# v5.0.8

## Enhancements

* Print a warning message when boot with the default (insecure) Erlang cookie. [#8905](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8905)
* Change the `/gateway` API path to plural form. [#8823](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8823)
* Don't allow updating config items when they already exist in `local-override.conf`. [#8851](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8851)
* Remove `node.etc_dir` from emqx.conf, because it is never used.
  Also allow user to customize the logging directory [#8892](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8892)
* Added a new API `POST /listeners` for creating listener. [#8876](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8876)
* Close ExProto client process immediately if it's keepalive timeouted. [#8866](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8866)
* Upgrade grpc-erl driver to 0.6.7 to support batch operation in sending stream. [#8866](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8866)


## Bug fixes

* Fix exhook `client.authorize` never being execauted. [#8780](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8780)
* Fix JWT plugin don't support non-integer timestamp claims. [#8867](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8867)
* Avoid publishing will message when client fails to auhtenticate. [#8887](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8887)
* Speed up dispatching of shared subscription messages in a cluster [#8893](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8893)
* Fix the extra / prefix when CoAP gateway parsing client topics. [#8658](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8658)
* Speed up updating the configuration, When some nodes in the cluster are down. [#8857](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8857)
* Fix delayed publish inaccurate caused by os time change. [#8926](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8926)
* Fix that EMQX can't start when the retainer is disabled [#8911](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8911)
* Fix that redis authn will deny the unknown users [#8934](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8934)
* Fix ExProto UDP client keepalive checking error.
  This causes the clients to not expire as long as a new UDP packet arrives [#8866](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8866)
* Fix that MQTT Bridge message payload could be empty string. [#8949](https://github.com/emqx/emqx/pull/8949)