Christmas has come early.

Our github repository - GitHub - igniterealtime/Openfire: A XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. - reached a thousand and one stars today, so we've celebrated by releasing Openfire 4.1.0, containing over 150 fixes and new features. I feel I should personally thank Daryl Herzmann and Guus der Kinderen in particular for the gargantuan effort they've both put into this release, but we're also very lucky to have a large number of developers within the community providing us with high-quality patches via Pull Requests. This is, once again, a huge collective effort.

Changlog: Openfire Changelog

You can download it from here:

Ignite Realtime: Downloads

As a reminder, Openfire's source code and development can be found on Github and an active developer discussion occurs within our open_chat@conference.igniterealtime.org groupchat.  Please consider helping out with Openfire's development!  We can use help in about all areas of development, but especially:

• experienced packaging developers to improve the install/upgrade experience on various platforms
• developers interested in transitioning Openfire to Maven
• testing of Bamboo generated builds

Thank you for your interest in Openfire!

Almost 4 weeks ago, we released a beta of Openfire 4.0.0. Now, it's time for the real thing.

Openfire 4.0.0 is now available for immediate download. The Beta has been run in production by developers for some time, and we believe this is the best ever Openfire release, containing many new features and fixing dozens of bugs. It marks the culmination of a real resurgence in Openfire development.

We advise all users to plan on upgrading; the 3.10 branch will not be receiving anything other than critical fixes. The new 4.0 branch will be the focus for bug fixes, and the trunk is now 4.1.

Many of the plugins available from Ignite Realtime: Openfire Plugins will only work on 4.0.0, and will therefore require this upgrade.

You can download the new release from: Ignite Realtime: Downloads

A changelog is here: Openfire Changelog

SHA-1 Checksums are:

The Ignite Realtime community is very proud to release Openfire 3.10.0 for general availability from http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/

The amount of energy that has gone into this release is truly impressive, and it shows no signs of slowing down - as those of your looking at the 3.11 branch will have seen. Further 3.10.X releases will be bugfix releases; 3.11 will concentrate on a path to 4.0.0.

3.10.0 itself brings new core features to Openfire (such as Message Carbons, for example, by Christian Schudt) and vital improvements (to clustering and MUC, for example, by Tom Evans), as well as some hard bugfixing (by Guus der Kinderen) and important security improvements.

As ever, we welcome pull requests (to 3.10 or master as appropriate), and the entire development team is looking forward to you joining the conversation either in the forums or in the XMPP chatroom at open_chat@conference.igniterealtime.org

Happy Chatting!

Dave.

SHA-1 hashes for download artifacts

UPDATE: Spark 2.6.3 version has issues with connecting to this version of Openfire. We suggest updating to just released 2.7.0 version of Spark.

UPDATE 2: Openfire 3.10.1 has been released recently, which is again compatible with Spark 2.6.3 when using TLS (thanks to this fix [OF-907] SSLv2 Hello is rejected; prevents some clients connecting - Jive Software Open Source )