Ejabberd

ejabberd Community Server
Original author(s)Alexey Shchepin
Developer(s)ProcessOne
Initial releaseFebruary 11, 2003 (2003-02-11)
Stable release
23.04[1][2] / April 18, 2023 (2023-04-18)
Repository
Written inErlang
Operating systemCross-platform
Available in28 languages[3]
List of languages
Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Walloon
TypeXMPP server, MQTT broker, SIP service
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewww.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/ Edit this at Wikidata

ejabberd is an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) application server and an MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) broker, written mainly in the Erlang programming language. It can run under several Unix-like operating systems such as macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris. Additionally, ejabberd can run under Microsoft Windows. The name ejabberd stands for Erlang Jabber Daemon (Jabber being a former name for XMPP) and is written in lowercase only, as is common for daemon software.

ejabberd is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. As of 2009, it is one of the most popular open source applications written in Erlang.[4] XMPP: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Media, 2009) praised ejabberd for its scalability and clustering feature, at the same time pointing out that being written in Erlang is a potential acceptance issue for users and contributors.[5] The software's creator, Alexey Shchepin was awarded the Erlang User of the Year award at the 2006 Erlang user conference.[6]

ejabberd has a number of notable deployments, IETF Groupchat Service,[7][8] BBC Radio LiveText,[9] Nokia's Ovi,[10] KDE Talk[11] and one in development at Facebook.[12][13] As of 2009 ejabberd is the most popular server among smaller XMPP-powered sites that register on xmpp.org.[14]

With the next major release after version 2 (previously called ejabberd 3), the versioning scheme was changed to reflect release dates as "Year.Month-Revision" (starting with 13.04-beta1). It was also announced that further development will be split into an "ejabberd Community Server" and an "ejabberd Commercial Edition [which] targets carriers, websites, service providers, large corporations, universities, game companies, that need high level of commitment from ProcessOne, stability and performance and a unique set of features to run their business successfully."[15]

  1. ^ "23.04". GitHub.
  2. ^ "ejabberd 23.04". 18 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Localization | ejabberd". Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  4. ^ Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Erlang Programming, O'Reilly Media, 2009, ISBN 0-596-51818-8, p. 2
  5. ^ Peter Saint-André, Kevin Smith, Remko Tronçon, XMPP: The Definitive Guide: Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies, O'Reilly Media, 2009, ISBN 0-596-52126-X, p. 253
  6. ^ "Erlang User Conference 2006". Erlang.se. 2006-11-09. Archived from the original on 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  7. ^ "IETF Groupchat/Chatroom Service". Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  8. ^ "online verification of jabber.ietf.org service". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  9. ^ LiveText-via-IP upgrade and other synchronously delivered content
  10. ^ "online verification of ovi.com XMPP server software". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
  11. ^ KDETalk.net, the KDE XMPP server
  12. ^ "Functional Programming at Facebook" (PDF). Cufp.galois.com. 4 September 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  13. ^ "Facebook Pokes XMPP. MSN, Yahoo & AIM Better Watch Out — Tech News and Analysis". Gigaom.com. 2009-11-05. Archived from the original on 2010-01-30. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  14. ^ Public XMPP Services
  15. ^ ejabberd Community Server 13.03 ejabberd mailing list, posted by Mickaël Rémond. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-06-02.

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