ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next. ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
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Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd. All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website: https://repo.process-one.net What packages are available?… Continue reading Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
ejabberd 21.07
This new ejabberd 21.07 release includes many improvements and bugfixes in more than 130 commits.
ejabberd 21.04
The new ejabberd 21.04 release includes many bugfixes and a few improvements. This release includes minor improvements to fully support Erlang/OTP 24 and Rebar3. At the same time, it maintains support back to the old Erlang/OTP 19.3 and Rebar2.
Install ejabberd on Windows 7 using Docker Toolbox
Did you read our previous tutorial how to install ejabberd on Windows 10 using Docker Desktop? Do you have a Microsoft system older than Windows 10? Don’t worry, instead of Docker Desktop you can use Docker Toolbox, and this tutorial guides you over the process.
Install ejabberd on Windows 10 using Docker Desktop
Do you want to install ejabberd on your Windows 10 machine? Do you miss the binary installers for Windows? Don’t worry, you can install ejabberd on Windows 10 using Docker Desktop, and this tutorial guides you through the process.
Publish-Subscribe pattern and PubSub in ejabberd
Publish–Subscribe is a messaging pattern where senders of messages, called publishers, do not send the messages directly to specific receivers, called subscribers. Instead, publishers categorize messages into channels without knowledge of which subscribers, if any, there may be. Similarly, subscribers express interest in one or more channels and only receive messages that are of interest,… Continue reading Publish-Subscribe pattern and PubSub in ejabberd
Install and configure MariaDB with ejabberd
By default, ejabberd uses the Mnesia internal database. It is great for home and small office environments, but in larger companies, as the amount of chat logs and users grows, we need more scalability. Today, I will show you how to install MariaDB, a MySQL-compatible database, migrate your data and configure ejabberd to use MariaDB… Continue reading Install and configure MariaDB with ejabberd
ejabberd 21.01
Six weeks after previous release, ejabberd 21.01 contains as usual several improvements and bugfixes. There are no changes required in the API, configuration or databases. Fixed sqlite3 dependency version erlang-sqlite3 versions got messed up, causing ejabberd build to regress to 1.1.6 from Jan 2018 when using rebar3 which fails to build with OTP23. Update to… Continue reading ejabberd 21.01
ejabberd 20.12
We are pleased to announce ejabberd 20.12. This release, just in time for the New Year’s, includes several new features and many improvements & bugfixes. Most notably, ejabberd now works with the Microsoft ODBC Driver for the SQL Server support. With a new config option, sql_odbc_driver, you can explicitly specify the path to the ODBC… Continue reading ejabberd 20.12
Jamler XMPP server, an OCaml experiment based on ejabberd 2.1.8
During the interview with Alexey Shchepin we had last week, the author of ejabberd mentioned Jamler. Did you notice? Jamler is an experimental XMPP server, developed mainly in 2011 as an attempt to rewrite ejabberd in OCaml. The goal was to see how static typing would affect ejabberd and its code originally written in Erlang,… Continue reading Jamler XMPP server, an OCaml experiment based on ejabberd 2.1.8
Interview with Alexey Shchepin, creator of ejabberd
This month, ejabberd is 18 years old. On this occasion we talked with Alexey Shchepin, who created ejabberd in November 2002. Today, ejabberd is one of the most popular XMPP servers in the world, used by millions of people, devices and many big companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, or CCP Games (famous for the EVE Online… Continue reading Interview with Alexey Shchepin, creator of ejabberd
Happy 18th Birthday, ejabberd!
This month marks 18 years of ejabberd development. Alexey Shchepin started ejabberd in November 2002. Since then it has grown to a super-scalable and rock-solid real-time communication server.