A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.
-
Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks
-
Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id
-
Many new options and features
A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:
Added support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks
XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks
describes how to keep a list of chatroom bookmarks as PEP nodes on the PubSub service. That’s an improvement over
XEP-0048: Bookmark Storage
which described how to store in a single Private XML Storage or a single PEP node.
mod_private
now supports the bookmark conversion described in XEP-0402:
ejabberd synchronizes XEP-0402 bookmarks, private storage bookmarks and XEP-0048 bookmarks.
In this sense, the
bookmarks_to_pep
command performs an initial synchronization of bookmarks, getting bookmarks from Private XML Storage and stores them in PEP nodes as described both in XEP-0048 and XEP-0402.
New
mod_muc_occupantid
module with support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id
XEP-0421: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs
is useful in anonymous MUC rooms, message correction and message retractions. Right now the only client found to support XEP-0421 is
Dino
, since version 0.4.
ejabberd now implements XEP-0421 0.1.0 in
mod_muc_occupantid
. The module is quite simple and has no configurable options: just enabled it in the
modules
section in your
ejabberd.yml
configuration file and
restart
ejabberd or
reload_config
.
New option
auth_external_user_exists_check
The new option
auth_external_user_exists_check
makes
user_check
hook work better with authentication methods that don’t have a way to determine if user exists. This happens, for example, in the case of jwt and cert based authentication. As result, enabling this option improves
mod_offline
and
mod_mam
handling of offline messages to those users. This reuses information stored by
mod_last
for this purpose.
Improved offline messages handling when using authentication methods without users lists
Authentication methods that manage users list outside of ejabberd, like for example JWT token or tls certificate authentication, had issue with processing of offline messages. Those methods didn’t have a way to tell if given user existed when user was not logged in, and that did block processing of offline messages, which were only performed for users that we know did exists. This release adds code that also consults data stored by
mod_last
for that purpose, and it should fix offline messages for users that were logged at least once before.
Changes in
get_roster
command
There are some changes in the result output of the
get_roster
command defined in
mod_admin_extra
:
-
ask
is renamed to
pending
-
group
is renamed to
groups
-
the new
groups
is a list with all the group names
-
a contact that is in several groups is now listed only once, and the groups are properly listed.
For example, let’s say that
admin@localhost
has two contacts: a contact is present in two groups (
group1
and
group2
), the other contact is only present in a group (
group3
).
The
old get_roster command in ejabberd 23.04
and previous versions was like:
$ ejabberdctl get_roster admin localhost
jan@localhost jan none subscribe group1
jan@localhost jan none subscribe group2
tom@localhost tom none subscribe group3
The new
get_roster command
in ejabberd 23.XX and newer versions returns as result:
$ ejabberdctl get_roster admin localhost
jan@localhost jan none subscribe group1;group2
tom@localhost tom none subscribe group3
Notice that the
ejabberdctl
command-line tool since now will represent list elements in results separated with
;
New
halt
command
Until now there were two API commands to stop ejabberd:
-
stop
stops ejabberd gracefully, calling to stop each of its components (client sessions, modules, listeners, …)
-
stop_kindly
first of all sends messages to all the online users and all the online MUC rooms, waits a few seconds, and then stops ejabberd gracefully.
Those comands are useful when there’s an ejabberd running for many time, with many users connected, and you want to stop it.
A new command is now added:
halt
, which abruptly stops the ejabberd node, without taking care to close gracefully any of its components. It also returns error code
1
. This command is useful if some problem is detected while ejabberd is starting.
For example, it is now used in the
ecs
and the
ejabberd
container images when
CTL_ON_CREATE
or
CTL_ON_START
were provided and failed to execute correctly. See
docker-ejabberd#97
for details.
MySQL driver improvements
MySQL driver will now use prepared statements whenever possible, this should improve database load. This feature can be disabled with
sql_prepared_statement: false
.
We also added alternative implementation of upsert that doesn’t use
replace ..
or
insert ... on conflict update
, as in some versions of MySQL this can lead to excessive deadlocks. We switch between implementations based on version but it’s possible to override version check by having:
sql_flags:
- mysql_alternative_upsert
inside config file.
New
unix_socket
listener option
When defining a
listener
, the
port
option can be a port number or a string in form
"unix:/path/to/socket"
to create and listen on a unix domain socket
/path/to/socket
.
The new
unix_socket
listener option allows to customize some options of that unix socket file.
The configurable options are:
-
mode
: which should be an octal
-
owner
: which should be an integer
-
group
: which should be an integer
Those values have no default: only when they are set, they are changed.
Example configuration:
listen:
-
port: "unix://tmp/asd/socket"
unix_socket:
mode: '0775'
owner: 117
group: 135
New
install_contrib_modules
top-level option
The new
install_contrib_modules
top-level option lets you declare a list of modules from
ejabberd-contrib
that will be installed automatically by ejabberd when it is being started. This option is read during ejabberd start or configuration reload.
This option is equivalent to installing the module manually with the command
ejabberdctl module_install whatever
. It is useful when deploying ejabberd automatically with a configuration file that mentions a contrib module.
For example, let’s enable and configure some modules from ejabberd-contrib, and use the new option to ensure they get installed, all of this the very first time ejabberd runs. Extract from
ejabberd.yml
:
...
install_contrib_modules:
- mod_statsdx
- mod_webadmin_config
modules:
mod_statsdx:
hooks: true
mod_webadmin_config: {}
...
The ejabberd.log file will show something like:
2023-09-25 15:32:40.282446+02:00 [info] Loading configuration from _build/relive/conf/ejabberd.yml
Module mod_statsdx has been installed and started.
The mod_statsdx configuration in your ejabberd.yml is used.
Module mod_webadmin_config has been installed and started.
The mod_webadmin_config configuration in your ejabberd.yml is used.
2023-09-25 15:32:42.201199+02:00 [info] Configuration loaded successfully
...
2023-09-25 15:32:43.163099+02:00 [info] ejabberd 23.04.115 is started in the node ejabberd@localhost in 3.15s
2023-09-25 15:32:47.069875+02:00 [info] Reloading configuration from _build/relive/conf/ejabberd.yml
2023-09-25 15:32:47.100917+02:00 [info] Configuration reloaded successfully
New
notify_on
option in
mod_push
mod_push
has a new option:
notify_on
, which possible values:
-
all
: generate a notification on any kind of XMPP stanzas. This is the default value.
-
messages
: notifications are only triggered for actual chat messages with a body text (or some encrypted payload).
Add support to register nick in a room
A nick can be registered in the MUC service since ejabberd 13.06, this prevents anybody else to use that nick in any room of that MUC service.
Now ejabberd gets support to register a nick in a room, as described in XEP-0045 section
7.10 Registering with a Room
Registering a nick in the MUC service or in a room is mutually exclusive:
– A nick that is registered in the service cannot be registered in any room, not even the original owner can register it.
– Similarly, a nick registered in any room cannot be registered in the service.
MUC room option
allow_private_messages
converted to
allowpm
Until ejabberd 23.04, MUC rooms had a configurable option called
allow_private_messages
with possible values
true
or
false
.
Since ejabberd 23.10, that option is converted into
allowpm
, with possible values:
-
anyone
: equivalent to
allow_private_messages=true
-
none
: equivalent to
allow_private_messages=false
-
participants
-
moderators
gen_mod
API to simplify hooks and IQ handlers registration
If you wrote some ejabberd module, you may want to update your module to the simplified
gen_mod
API. This is not mandatory, because the old way to do this is supported.
Until now, erlang modules that implemented ejabberd’s
gen_mod
behaviour called
ejabberd_hooks:add
and
gen_iq_handler:add_iq_handler
in ther
start
functions. Similarly, in their
stop
function they called
ejabberd_hooks:delete
and
gen_iq_hanlder:remove_iq_handler
.
Since ejabberd 23.10, there is an alternative way to do this: let your
start
function return
{ok, List}
, where
List
is a list of iq handlers and hooks that you want your module to register to. No need to unregister them in your
stop
function!
How to change your module to the new API? See the changes done in
mod_adhoc.erl
in commit
60002fc
.
MS SQL requirements
To use the Microsoft SQL Server database, the
libtdsodbc
library is required, as explained in the corresponding section of the ejabberd Docs:
Configuration > Databases > Microsoft SQL Server
Since this release, the
ejabberd
container image
includes this library.
Please notice if you install ejabberd using the binary installers and want to use MS SQL: you must install the
libtdsodbc
libraries on your machine. It cannot be included in the ejabberd installer due to the nature of the odbc drivers being dynamic depending on the respective odbc backend in use.
Erlang/OTP 20.0 or higher required
This ejabberd release requires
Erlang/OTP
20.0 or newer to compile and run, support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is deprecated. If you are still using Erlang/OTP 19.3, please update to a more recent Erlang version. For example, the ejabberd binary installers and container images are using Erlang/OTP 26.1. That requirement increase was announced almost a year ago, check more details in the
ejabberd 22.10 release announcement
.
If you are still using Erlang/OTP 19.3 and cannot update it right now, there’s still a possibility to compile ejabberd 23.10 with Erlang/OTP 19.3, but please notice: there is no guarantee or support that it will compile or run correctly. If interested, revert the changed line in the file
configure.ac
done in commit
d299b97
and recompile.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the contributions to the source code, documentation, and translation provided for this release by:
-
Holger Weiß
improvements in the installers and several modules
-
Saarko
, improvements in the containers
-
EISST International Ltd for sponsoring work on
mod_push
new
notify_on
option
-
Mr. EddX
, new Bulgarian translation
-
Wellington Uemura
, updated the Portuguese (Brazil) translation
-
Олександр Кревський
, updated the Ukrainian translation
-
Nautilusx
, updated the German translation
And also to all the people contributing in the ejabberd chatroom, issue tracker…
Improvements in ejabberd Business Edition
Customers of the
ejabberd Business Edition
, in addition to all those improvements and bugfixes, also get:
-
Push:
-
Add support for
Webpush
-
Various APNS & GCM fixes and optimizations
-
async calls to push backends
-
Improved error messages
-
Improve error detection and reconnection strategy
-
New
mod_push_logger
module to log push related events
-
Matrix
:
-
Add support for Matrix v10 rooms
-
Add SRV support in
mod_matrix_gw_s2s
-
Misc:
-
Add
max_concurrent_connections
option to webhook
-
Add module for logging chat & jingle events in a separate file
-
Add
retraction handling
in MAM for p1db & dynamodb databases
ChangeLog
This is a more detailed list of changes in this ejabberd release:
Compilation
-
Erlang/OTP: Raise the requirement to Erlang/OTP 20.0 as a minimum
-
CI: Update tests to Erlang/OTP 26 and recent Elixir
-
Move Xref and Dialyzer options from workflows to
rebar.config
-
Add sections to
rebar.config
to organize its content
-
Dialyzer dirty workarounds because
re:mp()
is not an exported type
-
When installing module already configured, keep config as example
-
Elixir 1.15 removed support for
--app
-
Elixir: Improve support to stop external modules written in Elixir
-
Elixir: Update syntax of function calls as recommended by Elixir compiler
-
Elixir: When building OTP release with mix, keep
ERLANG_NODE=ejabberd@localhost
-
ejabberdctl
: Pass
ERLANG_OPTS
when calling
erl
to parse the
INET_DIST_INTERFACE
(
#4066
Commands
-
create_room_with_opts
: Fix typo and move examples to
args_example
(
#4080
)
-
etop
: Let
ejabberdctl etop
work in a release (if
observer
application is available)
-
get_roster
: Command now returns groups in a list instead of newlines (
#4088
)
-
halt
: New command to halt ejabberd abruptly with an error status code
-
ejabberdctl
: Fix calling ejabberdctl command with wrong number of arguments with Erlang 26
-
ejabberdctl
: Improve printing lists in results
-
ejabberdctl
: Support
policy=user
in the help and return proper arguments
-
ejabberdctl
: Document how to stop a debug shell: control+g
-
ejabberdctl
: Support policy=user in the help and return proper arguments
-
ejabberdctl
: Improve printing lists in results
Container
-
Dockerfile: Add missing dependency for mssql databases
-
Dockerfile: Reorder stages and steps for consistency
-
Dockerfile: Use Alpine as base for
METHOD=package
-
Dockerfile: Rename packages to improve compatibility
-
Dockerfile: Provide specific OTP and elixir vsn for direct compilation
-
Halt ejabberd if a command in
CTL_ON_
fails during ejabberd startup
Core
-
auth_external_user_exists_check
: New option (
#3377
)
-
gen_mod
: Extend
gen_mod
API to simplify hooks and IQ handlers registration
-
gen_mod
: Add shorter forms for
gen_mod
hook/
iq_handler
API
-
gen_mod
: Update modules to the new
gen_mod
API
-
install_contrib_modules
: New option to define contrib modules to install automatically
-
unix_socket
: New listener option, useful when setting unix socket files (
#4059
)
-
ejabberd_systemd
: Add a few debug messages
-
ejabberd_systemd
: Avoid using
gen_server
timeout (
#4054
)(
#4058
)
-
ejabberd_listener
: Increase default listen queue backlog value to 128, which is the default value on both Linux and FreeBSD (
#4025
)
-
OAuth: Handle
badpass
error message
-
When sending message on behalf of user, trigger
user_send_packet
(
#3990
)
-
Web Admin: In roster page move the
AddJID
textbox to top (
#4067
)
-
Web Admin: Show a warning when visiting webadmin with non-privileged account (
#4089
)
Docs
-
Example configuration: clarify 5223 tls options; specify s2s shaper
-
Make sure that
policy=user
commands have
host
instead of
server
arg in docs
-
Improve syntax of many command descriptions for the Docs site
-
Move example Perl extauth script from ejabberd git to Docs site
-
Remove obsolete example files, and add link in Docs to the archived copies
Installers (
make-binaries
)
-
Bump Erlang/OTP version to 26.1.1, and other dependencies
-
Remove outdated workaround
-
Don’t build Linux-PAM examples
-
Fix check for current Expat version
-
Apply minor simplifications
-
Don’t duplicate config entries
-
Don’t hard-code musl version
-
Omit unnecessary glibc setting
-
Set kernel version for all builds
-
Let curl fail on HTTP errors
Modules
-
mod_muc_log
: Add trailing backslash to URLs shown in disco info
-
mod_muc_occupantid
: New module with support for XEP-0421 Occupant Id (
#3397
)
-
mod_muc_rtbl
: Better error handling in (
#4050
)
-
mod_private
: Add support for XEP-0402 PEP Native Bookmarks
-
mod_privilege
: Don’t fail to edit roster (
#3942
)
-
mod_pubsub
: Fix usage of
plugins
option, which produced
default_node_config
ignore (
#4070
)
-
mod_pubsub
: Add
pubsub_delete_item
hook
-
mod_pubsub
: Report support of
config-node-max
in pep
-
mod_pubsub
: Relay pubsub iq queries to muc members without using bare jid (
#4093
)
-
mod_pubsub
: Allow pubsub node owner to overwrite items published by other persons
-
mod_push_keepalive
: Delay
wake_on_start
-
mod_push_keepalive
: Don’t let hook crash
-
mod_push
: Add
notify_on
option
-
mod_push
: Set
last-message-sender
to bare JID
-
mod_register_web
: Make redirect to page that end with
/
(
#3177
)
-
mod_shared_roster_ldap
: Don’t crash in
get_member_jid
on empty output (
#3614
)
MUC
-
Add support to register nick in a room (
#3455
)
-
Convert
allow_private_message
MUC room option to
allowpm
(
#3736
)
-
Update xmpp version to send
roomconfig_changesubject
in disco#info (
#4085
)
-
Fix crash when loading room from DB older than ffa07c6, 23.04
-
Fix support to retract a MUC room message
-
Don’t always store messages passed through
muc_filter_message
(
#4083
)
-
Pass also MUC room retract messages over the
muc_filter_message
(
#3397
)
-
Pass MUC room private messages over the
muc_filter_message
too (
#3397
)
-
Store the subject author JID, and run
muc_filter_message
when sending subject (
#3397
)
-
Remove existing role information for users that are kicked from room (
#4035
)
-
Expand rule “mucsub subscribers are members in members only rooms” to more places
SQL
-
Add ability to force alternative upsert implementation in mysql
-
Properly parse mysql version even if it doesn’t have type tag
-
Use prepared statement with mysql
-
Add alternate version of mysql upsert
-
ejabberd_auth_sql
: Reset scram fields when setting plain password
-
mod_privacy_sql
: Fix return values from
calculate_diff
-
mod_privacy_sql
: Optimize
set_list
-
mod_privacy_sql
: Use more efficient way to calculate changes in
set_privacy_list
Full Changelog
https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/compare/23.04…23.10
ejabberd 23.10 download & feedback
As usual, the release is tagged in the Git source code repository on
GitHub
.
The source package and installers are available in
ejabberd Downloads
page. To check the
*.asc
signature files, see
How to verify ProcessOne downloads integrity
.
For convenience, there are alternative download locations like the
ejabberd DEB/RPM Packages Repository
and the
GitHub Release / Tags
.
The
ecs
container image is available in
docker.io/ejabberd/ecs
and
ghcr.io/processone/ecs
. The alternative
ejabberd
container image is available in
ghcr.io/processone/ejabberd
.
If you consider that you’ve found a bug, please search or fill a bug report on
GitHub Issues
.
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