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+Fix the issue where the lack of a default value for ssl_options in listeners results in startup failure.
+For example, such command(`EMQX_LISTENERS__WSS__DEFAULT__BIND='0.0.0.0:8089' ./bin/emqx console`) would have caused a crash before.