I have taken a bit of a break from Mosquitto for the past few months, partly because I needed a break but also to work on another unrelated project. I'm now back and working on Mosquitto again, primarily implementing support for the upcoming MQTT v5 spec which has added even more features since I mentioned last wrote about it. Once that is in a state that is reasonably compliant if incomplete, I will be looking for testers.
There are a few fixes in the repository waiting for release, I anticipate releasing 1.4.11 before the end of the year.
There have been some changes to test.mosquitto.org. On its original host I was seeing lots of bandwidth being used by lots of clients, but in particular lots and lots of tiny connections being made which not showing up on my bandwidth monitoring, but were consuming bandwidth and causing problems at my provider. My provider got in touch to say that at times approximately half of the network flows for their network were related to test.mosquitto.org, and could would I please have a chat with the transit provider to discuss how best to manage this service. In the face of that and the risk of exceeding 2TB bandwidth usage per month, test.mosquitto.org has been moved to a lower spec host with smaller pipes and "automatic DDOS protection". This means I now get half a dozen emails per day to say that test.mosquitto.org is under attack. If you find you can't connect to test.mosquitto.org, it might be because you have been blocked by this DDOS protection - if so, maybe think about how you are using the service.
The final thought for this post - if you are part of a company that uses mosquitto and it adds value to your company, please consider making a donation to the project that reflects that value. If it is difficult for your company to make donations but you would still like to contribute back, please get in touch and maybe we can arrange something.