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author | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2010-08-06 02:39:19 +0400 |
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committer | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2010-08-06 15:32:29 +0400 |
commit | 771da0e1d6b14befbaf8d618e8e0a9cad538ca2e (patch) | |
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Preliminary release notes for 3.0.0v3.0.0-alpha-1
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diff --git a/doc/release_notes_3.0.0.txt b/doc/release_notes_3.0.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0791ac995 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release_notes_3.0.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ + +****************************************************************************** +* These are the preliminary release notes of ejabberd 3.0.0. +* +* The download page for preliminary releases is: +* http://download.process-one.net/ejabberd/ +* +* WARNING!!! PRELIMINARY DATABASE SCHEMA !!! +* The database schema may change before ejabberd 3.0.0 is released, +* and no migration code will be developed for this preliminary schema. +* The only supported migrations are +* from any ejabberd 0.9.0 ... 2.1.5 to the final 3.0.0. +* Don't use this preliminary ejabberd release for a production server. +* You can test this release with a blank database or with a copy of your +* production database, but don't let your users connect to this copy +* because their changes may get lost when you upgrade to the final 3.0.0. +****************************************************************************** + + + Release Notes + ejabberd 3.0.0 + + ejabberd 3.0.0 is the first release in the brand new 3.x.x branch, + and includes several minor bugfixes and a few improvements. + + Read more details about the changes in: + http://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-3.0.0 + + Download the source code and installers from: + http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/ + + +ejabberd 3.0.0 includes three major changes: + +* exmpp is now extensively used in ejabberd for parsing stanzas, and many more. + +* gen_storage (abbreviated GS) provides a database abstraction layer, + which supports storage in Mnesia and in ODBC databases. + Several ejabberd modules use GS, like mod_roster and ejabberd_auth_storage. + The schema of the tables stored by those modules have changed, + and ejabberd migrates automatically your mnesia and ODBC + tables from previous ejabberd releases. + +* Massive Hosting (abbreviated MH) is preliminary implemented in ejabberd, + but it is still incomplete, untested and undocumented. + + +This is a more detailed list of changes since ejabberd 2.1.5: + +* Requirements +- Erlang/OTP R12B-5 or higher is required +- exmpp 0.9.5 or higher is required, not optional +- ESASL library is optional, for SASL GSSAPI authentication +- Libexpat not required by ejabberd, it uses exmpp now (EJAB-1111) +- GNU Iconv not required, because mod_irc isn't included anymore (EJAB-954) +- Only database migration from ejabberd 0.9.0 up to 2.1.5 is supported +- ejabberd modules developed for previous releases need to be upgraded to exmpp + +* Configuration +- New option clusterid +- New option that can't be used yet: static_modules +- ejabberd_auth_storage: new option auth_storage +- mod_muc_log: option spam_prevention is now link_nofollow (EJAB-1141) +- mod_roster: new access option (EJAB-72) +- S2S: allow definition of local address for outgoing connections (EJAB-418) + +* Database +- New gen_storage that provides a database storage abstraction layer (EJAB-1102) +- mod_*_odbc are obsolete, use the normal ones with the option {backend, odbc} +- New ejabberd_auth_storage that supports internal and odbc databases + +* XEP support +- Removed support for the deprecated XEP-0018 Invisible Presence (EJAB-810) +- mod_multicast: service for XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing (EJAB-265) +- New ejabberd router for multicast packets (XEP-0033) (EJAB-329) +- ejabberd_c2s uses XEP-0033 if mod_multicast is enabled (EJAB-267) +- mod_muc uses XEP-0033 if mod_multicast is enabled (EJAB-266) + +* Pubsub/PEP/Caps +- Allow distinguish between leafs and items (EJAB-1027) +- Enforce disco features results (EJAB-1033, EJAB-1228, EJAB-1238) +- Enforce pubsub#presence_based_delivery (EJAB-1221) +- Improve get_caps while still waiting for initial presence (EJAB-934) +- Make nodetree_tree implicitly create parent node if required (EJAB-944) +- Only use binary() instead of string() in Host and ServerHost (EJAB-1244) +- Rename NodeId (pubsub_node.id) bindings to Nidx (EJAB-1000) +- node_flat becomes default; it has the code instead of hometree (EJAB-1077) +- pubsub#notify_sub node option (EJAB-1230) +- pubsub#type node config and payload namespace (EJAB-1083) + +* Miscellanea +- Bugfix handling Service Discovery to contacts (EJAB-1207) +- Bugfix: external contacts were offline after unavailable presence (EJAB-943) +- Don't offer SASL auth before doing TLS if TLS is required +- Experimental support for GSSAPI auth, requires esasl library (EJAB-831) +- Use binaries instead of lists where possible (EJAB-17) +- Windows ejabberdctl.cmd only handles up to 4 arguments (EJAB-1216) +- ejabberdctl: when starting, check it isn't already running + + + Bug reports + + You can officially report bugs on ProcessOne support site: + http://support.process-one.net/ |