RabbitMQ 3.9.23
is a maintenance release in the 3.9.x
release series.
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 24.2, and supports Erlang 25. RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP Compatibility Matrix has more details on Erlang version requirements for RabbitMQ.
Erlang 23 support has reached its end of support.
Starting with this release, RabbitMQ requires Erlang 24.2 or later versions. Nodes will fail to start on older Erlang releases.
Erlang 25 as our new baseline means much improved performance on ARM64 architectures, profiling with flame graphs across all architectures, and the most recent TLS 1.3 implementation available to all RabbitMQ 3.11 users.
Nodes now default to 65536 concurrent client connections instead of using the effective kernel open file handle limit. Users who want to override this default, that is, have nodes that should support more concurrent connections and open files, now have to perform an additional configuration step:
- Pick a new limit value they would like to use, for instance, 100K
- Set the maximum open file handle limit (for example, via
systemd
or similar tooling) for the OS user used by RabbitMQ to 100K - Set the
ERL_MAX_PORTS
environment variable to 100K
This change was introduced because of a change in several Linux distributions: they now use a default open file handle limit so high, they cause a significant (say, 1.5 GiB) memory preallocated the Erlang runtime.
For example, RHEL 9 and CentOS Stream 9 are examples of such distributions. The new default comes from modern systemd.
See rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server#5684 and docker-library/rabbitmq#545 for details.
Release notes can be found on GitHub at rabbitmq-server/release-notes.
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Force GC after definition import to reduce peak memory load by mostly idle nodes that import a lot of definitions.
GitHub issue: #5550
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Reduced log noise from exceptions connections could run into when a client was closings it connection end concurrently with other activity.
GitHub issue: #5539
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`rabbitmq-env-conf.bat§ on Windows could fail to load when its path contained spaces.
GitHub issue: #5542
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Stream declaration could run into an exception when stream parameters failed validation.
GitHub issue: #5487
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Some counters on the Overview page have been moved to global counters introduced in RabbitMQ 3.9.
GitHub issue: #5463
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A way to configure an authentication timeout, much like in some other protocols RabbitMQ supports.
Contributed by @gomoripeti.
GitHub issue: #5755
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Avoid an exception when MQTT client closes TCP connection before server could fully process a
CONNECT
frame sent earlier by the same client.GitHub issue: #5658
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A way to configure an authentication timeout, much like in some other protocols RabbitMQ supports.
Contributed by @gomoripeti.
GitHub issue: #5755
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Service startup is now optional. More environment variables are respected by the installer.
Contributed by @inikulshin.
GitHub issues: rabbitmq/rabbitmq-packaging#15
To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.9.23.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.