Release Note ejabberd 2.1.7 - 01 Jun 2011

ejabberd 2.1.7 is the eighth release in ejabberd 2.1.x branch, and includes a lot of bugfixes and improvements.

The changes are:

* BOSH and Web
- Clarify error message when BOSH query is sent to non-running module
- Keep the order of stanzas when BOSH sends several (EJAB-1374)
- Show configuration for HTTPS http_bind
- Support as read-only HTTP method not only GET, also HEAD
- The responses to HEAD must have empty Body

* CAPTCHA
- If the port number isn’t listener, then specify the protocol (EJAB-1418)
- New CAPTCHA limit
- New CAPTCHA whitelist support
- Only check system at startup if option is enabled
- Provide HTTPS URL in CAPTCHA form when listener has ‘tls’ option (EJAB-1406)
- Show captcha_limit option in the example config
- Support more captcha_host value formats (EJAB-1418)
- Throw error when captcha fails at server start, not later at runtime
- captcha_host must have the port number to get protocol (EJAB-1418)

* Core ejabberd
- Disable all entity expansions (EJAB-1451)
- Do not accept XML with undefined prefixes (EJAB-680)
- Make jlib:ip_to_list safe to use
- Make sure ‘closed’ event is correctly processed on every state
- New route_iq/5 accepting Timeout (EJAB-1398)
- Take into consideration internal queue length when sorting processes queues
- Use route instead of send_element to go through standard workflow

* Erlang/OTP compatibility
- Remove Type and Spec, backport list comprehensions, so R12B-5 can compile
- Tweak pg2_backport.erl to work with Erlang older than R13A (EJAB-1349)

* ODBC
- Don’t let presence-in privacy rule block a presence subscription (EJAB-255)
- Escape user input in mod_privacy_odbc (EJAB-1442)
- Try to improve support for roster_version in MSSQL (EJAB-1437)

* Pubsub/PEP/Caps
- Apply filtered notification to PEP last items (EJAB-1456)
- Fix empty pubsub payload check
- Owner can delete any items from its own node (EJAB-1445)
- Pubsub node maxitem forced to 0 if non persistent node (EJAB-1434)
- Reorganize the push_item function, and handle version not_found (EJAB-1420)

* Scripts
- ejabberd.init: Several fixes and improvements
- ejabberdctl: Escape output from ctlexec() to erl script (EJAB-1399)
- ejabberdctl: Fix bashism and mimic master branch (EJAB-1404)
- ejabberdctl: Fix space between INET_DIST_INTERFACE (EJAB-1416)
- ejabberdctl: New DIST_USE_INTERFACE restricts IP of erlang listen (EJAB-1404)
- ejabberdctl: New ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS that works since Erlang/OTP R14B03
- extauth: Fix delayed response of timeout was reused for next login (EJAB-1385)
- extauth: Forward old messages to newly spawned extauth process (EJAB-1385)
- extauth: If script crashes, ejabberd should restart it (EJAB-1428)

* XEP support
- mod_blocking: New XEP-0191 Simple Communications Blocking (EJAB-695)
- No need to inform that XEP-0237 is optional; clarified in XEP version 1.2

* Miscellanea:
- If a module start fails during server start, stop erlang (EJAB-1446)
- New Indonesian translation (EJAB-1407)
- LDAP: Note that ejabberd works with CGP LDAP server
- S2S: Handle Tigase’s unexpected version=1.0 (EJAB-1379)
- mod_irc: Send presence unavailable to the departing occupant (EJAB-1417)
- mod_last: Allow user to query his own Last activity
- mod_muc: Do not decrease MUC admin’s role/affiliation
- mod_muc: Send jid attribute when occupant is banned (EJAB-1432)
- mod_offline: Change c2s state before offline messages resending
- mod_ping: Use iqdisc no_queue by default (EJAB-1435)
- mod_pres_counter: Prevent subscription flood (EJAB-1388)
- mod_register Access now also controls account unregistrations
- mod_register: Clarify more the expected content of welcome_message option
- mod_shared_roster: Fix support for anonymous accounts in @all@ (EJAB-1264)
- mod_shared_roster: New @online@ directive (EJAB-1391)

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