RabbitMQ 4.1.5 is a maintenance release in the 4.1.x release series.
It is strongly recommended that you read 4.1.0 release notes
in detail if upgrading from a version prior to 4.1.0.
Minimum Supported Erlang Version
RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP Compatibility Matrix has more details on Erlang version requirements for RabbitMQ.
Nodes will fail to start on older Erlang releases.
Changes Worth Mentioning
Release notes can be found on GitHub at rabbitmq-server/release-notes.
Core Server
Bug Fixes
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Classic queues could run into a rare message store exception that resuulted in
a loss of a few messages.Special kudos to the contributors who have spent a very significant amount of time
reproducing and debugging the issue: @lhoguin @lukebakken @trvrnrth @gomoripeti -
Messages routed to quorum queues during or immediately before a network partition,
in some cases were not re-republished internally in certain cases.GitHub issue: #14589
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Quorum queues with disabled poison message handling
(an unlimited number of redeliveries, which is not a recommended practice) could accumulate
a significant number of Raft log segment files.
Streams
Bug Fixes
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Streams declaration response was missing a leader field when the stream was declared via AMQP 1.0 or 0.9.1
(that is, not the RabbitMQ Stream Protocol).GitHub issue: #14476
CLI Tools
Bug Fixes
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Fixes JSON formatting of cluster nodes produced by
rabbitmq-diagnostics status --formatter jsonGitHub issue: #14509
Shovel Prometheus Plugin
Bug Fixes
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Requesting shovel status via Prometheus at a specific moment resulted in an exception
because the plugin did not consider a highly transient starting state.GitHub issue: #14481