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• 2026.1.19

  Sockethub 5.0.0 alpha releases

  Sockethub 5.0.0 has been a multi-year project, and we've been quietely releasing alpha builds for testing. These alpha releases have major rewrite and architectural improvements across the board.

  Stability has improved a lot and so we're announcing the alpha releases are available for anyone who'd like to try them out.

  We won't individually announce each alpha release, but will do so once we move to beta.

  Some new features include:

  • Packaging changes, the sockethub package is still the main package, but works as a meta package for a number of packages in the @sockethub namespace. i e.g. @sockethub/server, @sockethub/client, @sockethub/platform-xmpp
  • Greatly improved unit and integration tests
  • A New Metadata Platform!
  • An Examples package
  • Migrate to BullMQ
  • Migrate to Bun
  • Improved documentation
  • So much more...

  To try it out, you can run npm install -g sockethub@alpha

  For a full list of changes, see the Sockethub release page.

  Nick Jennings
• 2021.9.2

  Sockethub 4.1.0

  Sockethub 4.1.0 has been released! Lots of stability improvements, for a list see the Sockethub release page.

  Nick Jennings
• 2021.5.23

  Sockethub 4.0.1

  Sockethub 4.0.1 has been released! This release fixes a few minor issues present in the previous release, for a list of fixes see the Sockethub release page.

  Nick Jennings
• 2021.5.20

  Sockethub 4.0.0

  Sockethub 4.0.0 has been released! This release has a few major updates to the underlying system, namely switching from node-simple-xmpp to xmpp.js, from Kue to Bull and upgrading to socket.io v4. Additionally, as we performed these significant overhauls of the code, we added more tests and optimizations. This release should be overall a lot faster. For a full list of changes, see the Sockethub release page.

  Nick Jennings
• 2021.2.22

  Sockethub 3.2.2

  Sockethub 3.2.2 has been released and focuses mainly on stability and bugfixes, highlights include pegging the sockethub.io dependency version to resolve a CORS issues, and a hotfix for the IRC platforms upstream library irc-socket allowing TLS connections. For a full list of changes, see Sockethub release page.

  Nick Jennings