The Ignite Realtime Community is thrilled to announce the promotion of release version 4.3.0 of Openfire. A changelog denotes 130 Jira issues resolved with this release! There are a few gotchas / unresolved issues we would like to inform you of.

• OF-1615 Openfire Preference Pane crashes on MacOS.
  If you are a Mac user and try to start Openfire via ?Start Openfire?, it will fail. We are very much desperate for MacOS developers to help us figure out how to fix it.
• OF-1647 Upgraded Openfire on Windows sometimes fails to start.
  Some users have been able to reproduce a bug that an upgraded Openfire to 4.3.0 release will fail to properly start. The workaround is to locate the plugins/admin/webapp/WEB-INF/lib, delete it, then start Openfire again.
• OF-1432 meaning of property xmpp.pubsub.create.anyone is inverted.
  The release of Openfire 4.3.0 corrected the behavior of having that property set. Setting it now to true means that anybody can create pubsub nodes.
• OF-1594 bookmarks are unexpectedly copied to other users.
  It is not clear this bug actually exists, but we wanted to make you aware of it as the Ignite Realtime Openfire host routinely reproduces the issue, but nobody else has :). The impact is that sometimes logged in users are given other users bookmarks. This will cause them to perhaps auto-join rooms with that user?s handle. We hope that this issue is some one-off that is only due to our usage of Ignite Realtime for testing development releases!
• OF-1383 Support Java 11. (this ticket is not completed, there is no support for Java 10/11 yet, read more below)
  Openfire currently requires Java 8 to properly run. We are hoping to support newer JVMs, but need things like upstream releases of Apache MINA to happen.

Have the above issues scared you off yet from trying this release? We certainly hope not! We always recommend you have tested backups and a testing environment to see how this release works for you.

The release can be downloaded from our Downloads Page and the artifacts have the following sha1sums.

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a588f28e8a5a043e6a02dfceb67256d5a4572b87  openfire-4.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
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635c4e3cfa9193bbba6bac11698a01d5f5c59e92  openfire_src_4_3_0.tar.gz
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A special recognition for this release goes to @guus and @gdt who did a tremendous amount of work in the area of Maven migration and improving how Openfire plugin development happens. Please remember that we are all volunteers here and very much looking for others to help develop, document, and test Openfire. Please stop by our open_chat to say ?Hi? if you are interested in learning more!

The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the availability of Openfire 4.3.0 Beta. The changelog contains an extensive list of enhancements and bugs fixed for this release. We hope you are able to test this release and let us know in the Openfire Dev Forum your findings. We hope to turn around a full 4.3.0 release within a few weeks after community testing.

You can download the release from our Beta Downloads page. Please note that the MacOS-X dmg distribution has a bug where the preference pane will crash. The crash has us baffled and could use interested OS-X folks chipping in to fix it.

The sha1sum checksums for the release artifacts is as follows.

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99a4dcec2b2974d5e84cb77c7371dcd5654553e8  openfire-4.3.0-0.2.beta.noarch.rpm
e3c584d6224f3d4b5267f598e07adcb18672383a  openfire-4.3.0-0.2.beta.x86_64.rpm
f0ff14e59e9d7f6a901da6d3faa38499aa13e541  openfire_4.3.0.beta_all.deb
9d208caf825981051d7667adeece509e5198672b  openfire_4_3_0-beta_bundledJRE.exe
00e4add6ce0e00f9da327a3518a26c67a19ccee8  openfire_4_3_0-beta_bundledJRE_x64.exe
6779702d73cc34ebfb6e91670ad3126a4a477774  openfire_4_3_0_beta.dmg
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85a1b551551430c71e7aec66d232e3e77bee7074  openfire_4_3_0-beta_x64.exe
da2f5ba9c3f30db5854a6de1dce390ab3258038d  openfire_4_3_0-beta.zip
9787a34ed405ba8d1b19518847a492e20831d9d9  openfire_src_4_3_0_beta.tar.gz
50fd95b78b97c3213b854abe481cf563c18d5098  openfire_src_4_3_0_beta.zip

Thanks for your interest and please test the beta!

The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the availability of Pàdé version 0.6.0. For details of this release, please see the changelog.

As from this version, Pàdé will be available from the chrome web store as pade@work and pade@home to support separate business and personal xmpp user accounts.

A big thank you to the Tiki Community for reporting bugs and making suggestions. Special thanks goes to Marc Laporte for the encouragement and motivation.