The XMPP Newsletter July 2026

 Posted on August 5, 2026 |  10 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 July 2026.

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XSF Announcements

XMPP Summit 29

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is excited to announce the 29th XMPP Summit, the first XMPP Summit to take place fully online! The XMPP Summit will be held from Friday 4th September to Saturday 5th September 2026, both days between 13:00 - 16:00 UTC. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of XMPP technologies to attend, and discuss all things XMPP remotely!

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 3rd quarterly call for members admission before August 16th, 2026 00:00UTC.

XMPP Events

  • XMPP at FrOSCon 2026: This year’s edition of FrOSCon will take place during August 15th & 16th, at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany, and the XMPP community will be part of it. Make sure to come by the XMPP booth and say hi!. We promise there will be stickers. ;)
  • The di.day takes place every first Sunday of the month where the XMPP community also promotes their solutions! di.day is a mainly German initiative to help people switch to open-source and privacy-friendly solutions.

Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

  • aTalk has released version 6.4.0 of its encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for Android. This release brings a lot of improvements, quite a few fixes and some really heavy work ‘under the hood’. Please refer to the release notes for all the details.
  • Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-6 of its XMPP client for Android. This release brings jump to searched message, fixes enabling the dialer integration on Android 17, improves the experimental export, won’t linkify invalid URLs, changes default ‘big’ media size to 1MB for new installs and fixes many crashes. Make sure to check out the changelog for all the details.
  • Fluux Messenger, has released versions 0.17.0, 0.17.1 and 0.17.2 of its modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations. These releases are massive and improve almost every single aspect of the client with follow-up releases to fix what real-world use exposed. They bring an awful lot of additions, changes and fixes. So many that we could never even attempt to summarize them here. Please, go straight to the full changelog for all the details!

A quick tour — messaging, group rooms, end-to-end encryption, and theming.

  • Gajim has released version 2.5.0 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release comes with many improvements for Gajim’s integrated audio player, and it comes with some bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
Gajim: An updated look for Gajim’s audio player

Gajim: An updated look for Gajim’s audio player

  • Kaidan has released version 0.16.0 of its user-friendly and modern chat app for XMPP. This release adds a media viewer, improves the emoji picker, and got a button to try another XMPP provider during registration. In addition, it adds support to record voice messages via long press. As always, it includes several smaller improvements and fixes. 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. You can find a detailed list of new features, bugfixes and notes in their respective release announcements, or the changelog.
Kaidan 0.16.0: Media viewer.

Kaidan 0.16.0: Media viewer.

Kaidan 0.16.0: Message recording.

Kaidan 0.16.0: Message recording.

XMPP Servers

  • The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 5.1.1, a maintenance update to the open-source XMPP real-time communication server. This release comes with a focus on PubSub correctness and connection handling. Highlights: fixed excessive memory use from a bloated pubsub subscription table, resolved an IQBind thread-starvation bug, corrected IP encoding in certificate SANs, and resolved 24 issues in total. Make sure to read the full changelog for all the details!
  • ProcessOne has released ejabberd 26.07. This security release of ejabberd includes several security fixes, some improvements and other minor bugfixes. It is strongly encouraged that you update ejabberd as soon as possible. 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.

  • No proposed XEPs this month.

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

  • No XEPs updated this month.

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 2026-07-03 and shall end at the close of business on 2026-07-20.

Stable

  • No stable XEPs 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):

  • Contributors:

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

  • Translations:

    • French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, seveso, Ysabeau
    • Italian: Mario Sabatino, Roberto Resoli

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