v2.6.0

v2.6.0 (Jul 12, 2025)

Enhancements

• New command, passwords salt_and_hash, that implements the password salting and hashing algorithm
  used by RabbitMQ's internal authentication backend:

  rabbitmqadmin passwords salt_and_hash "sEkr37^va1ue"
  # => ┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  # => │ Result                                                           │
  # => ├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  # => │ key           │ value                                            │
  # => ├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  # => │ password hash │ vRZC0bF0Ut4+6pmcQRSu87S/wRXdHRalgY5DV/5KDd5SzK69 │
  # => └───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  This value can be passed as a --password-hash when creating a user with the users declare
  command.

• users declare now supports a new argument, --hashing-algorithm, that accepts two
  possible values: sha256 (the default) and sha512:

  # RabbitMQ nodes must also be configured to use SHA-512 password hashing,
  # or this user won't be able to authenticate against them
  rabbitmqadmin users declare --username "username43742" --password "example_%^4@8s7" --hashing-algorithm "sha512"

  Target RabbitMQ nodes must be configured to use the same hashing algorithm (SHA-256 is
  used by default).