Process-one News http://www.process-one.net/en/news/ Process-one corporate news and software release en Process-one Copyright 2008 2008-03-04T09:48:00+01:00 Tsung 1.2.2 has been released http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/tsung_122_has_been_released/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/tsung_122_has_been_released/#When:09:48:00Z Process-one Tsung 1.2.2 is an important improvement over the previous version, adding new features, improving the major plugins (such as the XMPP plugin) and fixing several bugs.

New features include:

  • Bidirectionnal protocols support
  • Kernel polling and SMP support
  • Loops support in scenarii
  • And many other smaller improvements.

Tsung 1.2.2 includes near than 30 improvements over Tsung 1.2.1. A complete list of changes can be retrieved from Process-one support site.

The new code can be downloaded from Tsung download page. ]]> Software Release, Tsung 2008-03-04T09:48:00+01:00 ejabberd 2.0.0 has been released http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_has_been_released/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_has_been_released/#When:14:02:00Z Process-one The release contains numerous changes as detailed in the release notes. ejabberd 2.0.0 is even more scalable and robust due to architecture improvements and adds lots of new features like Personnal Eventing, Pubsub application framework, file transfer proxy, integrated HTTP file server and HTTP binding for Web 2.0 applications, PAM authentication, etc.

A detailed changelog is also available on ProcessOne bug tracker.

ejabberd 2.0.0 is available from ejabberd download page.



Thanks

A big thank you to everyone who helped making this version what it is currently. This is a list extracted from ejabberd's ChangeLog since it was started 5 years ago until 2.0.0:

AV, Andreas van Cranengurgh, Andrey Zamaraev, Andrzej Smyk, Andy Turner, Anton Vanin, Asdx, Badlop, Balabanov Dmitry, Brian Campbell, Brian Cully, Carlos E. Lopez, Christophe Romain, Cord Beermann, Doruk Fisek, EQHO Communications, Etan Reisner, Evgeniy Khramtsov, Felipe Brito Vasconcellos, Geoff Cant, Iceburn, Igor Goryachev, Jacek Konieczny, Jean-Sebastien Pedron, Juraj Michalek, Justin Karneges, Karl-Johan Karlsson, Konstantin Khomoutov, Leif Johansson, Luca Brivio, Lucius Curado, Lukas Polivka, Magnus Henoch, Marina Hahn, Marshall T. Rose, Martijn van Beers, Martin Pokorny, Marvin Preuss, Massimiliano Mirra, Max Loparyev, Maxim Ryazanov, Maxim Treskin, Michael Scherer, Michael Shields, Mickael Remond, Miguel Gomard, Mike Wang, Milos Svasek, Nikolaus Polak, Oleg Palij, Oleg V. Motienko, Otavio Fernandes, Pablo Saratxaga, Jerome Sautret, Patrick Dreker, Pedro Melo, Pieter Rautenbach, Qu1j0t3, Renato Botelho, Robin Redeker, Ruslan Rakhmanin, Samuel Tardieu, Sander Devrieze, Sergei Golovan, Shelley Shyan, SkLUG, Stefan de Konink, Stian B. Barmen, Stoune, Tomas Janousek, Tomasz Sterna, Tony Finch, Torsten Werner, Tsukasa Hamano, Usercard, Vicent Alberola Canet, Victor Hugo dos Santos, Vincent Ricard, Vladimir Kulev, Zbyszek Zolkiewski and Zhan Caibao.



]]> Software Release, ejabberd 2008-02-21T14:02:00+01:00 ejabberd 2.0.0 rc1 has been released http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_rc1_has_been_released/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_rc1_has_been_released/#When:21:00:00Z Process-one The release contains numerous changes as detailed in the release notes.

This version is ready for testing for adventurous users that would like to help us making ejabberd the best release ever.

A detailed changelog is also available on ProcessOne bug tracker.

ejabberd 2.0.0 release candidate is available from ejabberd download page.


Changes since ejabberd 2.0.0 beta 1

The tickets concerning beta1 that are fixed in rc1: Changelog ejabberd 2.0.0 beta 1 to ejabberd 2.0.0 rc 1.

The SVN log since beta1 was released until rc1: SVN Changelog



Thanks

A big thank you to everyone who helped making this version what it is currently. This is a list extracted from ejabberd's ChangeLog since it was started 5 years ago until 2.0.0-rc1:

AV, Andreas from Unstable.nl, Andrey Zamaraev, Andrzej Smyk, Andy Turner, Anton Vanin, Asdx, Badlop, Balabanov Dmitry, Brian Campbell, Carlos E. Lopez, Christophe Romain, Christophe Romain, Cord Beermann, Doruk Fisek, EQHO Communications, Etan Reisner, Evgeniy Khramtsov, Felipe Brito Vasconcellos, Geoff Cant, Iceburn, Igor Goryachev, Jacek Konieczny, Jean-Sebastien Pedron, Jerome Sautret, Juraj Michalek, Justin Karneges, Karl-Johan Karlsson, Konstantin Khomoutov, Leif Johansson, Luca Brivio, Lucius Curado, Lukas Polivka alias Spike411, Magnus Henoch, Marina Hahn, Marshall T. Rose, Martijn van Beers, Martin Pokorny, Marvin Preuss, Massimiliano Mirra, Max Loparyev, Maxim Ryazanov, Michael Scherer, Michael Shields, Mickael Remond, Miguel Gomard, Milos Svasek, Nikolaus Polak, Oleg Palij, Oleg V. Motienko, Pablo Saratxaga, Patrick Dreker, Pedro Melo, Pieter Rautenbach, Qu1j0t3, Renato Botelho, Robin Redeker, Ruslan Rakhmanin, Samuel Tardieu, Sander Devrieze, Sergei Golovan, Shelley Shyan, SkLUG, Stefan de Konink, Tomas Janousek, Tomasz Sterna, Tony Finch, Torsten Werner, Tsukasa Hamano, Usercard, Vicent Alberola, Victor Hugo dos Santos, Vincent Ricard, Vladimir Kulev, and Zbyszek Zolkiewski.

]]> Software Release, ejabberd 2008-01-16T21:00:00+01:00 ejabberd 2.0.0 beta1 has been released http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_beta1_has_been_released/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_200_beta1_has_been_released/#When:15:52:00Z Process-one The release contains numerous changes as detailed in the release notes.

This version is ready for testing for adventurous users that would like to help us making ejabberd the best release ever.

A detailled changelog is also available on ProcessOne bug tracker.

ejabberd 2.0.0 beta is available from ejabberd download page.



A big thank you to everyone who helped making this version what it is currently. This is a list extracted from ejabberd's ChangeLog since it was started 5 years ago until 2.0.0-beta1:

AV, Andreas from Unstable.nl, Andrey Zamaraev, Andrzej Smyk, Andy Turner, Anton Vanin, Asdx, Badlop, Balabanov Dmitry, Brian Campbell, Carlos E. Lopez, Christophe Romain, Christophe Romain, Cord Beermann, Doruk Fisek, EQHO Communications, Etan Reisner, Evgeniy Khramtsov, Felipe Brito Vasconcellos, Geoff Cant, Iceburn, Igor Goryachev, Jacek Konieczny, Jean-Sebastien Pedron, Jerome Sautret, Juraj Michalek, Justin Karneges, Karl-Johan Karlsson, Konstantin Khomoutov, Leif Johansson, Luca Brivio, Lucius Curado, Lukas Polivka alias Spike411, Magnus Henoch, Marina Hahn, Marshall T. Rose, Martijn van Beers, Martin Pokorny, Marvin Preuss, Massimiliano Mirra, Max Loparyev, Maxim Ryazanov, Michael Scherer, Michael Shields, Mickael Remond, Miguel Gomard, Milos Svasek, Nikolaus Polak, Oleg Palij, Oleg V. Motienko, Pablo Saratxaga, Patrick Dreker, Pedro Melo, Pieter Rautenbach, Qu1j0t3, Renato Botelho, Robin Redeker, Ruslan Rakhmanin, Samuel Tardieu, Sander Devrieze, Sergei Golovan, Shelley Shyan, SkLUG, Stefan de Konink, Tomas Janousek, Tomasz Sterna, Tony Finch, Torsten Werner, Tsukasa Hamano, Usercard, Vicent Alberola, Victor Hugo dos Santos, Vincent Ricard, Vladimir Kulev, and Zbyszek Zolkiewski. ]]> Software Release, ejabberd 2007-12-24T15:52:00+01:00 ejabberd 1.1.4 MacOSX Leopard (10.5) Support http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_114_macosx_leopard_105_support/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_114_macosx_leopard_105_support/#When:07:00:00Z Process-one The new installer can be download from ejabberd download page.

MacOSX Leopard is still beta. You can report bugs in ejabberd bug tracker.

]]> Software Release 2007-11-12T07:00:00+01:00 Process-one provides a stable and flexible instant messaging platform for leading European ISP http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/process_one_sapo_portugal_telecom_instant_messaging1/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/process_one_sapo_portugal_telecom_instant_messaging1/#When:07:00:00Z Process-one Paris, France - October 3, 2007 - Portugal Telecom has deployed Process-one's Instant Messaging solution as their core Instant Messaging platform. This leading european Internet Service Provider (ISP) has established a strong relationship with Process One and is totally satisfied with the scalability and robustness of their new Instant Messaging system.

Owned by Portugal Telecom, SAPO is the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Portugal. The company had a large online messaging community, but its existing server was simply not stable enough to cope with demand.

"We had daily interruptions in service, which were costing us customers," explains Pedro Melo, technical consultant at SAPO. "We worked with the existing supplier for quite a long time to try to resolve these stability issues, but it just got to the point when we couldn't put up with the costs and problems any longer."

As an ISP, the company needed a stable server to support its instant messaging (IM) capability and a more flexible platform for delivering a wider range of customer services. In addition, it needed a server that could scale horizontally as its customer base grew.

SAPO was already aware of Process One and so contacted the company for its advice. "We discovered that Process One solutions were already successfully powering some very big and growing sites, and this gave us all the reassurance we wanted," says Melo. "We didn't need to look any further."

Migrating platforms quickly

Process One specialises in developing high-performance messaging solutions based on the ejabberd server. A standard technology from the Internet Engineering Task Force, ejabberd is based on the widely accepted eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and offers a highly robust messaging platform. ejabberd is also an open source technology and is thus a secure choice for SAPO.

Process One helped SAPO to prepare the migration from its existing server and then customise the technology. It advised the company about integration with its existing internal infrastructure and provided tools for load testing. The migration was completed very quickly and without any significant issues.

"We were up and running in less than two months," explains Melo. "Process One was extremely helpful. The team was interested in our business, provided us with good advice and support and always reacted quickly if we had any issues."

SAPO is confident that it made the right decision in selecting an ejabberd-based platform. "ejabberd is the enterprise-class, large-scale deployment king," says Melo. "It has been working very, very well."

Living in an open world

SAPO has a longstanding commitment to open source technologies, so ejabberd provides a good fit with the company's IT strategy. If it needs to, the company knows that it can look into the code itself, diagnose problems and suggest fixes or customisations. "SAPO has a strong open source culture," explains Celso Martinho, CTO of SAPO. "Using open source software enables us to be innovative, flexible and reactive in a global market where the absence of these qualities can seriously hurt your business."

Through their work together, Process One has produced a number of ejabberd product extensions to meet SAPO's specific business requirements, and SAPO now plans to make these extensions openly available to other users of ejabberd. SAPO also plans to publish the code it developed for migrating from its previous solution to the ejabberd platform, and it believes that this, in particular, will be very useful to other companies.

But it is not just the ejabberd technology that is open. Process One also has a very open relationship with its clients. "The company provides us with access to its internal development site, so that we can see exactly what it is doing and the status of all tasks," explains Delfim Machado, technical project leader at SAPO. "Both sides feel that nothing is hidden."

Delivering integrated services

Since going live with ejabberd, SAPO has been able to successfully use IM to enhance other services. For example, it has integrated its ejabberd server with its SMS network, so customers can now send messages to the mobile phones of friends and colleagues from their PCs using IM. Similarly, customers can elect to receive an IM message when a new comment is posted to their blog or when they receive an important email from a specific email address.

"We are really excited about all of the possibilities with ejabberd," says Melo. "The integration of IM with other services creates a really strong differentiator for us. In the future, we plan to integrate more and more services with IM."

In particular, SAPO plans to work with Process One in the months ahead to extend the use of IM into the areas of multi-media and Voice over IP (VoIP). As new technology standards emerge, SAPO will also work with Process One to integrate these into its ejabberd platform and services.

Martinho concludes: "ejabberd has proven to be a carrier-class solution. It has provided us with a robust and scalable platform that we can trust for our messaging projects. We have a strong relationship with Process One and are very confident about the future."

Download the complete Case Study in PDF format: Process-one Provides a Stable and Flexible Instant Messaging Platform for leading European ISP

About Process One

Based in France, Process One specialises in the development of high-performance messaging solutions. The company is actively developing the ejabberd server and offers strong commercial support for ejabberd installations around the world. More information about Process One is available at http://www.process-one.net.

### ]]> Press Release 2007-10-03T07:00:00+01:00 ejabberd 1.1.4 released http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_114_released/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_114_released/#When:08:54:00Z Process-one ejabberd 1.1.4 is a bugfix release for ejabberd 1.1.x branch.

ejabberd 1.1.4 includes 10 improvements. A complete list of changes can be retrieved from Process-one support site.

The new code can be downloaded from ejabberd download page.

Recent changes include:

  • Better LDAP support.
  • Support for UTF-8 with MySQL 5.
  • Roster migration script bugfixes.
  • Performance improvements on user removal.
  • Traffic shapers bugfix.
  • Configuration: host value is now case insensitive.
  • Build: ejabberd.cfg file is not overwritten with 'make install' command.

    • Bugs report

    You can officially report bugs on Process-one support site.

    ]]> Software Release 2007-09-05T08:54:00+01:00 New ejabberd Linux installer extends distributions compliance http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/new_ejabberd_linux_installer_extends_distributions_compliance/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/new_ejabberd_linux_installer_extends_distributions_compliance/#When:09:59:00Z Process-one The new ejabberd Linux installer should now be compliant with all major Linux distributions on x86 architecture.

    It can be dowloaded from the official ejabberd download page.

    ]]>     Software Release 2007-08-06T09:59:00+01:00     OneTeam Groupchat: a rich Web groupchat client http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/oneteam_groupchat_a_rich_web_groupchat_client/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/oneteam_groupchat_a_rich_web_groupchat_client/#When:18:12:00Z Process-one Process-one announces today its new dedicated groupchat interface. Working directly from the web in Firefox, the groupchat tool provide the more advanced online groupchat interface.

    OneTeam groupchat is currently used to cover the French presidential election on Le Chat Citoyen and, along with ejabberd will be the backbone of Rue89 chat system. Rue89 is a new online newspaper.

    OneTeam groupchat can be anonymously tested directly from OneTeam groupchat. You can use it to join any chat room you want on the XMPP /Jabber network.

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    ]]>     Corporate News 2007-05-04T18:12:00+01:00     ejabberd exceeds expectations at SIPPhone http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_exceeds_expectations_at_sipphone/ http://www.process-one.net/en/news/article/ejabberd_exceeds_expectations_at_sipphone/#When:07:00:00Z Process-one Paris, april 26, 2007 - SIPPhone have been using ejabberd for over three years and it has performed beyond their expectations. Process-one Instant Messaging solution is the perfect match to add sophisticated chat features to web sites or VoIP solutions.

    SIPPhone is a strong advocate of industry standards. Based in San Diego in the USA, the company provides a range of voice over IP (VoIP) services for consumers and businesses. It decided to introduce new instant messaging capabilities for its customers and realised that the use of industry-recognised protocols would be the key to its success.

    “We believe that industry standards are the way forwards for this industry”, says Matthew Reilly Software Engineer at SIPPhone. “The compatibility of our solutions with other established systems helps us to compete very strongly with proprietary solutions from other vendors.”

    SIPPhone wanted to establish a new instant messaging service that would be highly available and robust. To gain the trust of new users, its solution had to be both easy to use and reliable.

    Meeting the brief precisely

    The company carried out an extensive market review to find the most suitable instant messaging server with which to deliver its new service. Reliance on industry standards was, of course, a prime requirement. In addition, however, SIPPhone needed a server that could support large numbers of concurrent users per node, to limit hardware and administration costs. It also needed to be able to customise the server easily and integrate instant messaging capabilities seamlessly with its VoIP provision.

    ejabberd met the brief precisely. Based on the widely accepted eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), standardised by the Internet Engineering Task Force, ejabberd is a high-performance instant messaging server. It is an open source solution, so SIPPhone was able to licence the technology free of charge. It is also highly robust and offers a large number of built-in features for improving the performance of instant messaging services.

    Process One specialises in developing high-performance messaging solutions based on the ejabberd server and provided SIPPhone with assistance to acquire the solution. SIPPhone had a strong team of software engineers who were able to customise the server and build a bespoke solution in-house. However, experts from Process One were available throughout the project to provide the team with advice and support when required.

    Delivering a robust and scalable service

    Engineers at SIPPhone soon realised that ejabberd was a very effective toolbox. They quickly developed a highly robust messaging service in line with business expectations and integrated it easily into the company’s existing VoIP infrastructure. Throughout the project, the company experienced no segmentation faults or buffer overloads.

    “Simply put, it works”, says Reilly.

    It was very important for the messaging solution to support large numbers of users. ejabberd scales naturally to handle thousands of simultaneous users connected on a single ejabberd node, but also has an in-built clustering feature. Through the use of clustering, companies can make their solutions even more scalable and increase fault tolerance at the same time.

    Maintaining high availability

    SIPPhone launched its new messaging capability as a feature of Gizmo Project, a free-to-use VoIP service for consumers and businesses. Now, users of Gizmo Project can exchange messages instantly with friends, family and colleagues. Due to the use of industry standards and gateways, the service allows users to ‘chat’ with users of compatible systems too, such as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, Google Talk and other Jabber-based systems.

    Since going live, the solution has been very reliable. ejabberd allows engineers to perform updates on code without loosing the connection or needing to restart the server. As a result, SIPPhone is able to troubleshoot the system and perform maintenance, while keeping users connected and chatting. “This is a very important benefit, as it allows us to maintain a high level of availability for our customers”, says Reilly.

    He concludes: “We have now been using ejabberd for over three years and it has performed beyond our expectations.”

    Download the complete Case Study in PDF format: ejabberd exceed expectations at SIPPhone


    About Process-one

    Process-one is a company specialized in high-performance messaging solutions. The company actively develops the ejabberd server and offers strong commercial support for ejabberd installations around the world. It has customers managing millions of registered users and, as a result, Process-one has emerged as one of the major messaging solution providers.

    For more information, please visit: http://www.process-one.net/

    Contact: contact@process-one.net


    About ejabberd

    ejabberd is a proven and highly scalable XMPP server with full features. Distributed under an Open Source license, the server currently powers many of the largest Jabber deployments in the world. It therefore accounts for several million registered users.

    ejabberd is renowned for its cluster support which leads to unmatched features such as:

    • a single domain can be served by a cluster of ejabberd nodes
    • fault-tolerance: server can keep on running even if several nodes in the cluster fail
    • scalability: cluster nodes can be added or removed on the fly without stopping the servers

    For more informations, please visit: http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd

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