The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce that Pàdé v1.6.8 and the release candidate of Openfire Pàdé plugins v1.0.0 have been released.

This version has a new web push implementation that works with both Pàdé browser extension and progressive web app versions. For more details, see changelog

Pàdé is the Yoruba word for “Meet” and is unified communications solution for Openfire providing chat, groupchat, audio, video and online meeting communications through a desktop, web and progressive web user experience.

For a desktop experience, you install the Pàdé browser extension from the Google Chrome app store or Microsoft Edge app store. For a web or progressive web app experience, you install the Openfire Pàdé plugins and access (by default: https://<your-server-name>:7443/pade) from your favourite desktop or mobile web browser.

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The Smack developers are happy to announce the first beta release of Smack 4.4. Together with Smack 4.4 entering the beta phase, the ‘4.4’ git branch of Smack was created. This means that the API of Smack 4.4 is becoming more and more stable: we will try avoid breaking API changes during the beta phase whenever possible.

Smack 4.4.0-beta1 is now available on Maven Central.

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Openfire Meetings has been most useful during this current global Covid-19 lockdown as a tool for conducting online meetings and sharing digital content. Despite the low latency real-time audio and video it provides for multiple participants in the meetings, it is seemingly un-useable for music teacher/students or musicians trying to practise, jam or improvise together.

There are a number of reasons for this, but the easiest to fix is that the web browser WebRTC connection is configured by default to process human voice in mono with acoustic microphones and speakers. Effects like echo cancellation are added to improve the voice conversation quality and are unsuitable for music which requires stereo. There is also the issue of enough network bandwidth for high quality audio and video at the same time.

To overcome these two issues in Openfire Meetings, enable the above features.

With echo cancellation disabled, you have to monitor the music with headphones and with video disabled, you have to communicate with chat/messaging. You also have to follow a few more tips to reduce latency like prefering Ethernet cables over WIFI, using a good pro-grade low-latency USB sound module and not the internal speakers/microphone unless you own a Mac.

If you do manage to get an online jam session going, please let me know. I would love to compare your setup with mine.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.5.3. We wanted to make one final bug fix release of the 4.5.x series of Openfire before a final 4.6.0 is made soon. You can find a listing of bug fixed within our changelog.

Download artifacts are available here and have the following sha1sum values:

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Thanks for your interest in Openfire.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate release of version 2.1.5 of the Client Control plugin for Openfire!

This update adds a new setting for a newly released 2.9.0 version of Spark, changes one setting’s behavior, adds a Russian translation and fixes a few issues.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the update in the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Client Control plugin archive page

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.0!

Note that this version has a lot of changes, especially in certificates management area. We suggest to first test it on a small batch of test machines before deploying it to all users.

2.9.0 was long time in the making, so the list of changes is rather long. To mention a few: a new certificate management system that was long overdue, migration to Maven (instead of Ant), HTTP File Upload plugin support, new Smack library version and many other bug fixes and improvements.

A few plugins are currently not working because they use old libraries not available for Maven: Spellchecker, OTR. During the poll on this website most users told us that they are not using these plugins.

We are thankful to all the contributors and Google Summer of Code students who provided their patches to help us release this version. And we encourage developers to get involved with Spark project by providing feedback in the forums or submitting pull requests on our GitHub page.

Here is the list of contributors to this release:
@guus
@Alameyo
Michael Klein
@speedy
@flow
@Dele_Olajide
Alexander198961
Manassé Ngudia
@wroot
Grigorii
Vipin Raj

You can download Spark from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.1.

This is a small bugfix release for the recently released 2.9.0 version. A few minor issues fixed in this version can be found in the changelog.

We are thankful to all the contributors and encourage developers to get involved with Spark project by providing feedback in the forums or submitting pull requests on our GitHub page.

You can download Spark from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.2.

This release fixes offline messages and a few other issues. Full list can be found in the changelog.

We are thankful to all the contributors and encourage developers to get involved with Spark project by providing feedback in the forums or submitting pull requests on our GitHub page.

You can download Spark from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Openfire Pàdé v1.0.0

After several years of on and off development, Pàdé for Openfire finally crosses the production line and is ready for general use. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to make this happen.

In case you didn’t know, Pàdé is the Yoruba word for “Meet” and is unified communications solution for Openfire providing chat, groupchat, audio, video and online meeting communications through a desktop, web and progressive web user experience.

For a desktop experience, you install the Pàdé browser extension from the Google Chrome app store or Microsoft Edge app store. For a web or progressive web app experience, you install the Openfire plugins and access (by default: https://<your_server>:7443/pade) from your favourite desktop or mobile web browser

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The Openfire community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a new plugin: the blacklist spam plugin.

With the growing popularity of XMPP-based solutions, we’re also seeing an increase of a less desirable application of XMPP: the distribution of unsolicited messages over instant messaging (SPAM, or SPIM).

In order to help our Openfire community combat known spam, we have now released a new plugin the “Spam blacklist” plugin. This is configured with a URL that is used to lookup addresses of known SPAM distributors and block all messages sent by these addresses.

By default, the plugin is configured to read from a blacklist that is hosted on the igniterealtime.org website, and block all messages sent by any user on a domain listed there. The blacklist hosted by the Ignite Realtime community is a periodically updated copy of the list that is curated by the https://github.com/JabberSPAM/blacklist project. You can help combat spam by contributing to that project!

In the next few hours, the plugin will pop up in the list of available plugins on all Openfire instances. Alternatively, you can manually download and install the plugin from its archive page.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce that version 2.1.0 of the Monitoring plugin has been released!

This release is mainly a bugfix release. Message archiving functionality has been improved (fixes have been applied for both XEP-0136 and XEP-0313), full text search has been added to the personal message archives of users, and a variety of smaller bug fixes have been applied.

In this release, the feature of retrieving messages ‘out of order’ has been removed.

The new version of the plugin will become available for installation in the admin console of your instance of Openfire in the next few hours. Alternatively, it can be downloaded from its archive page right now.

Note that for instances that have a lot of archived messages in their database, the initial load of this plugin might require a significant amount of time, as some database updates will be executed. For reference: it took our test instance, that has approximately 11 million archived messages in an external database approximately 9 minutes to perform this update.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Ohùn, a new plugin for Openfire.

Ohùn is the Yoruba word for voice and is a simple audio conferencing solution for Openfire using the Kraken WebRTC client and server.

It is for remote teams who can use it everyday to communicate and collaborate all day long without the need to show their faces or any other video. With the absence of video, it ensures high quality audio for the conversation most of the time, even with more than 10 participants.

If you are a remote worker, tired of daily video conference meetings and wish to experience some of the spontaneous discussions with colleagues and team members just listening to each other while working on the same project, then give Ohùn a test and let me know what you think. You call mute yourself, selectively mute noisy peers or even mute everyone when you are busy.

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The Smack developers are happy to announce the availability the second beta release of Smack 4.4.0. We expect Smack 4.4.0-beta2 to be the last beta before the first release candidate is published. Please consider testing this release in your integration stages and report back any issues you may found. The more people are actively testing pre-releases, the less issues will remain in the actual release.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the availability of Openfire version 4.5.4. This release is hopefully the last in the 4.5.x series as version 4.6.0 is near imminent. You can find a changelog denoting 12 issues resolved since 4.5.3.

Download artifacts are available here with the following sha1sum values:

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Thanks for your interest in Openfire.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is elated to be able to announce the release of Openfire version 4.6.0!

This release is the first non-patch release in 10 months, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes.

I’d like to explicitly thank the many people in the community that have supported this release: not only were a significant amount of code contributions provided, the feedback that we get in our chatroom and on our community forums is of great value to us!

Highlights of this release include extensively improved XMPP protocol support, particularly around Pubsub and PEP and better compatibility with higher-end encryption parameters out-of-the-box, which should particularly benefit environments that make heavy use of server-to-server federation.

This release includes experimental support for federated multi-user chat for constrained environments (as defined in XEP-0289). This feature aims to reduce the dependency on highly reliable, high volume network connectivity.

The complete changelog contains approximately 80 issues that have been resolved in this release.

We invite you to give this release a try. The process of upgrading from an earlier version is as lightweight as ever. It is outlined in the Openfire upgrade guide. Please note that, if desired, a significant amount of professional partners is available that can provide commercial support for upgrading, customization, or other services.

We’re always happy to hear about your experiences, good or bad! Please consider dropping a note in the community forums or hang out with us in our web support groupchat.

You can find Openfire release artifacts on the download page. These are the the applicable sha1sums:

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As per usual, we have created a 4.6 branch in our source code repository, that will hold follow-up bug fixes for this release, which will be numbered with 4.6.x identifiers. The main branch will over time evolve into release 4.7. We do not expect to perform more releases on the 4.5 branch.

Thank you for using Openfire!

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.3.

This is mostly a bugfix release. And all fixes this time were done by Arthur Ostretsov. We are very grateful for his contribution to Spark project. Arthur has fixed various issues with reconnection logic, cleaned up code, also added file transfer events to chat history.

Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

We encourage users and developers to get involved with Spark project by providing feedback in the forums or submitting pull requests on our GitHub page.

You can download Spark from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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1d65ce7cf243230596d13fde5c64e457fde226d9  spark_2_9_3-with-jre.dmg
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The Ignite Realtime community has been happily using tools provided by Atlassian over the years thanks to their generous no-cost licensing to Open Source development projects like ours. These tools include issue tracking by Jira, user management by Crowd, and continuous integration by Bamboo. These tools run within our AWS Cloud presence kindly supported by Surevine. You may be aware the Atlassian recently announced a move to discontinue self-hosted Jira installs in favor of their Jira Cloud offering. Generously, they are making this service free for projects like us to use.

So we have migrated our Jira instance to the Atlassian Cloud and you can now find our issue tracker at https://igniterealtime.atlassian.net. Our previous URL will automatically redirect to this cloud website and thankfully, previous URLs referenced in various places will continue to function.

If you have any issues accessing Jira, please chime in here or direct message me via this very online forum. Thanks again to Atlassian for offering this valuable service to the Open Source Community.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Openfire Pàdé v1.0.2.

This release has a new feature that enables Jitsi Meet participants to share their screen cursor positions and mouse clicks. See this feature request for more details.

Jitsi Meet is updated to build 4383 and this may be the last upgrade with Jitsi JVB1. Openfire Meetings (ofmeet plugin) cannot proceed to JVB2 until this issue is fixed. Consequently, this issue will remain outstanding, causing Jitsi Meet mobile to stop working with Openfire Meetings.

Pàdé web client is upgraded to version 1.6.11 and now has support for using chrome.storage.local and chrome.storage.sync in Converse

For a desktop experience, you install the Pàdé browser extension from the Google Chrome app store or Microsoft Edge app store. For a web or progressive web app experience, you install the Openfire plugins and access (by default: https://your_server:7443/pade) from your favorite desktop or mobile web browser

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The Smack developers are happy to announce the availability the first release candidate (RC) of Smack 4.4.0. Please consider testing this release in your integration stages and report back any issues you may found. The more people are actively testing pre-releases, the less issues will remain in the actual release.

Smack 4.4.0-rc1 is now available on Maven Central.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate release of version 2.1.6 of the Client Control plugin for Openfire!

This update adds an option to disable plugins in Spark. Specifically currently it allows to disable Reversi and TicTacToe games. In the future it can be extended to disable more plugins. You need Spark 2.9.4 or newer for this option to work.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the update in the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Client Control plugin archive page

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