Release Note ejabberd 2.1.4 - 04 Jun 2010

ejabberd 2.1.4 includes many small bugfixes and improvements.

Read more details about the changes in: ProcessOne support site

Download the source code and installers from: ejabberd download page

This is the full list of changes:

Authentication

• Extauth: Optionally cache extauth users in mnesia (EJAB-641)
• LDAP: Allow inband password change (EJAB-199)
• LDAP: Extensible match support (EJAB-722)
• LDAP: New option ldap_tls_verify is added (EJAB-1229)
• PAM: New option pam_userinfotype to provide username or JID (EJAB-652)

HTTP

• Add xml default content type
• Don't show HTTP request in logs, because reveals password (EJAB-1231)
• Move HTTP session timeout log from warning level to info
• New Access rule webadmin_view for read-only

HTTP-Bind (BOSH)

• Change max inactivity from 30 to 120 seconds
• Export functions to facilitate prebinding methods
• Use dirty_delete when removing the session
• Remove an unneeded delay of 100 milliseconds

Pubsub, PEP and Caps

• Enforce pubsub#presence_based_delivery (EJAB-1221)
• Enforce pubsub#show_values subscription option (EJAB-1096)
• Fix error code when unsubscribing from a non-existent node
• Fix to send node notifications (EJAB-1225)
• Full support for XEP-0115 v1.5 (EJAB-1223)(EJAB-1189)
• Make last_item_cache feature to be cluster aware
• Prevent orphaned pubsub node (EJAB-1233)
• Send created node notifications

Other

• Bounce messages when closing c2s session
• Bugfixes when handling Service Discovery to contacts (EJAB-1207)
• Compilation of ejabberd_debug.erl is now optional
• Don't send error stanza as reply to error stanza (EJAB-930)
• Don't store blocked messages in offline queue
• Reduce verbosity of log when captcha_cmd is checked but not configured
• Use a standard method to get a random seed (EJAB-1229)
• Commands: new update_list and update to update modified modules (EJAB-1237)
• Localization: Updated most translations
• MUC: Refactor code to reduce calls to get_affiliation and get_role
• ODBC: Add created_at column also to PostgreSQL schema
• Vcard: Automatic vcard avatar addition in presence

Upgrading From previous ejabberd releases:

If you use PostgreSQL, maybe you want to add the column created_at to several tables. This is only a suggestion; ejabberd doesn't use that column. Add it to your existing database executing those SQL statements:

ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();
ALTER TABLE rosterusers ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();
ALTER TABLE spool ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();
ALTER TABLE vcard ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();
ALTER TABLE privacy_list ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();
ALTER TABLE privacy_storage ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT now();

Bug reports

You can officially report bugs on the ProcessOne support site