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Ignite Realtime is the community site for the users and developers of open source Real Time Communications projects like Openfire, Smack, Spark, and Pàdé. Your involvement is helping to change the open RTC landscape.
Open Realtime.
Ignite Realtime is the community site for the users and developers of open source Real Time Communications projects like Openfire, Smack, Spark, and Pàdé. Your involvement is helping to change the open RTC landscape.
Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the release of Openfire plugin for Pàdé version 1.7.6 .
This version upgrades to the latest Jitsi Meet - 1.0.6991 and Pàdé 2.1.2 client and fixes a few compatibility issues.
Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the new plugin in the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the the plugin directly from pàdé plugin archive page .
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We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains.
From experience, the XMPP community has learned that bad actors tend to spam a wide range of public chat rooms on an equally wide range of different domains. Prior to the functionality provided by this plugin, the administrator of each MUC service had to manually adjust permissions, to keep unwanted entities out. With this new plugin, that process is automated.
In this new release, several small bugs were fixed, and new features were introduced, including:
- The plugin now, by default, uses a block list as maintained on https://xmppbl.org/
- Support for blocking full domains (rather than just individual users) has been added
- Block list entries no longer disappear over time
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from the plugin’s archive page.
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We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing.
EXI is useful for:
- a complete range of XML document sizes, from dozens of bytes to terabytes
- reducing computational overhead to speed up parsing of compressed documents
- increasing endurance of small devices by utilizing efficient decompression
Read more about EXI in its Wikipedia article (where the above definition was taken from).
The plugin that we’re developing today was first created by Javier Placencio, in 2013 and 2014. In 2023, that now dormant project was forked by the Ignite Realtime community.
Work on the plugin is progressing steadily. Most of the core functionality is believed to be ready. In preparation for the official release of the plugin, we are looking for opportunities to perform interoperability testing. So far, testing has been done with our own mock client implementations. To be able to release a fully functional plugin, we’d like to test against implementations of other authors. Development builds of the plugin can be downloaded from the Openfire EXI plugin archive page.
Are you interested in this? Please reach out to us on the Ignite Realtime Community, or stop by the open chat! We would love to hear from you!
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We have just released version 1.2.0 of the Botz framework for Openfire!
The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots.
In this release, a bug that prevented client sessions for bots from being created was fixed. Hat-tip to
Kris Iyer for working with us on a fix!
Download the latest version of the Botz framework from its project page!
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We’ve just released version 1.2.2 of the HTTP File Upload plugin for Openfire. This release includes Ukrainian language support, thanks to Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr), as well as a few updated translations for Portuguese, Russian and English.
Grab it from the plugins page in your Openfire Admin Console, or download manually from the HTTP File Upload archive page, here.
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