The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.4.

This time our long time Ignite Realtime Foundation member @guus fixed a lot of issues regarding how Spark handles SSL certificates (or rather how it was not handling them). There is also a new option to disable games with Client Control plugin (need version 2.1.6). And improvements to file transfer and handling of passwords.

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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f0b9e59fded30e99634419dceef99b206434a3f8  spark_2_9_4.dmg
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The Ignite Realtime Community has been happily and freely using tools generously provided by Atlassian on our Amazon Web Service hosted instances sponsored by Surevine. We recently announced a migration of Jira to Atlassian Cloud and this blog post denotes a change made to our Bamboo Instance. Atlassian Bamboo provides Continuous Integration (CI) for building and testing our software projects.

We previously were using Atlassian Crowd to provide user accounts to Bamboo and Jira. Since Jira is now in the cloud and we really don’t need non-admin accounts to access Bamboo, we have removed the crowd integration to Bamboo and are using local-to-bamboo accounts instead.

If you have an authenticated access need to Bamboo for plan running / modification, please let me know. I am reaching out individually to those I know need this access, but may have missed somebody We will soon be spinning down our crowd instance to save on our AWS monthly spend!

Thanks for your time and interest in Ignite Realtime!

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Openfire Pàdé v1.1.1.

This version upgrades ofmeet to Jitsi Videobridge version 2.x and fixes the audio and video issue with Chrome 87. It also fixes the compatibility issues with Firefox and the Jitsi mobile applications on IOS and Android. For more details on what has changed, see the release notes.

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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We are happy to announce Smack 4.4.0, which is the first major release since the release of Smack 4.3.0 in August 2018. Smack 4.4.0 includes many new features, bug fixes, and improvements. The Smack 4.4.0 release artifacts are now available on Maven Central.

Smack is a community effort and would not be possible without plenty of contributors. We like to thank everyone who contributed to this release:

$ git shortlog -sn 4.3.0..4.4.0
   813  Florian Schmaus
    78  Paul Schaub
    27  Aditya Borikar
     7  Georg Lukas
     7  Guus der Kinderen
     4  Benjamin JALON
     2  Damian Minkov
     2  Jesus Fuentes
     2  Oliver Mihatsch
     2  Simon Schuster
     1  Alameyo
     1  Andrey Sokolov
     1  Bastien Rouiller
     1  Daryl E. Herzmann
     1  Eng ChongMeng
     1  Greg Thomas
     1  Heckel
     1  John Haubrich
     1  Marcel Heckel
     1  Matthew Wild
     1  Miguel Hincapie
     1  Mohsen Hariri
     1  Piotr Nosek
     1  Tairs Rzajevs
     1  V Lau
     1  spslinger

The release of Smack 4.4.0 also means that Smack 4.3 does no longer receive bug fixes as part of the community effort. However, it is possible to reach out to professional services in case of issues with Smack 4.3.

Please refer to the release’s README for more information about Smack 4.4

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The Ignite Realtime community announces the availability of Openfire Pàdé v1.2.0. This version returns Openfire Meetings (ofmeet) back to a single plugin with wrappers for all three Jitsi components (jvb, jicofo and jigasi). See the change-log for details

Support has been added to enable audio conferences in FreeSWITCH to be linked to Jitsi video conferences with the same names when the focus user joins/leaves the associated Openfire group-chats. You can configure your FreeSWITCH dialplan to allow SIP devices and phones to dial internal or external telephone numbers to join these bridged conferences.

Openfire Pade is a community effort and would not have got this far without the generous contributions of members. We say thank you to Guido Jäkel, Claude Stabile, ayushbhat and other contributors

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The Ignite Realtime community announces the availability of Openfire Pàdé v1.3.0.

This release combines all Openfire Meetings modules (jitsi meet, videobridge, focus and sip gateway) and conversejs into a single plugin called Pàdé and fixes some issues. See the change-log for details

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 2.2.0 of the Monitoring plugin, which provides support for chat archiving and server statistics to Openfire.

This update includes a good deal of improvements and bug fixes. Notable are:

• Improved stability when running as part of an Openfire cluster.
• Bugfixes in the Message Archive Management (XEP-313) implementation.

Starting with this release, the message archive functionality is fully based on the database tables maintained by this plugin again (in previous versions, the message archive for multi-user chat rooms were based on database tables managed by Openfire itself). This change might different identifiers to be used for messages in MUC archives, which might affect clients that have previously interacted with earlier versions of this plugin. Our tests with various commonly-used clients did not show any relevant functional issues stemming from this.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the update. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Monitoring plugin’s archive page.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the availability of version 4.6.1 of it’s Realtime communications server Openfire!

This version is largely a bugfix release. It primarily focusses on improving multi-user chat and pubsub functionality when running an Openfire cluster, but also includes other improvements, such as LDAP/AD preformance enhancements. You can find all changes in the changelog, which is denoting 33 issues resolved since 4.6.0.

We are again grateful for all of the support that was provided to us, in no small amount through our community that is active in our chatroom and on our community forums!

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.

Download artifacts are available here with the following sha1sum values:

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Thank you for using Openfire!

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 1.3.1 of the Pàdé plugin, which offers web-based unified communications - chat, groupchat, telephone, audio and video conferencing to Openfire.

This version upgrades Jitsi-Meet, JVB and JiCofo to stable version 2.0.5390, fixes some issues and adds new features. See the changelog for more details.

Download and install from here

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 0.8.0 of the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!

This update fixes a problem that prevented certain clients (like Siskin) from successfully register a push notification service.

Note that, after upgrading the plugin from an older version, Openfire will need to be restarted. This too is caused by a bug, that has been addressed in this new release (but one last restart is needed to remove remnants of the bug that was present in previous versions of the plugin).

As always, your installation of Openfire should automatically detect the availability of the update in the next few hours. Alternatively, visit the plugin archive page to download the plugin directly.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the 4.6.2 release of Openfire. For SQL Server users, this release contains an important fix that prevented a database upgrade script from working. Otherwise, the changelog denotes three other issues resolved. One change to note is a subtle difference on the Openfire administration console with how the version is reported in the upper right corner. For example:

The git repository commit hash the build was based off of is included to provide a more definitive provenance of the version you are running. In this case, “b61bce3” refers to the merge commit for the 4.6.2 release.

Release artifacts can be found on our download page and they have the following sha1sum values

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10db897faff66be5228fde858da7618becee1251  openfire-4.6.2-1.noarch.rpm
29c7aa59cac59eb15b0824e5a7d1dde0ce57976b  openfire-4.6.2-1.x86_64.rpm
245e326efbcf02749a243ef7bee79a55b6b5afb3  openfire_4.6.2_all.deb
1e9f0eb71650313f65848d376b600d6ce2d87db7  openfire_4_6_2_bundledJRE.exe
1f80ba8835c55f7290ac05f2b88cffdd3a993616  openfire_4_6_2_bundledJRE_x64.exe
d9c0956ad8fcc28e27b92175e6931841f76b0935  openfire_4_6_2.dmg
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a9a2dab04c03cccb5b1b371602dbea87dc860fd3  openfire_src_4_6_2.tar.gz
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And for those curious, here is an accounting of the number of 4.6.1 downloads by artifact.

Please report any issues in the community forums or stop on by the online groupchat to let us know how things are going for you. Thanks for your interest in Openfire!

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 2.2.1 of the Monitoring plugin. This plugin is primarily a bugfix release, that addresses some issues that got introduced in version 2.2.0.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the update. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Monitoring plugin’s archive page.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 1.3.2 of the Pàdé plugin, which offers web-based unified communications - chat, groupchat, telephone, audio and video conferencing to Openfire.

This version fixes some issues and adds some very cool enhancements by cool0707. See the changelog and the issue discussions for more details.

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We are happy to announce the availability of Smack 4.4.1, the first patch level release of Smack’s 4.4 series. It mostly contains bugfixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed by reporting and fixing bugs. As always, this Smack release is available via Maven Central.

We would like to use this occasion to point at that Smack now ships with a NOTICE file. Please note that this adds some requirements when using Smack as per the Apache License 2.0. The content of Smack’s NOTICE file can conveniently be retrieved using Smack.getNoticeStream().

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We are happy to announce the availability of Smack 4.4.2, the second patch level release of Smack’s 4.4 series. It mostly contains bugfixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed by reporting and fixing bugs. As always, this Smack release is available via Maven Central.

We would like to use this occasion to point at that Smack now ships with a NOTICE file. Please note that this adds some requirements when using Smack as per the Apache License 2.0. The content of Smack’s NOTICE file can conveniently be retrieved using Smack.getNoticeStream().

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The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.3 of the Pàdé plugin, which offers web-based unified communications - chat, groupchat, telephone, audio and video conferencing to Openfire.

This version fixes more outstanding issues and adds some new features. See the changelog and the issue discussions and general discussions for more details.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display it in the list of available plugins. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Pade Archive page.

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a an update to the JSXC plugin for Openfire, that makes available the JSXC web client to your users!

JSXC is a feature rich web client, which, among others, supports video calls and screen sharing. For more information on its features and usage, please visit its project web page at https://www.jsxc.org

This release updates the version of JSXC that was used from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. The release note for that version can be found at the JSXC release page.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the update in the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the the plugin directly from the JSXC plugin archive page.

As always, we’d love your feedback on our work! Stop by our support groupchat to get in touch, or leave a message on our community site.

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The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.6.3. This release contains a number of bug fixes and denotes our desire to provide stable 4.6.x series releases while development work continues on a 4.7.0 release.

You can find download artifacts available having the following sha1sum values:

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5c7d95f508426f9ffbe4140c7f217bb5308456fe  openfire-4.6.3-1.noarch.rpm
72a0f054cbb22ca89b3776889ec6f23ba16a2744  openfire-4.6.3-1.x86_64.rpm
28ceb205504e7f58cea30a21e8d8fb3ff197f18d  openfire_4.6.3_all.deb
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ab4f6a0ab27dd642214099ea57a6ac4e2eb6d75f  openfire_4_6_3.tar.gz
21785833b7b1ec99f9174fdb625529dacd4f832c  openfire_4_6_3_x64.exe
de5bff5f8b6963d8c8e2d25120922a3395dd0df7  openfire_4_6_3.zip
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Please report any issues you have with this release in our Community Forums.

We are always desperate for folks interested in pitching in with development, testing, and code reviews. Please consider dropping by our webchat forum if you are interested in helping.

Thanks again for your interest in Openfire!

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.0 Beta version.

We decided to increase major version to 3.x to coincide with a complete UI refresh of Spark which was contributed by Amos. We are very much grateful for his incredible work. Along that Pade Meetings plugin was added by Dele. And a few other fixes and improvements by others. We wanted to have a few more items for this major version, like latest Smack library, Carbons support, JCEF, etc. But there are not enough time and contributors to get everything done. Hopefully will be added later.

As this is a major visual change and there are a few other changes under the hood, we decided to first do a Beta release and let it cook for a while. Feel free to test it and report any findings in the forums.

Pade Meetings (formerly SparkMeet) plugin is included in this release. You can find it in a chat window, a button with P letter. This plugin works with Openfire Meetings and enables audio and video chat. It was modified by Dele Olajide to use Electron technology. First time a user logs in using this version Spark will download required libraries into user’s profile (it is around 150 MB on Windows, so can take a minute to download).

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 Beta from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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7ce6e743be5a4fab867c4aca6ac6d3f1c8edd1e3  spark-3.0.0-beta.rpm
b695386e47c4eefffaeb2c4d0a3eed884a4a021f  spark_3_0_0-beta.tar.gz
aeacdddb9b1640aedc56a3ff0fd466ad5303de73  spark_3_0_0-beta-with-jre.dmg
a51fbf9e7b92206b037bc6eaa10454942a7ef26b  spark_3_0_0-beta-with-jre.exe

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The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of the Pàdé plugin, which offers web-based unified communications - chat, group-chat, telephone, audio and video conferencing to Openfire.

This version fixes more outstanding issues and incorporates the latest Jitsi Meet UI.

See the changelog and the issue discussions and general discussions for more details.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display it in the list of available plugins. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Pade Archive page.

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