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Daniel Henninger

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Aug 27, 2008 11:52 AM

Openfire 3.6.0: Clearly there are some issues, what is the plan?

Hi folk, clearly you all have helped me identify some serious upgrade issues here and there with 3.6.0. I've pulled out some key ones from all of the reports and am going to work on fixing them up real quick. (need to test and see if I can reproduce first) The plan is to release a 3.6.0a ASAP. Not everyone is having issues. Those of you who are not probably won't need 3.6.0a at all. Please don't take this as a indication to stop reporting issues. =) You may not be seeing the same things everyone else is and if I don't know about it to fix it, I probably won't get it into 3.6.0a. This release won't be occurring "in an hour or so" because I have a lot to test and evaluate, but stay tuned!

The bulk of the reports so far are around DB script issues with the upgrades, and LDAP not handling usernames with spaces in them. The embedded db seems to be the most prone to issues right now.

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Aug 27, 2008 7:17 PM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
Re: Openfire 3.6.0: Clearly there are some issues, what is the plan?

Just an update folk --- I probably could release tonight but I'm going to give it a night and run some more tests in the morning before releasing --- 3.6.1. Turns out our versioning scheme for Openfire doesn't support 3.6.0a. Anyway, tomorrow I should be putting out an updated release so stay tuned!

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  Aug 27, 2008 7:20 PM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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  Actually, I take that back. I may still release it as 3.6.0a, but in the console itself it'll show as 3.6.0. Will think about it.
  
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    Sep 12, 2008 11:09 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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    Seems 3.6.1 may have been better choice for version number. Now I get reports on the admin console and broadcast that an update - 3.6.0a - is available. That is what I have installed... hmmm
    
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      Sep 13, 2008 4:21 AM (in response to jerlev)
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      jerlev wrote:
      
      Seems 3.6.1 may have been better choice for version number. Now I get reports on the admin console and broadcast that an update - 3.6.0a - is available. That is what I have installed... hmmm
      This is a known issue and Daniel has warned about that in 3.6.0a release thread in forums. Everything is fine. Just Openfire's versioning scheme doesnt support x.x.xa format. It will be ok when 3.6.1 will be released. Meanwhile you can ignore update message in Admin Console and temporary disable admins notifications.
      
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Aug 28, 2008 3:23 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
Re: Openfire 3.6.0: Clearly there are some issues, what is the plan?

If how you guys name the version was the issue...

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  Aug 28, 2008 7:54 AM (in response to Joao Paulo Caron Rodrigues)
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  Arkymedes wrote:
  
  If how you guys name the version was the issue...
  What? I don't follow.
  
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    Aug 28, 2008 10:05 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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    I guess that was supposed to say:
    
    If only the versioning scheme was the issue we wouldn't have any problems, but there are some major bugs and nobody cares about the "name" of the bugfix release
    
    (don't shoot the messenger... a bugfix release would be nice though)
    
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      Aug 28, 2008 10:09 AM (in response to Marc Seeger)
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      *scratch head* Who was saying the only issue was the versioning scheme? I was just saying that I can't release a 3.6.0a that "looks like" a 3.6.0a in the admin console. I'm going to effectively re-release 3.6.0 with the package names of 3.6.0a. Good lord, just trying to keep people in the loop about my thought process instead of keeping quiet here. =P So in summary, versioning comments are for my own benefits. If anyone is going to take offense at them, get over it, ignore them if you want. ;D
      
      As for a status report, I'm currently running through all of the databases and upgrading all the way from the last version of Wildfire to 3.6.0 and making sure upgrades happen correctly. Just found a bug in the db2 scripts from a long long time ago. =/
      
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:10 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        Besides that, I'm trying to make sure y'all know to either look for 3.6.1 or 3.6.0a =)
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:13 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        awesome
        thanks
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:27 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        To be fair to Daniel, I've run several upgrades from 3.5.1 to 3.6.0 with a MySQL 5 backend and it's worked perfectly every time on my test server which is a 'mirror' of the live environment.
        
        Just one point, if I recall, I had an issue with the version 14 script a while ago and I fixed it by manually editing the upgrade script myself (I think it was Daniel who gave me the fix). I wonder if other people had been or are affected by it.
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:29 AM (in response to Martyn Baker)
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        Oh wow, thank you! It's helpful to my ... well mood frankly ... to hear successes when they exist. =)
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:36 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        I updated from 3.5.2 with the hybrid user provider compiled from source to the 3.6.0 without a problem
        Although I guess I am the only one who does this update, but it worked without a problem! I finally can simply use the rpm and don't have to recompile with the extra hybrid user provider file
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 10:43 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        Well, I'm sure that although there are issues out there, it can't all be doom and gloom. I tried the install on both my existing DB and also an 'empty' schema which I needed to find out how get other JID's as authorised admins which I've now done.
        
        I also think you've done a great job on the features and I'm just having a play around at the moment.
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 3:31 PM (in response to Martyn Baker)
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        Ok folk! I have completed my db tests and am building the 3.6.0a installers now. It'll probably be a couple of hours before everything is uploaded and I write my post about what you might need to do if you attempted 3.6.0 before without backing out to a 3.5.2 restore. So.. coming real soon. =D
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 4:42 PM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        Well, I made the upgrade using the .deb package and my ldap search to build my groups failed. Tried to put back the confs on the openfire.xml file but then openfire wouldn't start.
        
        Cleaned my db, purged my old installation and tried from the scratch to test again. I will let you now tomorrow morning if got better.
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 4:44 PM (in response to gustavopml)
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        Uhm, you realize I haven't released the fixed version yet, right? =) It's coming in a few hours.
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 6:05 PM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        Daniel,
        
        I sent you an email from my gmail this time about breakage of Postgresql < 8 with one of your fixes today. Hope you get this in time...
        
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        Aug 28, 2008 6:45 PM (in response to Daryl Herzmann)
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        I did, thanks! I hate databases.
        
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        Aug 29, 2008 9:40 AM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
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        Oh Yes, but I just came to look for problems on the project page after the upgrade gone wrong. I made minor changes in the search scope of my LDAP and is working fine. Now I'm going to wait to upgrade to 3.6.0a because I left my users with no chat almost two hours. My best regards.
        
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        Aug 29, 2008 9:47 AM (in response to gustavopml)
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        =) always make a backup of your setup so you can revert to it asap if there are problems!!! =)
        
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Sep 14, 2008 10:27 PM (in response to Daniel Henninger)
Re: Openfire 3.6.0: Clearly there are some issues, what is the plan?

jadestorm wrote:

The bulk of the reports so far are around DB script issues with the upgrades, and LDAP not handling usernames with spaces in them. The embedded db seems to be the most prone to issues right now.
Is this true? Verified by others as well? Because I've been trying to get our Openfire 3.6.0 and Spark to work with userPrincipalNAme and/or cn attributes of user objects, and when using cn where there is usually an space between first and last name, Openfire produces HTTP 500 error when configuring it.

Could it also be that when when using userPrincipalName the '@' sign does not get processed right, say URL encoding does not work correctly?

So in short: AD authentication with user account that has an space in it does not work, and also the '@' sign is not processed right?

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