Release Notes
			   ejabberd 2.0.0 beta 1
			     xx december 2007

  ejabberd 2.0.0 is a major new version for ejabberd adding plenty of
  new features, performance improvements and architectural changes.

  ejabberd 2.0.0 includes near that 200 improvements over ejabberd
  1.1.x. A complete list of changes can be retrieved from:
   http://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-2.0.0

  The new code can be downloaded from ejabberd download page:
     http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/


   Recent changes include:


* Clustering and Architecture

- New front-end and back-end cluster architecture for better
  scalability and robustness. Back-end nodes are able to run a fully
  fault-tolerant XMPP router and services, but you can now deployed
  many front-end nodes to share the load without needed to synchronize
  state with the back-ends.
- All components now run in cluster mode (Multi-User chat service and
  file transfer proxy).
- New load balancing algorithm to support Multi-User chat clustering
  and gateways clustering. More generally it supports any external
  component load balacing.
- ejabberd watchdog to 
- Traffic shapers are now supported on components.

* Publish and Subscribe

- Complete rewrite of the PubSub module. The new PubSub module is
  plugin-based, allowing developer to create new node type. Any
  application can be plugged to ejabberd and provide rich presence as
  a pubsub plugin.
- Personal Eventing via Pubsub support (XEP-0163). This module is
  implemented as a PubSub service. It supports user mood (XEP-107),
  User Tune (XEP-118), user location (XEP-0080) or user avatar
  (XEP-0084) for example.


* Server to Server (s2s)

- More robust code with connection timeout implementation.
- Support for multiple s2s connections per domain.
- s2s whitelist and blacklist support.


* Multi-user chat

- Clustering support


* File transfer

- Proxy65 file transfer proxy (XEP-0065). The proxy can run in
  cluster.


* Authentication

- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) support on *nix systems.
- External Authentication protocol is now fully documented.


* Web client support

- XEP-
- HTTP module can now server static document. It is needed for
  high-performance Web2.0 chat / IM application. System administrators
  can now avoid using a proxy (like Apache) that handles much less
  simultaneous than ejabberd HTTP module.
- Added limitation enforcement on HTTP poll and HTTP bind modules.


* System administration

- Dynamic log levels: Improved logging with more log levels. You can
  now change the loglevel at run time. No performance penality is
  involved when

- Better command-line tool, with more options available.


* Build and Installer

- Many launch script improvements.
- New translations. The binary installer is now available in Chinese,
  Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian.
- Makefile now implements uninstall command
- Full MacOSX compliance in Makefile
- Configure script is clever at finding libraries in unusual places.
				   
				   
Bugs report

  You can officially report bugs on Process-one support site:
  https://support.process-one.net/

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