Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercial license.
Openfire uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber).
Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Openfire is now released under the Apache v2.0 licence.
· Improves how Openfire handles "idle" connections. Some of you may have the system property xmpp.client.idle set to -1 to work around previously broken behaviour. You may now let it default to 6 minutes or set it to your preference.
· Improved Openfire`s caching to be less prone to memory exhaustion by correctly calculating cache size usage.
· Fixed a bug where admin console login into a newly installed Openfire server would fail until restarted.
· Fixed a bug with shared rosters within a LDAP environment.
· A memory leak with the Personal Eventing Protocol (PEP) was fixed.
· Openfire`s custom log interface has been replaced with SLF4J and a Log4J backend.
· Fix issues with self signed SSL certificates.
· A number of improvements and fixes were made to the Multi-User Chat (MUC) configuration pages on the admin console
· There were also some improvements made to the plugins, including the addition of brand new Jingle Nodes plugin.
· There are al...