Announcing ejabberd 2.1.0 RC2

Jérôme Sautret
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The second release candidate of ejabberd 2.1 has been published by ProcessOne.

ejabberd 2.1.0 RC2 is available as source code as well as binary installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows from here: https://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/.

The readme text is here: https://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/README.txt.

The list of changes in RC2 compared to RC1 are:

  • Use queue to reduce quadratic time effort on selective receive.
  • Pack presences stored in C2S processes to reduce memory consumption.
  • Support gen_tcp send timeout to close the connection if the destination has disconnected ungracefully or cannot keep up with the rate at which we are sending data.
  • Pubsub node names are used verbatim, without separating by slash, unless a node plugin uses its own separator.
  • Many miscellaneous fixes and improvements in PubSub, PEP and Caps.
  • New general option max_fsm_queue.
  • New option backlog for ejabberd_listener to increase TCP backlog.
  • New mod_pubsub option max_items_node.
  • New CAPTCHA example script.
  • In default config, only local accounts can create rooms and pubsub nodes.
  • New Greek translation. Also updated Catalan and Polish.
  • Improve compilation in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

The involved tickets can be browsed here: https://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-2.1.0_rc2. You can report problems by creating new tickets here: https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB.