The RabbitMQ team has announced the release of RabbitMQ 2.8.4. This is primarily a bugfix release. If you are running RabbitMQ 2.8.3 you are strongly advised to upgrade to 2.8.4 immediately and in the meantime do not invoke “rabbitmqctl rotate_logs”. The new release can be downloaded from: http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html