The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

Posted on November 5, 2025 | 11 minutes | Newsletter | XMPP Communication Team and Contributors

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

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XSF Announcements

XMPP and Dutch Healthcare Chat

Healthcare messaging must be secure, interoperable, and compliant, yet too often relies on closed consumer platforms. In the Netherlands, the forthcoming NTA 7532 specification aims to provide a national framework for secure, auditable communication between healthcare professionals.

To this effect, the XMPP Standards Foundation published the ‘Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat’ open letter, in order to explain how the XMPP standard offers a proven foundation for NTA 7532, supporting vendor-independent and interoperable messaging. By engaging with initiatives like NTA 7532, the XSF promotes open, privacy-respecting communication technologies and invites collaboration with Dutch healthcare stakeholders and the global XMPP community.

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before November 23th, 2025, 00:00 UTC.

Events

The 28th XMPP Summit has been announced. It will be held Thursday 29th - Friday 30th January 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. These are the two days preceding FOSDEM.

XMPP at Hack or Di(y|e) 2025

Vril will host the XMPP - Iniziamo ad usare sistemi compagni di chat (se chattiamo talk and workshop at the Hack or Di(y|e) 2025 in Bologna, Italy, on this next November 7th and 8th, 2025.

The talk will be as accessible as possible in terms of vocabulary. Aiming to give an overview of the XMPP protocol and what are the methodologies to start using it immediately through applications installed on your smartphone or PC. Immediately after the talk, the workshop will move to a corner of the VAG61 to help each other install applications and create accounts on companion servers to immediately start chatting via XMPP and 1000 different accounts! + chaos!!. P.S. if you already want to get informed, here is a nice guide: XMPP Guide. [IT]

Date: November 7th and 8th, 2025.
Location: Via Paolo Fabbri 110, rione Cirenaica, Bologna, Italy.

Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

The XMPP Standards Foundation has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare. At Ignite Realtime, we’re excited to support this effort. Our projects, such as Openfire and Smack, provide powerful building blocks to explore what’s possible for Dutch healthcare communication. Let’s Build a Connected Dutch Healthcare Community! [NL]
XMPP Interop Testing: Putting NTA 7532 to the Test (literally): If you’re building a chat system that has to actually talk to someone else’s chat system (and keep doctors happy while doing it), you’ll know: writing a specification is only half the battle. The other half is making sure that everyone follow it, and that everyone follows it in the same way. That’s where the XMPP Interop Testing Framework comes in. By Dan Caseley for the XMPP Interop Testing Blog.
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update: Can you build tech independence while breaking encryption? by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
NLnet: 29 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Grants to Build Digital Commons. One project brings the latest OMEMO support for Converse.js with libomemo.js: This project will finalise support for the latest version of the OMEMO protocol in Converse.js, bringing both state-of-the-art security based on the Noise protocol in private messaging, as well as standards-based interoperability between several messaging applications and services.
More Adoption of XMPP Providers in the XMPP Ecosystem & XMPP Providers Server Update by the XMPP Providers Team for the XMPP Providers blog. The Overview page received new functions. Now you can see all the available information across the operators in a tabular view. Thanks to the work of the XMPP Providers Team, you can search each column for specific information. If you are actively looking for custom properties, easily start breaking down the table to your needs!
Un nuovo server di chat per la libertà di comunicare: la nostra risposta a ChatControl by Fabio Lovato for ILS Este. [IT]
End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody by starkzarn for the RogueSecurity blog.
New home for the slidge room(s!), from the Slidge.im blog.
Libervia CLI tips: Goffi keeps adding them and the list keeps growing with more and more CLI tips to make it easier for you to use and do nearly everything you need with Libervia from the comfort of your terminal!

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Monocles has released version 2.0.16 of its chat client for Android. This update comes loaded with features and improvements; way too many to list in here! Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Prose has released versions 0.13.0 of its web frontend prose-app-web and muliple versions of its prose-core-client: 0.1.107, 0.1.108, 0.1.109 and 0.1.110. You can read all the details on their changelog.

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.10 only two months after the previous one. This release brings updated support for XEP-0317 Hats, adds more Ad-Hoc Commands from XEP-0133, and includes several bugfixes and many improvements for administrators and developers! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes, new features, fixes and improvements!

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp version 0.2.18 has been released.
go-sendxmpp, a tool to send messages to an XMPP contact or MUC inspired by sendxmpp, version 0.15.1 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, version 1.11.3 has been released. Full the details on the changelog.
Slidge versions 0.3.2 and 0.3.3 have been released with many improvements and bugfixes. You can check the intermediate changelog from 0.3.1 to 0.3.3 for the full list of changes.
- slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6 and 0.3.7 have been released.
- matteridge, the Mattermost to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and the mattermost-api-reference-client, version 0.3.1 has been released.
Slixmpp version 1.12.0 has been released. You can read the official release announcement for all the details.
talk_xmpp_bridge, a new bridge between Nextcloud Talk and the XMPP protocol, is now available for download.
xmpp-dns, a CLI tool to check XMPP SRV records, version 0.5.4 has been released. Full details on the changelog.

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-reply JIDs
- This specification defines a way for JIDs to advertise that they don’t accept incoming chat messages.
Forums
- This specification describes how to implement XMPP-based discussion forums.
Jingle Content Category
- This specification defines an XMPP extension to negotiate the use of Session Description Protocol (SDP) media- level attribute content as defined by RFC 4796 with Jingle RTP sessions.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0506 (No-reply JIDs) has been released.
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (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 1.35.2 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- Fix inconsistency in roomconfig_roomsecret data form field definition. (gk)
Version 1.28.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- (gdk)
Version 1.0.2 of XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP)
- See in-document revision history
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0248 (PubSub Collection Nodes)
- Enhance ‘Discover Nodes’ section with hierarchy / Collection Nodes description and examples
- Move the Service Discovery Identity type collection from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move collection-specific Service Discovery Features from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move process for changing node of type leaf to collection from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move requirement to support pubsub#notify_config for collection nodes from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248 (gdk)
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0392 (Consistent Color Generation)
- Add missing saturation and lightness information to compute the test vectors. (egp)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0471 (Calendar Events)
- Modified title for “Calendar Events”. Updated short-name and namespaces accordingly. (jp)
Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0472 (Pubsub Social Feed)
- Clarify text in Reply-To section to show that the XMPP link is mandatory and that the HTTP link is optional. (jp)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0505 (Data Forms File Input Element)
- Replaced XEP-0446 (File metadata element) with XEP-0447 (Stateless file sharing), which is necessary to have file sources.
- Fixed the incorrectly‑named <file> element (now <file-input>).
- Add tags.
- Various minor fixes. (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.

Last Call for comments on XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-14 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-10-28.
Last Call for comments on XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-14 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-10-28.
Last Call for comments on XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-20 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-11-03.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

XMPP Public channels

New rooms and public channels are created on a daily basis on the XMPP network. So, if you are on the lookout for new and exciting public channels to join, make sure to check out the Public Channel Search Engine to find out groups or communities that share your interests!

If you want to list all the channels, you can find them here.
If you are interested on something in particular, look by tag!
If you only want to list rooms in a particular language just add lang:xx in the search box, like in this example for the Spanish language. Just make sure to replace es by your desired language (like lang:fr, lang:de, lang:pt and so on).

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