Is openfire & spark still being updated?

It’s been awhile since the last updates. Is the software still being updated? If not, do we have to worry about security flaws in the software?

Yes. OpenFire is for sure. Spark is a lot less active. Check the Nightly Builds for info.

I guess nowadays you should always worry for security flaws in software. Granted, it would take longer for Openfire/Spark to be fixed if something critical come up. Development is driven by a few volunteers, so it is not very active. Especially Spark (no updates in 4 months). By updates i mean code changes commited to the project. Not the official releases, which doesn’t represent the actual activity on this site for quite a long time. Openfire is a bit better on this. But with Spark i have switched using the nightly builds for a long time.