3.8.24

RabbitMQ 3.8.24

RabbitMQ 3.8.24 is a maintenance release. All users are recommended to upgrade to this release.

Obtaining Packages

RabbitMQ releases are distributed via GitHub, Cloudsmith, and PackageCloud.

Erlang/OTP Compatibility Notes

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.

Upgrade and Compatibility Notes

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.

Getting Help

Any questions about this release, upgrades or RabbitMQ in general are welcome on the RabbitMQ mailing list and RabbitMQ community Slack.

Changes Worth Mentioning

Release notes are kept under rabbitmq-server/release-notes. Contributors are encouraged to update them together with their changes. This helps with release automation and more consistent release schedule.

Core Server

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where node monitor could produce a false network partition when one of the cluster members was restarted

  GitHub issue: #3631

• rabbitmq-diagnostics memory_breakdown failed to read memory of connection reader, writer and channel processes.

  GitHub issue: #3570

• Queue leader rebalancing now logs less

  GitHub issue: #3643

• Removed some redundant code

  Contributed by @Ayanda-D

  GitHub issue: #https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/3506

• Info message grammar

  Contributed by @tuxiqae

  GitHub issue: #3680

Enhancements

• cluster_formation.target_cluster_size_hint is a new configuration setting that can be used to specify expected initial cluster size. This can be used by features, plugins or tools that expect a certain minimum number of clusters nodes to join during initial cluster formation

  GitHub issue: #3635

Prometheus Plugin

Bug Fixes

• TLS-enabled Prometheus endpoint listener port was not correctly stored internally

  GitHub issue: #2975

Management Plugin

Bug Fixes

• Persistent message count is now displayed correctly on individual queue pages

  GitHub issue: #3598

• When setting topic permissions, the list of exchanges in the UI now honors the currently selected virtual host.

  Contributed by @LuisCusihuaman.

  GitHub issues: #3545, #3689

AWS Peer Discovery Plugin

Enhancements

• The plugin now logs more details for failed AWS API requests.

  Contributed by @tvhong-amazon (AWS)

  GitHub issue: #3579

Consistent Hashing Exchange Plugin

Bug Fixes

• Corrected deletion of duplicate bindings between an exchange and a queue

  Contributed by @FalconerTC

  GitHub issue: #3594

Dependency Upgrades

None in this release.

Source Code Archives

To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.8.24.tar.xz instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.