Described embodiments provide systems and methods of maintaining message queues during deployments of application updates. A queue manager may maintain a first message queue including a first channel for messages between a first release and a second release. The first release and the second release may write to and read from the first message queue. The queue manager may establish, responsive to deployments, a second message queue including a second channel for messages between the first release and the second release. The queue manager may transfer, from the first message queue to the second message queue, the first channel. The first release and the second release may cease to write to and read from the first message queue.