Highlights

• Reworked S2S and component listeners
• Added TLS 1.3 tls-exporter channel binding
• Added 0-RTT, and channel binding in FAST authentication
• Unified connection and TLS handling
• Improved XMPP traffic shaper configuration with validation and clearer defaults
• Cleanup of legacy modules and updated dependencies
• Reworked application startup order (start applications only when needed)
• Use system CA certificates if not provided in a file
• Various enhancements and bug fixes

Added

• Support dynamic domains for components (#4450)
• TLS listeners for components (#4453)
• TLS 0-RTT to mod_fast_auth_token (#4478)
• Channel binding in FAST authentication (#4494)
• Option to clear inbox after destroying MUC Light room (#4522)

Changed

• Reworked listeners and TLS (#4452, #4509)
  • Reworked component connection handling (#4442)
  • Changed component listener naming scheme to match XMPP specification (#4451)
  • Reworked S2S listeners (#4455)
  • Unified listener TLS configuration via fast_tls removal and channel binding (#4458)
  • Unified listener handling (#4460)
  • Reworked adding dynamic domains to components (#4461)
  • Improved consistency of just_tls filters (#4467)
  • Reworked S2S incoming connections (#4470, #4513)
  • Reworked S2S outgoing connections (#4479)
  • System certificates are used if CA certs are not provided in a file (#4493)
  • Reorganized S2S configuration options (#4515)
  • Improved instrumentation consistency (#4517)
  • Simplified and unified XMPP metrics (#4520)
  • Minor optimizations and cleanups (#4480, #4512, #4514, #4516)
• Increased rate for the default normal shaper (#4540)
• Reworked application startup order and FIPS config (#4524, #4528, #4542)

Fixed

• XMPP traffic shapers configuration and validation (#4527)
• max_file_size option in mod_http_upload (#4531)
• Fixed incorrect xmlns in presences sent by mod_muc (#4539)

Removed

• Dead max_fsm_queue option (#4521)
• Last mention of unused EJABBERD_DIR variable (#4533)

Other

• Upgraded dependencies (#4500, #4519)
• Updated exometer_labels converter function (#4507)
• Changed base docker image to ubuntu-noble (#4537)
• Documentation improvements (#4504, #4506, #4525)
• Testing and CI improvements/fixes (#4523, #4529, #4532, #4534)
• Replaced the ubuntu-oracular package with ubuntu-plucky (#4536)

Commits, merged PRs and closed issues

• List of merged PRs

• List of closed issues

• Repository history for this release

• List of merged PRs based on merge date