The Ignite Realtime Community is proud to announce the 4.1.5 release of Openfire.  This release signifies our continuing effort to produce stable 4.1 series releases while work continues on the next major release.  A changelog denoting 18 resolved issues is available and you can download the release builds from our website.  There was one change that we decided not to ship with this release.  Work was done to produce 64bit windows installers, but complications exist when you attempt to upgrade previously installed 32bit versions.  We hope to iron out those issues prior to releasing 4.1.6 or even 4.2.0, depending on which comes first If testing this functionality interests you, please stop by our chatroom and let us know!

Important to know: Openfire now automatically installs the service. On the last step of the installer you will have an option whether to start it or not (it will also open the browser pointing to Admin Console, if you chose to start it). You shouldn't run the launcher, if the service is started. Documentation is updated accordingly. If you already have older service running, stop it before upgrading.

The following table denotes release artifact sha1sums and some github download statistics for the 4.1.4 release of that particular file.

As a reminder, our development of Openfire happens on Github and we have an active MUC development chat hosted at open_chat@conference.igniterealtime.org.  We are always looking for more folks to pitch in with testing, fixing bugs, and development of new features.  Please consider helping out!

As always, please report any issues in the Community Forums and thanks for using Openfire!

For many years now, Google is orchestrating its "Summer of Code" program. GSoC aims to bring student developers into the open source community, during the summer holidays.

As it did before, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will act as an umbrella organisation for this years edition of GSoC. The Ignite Realtime community is open to accept students under this umbrella.

If you're a student and interested in working on one of our projects as part of GSoC, you should get in contact! We've prepared a number of teaser tasks as well as project ideas, all of which are available in the XSF wiki.

The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the availability of version 4.1.2 of Openfire. This release signifies our ongoing effort to produce a stable 4.1 series while effort is made on new features and functionality in Openfire 4.2.  You can find a release changelog denoting the 13 Jira issues resolved in this release.  If you had issues with inconsistent appearance of groups, do please test this release to see if those issues are now resolved. You can download the release from our website here and the sha1sum's for the available artifacts are as follows.

[1] We recently migrated to storing our release artifacts on Github and thanks to their API, we can get metrics on how many times the artifact was downloaded.

As a reminder, our development of Openfire happens on Github and we have an active MUC development chat hosted at open_chat@conference.igniterealtime.org . We are always looking for more folks interested in helping out, so please consider pitching in!

As always, please report any issues in the Community Forums and thanks for using Openfire!