Spark 2.5.8 is now available for download here. This release fixes a number of bugs, including some nasty memory leaks, and includes a few new features. One of which is that all of the transports that the IM Gateway plugin supports are now supported in Spark, so if you were using the Extra Gateways plugin before, please delete it!
I loaded up this new release after uninstalling 2.5.7 on my vista machine. Apparently 2.5.8 doesn’t want to even run on my machine now. Very frustrating. I went through and removed all Spark folders with any settings, etc, so i could try again with a “clean” install, and it still doesn’t work. Watching my process list, I can see the spark process start up and die right away. I’ve tried both the online installer and the msi, both fail. The logs folder within the program files directory have an error log file that is empty. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this further.
Has we made non-JRE releases in the past for Linux? Aside from what was on the change log, no other requests were going in for this release. The previous developer had done a lot of improvement work and that needed to be released. Working out the logistics of adding new features (even if it’s something like not including the JRE) would have delayed things a bit more. I vaguely recall telling someone that this wasn’t going to make it for 2.5.8. I thought that was you. =)
I was not aware of this document, but now that you did create Tools to debug Spark one could remove* this document form the wiki, it seems that the wiki lives much longer than everyone did expect.
LG
*remove: change the title to “rm Tools to debug Spark”, remove all content and place a link to Tools to debug Spark in it. So one sees very quickly which documents are moved to Clearspace.