in roster when you have show offline, and someone goes offline he won't be shown in offline not in connected he will disappear until you re-request show offline
I don't think 0.6.1 suffers from this. yann did you get to apply all the patches you had for jabberpy in xmpppy. I think it's important to go one-by-one so we cna assure 0.7 is better in core stuff than 0.6.1 and not worse