[jadmin] Release announcement: jabberd14 1.6.0 ("Sunday") is available

[Ray Crane]

Matthias/All,

 Is xdb_auth_cpile still the accepted way to accomplish external auth for
clients? (Towards, say MS-AD)
 Is there a newer/better way to handle it under 1.6.0?

-Ray

On 12/24/06, Matthias Wimmer <m at tthias.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am very happy to be finally able to announce the availability of
> version 1.6.0 of jabberd14.
>
> http://download.jabberd.org/jabberd14/
>
>
> New features of version 1.6.0 include:
>
> - jabberd14 used with the jadc2s client connection
>    manager now fully supports the XMPP RFCs 3920 and 3921.
>
> - Support for Privacy Lists
>
> - jabberd14 can send its messages to users in
>    different languages. Already supported are Dutch,
>    English, French, German, Hungarian and Italian.
>    Other languages can be added by installing additional
>    language files.
>
> - SASL authentication is possible on client links as well as
>    on inter-server links. (For client links you have
>    to use the jadc2s connection manager to use SASL.)
>    (At least the following mechanisms should be supported for
>    client authentication: CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, GSSAPI, DIGEST-MD5,
>    NTLM, SRP, OTP, KERBEROS_V4 - on inter-server links EXTERNAL
>    using certificate based authentication is supported.)
>
> - Support for Flexible Offline Message Retrieval (XEP-0013).
>
> - Support for XMPP Ping (XEP-0199)
>
> - Full namespace support.
>
> - Support for xml:lang.
>
> - Passing full subscription request stanza to a user, even when
>    the subscription request has to be stored offline. Allowing
>    the requestor to pass additional data together with the
>    request.
>
> - Fix in handling presences with negative priority. Messages
>    that are stored offline, are now delivered if a session
>    changes from negative to non-negative priority.
>
> - Easy integration of jabberd14 into web projects by having
>    additional data available in the database (e.g. presence
>    information can now be read by a web page with a single
>    SQL SELECT statement.)
>
> - New base habdler base_dir, that can periodically check a
>    directory for *.stanza files. These files are read, parsed,
>    the content is processed as a stanza, and the file is deleted
>    afterwards. This can be useful to inject messages (or other
>    stanzas) to the server, e.g. to send Jabber messages using
>    scripts on a web page. The server can also deliver messages
>    (or other stanzas) back to this directory.
>
> - Passwords are no longer cached in memroy by the server. They
>    can just be changed in the SQL database and get active
>    instantly. New users can also be created, by just adding
>    a new password to the database.
>
> - It is now possible to block account names from being registered
>    and to enforce minimum and maximum lengths of the username
>    on registration of new accounts.
>
> - After an account has been deleted by the user, the JabberID is
>    blocked against reregistration for a configurable amount
>    of time (defaults to half a year).
>
> - It is easily possible to migrate from old filespools (xdb_file,
>    i.e. one XML file per user to store settings) to newer storage
>    handlers by reconfiguring the server and then importing
>    the old data (using the -I command line option).
>
> - All components of the server including the session manager, but
>    the client connection manager, can now be restarted without
>    user's sessions being dropped. This allows reconfiguration
>    and software upgrades while the server has online users.
>
> - The session manager now understands the internal session
>    protocol of jabberd2 as well. This allows development and usage
>    of components acting as client manager, for both server
>    implementations at the same time.
>
> - Inter-server communication can now be authenticated using
>    SASL EXTERNAL and X.509 certificates (SSL certificates).
>
> - The inter-server communications can now be configured to require
>    encryption or strong authentication using X.509 certificates.
>
> - xdb_sql can be configured to execute an SQL query just after
>    a connection to the database server has been established or
>    reestablished. This is usefule for example if you are using
>    MySQL 4.1+ and want to set your used charset (SET NAMES UTF8).
>
> - jabberd14 now uses libpopt for command line parsing.
>
> - Stale pidfiles are now detected and ignored.
>
> - The list of online users has to be fetched using service
>    discovery now (instead of the older browsing protocol).
>
> - Removed support for the jabber:iq:admin namespace, which
>    probably has not been used anymore at all.
>
> - Disabled support for the jabber:iq:agent and jabber:iq:agents
>    protocols in the default configuration file. (Can be
>    re-enabled if needed.)
>
> - Removed support for the jabber:iq:filter namespace (which
>    had already been disabled in the default configuration file
>    of version 1.4.4.
>
> - Removed the mod_groups module.
>
> - The list of supported features returned on a service discovery
>    request need not be configured anymore, as it is now generated
>    automatically.
>
> The new version of jabberd14 is at least already in use on the following
> servers: amessage.*, jabber.ccc.de, swissjabber.*, syndicon.de.
>
> Because I have been asked several times: jabberd14 1.6.0 is still
> dual-licenced JOSL and GPL - which the GPL licence having the problem,
> that it does not contain an OpenSSL exception. I am working on this
> problem. As I did not manage to get permission from all copyright owners
> to add the OpenSSL exception, I am working on a version of jabberd14,
> that will use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL. I expect to be able to release
> a GnuTLS version of jabberd14 soon as well.
>
> I want to thank all people that supported me in creating this new
> release by providing feedback, bug reports, translations and sugestions.
> People that have been very active are: Florian Holzhauer, István Bubreg,
> Jean de Largentaye, Marco Balmer, Philipp Hancke, Peter Schwindt, Sander
> Devrieze, and Stefano Sabatini. (I hope I did not forget anybody.)
>
>
>
> And to all users, administrators and developpers of Jabber I wish a
> merry christmas.
>
>
> Matthias
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