ejabberd joins Google Summer of Code 2018

Each year since 2015 ejabberd has joined other Erlang projects in the BEAM Community to invite student developers to Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing them into open source software development. Through this program, students have an opportunity to work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming […]

ejabberd 18.01

ejabberd 18.01 is a bugfix release. This version of ejabberd Community Server is a good candidate for Linux distributions packaging as it concludes a year of development and stabilised all recent changes for production use. Fixes Fix TLS driver memory management Fix privacy_set command Report ‘fs’ support as unavailable on SunOS Let mod_block_strangers bounce an […]

ejabberd 2017 year in review

This was an amazing year for ejabberd! With almost regular monthly updates, tons of new features and improvements, we worked hard to make ejabberd the best XMPP server available. Let’s take a look at the past year, and let us wish you a Happy New Year! January – 17.01 We started last year with a […]

ejabberd 17.12

To celebrate a culmination of many efforts in 2017 to make ejabberd the best XMPP server ever, we are happy to announce 17.12 which comes with many improvements and bugfixes. 2017 has been the biggest year ever for ejabberd. Please, send us feedback to help us build an even stronger community and do even better […]

ejabberd 17.11 – Happy Birthday ejabberd !

Happy birthday ejabberd ! Ejabberd has been the leading choice to serve reliable XMPP domains for 15 years, and we are happy to announce yet another great new version of your favorite server. This version includes great new features from Google Summer of Code, many improvements and a lot of bug fixes. By the way, […]

ejabberd 17.09

ejabberd 17.09 is out! This release mostly contains bugfix and adds few improvements. New feature New mod_avatar module The purpose of the module is to cope with legacy and modern XMPP clients posting avatars. It automatically converts vCard based avatars (XEP-0153) to PEP based avatars (XEP-0084) and vice versa. Also, the module supports conversion between […]

ejabberd 17.08

Happy summer with ejabberd 17.08 ! This release includes great improvements and new features. It also includes fixes and closes the biggest milestone about refactor we’ve made last couple of months. If you have issues with 17.04 or troubles using PEP, upgrade to 17.08 will fix most known issues. New features Introduce ‘hosts’ option The […]

ejabberd 17.07 bugfix release

ejabberd 17.07 includes an important security fix. Except this fix, the release is completely equivalent to 17.06. If you run any version from 17.03 to 17.06, it’s possible to consume all available ports regardless of ERL_MAX_PORTS. You should upgrade to 17.07 as soon as possible if you are running a public server. Please, note that […]

ejabberd 17.06

ejabberd 17.06 includes a lot of improvements over the previous 17.04 release. To name the most important ones: new caching system, Riak support for several modules and introduction of Certificate Manager. Certificate Manager is a feature that has been requested by many organisations, allowing administrators to manage their certificate more easily. From now, starting ejabberd […]

ejabberd 17.06-beta

ejabberd 17.06-beta includes a lot of improvements over the previous 17.04 release. To name the most important ones: new caching system, Riak support for several modules and introduction of Certificate Manager. Certificate Manager is a feature that has been requested by many organisations, allowing administrators to manage their certificate more easily. From now, starting ejabberd […]

ejabberd 17.04

Less than a month after previous release, ejabberd 17.04 is out with bug-fixes and new features: Redis and SQL backends can now be used to store some RAM tables, the same way Mnesia is doing. This release fixes few regressions from previous refactor. If you have troubles using PEP or using external modules with ejabberd […]

ejabberd 17.03

New modular code, flexible core backend, dynamic configuration reload, spam protection and routing API changes. These are the most interesting improvements coming in 17.03. As usual, we also included several other improvements and many bug-fixes. In summary, almost 3K new lines of code and other 10K changed lines. Many thanks to all of you which […]

ejabberd 17.03-beta

New modular code, flexible core backend, dynamic configuration reload, spam protection and routing API changes. These are the most interesting improvements coming in 17.03 and we are very happy to share a first snapshot as a beta version. As usual, we also included several other improvements and many bug-fixes. In summary, almost 3K new lines […]

ejabberd 17.01

We’re pleased to announce the first version of ejabberd for 2017. This new ejabberd 17.01 follows closely the previous release. It includes mostly bug fixes over all the previous refactors. Ejabberd 17.01 is a rock-solid stable base for upcoming improvements. It will give you the best experience you ever had with ejabberd. If you ever […]

ejabberd 16.12

2016 was year of several major code refactors and improvements for ejabberd. From Elixir support, to test suite and code clean up and modernization. After ejabberd 16.09 which brings a lot of improvements, ejabberd 16.12 includes a big refactor we have been preparing for long time, and a couple of new features that pursue the […]