The XMPP Newsletter December 2024

 Posted on January 5, 2025 |  8 minutes |  Newsletter |  XMPP Communication Team and Contributors
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 2024.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

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XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until February 16th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

XMPP Summit 27 & FOSDEM 2025

The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 27, which is to take place on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2025, which takes place on February 1st & 2nd 2025. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XMPP at FOSDEM 2025

  • Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) presentation at FOSDEM 2025:
    • A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP: “Nowadays, most services provide APIs with their own formats, and sometimes multiple versions, which may change over time. But there is a universal API, with an excellent track record of stability and backward compatibility: XMPP!. In this talk, I’ll show how XMPP can be more than just an Instant Messaging protocol, and how it can be an extremely powerful tool to access almost anything, from third-party networks (IM, microblogging, etc.) to file sharing, automation (IoT), and more. “. The presentation will take place on Saturday, February 1st 2025, on the Real Time Communications (RTC) track, room K.3.601, starting at 18:25 and ending at 18:40 hs.

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

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XMPP Events

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XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Kaidan IM 0.10 horizontal view screenshot

Kaidan IM 0.10 horizontal view screenshot

XMPP Servers

  • ProcessOne announces ejabberd 24.12: The “evacuate_kindly” release: Including a few improvements and bug fixes, this release comes a month and half after version 24.10, with around 60 commits to the core repository alongside a few updates in dependencies.
  • Prosody IM is pleased to announce the release of version 0.12.5, a new minor release of the 0.12 stable branch. As usual, you can consult the changelog for this release, and the download instructions for many platforms on their download page.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

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.

  • No XEPs proposed this month.

New

  • Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories).
    • Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
  • Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0502 (MUC Activity Indicator).
    • 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 0.2.0 of XEP-0480 (SASL Upgrade Tasks).
    • Fix SCRAM upgrade description and XML schema. (tm)
  • Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0500 (MUC Slow Mode).
    • Include first feedbacks (jl)
  • Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories).
    • Add pubsub#item_expire in the node configuration (tj)

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.

  • Last Call for comments on XEP-0421 (Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs).
    • This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-06
  • Last Call for comments on XEP-0424 (Message Retraction).
    • This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-06

Stable

  • No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

  • No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

  • No XEPs rejected this month.

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  • 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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