The XMPP Newsletter January 2026

 Posted on February 8, 2026 |  12 minutes |  Newsletter |  XMPP Communication Team and Contributors
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of January 2026.

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XSF Announcements

Call for XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before February 15th, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Being a member signals a commitment to open standards and professional engagement in / with the XMPP community. Here, your membership helps position the XSF as a healthy organization, which in itself is valuable. It also grants voting rights on technical and administrative matters within the XSF. The application is a light-weight and free of cost process and you can use membership to get more involved more easily, too.

XMPP Summit 28

The XSF held its 28th XMPP Summit during January 29th and 30th 2026 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 in 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 this XMPP Summit possible:

  • Edward Maurer from the XSF Communication Team as well as Daniel Gultsch and Guus der Kinderen from the XSF Summits, Conferences, and Meetups Team for their time, resources, strong commitment, thorough contribution and attention to detail in the organization and moderation of the event.
  • Ralph Meijer, Dan Caseley and Edwin Mons for their time and dedicated work on streaming the Summit.
  • Ralph Meijer for organising the XSF dinner and Alexander Gnauck’s noted sponsor contribution.
  • Additional thanks to mathieui, Rémi and other unknown people helping to keep track of the notes during the event.
Welcome to the 28th XMPP Summit!

Welcome to the 28th XMPP Summit!

A summary of the main topics discussed is planned to be published soon at xmpp.org.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2026

During January 31st and February 1st, the XSF was present at FOSDEM 26 in Brussels, Belgium. The XMPP community took part in the Realtime Lounge, a room located in Level 1, AW building, together with the Prosody IM and the Snikket projects, where several open source projects around the Decentralised Communication Devroom can present themselves.

We are pleased to say that there was a lot of interaction at the XMPP booth! A rather large number of FOSDEM visitors had the opportunity to come say “Hi!”, meet, interact, talk and have interesting conversations with many of the developers of the most popular clients, servers, tools and libraries that power the whole XMPP ecosystem and bring it to life.

In addition to the activities that took place on the XMPP booth, Daniel Gultsch and S1m, Jérôme Sautret, Timothée Jaussoin, and Özcan Oğuz hosted four different XMPP related presentations from the Decentralised Communication Developer Room and the FOSS on Mobile track.

You can watch the presentations from the following list of links:

And, of course .. we had plenty of leaflets, informational material, and as always: the coolest stickers! ;)

We found Wally. Now, can you find the XMPP booth in the picture?

We found Wally. Now, can you find the XMPP booth in the picture?

XSF Bluesky account is verified now (New handle!)

The XSF Bluesky account is verified now. This means that the profile handle is different now (@xmpp.org) You can find the profile with its new handle via https://bsky.app/profile/xmpp.org. Many thanks to cal0pteryx from the XSF Communication Team as well as singpolyma and Zash from Infrastructure Team.

Events

XMPP listed as Alternative Chat at DI.DAY Initiative

The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Besides other services, XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and XMPP Community members have created so-called switch recipes: Digital Independence Day. Find the related blogpost at xmpp.org

There are more related activities and resources available from the XMPP Community:

XMPP Articles

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

  • Conversations has released versions 2.19.8 and 2.19.9 for Android. These versions introduce a fix for calls getting stuck at connecting when ‘Use Relays’ is enabled but server doesn’t have any. They also come with bandwidth optimizations and they combine QR code related actions (show, scan, invite) into one central menu. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
  • Gajim has released versions 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. Installing Gajim on macOS is now only a single click away. Gajim 2.4.2 release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files and support for link previews, along many other improvements, changes and some important bug fixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
  • Kaidan has released versions 0.14.0 and 0.15.0 of its user-friendly and modern chat app for XMPP. The former release brings support for advanced media sharing and registration provider filtering, while the latter implements an integrated search field and experimental support for Audio/Video Calls (with most of the work being funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Entrust and NGI Zero Commons Fund with public money provided by the European Commission) in addition to some very useful improvements and lots of fixes! You can find a detailed list of new features, bugfixes and notes in their respective release announcements, or the changelog.
Kaidan 0.15.0: Experimental Audio/Video support on Linux.

Kaidan 0.15.0: Experimental Audio/Video support on Linux.

  • Monal has released versions 6.4.17 for iOS and macOS.
  • Monocles has released version 2.1 of its chat app for Android. This a huge update with three fundamental new features: Stories, Feeds, and Phone log. In addition to many other improvements and features such as account sorting and improved message deletion, this update also brings new support for multiple XEPs. Thanks to the standardization of XMPP, it is now possible to have social interaction across different XMPP platforms and messengers. These new features bring more functions that are fully compatible with the XMPP web platform Movim.
Create your stories today and make a post for your contacts in Monocles Chat or Movim!

Create your stories today and make a post for your contacts in Monocles Chat or Movim!

XMPP Servers

  • Prosody IM is pleased to announce versions 13.0.3 and 13.0.4, both minor releases of the stable branch. The former comes with a range of tweaks, bug fixes and minor improvements, and the latter being the encouraged upgrade, partly due to a bug that was introduced into UUID generation in the previous release. Although not strictly bug fixes, some configuration-related improvements that help make configuring Prosody a little easier and more reliable also made their way into the latest release. Read all the details on the changelog, and as always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.
  • MongooseIM has released MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration. This release focuses on easier integration with your applications while continuing to deliver a scalable and reliable XMPP-based messaging server. The most important improvement in MongooseIM 6.5.0 is the production-ready integration with RabbitMQ, allowing external services to process the events from the server. It is worth noting that the mechanism is highly extensible – you can craft such extensions yourself.
  • ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 26.01. This release addresses real operational pain points: export your data from one database backend and import it into another, and roster invites and invite-based account registration to let your users invite others without opening the gates to spam! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes, new features, fixes and improvements on this release.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

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.

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 1.1.0 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
    • It’s authorization-identifier not authorization-identity (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 XEPs last calls this month.

Stable

  • No stable XEPs this month.

Deprecated

  • No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

  • No XEPs rejected this month.

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    • To this issue: emus, cal0pteryx, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, XSF iTeam

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    • French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
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    • Portuguese: Paulo

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