Wildfire Changelog

3.0.0 -- June 29, 2006

Wildfire New Features

[JM-666] - Added support for connection managers.
[JM-281] - Added support for Kerberos/NTLM (status: experimental). (56 votes)
[JM-673] - Added database support for plugins.
[JM-677] - Added i18n support for plugins.
[JM-718] - Added servlet filter framework for plugins.
[JM-683] - Added support for virtual connections.
[JM-684] - Added support for JEP-0164: vCard Filtering
[JM-704] - Added support of other password types to JDBCAuthProvider.
[JM-715] - Added support for notifications of new server or plugins updates.
[JM-740] - Added support for adding/removing SASL mechanisms at runtime.
[JM-719] - Allowed flat searches of LDAP instead of sub-tree.
[JM-680] - Improved performance of server-to-server connections by using many threads to process incoming packets.
[JM-720] - Improved performance of SessionManager#getSessionCount().
[JM-687] - Added support for non-blocking connections (status: experimental). (1 vote)
[JM-717] - Updated the look and feel in the admin console.
[JM-305] - Server features list is now dynamic. (1 vote)
[JM-652] - Caching of favicons has been improved.
[JM-675] - File transfer service can now be enabled/disabled. (2 votes)
[JM-676] - MUC service can now be enabled/disabled. (1 vote)
[JM-679] - SASL success stanza now includes challenge data that needs to be processed by clients.
[JM-678] - SASLAuthentication was refactored to accommodate HTTP Binding and Connection Managers. (1 vote)
[JM-688] - Updated third-party libraries.
[JM-713] - Updated bundled MySQL driver.
[JM-688] - Upgraded to JDK 1.5.0_07.

Wildfire Bug Fixes

[JM-702] - Presence updates were not being broadcasted to other connected resources. (4 votes)
[JM-735] - Presence packets sent to bare JIDs were not being sent to all connected resources.
[JM-731] - DNS lookups was failing with some DNS servers.
[JM-707] - A <system-shutdown/> stream error condition is now sent when shutting down the server.
[JM-653] - FileTransfer was not implementing Cacheable.
[JM-654] - Fixed conflict in Proxy Transfer cache name.
[JM-655] - File Transfer Proxy no longer returns null disco#items.
[JM-710] - File Transfer Proxy socket was not being cleaned up properly.
[JM-721] - File Transfer Proxy did not acknowledge configured interface.
[JM-661] - Field digest_frequency of pubsubSubscription table in MySQL was too small.
[JM-665] - Accessing published items of a pubsub node was expecting that requester was subscribed to the node.
[JM-672] - Updated the way pubsub node owners manage node affiliations and subscriptions.
[JM-708] - Answer format was incorrect when returning pubsub node affiliations or node subscriptions of a node owner.
[JM-667] - Roster items with subscription NONE and ask PENDING were being sent to clients.
[JM-668] - Fixed error when deleting a user with shared contacts that belong to public shared groups.
[JM-669] - Added fix for "javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unsupported record version Unknown" error.
[JM-729] - Server was not processing IQ errors triggered by IQ requests made by the server.
[JM-732] - mucConversationLog was storing room's JID instead of the sender's JID.
[JM-681] - No more than 5 concurrent threads were used for creating new server-to-server connections.
[JM-670] - Flash clients were waiting forever for a response if old SASL method failed or there was a conflict while binding a resource.
[JM-671] - Fixed NPE when external component did not include a TO attribute in stream header.
[JM-674] - Fixed NPE in IQDiscoItemsHandler when an ServerItemsProvider was disabled.
[JM-698] - Fixed bug in XMLProperties.getChildren.
[JM-728] - Fixed PK length error when upgrading jivePrivate in MySQL using URF-8.
[JM-736] - Added commit statement to Oracle db scripts.
[JM-737] - Fixed invalid character error when upgrading Oracle database.
[JM-700] - Increased the column size of "username" from 32 to 64.
[JM-706] - Non-SASL Authentication stream feature was not being offered when anonymous login was disabled.
[JM-712] - VCard manager was not returning vcard-temp as a stream feature.
[JM-726] - Privacy list now implements Cacheable interface.
[JM-656] - Streamlined disco registration process.
[JM-709] - An exception is now thrown when plugin servlet class was not found.
[JM-663] - UserProvider no longer depends on VCardManager.

Wildfire Enterprise

Initial release.

Wildfire Connection Manager Module

Initial release.

2.6.2 -- April 20, 2006

Bug Fixes

[JM-648] - Server-to-server thread pool was getting exhausted when remote servers were unresponsive.
[JM-650] - Fixed concurrency problem that was closing active connections by mistake.
[JM-642] - Deleting a user was not removing all references from memory.
[JM-646] - Fixed error when searching for groups of a non-local user when using LDAP.
[JM-571] - File transfer proxy was not being removed from service discovery when disabled. (1 vote)
[JM-638] - Unhandled exceptions while processing IQ packets were not always returning IQ errors.
[JM-639] - Fixed ConcurrentModificationException while purging a pubsub node.
[JM-640] - A "service-not-implemented" error was being returned after an ad-hoc command was handled by pubsub.
[JM-641] - Modified pubsub tables so that all supported databases may correctly run the database scripts.
[JM-644] - Allowed Base64 decoding that doesn't encode bytes as String.
[JM-645] - Fixed recursivity error in SessionManager when searching for best route.
[JM-647] - Sometimes users were remaining as room occupants when using shared groups.
[JM-649] - Increased proxy file transfer buffer size.

2.6.1 -- April 11, 2006

New Features

[JM-222] - Entire user base is no longer loaded when using public shared groups. (1 vote)
[JM-634] - Shared contacts whose subscription type is FROM are no longer kept in memory.
[JM-633] - Added sorting to session list.
[JM-637] - Added support for basic commands defined in JEP-133: Service Administration.

Bug Fixes

[JM-636] - After initial install new user accounts were corrupted until restart.
[JM-630] - Fixed upgrade scripts of PostreSQL, SQLServer and Sybase.
[JM-631] - New user passwords were not being saved to the database.

2.6.0 -- April 6, 2006

New Features

[JM-291] - Encrypted passwords are now stored in the db. (21 votes)
[JM-613] - Added support for JEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe. (1 vote)
[JM-298] - Auditing now supports rolling over by date. (12 votes)
[JM-599] - Improved performance by avoiding queries to load users.
[JM-607] - Improved performance by avoiding unnecessary LDAP queries.
[JM-608] - Improved performance when detecting which groups are shared groups.
[JM-621] - Improved performance by avoiding using locks in RoutingTable (server core).
[JM-605] - Improved performance by caching groups.
[JM-606] - Added JDBC Authentication provider.
[JM-600] - Added support for managing system caches from the admin console.
[JM-624] - Allowed external components to bind more than one domain.
[JM-603] - Improved db upgrade process.
[JM-609] - Refactored Ad-hoc commands so that services can also offer ad-hoc commands.
[JM-597] - Improved LDAPGroupProvider Exception Handling.
[JM-625] - Added support for XMPPServer listeners.
[JM-620] - Added development mode for web.
[JM-623] - Exposed port in connection object.
[JM-614] - Updated third-party libraries.

Bug Fixes

[JM-615] - Fixed deadlock when loading users and rosters.
[JM-621] - Fixed deadlock in RoutingTable.
[JM-495] - Server session tab was loading very slow.
[JM-596] - LDAP connections were not being closed correctly.
[JM-601] - LDAP referrals were not being respected while verifying authentication.
[JM-604] - SASL EXTERNAL for s2s was not checking if certificate validation was disabled.
[JM-611] - PLAIN SASL authentication was not accepting empty auth packets.
[JM-627] - Null SASL responses were not being padded.
[JM-610] - Fixed NPE in privacy list when user session no longer exists.
[JM-612] - Registering new internal components was not checking that component domain is not taken.
[JM-618] - Remote server count was wrong.
[JM-619] - Names of users were not being sorted when loading from database.
[JM-622] - Admin console was failing to startup on unexpected log impl.
[JM-626] - Several instances of the same disco#item could appear in the server's disco#items.
[JM-628] - Pretty printing of wildfire.xml file was not always working.