[JDEV] Announcing Jabber 0.7

[Steven Wagner]

Jeremie,
    Congratulations on hitting this milestone.  You are the center piece in a
project that is very important to a lot of people and we thank you.

Thanx,
Steven Wagner

Jeremie wrote:

> http://jabber.org/news/announce-0.7.html
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> After nearly two years in design and development, the Jabber Development
> Team is announcing the availability of the powerful Jabber Instant
> Messaging and Presence Server development version 0.7.  Learn more about
> Jabber at http://jabber.org/ and download the 0.7 server at
> http://download.jabber.org/.
>
> While still a developmental version, the core of the Jabber architecture
> has stabilized and reached a point where it is ready to deployed and built
> upon.  This is the code base that will quickly become 1.0.  This release
> supports the XML protocol described at http://protocol.jabber.org/, and
> additional protocol support is in development and undergoing testing for
> IRC, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Pager.
>
> The 0.7 server offers instantaneous delivery to connected clients and
> remote servers of all messages and changes in presence.  Any data that can
> be defined in XML can be routed real-time between users and/or
> applications via Jabber.  There are unique demands of managing any
> real-time data stream functionality, so the server is extensibly from the
> ground up supporting a dynamically loadable module API and a flexible
> "service manager" daemon named etherx.
>
> The core protocol functionality in 0.7 server:
>      o  authentication
>      o  message delivery
>      o  presence
>      o  roster (buddy list)
>      o  offline messaging
>
> Experimental protocol functionality in 0.7 server:
>      o  registration
>      o  profiles
>      o  offline presence
>      o  user resource management
>      o  timestamps
>
> Under the hood:
>
> The XML Parser is Expat by James Clark (http://jclark.com/xml/expat.html).
> Expat is a top-notch fast and standard parser which is also being used in
> Mozilla, Perl, Apache, and numerous other projects.
>
> GNU Pth is the core multi-threading engine by Ralf Engleschall
> (http://gnu.org/software/pth/).  Pth offers a powerful and flexible engine
> for managing the demands of a real-time messaging server under heavy
> loads.
>
> GNU adns by Ian Jackson (http://www.gnu.org/software/adns/)  is also
> (optionally) used as a fast replacement for DNS lookups.
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>
> Notes to the jdev list:
>
> For those that already noticed, the 0.7 release has been available on
> download.jabber.org for a week now.  We're in the middle of completly
> revamping all of the web sites (jabber.org and all team sites) with a new
> design and updated content, which should start to appear tonight and
> tomorrow.  We wanted to roll out the new design with the release
> announcement, but instead we'll roll out the new design with a big "Jabber
> Project Status" update tomorrow discussing where we're at and what's up
> next for Jabber.
>
> Jer
>
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