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+                              Release Notes
+                             ejabberd 2.1.3
+
+  ejabberd 2.1.3 is the third release in ejabberd 2.1.x branch.
+
+  ejabberd 2.1.3 includes many bugfixes, and some improvements.
+  More details of those fixes can be retrieved from:
+     http://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-2.1.3
+
+  The new code can be downloaded from ejabberd download page:
+     http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/
+
+
+  This is the full list of changes:
+
+* Client connections
+- Avoid 'invalid' value in iq record
+- Avoid resending stream:error stanzas on terminate (EJAB-1180)
+- Close also legacy sessions that were half connected (EJAB-1165)
+- iq_query_info/1 now returns 'invalid' if XMLNS is invalid
+- New ejabberd_c2s option support: max_fsm_queue
+- Rewrite mnesia counter functions to use dirty_update_counter (EJAB-1177)
+- Run user_receive_packet also when sending offline messages (EJAB-1193)
+- Use p1_fsm behaviour in c2s FSM (EJAB-1173)
+
+* Clustering
+- Fix cluster race condition in route read
+- New command to set master Mnesia node
+- Use mnesia:async_dirty when cleaning table from failed node
+
+* Documentation
+- Add quotes in documentation of some erl arguments (EJAB-1191)
+- Add option access_from (EJAB-1187)
+- Add option max_fsm_queue (EJAB-1185)
+- Fix documentation installation, no need for executable permission (EJAB-1170)
+- Fix typo in EJABBERD_BIN_PATH (EJAB-891)
+- Fix typos in example config comments (EJAB-1192)
+
+* ejabberdctl
+- Support concurrent connections with bound connection names
+- Add support for Jot in ctl and TTY in debug
+- Support help command names with old - characters
+- Fix to really use the variable ERL_PROCESSES
+
+* Erlang compatibility
+- Don't call queue:filter/2 to keep compatibility with older Erlang versions
+- Use alternative of file:read_line/1 to not require R13B02
+
+* HTTP
+- Add new debugging hook to the http receiving process
+- Allow a request_handler to serve a file in root of HTTP
+
+* HTTP-Bind (BOSH)
+- Cross-domain HTTP-Bind support (EJAB-1168)
+- Hibernate http-bind process after handling a request
+- Reduce verbosity of HTTP Binding log messages
+
+* LDAP
+- Document ldap_dn_filter, fetch only needed attributes in search (EJAB-1204)
+- Use "%u" pattern as default for ldap_uids (EJAB-1203)
+
+* Localization
+- Fix German translation (EJAB-1195)
+- Fix Russian translation
+
+* ODBC
+- Fix MSSQL support, which was broken (EJAB-1201)
+- Improved SQL reconnect behaviour
+
+* Pubsub, PEP and Caps
+- Add extended stanza addressing 'replyto' on PEP (EJAB-1198)
+- Add pubsub#purge_offline (EJAB-1186)
+- Fix pubsub#title option (EJAB-1190)
+- Fix remove_user for node subscriptions (EJAB-1172)
+- Optimizations in mod_caps
+
+* Other
+- mod_register: Add new acl access_from, default is to deny
+- mod_sic: new module for the experimental XEP-0279 Server IP Check (EJAB-1205)
+- PIEFXIS: Catch errors when exporting to PIEFXIS file (EJAB-1178)
+- Proxy65: new option "hostname" (EJAB-838)
+- Roster: Fix resending authorization problem
+- Shared Roster Groups: get contacts nickname from vcard (EJAB-114)
+- S2S: Improved s2s connections clean up (EJAB-1202)
+
+
+  Bug reports
+
+  You can officially report bugs on ProcessOne support site:
+  http://support.process-one.net/