Openfire provides full support for the XMPP protocol defined by RFC 6120 and RFC 6121. In addition to full XMPP support, Openfire also provides support for numerous extensions to XMPP that are defined through the XEP process at xmpp.org. This document provides a summary of that protocol support and is updated for every Openfire release.
This document is broken down into the following sections:
The core compliance level includes full support of the XMPP RFC's as well as the most common extensions. The table below details the level of support for the requirements set by XEP-0423: XMPP Compliance Suites 2020.
| Specification | Core Server Supported | Advanced Server Supported |
|---|---|---|
| RFC 6120: XMPP Core | ✓ | ✓ |
| RFC 7590: TLS | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0368: SRV records for XMPP over TLS | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0030: Service Discovery | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0114: Jabber Component Protocol | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol | N/A | ✓ |
The web compliance level incudes all features from the core compliance category as well as all features in this suite.
| Specification | Core Server Supported | Advanced Server Supported |
|---|---|---|
| RFC 7395: An Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Subprotocol for WebSocket | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0206: XMPP over BOSH [1] | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0156: Discovering Alternative XMPP Connection Methods | N/A | ✓ |
The IM compliance level incudes all features from the core compliance category as well as all features in this suite.
| Specification | Core Server Supported | Advanced Server Supported |
|---|---|---|
| RFC 6121: XMPP IM | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0153: vCard-Based Avatars [2] | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0398: User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0054: vcard-temp | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0280: Message Carbons | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0191: Blocking Command | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0249: Direct MUC Invitations | X | X |
| XEP-0048: Bookmark Storage [3] | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0410: MUC Self-Ping (Schrödinger's Chat) | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0411: Bookmarks Conversion | N/A | X |
| XEP-0049: Private XML Storage | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0198: Stream Management | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0313: Message Archive Management [4] | N/A | ✓ |
| XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload [5] | ✓ | ✓ |
The mobile compliance level incudes all features from the core compliance category as well as all features in this suite.
| Specification | Core Server Supported | Advanced Server Supported |
|---|---|---|
| XEP-0198: Stream Management | ✓ | ✓ |
| XEP-0352: Client State Indication | X | X |
| XEP-0357: Push Notifications [6] | ✓ | ✓ |
The table below lists all other XEPs supported by Openfire. XEPs that only require client-side support are omitted.
| Specification |
|---|
| XEP-0004: Data Forms |
| XEP-0012: Last Activity |
| XEP-0013: Flexible Offline Message Retrieval |
| XEP-0016: Privacy Lists |
| XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing |
| XEP-0050: Ad-Hoc Commands |
| XEP-0055: Jabber Search [7] |
| XEP-0059: Result Set Management |
| XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe |
| XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams |
| XEP-0077: In-Band Registration |
| XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication [8] |
| XEP-0082: XMPP Date and Time Profiles |
| XEP-0086: Error Condition Mappings |
| XEP-0090: Legacy Entity Time |
| XEP-0091: Legacy Delayed Delivery |
| XEP-0092: Software Version |
| XEP-0096: File Transfer |
| XEP-0106: JID Escaping |
| XEP-0126: Invisibility |
| XEP-0128: Service Discovery Extensions [9] |
| XEP-0133: Service Administration |
| XEP-0136: Message Archiving [10] |
| XEP-0138: Stream Compression |
| XEP-0142: Workgroup Queues [11] |
| XEP-0160: Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages |
| XEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS |
| XEP-0178: Best Practices for Use of SASL EXTERNAL with Certificates |
| XEP-0182: Service Discovery Extensions |
| XEP-0191: Blocking Command |
| XEP-0199: XMPP Ping |
| XEP-0202: Entity Time |
| XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery |
| XEP-0215: External Service Discovery [12] |
| XEP-0223: XMPP Server Registration for use with Kerberos V5 |
| XEP-0227: Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers [13] |
| XEP-0278: Jingle Nodes [14] |
| XEP-0289: Federated MUC for Constrained Environments |
| XEP-0321: Remote Roster Management [15] |
| XEP-0359: Unique and Stable Stanza IDs |