release-notes/3.8.27.md
RabbitMQ 3.8.27 is a maintenance release.
All users are recommended to upgrade to this 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.
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.
Work around a slow Windows-specific memory leak in Erlang's file:read_file/1.
basic.* AMQP 0-9-1 operations now consume fewer CPU cycles.
GitHub issue: #3934
Free disk space monitoring robustness improvements on Windows.
GitHub issue: #3895
Deprecated classic health check is now less resource intensive (but still very intensive compared to modern alternatives)
A help tip on the policies page was misplaced.
Contributed by @johanrhodin
GitHub issue: #3825
None in this release.
To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.8.27.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.