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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+#
+# This is our most used build and the one used when a new PR is created/updated. It needs to
+# be and remain as green as possible. It is also executed when a PR is actually merged to make sure
+# apache/main stays stable. It runs a subset of the tests (the ones in the quick profile) to make sure it finishes
+# in a reasonable time.
+#
+name: CI Quick
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main", "activemq-6.2.x", "activemq-5.19.x" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main", "activemq-6.2.x", "activemq-5.19.x" ]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: build
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ ubuntu-24.04, macos-26, windows-2025 ]
+        java-version: [ 11 ]
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Set up JDK
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
+        with:
+          java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
+          distribution: temurin
+          cache: 'maven'
+      - name: Build
+        run: mvn -U -B -e clean install -DskipTests
+      - name: Verify
+        run: mvn apache-rat:check
+
+  test:
+    name: test
+    needs: build
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      checks: write
+      pull-requests: write
+
+    timeout-minutes: 180
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Set up JDK
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
+        with:
+          java-version: 11
+          distribution: temurin
+          cache: 'maven'
+      - name: Test
+        run: mvn -B -e -fae verify -Pactivemq.tests-quick -Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=3
+      - name: Upload Test Results
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: test-results
+          path: '**/target/surefire-reports/*.xml'
+      - name: Publish Test Results
+        if: always()
+        uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
+        with:
+          large_files: true
+          report_individual_runs: true
+          report_suite_logs: error
+          files: '**/target/surefire-reports/*.xml'