Two new releases of Smack have just been pushed to Maven Central.
Smack 4.1.7 fixes a few bugs. One noteworthy bug is that on certain platforms Smack’s setEnabledSSL(Protocols|Ciphers) had no effect. More information about the fixed bugs can be found in the Release Notes.
The careful reader may noticed that this is the **first beta release of Smack 4.2. **Which means that Smack 4.2 just entered the beta phase. My rough timeplan is to release Smack 4.2 in 6 months: starting with 3 months long beta period now, followed by 3 months of release candidates. But as all schedules in the software industry, take it with a grain of salt.