xmpp.chapril.org-ejabberd/CHANGELOG.md

Version 22.10

Core:

• Add log_burst_limit_* options (#3865)
• Support ERL_DIST_PORT option to work without epmd
• Auth JWT: Catch all errors from jose_jwt:verify and log debugging details (#3890)
• CAPTCHA: Support @VERSION@ and @SEMVER@ in captcha_cmd option (#3835)
• HTTP: Fix unix socket support (#3894)
• HTTP: Handle invalid values in X-Forwarded-For header more gracefuly
• Listeners: Let module take over socket
• Listeners: Don't register listeners that failed to start in config reload
• mod_admin_extra: Handle empty roster group names
• mod_conversejs: Fix crash when mod_register not enabled (#3824)
• mod_host_meta: Complain at start if listener is not encrypted
• mod_ping: Fix regression on stop_ping in clustering context (#3817)
• mod_pubsub: Don't crash on command failures
• mod_shared_roster: Fix cache invalidation
• mod_shared_roster_ldap: Update roster_get hook to use #roster_item{}
• prosody2ejabberd: Fix parsing of scram password from prosody

MIX:

• Fix MIX's filter_nodes
• Return user jid on join
• mod_mix_pam: Add new MIX namespaces to disco features
• mod_mix_pam: Add handling of IQs with newer MIX namespaces
• mod_mix_pam: Do roster pushes on join/leave
• mod_mix_pam: Parse sub elements of the mix join remote result
• mod_mix_pam: Provide MIX channels as roster entries via hook
• mod_mix_pam: Display joined channels on webadmin page
• mod_mix_pam: Adapt to renaming of participant-id from mix_roster_channel record
• mod_roster: Change hook type from #roster{} to #roster_item{}
• mod_roster: Respect MIX <annotate/> setting
• mod_roster: Adapt to change of mix_annotate type to boolean in roster_query
• mod_shared_roster: Fix wrong hook type #roster{} (now #roster_item{})

MUC:

• Store role, and use it when joining a moderated room (#3330)
• Don't persist none role (#3330)
• Allow MUC service admins to bypass max_user_conferences limitation
• Show allow_query_users room option in disco info (#3830)
• Don't set affiliation to none if it's already none in mod_muc_room:process_item_change/3
• Fix mucsub unsubscribe notification payload to have muc_unsubcribe in it
• Allow muc_{un}subscribe hooks to modify sent packets
• Pass room state to muc_{un}subscribed hook
• The archive_msg export fun requires MUC Service for room archives
• Export mod_muc_admin:get_room_pid/2
• Export function for getting room diagnostics

SQL:

• Handle errors reported from begin/commit inside transaction
• Make connection close errors bubble up from inside sql transaction
• Make first sql reconnect wait shorter time
• React to sql driver process exit earlier
• Skip connection exit message when we triggered reconnection
• Add syntax_tools to applications, required when using ejabberd_sql_pt (#3869)
• Fix mam delete_old_messages_batch for sql backend
• Use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE for upsert on mysql
• Update mysql library
• Catch mysql connection being close earlier

Build:

• make all: Generate start scripts here, not in make install (#3821)
• make clean: Improve this and "distclean"
• make deps: Ensure deps configuration is ran when getting deps (#3823)
• make help: Update with recent changes
• make install: Don't leak DESTDIR in files copied by 'make install'
• make options: Fix error reporting on OTP24+
• make update: configure also in this case, similarly to make deps
• Add definition to detect OTP older than 25, used by ejabberd_auth_http
• Configure eimp with mix to detect image convert properly (#3823)
• Remove unused macro definitions detected by rebar3_hank
• Remove unused header files which content is already in xmpp library

Container:

• Get ejabberd-contrib sources to include them
• Copy .ejabberd-modules directory if available
• Do not clone repo inside container build
• Use make deps, which performs additional steps (#3823)
• Support ERL_DIST_PORT option to work without epmd
• Copy ejabberd-docker-install.bat from docker-ejabberd git and rename it
• Set a less frequent healthcheck to reduce CPU usage (#3826)
• Fix build instructions, add more podman examples

Installers:

• make-binaries: Include CAPTCHA script with release
• make-binaries: Edit rebar.config more carefully
• make-binaries: Fix linking of EIMP dependencies
• make-binaries: Fix GitHub release version checks
• make-binaries: Adjust Mnesia spool directory path
• make-binaries: Bump Erlang/OTP version to 24.3.4.5
• make-binaries: Bump Expat and libpng versions
• make-packages: Include systemd unit with RPM
• make-packages: Fix permissions on RPM systems
• make-installers: Support non-root installation
• make-installers: Override code on upgrade
• make-installers: Apply cosmetic changes

External modules:

• ext_mod: Support managing remote nodes in the cluster
• ext_mod: Handle correctly when COMMIT.json not found
• Don't bother with COMMIT.json user-friendly feature in automated user case
• Handle not found COMMIT.json, for example in GH Actions
• Add WebAdmin page for managing external modules

Workflows Actions:

• Update workflows to Erlang 25
• Update workflows: Ubuntu 18 is deprecated and 22 is added
• CI: Remove syntax_tools from applications, as fast_xml fails Dialyzer
• Runtime: Add Xref options to be as strict as CI

Version 22.05

Core

• C2S: Don't expect that socket will be available in c2s_terminated hook
• Event handling process hook tracing
• Guard against erlang:system_info(logical_processors) not always returning a number
• domain_balancing: Allow for specifying type only, without specifying component_number

MQTT

• Add TLS certificate authentication for MQTT connections
• Fix login when generating client id, keep connection record (#3593)
• Pass property name as expected in mqtt_codec (fixes login using MQTT 5)
• Support MQTT subscriptions spread over the cluster (#3750)

MUC

• Attach meta field with real jid to mucsub subscription events
• Handle user removal
• Stop empty MUC rooms 30 seconds after creation
• default_room_options: Update options configurable
• subscribe_room_many_max_users: New option in mod_muc_admin

mod_conversejs

• Improved options to support @HOST@ and auto values
• Set auth and register options based on ejabberd configuration
• conversejs_options: New option
• conversejs_resources: New option

PubSub

• mod_pubsub: Allow for limiting item_expire value
• mod_pubsub: Unsubscribe JID on whitelist removal
• node_pep: Add config-node and multi-items features (#3714)

SQL

• Improve compatibility with various db engine versions
• Sync old-to-new schema script with reality (#3790)
• Slight improvement in MSSQL testing support, but not yet complete

Other Modules

• auth_jwt: Checking if an user is active in SM for a JWT authenticated user (#3795)
• mod_configure: Implement Get List of Registered/Online Users from XEP-0133
• mod_host_meta: New module to serve host-meta files, see XEP-0156
• mod_mam: Store all mucsub notifications not only message notifications
• mod_ping: Delete ping timer if resource is gone after the ping has been sent
• mod_ping: Don't send ping if resource is gone
• mod_push: Fix notifications for pending sessions (XEP-0198)
• mod_push: Keep push session ID on session resume
• mod_shared_roster: Adjust special group cache size
• mod_shared_roster: Normalize JID on unset_presence (#3752)
• mod_stun_disco: Fix parsing of IPv6 listeners

Dependencies

• autoconf: Supported from 2.59 to the new 2.71
• fast_tls: Update to 1.1.14 to support OpenSSL 3
• jiffy: Update to 1.1.1 to support Erlang/OTP 25.0-rc1
• luerl: Update to 1.0.0, now available in hex.pm
• lager: This dependency is used only when Erlang is older than 22
• rebar2: Updated binary to work from Erlang/OTP 22 to 25
• rebar3: Updated binary to work from Erlang/OTP 22 to 25
• make update: Fix when used with rebar 3.18

Compile

• mix release: Copy include/ files for ejabberd, deps and otp, in mix.exs
• rebar3 release: Fix ERTS path in ejabberdctl
• configure.ac: Set default ejabberd version number when not using git
• mix.exs: Move some dependencies as optional
• mix.exs: No need to use Distillery, Elixir has built-in support for OTP releases (#3788)
• tools/make-binaries: New script for building Linux binaries
• tools/make-installers: New script for building command line installers

Start

• New make relive similar to ejabberdctl live without installing
• ejabberdctl: Fix some warnings detected by ShellCheck
• ejabberdctl: Mention in the help: etop, ping and started/stopped
• make rel: Switch to paths: conf/, database/, logs/
• mix.exs: Add -boot and -boot_var in ejabberdctl instead of adding vm.args
• tools/captcha.sh: Fix some warnings detected by ShellCheck

Commands

• Accept more types of ejabberdctl commands arguments as JSON-encoded
• delete_old_mam_messages_batch: New command with rate limit
• delete_old_messages_batch: New command with rate limit
• get_room_occupants_number: Don't request the whole MUC room state (#3684, #1964)
• get_vcard: Add support for MUC room vCard
• oauth_revoke_token: Add support to work with all backends
• room_unused_*: Optimize commands in SQL by reusing created_at
• rooms_unused_...: Let get_all_rooms handle global argument (#3726)
• stop|restart: Terminate ejabberd_sm before everything else to ensure sessions closing (#3641)
• subscribe_room_many: New command

Translations

• Updated Catalan
• Updated French
• Updated German
• Updated Portuguese
• Updated Portuguese (Brazil)
• Updated Spanish

Workflows

• CI: Publish CT logs and Cover on failure to an external GH Pages repo
• CI: Test shell scripts using ShellCheck (#3738)
• Container: New workflow to build and publish containers
• Installers: Add job to create draft release
• Installers: New workflow to build binary packages
• Runtime: New workflow to test compilation, rel, starting and ejabberdctl

Version 21.12

Commands

• create_room_with_opts: Fixed when using SQL storage
• change_room_option: Add missing fields from config inside mod_muc_admin:change_options
• piefxis: Fixed arguments of all commands

Modules

• mod_caps: Don't forget caps on XEP-0198 resumption
• mod_conversejs: New module to serve a simple page for Converse.js
• mod_http_upload_quota: Avoid max_days race
• mod_muc: Support MUC hats (XEP-0317, conversejs/prosody compatible)
• mod_muc: Optimize MucSub processing
• mod_muc: Fix exception in mucsub {un}subscription events multicast handler
• mod_multicast: Improve and optimize multicast routing code
• mod_offline: Allow storing non-composing x:events in offline
• mod_ping: Send ping from server, not bare user JID
• mod_push: Fix handling of MUC/Sub messages
• mod_register: New allow_modules option to restrict registration modules
• mod_register_web: Handle unknown host gracefully
• mod_register_web: Use mod_register configured restrictions

PubSub

• Add delete_expired_pubsub_items command
• Add delete_old_pubsub_items command
• Optimize publishing on large nodes (SQL)
• Support unlimited number of items
• Support max_items=max node configuration
• Bump default value for max_items limit from 10 to 1000
• Use configured max_items by default
• node_flat: Avoid catch-all clauses for RSM
• node_flat_sql: Avoid catch-all clauses for RSM

SQL

• Use INSERT ... ON CONFLICT in SQL_UPSERT for PostgreSQL >= 9.5
• mod_mam export: assign MUC entries to the MUC service
• MySQL: Fix typo when creating index
• PgSQL: Add SASL auth support, PostgreSQL 14
• PgSQL: Add missing SQL migration for table push_session
• PgSQL: Fix vcard_search definition in pgsql new schema

Other

• captcha-ng.sh: "sort -R" command not POSIX, added "shuf" and "cat" as fallback
• Make s2s connection table cleanup more robust
• Update export/import of scram password to XEP-0227 1.1
• Update Jose to 1.11.1 (the last in hex.pm correctly versioned)

Version 21.07

Compilation

• Add rebar3 3.15.2 binary
• Add support for mix to: ./configure --enable-rebar=mix
• Improved make rel to work with rebar3 and mix
• Add make dev to build a development release with rebar3 or mix
• Hex: Add sql/ and vars.config to Hex package files
• Hex: Update mix applications list to fix error p1_utils is listed as both...
• There are so many targets in Makefile... add make help
• Fix extauth.py failure in test suite with Python 3
• Added experimental support for GitHub Codespaces
• Switch test service from TravisCI to GitHub Actions

Commands:

• Display extended error message in ejabberdctl
• Remove SMP option from ejabberdctl.cfg, -smp was removed in OTP 21
• create_room: After creating room, store in DB if it's persistent
• help: Major changes in its usage and output
• srg_create: Update to use label parameter instead of name

Modules:

• ejabberd_listener: New send_timeout option
• mod_mix: Improvements to update to 0.14.1
• mod_muc_room: Don't leak owner JIDs
• mod_multicast: Routing for more MUC packets
• mod_multicast: Correctly strip only other bcc addresses
• mod_mqtt: Allow shared roster group placeholder in mqtt topic
• mod_pubsub: Several fixes when using PubSub with RSM
• mod_push: Handle MUC/Sub events correctly
• mod_shared_roster: Delete cache after performing change to be sure that in cache will be up to date data
• mod_shared_roster: Improve database and caching
• mod_shared_roster: Reconfigure cache when options change
• mod_vcard: Fix invalid_encoding error when using extended plane characters in vcard
• mod_vcard: Update econf:vcard() to generate correct vcard_temp record
• WebAdmin: New simple pages to view mnesia tables information and content
• WebSocket: Fix typos

SQL:

• MySQL Backend Patch for scram-sha512
• SQLite: When exporting for SQLite, use its specific escape options
• SQLite: Minor fixes for new_sql_schema support
• mod_privacy: Cast as boolean when exporting privacy_list_data to PostgreSQL
• mod_mqtt: Add mqtt_pub table definition for MSSQL
• mod_shared_roster: Add missing indexes to sr_group tables in all SQL databases

Version 21.04

API Commands:

• add_rosteritem/...: Add argument guards to roster commands
• get_user_subscriptions: New command for MUC/Sub
• remove_mam_for_user_with_peer: Fix when removing room archive
• send_message: Fix bug introduced in ejabberd 21.01
• set_vcard: Return modules errors

Build and setup:

• Allow ejabberd to be compatible as a dependency for an Erlang project using rebar3
• CAPTCHA: New question/answer-based CAPTCHA script
• --enable-lua: new configure option for luerl instead of --enable-tools
• Remove support for HiPE, it was experimental and Erlang/OTP 24 removes it
• Update sql_query record to handle the Erlang/OTP 24 compiler reports
• Updated dependencies to fix Dialyzer warnings

Miscellaneous:

• CAPTCHA: Update FORM_TYPE from captcha to register
• LDAP: fix eldap certificate verification
• MySQL: Fix for "specified key was too long"
• Translations: updated the Esperanto, Greek, and Japanese translations
• Websocket: Fix PONG responses

Modules:

• mod_block_strangers: If stanza is type error, allow it passing
• mod_caps: Don't request roster when not needed
• mod_caps: Skip reading roster in one more case
• mod_mam: Remove queryid from MAM fin element
• mod_mqtt: When deregistering XMPP account, close its MQTT sessions
• mod_muc: Take in account subscriber's affiliation when checking access to moderated room
• mod_muc: Use monitors to track online and hard-killed rooms
• mod_muc: When occupant is banned, remove his subscriptions too
• mod_privacy: Make fetching roster lazy
• mod_pubsub: Don't fail on PEP unsubscribe
• mod_pubsub: Fix gen_pubsub_node:get_state return value
• mod_vcard: Obtain and provide photo type in vCard LDAP

Version 21.01

Miscellaneous changes:

• log_rotate_size option: Fix handling of ‘infinity’ value
• mod_time: Fix invalid timezone
• Auth JWT: New check_decoded_jwt hook runs the default JWT verifier
• MUC: Allow non-occupant non-subscribed service admin send private MUC message
• MUC: New max_password and max_captcha_whitelist options
• OAuth: New oauth_cache_rest_failure_life_time option
• PEP: Skip reading pep nodes that we know won’t be requested due to caps
• SQL: Add sql script to migrate mysql from old schema to new
• SQL: Don’t use REPLACE for upsert when there are “-” fields.
• Shared Rosters LDAP: Add multi-domain support (and flexibility)
• Sqlite3: Fix dependency version
• Stun: Block loopback addresses by default
• Several documentation fixes and clarifications

Commands:

• decide_room: Use better fallback value for room activity time when skipping room
• delete_old_message: Fix when using sqlite spool table
• module_install: Make ext_mod compile module with debug_info flags
• room_unused_*: Don’t fetch subscribers list
• send_message: Don’t include empty in messages
• set_room_affiliation: Validate affiliations

Running:

• Docker: New Dockerfile and devcontainer.json
• New ejabberdctl foreground-quiet
• Systemd: Allow for listening on privileged ports
• Systemd: Integrate nicely with systemd

Translations:

• Moved gettext PO files to a new ejabberd-po repository
• Improved several translations: Catalan, Chinese, German, Greek, Indonesian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish.

Version 20.12

• Add support for SCRAM-SHA-{256,512}-{PLUS} authentication
• Don't use same value in cache for user don't exist and wrong password
• outgoing_s2s_ipv*_address: New options to set ipv4/ipv6 outbound s2s out interface
• s2s_send_packet: this hook now filters outgoing s2s stanzas
• start_room: new hook runs when a room process is started
• check_decoded_jwt: new hook to check decoded JWT after success authentication

• Admin

• Docker: Fix DB initialization
• New sql_odbc_driver option: choose the mssql ODBC driver
• Rebar3: Fully supported. Enable with ./configure --with-rebar=/path/to/rebar3
• systemd: start ejabberd in foreground

• Modules:

• MAM: Make sure that jid used as base in mam xml_compress is bare
• MAM: Support for MAM Flipped Pages
• MUC: Always show MucSub subscribers nicks
• MUC: Don't forget not-persistent rooms in load_permanent_rooms
• MUC Admin: Better error reporting
• MUC Admin: Fix commands with hibernated rooms
• MUC Admin: Many improvements in rooms_unused_list/destroy
• MUC Admin: create_room_with_opts Store options only if room starts
• Pubsub: Remove 'dag' node plugin documentation
• Push: Fix API call return type on error
• Push: Support cache config changes on reload
• Register: Allow for account-removal-only setup again
• Roster: Make roster subscriptions work better with invalid roster state in db
• Vcard: Fix vCard search by User when using Mnesia
• WebAdmin: Allow vhost admins to view WebAdmin menus
• WebAdmin: Don't do double utf-8 conversion on translated strings
• WebAdmin: Mark dangerous buttons with CSS
• WebSocket: Make websocket send put back pressure on c2s process

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 logging 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 automatically
• 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 amount 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 across 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 archive 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)