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Mosquitto 1.6.10 has been released, this is a bugfix release.

Broker

• Report invalid bridge prefix+pattern combinations at config parsing time rather than letting the bridge fail later. Issue #1635.
• Fix mosquitto_passwd -b not updating passwords for existing users correctly. Creating a new user with -b worked without problem. Closes #1664.
• Fix memory leak when connecting clients rejected.
• Don't disconnect clients that are already disconnected. This prevents the session expiry being extended on SIGHUP. Closes #1521.
• Fix support for openssl 3.0.
• Fix check when loading persistence file of a different version than the native version. Closes #1684.
• Fix possible assert crash associated with bridge reconnecting when compiled without epoll support. Closes #1700.

Client library

• Don't treat an unexpected PUBACK, PUBREL, or PUBCOMP as a fatal error. Issue #1629.
• Fix support for openssl 3.0.
• Fix memory leaks from multiple calls to mosquitto_lib_init()/mosquitto_lib_cleanup(). Closes #1691.
• Fix documentation on return code of mosquitto_lib_init() for Windows. Closes #1690.

Clients

• Fix mosquitto_sub %j or %J not working on Windows. Closes #1674.

Build

• Various fixes for building with below C99 support. Closes #1622.
• Fix use of sed on BSD. Closes #1614.