Openfire

It took us some time but we finally made it. The Enterprise Edition plugin has been broken into smaller open source plugins as mentioned in the Turning Openfire Enterprise into an open source product blog post. The new plugins can be found ... [More] here:Monitoring Service (released on Apr 24, 2008)Fastpath Service (released on Apr 24, 2008)Clustering Plugin (released on May 6, 2008)Client Control (released on May 13, 2008) With these new plugins the total number of official open source plugins is now 17. If we add the clustering plugin that is commercial and the 3 beta plugins that includes the popular Red5 plugin the total number of plugins comes up to 21. Finally, more plugins can be found in the Non-Jive Openfire Plugins document. Enjoy, The Openfire Team [Less]

It took us some time but we finally made it. The Enterprise Edition plugin has been broken into smaller open source plugins as mentioned in the Turning Openfire Enterprise into an open source product blog post. The new plugins can be found ... [More] here:Monitoring Service (released on Apr 24, 2008)Fastpath Service (released on Apr 24, 2008)Clustering Plugin (released on May 6, 2008)Client Control (released on May 13, 2008) With these new plugins the total number of official open source plugins is now 17. If we add the clustering plugin that is commercial and the 3 beta plugins that includes the popular Red5 plugin the total number of plugins comes up to 21. Finally, more plugins can be found in the Non-Jive Openfire Plugins document. Enjoy, The Openfire Team [Less]

We are pleased to announce the release of Openfire 3.5.1, now with even more openness!  This release represents the first stage of the Enterprise plugin split into open source plugins.  We're very excited to be able to provide these to everyone for ... [More] free, and seeing what the community does with them, both in terms of contributed code and use case scenarios.  So lets talk about some specifics. New Plugins! Monitoring: Adds support for server statistics and chat archiving and reports.Fastpath: Support for managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use. These are the first two pieces of the open sourced Enterprise plugin.  Client management is coming very soon, as is clustering.  SparkWeb will also be released tomorrow as a separate product.  So you might be wondering, hey, why is there an Openfire Enterprise 3.5.1?  Well, due to the lack of all of the plugins being available right now, we've provide 3.5.1 for existing enterprise customers to make use of.  It includes some important clustering fixes though!  (as will the clustering plugin when it is release) Important, Seriously, Pay Attention, Read This  If you install the Monitoring and/or Fastpath plugin, make absolute sure that you read the readme first!  There are included instructions for how to migrate your database from the Enterprise plugin to the new plugin database tables.  If you have ever run the Enterprise plugin or the old Fastpath plugin before it was integrated with Enterprise, make sure you don't forget this or you will be unhappy!  Big Connection Manager Improvements The connection managers have been updated to bring HTTP binding up to date and a couple of library upgrades that include a number of improvements.  It is important to note though that the conf/manager.xml file has been updated and you will need to update yours as well.  The new http binding section that you will need to add is described here. Ok Fine, Where Do I Get It? You can download Openfire 3.5.1 here.You can see the entire changelog here.You can view the documentation for 3.5.1 here.Plugins can be downloaded from the admin console or here. [Less]

We are pleased to announce the release of Openfire 3.5.1, now with even more openness!  This release represents the first stage of the Enterprise plugin split into open source plugins.  We're very excited to be able to provide these to everyone for ... [More] free, and seeing what the community does with them, both in terms of contributed code and use case scenarios.  So lets talk about some specifics. New Plugins! Monitoring: Adds support for server statistics and chat archiving and reports.Fastpath: Support for managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use. These are the first two pieces of the open sourced Enterprise plugin.  Client management is coming very soon, as is clustering.  SparkWeb will also be released tomorrow as a separate product.  So you might be wondering, hey, why is there an Openfire Enterprise 3.5.1?  Well, due to the lack of all of the plugins being available right now, we've provide 3.5.1 for existing enterprise customers to make use of.  It includes some important clustering fixes though!  (as will the clustering plugin when it is release) Important, Seriously, Pay Attention, Read This  If you install the Monitoring and/or Fastpath plugin, make absolute sure that you read the readme first!  There are included instructions for how to migrate your database from the Enterprise plugin to the new plugin database tables.  If you have ever run the Enterprise plugin or the old Fastpath plugin before it was integrated with Enterprise, make sure you don't forget this or you will be unhappy!  Big Connection Manager Improvements The connection managers have been updated to bring HTTP binding up to date and a couple of library upgrades that include a number of improvements.  It is important to note though that the conf/manager.xml file has been updated and you will need to update yours as well.  The new http binding section that you will need to add is described here. Ok Fine, Where Do I Get It? You can download Openfire 3.5.1 here.You can see the entire changelog here.You can view the documentation for 3.5.1 here.Plugins can be downloaded from the admin console or here. [Less]

As you may have already seen, Openfire 3.5.0 was released today alongside it's good friend Clearspace 2.0!  We are excited to put out this release as it strolls alongside a number of new announcements, new features, and is sporting a brand new outfit ... [More] in the form of a new look and feel for the admin interface. Now, in light of the announcements regarding the Enterprise plugin becoming open source, you may be wondering why you can see an updated Enterprise plugin available.  We are providing this plugin for our existing enterprise customers until the separate split-up plugins are released.  Those of you waiting for the open source releases, please stay tuned! For our Clearspace customers, this new version of Openfire integrates at a much more intense level than before.  Instead of simply providing presence to Clearspace, and requiring you to point both Clearspace and Openfire at something like LDAP to have the same login setup, you can now have Openfire speak directly to Clearspace.  It will pull it's users and groups, as well as pass authentication through Clearspace.  Setup is a breeze, as you have one screen of setup in Clearspace and one screen of setup in Openfire and you are done.  And we're not stopping there.  Future releases will include even more integrations between the two! Is Clearspace integration the only new thing in Openfire 3.5.0?  Of course not!  We've now got the ability to disable accounts, security audit logs for admin events, easy to take advantage of invisibility, and did I mention the pretty new admin interface?  We went over a lot of these new features in a previous blog post, so I won't bore you with a complete rehash of all of them.   One word of warning, due to the nature of CSS not wanting to easily refresh itself, you may need to shift-reload in your browser for the new admin console to look correct.  And don't forget to update your plugins after upgrading to 3.5.0!  Some of them are affected by API changes!  (specifically: User Search, IM Gateway, MOTD, and SIP) This has been a very exciting day for us here at Jive and we hope exciting for you as well! You can download Openfire 3.5.0 here.You can see the entire changelog here.You can view the documentation for 3.5.0 here.Plugins can be downloaded from the admin console or here. [Less]