The Blog

Where we write about what we build.

Writing on real-time messaging, open protocols, distributed systems, and the engineering decisions behind software that runs at scale.

Hello Fediverse !

Just a quick note to let you know that we have suspended our activity on Twitter. It has been in the past a good place

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23 Nov 2022

ejabberd turns 20

ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago.

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16 Nov 2022

ejabberd 22.10

This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

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28 Oct 2022

Matrix protocol added to ejabberd

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

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13 Oct 2022

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.

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16 Jun 2022

ejabberd

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.

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17 May 2022

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.

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9 Dec 2021

ejabberd 21.07

This new ejabberd 21.07 release includes many improvements and bugfixes in more than 130 commits.

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26 Jul 2021

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

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7 Apr 2021

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.

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7 Apr 2021