We are pleased to announce ejabberd 2.1.2, which contains several bugfixes over last month's maintenance release.

Brief summary of changes:

• Fix SASL PLAIN authentication message for RFC4616 compliance
• Fix support for old Erlang/OTP R10 and R11
• If server start fails due to config file problem, display some lines and stop node
• PubSub and PEP: several improvements and bugfixes
• WebAdmin: fix offline message displaying
• When server stops with new stop_kindly command: inform users, clients, MUC

At ProcessOne, we wanted to wish you all a very happy 2010 year. To give you a good sense of all what has been accomplished, we have written this small review of the 2009 year at ProcessOne. We hope you will enjoy the reading.

Talkr.IM is the new XMPP service provided by ProcessOne. It is an open and free service for all audiences worldwide.

This thursday 17th of December, ProcessOne has held an event in Paris, France, around real-time communications. Here are the bits.

ejabberd 2.1.0 is finally released, and it comes with an enormous list of 314 new features, improvements and bugfixes. It has been 21 months since the last major ejabberd release 2.0.0, and 8 months since 2.0.5.

Very brief list of additions:

• Erlang/OTP R13 support
• HTTP-Bind (BOSH) optimization and clean-up
• LDAPS support
• MUC rooms can require a CAPTCHA to join the room
• PubSub: major improvements. Update to XEP version 1.12
• PEP and Caps: many improvements
• Run commands with ejabberdctl or other frontends (XML-RPC, HTTP)
• STUN server
• XEPs like: XMPP Ping, Roster Versioning, Import/Export Format

The second release candidate of ejabberd 2.1 has been published by ProcessOne.

ejabberd 2.1.0 RC2 is available as source code as well as binary installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows from here: http://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/.

The readme text is here: http://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/README.txt.

ejabberd has a powerful set of commands for administrative purposes that you can use on the command-line or your standard XMPP client.

The second web war opens with Microsoft releasing Office suite for the Web.

The first realease candidate of ejabberd 2.1 has been released by ProcessOne.

ejabberd 2.1.0 now supports XEP-0227, a.k.a. PIEFXIS for Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers.