Small list of changes:
2.1.7
* BOSH: Keep the order of stanzas when BOSH sends several
* CAPTCHA in MUC: New whitelist option
* CAPTCHA: New captcha_limit option
* Core: Disable all entity expansions
* Core: Do not accept XML with undefined prefixes
* ejabberdctl: New DIST_USE_INTERFACE restricts IP erlang listen
* ejabberdctl: New ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS that works since Erlang/OTP R14B03
* extauth: If script crashes, ejabberd should restart it
* If a module start fails during server start, stop erlang
* mod_blocking: New XEP-0191 Simple Communications Blocking
* mod_pres_counter: Prevent subscription flood
* mod_register: Access now also controls account unregistrations
* mod_shared_roster: Fix support for anonymous accounts in @all@
* mod_shared_roster: New @online@ directive
* New Indonesian translation
* Pubsub: Apply filtered notification to PEP last items
* Pubsub: Owner can delete any items from its own node
2.1.6
* BOSH: Fix rare loop, support vhosts, allow module restart
* Config: Default configuration allows registrations only from localhost
* Config: Support to change loglevel per module at runtime
* Erlang/OTP: Fix compatibility from R10B-9 to R14B01
* ODBC: Compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.0
* Privacy lists: Fix to allow block by group and subscription again
* Pubsub: Fix cross domain eventing
* Register: Added CAPTCHA, password strength and ip_access to mod_register
* Register: New mod_register_web, with CAPTCHA support
* S2S: New options to require encryption, and verify certificates
* Shared Rosters: Added mod_shared_roster_ldap
* Bind listener ports early and start accepting connections later
Short list of changes:
* Erlang/OTP R12 support fixed
* Erlang/OTP R14A support added
* OpenSSL 0.9.8 or higher is required
* BOSH: New optional connection attribute process-delay
* C2S: Don't ask for client certificate when using tls
* C2S: Inform client that SSL session caching is disabled
* CTL: Fix problem when FIREWALL_WINDOW options for erl kernel were used
* CTL: Some systems delete the lock dir; in such case don't use Flock at all
* Caps: Support all the hash functions required by XEP-0115
* Config: Fix typo in --enable-transient_supervisors
* Config: New configure option: --enable-nif
* Extauth: Support parallel script running
* MUC: Allow admins to see private rooms in disco
* ODBC: Correct handling of SQL boolean types
* ODBC: Discard too old queued requests (the caller has already got a timeout)
* ODBC: Fixes wrong SQL escaping when --enable-full-xml is set
* ODBC: Use ets insead of asking supervisor in ejabberd_odbc_sup:get_pids/1
* Pubsub: Enforce disco features results
* S2S: When logging s2s out connection attempt or success, log if TLS is used
* Shared Rosters: When account is deleted, delete also member
of stored rosters
Changes in ejabberd-2.1.3
Client connections
* Avoid 'invalid' value in iq record
* Avoid resending stream:error stanzas on terminate (EJAB-1180)
* Close also legacy sessions that were half connected (EJAB-1165)
* iq_query_info/1 now returns 'invalid' if XMLNS is invalid
* New ejabberd_c2s option support: max_fsm_queue
* Rewrite mnesia counter functions to use dirty_update_counter (EJAB-1177)
* Run user_receive_packet also when sending offline messages (EJAB-1193)
* Use p1_fsm behaviour in c2s FSM (EJAB-1173)
Clustering
* Fix cluster race condition in route read
* New command to set master Mnesia node
* Use mnesia:async_dirty when cleaning table from failed node
Documentation
* Add quotes in documentation of some erl arguments (EJAB-1191)
* Add option access_from (EJAB-1187)
* Add option max_fsm_queue (EJAB-1185)
* Fix documentation installation, no need for executable permission
(EJAB-1170)
* Fix typo in EJABBERD_BIN_PATH (EJAB-891)
* Fix typos in example config comments (EJAB-1192)
ejabberdctl
* Support concurrent connections with bound connection names
* Add support for Jot in ctl and TTY in debug
* Support help command names with old - characters
* Fix to really use the variable ERL_PROCESSES
Erlang compatibility
* Don't call queue:filter/2 to keep compatibility with older Erlang versions
* Use alternative of file:read_line/1 to not require R13B02
HTTP
* Add new debugging hook to the http receiving process
* Allow a request_handler to serve a file in root of HTTP
HTTP-Bind (BOSH)
* Cross-domain HTTP-Bind support (EJAB-1168)
* Hibernate http-bind process after handling a request
* Reduce verbosity of HTTP Binding log messages
LDAP
* Document ldap_dn_filter, fetch only needed attributes in search
(EJAB-1204)
* Use "%u" pattern as default for ldap_uids (EJAB-1203)
Localization
* Fix German translation (EJAB-1195)
* Fix Russian translation
ODBC
* Fix MSSQL support, which was broken (EJAB-1201)
* Improved SQL reconnect behaviour
Pubsub, PEP and Caps
* Add extended stanza addressing 'replyto' on PEP (EJAB-1198)
* Add pubsub#purge_offline (EJAB-1186)
* Fix pubsub#title option (EJAB-1190)
* Fix remove_user for node subscriptions (EJAB-1172)
* Optimizations in mod_caps
Other
* mod_register: Add new acl access_from, default is to deny
* mod_sic: new module for the experimental XEP-0279 Server IP Check
(EJAB-1205)
* PIEFXIS: Catch errors when exporting to PIEFXIS file (EJAB-1178)
* Proxy65: new option "hostname" (EJAB-838)
* Roster: Fix resending authorization problem
* Shared Roster Groups: get contacts nickname from vcard (EJAB-114)
* S2S: Improved s2s connections clean up (EJAB-1202)
Changes in ejabberd-2.1.2
Core
* Close sessions that were half connected
* Fix SASL PLAIN authentication message for RFC4616 compliance
* Fix support for old Erlang/OTP R10 and R11
* Return proper error (not 'conflict') when register is forbidden by ACL
* When ejabberd stops, send stream close to clients
ejabberdctl
* Check for EGID in ejabberdctl command
* Command to stop ejabberd informing users, with grace period
* If there's a problem in config file, display config lines and stop node
MUC
* Kick occupants with reason when room is stopped due to MUC shutdown
* Write in room log when a room is created, destroyed, started, stopped
PubSub and PEP
* Don't call gen_server on internal event (improves performance and
scalability)
* Fix duplicate SHIM header in Pubsub message
* Notification messages of Pubsub node config change contained a SHIM
header
* SubID SHIM header missing in Pubsub message with multiple subscriptions
on the same node
* PEP: last published item not sent from unavailable users when the
subscription is implicit (XEP-0115)
* pep_mapping not working due to Node type mismatch
WebAdmin
* If big offline message queue, show only subset on WebAdmin
* Support in user list page of WebAdmin when mod_offline is disabled
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
See full release note:
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.0
* Do not ask certificate for client (c2s)
* Check digest-uri in SASL digest authentication
* Use send timeout to avoid locking on gen_tcp:send
* Fix ejabberd reconnection to database
* HTTP-Bind: handle wrong order of packets
* MUC: Improved traffic regulation management
* PubSub: Several bugfixes and improvements for best coverage of XEP-0060 v1.12
* Shared Roster Groups: push immediately membership changes
* Rotate also sasl.log on "reopen-log" command
