RabbitMQ - v3.9.28

RabbitMQ 3.9.28 is a maintenance release in the 3.9.x release series.

This series reaches end of general support on Jan 31st, 2023.

Please refer to the Upgrading to 3.9 section from v3.9.0 release notes
if upgrading from a version prior to 3.9.0.

This release requires at least Erlang 24.3, and supports Erlang 25.
RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP Compatibility Matrix has more details on Erlang version requirements for RabbitMQ.

Minimum Supported Erlang Version

Erlang 23 support has reached its end of support.

Starting with this release, RabbitMQ requires Erlang 24.3 or later versions. Nodes will fail to start on older Erlang releases.

Changes Worth Mentioning

Release notes can be found on GitHub at rabbitmq-server/release-notes.

Core Server

Enhancements

• Preserve additional information in the log message when heartbeat frame cannot
  be sent due to a TCP timeout.

GitHub issue: #6708

CLI Tools

Bug Fixes

• rabbitmqctl add_vhost now coerces a single string value of --tags into an array.

GitHub issue: #6877

Management Plugin

Bug Fixes

• User filtering combined with pagination in the management UI did not work as expected.

GitHub issue: #4908

• Correctly format JSON field value in channel detail API response.

Contributed @Syuparn.

GitHub issue: #2684

AMQP 1.0 Plugin

Bug Fixes

• AMQP 1.0 connection churn resulted in a memory leak.

GitHub issue: #6969

Web STOMP Plugin

Bug Fixes

• ERROR frames delivery is now correctly delivered w.r.t. TCP connection closure for clients that run into
  certain types of exceptions.

Contributed by @csicar.

GitHub issue: #6789

Dependency Upgrades

• ra was upgraded from 2.4.5 to 2.4.6
• prometheus.erl was upgraded from 4.9.1 to 4.10.0

Dependency Upgrades

None in this release.

Source Code Archives

To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.9.28.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.