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Spark 2.7.0 beta 1

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:46:37 GMT

Dear Community,

after some more weeks of testing, debugging and developing, we would like to ask for your support and publish the first beta of Spark 2.7.0. Ultimately, we would like to move Spark to Java 7, but that is currently not implemented via the installers. This will change in January after an update to the lastest version von Install4j provided by ej-Technologies.

You can find the nightly build for Windows here: http://bamboo.igniterealtime.org/browse/SPARK-INSTALL4J-543/artifact/JOB1/Instal l4j

About Java 7: Spark 2.7.0 will run with Java 7. Please interchange the bundled JRE (located at Spark-install-folder\JRE) against a Java 7 JRE or use the installer named spark_2_6_3_12555_online.exe and install Java 7 as default on Windows. Using Java 7 will stop Spark from stealing the focus, when a new message is received.

Important Note: Oracle has introduced a bug in Java 1.6.0 u 25-27 that prevents Spark from closing automatically during the log-off on the Windows plattform. This is not Spark related. This affects all users that install the Spark version without an included JRE.

About file transfer: Spark 2.7.0 beta 1 is fixing an big bug with file transfer. Spark 2.6.x has an programmatic error that was making IBB file transfer very unstable. Tim Jentz deserves a big credit for finding this after weeks of debugging. Great job Tim!!!

Spark 2.7.0 will also move to a standard implementation for IBB file transfer. As a result of moving to the standard IBB implementation, you may have issues with transfer between Spark 2.7.0 and Spark 2.5.8 on IBB. This is an unavoidable result of obeying the standard. IBB is the fall back implementation, if Bytestream is not an option. Hence IBB is not the regular transfer method as it is much slower than Bytestream.

About plugins: There were large scale changes in the way Spark is dealing internally with plugins/extensions. All Plugin developers are kindly ask to review, if their plugins are still working. This applies also to Fastpath. Feedback regarding issues with this are highly appreciated.

About GUI: The Spark developers are only supporting JTattoo Luna. There are several reports that other skins are not working properly. This applies especially to Substance. If you are experiencing any GUI bug, please check if JTattoo Luna is also having this issue and report it.

As a general statement, I would urge all professional users to use the customizing options of Spark to get rid of Substance in corporate environments. The dev team may ultimately decide to remove Substance for 2.7x in a future release.

About Mac and Windows7 64 bit: The next Mac release is NOT secured. We are looking for a developer who can provide a Mac beta release. The integration to Windows7 64 bit is ok, but the flashing notification in the tray may or may not work. A tester and developer (MS C++ Code) for this is also needed.

The change log for this beta is:

~~SPARK-1465~~ Checkboxes appear bigger then normal since the jtattoo update

~~SPARK-1464~~ When user accepts group chat invitation, status is always online

~~SPARK-1460~~ No group context menu on a right click

~~SPARK-1459~~ Update to the latest JTattoo version (Nov 2011)

~~SPARK-1452~~ If conferences tab is hidden, then Fastpath tab is hidden also

~~SPARK-1451~~ Vcard popup is not always showing up on mouse hover

~~SPARK-1450~~ When network connection is lost, chat window cannot be closed

~~SPARK-1449~~ UNC Path does not link to folder

~~SPARK-1445~~ Selecting 'Start a chat' in a group chat room opens an incomplete chat window

~~SPARK-1444~~ Subscription dialog shows the id value instead of the nickname

~~SPARK-1443~~ Privacy plugins cannot be accessed if we log into Spark through the IP address of the server

~~SPARK-1465~~ Checkboxes appear bigger then normal since the jtattoo update

~~SPARK-1464~~ When user accepts group chat invitation, status is always online

~~SPARK-1460~~ No group context menu on a right click

~~SPARK-1459~~ Update to the latest JTattoo version (Nov 2011)

~~SPARK-1452~~ If conferences tab is hidden, then Fastpath tab is hidden also

~~SPARK-1451~~ Vcard popup is not always showing up on mouse hover

~~SPARK-1450~~ When network connection is lost, chat window cannot be closed

~~SPARK-1449~~ UNC Path does not link to folder

~~SPARK-1445~~ Selecting 'Start a chat' in a group chat room opens an incomplete chat window

~~SPARK-1444~~ Subscription dialog shows the id value instead of the nickname

~~SPARK-1443~~ Privacy plugins cannot be accessed if we log into Spark through the IP address of the server

~~SPARK-1442~~ JabberVersion.java uses hardcoded value "Spark IM Client" for version name

~~SPARK-1441~~ ContactItem in shared group - right click popup menu performs copy when move is selected

~~SPARK-1440~~ Bug in ConferenceUtils.java that can break smack communication

~~SPARK-1439~~ Plugins are loaded in random order - plugins with no dependency has to be loaded first

~~SPARK-1438~~ Avatars are not scaled in user login/logout notification dialog

~~SPARK-1437~~ Bug in PrivacyManager that can break smack communication

~~SPARK-1429~~ Update French translation

~~SPARK-1427~~ Default Appearance/Colors cannot be overwritten through plugin;Group-Chat colors are hard-coded

~~SPARK-1423~~ typo error in LayoutSettings.java

~~SPARK-1422~~ persist vcard may throw file not found exception when jid is empty

~~SPARK-1421~~ Application version and application name are hardcoded

~~SPARK-1420~~ The messages in the set status message window is not getting deleted

~~SPARK-1419~~ Chat room configuration shows wrong roles for which presence is broadcast

~~SPARK-1418~~ Update simplified Chinese translation

~~SPARK-1414~~ Chat window is not flashing when receiving new message on Windows 7 64 bit

~~SPARK-1413~~ Update build.xml to check for Java 7

~~SPARK-1411~~ Sometimes file transfer indication is not updated on the receiving side

~~SPARK-1408~~ Remove "#" character next to Accounts button on the login screen

~~SPARK-1405~~ Improved last activity recognition

~~SPARK-1403~~ Enhance ability to extend core classes like ContactItem, ContactGroup, etc through plugin

~~SPARK-1400~~ Update to latest version Exe4J

~~SPARK-1381~~ Group Chat - Actions/Start a conference menu: propose bookmarked room (if any) instead of adhoc (random) room name

~~SPARK-1379~~ Support for XEP-0147

~~SPARK-1326~~ Make tabs position optional: TOP or BOTTOM; make search input appearance optional

~~SPARK-1324~~ SparkToaster showing avatars in real size

~~SPARK-1313~~ Enhance ability to overwrite spark properties values through plugin

~~SPARK-1215~~ Log out doesn't log out, it shuts down spark

~~SPARK-891~~ Typing notifications would be easier to see if also displayed near typing area

The beta release also includes a new Smack library that is based on Smack 3.2.1 plus the following bugfixes:

~~SMACK-362~~ smack throw NoSuchElementException if the muc#roominfo_subject has no values

~~SMACK-354~~ Provide milliseconds in timestamp colum debugwindow

~~SMACK-353~~ Thread leak in the FaultTolerantNegotiator

~~SMACK-350~~ Bytestream is not working in Spark 2.6.3 from XP to W7

~~SMACK-349~~ Smack's IBB sends too much data in a packet

~~SMACK-348~~ Documentation error - broken link

~~SMACK-346~~ Bug in return code for rejection handling in FileTransferManager

~~SMACK-343~~ Make Smack jar an OSGi bundle.

~~SMACK-338~~ IBB filetransfer doesn't work as expected

SMACK-336 There is an empty element in a SASL response

SMACK-335 Need to set file size and name for outgoing file transfer from input stream

SMACK-324 Investigate SASL issue with jabberd2 servers

SMACK-322 NPE in XMPPConnection

SMACK-263 Set file info in all send* methods

Expect a second beta in the first quarter 2012 that will include the latest final release of Smack

Please report issues in the Developer Forum

Seasonal Greetings

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:04:05 GMT

Dear Community!

Another year has passed for this open source project and various developers have contributed significantly to nearly all of our projects. We were able to finally release Openfire 3.7 and Spark 2.6.3 under Apache 2.0 license. The most important Smack library has also seen several releases and last but not least the good old instant messaging gateway Kraken returned to us. Some great innovations were presented like SparkWeb/Redfire, Websocks and Candy. I really would like to thank all developers involved by contributing code and all users and system admins that went through this year. A very special thank you goes to Daryl Herzmann who keeps the servers healthy and Wroot for outstanding work in the forum. I would also like to single out Guus der Kinderen for his insights in Openfire architecture and the release of Openfire 3.7.

Merry Christmas to all of you and a happy, healthy and sucessful 2012

Openfire 3.7.1 has been released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:35:24 GMT

The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 3.7.1 of Openfire! Downloads for various platforms are available here.

Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source Apache license. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

The 3.7.1 release is primarily a bugfix release. Amongst others, these issues have been addressed:

A number of enhancements were made to the server-to-server connectivity. Server-to-Server connectivity was enhanced and a bug preventing a successful dialback was fixed.
Various improvements have been made to platform specific installers and scripts.
The Multi-User Chat implementation has received various tweaks and updates.

The full changelog is available on the Openfire project page.

We welcome your feedback, suggestions, tips, hints, questions and other contributions in the Ignite Realtime Community pages.

ej-Technology grants install4j license to the Spark community

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:34:26 GMT

ej-Technologies has granted a multi-plattform license of install4j to the Spark community. The community developers gladly accept the donation to the project. This will give all core developers of Spark the opportunity to use the features of install4j for during the development of the Spark installer.

Install4j is the installation plattform for Spark since many years and has helped to provide multi-plattform support and great integration in the operation systems.

About ej-Technologies:
ej-technologies GmbH was founded in 2001 as a privately held company and specializes in solutions that help programmers make the most of their own applications. With its focused expertise in the areas of performance and deployment, ej-technologies is developing the next generation of enterprise application development tools.

If you have any questions regarding install4j and it's usage during the Spark development, please contact me via community mail.

Kind regards,

Walter Ebeling

Smack 3.2.2 alpha: Fixes IBB transfer

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:53:36 GMT

again an experimental Smack to fix IBB transfers for Spark 2.6.3. This is an experimental build with patches based on the Smack 3.2. branch. The patch itself is published in SMACK-351

The Smack code is not using IQ Stanzas for IBB file transfer since the implementation is not correct. Smack 3.2.1 also breaks file transfers via IBB to Spark 2.5.8. This alpha should fix:

~~SMACK-350~~ Bytestream is not working in Spark 2.6.3 from XP to W7

~~SMACK-349~~ Smack's IBB sends too much data in a packet

~~SMACK-263~~ Set file info in all send* methods

~~SMACK-335~~ Need to set file size and name for outgoing file transfer from input stream

Copy into the lib folder of the Spark installation folder and report results.

Walter

P.S. Also fixes SASL against jabberd2 since http://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/ ~~SMACK-324~~ is included.

Release of Smack 3.2.1

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:16:37 GMT

Since several defects have been fixed, including a rather serious issue dealing with file transfers. The 3.2.1 version of Smack is released as of July 4th.

Although more issues were planned for this release, due to number of people having issues with ~~SMACK-338~~ and the slower than expected resolution rate on the planned issues, the release will go ahead with the 6 issues that have already been resolved.

[SMACK-129] - MultiUserChat will Store Messages in its PacketCollector irregardless of whether or not they are being read
[SMACK-230] - Disconnect Can Cause Null Pointer Exception
[SMACK-273] - Bug in RoomListenerMultiplexor.java
[SMACK-324] - Investigate SASL issue with jabberd2 servers
[SMACK-329] - XHTMLText uses improper format for br tag
[SMACK-338] - IBB filetransfer doesn't work as expected

The rest of the planned issues have been pushed to a 3.2.2 release.

Robin Collier

Release of Spark 2.6.3

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:47:43 GMT

Dear Community,

due to several issues, we have released a 2.6.3 on July 1st. The following issues were fixed

~~SPARK-1383~~Login screen shows disabled fields.
~~SPARK-1394~~ Search in history is not working
~~SPARK-1395~~ NPE when exiting a chat window with ESC
~~SPARK-1396~~ Send Broadcast Window doesnt show when not using JTattoo
~~SPARK-1379~~ Support for XEP-0147 (URI handling)
~~SPARK-1392~~ Check if Spark is really checking for updates even if that option is turned off

A new Feature was added:

Expand ability to customize spark if you want to build your own branded version

You can download the release in the download section of the igniterealtime web site.

The Spark development will be reduced until the 4th quarter this year.

There has been a significant demand for help about the packaging of custom editions for Spark. I would like to ask all users who have done custom packages to report their approach in the forum. The project files of the packager (e.g. appdeploy) are really welcome.

Walter Ebeling

Release of Spark 2.6.2

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:43:59 GMT

The community is happy to report that Spark 2.6.2 has reached final status. The release contains several bug fixes and new features and enhancements for Spark. It is a hot fix release for a regression bug introduced in 2.6.1. Details can be found in the changelog.

Main features for this release are:

OTR (off-the-record) support for encrypted chat between clients
New notification mechanism
New splash screen
Support for animated GIF as avatar
Plugin blacklisting
Documentation for Spark customizing (lot's of option now)

More than 30 bugs were fixed, including

New default look and feel for Mac
File transfer is using IBB as fall back for VPN network connections
Scroll to end in chat window

The downloads for all supported plattforms can be found in the download section of Igniterealtime.org.

Red5 is not included in the release as well as games were not included. These can be found in the forum for those of you interested.

A big "Thank You" to Holger and Wolf who spend numerous hours in writing features and debugging code. And of course to all the users who have reported issues, provided feedback and contributed code.

Walter Ebeling

Spark 2.6.0 Released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:35:43 GMT

The ignite realtime community would like to announce the final release of Spark 2.6.0.

After more than 3 years, we have moved the product quite a bit and it has to be noted that the contributions came from all over the world to make this release possible. Numerous issues and feature requests were adressed duringt the development phase:

Removal of commercial libraries
Move to Apache 2.0 license
Introduction of different skins
Small enhancements of the interface
Support of a privacy/invisible mode
Enhancements of the conference room features
Ability to set default data in ini files for corporate customizing (requires repacking)
New Smack (version 3.2) library
Reworked reconnection mechanisms
Nummerous technical enhancements

More details can be found in the attached changelog.html

The download links for the release 2.6.0 are on the Downloads page.

Further development

The next release 2.6.1 will follow within the next 8 weeks and include some more graphical and functional enhancements. We would appreciate contributions to the source code.

Known Issues

Missing Phone button. Resolution: This is caused by a missing STUN server to help the start of the phone connection. If you want to use this feauture you can activate it in Openfire and add the property "stunFallbackHost" to the file spark.properties. You can add your Openfire server or some external stun server like "stun.xten.net" which used to be a hard coded default in Spark.
File transfer does not work. Resolution: Use a nightly or wait until 2.6.1 is released.
Mac Version: Look and Feel is not native. Resolution: Use the Preference Menue to Switch Appreance to "Max OS X". This resolved this issue. There will be a hot fix release for Maac to adress this issue.
Mac Version: Sound does not work. Resolution: Make sure that Spark is executed in 32 bit mode.

Smack 3.2.0 Released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:54:31 GMT

On behalf of Robin Collier

Smack 3.2 has been released on May 5, 2011.

It has been well over 2 years since the last release, but much work has been done to fix bugs and add new features.

That includes new support for

Addition of pubsub (XEP-0060)
Addition of Attention (XEP-0224).
Fixes and improvements for over 40 issues

After a three month beta period, the long overdue next version is now available.

You can get it from the Downloads page.

Spark 2.6 RC2 Released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:46:46 GMT

The IgniteRealtime community would like to announce the second release candidate of Spark before the final 2.6.0 release. Much more detail on this release and files for download can be found here:

http://community.igniterealtime.org/docs/DOC-2157

We will continue to work on Spark 2.6.0 for the next 4 weeks. The release date for 2.6.0 is tentatively set to April 30th, 2011. Please test and provide feedback!

Openfire 3.7.0 has been released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:06:32 GMT

The Ignite Realtime Community is very happy to announce the release of Openfire 3.7.0!

You can get your copy of the new release from the Openfire project page on the Ignite Realtime Community website. A fresh batch of plugins, compiled against the latest code is available there too.

As it is the accumulation of nearly two years of work, this new release bring a lot of new features, bugfixes and improvements. Amongst the more notable changes:

Openfire is now released under the Apache v2.0 licence.
Improves how Openfire handles "idle" connections. Some of you may have the system property xmpp.client.idle set to -1 to work around previously broken behaviour. You may now let it default to 6 minutes or set it to your preference.
Improved Openfire's caching to be less prone to memory exhaustion by correctly calculating cache size usage.
Fixed a bug where admin console login into a newly installed Openfire server would fail until restarted.
Fixed a bug with shared rosters within a LDAP environment.
A memory leak with the Personal Eventing Protocol (PEP) was fixed.
Openfire's custom log interface has been replaced with SLF4J and a Log4J backend.
Fix issues with self signed SSL certificates.
A number of improvements and fixes were made to the Multi-User Chat (MUC) configuration pages on the admin console
There were also some improvements made to the plugins, including the addition of brand new Jingle Nodes plugin.
There are also French, Russian, and Lithuanian langauge translation fixes for Openfire and some of the plugins.

A complete set of changes since the 3.6.4 release can be found in the release notes. The changes there include the changes that were part of the beta release. Since the beta, 11 issues were fixed.

Openfire 3.7.0 beta has been released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:05:39 GMT

Good things come to those who wait!

The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the beta for the next release of Openfire. This release contains a number of important fixes and improvements to stability and XMPP protocol compliance. You can find a full list of fixed issues here. This beta is also the first version of Openfire to be released by the Ignite Realtime community under the Apache License v2.0.

You can download the 3.7.0 beta release here. Please provide us your feedback on the Ignite Realtime support forums. It would be helpful if you would tag your comments, discussions and questions with a tag that reads "openfire370beta"

As always, but particularly since this is a beta release, make sure to backup any existing version of Openfire and the persistent storage that it uses, before upgrading!

Some important security related notes to this release:

Openfire no longer ignores the system property to disallow password changes via XMPP. With previous releases, it was not possible to prevent users from changing their password via their XMPP connection. (CVE-2009-1596)
Fixed a XSS attack on the admin console login form.

Protocol compliance improvements:

Publish Subscribe (PubSub)
BOSH (http-bind) xml namespace compliance fix.

Some highlights of this beta release:

Improves how Openfire handles "idle" connections. Some of you may have the system property xmpp.client.idle set to -1 to work around previously broken behaviour. You may now let it default to 6 minutes or set it to your preference.
Improved Openfire's caching to be less prone to memory exhaustion by correctly calculating cache size usage.
Fixed a bug where admin console login into a newly installed Openfire server would fail until restarted.
Fixed a bug with shared rosters within a LDAP environment.
Openfire now ships with the latest JRE (1.6.0u21).
A memory leak with the Personal Eventing Protocol (PEP) was fixed.
Openfire's custom log interface has been replaced with SLF4J and a Log4J backend.
Fix issues with self signed SSL certificates.
A number of improvements and fixes were made to the Multi-User Chat (MUC) configuration pages on the admin console
There were also some improvements made to the plugins.
There are also French, Russian, and Lithuanian langauge translation fixes for Openfire and some of the plugins.

The State of the Ignite Realtime Community

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:00:26 GMT

You probably have noticed many recent changes with Ignite Realtime! Thanks to the help of Benjamin Sherman of Jive Software, the entire suite of Ignite Realtime servers and infrastructure have been migrated to a Contegix hosted location external to Jive. This was done so that the community could take administrative control of Ignite Realtime and push projects forward as we wanted without relying on help from Jive Software.

So has Jive Software abandoned Ignite Realtime? No! They continue to generously fund the infrastructure and colocation costs at Contegix. They also will participate with the community when appropriate. The community is now in tasked with moving projects forward!

So how will this work? At the moment, there is a handful of active community members that have been working hard to get the infrastructure setup. This infrastructure includes:

Atlassian's Bamboo available at: http://bamboo.igniterealtime.org
Atlassian's JIRA available at: http://issues.igniterealtime.org
Jive Software's SBS available at http://community.igniterealtime.org
Atlassian's Fisheye available at http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org
Subversion server at http://svn.igniterealtime.org/svn/repos

So who is running the show here? We currently do not have any formal community leadership process in place. The handful of us that are currently getting the infrastructure setup have been working together to make decisions to move Ignite Realtime forward. With more community involvement and interest, we'll certainly wish to formalize roles and responsibilities soon.

So when will project X on Ignite make a new release? Depends Here is a brief summary of the various projects status:

Openfire is very close to a 3.7.0 beta release. Guus der Kinderen and others have been working hard to squash remaining bugs and get a formal beta release out the door.
Spark continues to struggle along and sure could use some developers to help get a formal release out the door. Please let us know if you are interested in helping out.
XIFF released version 3.0.0 just this week thanks to the work of Mark Walters. Congratulations on the new release!
Smack has seen recent development and could use more developers to help progress things along.
Tinder is developed by Guus and he continues to make improvements to the library projects like Openfire uses.
Spark Web has not seen development on Ignite for quite some time. Community member Dele Olajide has made a number of improvements to spark web on the version he maintains offsite.
Whack could use some development help, so please let us know if you are interested.

At the end of the day, the productivity of the Ignite Realtime Community depends on you! We have been given the power to push projects forward as fast as we wish, so let us take advantage of this wonderful infrastructure setup provided by Jive Software.

Onward and upward!

XIFF 3.0.0 has been released!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:24:20 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of XIFF 3.0.0!

This major release includes many bug fixes, improvements, and features over the previous beta release, including Digest-MD5 support and removal of all Flex dependencies for pure AS3 project support. This release also includes a new class namespace (igniterealtime instead of jivesoftware).

You can view the full change log here.

Download XIFF from here.

Nightly builds are also maintained for XIFF now. You can access those here.

Enjoy!