release-notes/4.0.2.md
RabbitMQ 4.0.2 is a maintenance release in the 4.0.x release series.
Starting June 1st, 2024, community support for this series will only be provided to regularly contributing users and those who hold a valid commercial support license.
Please refer to the upgrade section from the 4.0 release notes if upgrading from a version prior to 4.0.
This release requires Erlang 26 and supports Erlang versions up to 26.2.x.
RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP Compatibility Matrix has more details on
Erlang version requirements for RabbitMQ.
As of 4.0, RabbitMQ requires Erlang 26. Nodes will fail to start on older Erlang releases.
Release notes can be found on GitHub at rabbitmq-server/release-notes.
Generic binary packages used an incorrect version (4.0.0+2 instead of 4.0.1) at build time
GitHub issue: #12339
None in this release.
To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-4.0.2.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.