The XMPP Newsletter January 2025

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of January 2025.

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.

XSF Announcements

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

The XSF held its 27th XMPP Summit on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). During this two-day gathering, we discussed XMPP protocol development topics and kept making progress on current issues within the protocol and ecosystem. We would like to thank everyone that took part of the Summit for their continuous commitment and contribution to the XSF and all the XMPP related projects!

The XSF would like to extend a special thank you to those who made the Summit possible:

• Daniel Gultsch for his time and resources to help organizing the event.
• Alexander Gnauck and Dave Cridland for sponsoring the XSF Dinner.
• Ralph Meijer for his time and dedicated work on streaming/swag/booking dinner.
• Edwin Mons for the dinner form.
• Kevin Smith for leading the Summit and moderating the speakers.
• Alex Palaistras for keeping up a record on the pad with all the topics and the feedback during the entire Summit.
• Isode for sponsoring the XMPP Summit again.

You can find a summary of the main topics discussed over the course of the Summit here.

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).
• PravConf 2025: PravConf 2025 is the first edition of the annual gathering of the Prav community, and it will be held on March 1, 2025, at the Model Engineering College, in Kochi. Feel free to Join the group to learn more!
• XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

Talks

XMPP Articles

• ProcessOne
  • How Big Tech Pulled Off the Billion-User Heist.
• Erlang Solutions
  • MongooseIM Round-Up.
• Prosody Certificate Management With Nginx and Certbot by Sahil Dhiman.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Conversations has released versions 2.17.8 and 2.17.9 for Android.
• Monal has released version 6.4.9 and 6.4.10 for iOS an macOS.
• Monocles Chat 2.0.4 has been released for Android. This version brings in several fixes.
• Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-4 for Android.
• Movim 0.29 and 0.29.1 have been released. Movim 0.29 (code named “Rankin”) is the first XMPP client that implements “Stories” (XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories)), a very nice way to share content with your contacts and allow them to react easily by chat. It also introduces “Briefs”, a simpler way to create a short publication that only consists of a text and some medias on your profile or in your Communities. Version 0.29.1 comes with a more polished and improved “Stories” feature, database fixes as well as some preparatory work for the PHP 8.4 version. To learn more about this releases, head over to the Movim Blog.

XMPP Servers

• MongooseIM has released version 6.3.1 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• Slixmpp version 1.8.6 has been released (release announcement)
• Slidge versions v0.2.3, v0.2.3.post1 and 0.24 have been released.
• QXmpp versions 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 have been released.
• go-xmpp version 0.2.10 has been released.
• go-sendxmpp version 0.14.1 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.

• GRE Formatter: MIME
  • This GRE Formatter uses Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to format payload.
• GRE Encrypter: OpenPGP
  • This GRE Encrypter uses OpenPGP to encrypt payload.
• Gateway Relayed Encryption
  • This specification describes a mechanism for end-to-end encryption with gateways that is compatible with third-party networks.

New

• No new XEPs this month.

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 0.4.2 of XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
  • Use a XEP-0425 /me command in the fallback body
  • State that a tombstone’s <retracted/> element’s ‘id’ attribute should match the retraction message’s ‘id’.
  • Specify XEP-0359 as a dependency and require that the stanza ‘id’ be used instead of the origin-id.
  • Update the “Security Considerations” to mention the risk of non-unique message IDs. (jcb)
• Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
  • Use better value delimiter (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.

• Last Call for comments on XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens).
  • This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-27

Stable

• Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0421 (Occupant identifiers for semi-anonymous MUCs)
  • Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2025-01-14. (XEP Editor(dg))

Deprecated

• No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

• No XEPs 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 and 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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