The XMPP Newsletter June 2025

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

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XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before August 17th, 2025 00:00 UTC.

XMPP Events

• DebConf25: The 26th Debian Conference in Brest, France, from July 14th to 19th 2025, will feature:
  • Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized by Elena Grandi. A short talk (20 minutes) that will take place at the Grand amphi room on Monday, July 14th at 18:00 hours.
  • Jabber/XMPP BoF session, hosted by Martin. A BoF (Birds of a Feather) meeting (45 minutes) that will take place at ‘Room: B03-035’ on monday July 14th at 14:00 hours.
• XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM UTC+2 (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Videos

Comunicación Libre, Segura y Descentralizada: Taller abierto de XMPP by Gnuxero for the Club de Software Libre. [ES]

XMPP Articles

• Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 1 by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
• Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 2 - OMEMO by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
• Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 3 - Grupos by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
• Mensajería segura y abierta mediante CONVERSATIONS Xmpp on alt43.es. [ES]
• Recuperando a soberania e a privacidade da sua comunicação pessoal e corporativa by Isadora Ribeiro. [PT_BR]
• Mitigating MITMs in XMPP by Amolith for the JMP Blog.
• Setting up Slidge Gateway with Openfire for use with Whatsapp, Matrix and Telegram by surfbum for the Ignite Realtime Community.
• Per-application passwords in Tigase from the Tigase Posts.
• Join the XMPP-IT Community: Your Help Matters! The XMPP-IT community is launching a call for active collaboration — no need to be an expert, and it’s not paid work, just shared participation. From translations to testing software, writing wiki content or contributing code, there’s room for everyone. [IT]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Cheogram has released version 2.17.10-2 for Android.
• Converse.js has released version 11.0.1 of its open-source and web-based XMPP chat client. The desktop version can be downloaded from here. Make sure to check out the release link for all the details!
• Gajim has released version 2.3.0 (2.3.1 and 2.3.2) with a fresh new look featuring Adwaita, adding new features, improvements, quite a few changes and bug fixes. Head over to their news section for more information. And don’t forget to read the changelog for all the details!

• Libervia has received NLnet funding to ‘Implement serverless (with RELOAD) and reduce metadata exposure’ (Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP). This project will reduce metadata exposure and enable decentralized, serverless communication. Work will focus on end-to-end encryption specs for roster (contact list) information. These changes will be implemented in the Libervia ecosystem through Tor integration, which will help anonymize connections and reduce IP tracking. A second focus area is advancing serverless communication by implementing the RELOAD protocol XEP-0415 and leveraging end-to-end authentication via XEP-0416 and XEP-0417. This project will strengthen XMPP and Libervia’s privacy and availability, enabling their use in environments where servers may be unavailable or inaccessible.
• Monocles has released versions 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10 and 2.0.11 of its chat client for Android, featuring many new functions and fixes.
• Prose has released versions 0.10.2 and 0.11.0 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

• The Ignite Realtime community is thrilled to announce the release of the latest versions of their popular open-source XMPP server. Openfire 5.0.0 just came out, immediately followed by Openfire 5.0.1 which should be its drop-in replacement. The new releases come packed with a host of new features, improvements, and bug fixes that enhance its performance, security, and usability. You can download Openfire 5.0.1 straight from the website and read the documentation to get started. Don’t forget to check out the changelog for a list of all the changes that have been made!
• MongooseIM has released version 6.4.0 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution. This release brings new features, changes, various fixes and improvements. For more information, make sure to check out the changelog and the documentation.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• go-xmpp versions 0.2.15 and 0.2.16 have been released.
• peertube-plugin-livechat versions 13.0.0 and 14.0.0 have 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.

• Data Policy
  • This document specifies metadata on how an entity handles its data (encryption, data retention, etc).
• Data Forms File Input Element
  • This specification defines an element which can be used with data forms to let users upload one or more files.

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 0.1.4 of XEP-0284 (Shared XML Editing)
  • Fix the registrar section.
  • Format the glossary better.
  • Add missing <state/> wrappers in examples.
  • Write an XML Schema. (egp)
• Version 0.9.0 of XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption)
  • Device labels must be signed
  • Allow empty device list in XML schema
  • Reworded security consideration that could be interpreted as forbidding trust mechanisms like BTBV/TOFU
  • Added section about dealing with lack of presence subscription
  • Removed reference to omemo-session-healing (th)
• Version 1.0.3 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
  • Add missing minOccurs=‘0’ to additional-data in <continue/> in XML schema. (lnj)
• Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
  • Fixed references to XEP identifier. (gdk)
• Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0498 (Pubsub File Sharing)
  • Fix wrong shortname and add tags. (jp)

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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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, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, 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
• German: xmpp.org
  • Translators: Millesimus
• Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
  • Translators: nicola
• Portuguese: xmpp.org
  • Translators: Paulo
• Spanish: xmpp.org
  • Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

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