The XMPP Newsletter August 2026

 Posted on September 12, 2026 |  8 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 August 2026.

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XSF Announcements

XMPP Events

  • 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.
  • There will be an XMPP stand at the LinuxDays conference in Prague during the first weekend of October. You can also vote for XMPP-related lectures during the first week of September.
  • XMPP stand at OmniOpenCon in Bucharest, Romania, too. From 16th - 17th October 2026.

Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

Software news

Clients and applications

  • aTalk has released version 6.5.0 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.
  • Gajim has released version 2.6.0 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. Gajim now adapts responsively to window size changes. This release comes with many small improvements and bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
  • Introducing Livewire: an alpha-quality native XMPP client for Ubuntu Touch, written in Rust on top of tokio-xmpp and xmpp-parsers.
  • Introducing Mynah: an XMPP client using Python, GTK, and slixmpp. It has a long-term vision of being maximally customisable, user-friendly, and cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS).
  • Monocles has released version 2.3 of its chat client for Android. This is a bigger release that brings in a lot of new features like multi file messages, a new global search, group calls (still in beta stage), several UI/UX improvements and some ground breaking ones as Post Quantum OMEMO2, along with updated translations, a whole lot of fixes and more! Note: due to some delays with the Play Store updates, this release is only available through F-droid for the time being.

Servers

  • MongooseIM has released versions 6.8.0 and 6.8.1 of their enterprise instant messaging solution. You can read all the details in the changelog.
  • The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 5.1.2, a maintenance update to the open-source XMPP real-time communication server. Head over to the full changelog for all the details!
  • The Prosody App for Yunohost has been updated to provide a configuration panel, to give an easy access to the most relevant parameters from the web interface!
  • Enthusiasts from New Zealand announced a new local XMPP server for “Kiwis”: xmpp.nz

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

  • Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0518 (Payment Required)
    • Accepted as Experimental by council vote on 2026-07-07 (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 1.6 of XEP-0066 (Out of Band Data)
    • Twenty years later, strike section 6’s SI suggestion (dwd)
  • Version 1.1.5 of XEP-0084 (User Avatar)
    • Fix inconsistent hash in the example with multiple data sources for the same file. (nc)
  • Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization)
    • Add security consideration for sender verification of PEP notifications. (dg)
  • Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0515 (TLS Channel-Binding Downgrade Protection)
    • Fixed typo in Bind 2 namespace (XEP Editor (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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  • 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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