25 Years of MQTT

Welcome back to doYouMQ! In this episode, in light of the 25th anniversary of MQTT, joined by Andy Stanford-Clark and Peter Niblett, we hear about the history, use cases and future of the protocol. From it’s conception and early adoption, to it’s proliferation and all that’s still to come from the protocol, it’s a very exciting episode indeed!
For those keen listeners amongst you, you may have picked up on the fact that we failed to provide an answer to the burning question: “What happened to MQTT version 4?”...

Well, now here is Andy’s response:

“The answer to the “what happened to v4?” question is that there is a one byte integer in the MQTT CONNECT packet to indicate the protocol version. It was previously “3”, then we moved the specification level to 3.1.1 as the first OASIS / ISO standard, which we called protocol version “4” (one step further on from 3). Logically, the next version after that had to be “5” in the protocol, so we called the specification version “5.0” also, so they are now re-aligned forever :). For a while it was Peter’s and my number one “FAQ”! “

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Associated organizations mentioned:

MQTT.org: https://mqtt.org/

Eclipse Paho: https://eclipse.dev/paho/

OASIS MQTT TC: https://shorturl.at/flyJ2

ISO/IEC 20922: https://www.iso.org/standard/69466.html

Mosquitto.org: https://mosquitto.org/

HiveMQ: https://shorturl.at/nvAIP

IBM Maximo Application Suite: https://shorturl.at/ejAX1

Get in touch with the guests:
Andy SC: @andysc on X (Twitter) or email [email protected]
Peter Niblett: Peter Niblett on LinkedIn or email [email protected]