The XMPP Newsletter October 2026

 Posted on November 5, 2026 |  11 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 October 2026.

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Events

Sprint
 London (at The Mitre in Greenwich)
XMPP Sprint London - November 6-8, 2026

See also the XMPP Events page.

Videos and Talks

Articles

Converse.js suggests an XMPP provider and allows to select one during account registration based on the data from XMPP Providers.

Converse.js suggests an XMPP provider and allows to select one during account registration based on the data from XMPP Providers.

Software news

Clients and applications

  • anotherim-js (a new XMPP client written using libtacky and Tauri.rs) has its first public release (version 0.7). Chats, MUCs, OMEMO (both versions), A/V calls (webrtc and libdatachannel backends are available), Push notifications (apushd required for correct work) among with exclusive libtacky features, such as chat state sync (drafts etc) are waiting for your feedback.
  • aTalk has released version 6.5.2 of its encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for Android. This release brings many 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 version 2.21.0 for Android. This release disables the eMudhra root certificates, even if your Android distribution still includes them. It also enables Channel Binding by default, a method to detect machine-in-the-middle attacks like the one enabled by the eMudhra situation or the one that happened to jabber.ru three years ago. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details.
  • Converse.js has released version 14.0.1 of its open-source web-based XMPP chat client. This is a minor release that brings fixes for OMEMO:2, reactions, notifications and some other small fixes.
  • fluux Messenger, has released new versions of its modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations with smoother history, clearer unread counts, and better sharing (0.18.0 and 0.18.1, Full changelog).
fluux messenger with improved conversation functions like unread messages counts as well as experimental iOS support.

fluux messenger with improved conversation functions like unread messages counts as well as experimental iOS support.

  • Monal has released versions 6.4.23 and 6.4.24 for iOS and macOS. This version increased sync speed considerably, doesn’t show the login view anymore if all configured accounts are disabled and adds other improvements.
  • MongooseIM has released versions 6.10.0 of their enterprise instant messaging solution. You can read all the details in the changelog.
  • Monocles has released versions 2.3.1 of its chat client for Android. This versions introduces an improved PQ OMEMO2 rollout, UI redesign of floating bars, separate contacts and groups, updated MiniDNS and added a DoT option, allows importing Conversations and Quicksy backups and many fixes and hardenings! This update introduces a braking protocol change of Monocles’ own PQ OMEMO2 encryption for further hardening. You may need to reset the OMEMO identities when using PQ OMEMO2. Note: due to some delays with the Android Play Store updates, this releases may only be available through F-droid at the time of reading.
  • Profanity has released version 0.19.0 of its console based XMPP client. This release brings a list of features, bug fixes, refactorings, and other improvements that is way longer than what it could mention in here. Please make sure to read the changelog for all the details. Also worth checking out: Fresh Look For The Website!
Screenshot of the new Profanity messenger website describing the client purpose and technology.

Screenshot of the new Profanity messenger website describing the client purpose and technology.

Find more XMPP Clients.

Servers

Find more XMPP Servers.

Libraries & Tools

Find more XMPP Libraries & Tools.

XSF Announcements

FOSDEM 2027 Decentralised Messaging devroom

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF), together with our friends from the Matrix and Delta Chat communities, is organising a Decentralised Messaging devroom at FOSDEM 2027, and we are looking for speakers. Submission deadline for talks is Friday, November 20, 2026!

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 we publish. Note: XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.

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.

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 1.0.3 of XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP)
    • Fix namespaces in examples (spw)
  • Version 0.12.1 of XEP-0292 (vCard4 Over XMPP)
    • Fix examples for gender and pref vcard fields (ph)
  • Version 0.12.2 of XEP-0292 (vCard4 Over XMPP)
    • Fix automated entity example for removal of raw-IQ mode (ka)
  • Version 0.3.1 of XEP-0425 (Moderated Message Retraction)
    • Clarify that the tombstone of a retracted XEP-0308 correction keeps its <replace/> element (jcb)
  • Version 0.1.4 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
    • Support realtime channels (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.

  • 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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