We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.7. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.7, check out Smack’s changelog
As with the last release, 4.4,6, parts of the release where driven by feedback from the Jitsi folks.
Due to SMACK-927, we had to change the behavior of a certain kind of incoming stanzas listeners, namely the ones added with XMPPConnection.addStanzaListener(). Before Smack 4.4.7, they where invoked outside of Smack’s main loop, now they are invoked as part of the main loop. As a result, all listeners have to finish before the main loop of the connection can continue. Consequently, if you use these kinds of listeners, make sure that they do not block, as otherwise the connection will also stop processing incoming stanzas, which can easily lead to a deadlock.
You usually should not need to use these kinds of incoming stanza listeners, alternaives include XMPPConnection.addSyncStanzaListener() and XMPPConnection.addAsyncStanzaListeners(). Especially the latter ones, asynchronous stanza listeners, are efficiently processed and safer to use. Note that those listeners are not guranteed to be processed in-order.
As always, this Smack patchlevel release is API compatible within the same major-minor version series (4.4) and all Smack releases are available via Maven Central.
We would like to use this occasion to point at that Smack now ships with a NOTICE file. Please note that this adds some requirements when using Smack as per the Apache License 2.0. The content of Smack’s NOTICE file can conveniently be retrieved using Smack.getNoticeStream().