README.md
February 20, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
RabbitMQ client for the stream protocol
The RabbitMQ Stream .NET Client is a .NET library to communicate with the RabbitMQ Stream Plugin. It allows to create and delete streams, as well as to publish to and consume from these streams.
The client is distributed via NuGet.
Please refer to the documentation (PDF) to find out more.
Support
- For questions: RabbitMQ Users
- For bugs and feature requests: GitHub Issues
How to Use
Pre-requisites
The library requires .NET 6, .NET 7, .NET 8, .NET 9 or .NET 10
Documentation
- HTML documentation
- PDF documentation
- A Simple Getting started
- Best practices to write a reliable client
- Super Stream example
- Stream Performance Test
- Single Active consumer for a stream
Build from source
Build:
make build
Test:
make test
To execute the tests you need a RabbitMQ 4.x running with the following plugins enabled:
rabbitmq_managementrabbitmq_streamrabbitmq_stream_managementrabbitmq_amqp1_0
Publish the documentation to github pages:
Make sure you are in the main branch
make publish-github-pages
Release Process
- Ensure builds are green: link
- Tag the
mainbranch using your GPG key:git tag -a -s -u GPG_KEY_ID -m 'rabbitmq-stream-dotnet-client v1.8.3' 'v1.8.3' && git push && git push --tags - Ensure the build for the tag passes: link
- Create the new release on GitHub, which triggers a build and publish to NuGet: link
- Check for the new version on NuGet: link
- Best practice is to download the new package and inspect the contents using NuGetPackageExplorer
- Announce the new release on the mailing list: link