After I performed a release of an Openfire plugin yesterday, @akrherz apparently had a ‘hold-my-beer’ moment, and apparently went through all of our plugins source repositories, creating maintenance releases for pretty much every one of them that had outstanding changes.
Wow!
As I do not believe we’re doing anyone a favor with 16 individual blog posts, I have combined all release notifications in this one.
Most of these changes are minor: many of them add no functional change, but were needed to keep our build systems happy. Various plugins have new translations, provided by various community members (through the translation service provided by Transifex). Thank you!
The list of changes contains 18 plugins, 16 of which were updated, while 2 were archived. Here goes!
Version 1.8.0 of the Registration plugin was released. The registration plugin allows admins to configure various actions whenever a new user creates an account. In this release, the reCaptcha implementation was replaced with Google’s reCAPTCHA v3 and various smaller improvements have been applied.
Version 1.0.1 of the MUC Service Discovery Extensions plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire allows an admin to configure Extended Service Discovery information to Multi User Chat entities (chat rooms). This can be useful if you’re working on an XMPP-based application that uses chat rooms for more than regular chat functionality. This release was a maintenance release, in which a testing dependency was updated.
Version 1.2.7 of the SIP Phone plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire lets you configure SIP phone support in Spark from the server. In this release the Chinese, Russian, Czech and Spanish translations are improved.
Version 1.8.2 of the Content Filter plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire allows admins to configure various actions based on message content. These actions include notifying the admin of content matches, notifying the sender that a message was rejected or masking the content withalternative content. This release was a maintenance release, with minor refactoring (that didn’t affect functionality) and a new translation for the Ukrainian language.
Version 0.0.2 of the IRMA Server plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire adds support for the privacy-friendly Yivi/IRMA identity platform. Minor bugs in the admin console page were fixed in this version.
Version 0.2.1 of the Tiki Token plugin was released. This plugin adds authentication integration between Openfire and the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project. This is a minor maintenance release, updating the project structure without changing functionality.
Version 1.0.1 of the Non-SASL Authentication plugin was released. TThe Non-SASL Authentication plugin provides a an implementation for authentication with Jabber servers and services using the jabber:iq:auth namespace.simple, as specified in XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication. This is a minor maintenance release, updating the project structure without changing functionality.
Version 1.2.2 of the Callback on offline plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire sends an Async POST request with a JSON body to a configurable URL when a message is received for a user that’s offline. This is a minor maintenance release that does not introduce functionality changes.
Version 1.0.0 of the JID Validation plugin was released. The JID Validation plugin adds JID Validation XEP-0328 capabilities to Openfire. This plugin is designed to work with various Jabber clients to allow other users to prepare and validate a given JID. This release was made to force the version numbering into the format used by our tooling, and does not introduce functional changes as compared to the earlier ‘1.0’ release.
Version 1.7.6 of the XML Debugger plugin was released. This plugin for Openfire records XMPP traffic which can be useful for debugging purposes. This is a minor maintenance release that does not introduce functionality changes.
Version 1.4.2 of the Subscription plugin was released. This plugin can be configured to automatically accept or reject subscription requests. When set to accept subscription requests users will be able to add someone to their roster (aka “Buddy List” or “Contacts”) without having to wait for a manual subscription acceptance from the requested user. Conversely, when the plugin is set to reject subscription requests users will not be able to add people to their roster. This is a minor maintenance release that does not introduce functionality changes.
Version 3.3.2 of the Packet Filter plugin was released. The packet filter plugin allows you to create rules that will block or reject certain packets to the server. In this release a Portuguese translation is added.
Version 2.7.1 of the User Import/Export plugin was released. The user import/export plugin provides a way to import and export Openfire user data via the Admin Console, compliant with XEP-0227. The user data consists of username, password, name, email address, creation and modified date, and roster list (aka “buddy list”). This plugin also can aid in the migration of users from other Jabber/XMPP based systems to Openfire. This is a minor maintenance release, updating the project structure and adding new entries to the Openfire Admin Console for this plugin.
Version 1.2.4 of the MotD plugin was released. The MotD (Message of the Day) plugin allows admins to have a message sent to a user each time they login. In this release a French and Portuguese translation is added.
Version 1.2.4 of the STUN Server plugin was released. The STUN Server plugin provides address discovery for peer-to-peer sessions to be used for media transmission and receiving of UDP packets. It’s especially useful for clients behind NAT devices. In this release a Spanish and Portuguese translation is added.
Version 2.2.4] of the GoJara plugin was released. This plugin implements XEP-0321 Remote Roster Management, allowing components to manage user’s roster to provide a simple way to keep rosters in sync. This is a minor maintenance release, adding a Portuguese translation and updating dependencies.
Version 1.0.3 of the Raw Property Editor plugin was released. The Raw Property Editor plugin allows admins to edit existing or add new properties to users, groups and groupchat rooms. In this release dependency was updated.
We have archived the Openfire NodeJS plugin, as development of that plugin stalled, and the bundled version of NodeJS is outdated. This plugin should no longer be used.
We have archived the Openfire MUC Service plugin. This plugin was replaced long ago with the REST API plugin. Please use that instead.
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