The Ignite Realtime community has released Spark 2.7.2 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).
It’s another small update containing a few fixes and minor new features.
This is the complete list of changes in this version (official changelog):
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1615 - Update bundled JRE with the latest version (this time built-in Java has been bumped to the latest official Java 8 version (1.8.0_60). Also for the first time Spark has been built using Java 8. Java 7 is finally dropped in all areas of Spark. Hopefully switching to Java 8 will improve performance and stability).
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1458 - Spark prepends the default status text to a custom one
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1614 - Add an option to show seconds in a message time stamp
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1619 - Add an option to use Spark version as a resource (some administrators will appreciate this, as they would be able to see what version of Spark their users are using by looking at the Sessions page in Openfire’s Admin Console).
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1622 - Add options to default.properties to use hostname or version as resource (a way to enforce usage of these options)
https://igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/SPARK-1621 - Add a caption “0 = infinite” to the duration option of Roar popups
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
53d8f7fd7e527511caaa8b217a4338d0b60bf60f spark-2.7.2.rpm
3cbb1dda318fac186fc866275679904c225a4520 spark-2.7.2.src.rpm
bd63a0a47620dc0489ca54ec7ec1060c57300692 spark_2_7_2.deb
c30947926340d63cd27d09c173314139f878a1e1 spark_2_7_2.exe
eafdf33830d5847405c6302348ab5f724ba5106a spark_2_7_2.tar.gz
26557ec1c5de28f0f0fbaa8aa99853c8c1e052cd online/spark_2_7_2_online.exe