CHANGELOG.md

Version 24.12

Miscelanea

• Elixir: support loading Elixir modules for auth (#4315)
• Environment variables EJABBERD_MACRO to define macros
• Fix problem starting ejabberd when first host uses SQL, other one mnesia
• HTTP Websocket: Enable allow_unencrypted_sasl2 on websockets (#4323)
• Relax checks for channels bindings for connections using external encryption
• Redis: Add support for unix domain socket (#4318)
• Redis: Use eredis 1.7.1 from Nordix when using mix/rebar3 and Erlang 21+
• mod_auth_fast: New module with support XEP-0484: Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens
• mod_http_api: Fix crash when module not enabled (for example, in CT tests)
• mod_http_api: New option default_version
• mod_muc: Make rsm handling in disco items, correctly count skipped rooms
• mod_offline: Only delete offline msgs when user has MAM enabled (#4287)
• mod_priviled: Handle properly roster iq
• mod_pubsub: Send notifications on PEP item retract
• mod_s2s_bidi: Catch extra case in check for s2s bidi element
• mod_scram_upgrade: Don't abort the upgrade
• mod_shared_roster: The name of a new group is lowercased
• mod_shared_roster: Get back support for groupid@vhost in displayed
• mod_stun_disco: Fix syntax of credentials response

Commands API

• Change arguments and result to consistent names (API v3)
• create_rooms_file: Improve to support vhosts with different config
• evacuate_kindly: New command to kick users and prevent login (#4309)
• join_cluster: Explain that this returns immediately (since 5a34020, 24.06)
• mod_muc_admin: Rename argument name to room for consistency

Documentation

• Fix some documentation syntax, add links to toplevel, modules and API
• CONTAINER.md: Add kubernetes yaml examples to use with podman
• SECURITY.md: Add security policy and reporting guidelines
• ejabberd.service: Disable the systemd watchdog by default
• ejabberd.yml.example: Use non-standard STUN port

WebAdmin

• Shared group names are case sensitive, use original case instead of lowercase
• Use lowercase username and server authentication credentials
• Fix calculation of node's uptime days
• Fix link to displayed group when it is from another vhost

Version 24.10

Miscelanea

• ejabberd_c2s: Optionally allow unencrypted SASL2
• ejabberd_system_monitor: Handle call by gen_event:swap_handler (#4233)
• ejabberd_http_ws: Remove support for old websocket connection protocol
• ejabberd_stun: Omit auth_realm log message
• ext_mod: Handle info message when contrib module transfers table ownership
• mod_block_strangers: Add feature announcement to disco-info (#4039)
• mod_mam: Advertise XEP-0424 feature in server disco-info (#3340)
• mod_muc_admin: Better handling of malformed jids in send_direct_invitation command
• mod_muc_rtbl: Fix call to gen_server:stop (#4260)
• mod_privilege: Support "IQ permission" from XEP-0356 0.4.1 (#3889)
• mod_pubsub: Don't blindly echo PEP notification
• mod_pubsub: Skip non-delivery errors for local pubsub generated notifications
• mod_pubsub: Fall back to default plugin options
• mod_pubsub: Fix choice of node config defaults
• mod_pubsub: Fix merging of default node options
• mod_pubsub: Fix default node config parsing
• mod_register: Support to block IPs in a vhost using append_host_config (#4038)
• mod_s2s_bidi: Add support for S2S Bidirectional
• mod_scram_upgrade: Add support for SCRAM upgrade tasks
• mod_vcard: Return error stanza when storage doesn't support vcard update (#4266)
• mod_vcard: Return explicit error stanza when user attempts to modify other's vcard
• Minor improvements to support mod_tombstones (#2456)
• Update fast_xml to use use_maps and remove obsolete elixir files
• Update fast_tls and xmpp to improve s2s fallback for invalid direct tls connections
• make-binaries: Bump dependency versions: Elixir 1.17.2, OpenSSL 3.3.2, ...

Administration

• ejabberdctl: If ERLANG_NODE lacks host, add hostname (#4288)
• ejabberd_app: At server start, log Erlang and Elixir versions
• MySQL: Fix column type in the schema update of archive table in schema update

Commands API

• get_mam_count: New command to get number of archived messages for an account
• set_presence: Return error when session not found
• update: Fix command output
• Add mam and offline tags to the related purge commands

Code Quality

• Fix warnings about unused macro definitions reported by Erlang LS
• Fix Elvis report: Fix dollar space syntax
• Fix Elvis report: Remove spaces in weird places
• Fix Elvis report: Don't use ignored variables
• Fix Elvis report: Remove trailing whitespace characters
• Define the types of options that opt_type.sh cannot derive automatically
• ejabberd_http_ws: Fix dialyzer warnings
• mod_matrix_gw: Remove useless option persist
• mod_privilege: Replace try...catch with a clean alternative

Development Help

• elvis.config: Fix file syntax, set vim mode, disable many tests
• erlang_ls.config: Let it find paths, update to Erlang 26, enable crossref
• hooks_deps: Hide false-positive warnings about gen_mod
• Makefile: Add support for make elvis when using rebar3
• .vscode/launch.json: Experimental support for debugging with Neovim
• CI: Add Elvis tests
• CI: Add XMPP Interop tests
• Runtime: Cache hex.pm archive from rebar3 and mix

Documentation

• Add links in top-level options documentation to their Docs website sections
• Document which SQL servers can really use update_sql_schema
• Improve documentation of ldap_servers and ldap_backups options (#3977)
• mod_register: Document behavior when access is set to none (#4078)

Elixir

• Handle case when elixir support is enabled but not available
• Start ExSync manually to ensure it's started if (and only if) Relive
• mix.exs: Fix mix release error: logger being regular and included application (#4265)
• mix.exs: Remove from extra_applications the apps already defined in deps (#4265)

WebAdmin

• Add links in user page to offline and roster pages
• Add new "MAM Archive" page to webadmin
• Improve many pages to handle when modules are disabled
• mod_admin_extra: Move some webadmin pages to their modules

Version 24.07

Core

• ejabberd_options: Add trailing @ to @VERSION@ parsing
• mod_http_api: Fix problem parsing tuples when using OTP 27 json library (#4242)
• mod_http_api: Restore args conversion of {"k":"v"} to tuple lists
• mod_matrix_gw: Add misc:json_encode_With_kv_lists and use it in matrix sign function
• mod_muc: Output muc#roominfo_avatarhash in room disco info as per updated XEP-0486 (#4234)
• mod_muc: Improve cross version handling of muc retractions
• node_pep: Add missing feature item-ids to node_pep
• mod_register: Send welcome message as chat too (#4246)
• ejabberd_hooks: Support for ejabberd hook subscribers, useful for mod_prometheus
• ejabberd.app: Don't add iex to included_applications
• make-installers: Fix path in scripts in regular user install (#4258)
• Test: New tests for API commands

Documentation

• mod_matrix_gw: Fix matrix_id_as_jid option documentation
• mod_register: Add example configuration of welcome_message option
• mix.exs: Add ejabberd example config files to the hex package
• Update CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

ext_mod

• Fetch dependencies from hex.pm when mix is available
• files_to_path is deprecated, use compile_to_path
• Compile all Elixir files in a library with one function call
• Improve error result when problem compiling elixir file
• Handle case when contrib module has no *.ex and no *.erl
• mix.exs: Include Elixir's Logger in the OTP release, useful for mod_libcluster

Logs

• Print message when starting ejabberd application fails
• Use error_logger when printing startup failure message
• Use proper format depending on the formatter (#4256)

SQL

• Add option update_sql_schema_timeout to allow schema update use longer timeouts
• Add ability to specify custom timeout for sql operations
• Allow to configure number of restart in sql_transaction()
• Make sql query in testsuite compatible with pg9.1
• In mysql.sql, fix update instructions for the archive table, origin_id column (#4259)

WebAdmin

• ejabberd.yml.example: Add api_permissions group for webadmin (#4249)
• Don't use host from url in webadmin, prefer host used for authentication
• Fix number of accounts shown in the online-users page
• Fix crash when viewing old shared roster groups (#4245)
• Support groupid with spaces when making shared roster result (#4245)

Version 24.06

Core

• econf: Add ability to use additional custom errors when parsing options
• ejabberd_logger: Reloading configuration will update logger settings
• gen_mod: Add support to specify a hook global, not vhost-specific
• mod_configure: Retract Get User Password command to update XEP-0133 1.3.0
• mod_conversejs: Simplify support for @HOST@ in default_domain option (#4167)
• mod_mam: Document that XEP-0441 is implemented as well
• mod_mam: Update support for XEP-0425 version 0.3.0, keep supporting 0.2.1 (#4193)
• mod_matrix_gw: Fix support for @HOST@ in matrix_domain option (#4167)
• mod_muc_log: Hide join/leave lines, add method to show them
• mod_muc_log: Support allowpm introduced in 2bd61ab
• mod_muc_room: Use ejabberd hooks instead of function calls to mod_muc_log (#4191)
• mod_private): Cope with bookmark decoding errors
• mod_vcard_xupdate: Send hash after avatar get set for first time
• prosody2ejabberd: Handle the approved attribute. As feature isn't implemented, discard it (#4188)

SQL

• update_sql_schema: Enable this option by default
• CI: Don't load database schema files for mysql and pgsql
• Support Unix Domain Socket with updated p1_pgsql and p1_mysql (#3716)
• Fix handling of mqtt_pub table definition from mysql.sql and fix should_update_schema/1 in ejabberd_sql_schema.erl
• Don't start sql connection pools for unknown hosts
• Add update_primary_key command to sql schema updater
• Fix crash running export2sql when MAM enabled but MUC disabled
• Improve detection of types in odbc

Commands API

• New ban commands use private storage to keep ban information (#4201)
• join_cluster_here: New command to join a remote node into our local cluster
• Don't name integer and string results in API examples (#4198)
• get_user_subscriptions: Fix validation of user field in that command
• mod_admin_extra: Handle case when mod_private is not enabled (#4201)
• mod_muc_admin: Improve validation of arguments in several commands

Compile

• ejabberdctl: Comment ERTS_VSN variable when not used (#4194)
• ejabberdctl: Fix iexlive after make prod when using Elixir
• ejabberdctl: If INET_DIST_INTERFACE is IPv6, set required option (#4189)
• ejabberdctl: Make native dynamic node names work when using fully qualified domain names
• rebar.config.script: Support relaxed dependency version (#4192)
• rebar.config: Update deps version to rebar3's relaxed versioning
• rebar.lock: Track file, now that rebar3 uses loose dependency versioning
• configure.ac: When using rebar3, unlock dependencies that are disabled (#4212)
• configure.ac: When using rebar3 with old Erlang, unlock some dependencies (#4213)
• mix:exs: Move xmpp from included_applications to applications

Dependencies

• Base64url: Use only when using rebar2 and Erlang lower than 24
• Idna: Bump from 6.0.0 to 6.1.1
• Jiffy: Use Json module when Erlang/OTP 27, jiffy with older ones
• Jose: Update to the new 1.11.10 for Erlang/OTP higher than 23
• Luerl: Update to 1.2.0 when OTP same or higher than 20, simplifies commit a09f222
• P1_acme: Update to support Jose 1.11.10 and Ipv6 support (#4170)
• P1_acme: Update to use Erlang's json library instead of jiffy when OTP 27
• Port_compiler: Update to 1.15.0 that supports Erlang/OTP 27.0

Development Help

• .gitignore: Ignore ctags/etags files
• make dialyzer: Add support to run Dialyzer with Mix
• make format|indent: New targets to format and indent source code
• make relive: Add Sync tool with Rebar3, ExSync with Mix
• hook_deps: Use precise name: hooks are added and later deleted, not removed
• hook_deps: Fix to handle FileNo as tuple {FileNumber, CharacterPosition}
• Add support to test also EUnit suite
• Fix code:lib_dir call to work with Erlang/OTP 27.0-rc2
• Set process flags when Erlang/OTP 27 to help debugging
• Test retractions in mam_tests

Documentation

• Add some XEPs support that was forgotten
• Fix documentation links to new URLs generated by MkDocs
• Remove ... in example configuration: it is assumed and reduces verbosity
• Support for version note in modules too
• Mark toplevel options, commands and modules that changed in latest version
• Now modules themselves can have version annotations in note

Installers and Container

• make-binaries: Bump Erlang/OTP to 26.2.5 and Elixir 1.16.3
• make-binaries: Bump OpenSSL to 3.3.1
• make-binaries: Bump Linux-PAM to 1.6.1
• make-binaries: Bump Expat to 2.6.2
• make-binaries: Revert temporarily an OTP commit that breaks MSSQL (#4178)
• CONTAINER.md: Invalid CTL_ON_CREATE usage in docker-compose example

WebAdmin

• ejabberd_ctl: Improve parsing of commas in arguments
• ejabberd_ctl: Fix output of UTF-8-encoded binaries
• WebAdmin: Remove webadmin_view for now, as commands allow more fine-grained permissions
• WebAdmin: Unauthorized response: include some text to direct to the logs
• WebAdmin: Improve home page
• WebAdmin: Sort alphabetically the menu items, except the most used ones
• WebAdmin: New login box in the left menu bar
• WebAdmin: Add make_command functions to produce HTML command element
• Document 'any' argument and result type, useful for internal commands
• Commands with 'internal' tag: don't list and block execution by frontends
• WebAdmin: Move content to commands; new pages; hook changes; new commands

Version 24.02

Core:

• Added Matrix gateway in mod_matrix_gw
• Support SASL2 and Bind2
• Support tls-server-end-point channel binding and sasl2 codec
• Support tls-exporter channel binding
• Support XEP-0474: SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection
• Fix presenting features and returning results of inline bind2 elements
• disable_sasl_scram_downgrade_protection: New option to disable XEP-0474
• negotiation_timeout: Increase default value from 30s to 2m
• mod_carboncopy: Teach how to interact with bind2 inline requests

Other:

• ejabberdctl: Fix startup problem when having set EJABBERD_OPTS and logger options
• ejabberdctl: Set EJABBERD_OPTS back to "", and use previous flags as example
• eldap: Change logic for eldap tls_verify=soft and false
• eldap: Don't set fail_if_no_peer_cert for eldap ssl client connections
• Ignore hints when checking for chat states
• mod_mam: Support XEP-0424 Message Retraction
• mod_mam: Fix XEP-0425: Message Moderation with SQL storage
• mod_ping: Support XEP-0198 pings when stream management is enabled
• mod_pubsub: Normalize pubsub max_items node options on read
• mod_pubsub: PEP nodetree: Fix reversed logic in node fixup function
• mod_pubsub: Only care about PEP bookmarks options when creating node from scratch

SQL:

• MySQL: Support sha256_password auth plugin
• ejabberd_sql_schema: Use the first unique index as a primary key
• Update SQL schema files for MAM's XEP-0424
• New option sql_flags: right now only useful to enable mysql_alternative_upsert

Installers and Container:

• Container: Add ability to ignore failures in execution of CTL_ON_* commands
• Container: Update to Erlang/OTP 26.2, Elixir 1.16.1 and Alpine 3.19
• Container: Update this custom ejabberdctl to match the main one
• make-binaries: Bump OpenSSL 3.2.1, Erlang/OTP 26.2.2, Elixir 1.16.1
• make-binaries: Bump many dependency versions

Commands API:

• print_sql_schema: New command available in ejabberdctl command-line script
• ejabberdctl: Rework temporary node name generation
• ejabberdctl: Print argument description, examples and note in help
• ejabberdctl: Document exclusive ejabberdctl commands like all the others
• Commands: Add a new muc_sub tag to all the relevant commands
• Commands: Improve syntax of many commands documentation
• Commands: Use list arguments in many commands that used separators
• Commands: set_presence: switch priority argument from string to integer
• ejabberd_commands: Add the command API version as a tag vX
• ejabberd_ctl: Add support for list and tuple arguments
• ejabberd_xmlrpc: Fix support for restuple error response
• mod_http_api: When no specific API version is requested, use the latest

Compilation with Rebar3/Elixir/Mix:

• Fix compilation with Erlang/OTP 27: don't use the reserved word 'maybe'
• configure: Fix explanation of --enable-group option (#4135)
• Add observer and runtime_tools in releases when --enable-tools
• Update "make translations" to reduce build requirements
• Use Luerl 1.0 for Erlang 20, 1.1.1 for 21-26, and temporary fork for 27
• Makefile: Add install-rel and uninstall-rel
• Makefile: Rename make rel to make prod
• Makefile: Update make edoc to use ExDoc, requires mix
• Makefile: No need to use escript to run rebar|rebar3|mix
• configure: If --with-rebar=rebar3 but rebar3 not system-installed, use local one
• configure: Use Mix or Rebar3 by default instead of Rebar2 to compile ejabberd
• ejabberdctl: Detect problem running iex or etop and show explanation
• Rebar3: Include Elixir files when making a release
• Rebar3: Workaround to fix protocol consolidation
• Rebar3: Add support to compile Elixir dependencies
• Rebar3: Compile explicitly our Elixir files when --enable-elixir
• Rebar3: Provide proper path to iex
• Rebar/Rebar3: Update binaries to work with Erlang/OTP 24-27
• Rebar/Rebar3: Remove Elixir as a rebar dependency
• Rebar3/Mix: If dev profile/environment, enable tools automatically
• Elixir: Fix compiling ejabberd as a dependency (#4128)
• Elixir: Fix ejabberdctl start/live when installed
• Elixir: Fix: FORMATTER ERROR: bad return value (#4087)
• Elixir: Fix: Couldn't find file Elixir Hex API
• Mix: Enable stun by default when vars.config not found
• Mix: New option vars_config_path to set path to vars.config (#4128)
• Mix: Fix ejabberdctl iexlive problem locating iex in an OTP release

Version 23.10

Compilation:

• Erlang/OTP: Raise the requirement to Erlang/OTP 20.0 as a minimum
• CI: Update tests to Erlang/OTP 26 and recent Elixir
• Move Xref and Dialyzer options from workflows to rebar.config
• Add sections to rebar.config to organize its content
• Dialyzer dirty workarounds because re:mp() is not an exported type
• When installing module already configured, keep config as example
• Elixir 1.15 removed support for --app
• Elixir: Improve support to stop external modules written in Elixir
• Elixir: Update syntax of function calls as recommended by Elixir compiler
• Elixir: When building OTP release with mix, keep ERLANG_NODE=ejabberd@localhost
• ejabberdctl: Pass ERLANG_OPTS when calling erl to parse the INET_DIST_INTERFACE (#4066

Commands:

• create_room_with_opts: Fix typo and move examples to args_example (#4080)
• etop: Let ejabberdctl etop work in a release (if observer application is available)
• get_roster: Command now returns groups in a list instead of newlines (#4088)
• halt: New command to halt ejabberd abruptly with an error status code
• ejabberdctl: Fix calling ejabberdctl command with wrong number of arguments with Erlang 26
• ejabberdctl: Improve printing lists in results
• ejabberdctl: Support policy=user in the help and return proper arguments
• ejabberdctl: Document how to stop a debug shell: control+g

Container:

• Dockerfile: Add missing dependency for mssql databases
• Dockerfile: Reorder stages and steps for consistency
• Dockerfile: Use Alpine as base for METHOD=package
• Dockerfile: Rename packages to improve compatibility
• Dockerfile: Provide specific OTP and elixir vsn for direct compilation
• Halt ejabberd if a command in CTL_ON_ fails during ejabberd startup

Core:

• auth_external_user_exists_check: New option (#3377)
• gen_mod: Extend gen_mod API to simplify hooks and IQ handlers registration
• gen_mod: Add shorter forms for gen_mod hook/iq_handler API
• gen_mod: Update modules to the new gen_mod API
• install_contrib_modules: New option to define contrib modules to install automatically
• unix_socket: New listener option, useful when setting unix socket files (#4059)
• ejabberd_systemd: Add a few debug messages
• ejabberd_systemd: Avoid using gen_server timeout (#4054)(#4058)
• ejabberd_listener: Increase default listen queue backlog value to 128, which is the default value on both Linux and FreeBSD (#4025)
• OAuth: Handle badpass error message
• When sending message on behalf of user, trigger user_send_packet (#3990)
• Web Admin: In roster page move the AddJID textbox to top (#4067)
• Web Admin: Show a warning when visiting webadmin with non-privileged account (#4089)

Docs:

• Example configuration: clarify 5223 tls options; specify s2s shaper
• Make sure that policy=user commands have host instead of server arg in docs
• Improve syntax of many command descriptions for the Docs site
• Move example Perl extauth script from ejabberd git to Docs site
• Remove obsolete example files, and add link in Docs to the archived copies

Installers (make-binaries):

• Bump Erlang/OTP version to 26.1.1, and other dependencies
• Remove outdated workaround
• Don't build Linux-PAM examples
• Fix check for current Expat version
• Apply minor simplifications
• Don't duplicate config entries
• Don't hard-code musl version
• Omit unnecessary glibc setting
• Set kernel version for all builds
• Let curl fail on HTTP errors

Modules:

• mod_muc_log: Add trailing backslash to URLs shown in disco info
• mod_muc_occupantid: New module with support for XEP-0421 Occupant Id (#3397)
• mod_muc_rtbl: Better error handling in (#4050)
• mod_private: Add support for XEP-0402 PEP Native Bookmarks
• mod_privilege: Don't fail to edit roster (#3942)
• mod_pubsub: Fix usage of plugins option, which produced default_node_config ignore (#4070)
• mod_pubsub: Add pubsub_delete_item hook
• mod_pubsub: Report support of config-node-max in pep
• mod_pubsub: Relay pubsub iq queries to muc members without using bare jid (#4093)
• mod_pubsub: Allow pubsub node owner to overwrite items published by other persons
• mod_push_keepalive: Delay wake_on_start
• mod_push_keepalive: Don't let hook crash
• mod_push: Add notify_on option
• mod_push: Set last-message-sender to bare JID
• mod_register_web: Make redirect to page that end with / (#3177)
• mod_shared_roster_ldap: Don't crash in get_member_jid on empty output (#3614)

MUC:

• Add support to register nick in a room (#3455)
• Convert allow_private_message MUC room option to allowpm (#3736)
• Update xmpp version to send roomconfig_changesubject in disco#info (#4085)
• Fix crash when loading room from DB older than ffa07c6, 23.04
• Fix support to retract a MUC room message
• Don't always store messages passed through muc_filter_message (#4083)
• Pass also MUC room retract messages over the muc_filter_message (#3397)
• Pass MUC room private messages over the muc_filter_message too (#3397)
• Store the subject author JID, and run muc_filter_message when sending subject (#3397)
• Remove existing role information for users that are kicked from room (#4035)
• Expand rule "mucsub subscribers are members in members only rooms" to more places

SQL:

• Add ability to force alternative upsert implementation in mysql
• Properly parse mysql version even if it doesn't have type tag
• Use prepared statement with mysql
• Add alternate version of mysql upsert
• ejabberd_auth_sql: Reset scram fields when setting plain password
• mod_privacy_sql: Fix return values from calculate_diff
• mod_privacy_sql: Optimize set_list
• mod_privacy_sql: Use more efficient way to calculate changes in set_privacy_list

Version 23.04

General:

• New s2s_out_bounce_packet hook
• Re-allow anonymous connection for connection without client certificates (#3985)
• Stop ejabberd_system_monitor before stopping node
• captcha_url option now accepts auto value, and it's the default
• mod_mam: Add support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• mod_mam_sql: Fix problem with results of mam queries using rsm with max and before
• mod_muc_rtbl: New module for Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms (#4017)
• mod_roster: Set roster name from XEP-0172, or the stored one (#1611)
• mod_roster: Preliminary support to store extra elements in subscription request (#840)
• mod_pubsub: Pubsub xdata fields max_item/item_expira/children_max use max not infinity
• mod_vcard_xupdate: Invalidate vcard_xupdate cache on all nodes when vcard is updated

Admin:

• ext_mod: Improve support for loading *.so files from ext_mod dependencies
• Improve output in gen_html_doc_for_commands command
• Fix ejabberdctl output formatting (#3979)
• Log HTTP handler exceptions

MUC:

• New command get_room_history
• Persist none role for outcasts
• Try to populate room history from mam when unhibernating
• Make mod_muc_room:set_opts process persistent flag first
• Allow passing affiliations and subscribers to create_room_with_opts command
• Store state in db in mod_muc:create_room()
• Make subscribers members by default

SQL schemas:

• Fix a long standing bug in new schema migration
• update_sql command: Many improvements in new schema migration
• update_sql command: Add support to migrate MySQL too
• Change PostgreSQL SERIAL to BIGSERIAL columns
• Fix minor SQL schema inconsistencies
• Remove unnecessary indexes
• New SQL schema migrate fix

MS SQL:

• MS SQL schema fixes
• Add new schema for MS SQL
• Add MS SQL support for new schema migration
• Minor MS SQL improvements
• Fix MS SQL error caused by ORDER BY in subquery

SQL Tests:

• Add support for running tests on MS SQL
• Add ability to run tests on upgraded DB
• Un-deprecate ejabberd_config:set_option/2
• Use python3 to run extauth.py for tests
• Correct README for creating test docker MS SQL DB
• Fix TSQLlint warnings in MSSQL test script

Testing:

• Fix Shellcheck warnings in shell scripts
• Fix Remark-lint warnings
• Fix Prospector and Pylint warnings in test extauth.py
• Stop testing ejabberd with Erlang/OTP 19.3, as Github Actions no longer supports ubuntu-18.04
• Test only with oldest OTP supported (20.0), newest stable (25.3) and bleeding edge (26.0-rc2)
• Upload Common Test logs as artifact in case of failure

ecs container image:

• Update Alpine to 3.17 to get Erlang/OTP 25 and Elixir 1.14
• Add tini as runtime init
• Set ERLANG_NODE fixed to ejabberd@localhost
• Upload images as artifacts to Github Actions
• Publish tag images automatically to ghcr.io

ejabberd container image:

• Update Alpine to 3.17 to get Erlang/OTP 25 and Elixir 1.14
• Add METHOD to build container using packages (#3983)
• Add tini as runtime init
• Detect runtime dependencies automatically
• Remove unused Mix stuff: ejabberd script and static COOKIE
• Copy captcha scripts to /opt/ejabberd-*/lib like the installers
• Expose only HOME volume, it contains all the required subdirs
• ejabberdctl: Don't use .../releases/COOKIE, it's no longer included

Installers:

• make-binaries: Bump versions, e.g. erlang/otp to 25.3
• make-binaries: Fix building with erlang/otp v25.x
• make-packages: Fix for installers workflow, which didn't find lynx

Version 23.01

General:

• Add misc:uri_parse/2 to allow declaring default ports for protocols
• CAPTCHA: Add support to define module instead of path to script
• Clustering: Handle mnesia_system_event mnesia_up when other node joins this (#3842)
• ConverseJS: Don't set i18n option because Converse enforces it instead of browser lang (#3951)
• ConverseJS: Try to redirect access to files mod_conversejs to CDN when there is no local copies
• ext_mod: compile C files and install them in ejabberd's priv
• ext_mod: Support to get module status from Elixir modules
• make-binaries: reduce log output
• make-binaries: Bump zlib version to 1.2.13
• MUC: Don't store mucsub presence events in offline storage
• MUC: hibernation_time is not an option worth storing in room state (#3946)
• Multicast: Jid format when multicastc was cached (#3950)
• mysql: Pass ssl options to mysql driver
• pgsql: Do not set standard_conforming_strings to off (#3944)
• OAuth: Accept jid as a HTTP URL query argument
• OAuth: Handle when client is not identified
• PubSub: Expose the pubsub#type field in disco#info query to the node (#3914)
• Translations: Update German translation

Admin:

• api_permissions: Fix option crash when doesn't have who: section
• log_modules_fully: New option to list modules that will log everything
• outgoing_s2s_families: Changed option's default to IPv6, and fall back to IPv4
• Fix bash completion when using Relive or other install methods
• Fix portability issue with some shells (#3970)
• Allow admin command to subscribe new users to members_only rooms
• Use alternative split/2 function that works with Erlang/OTP as old as 19.3
• Silent warning in OTP24 about not specified cacerts in SQL connections
• Fix compilation warnings with Elixir 1.14

DOAP:

• Support extended -protocol erlang attribute
• Add extended RFCs and XEP details to some protocol attributes
• tools/generate-doap.sh: New script to generate DOAP file, add make doap (#3915)
• ejabberd.doap: New DOAP file describing ejabberd supported protocols

MQTT:

• Add MQTT bridge module
• Add support for certificate authentication in MQTT bridge
• Implement reload in MQTT bridge
• Add support for websockets to MQTT bridge
• Recognize ws5/wss5 urls in MQTT bridge
• mqtt_publish: New hook for MQTT publish event
• mqtt_(un)subscribe: New hooks for MQTT subscribe & unsubscribe events

VSCode:

• Improve .devcontainer to use use devcontainer image and .vscode
• Add .vscode files to instruct VSCode how to run ejabberd
• Add Erlang LS default configuration
• Add Elvis default configuration

Version 22.10

Core:

• Add log_burst_limit_* options (#3865)
• Support ERL_DIST_PORT option to work without epmd
• Auth JWT: Catch all errors from jose_jwt:verify and log debugging details (#3890)
• CAPTCHA: Support @VERSION@ and @SEMVER@ in captcha_cmd option (#3835)
• HTTP: Fix unix socket support (#3894)
• HTTP: Handle invalid values in X-Forwarded-For header more gracefuly
• Listeners: Let module take over socket
• Listeners: Don't register listeners that failed to start in config reload
• mod_admin_extra: Handle empty roster group names
• mod_conversejs: Fix crash when mod_register not enabled (#3824)
• mod_host_meta: Complain at start if listener is not encrypted
• mod_ping: Fix regression on stop_ping in clustering context (#3817)
• mod_pubsub: Don't crash on command failures
• mod_shared_roster: Fix cache invalidation
• mod_shared_roster_ldap: Update roster_get hook to use #roster_item{}
• prosody2ejabberd: Fix parsing of scram password from prosody

MIX:

• Fix MIX's filter_nodes
• Return user jid on join
• mod_mix_pam: Add new MIX namespaces to disco features
• mod_mix_pam: Add handling of IQs with newer MIX namespaces
• mod_mix_pam: Do roster pushes on join/leave
• mod_mix_pam: Parse sub elements of the mix join remote result
• mod_mix_pam: Provide MIX channels as roster entries via hook
• mod_mix_pam: Display joined channels on webadmin page
• mod_mix_pam: Adapt to renaming of participant-id from mix_roster_channel record
• mod_roster: Change hook type from #roster{} to #roster_item{}
• mod_roster: Respect MIX <annotate/> setting
• mod_roster: Adapt to change of mix_annotate type to boolean in roster_query
• mod_shared_roster: Fix wrong hook type #roster{} (now #roster_item{})

MUC:

• Store role, and use it when joining a moderated room (#3330)
• Don't persist none role (#3330)
• Allow MUC service admins to bypass max_user_conferences limitation
• Show allow_query_users room option in disco info (#3830)
• mod_muc_room: Don't set affiliation to none if it's already none in process_item_change/3
• Fix mucsub unsubscribe notification payload to have muc_unsubcribe in it
• Allow muc_{un}subscribe hooks to modify sent packets
• Pass room state to muc_{un}subscribed hook
• The archive_msg export fun requires MUC Service for room archives
• Export mod_muc_admin:get_room_pid/2
• Export function for getting room diagnostics

SQL:

• Handle errors reported from begin/commit inside transaction
• Make connection close errors bubble up from inside sql transaction
• Make first sql reconnect wait shorter time
• React to sql driver process exit earlier
• Skip connection exit message when we triggered reconnection
• Add syntax_tools to applications, required when using ejabberd_sql_pt (#3869)
• Fix mam delete_old_messages_batch for sql backend
• Use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE for upsert on mysql
• Update mysql library
• Catch mysql connection being close earlier

Build:

• make all: Generate start scripts here, not in make install (#3821)
• make clean: Improve this and "distclean"
• make deps: Ensure deps configuration is ran when getting deps (#3823)
• make help: Update with recent changes
• make install: Don't leak DESTDIR in files copied by 'make install'
• make options: Fix error reporting on OTP24+
• make update: configure also in this case, similarly to make deps
• Add definition to detect OTP older than 25, used by ejabberd_auth_http
• Configure eimp with mix to detect image convert properly (#3823)
• Remove unused macro definitions detected by rebar3_hank
• Remove unused header files which content is already in xmpp library

Container:

• Get ejabberd-contrib sources to include them
• Copy .ejabberd-modules directory if available
• Do not clone repo inside container build
• Use make deps, which performs additional steps (#3823)
• Support ERL_DIST_PORT option to work without epmd
• Copy ejabberd-docker-install.bat from docker-ejabberd git and rename it
• Set a less frequent healthcheck to reduce CPU usage (#3826)
• Fix build instructions, add more podman examples

Installers:

• make-binaries: Include CAPTCHA script with release
• make-binaries: Edit rebar.config more carefully
• make-binaries: Fix linking of EIMP dependencies
• make-binaries: Fix GitHub release version checks
• make-binaries: Adjust Mnesia spool directory path
• make-binaries: Bump Erlang/OTP version to 24.3.4.5
• make-binaries: Bump Expat and libpng versions
• make-packages: Include systemd unit with RPM
• make-packages: Fix permissions on RPM systems
• make-installers: Support non-root installation
• make-installers: Override code on upgrade
• make-installers: Apply cosmetic changes

External modules:

• ext_mod: Support managing remote nodes in the cluster
• ext_mod: Handle correctly when COMMIT.json not found
• Don't bother with COMMIT.json user-friendly feature in automated user case
• Handle not found COMMIT.json, for example in GH Actions
• Add WebAdmin page for managing external modules

Workflows Actions:

• Update workflows to Erlang 25
• Update workflows: Ubuntu 18 is deprecated and 22 is added
• CI: Remove syntax_tools from applications, as fast_xml fails Dialyzer
• Runtime: Add Xref options to be as strict as CI

Version 22.05

Core

• C2S: Don't expect that socket will be available in c2s_terminated hook
• Event handling process hook tracing
• Guard against erlang:system_info(logical_processors) not always returning a number
• domain_balancing: Allow for specifying type only, without specifying component_number

MQTT

• Add TLS certificate authentication for MQTT connections
• Fix login when generating client id, keep connection record (#3593)
• Pass property name as expected in mqtt_codec (fixes login using MQTT 5)
• Support MQTT subscriptions spread over the cluster (#3750)

MUC

• Attach meta field with real jid to mucsub subscription events
• Handle user removal
• Stop empty MUC rooms 30 seconds after creation
• default_room_options: Update options configurable
• subscribe_room_many_max_users: New option in mod_muc_admin

mod_conversejs

• Improved options to support @HOST@ and auto values
• Set auth and register options based on ejabberd configuration
• conversejs_options: New option
• conversejs_resources: New option

PubSub

• mod_pubsub: Allow for limiting item_expire value
• mod_pubsub: Unsubscribe JID on whitelist removal
• node_pep: Add config-node and multi-items features (#3714)

SQL

• Improve compatibility with various db engine versions
• Sync old-to-new schema script with reality (#3790)
• Slight improvement in MSSQL testing support, but not yet complete

Other Modules

• auth_jwt: Checking if an user is active in SM for a JWT authenticated user (#3795)
• mod_configure: Implement Get List of Registered/Online Users from XEP-0133
• mod_host_meta: New module to serve host-meta files, see XEP-0156
• mod_mam: Store all mucsub notifications not only message notifications
• mod_ping: Delete ping timer if resource is gone after the ping has been sent
• mod_ping: Don't send ping if resource is gone
• mod_push: Fix notifications for pending sessions (XEP-0198)
• mod_push: Keep push session ID on session resume
• mod_shared_roster: Adjust special group cache size
• mod_shared_roster: Normalize JID on unset_presence (#3752)
• mod_stun_disco: Fix parsing of IPv6 listeners

Dependencies

• autoconf: Supported from 2.59 to the new 2.71
• fast_tls: Update to 1.1.14 to support OpenSSL 3
• jiffy: Update to 1.1.1 to support Erlang/OTP 25.0-rc1
• luerl: Update to 1.0.0, now available in hex.pm
• lager: This dependency is used only when Erlang is older than 22
• rebar2: Updated binary to work from Erlang/OTP 22 to 25
• rebar3: Updated binary to work from Erlang/OTP 22 to 25
• make update: Fix when used with rebar 3.18

Compile

• mix release: Copy include/ files for ejabberd, deps and otp, in mix.exs
• rebar3 release: Fix ERTS path in ejabberdctl
• configure.ac: Set default ejabberd version number when not using git
• mix.exs: Move some dependencies as optional
• mix.exs: No need to use Distillery, Elixir has built-in support for OTP releases (#3788)
• tools/make-binaries: New script for building Linux binaries
• tools/make-installers: New script for building command line installers

Start

• New make relive similar to ejabberdctl live without installing
• ejabberdctl: Fix some warnings detected by ShellCheck
• ejabberdctl: Mention in the help: etop, ping and started/stopped
• make rel: Switch to paths: conf/, database/, logs/
• mix.exs: Add -boot and -boot_var in ejabberdctl instead of adding vm.args
• tools/captcha.sh: Fix some warnings detected by ShellCheck

Commands

• Accept more types of ejabberdctl commands arguments as JSON-encoded
• delete_old_mam_messages_batch: New command with rate limit
• delete_old_messages_batch: New command with rate limit
• get_room_occupants_number: Don't request the whole MUC room state (#3684, #1964)
• get_vcard: Add support for MUC room vCard
• oauth_revoke_token: Add support to work with all backends
• room_unused_*: Optimize commands in SQL by reusing created_at
• rooms_unused_...: Let get_all_rooms handle global argument (#3726)
• stop|restart: Terminate ejabberd_sm before everything else to ensure sessions closing (#3641)
• subscribe_room_many: New command

Translations

• Updated Catalan
• Updated French
• Updated German
• Updated Portuguese
• Updated Portuguese (Brazil)
• Updated Spanish

Workflows

• CI: Publish CT logs and Cover on failure to an external GH Pages repo
• CI: Test shell scripts using ShellCheck (#3738)
• Container: New workflow to build and publish containers
• Installers: Add job to create draft release
• Installers: New workflow to build binary packages
• Runtime: New workflow to test compilation, rel, starting and ejabberdctl

Version 21.12

Commands

• create_room_with_opts: Fixed when using SQL storage
• change_room_option: Add missing fields from config inside mod_muc_admin:change_options
• piefxis: Fixed arguments of all commands

Modules

• mod_caps: Don't forget caps on XEP-0198 resumption
• mod_conversejs: New module to serve a simple page for Converse.js
• mod_http_upload_quota: Avoid max_days race
• mod_muc: Support MUC hats (XEP-0317, conversejs/prosody compatible)
• mod_muc: Optimize MucSub processing
• mod_muc: Fix exception in mucsub {un}subscription events multicast handler
• mod_multicast: Improve and optimize multicast routing code
• mod_offline: Allow storing non-composing x:events in offline
• mod_ping: Send ping from server, not bare user JID
• mod_push: Fix handling of MUC/Sub messages
• mod_register: New allow_modules option to restrict registration modules
• mod_register_web: Handle unknown host gracefully
• mod_register_web: Use mod_register configured restrictions

PubSub

• Add delete_expired_pubsub_items command
• Add delete_old_pubsub_items command
• Optimize publishing on large nodes (SQL)
• Support unlimited number of items
• Support max_items=max node configuration
• Bump default value for max_items limit from 10 to 1000
• Use configured max_items by default
• node_flat: Avoid catch-all clauses for RSM
• node_flat_sql: Avoid catch-all clauses for RSM

SQL

• Use INSERT ... ON CONFLICT in SQL_UPSERT for PostgreSQL >= 9.5
• mod_mam export: assign MUC entries to the MUC service
• MySQL: Fix typo when creating index
• PgSQL: Add SASL auth support, PostgreSQL 14
• PgSQL: Add missing SQL migration for table push_session
• PgSQL: Fix vcard_search definition in pgsql new schema

Other

• captcha-ng.sh: "sort -R" command not POSIX, added "shuf" and "cat" as fallback
• Make s2s connection table cleanup more robust
• Update export/import of scram password to XEP-0227 1.1
• Update Jose to 1.11.1 (the last in hex.pm correctly versioned)

Version 21.07

Compilation

• Add rebar3 3.15.2 binary
• Add support for mix to: ./configure --enable-rebar=mix
• Improved make rel to work with rebar3 and mix
• Add make dev to build a development release with rebar3 or mix
• Hex: Add sql/ and vars.config to Hex package files
• Hex: Update mix applications list to fix error p1_utils is listed as both...
• There are so many targets in Makefile... add make help
• Fix extauth.py failure in test suite with Python 3
• Added experimental support for GitHub Codespaces
• Switch test service from TravisCI to GitHub Actions

Commands:

• Display extended error message in ejabberdctl
• Remove SMP option from ejabberdctl.cfg, -smp was removed in OTP 21
• create_room: After creating room, store in DB if it's persistent
• help: Major changes in its usage and output
• srg_create: Update to use label parameter instead of name

Modules:

• ejabberd_listener: New send_timeout option
• mod_mix: Improvements to update to 0.14.1
• mod_muc_room: Don't leak owner JIDs
• mod_multicast: Routing for more MUC packets
• mod_multicast: Correctly strip only other bcc addresses
• mod_mqtt: Allow shared roster group placeholder in mqtt topic
• mod_pubsub: Several fixes when using PubSub with RSM
• mod_push: Handle MUC/Sub events correctly
• mod_shared_roster: Delete cache after performing change to be sure that in cache will be up to date data
• mod_shared_roster: Improve database and caching
• mod_shared_roster: Reconfigure cache when options change
• mod_vcard: Fix invalid_encoding error when using extended plane characters in vcard
• mod_vcard: Update econf:vcard() to generate correct vcard_temp record
• WebAdmin: New simple pages to view mnesia tables information and content
• WebSocket: Fix typos

SQL:

• MySQL Backend Patch for scram-sha512
• SQLite: When exporting for SQLite, use its specific escape options
• SQLite: Minor fixes for new_sql_schema support
• mod_privacy: Cast as boolean when exporting privacy_list_data to PostgreSQL
• mod_mqtt: Add mqtt_pub table definition for MSSQL
• mod_shared_roster: Add missing indexes to sr_group tables in all SQL databases

Version 21.04

API Commands:

• add_rosteritem/...: Add argument guards to roster commands
• get_user_subscriptions: New command for MUC/Sub
• remove_mam_for_user_with_peer: Fix when removing room archive
• send_message: Fix bug introduced in ejabberd 21.01
• set_vcard: Return modules errors

Build and setup:

• Allow ejabberd to be compatible as a dependency for an Erlang project using rebar3
• CAPTCHA: New question/answer-based CAPTCHA script
• --enable-lua: new configure option for luerl instead of --enable-tools
• Remove support for HiPE, it was experimental and Erlang/OTP 24 removes it
• Update sql_query record to handle the Erlang/OTP 24 compiler reports
• Updated dependencies to fix Dialyzer warnings

Miscellaneous:

• CAPTCHA: Update FORM_TYPE from captcha to register
• LDAP: fix eldap certificate verification
• MySQL: Fix for "specified key was too long"
• Translations: updated the Esperanto, Greek, and Japanese translations
• Websocket: Fix PONG responses

Modules:

• mod_block_strangers: If stanza is type error, allow it passing
• mod_caps: Don't request roster when not needed
• mod_caps: Skip reading roster in one more case
• mod_mam: Remove queryid from MAM fin element
• mod_mqtt: When deregistering XMPP account, close its MQTT sessions
• mod_muc: Take in account subscriber's affiliation when checking access to moderated room
• mod_muc: Use monitors to track online and hard-killed rooms
• mod_muc: When occupant is banned, remove his subscriptions too
• mod_privacy: Make fetching roster lazy
• mod_pubsub: Don't fail on PEP unsubscribe
• mod_pubsub: Fix gen_pubsub_node:get_state return value
• mod_vcard: Obtain and provide photo type in vCard LDAP

Version 21.01

Miscellaneous changes:

• log_rotate_size option: Fix handling of ‘infinity’ value
• mod_time: Fix invalid timezone
• Auth JWT: New check_decoded_jwt hook runs the default JWT verifier
• MUC: Allow non-occupant non-subscribed service admin send private MUC message
• MUC: New max_password and max_captcha_whitelist options
• OAuth: New oauth_cache_rest_failure_life_time option
• PEP: Skip reading pep nodes that we know won’t be requested due to caps
• SQL: Add sql script to migrate mysql from old schema to new
• SQL: Don’t use REPLACE for upsert when there are “-” fields.
• Shared Rosters LDAP: Add multi-domain support (and flexibility)
• Sqlite3: Fix dependency version
• Stun: Block loopback addresses by default
• Several documentation fixes and clarifications

Commands:

• decide_room: Use better fallback value for room activity time when skipping room
• delete_old_message: Fix when using sqlite spool table
• module_install: Make ext_mod compile module with debug_info flags
• room_unused_*: Don’t fetch subscribers list
• send_message: Don’t include empty in messages
• set_room_affiliation: Validate affiliations

Running:

• Docker: New Dockerfile and devcontainer.json
• New ejabberdctl foreground-quiet
• Systemd: Allow for listening on privileged ports
• Systemd: Integrate nicely with systemd

Translations:

• Moved gettext PO files to a new ejabberd-po repository
• Improved several translations: Catalan, Chinese, German, Greek, Indonesian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish.

Version 20.12

• Add support for SCRAM-SHA-{256,512}-{PLUS} authentication
• Don't use same value in cache for user don't exist and wrong password
• outgoing_s2s_ipv*_address: New options to set ipv4/ipv6 outbound s2s out interface
• s2s_send_packet: this hook now filters outgoing s2s stanzas
• start_room: new hook runs when a room process is started
• check_decoded_jwt: new hook to check decoded JWT after success authentication

Admin

• Docker: Fix DB initialization
• New sql_odbc_driver option: choose the mssql ODBC driver
• Rebar3: Fully supported. Enable with ./configure --with-rebar=/path/to/rebar3
• systemd: start ejabberd in foreground

Modules:

• MAM: Make sure that jid used as base in mam xml_compress is bare
• MAM: Support for MAM Flipped Pages
• MUC: Always show MucSub subscribers nicks
• MUC: Don't forget not-persistent rooms in load_permanent_rooms
• MUC Admin: Better error reporting
• MUC Admin: Fix commands with hibernated rooms
• MUC Admin: Many improvements in rooms_unused_list/destroy
• MUC Admin: create_room_with_opts Store options only if room starts
• Pubsub: Remove 'dag' node plugin documentation
• Push: Fix API call return type on error
• Push: Support cache config changes on reload
• Register: Allow for account-removal-only setup again
• Roster: Make roster subscriptions work better with invalid roster state in db
• Vcard: Fix vCard search by User when using Mnesia
• WebAdmin: Allow vhost admins to view WebAdmin menus
• WebAdmin: Don't do double utf-8 conversion on translated strings
• WebAdmin: Mark dangerous buttons with CSS
• WebSocket: Make websocket send put back pressure on c2s process

Version 20.07

Changes in this version

• Add support for using unix sockets in listeners.
• Make this version compatible with erlang R23
• Make room permissions checks more strict for subscribers
• Fix problem with muc rooms crashing when using muc logger with some locales
• Limit stat calls that logger module issues
• Don't throw errors when using user_regexp acl rule and having non-matching host
• Fix problem with leaving old data when updating shared rosters
• Fix edge case that caused failure of resuming old sessions with stream management.
• Fix crash when room that was started with logging enabled was later changed to logging disabled
• Increase default shaper limits (this should help with delays for clients that are using jingle)
• Fix couple compatibility problems which prevented working on erlang R19
• Fix sending presence unavailable when session terminates for clients that only send directed presences (helps with sometimes not leaving muc rooms on disconnect).
• Prevent supervisor errors for sockets that were closed before they were passed to handler modules
• Make stun module work better with ipv6 addresses

Version 20.03

Changes in this version

• Add support of ssl connection when connection to mysql database (configured with sql_ssl: true option)
• Experimental support for cockroachdb when configured with postgres connector
• Add cache and optimize queries issued by mod_shared_roster, this should greatly improve performance of this module when used with sql backend
• Fix problem with accessing webadmin
• Make webadmin work even when url is missing trailing slash
• When compiling external modules with ext_mod, use flags that were detected during compilation of ejabberd
• Make config changed to ldap options be updated when issued reload_config command
• Fix room_empty_destory command
• Fix reporting errors in send_stanza command when xml passed to it couldn't be passed correctly

Version 20.02

Changes in this version

• Fix problems when trying to use string format with unicode values directly in xmpp nodes
• Add missing oauth_client table declaration in lite.new.sql
• Improve compatibility with CocroachDB
• Fix importing of piefxis files that did use scram passwords
• Fix importing of piefxis files that had multiple includes in them
• Update jiffy dependency
• Allow storage of emojis when using mssql database (Thanks to Christoph Scholz)
• Make ejabberd_auth_http be able to use auth_opts
• Make custom_headers options in http modules correctly override built-in values
• Fix return value of reload_config and dump_config commands

Version 20.01

New features

• Implement OAUTH authentication in mqtt
• Make logging infrastructure use new logger introduced in Erlang (requires OTP22)
• New configuration parser/validator
• Initial work on being able to use CockroachDB as database backend
• Add gc command
• Add option to disable using prepared statements on Postgresql
• Implement routine for converting password to SCRAM format for all backends not only SQL
• Add infrastructure for having module documentation directly in individual module source code
• Generate man page automatically
• Implement copy feature in mod_carboncopy

Fixes

• Make webadmin work with configurable paths
• Fix handling of result in xmlrpc module
• Make webadmin work even when accessed through not declared domain
• Better error reporting in xmlrpc
• Limit amount of results returned by disco queries to pubsub nodes
• Improve validation of configured JWT keys
• Fix race condition in Redis/SQL startup
• Fix loading order of third party modules
• Fix reloading of ACL rules
• Make account removal requests properly route response
• Improve handling of malformed inputs in send_message command
• Omit push notification if storing message in offline storage failed
• Fix crash in stream management when timeout was not set

Version 19.09

Admin

• The minimum required Erlang/OTP version is now 19.3
• Fix API call using OAuth (#2982)
• Rename MUC command arguments from Host to Service (#2976)

Webadmin

• Don't treat 'Host' header as a virtual XMPP host (#2989)
• Fix some links to Guide in WebAdmin and add new ones (#3003)
• Use select fields to input host in WebAdmin Backup (#3000)
• Check account auth provided in WebAdmin is a local host (#3000)

ACME

• Improve ACME implementation
• Fix IDA support in ACME requests
• Fix unicode formatting in ACME module
• Log an error message on IDNA failure
• Support IDN hostnames in ACME requests
• Don't attempt to create ACME directory on ejabberd startup
• Don't allow requesting certificates for localhost or IP-like domains
• Don't auto request certificate for localhost and IP-like domains
• Add listener for ACME challenge in example config

Authentication

• JWT-only authentication for some users (#3012)

MUC

• Apply default role after revoking admin affiliation (#3023)
• Custom exit message is not broadcast (#3004)
• Revert "Affiliations other than admin and owner cannot invite to members_only rooms" (#2987)
• When join new room with password, set pass and password_protected (#2668)
• Improve rooms_* commands to accept 'global' as MUC service argument (#2976)
• Rename MUC command arguments from Host to Service (#2976)

SQL

• Fix transactions for Microsoft SQL Server (#2978)
• Spawn SQL connections on demand only

Misc

• Add support for XEP-0328: JID Prep
• Added gsfonts for captcha
• Log Mnesia table type on creation
• Replicate Mnesia 'bosh' table when nodes are joined
• Fix certificate selection for s2s (#3015)
• Provide meaningful error when adding non-local users to shared roster (#3000)
• Websocket: don't treat 'Host' header as a virtual XMPP host (#2989)
• Fix sm ack related c2s error (#2984)
• Don't hide the reason why c2s connection has failed
• Unicode support
• Correctly handle unicode in log messages
• Fix unicode processing in ejabberd.yml

Version 19.08

Administration

• Improve ejabberd halting procedure
• Process unexpected erlang messages uniformly: logging a warning
• mod_configure: Remove modules management

Configuration

• Use new configuration validator
• ejabberd_http: Use correct virtual host when consulting trusted_proxies
• Fix Elixir modules detection in the configuration file
• Make option 'validate_stream' global
• Allow multiple definitions of host_config and append_host_config
• Introduce option 'captcha_url'
• mod_stream_mgmt: Allow flexible timeout format
• mod_mqtt: Allow flexible timeout format in session_expiry option

Misc

• Fix SQL connections leakage
• New authentication method using JWT tokens
• extauth: Add 'certauth' command
• Improve SQL pool logic
• Add and improve type specs
• Improve extraction of translated strings
• Improve error handling/reporting when loading language translations
• Improve hooks validator and fix bugs related to hooks registration
• Gracefully close inbound s2s connections
• mod_mqtt: Fix usage of TLS
• mod_offline: Make count_offline_messages cache work when using mam for storage
• mod_privacy: Don't attempt to query 'undefined' active list
• mod_privacy: Fix race condition

MUC

• Add code for hibernating inactive muc_room processes
• Improve handling of unexpected iq in mod_muc_room
• Attach mod_muc_room processes to a supervisor
• Restore room when receiving message or generic iq for not started room
• Distribute routing of MUC messages across all CPU cores

PubSub

• Fix pending nodes retrieval for SQL backend
• Check access_model when publishing PEP
• Remove deprecated pubsub plugins
• Expose access_model and publish_model in pubsub#metadata

Version 19.05

Admin

• The minimum required Erlang/OTP version is now 19.1
• Provide a suggestion when unknown command, module, option or request handler is detected
• Deprecate some listening options: captcha, register, web_admin, http_bind and xmlrpc
• Add commands to get Mnesia info: mnesia_info and mnesia_table_info
• Fix Register command to respect mod_register's Access option
• Fixes in Prosody import: privacy and rooms
• Remove TLS options from the example config
• Improve request_handlers validator
• Fix syntax in example Elixir config file

Auth

• Correctly support cache tags in ejabberd_auth
• Don't process failed EXTERNAL authentication by mod_fail2ban
• Don't call to mod_register when it's not loaded
• Make anonymous auth don't {de}register user when there are other resources

Developer

• Rename listening callback from start/2 to start/3
• New hook called when room gets destroyed: room_destroyed
• New hooks for tracking mucsub subscriptions changes: muc_subscribed, muc_unsubscribed
• Make static hooks analyzer working again

MUC

• Service admins are allowed to recreate room even if archive is nonempty
• New option user_mucsub_from_muc_archive
• Avoid late arrival of get_disco_item response
• Handle get_subscribed_rooms call from mod_muc_room pid
• Fix room state cleanup from db on change of persistent option change
• Make get_subscribed_rooms work even for non-persistant rooms
• Allow non-moderator subscribers to get list of room subscribers

Offline

• New option bounce_groupchat: make it not bounce mucsub/groupchat messages
• New option use_mam_for_storage: fetch data from mam instead of spool table
• When applying limit of max msgs in spool check only spool size
• Do not store mucsub wrapped messages with no-store hint in offline storage
• Always store ActivityMarker messages
• Don't issue count/message fetch queries for offline from mam when not needed
• Properly handle infinity as max number of message in mam offline storage
• Sort messages by stanza_id when using mam storage in mod_offline
• Return correct value from count_offline_messages with mam storage option
• Make mod_offline put msg ignored by mam in spool when mam storage is on

SQL:

• Add SQL schemas for MQTT tables
• Report better errors on SQL terms decode failure
• Fix PostgreSQL compatibility in mod_offline_sql:remove_old_messages
• Fix handling of list arguments on pgsql
• Preliminary support for SQL in process_rosteritems command

Tests

• Add tests for user mucsub mam from muc mam
• Add tests for offline with mam storage
• Add tests for offline use_mam_for_storage
• Initial Docker environment to run ejabberd test suite
• Test offline:use_mam_for_storage, mam:user_mucsub_from_muc_archive used together

Websocket

• Add WebSockets support to mod_mqtt
• Return "Bad request" error when origin in websocket connection doesn't match
• Fix RFC6454 violation on websocket connection when validating Origin header
• Origin header validation on websocket connection

Other modules

• mod_adhoc: Use xml:lang from stanza when it's missing in element
• mod_announce: Add 'sessionid' attribute when required
• mod_bosh: Don't put duplicate polling attribute in bosh payload
• mod_http_api: Improve argument error messages and log messages
• mod_http_upload: Feed whole image to eimp:identify/1
• mod_http_upload: Log nicer warning on unknown host
• mod_http_upload: Case-insensitive host comparison
• mod_mqtt: Support other socket modules
• mod_push: Check for payload in encrypted messages

Version 19.02

Admin

• Fix in configure.ac the Erlang/OTP version: from 17.5 to 19.0
• reload_config command: Fix crash when sql_pool_size option is used
• reload_config command: Fix crash when SQL is not configured
• rooms_empty_destroy command: Several fixes to behave more conservative
• Fix serverhost->host parameter name for muc_(un)register_nick API

Configuration

• Allow specifying tag for listener for api_permission purposes
• Change default ciphers to intermediate
• Define default ciphers/protocol_option in example config
• Don't crash on malformed 'modules' section
• mod_mam: New option clear_archive_on_room_destroy to prevent archive removal on room destroy
• mod_mam: New option access_preferences to restrict who can modify the MAM preferences
• mod_muc: New option access_mam to restrict who can modify that room option
• mod_offline: New option store_groupchat to allow storing group chat messages

Core

• Add MQTT protocol support
• Fix (un)setting of priority
• Use OTP application startup infrastructure for starting dependencies
• Improve starting order of several dependencies

MAM

• mod_mam_mnesia/sql: Improve check for empty archive
• disallow room creation if archive not empty and clear_archive_on_room_destroy is false
• allow check if archive is empty for or user or room
• Additional checks for database failures

MUC

• Make sure that room_destroyed is called even when some code throws in terminate
• Update muc room state after adding extra access field to it
• MUC/Sub: Send mucsub subscriber notification events with from set to room jid

Shared Roster

• Don't perform roster push for non-local contacts
• Handle versioning result when shared roster group has remote account
• Fix SQL queries

Miscelanea

• CAPTCHA: Add no-store hint to CAPTCHA challenge stanzas
• HTTP: Reject http_api request with malformed Authentication header
• mod_carboncopy: Don't lose carbons on presence change or session resumption
• mod_mix: Fix submission-id and channel resource
• mod_ping: Fix ping IQ reply/timeout processing (17.x regression)
• mod_private: Hardcode item ID for PEP bookmarks
• mod_push: Improve notification error handling
• PIEFXIS: Fix user export when password is scrammed
• Prosody: Improve import of roster items, rooms and attributes
• Translations: fixed "make translations"
• WebAdmin: Fix support to restart module with new options

Version 18.12

• MAM data store compression
• Proxy protocol support
• MUC Self-Ping optimization (XEP-0410)
• Bookmarks conversion (XEP-0411)