As the year draws to a close and the holiday season surrounds us with warmth and joy, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what an incredible journey 2025 has been for the Ignite Realtime community.
This year we’ve seen so much activity, innovation, and collective effort across our projects and forums. From major releases to exciting technical explorations, the contributions from developers, documenters, testers, and users have reminded me (time and again) what makes this community special.

Looking back through the year’s blog posts and discussions, a few moments stand out:

• Openfire 5.x Series: We welcomed multiple releases within the 5.0 line. From the early beta builds to the full releases of Openfire 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, to the stability-focused 5.0.2 and most recently 5.0.3. These milestones are the result of countless hours of debugging, testing, and refinement.
• New Features & Plugins: Several new features and plugins made their way into our ecosystem, like the Push Server plugin and advancements in XEP-0483 for HTTP Online Meetings, expanding what’s possible with our projects.
• Smack Community Progress: The continued evolution of Smack was marked by the 4.5.0 Release Candidate, giving developers an even stronger foundation for building XMPP clients.
• Broadening Perspectives: Insightful posts on interoperability, WebRTC audio/video integration, and real-world use cases highlighted the vibrant technical discourse happening here.
• Community Recognition: It was also wonderful to celebrate achievements beyond our own projects - like members being elected to roles within the broader XMPP Standards Foundation.

All these efforts show not just code being written, but ideas shared, challenges overcome, and friendships formed along the way. What’s especially meaningful to me isn’t just the software we build, but how we build it: together. Whether it’s through lively technical threads, helping a newcomer in chat, or sharing a blog post that unpacks a tricky feature, this community genuinely embodies open collaboration.

The forums, blogs, and group chats are more than repositories of knowledge - they’re where we connect, learn from one another, and celebrate each success together.

So, as we step into the holidays and prepare for the new year, I want to express my deepest gratitude:

Thank you to every contributor, big or small, for your time, passion, and patience.

Thank you to those who reported bugs, wrote documentation, asked questions, or helped others find answers.

And thank you to every user who deploys, experiments with, or builds on Ignite Realtime software: you give our work purpose.

Here’s to 2026! May the coming year bring even more collaboration, innovation, and joy. Whether you’re building a new feature, solving a tricky XMPP problem, or just dropping into the group chat to say hello. We’ll be glad to see you there!

Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!

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As the year draws to a close and the holiday season surrounds us with warmth and joy, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what an incredible journey 2025 has been for the Ignite Realtime community.
This year we’ve seen so much activity, innovation, and collective effort across our projects and forums. From major releases to exciting technical explorations, the contributions from developers, documenters, testers, and users have reminded me (time and again) what makes this community special.

Looking back through the year’s blog posts and discussions, a few moments stand out:

• Openfire 5.x Series: We welcomed multiple releases within the 5.0 line. From the early beta builds to the full releases of Openfire 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, to the stability-focused 5.0.2 and most recently 5.0.3. These milestones are the result of countless hours of debugging, testing, and refinement.
• New Features & Plugins: Several new features and plugins made their way into our ecosystem, like the Push Server plugin and advancements in XEP-0483 for HTTP Online Meetings, expanding what’s possible with our projects.
• Smack Community Progress: The continued evolution of Smack was marked by the 4.5.0 Release Candidate, giving developers an even stronger foundation for building XMPP clients.
• Broadening Perspectives: Insightful posts on interoperability, WebRTC audio/video integration, and real-world use cases highlighted the vibrant technical discourse happening here.
• Community Recognition: It was also wonderful to celebrate achievements beyond our own projects - like members being elected to roles within the broader XMPP Standards Foundation.

All these efforts show not just code being written, but ideas shared, challenges overcome, and friendships formed along the way. What’s especially meaningful to me isn’t just the software we build, but how we build it: together. Whether it’s through lively technical threads, helping a newcomer in chat, or sharing a blog post that unpacks a tricky feature, this community genuinely embodies open collaboration.

The forums, blogs, and group chats are more than repositories of knowledge - they’re where we connect, learn from one another, and celebrate each success together.

So, as we step into the holidays and prepare for the new year, I want to express my deepest gratitude:

Thank you to every contributor, big or small, for your time, passion, and patience.

Thank you to those who reported bugs, wrote documentation, asked questions, or helped others find answers.

And thank you to every user who deploys, experiments with, or builds on Ignite Realtime software: you give our work purpose.

Here’s to 2026! May the coming year bring even more collaboration, innovation, and joy. Whether you’re building a new feature, solving a tricky XMPP problem, or just dropping into the group chat to say hello. We’ll be glad to see you there!

Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!

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As the year draws to a close and the holiday season surrounds us with warmth and joy, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what an incredible journey 2025 has been for the Ignite Realtime community.
This year we’ve seen so much activity, innovation, and collective effort across our projects and forums. From major releases to exciting technical explorations, the contributions from developers, documenters, testers, and users have reminded me (time and again) what makes this community special.

Looking back through the year’s blog posts and discussions, a few moments stand out:

• Openfire 5.x Series: We welcomed multiple releases within the 5.0 line. From the early beta builds to the full releases of Openfire 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, to the stability-focused 5.0.2 and most recently 5.0.3. These milestones are the result of countless hours of debugging, testing, and refinement.
• New Features & Plugins: Several new features and plugins made their way into our ecosystem, like the Push Server plugin and advancements in XEP-0483 for HTTP Online Meetings, expanding what’s possible with our projects.
• Smack Community Progress: The continued evolution of Smack was marked by the 4.5.0 Release Candidate, giving developers an even stronger foundation for building XMPP clients.
• Broadening Perspectives: Insightful posts on interoperability, WebRTC audio/video integration, and real-world use cases highlighted the vibrant technical discourse happening here.
• Community Recognition: It was also wonderful to celebrate achievements beyond our own projects - like members being elected to roles within the broader XMPP Standards Foundation.

All these efforts show not just code being written, but ideas shared, challenges overcome, and friendships formed along the way. What’s especially meaningful to me isn’t just the software we build, but how we build it: together. Whether it’s through lively technical threads, helping a newcomer in chat, or sharing a blog post that unpacks a tricky feature, this community genuinely embodies open collaboration.

The forums, blogs, and group chats are more than repositories of knowledge - they’re where we connect, learn from one another, and celebrate each success together.

So, as we step into the holidays and prepare for the new year, I want to express my deepest gratitude:

Thank you to every contributor, big or small, for your time, passion, and patience.

Thank you to those who reported bugs, wrote documentation, asked questions, or helped others find answers.

And thank you to every user who deploys, experiments with, or builds on Ignite Realtime software: you give our work purpose.

Here’s to 2026! May the coming year bring even more collaboration, innovation, and joy. Whether you’re building a new feature, solving a tricky XMPP problem, or just dropping into the group chat to say hello. We’ll be glad to see you there!

Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!

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The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.3 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Notably, a number of improvements were made to Multi-User Chatroom (MUC). Please refer to the full changelog for more details.

You can obtain the new version of Openfire for your platform from its download page . The checksums for the binaries are:

a08493cb19bef6dd2b51ebe88d4ffd121553e2e4473ddbecf94f5ff350e367aa  openfire-5.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
3dd1e9de84d6b177f3b890bea7d6cd88359698bd82c2e656d4b937a8ef7af96e  openfire_5.0.3_all.deb
b3674baa3ab53a1f61db8846c3cdd16ce211917c4df3cee2d4a46fbba265ea76  openfire_5_0_3.dmg
cfabc92ab9e473e71f42ec40533a5d4ae7a9c1dc5ebd060784ce434ae1ba6c12  openfire_5_0_3.exe
fb13bd4e0aff7bd6cc16d78e6f2c35d8b59a95e4f4f886d353265306f151ec45  openfire_5_0_3.tar.gz
dcad510a8a7fda677b07281d08ebb29017555944eeb41c98fb4f38c743a341c4  openfire_5_0_3_x64.exe
0ee9a0837e75b785a40653f78b94a900431067f8a9d2bac5104d2971c46a9779  openfire_5_0_3.zip

For those of you that enjoy metrics, here’s an accounting of 5.0.2 release artifact downloads.

We’d love to hear from you! Please join our community forum or group chat and let us know what you think!

For other release announcements and news follow us on Mastodon or X

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The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.3 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Notably, a number of improvements were made to Multi-User Chatroom (MUC). Please refer to the full changelog for more details.

You can obtain the new version of Openfire for your platform from its download page . The checksums for the binaries are:

a08493cb19bef6dd2b51ebe88d4ffd121553e2e4473ddbecf94f5ff350e367aa  openfire-5.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
3dd1e9de84d6b177f3b890bea7d6cd88359698bd82c2e656d4b937a8ef7af96e  openfire_5.0.3_all.deb
b3674baa3ab53a1f61db8846c3cdd16ce211917c4df3cee2d4a46fbba265ea76  openfire_5_0_3.dmg
cfabc92ab9e473e71f42ec40533a5d4ae7a9c1dc5ebd060784ce434ae1ba6c12  openfire_5_0_3.exe
fb13bd4e0aff7bd6cc16d78e6f2c35d8b59a95e4f4f886d353265306f151ec45  openfire_5_0_3.tar.gz
dcad510a8a7fda677b07281d08ebb29017555944eeb41c98fb4f38c743a341c4  openfire_5_0_3_x64.exe
0ee9a0837e75b785a40653f78b94a900431067f8a9d2bac5104d2971c46a9779  openfire_5_0_3.zip

For those of you that enjoy metrics, here’s an accounting of 5.0.2 release artifact downloads.

We’d love to hear from you! Please join our community forum or group chat and let us know what you think!

For other release announcements and news follow us on Mastodon or X

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The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.3 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Notably, a number of improvements were made to Multi-User Chatroom (MUC). Please refer to the full changelog for more details.

You can obtain the new version of Openfire for your platform from its download page . The checksums for the binaries are:

a08493cb19bef6dd2b51ebe88d4ffd121553e2e4473ddbecf94f5ff350e367aa  openfire-5.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
3dd1e9de84d6b177f3b890bea7d6cd88359698bd82c2e656d4b937a8ef7af96e  openfire_5.0.3_all.deb
b3674baa3ab53a1f61db8846c3cdd16ce211917c4df3cee2d4a46fbba265ea76  openfire_5_0_3.dmg
cfabc92ab9e473e71f42ec40533a5d4ae7a9c1dc5ebd060784ce434ae1ba6c12  openfire_5_0_3.exe
fb13bd4e0aff7bd6cc16d78e6f2c35d8b59a95e4f4f886d353265306f151ec45  openfire_5_0_3.tar.gz
dcad510a8a7fda677b07281d08ebb29017555944eeb41c98fb4f38c743a341c4  openfire_5_0_3_x64.exe
0ee9a0837e75b785a40653f78b94a900431067f8a9d2bac5104d2971c46a9779  openfire_5_0_3.zip

For those of you that enjoy metrics, here’s an accounting of 5.0.2 release artifact downloads.

We’d love to hear from you! Please join our community forum or group chat and let us know what you think!

For other release announcements and news follow us on Mastodon or X

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The XMPP assembly for 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (or previously Leipzig or Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year, which will provide a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with other communities working towards decentralization.

I will come with a bunch of sparkly XMPP stickers that look like this:

If someone plans to stay a while at the assembly, please make sure to register with the assembly on your ticket, as described in the info pages , so that we have enough room for everyone.

The XMPP assembly for 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (or previously Leipzig or Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year, which will provide a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with other communities working towards decentralization.

I will come with a bunch of sparkly XMPP stickers that look like this:

If someone plans to stay a while at the assembly, please make sure to register with the assembly on your ticket, as described in the info pages , so that we have enough room for everyone.

The XMPP assembly for 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (or previously Leipzig or Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year, which will provide a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with other communities working towards decentralization.

I will come with a bunch of sparkly XMPP stickers that look like this:

If someone plans to stay a while at the assembly, please make sure to register with the assembly on your ticket, as described in the info pages , so that we have enough room for everyone.