Openfire 3.8 still does not send the self presence like described here:
http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#presence-initial
The user’s server MUST also broadcast initial presence from the user’s newly available resource to all of the user’s available resources, including the resource that generated the presence notification in the first place (i.e., an entity is implicitly subscribed to its own presence).
There are XMPP libraries which rely on this feature.