Openfire deployments have been running in the wild for a *long* time.

Some started when Java 5 was current, Docker didn't exist yet, and IPv6 was still "future tech".

As we prepare the Openfire 5.1.0 release, We'd love to hear your stories: What's the oldest Openfire deployment that you still run?

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/what-s-your-oldest-openfire-deployment/96473

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What’s your oldest Openfire deployment?

As we’re preparing the upcoming Openfire 5.1.0 release, I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at parts of the codebase that have been around for a long time. Some of them date back to assumptions that were perfectly reasonable when Java 5 was current, IPv6 was still considered “future tech”, Docker didn’t exist yet, and “cloud-native” wasn’t a phrase anyone but meteorologists used. Yet somehow, Openfire deployments that started in those days are still running today. That got me wondering: ...

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