[mosquitto-dev] Mosquitto 1.4 testing

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The long awaited 1.4 release is getting closer. This release
incorporates a lot of changes in the background that should improve
performance a bit now and facilitate some more interesting changes for
a future release. Purely on that side of things, although there isn't
any visible change it does mean there is a good chance some bugs have
crept in.

There are lots of useful additions, but the one that I think most
people are excited about is websockets support, through the use of
libwebsockets. It's worth pointing out that websockets clients in 1.4
are second class citizens and will not give as good latency/throughput
as a native mqtt client. The amount of effort to fix this would be
significant and it would be ripped out for 1.5 anyway, so I thought it
would have to suffice for now.

I'd like to encourage you to go and give it a try if you've not done
so recently. You can get the latest code using mercurial, or download
a source archive:

https://bitbucket.org/oojah/mosquitto/get/1.4.zip

At the moment I'm considering the state of the 1.4 branch to be of
release candidate quality on Linux. I need to do more testing on
Windows, particularly around websockets.

So please give it a whirl and report back. If you want to try
websockets - note that it isn't compiled in by default. Use "make
WITH_WEBSOCKETS=yes" when building, or configure the same option in
cmake if you're on Windows/Mac.

Cheers,

Roger