Editing Ejabberd (section)

{{Short description|Server software}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = ejabberd Community Server
| logo = Ejabberd icon.png
| caption = ejabberd icon
| author = Alexey Shchepin
| developer = [[ProcessOne]]
| released = {{Release date|2003|02|11}}
| latest release version = 25.04<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/releases/tag/25.04|title=25.04|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-25-04/|title=ejabberd 25.04|date=16 April 2025 }}</ref>
| latest release date = {{start date|2025|04|16}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q285052|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q285052|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]]
| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
| language count = 28
| language = 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
| language footnote = <ref>{{Cite web 
  | url=https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ejabberd/ejabberd-po/
  | title=Localization &#124; ejabberd
  | access-date = 2021-07-27
}}</ref>
| genre = [[XMPP]] server, [[MQTT]] broker, [[Session Initiation Protocol|SIP]] service
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}
'''ejabberd''' is an [[Extensible messaging and presence protocol|Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol]] (XMPP) application [[server (computing)|server]] and an [[MQ Telemetry Transport]] (MQTT) broker, written mainly in the [[Erlang (programming language)|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 (programming language)|Erlang]] [[XMPP|Jabber]] [[Daemon (computing)|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 General Public License|GNU GPL-2.0-or-later]]. {{Asof|2009}}, it is one of the most popular open source applications written in Erlang.<ref>Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, ''Erlang Programming'', O'Reilly Media, 2009, {{ISBN|0-596-51818-8}}, p. 2</ref> 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.<ref>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</ref> The software's creator, [[Alexey Shchepin]] was awarded the [[Erlang User of the Year]] award at the 2006 Erlang user conference.<ref name="erlang">{{cite web |url=http://www.erlang.se/euc/06/foto/index.html |title=Erlang User Conference 2006 |publisher=Erlang.se |date=2006-11-09 |access-date=2012-02-10 |archive-date=2010-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812001957/http://www.erlang.se/euc/06/foto/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

ejabberd has a number of notable deployments, [[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] Groupchat Service,<ref name="ietf">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ietf.org/jabber/ |title=IETF Groupchat/Chatroom Service |access-date=2012-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510050222/http://www.ietf.org/jabber/ |archive-date=2012-05-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="imtrends_a">{{Cite web |url=http://www.imtrends.com/do/search_domain_simple?domain=jabber.ietf.org&x=0&y=0 |title=online verification of jabber.ietf.org service |access-date=2009-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713022400/http://www.imtrends.com/do/search_domain_simple?domain=jabber.ietf.org&x=0&y=0 |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[BBC Radio]] LiveText,<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/11/pushfeeds.shtml|title=LiveText-via-IP upgrade and other synchronously delivered content|website=BBC|author-first1=Alan|author-last1=Ogilvie|date=2009-11-03}}</ref> [[Nokia]]'s [[Ovi (Nokia)|Ovi]],<ref name="imtrends">{{Cite web |url=http://www.imtrends.com/do/search_domain_simple?domain=ovi.com&x=0&y=0 |title=online verification of ovi.com XMPP server software |access-date=2009-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713022448/http://www.imtrends.com/do/search_domain_simple?domain=ovi.com&x=0&y=0 |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[KDE]] Talk<ref name="kdetalk">[http://kdetalk.net/ KDETalk.net, the KDE XMPP server]</ref> and one in development at [[Facebook]].<ref name="cufp.galois">{{cite web |url=http://cufp.galois.com/2009/slides/PiroLetuchy.pdf |title=Functional Programming at Facebook |date=4 September 2009 |publisher=Cufp.galois.com |access-date=2012-11-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224094022/http://cufp.galois.com/2009/slides/PiroLetuchy.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2012 }}</ref><ref name="gigaom">{{cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2009/11/05/facebook-xmpp-adium-chat/ |title=Facebook Pokes XMPP. MSN, Yahoo & AIM Better Watch Out — Tech News and Analysis |publisher=Gigaom.com |date=2009-11-05 |access-date=2012-02-10 |archive-date=2010-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130184922/http://gigaom.com/2009/11/05/facebook-xmpp-adium-chat/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of|2009}} ejabberd is the most popular server among smaller XMPP-powered sites that register on xmpp.org.<ref name="xmpp">[http://xmpp.org/services/ Public XMPP Services]</ref>

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."<ref name="ml-rel-13-03-beta1">[http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2013-March/007974.html ejabberd Community Server 13.03] ejabberd mailing list, posted by Mickaël Rémond. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-06-02.</ref>