Spark 2.9.0 Released

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The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 2.9.0!

Note that this version has a lot of changes, especially in certificates management area. We suggest to first test it on a small batch of test machines before deploying it to all users.

2.9.0 was long time in the making, so the list of changes is rather long. To mention a few: a new certificate management system that was long overdue, migration to Maven (instead of Ant), HTTP File Upload plugin support, new Smack library version and many other bug fixes and improvements.

A few plugins are currently not working because they use old libraries not available for Maven: Spellchecker, OTR. During the poll on this website most users told us that they are not using these plugins.

We are thankful to all the contributors and Google Summer of Code students who provided their patches to help us release this version. And we encourage developers to get involved with Spark project by providing feedback in the forums or submitting pull requests on our GitHub page.

Here is the list of contributors to this release:
@guus
@Alameyo
Michael Klein
@speedy
@flow
@Dele_Olajide
Alexander198961
Manassé Ngudia
@wroot
Grigorii
Vipin Raj

You can download Spark from the Downloads page. Below are the sha1 checksums:

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Great release, I’m so glad to see Spark development!
I installed it and it seems to work well. One question, I see SPARK-1785] Stream Management as a new feature, however Spark still shows this as disabled on my Openfire Console. I know Stream Management is working ok for other clients because I see it as enabled for Miranda NG as well as mobile clients. Is there a setting somewhere in Spark I need to set to use it?

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Hi Bill - Support for Stream Management was added, by replacing the version of Smack that is used in Spark with on that now offers the Stream Management feature. However, we’ve explicitly disabled the feature, as we anticipated errors in the reconnection logic. Confusingly, I’ve created a new issue for this, rather than re-open the existing one. The new issue is SPARK-2140

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