Spark 2.7.1 Released

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The Ignite Realtime community has released Spark 2.7.1 for general availability and it can be downloaded from Ignite Realtime: Downloads (Note: there are no working Mac OS X installer as our current build environment has no working setup for Mac, also Spark has lots of issues on the current Mac OS versions and the community has no active Mac OS developers willing to step in).

This release contains much less changes comparing to the previous version (12 tickets with a minor changes and fixes). The plan is to do minor releases with a few changes, so it would be easier to find a culprit if regression happens. But there won’t be a new version every other day. We don’t want system admins to get mad at us

This is the complete list of changes in this version (official changelog):

SPARK-864 - Printing conversation margin cuts off characters from lines that wrap

SPARK-1512 - *** is online at message does not always show in chat room

SPARK-1513 - After receiving XML data as a message Spark stops displaying history

SPARK-1604 - Buzz and stale settings overlap in the Preferences window

SPARK-1588 - Update French translation

SPARK-1607 - Show JID as contact name if instead an empty string would have been shown

SPARK-1609 - Default resource should be “Spark” without a version number

SPARK-1611 - Update Lithuanian translation

SPARK-1617 - Fix loading of Spellchecker’s IgnoreUppercase setting

SPARK-979 - Add an option to disable graying out and italic for idle contacts

SPARK-1503 - Option to use hostname as a resource

SPARK-1584 - Update bundled JRE with the latest version

This release is bundled with the latest and last Java 7 update (7u80). Next releases will be bundled with Java 8 (most probably). Printing GUI has been replaced with the modern Java based version.

There is still no Project Lead developer for Spark (no active developers at all actually). So there won’t be a regular schedule of releases. But you can always share your patches on the GitHub. If you find new issues, you can report them in the forums and we will at least file them in the bug tracker for the future developers to tackle.

Here are checksums for the downloads:

sha1sum

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or sha512sum

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Hello. Kerberos SSO doesn’t work since 2.7.0 prerelease. When I try 2.6.3 version on the same machine - everything is fine, bet I’ve been trying nigthly builds since 2.7.0 builds 66x and SSO support is broken… Any suggestions?

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You should post this in the forums. More people will see it and it’s more convenient to discuss there. Then maybe speedy will notice it and have some suggestions (he’s a SSO pro here).

P.S. Sveikas

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OK, I’ll post this in the forums.

P.S. Sveikas sveikas

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I’m not using Facebook, so not sure if i understand. Is it an option to see when a user was online/active last time? You can right click a contact in Spark’s roster and select Last activity.

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I see. No, Spark doesn’t have such feature.