The XMPP Blog

In this issue: Read about the XMPP Summit 28 and watch the Fosdem 26 presentation videos! Learn about XMPP and Metadata, XMPP integration with n8n, Independent Messaging Day: A recipe for digital freedom and sovereignty, Fluux Messenger and more. Update your clients with Conversations, Gajim, Kaidan, Monal, Monocles and Prose. Update your servers: Prosody, MongooseIM 6.5, ejabberd. Specifications update: a proposed XEP and an updated one! [Read More]

The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and XMPP Community members have created so-called switch recipes. [Read More]

MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration Our latest release 6.5.0 of MongooseIM focuses on easier integration with your applications while continuing to deliver a scalable and reliable messaging server built on top of the extensible and battle-proven XMPP protocol. For integration with other services, you can use the Admin or User GraphQL API. Another example is the interaction of MongooseIM with a database. A relational DB such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or CockroachDB can be used to store user accounts, message archives, multi-user chatrooms, publish-subscribe nodes, cluster nodes and much more. Other supported databases and storage services include Cassandra or Elastic Search for message archive, Redis for user sessions and LDAP for authentication.  [Read More]

The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026! Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you! Realtime Lounge: UPDATE! The XMPP community invites you to the join the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions. This year the XMPP & Realtime Lounge has been reallocated to the AW building, Level 1.  [Read More]

The XSF Communication Team is launching the ‘Chat of the Future Initiative’ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all experience levels to contribute ideas and help steer the XMPP network direction, lead by a user-centric and developer-centric approach. This initiative will consist of interactive collaboration sessions, where feedback and ideas will be collected. The first set of sessions is scheduled from January to May 2026, covering topics like the current state of XMPP. [Read More]

In this issue: Pack your bags and get ready for the XMPP Summit 28, take part on any or all of the three XMPP events on Fosdem 26 and the other two on the RHL26. Learn about Monal IM internals. Last JMP newsletter of the year. Update your clients with Cheogram, Conversations, Gajim, Kaidan, Monal, Monocles and Quicksy! Update your servers: MoongooseIM 6.0.5, Openfire 5.0.3. and Snikket Server - December 2025. XEP’s news - a proposed XEP, two updated, two new ones, a stable XEP and a last call! [Read More]

The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed! We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year. Join the related XMPP chatroom. [Read More]

In this issue: XMPP Summit 28 & FOSDEM 2026, Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat, Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON, Movim Blog - The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub explained through the Blog feature, Introducing Borogove the new Snikket SDK, Best Python XMPP/Jabber Client Libraries - Your Experiences & Top Recommendations. Update your clients with Dino, Gajim, Monal, Monocles, Movim, Prose. Update your servers: Snikket Server - November 2025 release. XEP’s news - a new XEP, a new stable XEP, and four updated! [Read More]

Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members. Additionally, elections for both XMPP Council and Board of Directors have been held. This year’s election meeting was held on November 20th, 2025 and the voting results can be found in the XSF Wiki. The 2025/2026 term will be formed by the following members: XMPP Council: Dan Caseley Daniel Gultsch Jérôme Poisson Marvin Wißfeld Stephen Paul Weber Board of Directors:  [Read More]

The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026! Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you! Realtime Lounge The XMPP community invites you to join the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions. This year the XMPP & Realtime Lounge has been reallocated to the AW building, Level 1.  [Read More]