xmpp.chapril.org-ejabberd/CHANGELOG.md

Version 20.07

• Changes in this version

• Add support for using unix sockets in listeners.
• Make this version compatible with erlang R23
• Make room permissions checks more strict for subscribers
• Fix problem with muc rooms crashing when using muc logger with some locales
• Limit stat calls that logger module issues
• Don't throw errors when using user_regexp acl rule and having non-matching host
• Fix problem with leaving old data when updating shared rosters
• Fix edge case that caused failure of resuming old sessions with stream management.
• Fix crash when room that was started with loging enabled was later changed to logging disabled
• Increase default shaper limits (this should help with delays for clients that are using jingle)
• Fix couple compatibility problems which prevented working on erlang R19
• Fix sending presence unavailable when session terminates for clients that only send directed presences (helps with sometimes not leaving muc rooms on disconnect).
• Prevent supervisor errors for sockets that were closed before they were passed to handler modules
• Make stun module work better with ipv6 addresses

Version 20.03

• Changes in this version

• Add support of ssl connection when connection to mysql database (configured with sql_ssl: true option)
• Experimental support for cockroachdb when configured with postgres connector
• Add cache and optimize queries issued by mod_shared_roster, this should greatly improve performance of this module when used with sql backend
• Fix problem with accessing webadmin
• Make webadmin work even when url is missing trailing slash
• When compiling external modules with ext_mod, use flags that were detected during compilation of ejabberd
• Make config changed to ldap options be updated when issued reload_config command
• Fix room_empty_destory command
• Fix reporting errors in send_stanza command when xml passed to it couldn't be passed correctly

Version 20.02

• Changes in this version

• Fix problems when trying to use string format with unicode values directly in xmpp nodes
• Add missing oauth_client table declaration in lite.new.sql
• Improve compatibility with CocroachDB
• Fix importing of piefxis files that did use scram passwords
• Fix importing of piefxis files that had multiple includes in them
• Update jiffy dependency
• Allow storage of emojis when using mssql database (Thanks to Christoph Scholz)
• Make ejabberd_auth_http be able to use auth_opts
• Make custom_headers options in http modules correctly override built-in values
• Fix return value of reload_config and dump_config commands

Version 20.01

• New features

• Implement OAUTH authentication in mqtt
• Make logging infrastructure use new logger introduced in Erlang (requires OTP22)
• New configuration parser/validator
• Initial work on being able to use CockroachDB as database backend
• Add gc command
• Add option to disable using prepared statements on Postgresql
• Implement routine for converting password to SCRAM format for all backends not only SQL
• Add infrastructure for having module documentation directly in individual module source code
• Generate man page automaticaly
• Implement copy feature in mod_carboncopy

• Fixes

• Make webadmin work with configurable paths
• Fix handling of result in xmlrpc module
• Make webadmin work even when accessed through not declared domain
• Better error reporting in xmlrpc
• Limit ammount of results returned by disco queries to pubsub nodes
• Improve validation of configured JWT keys
• Fix race condition in Redis/SQL startup
• Fix loading order of third party modules
• Fix reloading of ACL rules
• Make account removal requests properly route response
• Improve handling of malformed inputs in send_message command
• Omit push notification if storing message in offline storage failed
• Fix crash in stream management when timeout was not set

Version 19.09

• Admin

• The minimum required Erlang/OTP version is now 19.3
• Fix API call using OAuth (#2982)
• Rename MUC command arguments from Host to Service (#2976)

• Webadmin

• Don't treat 'Host' header as a virtual XMPP host (#2989)
• Fix some links to Guide in WebAdmin and add new ones (#3003)
• Use select fields to input host in WebAdmin Backup (#3000)
• Check account auth provided in WebAdmin is a local host (#3000)

• ACME

• Improve ACME implementation
• Fix IDA support in ACME requests
• Fix unicode formatting in ACME module
• Log an error message on IDNA failure
• Support IDN hostnames in ACME requests
• Don't attempt to create ACME directory on ejabberd startup
• Don't allow requesting certificates for localhost or IP-like domains
• Don't auto request certificate for localhost and IP-like domains
• Add listener for ACME challenge in example config

• Authentication

• JWT-only authentication for some users (#3012)

• MUC

• Apply default role after revoking admin affiliation (#3023)
• Custom exit message is not broadcast (#3004)
• Revert "Affiliations other than admin and owner cannot invite to members_only rooms" (#2987)
• When join new room with password, set pass and password_protected (#2668)
• Improve rooms_* commands to accept 'global' as MUC service argument (#2976)
• Rename MUC command arguments from Host to Service (#2976)

• SQL

• Fix transactions for Microsoft SQL Server (#2978)
• Spawn SQL connections on demand only

• Misc

• Add support for XEP-0328: JID Prep
• Added gsfonts for captcha
• Log Mnesia table type on creation
• Replicate Mnesia 'bosh' table when nodes are joined
• Fix certificate selection for s2s (#3015)
• Provide meaningful error when adding non-local users to shared roster (#3000)
• Websocket: don't treat 'Host' header as a virtual XMPP host (#2989)
• Fix sm ack related c2s error (#2984)
• Don't hide the reason why c2s connection has failed
• Unicode support
• Correctly handle unicode in log messages
• Fix unicode processing in ejabberd.yml

Version 19.08

• Administration

• Improve ejabberd halting procedure
• Process unexpected erlang messages uniformly: logging a warning
• mod_configure: Remove modules management

• Configuration

• Use new configuration validator
• ejabberd_http: Use correct virtual host when consulting trusted_proxies
• Fix Elixir modules detection in the configuration file
• Make option 'validate_stream' global
• Allow multiple definitions of host_config and append_host_config
• Introduce option 'captcha_url'
• mod_stream_mgmt: Allow flexible timeout format
• mod_mqtt: Allow flexible timeout format in session_expiry option

• Misc

• Fix SQL connections leakage
• New authentication method using JWT tokens
• extauth: Add 'certauth' command
• Improve SQL pool logic
• Add and improve type specs
• Improve extraction of translated strings
• Improve error handling/reporting when loading language translations
• Improve hooks validator and fix bugs related to hooks registration
• Gracefully close inbound s2s connections
• mod_mqtt: Fix usage of TLS
• mod_offline: Make count_offline_messages cache work when using mam for storage
• mod_privacy: Don't attempt to query 'undefined' active list
• mod_privacy: Fix race condition

• MUC

• Add code for hibernating inactive muc_room processes
• Improve handling of unexpected iq in mod_muc_room
• Attach mod_muc_room processes to a supervisor
• Restore room when receiving message or generic iq for not started room
• Distribute routing of MUC messages accross all CPU cores

• PubSub

• Fix pending nodes retrieval for SQL backend
• Check access_model when publishing PEP
• Remove deprecated pubsub plugins
• Expose access_model and publish_model in pubsub#metadata

Version 19.05

• Admin

• The minimum required Erlang/OTP version is now 19.1
• Provide a suggestion when unknown command, module, option or request handler is detected
• Deprecate some listening options: captcha, register, web_admin, http_bind and xmlrpc
• Add commands to get Mnesia info: mnesia_info and mnesia_table_info
• Fix Register command to respect mod_register's Access option
• Fixes in Prosody import: privacy and rooms
• Remove TLS options from the example config
• Improve request_handlers validator
• Fix syntax in example Elixir config file

• Auth

• Correctly support cache tags in ejabberd_auth
• Don't process failed EXTERNAL authentication by mod_fail2ban
• Don't call to mod_register when it's not loaded
• Make anonymous auth don't {de}register user when there are other resources

• Developer

• Rename listening callback from start/2 to start/3
• New hook called when room gets destroyed: room_destroyed
• New hooks for tracking mucsub subscriptions changes: muc_subscribed, muc_unsubscribed
• Make static hooks analyzer working again

• MUC

• Service admins are allowed to recreate room even if archiv is nonempty
• New option user_mucsub_from_muc_archive
• Avoid late arrival of get_disco_item response
• Handle get_subscribed_rooms call from mod_muc_room pid
• Fix room state cleanup from db on change of persistent option change
• Make get_subscribed_rooms work even for non-persistant rooms
• Allow non-moderator subscribers to get list of room subscribers

• Offline

• New option bounce_groupchat: make it not bounce mucsub/groupchat messages
• New option use_mam_for_storage: fetch data from mam instead of spool table
• When applying limit of max msgs in spool check only spool size
• Do not store mucsub wrapped messages with no-store hint in offline storage
• Always store ActivityMarker messages
• Don't issue count/message fetch queries for offline from mam when not needed
• Properly handle infinity as max number of message in mam offline storage
• Sort messages by stanza_id when using mam storage in mod_offline
• Return correct value from count_offline_messages with mam storage option
• Make mod_offline put msg ignored by mam in spool when mam storage is on

• SQL:

• Add SQL schemas for MQTT tables
• Report better errors on SQL terms decode failure
• Fix PostgreSQL compatibility in mod_offline_sql:remove_old_messages
• Fix handling of list arguments on pgsql
• Preliminary support for SQL in process_rosteritems command

• Tests

• Add tests for user mucsub mam from muc mam
• Add tests for offline with mam storage
• Add tests for offline use_mam_for_storage
• Initial Docker environment to run ejabberd test suite
• Test offline:use_mam_for_storage, mam:user_mucsub_from_muc_archive used together

• Websocket

• Add WebSockets support to mod_mqtt
• Return "Bad request" error when origin in websocket connection doesn't match
• Fix RFC6454 violation on websocket connection when validating Origin header
• Origin header validation on websocket connection

• Other modules

• mod_adhoc: Use xml:lang from stanza when it's missing in element
• mod_announce: Add 'sessionid' attribute when required
• mod_bosh: Don't put duplicate polling attribute in bosh payload
• mod_http_api: Improve argument error messages and log messages
• mod_http_upload: Feed whole image to eimp:identify/1
• mod_http_upload: Log nicer warning on unknown host
• mod_http_upload: Case-insensitive host comparison
• mod_mqtt: Support other socket modules
• mod_push: Check for payload in encrypted messages

Version 19.02

• Admin

• Fix in configure.ac the Erlang/OTP version: from 17.5 to 19.0
• reload_config command: Fix crash when sql_pool_size option is used
• reload_config command: Fix crash when SQL is not configured
• rooms_empty_destroy command: Several fixes to behave more conservative
• Fix serverhost->host parameter name for muc_(un)register_nick API

• Configuration

• Allow specifying tag for listener for api_permission purposes
• Change default ciphers to intermediate
• Define default ciphers/protocol_option in example config
• Don't crash on malformed 'modules' section
• mod_mam: New option clear_archive_on_room_destroy to prevent archive removal on room destroy
• mod_mam: New option access_preferences to restrict who can modify the MAM preferences
• mod_muc: New option access_mam to restrict who can modify that room option
• mod_offline: New option store_groupchat to allow storing group chat messages

• Core

• Add MQTT protocol support
• Fix (un)setting of priority
• Use OTP application startup infrastructure for starting dependencies
• Improve starting order of several dependencies

• MAM

• mod_mam_mnesia/sql: Improve check for empty archive
• disallow room creation if archive not empty and clear_archive_on_room_destroy is false
• allow check if archive is empty for or user or room
• Additional checks for database failures

• MUC

• Make sure that room_destroyed is called even when some code throws in terminate
• Update muc room state after adding extra access field to it
• MUC/Sub: Send mucsub subscriber notification events with from set to room jid

• Shared Roster

• Don't perform roster push for non-local contacts
• Handle versioning result when shared roster group has remote account
• Fix SQL queries

• Miscelanea

• CAPTCHA: Add no-store hint to CAPTCHA challenge stanzas
• HTTP: Reject http_api request with malformed Authentication header
• mod_carboncopy: Don't lose carbons on presence change or session resumption
• mod_mix: Fix submission-id and channel resource
• mod_ping: Fix ping IQ reply/timeout processing (17.x regression)
• mod_private: Hardcode item ID for PEP bookmarks
• mod_push: Improve notification error handling
• PIEFXIS: Fix user export when password is scrammed
• Prosody: Improve import of roster items, rooms and attributes
• Translations: fixed "make translations"
• WebAdmin: Fix support to restart module with new options

Version 18.12

• MAM data store compression
• Proxy protocol support (http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt)
• MUC Self-Ping optimization (XEP-0410)
• Bookmarks conversion (XEP-0411)