The XMPP Newsletter September 2026

Posted on October 6, 2026 | 10 minutes | Newsletter | XMPP Communication Team and Contributors

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2026.

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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.
Libre en Communs, the non-profit behind chalec.org, held a booth on September 11, 12 and 13 in the Science and Digital Space of the Fête de l’Humanité. They talked about libre software, freedom-respecting hardware, self-hosting, decentralized messenging with XMPP, and also a bit about their own public XMPP service, along with XMPP Providers. Many stickers and flyers were also shared.
XMPP at LinuxDays on 3rd and 4th October 2026 in Prague including a talk by Daniel Gultsch.
XMPP Sprint London: There will be an XMPP Sprint in London from the 6th to the 8th of November at The Mitre in Greenwich.
XMPP OpMeet 2026.10 - Call for Participation is open! It takes place on the 10th October 2026 and is an online event.

Videos and Talks Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

Coming home to Jabber, by TabTwo for the Sprawl blog.
Admin Benachrichtigungen via XMPP, from Rainer’s Blogseiten. [DE]
Una alternativa fiable a Whastapp para chatear con privacidad, by David Palacios for Lente Tisquesusa. [ES]
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Forgejo + XMPP, from マリウス.com.
Eu quero acreditar, by isadora for the isaCloud diario-de-bordo. [PT_BR]
Slidge got a security audit, from slidge.im blog
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence, by Daniel Gultsch.
XMPP ha 25 anni: perché la messaggistica aperta non è mai davvero morta, by Michele Nasi for ilsoftware.it. [IT]
Libervia on building an all-in-one communication platform grounded in the right to privacy, by Xavier Coadic for Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
Tubercule, a collective of hackers and hackerettes from the Rennes region (France) that wants to be inclusive and accessible, announced the availability of their newly implemented XMPP instance for those of you in Rennes or around! The announcement came along with a really handy guide (which will evolve over time), that also adds plain and simple instructions on how to get in touch with them and get an account. Have fun! [FR]

Software news

Clients and applications

aTalk has released version 6.5.1 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.
Conversations has released versions 2.20.2, 2.20.3 and 2.20.4 for Android. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details. Furthermore, it has been announced to be permanently free on Google Play. The F-Droid version basically remains recommended for those who can technically afford it.
Convo, a (simple, very basic) Jabber/XMPP client for KaiOS, powered by ConverseJS, version 1.0.0 has been released. This version of Convo comes with a complete rewrite of the user interface based on Cyan’s solid-telekram, along with a lot of new features, improvements and bugfixes.
Fluux Messenger, has released versions 0.17.3 and 0.17.4 of its modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations. Please, go straight to the full changelog for all the details.
Movim has released version 0.35, code named ‘Thiele’. This release introduces Message Displayed Synchronization, a feature developed during the latest IETF Hackathon in Vienna, along with ‘Movim Galener and Wide Conference Calls’, adding SFU support and Wide Conference Calls as the final step of the video-conference modernization project started two years ago and funded by NLNet! A 0.35.1 was released a few weeks after improving the user interface and fixing some internal and Galener issues.
Renga, has released version 1.29 of its XMPP instant messaging client for Haiku.

Servers

ejabberd has released version 26.09 of its robust, scalable and extensible XMPP server. This security release fixes an unauthenticated remote code execution, a BOSH denial of service and a cross-tenant access issue in MUC and rosters, so updating is strongly encouraged. It also adds an optional XEP-0158 hashcash CAPTCHA for in-band registration and improves support for vhost-admins. Read the release announcement for all the details.
MongooseIM has released versions 6.9.0 of their enterprise instant messaging solution. You can read all the details in the changelog.
Prosody IM is pleased to announce version 13.0.7, a new minor release from the stable branch. This is a relatively small release, but several of the bug fixes are important in their own ways. One is notable for causing problems on BSD platforms - it is strongly recommend that BSD users upgrade - and also switched the TLS profile source over to tlsref.org, which is the new home for the configuration recommendations used, previously published by Mozilla. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details!

Libraries & Tools

Next-Gen Connectivity, by Guus der Kinderen for the XMPP Interop Testing Blog.
FASTer connections for Openfire!, by dwd for the Ignite Realtime community.
ffetcher, an XMPP bot that monitors RSS and Atom feeds and posts new articles to one or more MUC rooms, version 4.0.0 has been released. You can read the intermediate changelog from 3.1.0 to 4.0.0 for all the details.
jabber.el, the XMPP client for Emacs, versions 0.13.3 and 0.14.0 have been released. Full details on the changelog.
Slidge, a software library, built in Python, for creating gateways from XMPP to other networks, such as Telegram, Discord, or WhatsApp, versions 0.5.0, 0.5.1 and 0.5.2 have been released. You can check the intermediate changelog from 0.4.2 to 0.5.2 for all the details. Find each gateway update: matridge version 0.5.0, matteridge version 0.5.0, sleamdge version 0.5.0, slidcord version 0.5.0, slidge-whatsapp version 0.5.0, slidgnal version 0.5.0 and slidgram version 0.5.0.

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 4th quarterly call for members admission before November 29, 2026, 00:00 UTC.

XSF Board and Council Elections 2026

The XMPP Standards Foundation is calling for individuals to compose the Board of Directors and members to serve on the XMPP Council for the 2026/2027 period. If you are interested in running for the Board of Directors or the XMPP Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to one or both of the aforementioned sections before November 8, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Get involved in the XMPP Standards Foundation organization decisions and with the specifications the XSF publish. Note: XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.

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.

SASL2 Terms of Service Acceptance Task
- This specification defines a SASL2 task, per the extensibility mechanism of XEP-0388, that lets a server require a user to accept the current terms of service before authentication completes.
Multistream XMPP
- Multistream protocols such as QUIC and WebTransport offer significant performance improvements to XMPP, particularly over constrained or degraded networks. This specification defines a binding for the XMLStream onto multistream transports, including both QUIC and WebTransport.

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.

No last call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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- To this issue: Adrien ’neox’ Bourmault, cal0pteryx, emus, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Ludovic Bocquet, XSF iTeam
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- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, seveso, Ysabeau

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