The XMPP Newsletter March 2026

 Posted on April 5, 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 March 2026.

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XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

Being an elected member of the XMPP Standards Foundation 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 your membership to get more involved more easily, too. If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply to our 2nd quarterly call for members admissions before May 17th, 2026, 00:00 UTC.

XMPP Events

  • XMPP Sprint in Berlin (DE / EN): will take place in June, from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st 2026, at the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. offices in Berlin, Germany. If this sounds like the right event for you, come and join us! Just make sure to list yourself here, so we know how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. If you have any questions or concerns, join us at the chatroom: sprints@muc.xmpp.org!
  • XMPP at FOSSY 2026: This year’s edition of FOSSY, the fourth Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, will take place during the month of August, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th 2026 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. As always, there will be an XMPP Track and the call for proposals is open until April 30th, 2026. Once again, this year JMP is pleased to announce its annual offer for funding to the potential speakers who would like to host a talk on the XMPP track. Please, join them at discuss@conference.soprani.ca, and don’t hesitate to ask for more information!

Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

  • aTalk has released versions 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 of its encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for Android. The former version implements XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption), decryption of OMEMO messages, upgrades smack to support XEP-0420 (Stanza Content Encryption) and other relevant updates and fixes, while the latter introduces a fix for an incorrect fetching. You can check the intermediate changelog from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 and 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 for all the details.
  • Conversations has released versions 2.19.13, 2.19.14 and 2.9.15 for Android. These releases bring fixes for a crash when changing OMEMO bundle access model, a crash when sharing Quicksy XMPP addresses and a fix for Quicksy registration on older devices, shows hats in public conferences where available, shows a warning in the chat if a contact is in different time zone and it is night time for them, a refactored automatic DND handling (based on system DND), and a warning in the chat window if contact is in DND mode. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details or check the intermediate changelogs from 2.19.12 to 2.19.13, 2.19.13 to 2.19.14 and/or 2.19.14 to 2.19.15.
Conversations showing contact’s local time in the chat window

Conversations showing contact’s local time in the chat window

  • Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-5 for Android. A bugfix release that addresses many crash fixes, never use iterative DNS for DNSSEC, fallback public server is now jabber.fr, merge security fixes from upstream, allow emoji search by emoji (eg for reactions), better isApp logic to default to commands list or not, and fix for channel avatars on some older servers. Make sure to check out the changelog for all the details.
  • Fluux Messenger has released versions 0.13.3 and 0.14.0, of its modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations, with a list of additions, new features, improvements and bugfixes that is way longer than what we could ever mention in here! You can go straight to the full changelog or check the intermediate changelogs from 0.13.2 to 0.13.3 and/or 0.13.3 to 0.14.0 for all the details!
Fluux Messenger team chat

Fluux Messenger team chat

  • Gajim has released version 2.4.5 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release lets you know when somebody reacted to one of your messages. It also comes with automatic timezone updates and improvements for macOS, and bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions! You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Gajim automatic timezone updates

Gajim automatic timezone updates

  • Monal has released version 6.4.19 for iOS and macOS with a rather large list of fixes.
  • Monocles has released version 2.1.4 of its chat client for Android. This release brings fixes for message moderation, truncated text, link click handling, disappearing reactions popup, MUC destruction, a crash when message body not spannable, allow camera/mic in command UI webview and pick channel binding fallback when server has no XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability) support.
  • Poezio has released version 0.16 of its console XMPP client. This release implements XEP-0425 (Moderated Message Retraction) a receiving side of moderation, XEP-0424 (Message Retraction) retraction events, XEP-0377 (Blocking Command Reports) a new /report plugin to report spam, a new /tcp-reconnect to kill TCP connections on faulty networks, a tls_verify_cert option that can be set to false if the user wishes so, and several fixes. You can find all the details in the release announcement.
Moderated message retraction testing in Poezio

Moderated message retraction testing in Poezio

  • Profanity has released version 0.17.0 of its console based XMPP client written in C. The release announcement for this version is so long that it spans over 200 lines worth of information, which is a lot more than what we could ever list in here, so please make sure to read the changelog for all the details!
  • Psi+ has released version 1.5.2132.0 installer of its development branch of the Psi XMPP client.
  • Wimsy has released version 0.0.5 of it cross-platform XMPP client built with Flutter.
  • xmpp-web has released version 0.12.0 of its lightweight web chat client for XMPP server. You can read the intermediate changelog from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 for all the details.

XMPP Servers

  • The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Openfire 5.0.4. This release continues the efforts to provide a stable 5.0.x series releases whilst they finalize work on the upcoming 5.1.0 release. Please refer to the full changelog for all the details or to the intermediate changelog for versions 0.5.3 to 0.5.4.
  • MongooseIM has released MongooseIM 6.6.0 with more additions, changes and fixes than what we can reasonably list in here! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details!
  • ProcessOne is pleased to announce another bugfix release: ejabberd 26.03. This brings support for roster pre-approval, and more than 100 commits with bugfixes all around, many of them dedicated to the new mod_invites, including also many security fixes. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of 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.

  • Explicit Mentions
    • This specification defines a way to explicitly mention a person or groups of people.

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 0.2.1 of XEP-0461 (Message Replies)
    • Update the example to use the correct fallback namespace. (mye)
  • Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0473 (OpenPGP for XMPP Pubsub)
    • Fix inconsistency between text and example; it’s the key attribute that carries the shared secret ID (formerly it was secret). (jp)
  • Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0493 (OAuth Client Login)
    • Fix reference to RFC 7628 for SASL OAUTHBEARER (XEP Editor: dg)
  • Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0511 (Link Metadata)
    • Added security consideration. Added alt text to example. (spw)

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-0377 (Blocking Command Reports)
    • This Last Call begins on 2026-03-31 and shall end at the close of business on 2026-01-05.

Stable

  • No stable XEPs this month.

Deprecated

  • No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

  • No XEPs rejected this month.

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