The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 5.1.1, a maintenance update to our open-source XMPP real-time communication server!
Following last month’s 5.1.0 feature release, we’ve been gathering feedback and tracking down the issues that inevitably surface once a bigger release meets the real world. Openfire 5.1.1 is the result: a focused round of bug fixes and improvements, with a particular emphasis on PubSub correctness and connection handling.
A good chunk of this release tidies up PubSub behaviour. We fixed excessive memory consumption caused by a bloated ofPubsubSubscription table (OF-3306), alongside various smaller issues related to pub/sub functionality.
Connection handling gets some attention too. We resolved a nasty case where IQBindHandler could busy-wait up to 20 seconds on a resource conflict, causing thread starvation and misbehaving (OF-3319), fixed a NullPointerException in outbound S2S DirectTLS connections (OF-3332), and a number of other networking-related issues.
Certificate SANs now encode IP addresses correctly as iPAddress rather than dNSName (OF-3324), which should fix an issue that popped up under certain network configurations with recent versions of the Conversations client.
We also cleaned up a couple of migration-related issues carried over from 5.1.0’s database work, such as XML properties failing to save during PBKDF2 migration (OF-3305). This should guard against accidental loss of the encryption keys, preventing installations that become effectively unusable when migration happens while the file system is in a faulty state.
The full changelog has all the details, with 24 items resolved in total.
You can obtain Openfire 5.1.1 for your platform from its download page. The sha256sum values for the release artifacts are:
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Many of the issues fixed in this release were reported by our community members, and several of those were instrumental in finding and fixing bugs and applying improvements. We greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback! We’d love to hear from you! Please join our community forum or group chat and let us know what you think!
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