ejabberd 2.1.2 has been released. It contains several bugfixes over last month's maintenance release.

Brief summary of changes:

• Fix SASL PLAIN authentication message for RFC4616 compliance
• Fix support for old Erlang/OTP R10 and R11
• If server start fails due to config file problem, display some lines
  and stop node
• PubSub and PEP: several improvements and bugfixes
• WebAdmin: fix offline message displaying
• When server stops with new stop_kindly command: inform users, clients, MUC

There is a new bugfix release in the 2.1.x line: ejabberd 2.1.1. It contains several important bugfixes over last month's major release. None of the fixes is critical, but you are encouraged to update if you are running ejabberd 2.1.0.

List of bugfixes:

• Fix connection if starttls_required and zlib are set
• S2S: fix allow_host/2 on subdomains. added hook s2s_allow_host
• MUC: Add support for serving a Unique Room Name
• MUC: Route vCard request to the occupant bare JID
  

Yes, ejabberd is already 7 years old.

Let's celebrate with a timeline of ejabberd, Erlang/OTP, XMPP/Jabber protocol, and Tkabber:

If you find any mistake, please comment. I built the graph using EasyTimeLine.pl, if you want the datafile, please comment.

ejabberd 2.1.0 is finally released! And it comes with an enormous list of 314 new features, improvements and bugfixes. It has been 21 months since the last major ejabberd release 2.0.0, and 8 months since 2.0.5.

Very brief list of additions:

• Erlang/OTP R13 support
• HTTP-Bind (BOSH) optimization and clean-up
• LDAPS support
• MUC rooms can require a CAPTCHA to join the room
• PubSub: major improvements. Update to XEP version 1.12
• PEP and Caps: many improvements
• Run commands with ejabberdctl or other frontends (XML-RPC, HTTP)
• STUN server
• XEPs like: XMPP Ping, Roster Versioning, Import/Export Format

This web site will be unavailable during the morning of Friday 30 October, since 6.00 UTC (9.00 Moscow Time). It is expected that the migration will take at least 6 hours, so be patient ;)

Other services affected will be the mailing list, the chatroom and Bugzilla.

The reason is that the hosting of this website and many other ones, Jabber.Ru, will migrate to a new machine.

See you at the come back!

Six weeks after rc1, we have another release candidate: ejabberd 2.1.0-rc2. You can download source tarball and binary installers for Linux (32 and 64 bits), Mac OS X (Intel), and Windows.

All the new features and improvements are described in the preliminary 2.1.0 release notes.