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Release Note ejabberd 0.9.8 - 01 Aug 2005
This document describes the main changes in ejabberd 0.9.8. This version prepares the way for the release of ejabberd 1.0, which is due later this year.
The code can be downloaded from the download page.
For more detailed information, please refer to ejabberd User Guide.
Recent changes include....
Enhanced virtual hosting
Virtual hosting applies to many more setting options and features and is transparent. Virtual hosting accepts different parameters for different virtual hosts regarding the following features: authentication method, access control lists and access rules, users management, statistics, and shared roster. The web interface gives access to each virtual host's parameters.
Enhanced Publish-Subscribe module
ejabberd's Publish-Subscribe module integrates enhancements coming from J-EAI, an XMPP-based integration server built on ejabberd. ejabberd thus supports Publish-Subscribe node configuration. It is possible to define nodes that should be persistent, and the number of items to persist. Besides that, it is also possible to define various notification parameters, such as the delivery of the payload with the notifications, and the notification of subscribers when some changes occur on items. Other examples are: the maximum size of the items payload, the subscription approvers, the limitation of the notification to online users only, etc.
Code reorganisation and update
- The mod_register module has been cleaned up.
- ODBC support has been updated and several bugs have been fixed.
Development API
To ease the work of Jabber/XMPP developers, a filter_packet hook has been added. As a result it is possible to develop plugins to filter or modify packets flowing through ejabberd.
Translations
- Translations have been updated to support the new Publish-Subscribe features.
- A new Brazilian Portuguese translation has been contributed.
Web interface
The CSS stylesheet from the web interface is W3C compliant.
Installers
Installers are provided for Microsoft Windows and Linux/x86. The Linux installer includes Erlang ASN.1 modules for LDAP authentication support.
Bugfixes
This release contains several bugfixes and architectural changes. Among other bugfixes include improvements in LDAP authentication. Please refer to the ChangeLog file supplied with this release regarding all improvements in ejabberd.
References
The ejabberd feature sheet helps comparing with other Jabber/XMPP servers. See the documentation page.
Contributed tutorials of interest are:
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