Final release note after many fixes from the ejabberd Chatroom and

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This document describes the main changes in ejabberd 0.9.8. This
version prepares the release of ejabberd 1.0, which is due later
this year.
version prepares the way for the release of ejabberd 1.0, which
is due later this year.
The code can be downloaded from the Process-one website
(http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/)
The code can be downloaded from the Process-one website:
http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/
For more detailed informations, please refer to ejabberd User Guide
on Process-one website (http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/).
For more detailed information, please refer to ejabberd User Guide
on the Process-one website:
http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/docs.html
Recent changes include....
Enhanced virtual hosting
Virtual hosting now applies to much more setting options and
features and is now transparent. Virtual hosting accepts different
Virtual hosting applies to many more setting options and
features and is transparent. Virtual hosting accepts different
parameters for different virtual hosts regarding the following
features: Authentication method, Access Control List and access
rules, users management, statistics and shared roster. The web
interface now gives access to each virtual host's parameters.
features: authentication method, access control lists and access
rules, users management, statistics, and shared roster. The web
interface gives access to each virtual host's parameters.
Enhanced publish and subscribe module
Enhanced Publish-Subscribe module
ejabberd pubsub module now integrates enhancements coming from
J-EAI, an XMPP-based integration server built on ejabberd. ejabberd
thus supports publish and subscribe node configuration. It is
possible to define nodes that should be persistant, and the number
of items to persist. It is also possible to define various
notification parameters, such as the delivery of the payload with
the notifications, the notification of subscribers when some
changes occur on items, the maximum size of the items payload, the
ejabberd's Publish-Subscribe module integrates enhancements
coming from J-EAI, an XMPP-based integration server built on
ejabberd. ejabberd thus supports Publish-Subscribe node
configuration. It is possible to define nodes that should be
persistent, and the number of items to persist. Besides that, it
is also possible to define various notification parameters, such
as the delivery of the payload with the notifications, and the
notification of subscribers when some changes occur on items.
Other examples are: the maximum size of the items payload, the
subscription approvers, the limitation of the notification to
online users only, etc.
Code reorganisation and update
- The mod_register have been cleaned up.
- ODBC support have been updated and several bugs have been fixed.
- The mod_register module has been cleaned up.
- ODBC support has been updated and several bugs have been fixed.
Development API
To ease the work of Jabber/XMPP developers, a filter_packet hook
has been added. It is thus possible to develop specific plugin to
has been added. As a result it is possible to develop plugins to
filter or modify packets flowing through ejabberd.
Translations
Translations have been updated to support the new pubsub features.
A new Brazilian Portuguese translation has been added.
- Translations have been updated to support the new Publish-Subscribe features.
- A new Brazilian Portuguese translation has been contributed.
Web interface
CSS stylesheets are now W3C compliant.
- The CSS stylesheet from the web interface is W3C compliant.
Installers
Installers are now provided for Microsoft Windows and Linux/x86. The
Linux installer now includes Erlang ASN.1 modules for LDAP
Installers are provided for Microsoft Windows and Linux/x86. The
Linux installer includes Erlang ASN.1 modules for LDAP
authentication support.
Bugfixes
This release contains several bugfixes and architectural
changes. Among other things Bugfixes include improvements on LDAP
authentication. Please refer to the ChangeLog file supplied with
this release for details of all improvements in the ejabberd code.
- This release contains several bugfixes and architectural
changes. Among other bugfixes include improvements in LDAP
authentication. Please refer to the ChangeLog file supplied
with this release regarding all improvements in ejabberd.
References
The ejabberd feature sheet helps to make comparison with other
Jabber/XMPP servers:
The ejabberd feature sheet helps comparing with other Jabber/XMPP
servers:
http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/docs/features.pdf
Contributed tutorials are available:
Contributed tutorials of interest are:
- Migration from Jabberd1.4 to ejabberd:
http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/jabberd1-to-ejabberd
- Migration from Jabberd2 to ejabberd:
http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/jabberd2-to-ejabberd
- Transport configuration for connecting to other networks:
http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/tutorials-transports
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