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MQTT 5.0 New Features

Master MQTT 5.0 features and start IoT application development quickly.

User Properties →

User Properties are the user-defined properties that allow users to add their metadata to MQTT messages.

Topic Alias →

Topic Alias allow users to reduce the name of the topic used to reduce bandwidth consumption when publishing messages.

Session Expiry Interval →

The clean session flag is split into a new start flag, and the session expiration interval can be modified on disconnection.

Flow Control →

Flow Control can be the sending rate for limiting the sender or receiving rate for limiting the receiver.

Message Expiry Interval →

Allow messages to be published with an expiration interval.

Maximum Packet Size

Allows the client and server to each specify the maximum packet length they support.

Reason Code →

All response messages contain a Reason Code to enable the caller to determine whether the requested function was successful or not

Reason Strings

Reason Strings is a string that indicates exactly why something happened.

Optional server function availability

Inform the client of the list of supported server-side features to prevent the client from using unsupported features.

Enhanced Authentication →

The enhanced authentication includes query/response style authentication, which can implement bi-directional authentication of the client and broker.

DISCONNECT Packets

Allow the server to send DISCONNECT packets to the client.

Subscription Identifier →

The client can specify a subscription identifier when subscribing.

Subscription Options →

Use more Subscription Options to change server behavior.

Payload Format Indicator and Content Type →

Allow to specify the payload format (binary, text) and MIME style content type when the message is published.

Will Delay Interval

This is used to specify a time delay in sending the will messages.

Request/Response →

The configuration of Response Topic and Correlation Data is provided, The response message is routed back to the publisher of the request.

Shared Subscriptions →

Shared Subscriptions allow users to share subscriptions between multiple clients.

Server Keep Alive

Allows the server to specify the Server Keep Alive it wants the client to use.

Assigned Client Identifier

Allows the Broker to uniformly assign Client IDs to Clients

Server Reference

Allows the Broker to redirect the client to another Broker/Server.

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MQTT 5.0 Resources

Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 Desktop Client
Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 Desktop Client

MQTTX provides comprehensive MQTT testing capabilities and helps you develop MQTT services and applications quickly.

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Testing MQTT 5 features with the MQTTX
Testing MQTT 5 features with the MQTTX

Test MQTT 5.0 with MQTTX and explore the many new features of MQTT 5.0.

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Using MQTT 5.0 in the iOS Project
Using MQTT 5.0 in the iOS Project

Use the MQTT 5.0 client library CocoaMQTT in the iOS project, implement the connection, subscription, messaging, etc.

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