The XMPP Blog

Members of the community will operate an XMPP-themed stand at the upcoming LinuxDays conference in Prague – if you are around, you are welcome to come visit. Similarly, if you know of someone who might be interested in XMPP or whom you would like to introduce to it, Czech-speaking or not, please pass on the information to them. Two XMPP talks have also been submitted for the conference, you can support them in a vote which takes place over the first week of September.  [Read More]

From 15th to 16th August 2026, XMPP Community members will be present with an XMPP booth at FrOSCon 2026, the Free and Open Source Software Conference! As every year, the FrOSCon e.V. (club) organises together with the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany. The venue is free of cost and no registration is required. Find the program and more details on their webpage: froscon.org  [Read More]

The XMPP stand at OmniOpenCon has been confirmed for 16-17th October 2026 [Read More]

In this issue: Fully online 29th XMPP Summit announcement! Q3 call for XSF members admission. XMPP at FrOSCon 2026. Read about Openfire, Fluux Messenger and ejabberd among others! Introducing xmppchat (the DokuWiki xmppsupport plugin) and Artalk.Xmpp. Update your clients with aTalk, Cheogram, Fluux Messenger, Gajim, and Kaidan. Update your servers: Openfire 5.1.0 and ejabberd 26.07. Updated libraries and tools. And our Specifications update with one Last Call. [Read More]

This year’s edition of FOSSY, the fourth Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, will take place during the month of August, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th 2026 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. And as always, there will be an XMPP Track. As announced by the organization in the official Conference Schedule, the XMPP track wil be composed of seven presentations.  [Read More]

In this issue: Fully online 29th XMPP Summit announcement! Full XMPP Track at FOSSY 2026. XMPP Sprint in Berlin, XMPP and DI.DAY, XMPP at PravConf 2026. Read about Openfire, Fluux Messenger, Slidge v0.4.0beta, and Movim’s latest releases! Introducing Tacky and ffetcher. Update your clients with aTalk, Conversations, Converse.js, Fluux Messenger, Gajim, Movim and Profanity. Update your servers: Openfire 5.1.0. Get ready to update your libraries and tools. And our Specifications update: three proposed XEPs, four new ones, and three updated! [Read More]

In this issue: Fully online 29th XMPP Summit announcement! XMPP at FOSSY 2026. XMPP Sprint in Berlin. EnvsBot XMPP Helper Bot for the envs pubnix - BETA, Movim’s first 2026 Goal Reached, What’s your oldest Openfire deployment?, and more! Update your clients with aTalk, Conversations, Converse.js, Monal, Monocles, Poezio and Profanity. Update your servers: Prosody IM 13.0.6, Openfire 5.0.5, MongooseIM 6.7.0, and Specifications update: one proposed XEP and three updated ones! [Read More]

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! The online XMPP Summit The XMPP Summit is where the XMPP community comes together to discuss protocol development (such as XMPP extensions (XEPs)), implementation experience, and the future of the ecosystem.  [Read More]

In this issue: 2nd quarterly call for XSF members admissions. XMPP at FOSSY 2026. XMPP Sprint in Berlin. Two new NLnet grants. Experimenting with MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB Support in Openfire, bringing jabber.el back from the dead, Fluux Messenger 0.15 and beyond, Libervia progress notes, Matridge spaces with NLNet, and a lot more! Update your clients with aTalk, Fluux Messenger, Gajim, Monal, Monocles, Movim, Poezio and Profanity. Update your servers: ejabberd 26.04 and Prosody IM 13.0.5. Specifications update: six proposed XEP’s, two new XEP’s, and five updated ones! [Read More]

In this issue: Two XMPP Events, learn about Spaces in XMPP, a new XMPP MUC BanBot, Self-hosting UnifiedPush with Conversations as Distributor, a new member of the Slidge family, and a complete translation of JoinJabber to Portuguese (BR). Specifications update: a proposed XEP, four updated ones, and a Last Call! [Read More]