Version 1.7.6 contains a security fix relating to “last will and testament” messages. Wills placed by clients were published even when that client’s authentication failed. Update available as usual. Setting wills_enabled false in the config file is a mitigation.

Minor change: The plugin loading priority has changed to favor FlashMQ’s plugin first. This allows a plugin to be both Mosquitto v2 and FlashMQ native. This allows writing transitional code.

This mostly contains internal code maintenance, but there is one small extra feature: Builds available as usual.

Fixes from 1.7.1 and 17.2 are:

One small fix: clients that only opened a TCP connection and did nothing else were not disconnected by the keep-alive mechanism.

Version 1.7.0 includes bridge mode. See the man page for details.

Fixes:

Fixes related to retained messages:

Aside from some general code improvements, the only change is a new config option: retained_messages_delivery_limit. See the man page for details. Builds available.

One small bug-fix in Mosquitto-compatible ACL pattern matching: multi-level wildcards should match the parent, so ‘one/two/#’ should match publications to ‘one/two’.