Highlights

• Authentication methods improvements
  • Support for SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, SCRAM-SHA-224, SCRAM-SHA-384 authentication methods
  • Support for channel binding for all the SCRAM based authentication methods
• Support for XEP-0424: Message Retraction
• Support for Proxy Protocol

There were some changes to the database schema so please take a look at the Migration guide when upgrading from a previous version.

All changes

Added

• Support for new SCRAM based authentication methods:
  • SCRAM-SHA-256 (#2685)
  • SCRAM-SHA-[224, 384, 512] (#2701, #2713)
  • SCRAM-SHA-*-PLUS (#2725)
• Support for XEP-0424: Message Retraction (#2739)
• Support for Proxy Protocol (#2674)
• RDBMS backend for MUC (#2635)
• Possibility to store MUC messages in offline storage (#2640)
• Support for MySQL's new authentication methods (#2644)
• System metrics
  • Type of outgoing pools (#2657)
  • Stanza count (#2672)
• Chat markers cache (#2676)
• mongooseimctl bootstrap command which can be run to execute user defined init scripts (#2692)
  • Support for templating the config files before MongooseIM starts (#2712)
• c2s_remote_hook_call to run a hook in the context of the c2s process (#2700)
• mongooseimctl http_upload command to help debug HTTP file upload configuration (#2708)

Changed

• All hooks have been wrapped in the mongooseim_hooks module with proper specs (#2642)
• Stream error reporting when the server receives unexpected stanza on a given stream state (#2667)
• Server sent ping scalability improvements (#2531)
• Docker base image to be based on Ubuntu 18.04 with OpenSSL 1.1 (#2693)
• HTTP file upload tests with min.io running in the container (#2696)
• Fixed issue related to passing x-amz-acl header to S3 (#2708)
• Default format for password storage (#2737)

Removed

• Support for MySQL versions older then 5.7.9

Other

• Fix to push notifications integration making sure all parameters are sent in a request to MongoosePush (#2645)
• Extract jid related functionality to an external library (#2654)

Commits, merged PRs and closed issues

• List of merged PRs
• List of closed issues
• Repository history for this release

Special thanks to our contributors:

• @Neustradamus For pushing us with the extension of SCRAM authentication methods and the small PR #2719
• @alishir #2705
• @jasl #2697
• @tomaszwojcikowski #2690