release-notes/3.8.29.md
RabbitMQ 3.8.29 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 a 3.7.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.
Significantly faster queue re-import from definitions on subsequent node restarts. Initial definition import still takes the same amount of time as before.
GitHub issue: #4538
Maintenance mode could run into a timeout during queue leadership transfer.
Contributed by @felixhuettner.
GitHub issue: #4468
Connection data transfer rate units were incorrectly displayed when rate was less than 1 kiB per second.
Contributed by @zgabi.
GitHub issue: #4523
Corrected a help message for node memory usage tool tip.
Contributed by @etc-crontab.
GitHub issue: #4493
More Erlang 24.3's eldap library compatibility improvements.
GitHub issue: #4448
None in this release.
To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.8.29.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.