The XMPP Newsletter September 2024

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2024.

XSF Announcements

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!.

The XMPP Standards Foundation is also calling for XSF Board 2024 and XSF Council 2024. Be involved in the XMPP Standards Foundation organisation decisions as well as on our specifications we publish. If you are interested in running for Board or Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to one or both of the following sections until November 3rd, 2024, 00:00 UTC. Note: XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

• Monal
  • Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
    • Blog post 1
    • Blog post 2

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

• Mellium Co-op
• Bifrost bridge
• Prav iOS
• diasp.in

XMPP Events

• Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
• XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Videos

• Detailed and comprehensive introduction to Rivista XJP: the XMPP PubSub Content Management System.

XMPP Articles

• XMPP Interop Testing: Containers
• List of projects that got worked on in September’s XMPP Sprint in Worcester, UK!.
• Monal Internals - XML Query Language: This new article shines some light onto specific parts of Monal’s internals. It is dedicated to programmers or people curious about how Monal works internally.
• The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP: Why XMPP matters.
• Straight from The Dandelion Hub: Installation of an XMPP-based messenger using Movim as frontend and Prosody as backend on Linux Debian 12 – A tutorial.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Cheogram has released version 2.15.3-4 for Android.
• Conversations has released version 2.16.7 for Android.
• Psi+ 1.5.2041 installer has been released.
• Gajim 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 have been released. These releases come with integrated support for the XMPP Providers project. Furthermore, there is now support for “Hats” (XEP-0317), which allow you to assign roles to group chat participants, i.e. “Support”, “Expert” or really anything you like to assign. Last but not least, Gajim’s Microsoft Store release has been improved in many ways. You can check the changelog for more details.
• Movim 0.28 has been released. This new version (code named “Tempel”) brings a “Freshly redesigned Search panel, improved account gateways and administration features, databases fixes and a new call flow and conference lobby” among many other fixes and improvements.

XMPP Servers

• Snikket is pleased to announce a new stable release of the Snikket server stable.20240904 software. For an introduction to the new changes, check out the release announcement blog post.
• Openfire 4.9.0 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! You can read the full changelog for more details.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Ignite Realtime community:

• Hazelcast plugin for Openfire version 3.0.0 has been released, adding clustering support to Openfire. It is based on the Hazelcast platform. This release brings a major upgrade of the platform. It migrates from version 3.12.5 to 5.3.7. Please read the upgrade instructions carefully for this one.
• HTTP File Upload plugin for Openfire version 1.4.1 has been released. This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload.
• nbxmpp 5.0.4 comes with a fix for MUC passwords and further bug fixes.
• go-sendxmpp 0.11.2 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

Developers and other standards experts from around the world collaborate on these extensions, developing new specifications for emerging practices, and refining existing ways of doing things. Proposed by anybody, the particularly successful ones end up as Final or Active - depending on their type - while others are carefully archived as Deferred. This life cycle is described in XEP-0001, which contains the formal and canonical definitions for the types, states, and processes. Read more about the standards process. Communication around Standards and Extensions happens in the Standards Mailing List (online archive).

Proposed

The XEP development process starts by writing up an idea and submitting it to the XMPP Editor. Within two weeks, the Council decides whether to accept this proposal as an Experimental XEP.

• Happy Eyeballs

New

• Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0493 (OAuth Client Login)
  • Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
• Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0494 (Client Access Management)
  • Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)

Deferred

If an experimental XEP is not updated for more than twelve months, it will be moved off Experimental to Deferred. If there is another update, it will put the XEP back onto Experimental.

• No XEPs deferred this month.

Updated

• Version 2.13.2 of XEP-0004 (Data Forms)
  • Add section on empty and absent values. (gk)
• Version 1.35.1 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
  • Add explicit error definition when non-owners attempt to use owner-specific functionality. (gk)
• Version 1.3.1 of XEP-0133 (Service Administration)
  • Fixed typo in example for Get User Last Login Time (dc)
• Version 0.4.2 of XEP-0264 (Jingle Content Thumbnails)
  • Restrict ‘width’ and ‘height’ to the 0..65535 range, instead of being unbounded integers. This is in accordance to XEP-0084 and XEP-0221 for instance. (egp)
• Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0272 (Multiparty Jingle (Muji))
  • Send Jingle IQs to real JID
  • Define how to use with XEP-0482
  • Adjust namespace (lmw)
• Version 1.1.2 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
  • Fix JID and affiliation of the first two witches in the MUC example.
  • Fix duplicated ‘id’ in MUC example.
  • Fix indentation in examples. (egp)
• Version 0.3.1 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
  • Fix typos
  • Adapt attack-model section to new simplified protocol (tm)

Last Call

Last calls are issued once everyone seems satisfied with the current XEP status. After the Council decides whether the XEP seems ready, the XMPP Editor issues a Last Call for comments. The feedback gathered during the Last Call can help improve the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

• No Last Call this month.

Stable

• No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

• No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

• No XEP rejected this month.

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Newsletter Contributors & Translations

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

• English (original): xmpp.org
  • General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
• French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
  • Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
• Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
  • Translators: nicola
• Spanish: xmpp.org
  • Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
• German: xmpp.org
  • Translators: Millesimus

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