ejabberd Roadmap

In the Works

• Rework ejabberd Docs

  The ejabberd Docs site needs some reorganization, as some sections has grown quite a lot and would better be reorganized.

Planned

• Set as default automatic SQL schema update

  Automatic SQL schema update was included as a beta-testing feature in ejabberd 23.10 (see the feature announcement), and it will become the default.

• Remove support for Rebar2

  ejabberd includes many tweaks to support rebar3 and rebar2. By removing support for rebar2, we could simplify rebar.config and other files a lot. But more importantly, dependencies would not need to be updated just because other dependencies are updated: Rebar2 requires exact version numbers to be provided, Rebar3 doesn't require that, and neither does Mix.

Released

2024

• 24.02
  • Matrix gateway
  • RFC 9266 Channel Bindings for TLS 1.3
  • XEP-0386: Bind 2
  • XEP-0388: Extensible SASL Profile (SASL2)
  • XEP-0424: Message Retraction
  • XEP-0440: SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability
  • XEP-0474: SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection
  • XEP-0480: SASL Upgrade Tasks
  • Automatic SQL schema creation and update
  • Commands API versioning
  • Support Elixir 1.16 and Erlang/OTP 27.0-rc1

2023

• 23.10

  • Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks
  • Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id
  • MySQL Performance enhancements

• 23.04

  • mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
  • New mod_muc_rtbl: Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
  • Binaries use Erlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

• 23.01

  • New mod_mqtt_bridge: MQTT bridge

2022

• 22.10

  • Improved MIX support
  • Improved SQL reconnection Mechanism
  • Better burst traffix handling

• 22.05

  • Improved MQTT, MUC and ConverseJS integration
  • New installers and container image
  • Support for Erlang/OTP 25

2021

• 21.12

  • New mod_conversejs: built-in ConverseJS web client
  • Support for MUC Hats extension
  • PubSub, MucSub and Multicast improvements

• 21.07

  • Improved database and caching for shared rosters
  • Broader multicast support for MUC
  • Improved rebar3 and Elixir support

• 21.04

  • Full support for Erlang/OTP 24 and rebar3
  • New API commands
  • New CAPTCHA script

• 21.01

  • Systemd watchdog support
  • STUN improvements

2020

• 20.12

  • Extended SCRAM-SHA support
  • Microsoft ODBC Driver support

• 20.07

  • Support for Unix Domain Sockets
  • Erlang/OTP 23 compatibility

• 20.04

  • New mod_stun_disco: support XEP-0215 including Audio/Video calls
  • Improved MS SQL support

• 20.03

  • SSL connection to MySQL
  • Improved performance of mod_shared_roster

• 20.02

  • Improved compatibility with CockroachDB
  • Emoji storage in MSSQL

• 20.01

  • OAuth support for ejabberd's MQTT
  • New OTP 22 event logger
  • New config parser & validator

2019

• 19.09

  • Significant improvements in ACME support: ACME v2
  • Erlang/OTP 19.3 is required

• 19.08

  • New JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication
  • New configuration validator, yconf
  • Improved MUC scalability
  • Removed Riak support

• 19.05

  • MQTT over WebSocket
  • Improved MucSub
  • Erlang/OTP 19.1 is required

• 19.02

  • MQTT Support
  • MIX improvements

2018

• 18.12

  • XML Compression in message archive storage
  • PROXY protocol support versions 1 and 2
  • MUC Self-Ping server optimisation (XEP-0410)
  • Bookmarks Conversion (XEP-0411)

• 18.09

  • Default configuration file simplification
  • Improved logging
  • OpenSSL 1.1.1 support
  • Modular ejabberd core

• 18.06

  • Stop ejabberd initialization on invalid/unknown options
  • Support SASL PLAIN
  • Drop support of mod_irc

• 18.04

• 18.03

  • New SQL schemas with server_host

• 18.01

2017

• 17.12

  • SNI (Server Name Indication) for inbound connections
  • Rewrite ejabberd system monitor
  • Support PubSub v1.14 and OMEMO

• 17.11

  • ACME Support
  • Introduce ‘certfiles’ global option
  • PubSub improved, and SQL storage

• 17.09

  • New mod_avatar
  • SRV for XMPP over TLS

• 17.08

  • XEP-0357: Push Notifications
  • Modular cluster with cluster_backend

• 17.07

• 17.06

  • New Caching system
  • Extended Riak support
  • Certificate manager

• 17.04

• 17.03

  • Modular code
  • Dynamic configuration reload
  • mod_blockstrangers for spam protection
  • S2S dialback

• 17.01

  • PostgreSQL SSL support

2016

• 16.12

  • New BOSH module
  • New Commands API permissions framework
  • XMPP packet handling using dedicated xmpp erlang library
  • New ejaberd/mix Docker container

• 16.09

  • Support for Elixir configuration file
  • XEP-0355 Namespace Delegation
  • XEP-0356 Privileged Entity

• 16.08

  • New MUC/Sub
  • Improved Elixir support
  • Major clean-up and improvement on OAuth ReST API

• 16.06

  • New ACL (Access Control List) infrastructure

• 16.04

• 16.03

  • Experimental support for MIX (Mediated Information eXchange)
  • Erlang/OTP 17.5 required

• 16.02

  • XEP-0013 Flexible Offline Message Retrieval
  • Improved Message Archive Management (MAM)
  • Published ejabberd on hex.pm
  • Faster and more memory efficient XML parsing and TLS encryption.
  • Stream compression after SASL
  • Migration script from Prosody

• 16.01

2015

• 15.11

  • Improved join_cluster and leave_cluster

• 15.10

  • New mod_http_upload with support for XEP-0363 HTTP File Upload
  • Added support for Grapherl

• 15.09

  • OAuth 2.0 delegation framework
  • Preliminary OAuth and HTTP based ejabberd API
  • X-AUTH2 authentication mechanism

• 15.07

• 15.06

  • New mod_mam with XEP-0313 Message Archive Management
  • Configuration checking on launch
  • Added Windows 7/8 installers, RPM and DEB packages
  • Document protocol support and version inside each module

• 15.04

  • Added mod_admin_extra and mod_muc_admin
  • Added XEP-0033 Extended Stanza Addressing
  • Support to embed ejabberd in an Elixir app
  • Erlang/OTP R16B03-1 is required

• 15.03

  • Added support for WebSocket
  • Customizable session backends
  • SCRAM support for SQL authentication backend
  • Documentation was converted from LaTeX to Markdown and published in docs.ejabberd.im/

• 15.02

  • Added Elixir support
  • New command to reload configuration withour restart
  • Bug tracker moves from JIRA to GitHub Issues

• Revamped ejabberd website, new logo, new development process and bugtracking migrated from JIRA to GitHub

2014

• 14.12

  • New mod_client_state with XEP-0352: Client State Indication
  • New mod_fail2ban

• 14.07

  • SIP Outbound (RFC 5626)

• 14.05

  • RFC-3261 SIP proxy/registrar
  • RFC-5766 TURN: Traversal Using Relays around NAT
  • XEP-0198 Stream Management
  • XEP-0321 Remote Roster Management
  • Several improvements regarding encryption
  • New Bash completion script for ejabberdctl

2013

• 13.12

  • New OpenSSL ciphers option in c2s, s2s and s2s_out
  • ejabberd_xmlrpc included

• 13.10

  • ejabberd configuration file in YAML format
  • Log files are created using Lager
  • Rebar2 is used to manage dependencies
  • Erlang/OTP R15 is required

• 13.03-beta1 (announcement)

  • Binarize and indent code
  • New versioning scheme

2012

• 2.1.11
  • Added ODBC support for several modules

2011

• 2.1.10

• 2.1.9

  • New SASL SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication mechanism

2010

• 2.1.6

  • mod_register: New captcha_protected option to require CAPTCHA
  • Support PostgreSQL 9.0

• October: the source code repository and the bug tracker were finally moved to GitHub

• 2.1.5

• 2.1.4

  • Full support for XEP-0115 Entity Capabilities v1.5

• 2.1.2

2009

• 2.1.1

• 2.1.0

  • LDAPS support
  • STUN server
  • New XEPs supported: XMPP Ping, Roster Versioning, Import/Export Format
  • Erlang/OTP R13 is supported

• 2.0.5 (announcement)

• 2.0.4 (announcement)

• 2.0.3 (announcement)

2008

• 2.0.2 (announcement)

• 2.0.1 (announcement)

• 2.0.0 (announcement)

  • New front-end and back-end cluster architecture
  • Complete rewrite of the PubSub module
  • New Proxy65 file transfer proxy
  • BOSH support
  • Many more improvements

2007

• 1.1.4

• 1.1.3

2006

• 1.1.2 (announcement)

  • LDAP improvements
  • Microsoft SQL supported
  • New Windows installer

• 1.1.1 (announcement)

  • Erlang/OTP R9C-2 required

• 1.1.0 (announcement)

  • JEP-0050: Ad-Hoc Commands
  • JEP-0138: Stream Compression
  • JEP-0175: SASL anonymous
  • Native MySQL support
  • MUC improvement: Chatroom logging

2005

• 1.0.0 (announcement)

  • S2S encryption: STARTTLS + SASL_EXTERNAL and STARTTLS + Dialback
  • Different certificates can be defined for each virtual host.
  • Support for vCard storage in ODBC
  • New tool to convert Mnesia to ODBC
  • Native PostgreSQL support

• 0.9.8 (announcement)

  • Enhanced virtual hosting
  • Enhanced PubSub

• 0.9.1 (announcement)

• 0.9 (announcement)

  • Added support for virtual hosts
  • New mod_shared_roster
  • Added PostgreSQL support

• February: source code moved from SVN to Git, and the bug tracker from Bugzilla to JIRA

• Beginning of 2005, source code moved from JabberStudio CVS to ProcessOne SVN

2004

• October: website moved from JabberStudio to ejabberd.jabber.ru, and the bug tracker to Jabber.ru’s Bugzilla

• 0.7.5

  • Support for STARTTLS with C2S connections
  • Support for authentification via external script
  • Added module which implement JUD and vCard services using LDAP
  • Improvements in web-based administration interface (user creation/removal, roster and offline queue management)
  • Support for message expiration (JEP-0023)
  • Support for HTTPS in web interface

• 0.7

  • Support for LDAP authentification
  • Support for HTTP Polling
  • Support for web-based administration interface
  • Added command-line administration utility "ejabberdctl"
  • Support for history management in MUC rooms

2003

• 16th November, 0.5

  • First release

• January, initial documentation in LaTeX: Ejabberd Installation and Operation Guide

2002

• 18th November, first commit to CVS

• 16th November, first erlang modules written