Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication

Summary

Release Highlights: This release includes the support for Hydra rooms in our Matrix gateway, which fixes high severity protocol vulnerabilities. If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks. Other contents: Below is a detailed breakdown of the improvements and enhancements: Improvements in Matrix gateway The ejabberd Matrix gateway now supports Hydra rooms (Matrix room version 12). This fix some high severity protocol vulnerabilities. The state resolution has been partially rewritten in our gateway. A double colon is used for separating a matrix server from a room ID in JID with Hydra rooms. Other changes to the matrix gateway: The new option notary_servers of mod_matrix_gw can now be used to set a list of notary servers. Add leave_timeout option to mod_matrix_gw (#4386) Don't send empty direct Matrix messages (thanks to snoopcatt) (#4420) Fixed ACME in Erlang/OTP 28.0.2 The ejabberd 25.07 release notes mentioned that Erlang/OTP 28.0.1 was not yet fully supported because there was a problem with ACME support. Good news! this problem with ACME is fixed and tested to work when using Erlang/OTP 28.0.2, the latest p1_acme library, and ejabberd 25.08. If you are playing with ejabberd and Erlang/OTP 28, please report any problem you find. If you are running ejabberd in production, better stick with Erlang/OTP 27.3, this is the one used in installers and container images. New mod_providers to serve XMPP Providers file mod_providers is a new module to serve easily XMPP Providers files. The standard way to perform this task is to first generate the Provider File, store in the disk with the proper name, and then serve the file using an HTTP server or mod_http_fileserver. And repeat this for each vhost. Now this can be replaced with mod_providers, which automatically sets some values according to your configuration. Try configuring ejabberd like: listen: - port: 443 module: ejabberd_http tls: true reque...