Blog Posts From Ignite Realtime Blog Tagged With release

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.

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.

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.

Smack 3.2.0 Beta has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:22:19 GMT

on behalf of Robin Collier

Smack 3.2.0 Beta has been released on February 3, 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. There are still other issues to be worked on, as there will always be, but it is time to start a new roadmap for Smack.

The starting point will be this release with the intent to produce a more regular release cycle. I will try to outline a roadmap for future releases in the near future based on the current set of issues, feedback within the forums and of course developer contributions.

You can download from the Beta Releases downloads page.

Spark 2.6.0 RC1 has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:57:01 GMT

Spark 2.6.0 RC1 has been released on November 17, 2010. It was a long period of silence since the last Beta 2 release and even longer since the latest Final release. But the work was continued, one project leader changed the other. There were a lot of changes in the code, both seen in the UI (color changes, additional options and buttons) and under the hood (lots of proprietary code replaced with open source analogs). Some new features were introduced, bugs fixed, and of course some new bugs introduced As i said, the work is constantly continued by 3-6 volunteer contributors. The plan is to release RC2 in December and then the Final release next year in January. Meanwhile we ask the community to try out RC1 and report about the issues in the forums.

There is no official changelog still, so i will just give a link to a list of 2.6.0 bugs in the tracker, 90% of them are fixed already.

Downloads for different platforms can be found on Beta Releases downloads page

Important note before upgrading! In 2.6.0 RC1 user's profile path has been changed to ..Username\Application Data\Spark (Windows XP), ..Username\AppData\Roaming\Spark (Vista/Win7) or $HOME/.Spark (Linux). If you want to use same preferences and have old history, copy user's profile folder to a new location and Spark will pick it up. Old location was just the ..Username\Spark. There is no automatic import option in the installer so far and it is not known if there will be one. So keep this in mind.

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.

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!

Tinder 1.2.2 has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:39:56 GMT

We have just released Tinder 1.2.2, which is a maintenance release. It fixes a number of bugs, features improved performance and has a number of new features.

Download Tinder from: http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp

Tinder 1.2.1 has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:15:53 GMT

We have just released version 1.2.1 of Tinder. This version is a bugfix release, that improvement the AbstractComponent implementation that was added in version 1.2.0.

Tinder 1.2.0 has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:52:52 GMT

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.2.0 of Tinder. This new version brings interesting new features, a number of bugs fixes and general performance improvement.

Recently, I published a document describing a problem that I dubbed the Achilles' heel of Openfire. Tinder 1.2 introduces the AbstractComponent implementation, which will allow you to circumvent this problem easily. Additionally, AbstractComponent removes the need for the repetitive work that traditionally goes with implementing a full featured, spec-compliant component. Have a look at the Component Developer Guide for a detailed description.

Tinder 1.2 no longer depends on Openfire-specific logging. Instead, Simple Logging Facade is used, which will allow you to integrate with your existing logging framework easily. Finally, caching strategy and implementation have been modified to give you better performance.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the Tinder Release Notes. Did I mention that starting with 1.2 we're releasing the code under the Apache 2.0 license?

Tinder 1.1.0 has been released

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:24:24 GMT

We've just released the second version of Tinder, the new XMPP library that was introduced two months ago. This release focusses on Java concurrency (threading) issues and fixes a number of important bugs from 1.0.0. More detailed information is available in the release notes.