New version release

Our tests reports page has been changed and is now available at the new address. You can still access test reports for old version at the old tests reports address.

The reason for this change is that we run much more tests now than we used to do before and the page needed some redesign to make it easier to access all reports. We not only increase number of individual test cases but also we run increase number of test scenarios.

We have plans for the future to add more operating systems, more databases and more complex scenarios to the test suite to make sure we release new versions with as little bugs as possible.

If you have any suggestions to the test report page or any ideas for test scenarios use cases I would be happy to hear them.

The last release of the Tigase server included 2 our components: PubSub and MUC.

Unfortunately both components were not working with Apache Derby database. Due to a small bug. On top of that there was name change for the main class of the MUC component in the mean time I was not aware of. This causes configuration to be incorrectly generated by the installer.

We are going to release a big fix version today or at latest tomorrow for the Tigase server. In mean time for all those keen to get both components working ASAP I am giving both files to download below this article. If you want to install them, remove tigase-pubsub.jar and tigase-muc.jar from your libs/ directory and put there files downloaded from here.

For the MUC component you have to also edit init.properties file and replace MUCService with MUCComponent. Don't forget to remove the existing XML config file after before restarting the server if you edited the init.properties.

We are sorry for all the inconvenience that could caused.

Thanks to mazzachre user we have now Gentoo Linux ebuilds for the Tigase server. The euilds are not yet available in the Gentoo main portage tree. Instead they are in the Gentoo Sunrise overaly.

You can browse for the ebuilds in the source repository looking for the im/tigase-server entry. The ebuilds install the Tigase server from sources.

Please let us know if you spot anything unusual or incorrect with them. And also, if you have any suggestions or notices don't hesitate to contact us.

We have just launched the Tigase XMPP testing zone. This is the Tigase server clustered installation with 2 nodes. The installation is integrated with the Drupal CMS.

At the moment it offers c2s, s2s and Bosh protocols. We are going to enable more services for testing soon: MUC, PubSub, MSN transport and possibly more.

Please feel free to create an account on the Drupal website and use it for testing of your software.

Note. The installation is available through rather average broadband connection and it is not suitable for any kind of load or high traffic tests.

As usually all comments and suggestions are very welcomed. If you have ideas to improve the installation and make it easier for your tests please let me know.

A few days ago I have silently uploaded tigase-livecd-4.0.0.iso file into our download section. Even there was no announcement the download counter shows now 145. I wonder if there was such a big number if people knew what they are downloading....

Anyway. This ISO file is the first release of the Tigase LiveCD version. It is a complete environment runnable from the CD with pre-configured Tigase server, Drupal CMS (Blog and Forums) and Dovecot - IMAP4 server integrated together. The Drupal CMS runs with the Minichat on the example website. The live CD is based on the Gentoo Linux.

In this particular case integration means all services (Tigase, Drupal, Email) use user accounts from a single database. The user account management is done via Drupal website.

You can also post short news on the website directly from your XMPP client, you will also receive notifications about comments and posts on the website to your XMPP client.

The live CD contains also 2 nice XMPP clients: Psi and Coccinella in the most recent versions. Hm, Psi has just increased version number so it is not the most recent.

Everything installed and pre-configured, starting up automatically when the system boots from the CD.

We have just installed the Minichat - simple web client on the Tigase website. It allows anybody who visits the website to chat with "admin" - me ;-). No user name, no password is required. Just click to connect to the XMPP/Jabber server and you can start conversation.

This is the AJAX application created using GWT (Google Web Toolkit). It connects to the XMPP server via Bosh and signs in using SASL Anonymous.

This is our first version of the client and we are going to move things further to add fully functional AJAX client to Tigase project. The AJAX client and the XMPP library written in GWT is also available under GPLv3 license and will be released publicly very soon.

Please have a look, experiment and let us know what you think...

I am happy to announce that the new version of the Tigase Jabber/XMPP server is available for download. It's been about 5 months since the last release and indeed huge number of changes and improvements come with today's version 3.3.2.

Here is a very brief list of changes:

• Reduced resources consumption and improved performance.
• New, smart caching system.
• Bosh component is now stable and ready for production.
• Dynamic rosters support added.
• Configuration wizards on MS Windows through new initial property file which also supports parameter's types.
• Improved support for multi-core and multi-cpu systems
• MSN gateway (transport) available in tigase-extras based on excellent Java MSN Messenger Library.
• SQL Server support added.
• SSL certificates loading from PEM files available in tigase-extras
• Many other minor changes, improvements and bug fixes....

I hope you like the new version and as usually all comments and suggestions are very welcomed. Also, as usually test results for the release are available on the test page.

For more detailed information keep reading...

Two new additions to the server standard component suite are Tigase MUC and Tigase Bosh. These components haven't been extensively tested by real users yet but they have been run through our test suite and have been also used on our live service for a while. I can not recommend them for production use yet but they should be good for development environment or for well controlled installations.

Apart from those 2 new components this version doesn't offer any spectacular innovations. It includes huge number of bug fixes and corrections as well as performance and resources consumption improvements. Tigase is known to be a light and efficient server. Now it is even better. Look at our last load tests results for more details.

Binaries are available in our downloads section and sources can be pulled from our SVN repository. Test page has been updated as usual with tests results for this version.

Enjoy and send me your comments, suggestions or ask if you have any problems.

I have just released new version of Tigase server.

2 major changes:

1. License change to GPLv3.
2. Added fully functional Bosh component.

And numerous minor changes and bug fixes. Please refer to Changelog for more detailed information.

Binary packages contain also development version of Tigase MUC component. MUC component can be loaded and configured at runtime using service discovery and ad-hoc commands.

Note, this is beta release. It is not yet well tested so please do not use it in production service

I have implemented simple Monitor - Drupal module for the Website. It shows basic statistics about Jabber service and server development.

Currently all data are loaded from database so the statistics might not be accurate in some cases.

More accurate and complete statistics based on data retrieved directly from Jabber service will be added shortly.

Enjoy!

Any comments are very welcomed.

Big fix release of Tigase sever has been published.

After last major version release many people were to connecting to tigase.org service to try it out. Real users executing functions in non-standard way exposed a few bugs and allowed me to improve the code. Well, I test my server extensively but these are just automatic tests...

Thank you all who connected to the server, even those who broke it ;-).

Test page has been updated. For details about changes in this release continue reading.....

New version of Tigase server is now available. The main new feature is StanzaReceiver - simplified PubSub. There are a lot of possible ways to benefit from this component.

The component and the API allows easy integration of XMPP service with other systems, especially with community building sites. There are a few ready to use modules for StanzaReceiver at the moment allowing integration Tigase with Drupal system:

1. Authentication against Drupal database.
2. Notifications about new posts on the forum.
3. Short/Mini news posting from your XMPP client. This includes simple plug in in StanzaReceiver (Drupal independent, can be used with other systems) and simple module for Drupal - look for "Minis from XMPP" on Tigase site.

Let me know if you are interested in integration Tigase server with any other system or want more plug ins/modules for Drupal. It's easy to add more!

You don't have to install and use whole Tigase server to benefit from the StanzaReceiver. It works fine as an external component too. So if you are happy with your existing Jabber/XMPP server you can integrate StanzaReceiver in your working system.

Continue reading for description of all other changes...

I am delighted to announce new Tigase server release 2.8.3 with bunch of new features and bug fixes included.

Although the main focus has been put in documentation recently, significant development effort has been made too.

Brief list of new stuff in the server includes:

1. Yate basic integration has been completed and tested
2. StanzaSender component which can periodically look in specified directory in file system or table in database for stanza to send.
3. jabber:iq:private (XEP-0049) implementation.
4. urn:xmpp:ping (XEP-0199) implementation.
5. MS Windows installer and startup scripts.
6. XML parser improved
7. Uptime statistics added

Tests improvements:

• New API for test cases
• More tests written using new API
• Test runner scripts are now simplified and more powerful

Bug fixes:

• Dropping unsupported stanzas where feature-not-implemented error should be returned.
• Presence bug when client sends subscribe to buddy before adding it to the roster.
• vCard fix for old specification of vCard support. It used to be in spec that element name is all uppercase - VCARD. Some clients still use the old element name.
• --test configuration bug fixed so now test configuration is generated only when requested.

Test page has been updated with reports for current version.

For more detailed information continue reading...

I am happy to announce new version release of Tigase server.

Long waiting time was caused by major code change in some areas. This required not only a lot of implementation work but also extensive testing. As a result I can offer now significantly better server which has been improved in many places.

This version includes numerous bug fixes, improvements and new features. This is a brief list of what has been changed:

• s2s component improved.
• Service-discovery for external component has been implemented.
• Service-discovery and ad-hoc commands now work in cluster configuration correctly.
• Integration with LibreSource.
• Small fix in presence handling.

As usually test page has been updated with reports for the last release.

Please give it a try and don't hesitate to contact me in case of any problems.

For more details continue reading...

The main reason for publishing this release is a fix of a bug of high importance. There was a bug in network I/O system and large data packets were incorrectly sent over the network. A few other minor bug fixes are also included. They are mainly related to handling multiple user connections and sending message to resource with the highest priority.

This release includes also some enhancements and new functionalities:

1. New API for Service Discovery has been added so now adding new services to the server is much easier. This leads to new functionality described below.
2. The most visible and useful change for end-user is addition of new ad-hoc commands. There are commands for managing configuration at run-time and most settings can be changed without need of restarting server. Additional commands are available for retrieving server statistics. All you need now to manage your server is a Jabber/XMPP client supporting service discovery (XEP-0030), data forms (XEP-0004) and ad-hoc commands (XEP-0050).

Test page updated with reports for the new version....