Unlike prior releases of SparkWeb, SparkWeb 0.9 is not attached to the Openfire Enterprise plugin. As such it's going to be using its own version numbering scheme, and is packaged in new ways.

Versioning

We consider 1.0 of the new SparkWeb to be the first release from the new open source repository. Since this one is still coming from our internal repository, it's called 0.9. This is purely a naming convention thing, and it's exactly equivalent to what was going to be called 3.5.1.

Packaging

There will be two packages of SparkWeb; one a .war file that can be deployed easily from app servers (including openfire's jetty), the other a folder with a static html file that can be dropped into any web server. Configuration can (finally!) be done via the instructions at http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/docs/DOC-1400.

Currently only the static html file distribution is available; I'll get to the .war in a bit.