ejabberd 2.1.6 release

ProcessOne - Nicolas Vérité - December 14, 2010

We are pleased to announce the bugfix release ejabberd 2.1.6.

ejabberd 2.1.6 is the seventh release in ejabberd 2.1.x branch, and includes a lot of bugfixes and improvements.

Main changes

Some of the changes include:

Account register

  • mod_register: New ip_access option restricts which IPs can register (EJAB-915)
  • mod_register: Default configuration allows registrations only from localhost
  • mod_register: New password_strength for entropy check (EJAB-1326)
  • mod_register: New captcha_protected option to require CAPTCHA (EJAB-1262)
  • mod_register_web: New module, with CAPTCHA support (EJAB-471)

BOSH

  • Don’t loop when there is nothing after a stream start (EJAB-1358)
  • Fix http-bind supervisor to support multiple vhosts (EJAB-1321)
  • Support to restart http-bind (EJAB-1318)
  • Support for X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (EJAB-1356)

Erlang/OTP compatibility

  • R11: Fix detection of Erlang R11 and older (EJAB-1287)
  • R12B5: Fix compatibility in ejabberd_http_bind.erl (EJAB-1343)
  • R14A: Make xml.c correctly compile (EJAB-1288)
  • R14A, R14B: Disapprove the use of R14A and R14B due to the rwlock bug
  • R14B: Use pg2 from this version in systems with older ones (EJAB-1349)

Listeners

  • Bind listener ports early and start accepting connections later
  • Fix a leak of ejabberd_receiver processes
  • Speed up ejabberd_s2s:is_service/2, allow_host/2 (EJAB-1319)
  • S2S: New option to require encryption (EJAB-495)
  • S2S: New option to reject connection if untrusted certificate (EJAB-464)
  • S2S: Include From attribute in the stream header of outgoing S2S connections
  • S2S: Fix domain_certfile tlsopts modifications for S2S connections (EJAB-1086)

Pubsub/PEP/Caps

  • Fix pubsub cross domain eventing (EJAB-1340)
  • Use one_queue IQ discipline by default
  • Implement lifetime for broken hashes
  • New CAPS processing

ODBC

  • Increase maximum restart strategy to handle some SQL timeouts
  • Support PostgreSQL 9.0 (EJAB-1359)
  • Use MEDIUMTEXT type for vcard avatars in MySQL schema (EJAB-1252)

Miscellanea

  • mod_shared_roster_ldap: New Shared Roster Groups using LDAP information
  • mod_privacy: Fix to allow block by group and subscription again
  • Support timezone West of UTC (EJAB-1301)
  • Support to change loglevel per module at runtime (EJAB-225)

Release notes

Check the Release Notes for a more complete list of changes: http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.6/

If you upgrade from ejabberd 2.0.5 or older, read carefully the release notes of ejabberd 2.1.0 too, because there were several changes in the installation path and the configuration options.

Tickets

For a more complete list of changes, you can check the list of solved tickets since previous version, available on ProcessOne bug tracker: http://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-2.1.6

Downloads

ejabberd 2.1.6 is available as source code package and binary installers for Linux 32 bits, 64 bits, Mac OS X Intel, and Windows: http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/downloads



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