Kernel upgrade and MSN-beta removal

We need to reboot the firewall and www.jabber.no today because of an important kernel upgrade. There is some vulnerabilities in the kernel that need immediate attention. Will also remove msn-beta today, so all users must convert to the msn.jabber.no transport.

The reboot will be announced for connected users with an administrator message. The reboot will be done this morning / early afternoon CET.

MSN Transport problems

There was some problems this morning, I woke up to a memory eating transport and the server was very slow. After som tests I found out that the problem was my own msn account. Every time I logged on the transport stalled, but as long as I kept from logging on everything was ok. So now I will test with the msn-beta transport to find the error and in the meantime keep from logging on the msn transport.

At least things seems to be working better now! 🙂

MSN transport updated

Now we have tested the SVN version of PyMSNt for some time on msn-beta.jabber.no and it has proved feature rich and stable. Since it has been upated quite frequently I have felt we could not run it as our maing transport, but now the last few weeks the updates has been few and all functionality has been added for the most part. Now it only remains to test it properly.

Hope all will appreciate this new transport and that it will work just as well, and beter, than the old one. There will probably be some adjustments to be made the next weeks but nothing major. Should be quite stable.

I just tested file transfer between Windows Live Messenger and Gajim 0.9.1 both ways and it worked very well.

Firewall restart

We had to restart the firewall today and therefor the service was unavailable for a little while. When it was restarting I reconfigured ejabberd and put in a couple of new modulse that is supposed to give us some more statistics to put out on the web page. Will be getting back to this soon.

Other than this there is nothing much to report. This weekend I will maybe move msn.jabber.no over to the svn version but I have to see if I have the time. Also we probably should run both double up a few days so people can migrate over.
Have a nice weekend! 😀

Windows Live Messenger

Now Microsoft has made a new Messenger, the one that will be the new version 8.0 when released. They have decided to give it a new name, Windows Live Messenger but it is really not that new. The beta testing is closed and distributed by invitations, and I got such an invitation from the py-transports mailing list and have therefor tested it. The client has new colors, a little fresher than the old, but I think many will have problems with the default orange :). Still it is full of comercials, buttons and stuff like the old one (I think it is becoming very bloated..!).

When it comes to the new stuff there will now be support for folder sharing, and offline message sending (which has been supported in ICQ forever, and in Jabber form the start!). The folder file sharing thing does not work yet but the offline message sending does. And I am happy to inform you that James on the PyMSNt devel team has already started to look into how to implement this support in the transport. Looking forward to that!

Soon the 0.11 version of the transport is ready, giving support for file transfers both ways with the new MSN Messenger clients. I have considered swapping the msn-beta over to the msn transport one of these days since the beta transport has proven pretty stable. Basically the only problems has been when upgrading it or when there has been problems with Ejabberd. I think hoever that the 0.11 release is pretty immident so I will wait for a few more days. Should there not come a realease we go over to running the CVS version in production for a while. Just note that the msn-beta users need to re-register on the msn transport since the msn-beta will be removed.

MSN Upgraded

There was a problem with the MSN transport today, seemed hung up in a loop. I upgraded it to version 0.10.3 to fix the problem and it seems to be running smooth again now. Thanks to Martin Groth for reporting the problem to me.

Will also just remind everyone that 0.11 is coming along on msn-beta.jabber.no. There is support for file sending and receiving at the momemt, although sending is a litt unstable. Not so long till we upgrade! 🙂

Google Talk on the Jabber Network

Google Talk LogoFinally we can announce the opening of Google Talk to the rest of the Jabber Network. We have already tested this on Jabber Norway and it works, but for now we should consider this a test phase. Nevertheless this is great news for Jabber and XMPP whom just got a great big stable server that is a good alternative to MSN, Yahoo and AIM.

For more information read Google Talkabout: XMPP Federation.