RabbitMQ 3.8.22

[michaelklishin]

RabbitMQ 3.8.22 is a maintenance release.
All users are recommended to upgrade to this release.

Obtaining Packages

RabbitMQ releases are distributed via GitHub, Cloudsmith,
and PackageCloud.

Erlang/OTP Compatibility Notes

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.

Upgrade and Compatibility Notes

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.

Getting Help

Any questions about this release, upgrades or RabbitMQ in general are welcome on the RabbitMQ mailing list
and RabbitMQ community Slack.

Changes Worth Mentioning

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.

Core Server

Bug Fixes

• Virtual host metadata (description, tags) was not imported from definitions.

  GitHub issue: #3333

AWS Peer Discovery Plugin

Enhancements

• AWS API calls are now retried multiple times.

  Contributed by AWS.

  GitHub issue: #3329

Management Plugin

Enhancements

• PUT /api/vhosts/{name} now can update metadata (tags and descriptions) for existing
  virtual hosts.

  GitHub issue: #3319

Dependency Upgrades

No dependency changes in this release.

Source Code Archives

To obtain source code of the entire distribution, please download the archive named rabbitmq-server-3.8.22.tar.xz
instead of the source tarball produced by GitHub.

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