After reading The Blessings of Synchronized Releases, you probably wonder how we practically organize synchronized releases at the Coccinella project. In this article I will give you some insight into our release process.

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People believe the idea of synchronized jumping to releases originates from Mark Shuttleworth.
People are wrong!

It was announced yesterday that Facebook Chat is soon going to use the open standards XMPP. This means that in the near future you will be able to use Coccinella and any other XMPP client to connect to Facebook Chat. We don't even have to provide you with a new Coccinella release, thanks to the merits of open standards.

Today the Openfire Team announced the open sourcing of the Client Control module for Openfire. This module promises it "allows to specify which XMPP clients are allowed to connect to the server".

In this guide I will give you instructions about how you can bypass this restriction and always use Coccinella. Don't be afraid that this tutorial will be too difficult for you! Thanks to Coccinella's flexible branding features, even a child can do this. No, you don't have to recompile Coccinella or apply some difficult hacks. It's only a matter of adding 1 small line to Coccinella's preferences file and then restarting Coccinella! Read further to see how easy it is to bypass OpenFire's Client Control module.

Adding an ICQ contact to Coccinella is the subject of the fifth Coccinella screencast. This tutorial instructs you how to add an ICQ contact or buddy in Coccinella to chat with. Stay tuned for more screencasts!

Add ICQ Contact

This is screencast #4 which is the first Coccinella screencast for this year. This tutorial instructs you how to add an MSN contact or buddy in Coccinella to chat with. Stay tuned for more screencasts!

Add MSN Contact

The new jabber.org website is only up and running for a few days, but we already feel the drastic increase of referrals from jabber.org. The following graph is revealing: