ejabberd 17.04

Jérôme Sautret

Apr 11, 2017 · 1 min read

Less than a month after previous release, ejabberd 17.04 is out with bug-fixes and new features: Redis and SQL backends can now be used to store some RAM tables, the same way Mnesia is doing.

This release fixes few regressions from previous refactor. If you have troubles using PEP or using external modules with ejabberd 17.03, upgrade to 17.04 should fix everything.

Refactor efforts are still in progress. If you’re a developer, consider ‘jlib’ module as obsolete and do call common helpers (like type convertors) from the new ‘misc’ module instead.

Improvements

Admin

Add more examples on config template
Generate ejabberd lib dir when not available in code server
Set default prefix to /usr/local
Start supervisors after ext_mod
Don’t log warning on successful ping reply
New muc_register_nick command

Core

Deprecate jlib.erl in favor of misc.erl
Add support for file-based queues
ejabberd_sm: Fix routing of headline and groupchat messages
Fix c2s connection close on demand
Improve overloaded S2S queue processing

Databases

Improve Redis related code
Add Redis pool support
Improve logging of Redis errors
Add Redis and SQL as mod_proxy65 RAM backends
Add Redis and SQL as mod_carboncopy RAM backends
Add Redis and SQL as mod_bosh RAM backends
Add Redis and SQL as router RAM backends
Add SQL as mod_muc RAM backend
Remove obsolete Pubsub mnesia migration calls

Miscellany

ejabberd_http: Expand @VERSION@ in custom headers
ejabberd_http: Add “custom_headers” option
mod_client_state: Queue stanzas of each full JID
mod_http_upload: Don’t add “Server” header line
Pubsub: Refactor pubsub’s get_last_items
Pubsub: Fix PEP issues

Feedback

As usual, the release is tagged in the Git source code repository on Github.

The source package and binary installers are available at ejabberd XMPP & MQTT server download page.

If you suspect that you’ve found a bug, please search or fill a bug report on Github.