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ejabberd 25.08 Release Adds Matrix Hydra Rooms Support and Security Fixes

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Summary

ejabberd 25.08 release introduces support for Hydra rooms in the Matrix gateway, addressing high severity protocol vulnerabilities. The update includes partial rewriting of state resolution in the gateway while maintaining backward compatibility with no changes to SQL schemas, configuration, API commands, or hooks.

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This release includes the support for Hydra rooms in our Matrix gateway, which fixes high severity protocol vulnerabilities.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks.
The ejabberd Matrix gateway now supports Hydra rooms (Matrix room version 12). This fix some high severity protocol vulnerabilities.
The state resolution has been partially rewritten in our gateway.
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We are pleased to announce a new ejabberd release: ejabberd 25.08, just a month since the previous one, with support for Matrix Hydra rooms, a few improvements and bugfixes.

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