release-notes/3.8.19.md
RabbitMQ 3.8.19 is a maintenance release.
RabbitMQ releases are distributed via GitHub, Cloudsmith, and PackageCloud.
This release requires Erlang 23.2 and supports Erlang 24.
Provisioning Latest Erlang Releases explains what package repositories and tools can be used to provision modern Erlang versions.
See the Upgrading guide for general documentation on upgrades and RabbitMQ change log for release notes of other releases.
If upgrading from a3.7.x release, see 3.8.0 release notes
upgrade and compatibility notes first.
If upgrading from a 3.6.x or older release series, first upgrade
to 3.7.27 and then to this version.
Any questions about this release, upgrades or RabbitMQ in general are welcome on the RabbitMQ mailing list and RabbitMQ community Slack.
Binding recovery on node startup is now more efficient. This means in clusters with a lot of queues and/or bindings, nodes start quicker.
GitHub issue: #3137
Plugin directory paths are now deduplicated, so if a single directory is specified more than ones, the node won't complain about duplicate plugins.
GitHub issue: #3155
Startup banner and log entries now use path separators more consistently on Windows.
Thanks to Linda @LindaLawton Lawton for pointing out the inconsistency.
GitHub issue: #3149
When dynamic Shovels are started the plugin now acquires a distributed lock. This is generally not necessary but helps avoid duplicate Shovels being started via import of a definition file on every cluster node during cluster formation.
GitHub issue: #3167
No dependency changes in this release.
To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.8.19.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.