Overview

MongooseIM 4.0 is all about putting a friendly face to MongooseIM’s amazing features. This includes the addition of an Erlang-agnostic configuration allowing a broader pool of developers to benefit from MongooseIM. Logging and Kubernetes improvements to be more DevOps-friendly and Manager-friendly with load testing enabling managers to see the benefits of MongooseIM easily.

All changes

Added

• A new configuration file format: MongooseIM can now be configured with an entirely revamped TOML configuration file (#2801)
  • Pesky bugs have been fixed
  • Implementation details have been abstracted away
  • Documentation has been improved
• Structured logging: the main idea of structured logging is that if we have properties of an event, let’s log them as they are, without losing their structure, and format it in a way that is most appropriate for the system we’re sending them to.
  • Moved to OTP logger from lager (#2810)
  • Moved away from lager, towards OTP logger (#2810)
  • No more logging of man-made strings, we now log structured reports (#2816)
  • logfmt formatter, a log format that's easy to read and write (#2848)
  • JSON formatter, a fully structured format (#2851)
• XEP-0215 External Service Discovery (#2870)
• A REST endpoint for admin users which accepts any stanza, provided it has from and to attributes (#2858)
• erl_crash.dump dumping directory can be explicitly set (#2793)

Changed

• Archiving messages takes input as a map instead of as many parameters (#2749)
• Base16 encoding uses a faster algorithm (#2839)

Other

• OTP-23 compatible (#2840)
• SCRAM password dumping into RDBMS escapes username correctly (#2842)

Commits, merged PRs and closed issues

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

Special thanks to our contributors:

• @balgillo For the small but many important fixes.