3.7 | Until Jan 31, 2027 |
| 4.2 | Oct 27, 2025 | 4.2.9 | Ended Jul 31, 2026 |
| 4.1 | Apr 15, 2025 | 4.1.8 | Ended Jan 30, 2026 |
| 4.0 | Sep 18, 2024 | 4.0.9 | Ended Apr 30, 2025 |
| 3.13 | Feb 22, 2024 | 3.13.7 | Ended Sep 30, 2024 |
Source: endoflife.date