The XMPP Newsletter July 2025

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 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 helping 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 before August 17th, 2025 00:00 UTC.

XMPP at FrOSCon 20

On August 16th & 17th, 2025, the FrOSCon will hold its 20th anniversary edition™. It will take place at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany, and the XMPP community will be part of it!

While you are there, you may be interested in what is going on at the Devrooms.

The Gemeinsamer DevRoom von Gentoo e.V. und TroLUG will take place at Room C125, where Gentoo e.V. and TroLUG will offer a rich and varied 2-day program on various topics, including the Gentoo and Debian distributions and free software for smartphones. XMPP will play a special role. Short presentations, demos and workshops will encourage visitors to join in. There will also be plenty of time for spontaneous topics and social interaction. (Shh! Don’t tell anyone! … but you can take a look at all the nitty gritty details in here)

And, of course: make sure to come by the XMPP booth and say hi!. We promise there will be stickers. ;)

Videos

• Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized by Elena “of Valhalla” Grandi at the DebConf25.
• Why Aren’t You Using XMPP?
• FOSSY 2025: XMPP track at Room 327.
  • Setting Up A Simple XMPP Server by Root.
  • Telecomms for Preppers by Phillip.
  • Messaging interoperability with MLS, MIMI and XMPP by Marvin W..
  • Adventures in Onboarding: Helping New Users Navigate Federated Services by Gideon Mayhak.
  • How do you solve a problem like iOS? by Stephen Paul Weber.

XMPP Articles

• Empowering Digita:l Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform by guus.
• ProcessOne
  • XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again by Mickaël Rémond .
• XMPP Interop Testing
  • MOAR TESTS!: Ever heard of XMPP Interop Testing? It’s this cool project that helps make sure different XMPP servers can all work together smoothly. They have just released version 1.6.0 of all their test runners! The biggest chunk of work has gone into tests that verify parts of the basic XMPP protocol, notably for testing functionality that involves roster management (as specified in section 2 of RFC 6121) and for server rules for processing XML stanzas (section 8 of RFC 6121). Please get in touch if you have any ideas for improvement, or other feedback. They’d love to hear from you!
• JoinJabber now has a Governance document based on the Cooperative Development Guidelines governance template. It aims to be the authoritative document on what JoinJabber wants to do, how they are doing it, an overview of their structure (in few words; there is going to be a separate document to define it fully), and the RFC process for changes.
• Configure the Prosody XMPP-server for free communication on the network from exception.net.ua. [UA]
• Launch of the XMPP / Fediverse Bridge! by BarbaPulpe. [DE] [ES] [FR] [IT] [NL] [PT]
• Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized, a short and concise summary of the speak hosted by Elena “of Valhalla” Grandi at the DebConf25 for people who prefer reading text. [IT] [ES]
• XMPP Home Automation Demonstration Machine from Rainer’s Hilfeseiten [DE].
• Guia rápido e fácil para novos usuários de XMPP, a Brazilian Portuguese translation and adaptation of contrapunctus’ ‘The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP’, by Isadora Ribeiro for the DEV Community. [PT_BR]
• Introducing XOWS: a Javascript XMPP web client that makes use of the WebSocket protocol. A first Beta release, which is more or less an advanced Alpha, is already available for download.
• 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

• Conversations has released versions 2.19.0, 2.19.1 and 2.19.2 for Android, adding support for moderated message retraction in public channels (XEP-0425), showing ‘Last seen’ prominently in chat title (when enabled), and various bug fixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
• Gajim has released version 2.3.3 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release comes with many fixes for Windows and it brings some styling improvements, better performance and bugfixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details. Thank you for all your contributions!
• Monal has released version 6.4.12 for iOS and macOS.
• Monocles has released version 2.0.12 of its chat client for Android, featuring improvements and fixes. Take a look at the changelog for all the details.
• Movim has released version 0.31 (code named “Kameny”). This release comes loaded with new features ranging from the NLNet funded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing (and the first steps to SFU integration) to global chatroom search (XEP-0433), URL resolver worker, pronouns support in the profile (in compliance with RFC vCard4), quick switch between 1:1 chats and chatrooms and the ability to move the actions list in the ‘Contact’ or ‘Chatroom’ panel, among many other news!

• XOWS 0.9.8, a lightweight and modern XMPP over WebSocket Web client, has been released.

XMPP Servers

• ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.07. This release focuses on integration in a wider federated network, with support for spam fighting features, improved Matrix gateway, native support for PubSub Server Information to have your server count as part of the wider XMPP network (e.g. register your server on XMPP Network Graph), new modules, features, improvements and bugfixes. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes!
• Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change. The Prosody Team has been working on some changes on the Debian/Ubuntu package repository. If you use this repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates smoothly. Please follow the instructions described in the article. If you have any questions about this change, the Prosody Team is always happy to help and answer them on their community chat!
• WebRTC based audio and video in Openfire 2025 by Dele_Olajide1.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• slidge-whatsapp, the XMPP-to-WhatsApp gateway based on Slidge, version 0.2.7 has been released.
• peertube-plugin-livechat version 14.0.1 has been released.
• xmpp-ap-bridge versions 0.7.0, 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 have been released.
• xmpp-dns version 0.5.0 Beta 1 has been released.
• go-sendxmpp version 0.15.0 Beta 1 has been released.
• ignite realtime community: XEP-0483: HTTP Online Meetings by Dele_Olajide1.

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-0504 (Data Policy)
  • Accepted as Experimental by Council vote on 2025-06-08 (XEP Editor: dg)
• Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0505 (Data Forms File Input Element)
  • Accepted as Experimental by Council vote on 2025-07-08 (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 1.10.0 of XEP-0080 (User Location)
  • Added <regioncode/> element. (jp)
• Version 1.2.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload)
  • Add optional upload purpose when requesting slots (dg)

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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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
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