Ignite Realtime Blog: Experimenting with MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB Support in Openfire I have recently started experimenting with adding support for three additional databases in Openfire: MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB.

This work is still exploratory. Before committing to this direction, I would like to get a better understanding of whether this is actually valuable to the Openfire community.

I have prepared initial pull requests for each ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.01

This release is the result of three months of development, implementing those new features, and fixing bugs.

Release Highlights:

• [Database Serialization](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#database)
• [Roster Invites and Invite-based Account Registration](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#invites)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no mandatory changes in ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.3 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Happy new year! Our first release of 2026 is a minor release for our stable branch, with a range of tweaks, bug fixes and minor improvements for you.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• mod_storage_sql: Set configurable wait time for locked SQLite3 database
• net.server_event: Port TLS 1.3 channel binding method to libevent backend
• mod_roster: Add command for cleani ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Let Your Database Update You with EctoWatch Elixir allows application developers to create very parallel and very complex systems. Tools like Phoenix PubSub and LiveView thrive on this property of the language, making it very easy to develop functionality that requires continuous updates to users and clients.

But one thing that has often frustrated me is how to cleanly design an application to respond to database record updates.

A typical pattern that I’ve used is t ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.0 Half a year after the last release, Gajim 1.9.0 is finally here. 🎉 This release brings long awaited support for message replies and message reactions. Message Moderation has been improved as well. Say hello to voice messages! Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

It took us quite some time, but now it’s here: Gajim 1.9 comes with a complete database overhaul, which enables new features such as Message Replies and Message Reactions.

Message Replies ( [XEP-0461: Message Repl ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Instant Scalability with MongooseIM and CETS The main feature of the recently released MongooseIM 6.2.1 is the improved CETS in-memory storage backend which makes it much easier to scale up.

It is difficult to predict how much traffic your XMPP server will need to handle. Are you going to have thousands or millions of connected users? ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.

With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.

A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has ... ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)

Storing sfs sources in a database

Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database. In this case, we are in a unique position: Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial. For now, we only ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed explanation of those ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released! The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.

Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more