The XMPP Newsletter May 2025

Posted on June 10, 2025 | 7 minutes | Newsletter | XMPP Communication Team and Contributors

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

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XMPP Events

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).
The XMPP Sprint in Berlin took place during the 23rd-25th of May 2025. Developers from Germany, France & the United Kingdom representing Conversations, Dino, ejabberd, Kaidan, LiveDashboard, Macaw, Monal, Renga, and Prose gathered to make it happen! The sprint was sponsored by the XSF, Ammonit Measurement GmbH, and Wikimedia e.V..

Videos

Goffi, from Libervia, published a short progress overview of the new web frontend design on the Libervia video channel.

Talks

On Friday, May 16, Vril hosted the Workshop di XMPP e Free Software all’AntiBiennale di Venezia (a workshop on XMPP and free software) at Cabasego, in Venice, Italy. The whole workshop lasted around one and a half hours and the slides are freely available for you to check out. The event took place in a most beautiful house, incredibly located in the center of Venice, inhabited by people who are always willing to leave their door open to Venice’s underground communities. [IT]

XMPP Articles

El gran lío de la mensajería instantánea by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
Monocles, the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat Web and Android clients, started a crowdfunding campaign. The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from March 28 to June 30.
XMPP is now featured on the list of the ‘Delightful Lists’.
Towards a Password-Mukt XMPP for some thoughts and fantasies by Badri (Hippo) on how passwordless XMPP login could be achieved, either via an out-of-band mechanism or by authorizing from an already logged-in client.
XMPP packages coming with Debian 13 as the freeze toward next stable Debian (13 or Trixie) has been engaged, an overview of the XMPP clients, servers and librairies coming with it is provided in this article from the Debian XMPP Team.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Converse.js has released version 11.0.0 of its open-source and web-based XMPP chat client. The Desktop version can be downloaded from here. This release comes packed full of bugfixes, changes and new features. Way too many to list in here. Make sure to check out the release link for all the details!

Gajim has released version 2.2.0. This release brings three new features: message retraction (via XEP-0424: Message Retraction), blocking participants in group chats, and updated support for modern group chat avatars (via XEP-0486: MUC Avatars), among many other improvements and bugfixes. Head over to their news section or check the changelog for all the details.
Monal has released version 6.4.11 for iOS an macOS.
Monocles Chat 2.0.7 for Android, has been released. This version brings fixes for lagging, pinned status message, I2P and more.
Prose has released versions 0.10.1 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

Prosody IM is pleased to announce version 13.0.2. This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well. Read all the details on the release changelog. As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Pade plugin version 1.8.4 for Openfire has been released.
peertube-plugin-livechat version 12.0.4 has been released.
python-nbxmpp version 6.2.0 has been released.
strophejs version 3.1.1 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.

No XEPs proposed this month.

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

No XEPs updated this month.

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 XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
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