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The XMPP Newsletter March 2026

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

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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 2nd quarterly call for members admissions before May 17th, 2026, 00:00 UTC.

XMPP Events

XMPP Sprint in Berlin (DE / EN): will take place in June, from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st 2026, at the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. offices in Berlin, Germany. If this sounds like the right event for you, come and join us! Just make sure to list yourself here, so we know how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. If you have any questions or concerns, join us at the chatroom: sprints@muc.xmpp.org!
XMPP at FOSSY 2026: 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. As always, there will be an XMPP Track and the call for proposals is open until April 30th, 2026. Once again, this year JMP is pleased to announce its annual offer for funding to the potential speakers who would like to host a talk on the XMPP track. Please, join them at discuss@conference.soprani.ca, and don’t hesitate to ask for more information!

Videos and Talks

IETF125 Hackathon: XEP-0202 Entity Time, by Daniel Gultsch.

XMPP Articles

Let’s Talk About Spaces in XMPP, by Timothée Jaussoin for the Movim Blog.
Our new XMPP MUC BanBot, by ~dan for ~dan’s website on envs.net.
Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP, by Daniel Gultsch.
Self-hosting UnifiedPush with Conversations as Distributor, by Daniel Gultsch.
Installing ejabberd, by eltheanine for the The Teabag Ninja.
Fluux Messenger 0.14.0 - Full Room Control & Richer Contact Profiles, by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
My Prosody setup with Docker Compose, by gsvd.dev for the gsvd.dev blog.
The Slidge family is growing, from the slidge.im blog/.
JoinJabber: thanks to the excellent work done by one of the community members, the whole site is now fully available in Portuguese (BR)! You can check the translation status on their web translation status page and help out with other translations!
Introducing CLabber: A terminal UI (TUI) XMPP (Jabber) client written in Common Lisp.
Upgrade ejabberd on Debian NOW: Chances might be that you are running a Debian based ejabberd server. Unfortunately push for all your Monal users on that server will break in less than 2 months. And chances are that some of your S2S connections are already failing today. By Thilo Molitor for the monal-im blog.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

aTalk has released versions 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 of its encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for Android. The former version implements XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption), decryption of OMEMO messages, upgrades smack to support XEP-0420 (Stanza Content Encryption) and other relevant updates and fixes, while the latter introduces a fix for an incorrect fetching. You can check the intermediate changelog from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 and 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 for all the details.
Conversations has released versions 2.19.13, 2.19.14 and 2.9.15 for Android. These releases bring fixes for a crash when changing OMEMO bundle access model, a crash when sharing Quicksy XMPP addresses and a fix for Quicksy registration on older devices, shows hats in public conferences where available, shows a warning in the chat if a contact is in different time zone and it is night time for them, a refactored automatic DND handling (based on system DND), and a warning in the chat window if contact is in DND mode. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details or check the intermediate changelogs from 2.19.12 to 2.19.13, 2.19.13 to 2.19.14 and/or 2.19.14 to 2.19.15.

Conversations showing contact’s local time in the chat window

Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-5 for Android. A bugfix release that addresses many crash fixes, never use iterative DNS for DNSSEC, fallback public server is now jabber.fr, merge security fixes from upstream, allow emoji search by emoji (eg for reactions), better isApp logic to default to commands list or not, and fix for channel avatars on some older servers. Make sure to check out the changelog for all the details.
Fluux Messenger has released versions 0.13.3 and 0.14.0, of its modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations, with a list of additions, new features, improvements and bugfixes that is way longer than what we could ever mention in here! You can go straight to the full changelog or check the intermediate changelogs from 0.13.2 to 0.13.3 and/or 0.13.3 to 0.14.0 for all the details!

Fluux Messenger team chat

Gajim has released version 2.4.5 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release lets you know when somebody reacted to one of your messages. It also comes with automatic timezone updates and improvements for macOS, and bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions! You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.

Gajim automatic timezone updates

Monal has released version 6.4.19 for iOS and macOS with a rather large list of fixes.
Monocles has released version 2.1.4 of its chat client for Android. This release brings fixes for message moderation, truncated text, link click handling, disappearing reactions popup, MUC destruction, a crash when message body not spannable, allow camera/mic in command UI webview and pick channel binding fallback when server has no XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability) support.
Poezio has released version 0.16 of its console XMPP client. This release implements XEP-0425 (Moderated Message Retraction) a receiving side of moderation, XEP-0424 (Message Retraction) retraction events, XEP-0377 (Blocking Command Reports) a new /report plugin to report spam, a new /tcp-reconnect to kill TCP connections on faulty networks, a tls_verify_cert option that can be set to false if the user wishes so, and several fixes. You can find all the details in the release announcement.

Moderated message retraction testing in Poezio

Profanity has released version 0.17.0 of its console based XMPP client written in C. The release announcement for this version is so long that it spans over 200 lines worth of information, which is a lot more than what we could ever list in here, so please make sure to read the changelog for all the details!
Psi+ has released version 1.5.2132.0 installer of its development branch of the Psi XMPP client.
Wimsy has released version 0.0.5 of it cross-platform XMPP client built with Flutter.
xmpp-web has released version 0.12.0 of its lightweight web chat client for XMPP server. You can read the intermediate changelog from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 for all the details.

XMPP Servers

The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Openfire 5.0.4. This release continues the efforts to provide a stable 5.0.x series releases whilst they finalize work on the upcoming 5.1.0 release. Please refer to the full changelog for all the details or to the intermediate changelog for versions 0.5.3 to 0.5.4.
MongooseIM has released MongooseIM 6.6.0 with more additions, changes and fixes than what we can reasonably list in here! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details!
ProcessOne is pleased to announce another bugfix release: ejabberd 26.03. This brings support for roster pre-approval, and more than 100 commits with bugfixes all around, many of them dedicated to the new mod_invites, including also many security fixes. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of fixes and improvements on this release.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

matridge, the Matrix to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and nio, versions 0.3.3 has been released. You can read the intermediate changelog from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 for all the details.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, versions 1.14.4 and 1.14.5 have been released. Full details on the changelog.
Rusty-Filer, an external XMPP file server for HTTP uploads. An alternative to the internal HTTP file servers of Ejabberd and Prosody, written in Rust, version 1.0.0 has been released.
Siltamesh, a simple bridge between Meshtastic and XMPP networks, version 0.2.0 has been released.
slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.11beta1 has been released. You can read the intermediate changelog from 0.3.10 to 0.3.11beta1 for all the details.
slidgnal, a feature-rich Signal to XMPP puppeteering gateway, based on slidge and signalmeow, version 0.3.0beta10 has been released. You can read the intermediate changelog from 0.3.0beta9 to 0.3.0beta10 for all the details.
Slixmpp, the MIT licensed XMPP library for Python 3.7+ version 1.14.1 has been released. You can read the official release announcement for all the details.
Xepher, a plugin written in C++23 that adds full XMPP support to WeeChat. It targets XEP-0459 (XMPP Compliance Suite 2022) and implements a broad set of modern XEPs — including XEP-0384 (OMEMO encryption), XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management), XEP-0363 (HTTP file upload), XEP-0472 (Pubsub Social Feed) microblogging via PubSub, and more.

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.

Explicit Mentions
- This specification defines a way to explicitly mention a person or groups of people.

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 0.2.1 of XEP-0461 (Message Replies)
- Update the example to use the correct fallback namespace. (mye)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0473 (OpenPGP for XMPP Pubsub)
- Fix inconsistency between text and example; it’s the key attribute that carries the shared secret ID (formerly it was secret). (jp)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0493 (OAuth Client Login)
- Fix reference to RFC 7628 for SASL OAUTHBEARER (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0511 (Link Metadata)
- Added security consideration. Added alt text to example. (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.

Last Call for comments on XEP-0377 (Blocking Command Reports)
- This Last Call begins on 2026-03-31 and shall end at the close of business on 2026-04-14.

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: emus, cal0pteryx, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Ludovic Bocquet, Sairam Bisoyi, XSF iTeam
Translations:
- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
- Italian: Mario Sabatino, Roberto Resoli
- Portuguese: Paulo

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The XMPP Newsletter February 2026

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the result of the voluntary work of its members and contributors. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects!

Interested in contributing to the XSF Communication Team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

XMPP logo in Font Awesome

Just as we announced back in our Newsletter December 2025 issue, the official XMPP logo now comes bundled up in Font Awesome since version 7.2.0. And it looks Awesome!

XMPP Events

XMPP material for DI.DAY: Four recipes to use an open chat protocol at the ‘Digital Independence Day’, the German (DI.DAY) initiative, from the XMPP community to enable people to start with independent messaging!

Four recipes for an open chat protocol at the Digital Independence Day!

XMPP Sprint in Berlin (DE / EN): will take place from June Friday 19th to Sunday 21st 2026, at the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. offices in Berlin, Germany. If this sounds like the right event for you, come and join us! Just make sure to list yourself here, so we know how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly. If you have any questions or concerns, join us at the chatroom: sprints@muc.xmpp.org!

Videos and Talks

Discord Was Never the End Game by tony-btw.
[PT-BR] XMPP #engineeringsessions #S06E16. [PT-BR]

XMPP Articles

Upcoming changes to Let’s Encrypt and how they affect operators, by the The Prosody Team for Prosodical Thoughts.
Apprise, Push Notifications that work with just about every platform, restored its XMPP support using Slixmpp, (after >4 years). ATM no stable release, but it’s coming …
Bye bye Discord, hello Movim!, by Timothée Jaussoin for the Movim Blog.
A (big) memory incoming memory optimization in Movim, by Timothée Jaussoin for the Movim Blog.
Help Movim Reach Its Goals for 2026 by Timothée Jaussoin for the Movim Blog.
Great Invitations, a tutorial that outlines how to create invites for the most popular clients according to XEP-0401 (Ad-hoc Account Invitation Generation), from the tutorials section at joinjabber.org.
Visite nossa cozinha, by Isadora for the isacloud.im blog. [PT_BR]
About Snikket and Prosody IM: relationship & goals in the XMPP ecosystem, by MattJ on Hacker News.
Running My Own XMPP Server, by danny for the dmcc blog.
MembeBot: ohhh I member: ¿Listo para implementar tu propio sistema de notificaciones de eventos en calendario sin depender de gigantes tecnológicos? by TheCoffeMaker for Cyberdelia. [ES]
Introducing Wimsy: A cross-platform XMPP client built with Flutter.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.19.10, 2.19.11 and 2.19.12 for Android. This version introduces a refactored QR code scanning and URI handling, a fix for rotation issues in tablet mode and also offers to delete messages when banning someone in a public channel among other things. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Fluux Messenger, a modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations, versions 0.11.3, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1 and 0.13.2 have been released, with a list of additions, new features, improvements and bugfixes that is way longer than what we could ever mention in here! Go straight for the changelog for all the details!

Fluux Messenger main window and XMPP console

Gajim has released version 2.4.4 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release comes with link previews, many improvements for macOS, and bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions! You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.

Link previews in Gajim 2.4.4

Monal has released versions 6.4.18 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released versions 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 of its chat client for Android. The former release brings fixes for message retraction, images sent as link and infinite recursion in TagEditorView, adds support for links in posts, disables publish button after click to prevent double posts, refactored message correction UI and a change in the social feed pubsub access model. The latest, adds pause and resume story on delete dialog, fixes for progress bar handling and contact lookup for stories and brings fixes from Conversations, plus updated translations.
Profanity has released version 0.16.0 of its console based XMPP client written in C. This release brings fixes for OTR detection, OMEMO startup, overwriting new accounts when running multiple instances, reconnect when no account has been set up yet, adds a new /changes command that allows the user to compare the modifications of the runtime configuration and the saved configuration among many other fixes and improvements. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details!
xmpp-web has released version 0.11.0 of its lightweight web chat client for XMPP server.

XMPP-Web main window

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the bugfix release of ejabberd 26.02. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of fixes and improvements on this release.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp, a Python library that provides a way for Python applications to use the XMPP network, version 7.1.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, versions 1.13.1, 1.14.1, 1.14.2 and 1.14.3 have been released. Full details on the changelog.
Siltamesh, a simple bridge between Meshtastic and XMPP networks, version 0.2.0 has been released.
Slidge versions 0.3.7 has been released. You can check the intermediate changelog from 0.3.6 to 0.3.7 for all the details.
Slixmpp, the MIT licensed XMPP library for Python 3.7+ versions 1.13.0 and 1.13.2 have been released. You can read their respective official release announcements here and here for all the details.
xmpppy, a Python library that is targeted to provide easy scripting with Jabber, version 0.7.3 has been released. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Link Metadata
- This specification describes how to attach metadata for links to a message.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0510 (End-to-End Encrypted Contacts Metadata)
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0511 (Link Metadata)
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (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 1.26.0 of XEP-0001 (XMPP Extension Protocols)
- Surface (and correct) the source control information.
- Surface the publication URL (although I assume anyone reading this has figured that one out by now).
- Surface the contributor side of things.
- Add bit about XEP authors making PRs if they don’t exist - this is “new” rather than documenting existing practice.
- Add bit about PRs getting XEP author approval (existing practice hithertofore undocumented).
- Add bit about Council (etc) adding authors if they drop off (existing practice hithertofore undocumented).
- Add note to clarify that Retraction doesn’t mean Deletion (existing practice, documented, but has been misunderstood before). (dwd)
Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0143 (Guidelines for Authors of XMPP Extension Protocols)
- Reflect preference for GitHub pull requests for initial submission,
- PRs to contain only one changed XEP. (dwd)
Version 0.8.0 of XEP-0353 (Jingle Message Initiation)
- Adapt usage of JID types to real-world usage:
  - Send JMI responses to full JID of initiator instead of bare JID
  - Send JMI <finish/> element to full JID of both parties (melvo)

Last Call

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: emus, cal0pteryx, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Ludovic Bocquet, sokai, XSF iTeam
Translations:
- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
- Italian: Mario Sabatino, Roberto Resoli
- Portuguese: Paulo

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter January 2026

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

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XSF Announcements

Call for XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before February 15th, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Being a member 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 membership to get more involved more easily, too.

XMPP Summit 28

The XSF held its 28th XMPP Summit during January 29th and 30th 2026 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). During this two-day gathering, we discussed XMPP protocol development topics and kept making progress on current issues within the protocol and ecosystem. We would like to thank everyone that took part in the Summit for their continuous commitment and contribution to the XSF and all the XMPP related projects!

The XSF would like to extend a special thank you to those who made this XMPP Summit possible:

Edward Maurer from the XSF Communication Team as well as Daniel Gultsch and Guus der Kinderen from the XSF Summits, Conferences, and Meetups Team for their time, resources, strong commitment, thorough contribution and attention to detail in the organization and moderation of the event.
Ralph Meijer, Dan Caseley and Edwin Mons for their time and dedicated work on streaming the Summit.
Ralph Meijer for organising the XSF dinner and Alexander Gnauck’s noted sponsor contribution.
Additional thanks to mathieui, Rémi and other unknown people helping to keep track of the notes during the event.

Welcome to the 28th XMPP Summit!

A summary of the main topics discussed is planned to be published soon at xmpp.org.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2026

During January 31st and February 1st, the XSF was present at FOSDEM 26 in Brussels, Belgium. The XMPP community took part in the Realtime Lounge, a room located in Level 1, AW building, together with the Prosody IM and the Snikket projects, where several open source projects around the Decentralised Communication Devroom can present themselves.

We are pleased to say that there was a lot of interaction at the XMPP booth! A rather large number of FOSDEM visitors had the opportunity to come say “Hi!”, meet, interact, talk and have interesting conversations with many of the developers of the most popular clients, servers, tools and libraries that power the whole XMPP ecosystem and bring it to life.

In addition to the activities that took place on the XMPP booth, Daniel Gultsch and S1m, Jérôme Sautret, Timothée Jaussoin, and Özcan Oğuz hosted four different XMPP related presentations from the Decentralised Communication Developer Room and the FOSS on Mobile track.

You can watch the presentations from the following list of links:

UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source by Daniel Gultsch and S1m at FOSDEM 2026
Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects by Jérôme Sautret and Timothée Jaussoin at FOSDEM 2026
Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP by Timothée Jaussoin at FOSDEM 2026
What are you listening to now?: Implementing “Now Playing” feature in modern XMPP by Özcan Oğuz at FOSDEM 2026

And, of course .. we had plenty of leaflets, informational material, and as always: the coolest stickers! ;)

We found Wally. Now, can you find the XMPP booth in the picture?

XSF Bluesky account is verified now (New handle!)

The XSF Bluesky account is verified now. This means that the profile handle is different now (@xmpp.org) You can find the profile with its new handle via https://bsky.app/profile/xmpp.org. Many thanks to cal0pteryx from the XSF Communication Team as well as singpolyma and Zash from Infrastructure Team.

Events

XMPP listed as Alternative Chat at DI.DAY Initiative

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. Besides other services, XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and XMPP Community members have created so-called switch recipes: Digital Independence Day. Find the related blogpost at xmpp.org

There are more related activities and resources available from the XMPP Community:

Wechselrezept zu Quicksy (XMPP) and Wechselrezept zu XMPP by Axel Reimer for the eversten.net blog. [DE]
Independent Messaging Day: A recipe for digital freedom and sovereignty, a complete and easy guide to digital freedom and sovereignty recipe inspired by the DI.DAY, by Axel Reimer. [DE]

XMPP Articles

XMPP and Metadata by mathieui for the mathieui blog.
XMPP integration with n8n by Jérôme Sautret for the ProcessOne Blog.
NLnet: Grants for 45 Projects Working on Shared Digital Infrastructure
- Converse XMPP Chat on Mobile
- Support for Microblogging and Social Feeds to Converse
- Macaw Instant Messenger Web/Desktop: The intention for this grant is to port the current Macaw web client to Tauri, which enables the client logic to run natively within a desktop application, as well as to implement new features such as group chats and sticker/emoji packs to improve usability. Further, to lay the groundwork for later development of features such as group video calls and end-to-end message encryption, as well as ports to other platforms.
Vou sempre lutar pelo xmpp by Isadora for the isacloud.im blog. [PT_BR]
IgniteRealtime Heads to Brussels: XSF Summit & FOSDEM 2026 by guus for the Ignite Realtime Community.
A new look for Snikket Android by The Snikket Team for the Snikket Blog.
Your European Union XMPP Chat Provider! by the XMPP Providers Team for the XMPP Providers blog.
Introducing Fluux Messenger: A Modern XMPP Client Born from a Holiday Coding Session by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
Notificaciones XMPP con un minimo esfuerzo by TheCoffeMaker for Cyberdelia. [ES]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.19.8 and 2.19.9 for Android. These versions introduce a fix for calls getting stuck at connecting when ‘Use Relays’ is enabled but server doesn’t have any. They also come with bandwidth optimizations and they combine QR code related actions (show, scan, invite) into one central menu. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Gajim has released versions 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. Installing Gajim on macOS is now only a single click away. Gajim 2.4.2 release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files and support for link previews, along many other improvements, changes and some important bug fixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Kaidan has released versions 0.14.0 and 0.15.0 of its user-friendly and modern chat app for XMPP. The former release brings support for advanced media sharing and registration provider filtering, while the latter implements an integrated search field and experimental support for Audio/Video Calls (with most of the work being funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Entrust and NGI Zero Commons Fund with public money provided by the European Commission) in addition to some very useful improvements and lots of fixes! You can find a detailed list of new features, bugfixes and notes in their respective release announcements, or the changelog.

Kaidan 0.15.0: Experimental Audio/Video support on Linux.

Monal has released versions 6.4.17 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released version 2.1 of its chat app for Android. This a huge update with three fundamental new features: Stories, Feeds, and Phone log. In addition to many other improvements and features such as account sorting and improved message deletion, this update also brings new support for multiple XEPs. Thanks to the standardization of XMPP, it is now possible to have social interaction across different XMPP platforms and messengers. These new features bring more functions that are fully compatible with the XMPP web platform Movim.

Create your stories today and make a post for your contacts in Monocles Chat or Movim!

Prose has released version 0.14.1 of prose-app-web, their web application built in TypeScript / VueJS / WebAssembly.

XMPP Servers

Prosody IM is pleased to announce versions 13.0.3 and 13.0.4, both minor releases of the stable branch. The former comes with a range of tweaks, bug fixes and minor improvements, and the latter being the encouraged upgrade, partly due to a bug that was introduced into UUID generation in the previous release. Although not strictly bug fixes, some configuration-related improvements that help make configuring Prosody a little easier and more reliable also made their way into the latest release. Read all the details on the changelog, and as always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.
MongooseIM has released MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration. This release focuses on easier integration with your applications while continuing to deliver a scalable and reliable XMPP-based messaging server. The most important improvement in MongooseIM 6.5.0 is the production-ready integration with RabbitMQ, allowing external services to process the events from the server. It is worth noting that the mechanism is highly extensible – you can craft such extensions yourself.
ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 26.01. This release addresses real operational pain points: export your data from one database backend and import it into another, and roster invites and invite-based account registration to let your users invite others without opening the gates to spam! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes, new features, fixes and improvements on this release.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, version 1.14.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
Slidge version 0.3.6 has been released. You can check the intermediate changelog from 0.3.5 to 0.3.6 for all the details.
slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.10 has been released.
xmpp-dns, a CLI tool to check XMPP SRV records, version 0.5.6, 0.6.0, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2 have been released. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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.

End-to-End Encrypted Contacts Metadata
- This specification describes how to encrypt contacts metadata to minimize server exposure.

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 1.1.0 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
- It’s authorization-identifier not authorization-identity (dg)

Last Call

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:
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XMPP listed as Alternative Chat at DI.DAY Initiative

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

The DI.DAY is not a single event, it takes place every first sunday of the month so interested users can switch one service at a time. This initiative shares many values of the XMPP community, such as digital sovereignty and digital privacy. Still, we believe XMPP as standardised technology for realtime communication serves these values best.

Many thanks to the XMPP Community members and beyond for investing their time and efforts to provide all material, namely Axel, Daniel, emus, Ge0rG, padeluun and especially IM from freie-messenger.de! Additional thanks to Digitalcourage and Save Social for sponsoring the handouts for FOSDEM!

Find many other chat apps at xmpp.org!

See you online via XMPP and open-source software!

The XMPP switch recipie handouts infront of the XMPP booth at FOSDEM.

MongooseIM 6.5 - Open for Integration

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

You can see the complete list in our documentation.

There is another important way to let MongooseIM interact with your distributed system: event pushing. The core of this functionality is the event pusher module, which can push selected events to services like Amazon SNS, RabbitMQ or MongoosePush. In the most recent release 6.5.0, we have improved the event pushing mechanism, focusing on better integration with RabbitMQ.

Event pushing in MongooseIM 6.5.0

The diagram below explains the event pushing architecture in the latest version of MongooseIM:

Events utilize the concept of hooks and handlers. Currently, events are triggered for a few selected hooks, e.g. when a user logs in/out or sends/receives a message. There are almost 140 different hooks defined in MongooseIM though, so there is much room for adding custom events. A module called mod_event_pusher_hook_translator handles the selected hooks, creating events and passing them to the main event pusher API function, mod_event_pusher:push_event/2.

Then, a hook called push_event is triggered, leveraging the hooks-and-handlers mechanism for the second time. This hook is handled by configurable service-specific backend modules, such as:

sns – for sending notifications to Amazon SNS,
rabbit – for sending notifications to RabbitMQ or CloudAMQP,
http – for sending notifications to a custom service,
push – for sending push notifications to mobile devices with the help of MongoosePush.

These modules act as interfaces to the corresponding external services. A key feature of this design is its extensibility. For example, one can easily add a kafka backend module that would deliver the events to Apache Kafka as shown on the diagram above.

Push notifications

Let’s focus on the push module as it is a bit more complex. In general, it uses hooks and handlers once again – the push_notifications hook in particular. In order to actually deliver push notifications to a mobile device, a module called mod_push_service_mongoosepush handles that hook by sending the notifications to a separate service called MongoosePush. Finally, MongoosePush will dispatch the notification request and send the notifications to configured services such as APNs or Google FCM.

Each stage of this process is configurable and extensible. Firstly, we have assumed that a virtual pubsub host is used, but there is also an option to use a separate pubsub node for push notifications as described in XEP-0357: Push Notifications, adding another step before running the push_notifications hook. Speaking about that hook, you can implement your own module handling it by calling your own service instead of MongoosePush. Additionally, if you need to extend the notification logic with additional filtering and processing, you can implement a plugin module to mod_event_pusher_push.

Pushing events to RabbitMQ

The RabbitMQ backend module was improved and made production-ready in version 6.5.0, and our full blog post shows how you can easily configure MongooseIM to push events to RabbitMQ - you can literally set up a working dockerized solution in a few minutes.

Summary

The most important improvement in MongooseIM 6.5.0 is the production-ready integration with RabbitMQ, allowing external services to process the events from the server. It is worth noting that the mechanism is highly extensible – you can craft such extensions yourself, but of course don’t hesitate to contact us if you are considering using it in your business – we will be happy to help you install, configure, maintain, and – if necessary – customise it to fit your particular needs. For more information about the latest improvements, see the release notes.

Read about Erlang Solutions as sponsor of the XSF.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2026 UPDATE!

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Map of the AW building, Level 1

Decentralized Communication Devroom

We would like to invite you to join the technical talks around decentralised communication. There will also be talks on various messaging and Real-time communication (RTC) projects such as ActivityPub, ATProto, Automerge, DeltaChat, Matrix and of course XMPP in the Decentralised Communication developer room.

Talks

These are the XMPP related talks that will take place on the Decentralised Communication track. These talks will take place in room AW1.126 on Sunday, January 31st, 2026. You can also join the conversation or watch the live videos at aw1126.

Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects: The XSF is a standards body that sits at the core of a development ecosystem of independent implementations by different individuals and organizations that actually work together, all highly interoperable, shipping new features at a high pace. This talk, by Jérôme Sautret will share how things work at this scale and will be co-presented by a server and client developer, showing how they work together to fine-tune their implementations. This talk starts at 13:15 and ends at 13:45 hs. (UTC+1:00)
Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP: In this talk, Timothée Jaussoin will present how Movim leverages the XMPP standard and its extensions to deliver features users expect from modern social platforms (communities, IM, group chats, video calls, blogging and a complete publishing platform into a unified experience), without giving up your data to a centralized platform, while remaining fully federated, interoperable with other XMPP clients like Conversations and Dino, and capable of bridging to centralized platforms like Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp!. This talk starts at 13:45 and ends at 14:15 hs. (UTC+1:00)
What are you listening to now?: Implementing “Now Playing” feature in modern XMPP: In this talk, Özcan Oğuz will share the journey on his research on implementing this feature in modern XMPP clients, the protocols of certain operating systems to read the currently playing media, the current status of the support of XEP-0118 (User Tune) and the PoC of a modern “Now Playing” feature. This talk starts at 14:15 and ends at 14:45 hs. (UTC+1:00)

What to expect

The chance to meet and engange in face to face conversations with the developers of the XMPP client that you use, the server that you may be selfhosting, the libraries and/or tools that you may be using in your project.
Promotional and informational material: XMPP 2025 highlight Flyers, DI.DAY for XMPP Flyer …
Free candy!
And .. say what? Sticker? You are in for a treat! XMPP logo stickers, OMEMO, Movim, Dino, Monocles Chat, Conversations IM, Libervia, … you name it! ( And who knows? Maybe somebody will even be there presenting the new mascot for their project!! ).

Don’t forget to come by our stand, please believe us: you really won’t want to miss it!

Info & Dates


When?	31st January + 1st February 2026
Where?	ULB, Campus du Solbosch, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Where exactly?	AW building, Level 1
Contact	XMPP Community chats & XMPP Community mailing lists

XMPP Summit 28 prior to FOSDEM 2026

Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also traditionally hold its 28th XMPP summit. This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and the XMPP roadmap. Everyone is welcome to join, just kindly list yourself free of cost as there is only limited space. Please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 28. Check the official online presence and communication, too (see the media links in the footer).

Looking forward to see you there!

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Chat of the Future Initiative

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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Dear all,

the XSF Communication Team is pleased to announce a new initiative to help evolving the XMPP ecosystem in a broader and aligned perspective. This should cover discussions, development but also extended public communication and presence. As this initiative is being setup in an iterative way, participants will be able to form and steer its direction over time.

Why the Chat of the Future Initiative?

XMPP exists for more than 25 years now, with world-wide implementations across various applications and more than 500 published and public specifications. At xmpp.org, software of more than 35 clients, 20 libraries and 8 servers are listed. This rich history is only possible through the federation endorsed since 1999.

Although this is an advantage, maintaining a federated and decentralised network also requires significantly higher efforts for cross-network alignment, adoption and also quality of the XMPP technology. This initiative intends to support such activities along different actors.

What is the Chat of the Future Initiative about?

Participants will try to identify, collect, and formulate activities that apply to the XMPP ecosystem that needs efforts around today’s status quo. This new collaboration space is considered to formulate along user and developer needs. From the discussions common ground on where we can act should be found.

Far thinking, this could lead to community vision and strategic thinking that every actor can decide to contribute individually. In the past, possible topics named have been for example an interoperability session, to work on encryption or having a landing page for developers.** Of course, the scope should be limited to the actors capabilities.

How will the Chat of the Future Initiative work?

The Chat of the Future initiative will begin with a series of open-ended and interactive collaboration sessions and open up for discussion, alignment and collecting of thoughts and ideas. This can happend across multiple session and is always a quarterly activity. It’s for example planned to ask you about your perspective on the status quo of the XMPP ecosystem. What are we getting right, what are we not? Where is it that we see room for improvement? Can we formulate any activities out of this?

The participants will have the chance to contribute with their perspective, feedback and discussion topics via a BigBlueBotton session, both in spoken and written form. For notetaking a HedgeDoc pad will be used. If other organisation spaces - such as a group chat - be necessary, the development of the initiative will show. At its best, this interactions are integrated in what is available in the existing XMPP channels.

Who can participate the Chat of the Future Initiative?

Anyone interested and willing to contribute to the XMPP ecosystem of any level of experience can join with their perspective. This also involves newcomers and bare users as well as professionals of the XMPP technology. If you cannot participate, consider to provide your thoughts in a written statement to the organiser. There are multiple sessions and more planned, so one can join at another time or phase.

When & Where will the Chat of the Future Initiative take place?

Currently a first set of sessions is planned and listed below with more sessions to work on actual topics to come. This can be matter of change based on feedback.

The session link can be found here: Teamjoin. Access code: 932872

The password code and the pad will posted on the day in the XSF Chat (see below).

Meeting netiquette: Please keep a respectful, constructive and positive tone and statements.

Event name	Date	Time	Agenda
Kick-off Session	Tue, 13 Jan 2026	19:00 - 20:00 (CET)	About the Initiative, Check-in & Warm-up, Retrospective on XMPP today
Q1 Focus Session	Tue, 20 Jan 2026	19:00 - 20:00 (CET)	Check-in & Warm-up, Focus topic from previous session
Q1 Activities Discussion Session	Tue, 3 Feb 2026	19:00 - 19:45 (CET)	Activities March - May 2026
Q1 Check-in Session	Tue, 17 + 31 Mar 2026	19:00 - 19:30 (CET)	Review of activities
Q1 Check-in Session	Tue, 14 + 28 Apr 2026	19:00 - 19:30 (CET)	Review of activities
Q2 Planning Session	Tue, 5 May 2026	19:00 - 20:00 (CET)	TBA
Q2 Check-in Session	Tue, 19 May 2026 + TBA	19:00 - 19:30 (CET)	Review of activities

If you have further questions, please join the XSF chat.

We hope this will positively contribute to the community and technology as a whole. See you soon,

— The XSF Communication Team

Note: In a previous statement another tool and setup has been named. Through dicussions this has been changed.

The XMPP Newsletter December 2025

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 2025.

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Interested in contributing to the XSF Communication Team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

XMPP Summit 28 & FOSDEM 2026

The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 28, which will take place during Thursday 29th & Friday 30th, January 2026, in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2026, which will take place during Saturday, January 31st & Sunday, February 1st, 2026. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before February 15th, 2026, 00:00 UTC.

XMPP logo and Font Awesome

The XSF is proud to announce that the official XMPP logo has been accepted into Font Awesome and will be bundled up in their source tarball starting from their next release!

XMPP Events

XMPP at FOSDEM26: These are the XMPP related talks that will take place on the Decentralised Communication track. This talks will take place in room AW1.126 on Sunday, January 31st, 2026. You can also join the conversation or watch the live videos at aw1126.
- Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects: The XSF is a standards body that sits at the core of a development ecosystem of independent implementations by different individuals and organizations that actually work together, all highly interoperable, shipping new features at a high pace. This talk, by Jérôme Sautret will share how things work at this scale and will be co-presented by a server and client developer, showing how they work together to fine-tune their implementations. This talk starts at 13:15 and ends at 13:45 hs.(UTC+1:00)
- Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP: In this talk, Timothée Jaussoin will present how Movim leverages the XMPP standard and its extensions to deliver features users expect from modern social platforms (communities, IM, group chats, video calls, blogging and a complete publishing platform into a unified experience), without giving up your data to a centralized platform, while remaining fully federated, interoperable with other XMPP clients like Conversations and Dino, and capable of bridging to centralized platforms like Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp!. This talk starts at 13:45 and ends at 14:15 hs. (UTC+1:00)
- What are you listening to now?: Implementing “Now Playing” feature in modern XMPP: In this talk, Özcan Oğuz will share the journey on his research on implementing this feature in modern XMPP clients, the protocols of certain operating systems to read the currently playing media, the current status of the support of XEP-0118 (User Tune) and the PoC of a modern “Now Playing” feature. This talk starts at 14:15 and ends at 14:45 hs. (UTC+1:00)
XMPP at RHL26: this french-speaking event for software freedom will take place during January 23-27 in Switzerland and will welcome two conferences about XMPP. Codimp will host the ‘XMPP ou comment ne pas réinventer la roue : messagerie fédérée et sécurisée en 2026’ presentation about the improvements to the protocol, servers and clients in last five years, while neox will host the ‘L’hébergement éthique comme Commun’ presentation about how the Libre en Communs non-profit built its own infrastructure as a common around fully free software and compatible hardware in order to hosts projects and in particular a public XMPP service, being the communication core to manage this together.
XMPP at 39C3 CCC: the Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC) returned to the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (Germany) during this last December 27-30 2025. The CDC provided a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with other communities working towards decentralization. The XMPP assembly was part of it thanks to neox and mathieui active involvement, with the latter being responsible for the sparkly XMPP stickers!!

Left: the highly coveted XMPP sparkly stickers! Right: XMPP assembly at the 39C3 Critical Decentralisation Cluster!

Videos and Talks

Devuan 6 Excalibur instalamos el cliente xmpp Gajim by gnuxero. [ES]

XMPP Articles

Explorando XMPP e Ejabberd: Um Estudo Profundo by Eduardo Marques for DMarkInfo Blog. [PT_BR]
Monal Internals - Serializable Promise framework by Matthew Fennell for the Monal IM Blog.
Movim: Some of you might have experienced difficulties to open Movim as a Progressive Web App on your Android device. There is a known issue on Chrome related to that. A workaround has been pushed to master, please clear your application cache to deploy it!
Reflecting on 2025: A Year of Growth, Collaboration & Community by guus for the Ignite Realtime Community.
JMP newsletter - More Cheogram Apps: this latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update brings you news about port-out PIN self-service, data-only registration, a collection of selected recent Cheogram Android changes, a word of advise about some changes to the official distribution mechanism for Cheogram apps and all you need to know about the highly anticipated Borogove based Cheogram WWW and Cheogram iOS clients!
The XMPP newsgroup on Usenet: The NNTP protocol is still in use, and there is an active Usenet group about the XMPP/Jabber topic at alt.chat-programs.jabber. NNTP is a standard application-level protocol that enables the exchange of messages in distributed systems such as Usenet — a protocol worth revisiting. Some free public servers are available; one of them is Eternal September, which has open free registration. You may use Thunderbird, PAN or TIN as a client.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-4 for Android. A bugfix release that introduces fixes to tablet view, account filters for starting new chat, some crashing bugs, WASM in WebXDC, show an extra piece of context on call status/failure, align message text size with upcoming Snikket release, among many others! Make sure to check out the list of changes for all the details across releases.
Conversations has released versions 2.19.6 and 2.19.7 for Android. This version introduces a setting to always use relays, sends delivery receipts by default and turn setting into “Read receipts” and fixes avatar caching issue and DNS occasionally not resolving when Private DNS is enabled. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Gajim has released version 2.4.1 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release brings previews for GIFs and similar animation file formats, and many smaller changes and bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions! You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.

Animated previews in Gajim.

Kaidan has released version 0.14.0 and it includes some great new features and fixes! Advanced media sharing, filtering XMPP providers for account creation, highlighted messages, XMPP URIs, and many other new features and bugfixes! You can find a detailed list of new features, bugfixes and notes in the changelog.
Monal has released versions 6.4.15 and 6.4.16 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released version 2.0.18 of its chat client for Android. And it comes loaded! It introduces a VCard4 profile editor, a VCard QR code generator to account editor, a drag and drop account reordering, improves input field text color visibility, an option to save media to downloads folder in media viewer, introduces chat history calendar, updates TLSv1.3 setting (Default on), adds wasm extension and application/wasm MIME and more!. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Quicksy has released versions 1.17.0 and 1.21.0 for iOS.
Initial development of MankalaNextGen, a graphical user interface to play Mancala games was done during Google Summer of Code 2025 by Srisharan VS. The application uses QXMPP to enable remote play.

XMPP Servers

MongooseIM has released version 6.5.0 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution. This release brings new features, changes, various fixes and improvements. For more information, make sure to check out the changelog and the documentation.
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Openfire 5.0.3! This release brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Notably, a number of improvements were made to Multi-User Chatroom (MUC). Please refer to the full changelog for more details.
Snikket Server - December 2025 release: Snikket is rounding off the year with another small release of its server software. The main purpose of this release is to fix a couple of small bugs which were discovered and reported after the previous release was announced. Some notable changes include offline message compatibility and web portal debug information.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp versions 0.3.0, 0.3.1 and 0.3.2 have been released.
go-sendxmpp, a tool to send messages to an XMPP contact or MUC inspired by sendxmpp, versions 0.15.2, 0.15.3 0.15.4 and 0.15.5 have been released. Full details on the changelog.
nbxmpp-client, a small GTK test client to test various ways to connect to a server, version 2.0.1 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
peertube-plugin-livechat, a plugin meant to provide a chat system for Peertube videos, version 14.0.2 has been released.
python-nbxmpp, a Python library that provides a way for Python applications to use the XMPP network, version 7.0.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, version 1.13.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
Slidge versions 0.3.4 ‘Christmas special’ and 0.3.5 have been released. This releases incorporates conversion of vector animated stickers in the lottie format to webp. Slidgram and slidcord already did such conversion, but now it’s done via an optional (“extra”) dependency of slidge: rlottie-python, which makes packaging/distribution easier. And many other features, improvements and bugfixes! You can check the release changelog or the intermediate changelogs from 0.3.3 to 0.3.5 for the full list of changes.
- matridge, the Matrix to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and nio, versions 0.3.2 has been released.
- matteridge, the Mattermost to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and mattermost-api-reference-client, version 0.3.2 has been released.
- slidcord, the Discord to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and discord.py-self, version 0.3.1, has been released.
- slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.9 has been released.
- slidgram, the Telegram to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and Pyrofork, version 0.3.1, has been released.
xmpp-ap-bridge, a lightweight Fediverse to XMPP implementation based on client bots to enable chat-like conversations between any Fediverse application and any XMPP client, from your usual client applications, versions 0.7.3 and 0.7.4 have been released.
xmpp-dns, a CLI tool to check XMPP SRV records, version 0.5.5 has been released. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Initial Authentication Pipelining
- This specification defines a protocol for discovering if the SASL2 <authenticate> can be pipelined safely along with the stream open, and if so allows the client to perform this pipelining safely.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0508 (Forums)
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0509 (Initial Authentication Pipelining)
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (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 1.35.3 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- muc#roomconfig_allowinvites doesn’t restrict owners but enables additional permissions for members. (spw)
Version 0.7.0 of XEP-0353 (Jingle Message Initiation)
- Remove local redefinition of jingle <reason/> element in XML schema and reference existing.
- Make usage of <reason/> element optional in schema, as specified in the text.
- Add missing definition of ’empty’ type in XML schema. (lnj)

Last Call

Last Call for comments on XEP-0377 (Spam Reporting)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-12-12 and shall end at the close of business on 2026-01-05.

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2025-11-18 (XEP Editor (dg))

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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Translations:
- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
- German: Millesimus
- Italian: Mario Sabatino, Roberto Resoli
- Portuguese: Paulo

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
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XMPP at Chaos Communication Congress 39C3

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (previously Leipzig and Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year, which will provide a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with other communities working towards decentralization.

We will also come with a bunch of sparkly XMPP stickers that look like this:

Sparkly XMPP stickers

If someone plans to stay a while at the assembly, please make sure to register with the assembly on your ticket, as described in the info pages, so that we have enough room for everyone. You can join the XMPP chatroom (web) as well as support organisation via the related XMPP Wiki page. Regarding the article contact mathieui if you have remarks or suggestions concers.

Link to Original blogpost

The XMPP Newsletter November 2025

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2025.

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Interested in contributing to the XSF Communication Team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

XMPP Summit 28 & FOSDEM 2026

The XSF is planning XMPP Summit 28, which will take place on Thursday 29th & Friday 30th, January 2026, in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2026, which will take place during Saturday, January 31st & Sunday, February 1st, 2026. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XMPP Articles

Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub, explained through the Blog feature for the Movim Blog. A detailed and accessible article that explains the differences between the XMPP network and the Fediverse and shows how blogs are handled on the XMPP network a bit more in details.

XMPP and ActivityPub: Two Different Approaches.

Introducing Borogove, the new Snikket SDK by the Snikket Team for the Snikket blog.
Best Python XMPP/Jabber Client Libraries: Your Experiences & Top Recommendations from PythonTutorials.net Blog.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Dino has released version 0.5.1 of its modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind.
Gajim has released version 2.4.0 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release brings read markers in group chats, improved file transfers, more details for your account, and many smaller changes and bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions! You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.

Gajim: Your profile on the account page.

Monal has released version 6.4.14 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released version 2.0.17 of its chat client for Android. This update brings some fixes like more visible confirmation icons, update and add photo filter library, fix photo editor menu overlapping with status bar, setting to always use relays, and an improved extension deletion logic among many others. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Movim has released version 0.32, code named ‘Wilk’, with version 0.32.1 immediately following it. This might be one of the biggest releases ever made on the project. It includes numerous fixes and new features in the 3 major topics Movim offers: instant messaging, social networking, and video conferencing. Head over the official release announcement and dive directly into the exciting things you can find in this release!

Movim: Share, like, and comment on articles more easily.

Prose has released version 0.1.111 of prose-core-client, their core XMPP client manager and protocols. Full details on the changelog. The project also released version 0.13.1 and 0.14.0 of prose-app-web, their web application built in TypeScript / VueJS / WebAssembly.
Psi+ 1.5.2128.0 installer has been released.

XMPP Servers

Snikket Server - November 2025 release: It’s time! We’ve been busy preparing a new release of the Snikket server software for you to enjoy. Although this release isn’t heavy on visible new features, a lot of internal changes and improvements have gone into this release to increase reliability and to pave the way for future plans.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp, a Python library that provides a way for Python applications to use the XMPP network, version 6.4.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, version 1.12.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.8 has been released.
Smack, a modular, portable and easy to use XMPP client library for Android and Java, version 4.5.0 RC1 has been released. Please consider testing this release candidate in your integration stages and report back any issues you may found. The more people are actively testing release candidates, the less issues will remain in the actual release.
xmpp.js, a JavaScript library for XMPP, version 0.14.0 has been released. This release brings faster and more reliable connection management thanks to complete implementation of Stream Management, SASL2, Bind 2 and FAST. Another important change is the removal of all third party dependencies. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0507 (Jingle Content Category)
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (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 1.30.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Describe the ‘http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub' disco#info feature (gdk)
Version 0.5 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type)
- Address a possible MITM attack vector by making the tls-server-end-point channel-binding mandatory to implement
- Remove the whole ‘Interaction with SASL mechanisms’ section and replace it with ‘Business Rules’
- Rework whole ‘Security Considerations’ section
- Some minor editorial changes
- Add Thilo Molitor as author (tm)
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade)
- Add business rules describing client behavior
- Make clear that PLAIN still has to be pinned away, if not disabled entirely (tm)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0492 (Chat notification settings)
- Rework the spec to use more of the Service Discovery Identities registry
- Fix the XML schema
- Move the <advanced/> element into the notification setting element
- Bump the namespace (tm)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2025-11-11 (XEP Editor(dg))

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

XMPP Public channels

New rooms and public channels are created on a daily basis on the XMPP network. So, if you are on the look out for new and exciting public channels to join, make sure to check out the Public Channel Search Engine to find out groups or communities that share your interests!

If you want to list all the channels, you can find them here.
If you are interested on something in particular, look by tag!
If you only want to list rooms in a particular language just add lang:xx in the search box, like in this example for the Spanish language. Just make sure to replace es for your desired language (like lang:fr, lang:de, lang:pt and so on).

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Contributors:
- To this issue: emus, cal0pteryx, edhelas, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Ludovic Bocquet, Sonny Piers, XSF iTeam
Translations:
- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
- German: Millesimus
- Italian: nicola
- Portuguese: Paulo

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

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2025 Annual Meeting and Voting Results

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Please congratulate them if you run across any of them, but also please help us make this another great year for the XSF.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2026

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Map of the AW building, Level 1

For XMPP Community members and interested individuals: Please share any promotion materials, ideas, or planned activities for the Realtime Lounge, and your thoughts will help us prepare a welcoming space. Click here to contribute.

Decentralised Communication Devroom & Talks

Be invited to the technical talks around decentralised communication. There will also be talks on various messaging and Real-time communication (RTC) projects such as ActivityPub, ATProto, Automerge, DeltaChat, Matrix and of course XMPP in the Decentralised Communication developer room.

To become a speaker please submit your talk through the FOSDEM’s conference management system. You can read more here: Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2026 Decentralised Communications Devroom. Submission deadline is 30th November 2025. Attendees, speakers, and volunteers are expected to follow the FOSDEM Code of Conduct at all times.

Info & Dates


When?	31st January + 1st February 2026
Where?	ULB, Campus du Solbosch, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Where exactly?	AW building, Level 1
Deadline talks?	30th November 2025
Contact	XMPP Community chats & XMPP Community mailing lists

XMPP Summit 28 prior to FOSDEM 2026

Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also traditionally hold its 28th XMPP summit. This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and the XMPP roadmap. Everyone is welcome to join, just kindly list yourself free of cost as there is only limited space. Check the official online presence and communication, too (see the media links in the footer).

Looking forward to see you there!

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The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2025.

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the result of voluntary work of its members and contributors. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects!

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XSF Announcements

XMPP and Dutch Healthcare Chat

Healthcare messaging must be secure, interoperable, and compliant, yet too often relies on closed consumer platforms. In the Netherlands, the forthcoming NTA 7532 specification aims to provide a national framework for secure, auditable communication between healthcare professionals.

To this effect, the XMPP Standards Foundation published the ‘Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat’ open letter, in order to explain how the XMPP standard offers a proven foundation for NTA 7532, supporting vendor-independent and interoperable messaging. By engaging with initiatives like NTA 7532, the XSF promotes open, privacy-respecting communication technologies and invites collaboration with Dutch healthcare stakeholders and the global XMPP community.

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before November 23th, 2025, 00:00 UTC.

Events

The 28th XMPP Summit has been announced. It will be held Thursday 29th - Friday 30th January 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. These are the two days preceding FOSDEM.

XMPP at Hack or Di(y|e) 2025

Vril will host the XMPP - Iniziamo ad usare sistemi compagni di chat (se chattiamo talk and workshop at the Hack or Di(y|e) 2025 in Bologna, Italy, on this next November 7th and 8th, 2025.

The talk will be as accessible as possible in terms of vocabulary. Aiming to give an overview of the XMPP protocol and what are the methodologies to start using it immediately through applications installed on your smartphone or PC. Immediately after the talk, the workshop will move to a corner of the VAG61 to help each other install applications and create accounts on companion servers to immediately start chatting via XMPP and 1000 different accounts! + chaos!!. P.S. if you already want to get informed, here is a nice guide: XMPP Guide. [IT]

Date: November 7th and 8th, 2025.
Location: Via Paolo Fabbri 110, rione Cirenaica, Bologna, Italy.

Videos and Talks

XMPP Articles

The XMPP Standards Foundation has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare. At Ignite Realtime, we’re excited to support this effort. Our projects, such as Openfire and Smack, provide powerful building blocks to explore what’s possible for Dutch healthcare communication. Let’s Build a Connected Dutch Healthcare Community! [NL]
XMPP Interop Testing: Putting NTA 7532 to the Test (literally): If you’re building a chat system that has to actually talk to someone else’s chat system (and keep doctors happy while doing it), you’ll know: writing a specification is only half the battle. The other half is making sure that everyone follow it, and that everyone follows it in the same way. That’s where the XMPP Interop Testing Framework comes in. By Dan Caseley for the XMPP Interop Testing Blog.
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update: Can you build tech independence while breaking encryption? by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
NLnet: 29 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Grants to Build Digital Commons. One project brings the latest OMEMO support for Converse.js with libomemo.js: This project will finalise support for the latest version of the OMEMO protocol in Converse.js, bringing both state-of-the-art security based on the Noise protocol in private messaging, as well as standards-based interoperability between several messaging applications and services.
More Adoption of XMPP Providers in the XMPP Ecosystem & XMPP Providers Server Update by the XMPP Providers Team for the XMPP Providers blog. The Overview page received new functions. Now you can see all the available information across the operators in a tabular view. Thanks to the work of the XMPP Providers Team, you can search each column for specific information. If you are actively looking for custom properties, easily start breaking down the table to your needs!
Un nuovo server di chat per la libertà di comunicare: la nostra risposta a ChatControl by Fabio Lovato for ILS Este. [IT]
End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody by starkzarn for the RogueSecurity blog.
New home for the slidge room(s!), from the Slidge.im blog.
Libervia CLI tips: Goffi keeps adding them and the list keeps growing with more and more CLI tips to make it easier for you to use and do nearly everything you need with Libervia from the comfort of your terminal!

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Monocles has released version 2.0.16 of its chat client for Android. This update comes loaded with features and improvements; way too many to list in here! Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Prose has released versions 0.13.0 of its web frontend prose-app-web and muliple versions of its prose-core-client: 0.1.107, 0.1.108, 0.1.109 and 0.1.110. You can read all the details on their changelog.

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.10 only two months after the previous one. This release brings updated support for XEP-0317 Hats, adds more Ad-Hoc Commands from XEP-0133, and includes several bugfixes and many improvements for administrators and developers! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes, new features, fixes and improvements!

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp version 0.2.18 has been released.
go-sendxmpp, a tool to send messages to an XMPP contact or MUC inspired by sendxmpp, version 0.15.1 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp, the cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library, version 1.11.3 has been released. Full the details on the changelog.
Slidge versions 0.3.2 and 0.3.3 have been released with many improvements and bugfixes. You can check the intermediate changelog from 0.3.1 to 0.3.3 for the full list of changes.
- slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, version 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6 and 0.3.7 have been released.
- matteridge, the Mattermost to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and the mattermost-api-reference-client, version 0.3.1 has been released.
Slixmpp version 1.12.0 has been released. You can read the official release announcement for all the details.
talk_xmpp_bridge, a new bridge between Nextcloud Talk and the XMPP protocol, is now available for download.
xmpp-dns, a CLI tool to check XMPP SRV records, version 0.5.4 has been released. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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-reply JIDs
- This specification defines a way for JIDs to advertise that they don’t accept incoming chat messages.
Forums
- This specification describes how to implement XMPP-based discussion forums.
Jingle Content Category
- This specification defines an XMPP extension to negotiate the use of Session Description Protocol (SDP) media- level attribute content as defined by RFC 4796 with Jingle RTP sessions.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0506 (No-reply JIDs) has been released.
- Accepted as Experimental by council vote (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 1.35.2 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- Fix inconsistency in roomconfig_roomsecret data form field definition. (gk)
Version 1.28.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- (gdk)
Version 1.0.2 of XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP)
- See in-document revision history
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0248 (PubSub Collection Nodes)
- Enhance ‘Discover Nodes’ section with hierarchy / Collection Nodes description and examples
- Move the Service Discovery Identity type collection from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move collection-specific Service Discovery Features from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move process for changing node of type leaf to collection from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248
- Move requirement to support pubsub#notify_config for collection nodes from XEP-0060 to XEP-0248 (gdk)
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0392 (Consistent Color Generation)
- Add missing saturation and lightness information to compute the test vectors. (egp)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0471 (Calendar Events)
- Modified title for “Calendar Events”. Updated short-name and namespaces accordingly. (jp)
Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0472 (Pubsub Social Feed)
- Clarify text in Reply-To section to show that the XMPP link is mandatory and that the HTTP link is optional. (jp)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0505 (Data Forms File Input Element)
- Replaced XEP-0446 (File metadata element) with XEP-0447 (Stateless file sharing), which is necessary to have file sources.
- Fixed the incorrectly‑named <file> element (now <file-input>).
- Add tags.
- Various minor fixes. (jp)

Last Call

Last Call for comments on XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-14 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-10-28.
Last Call for comments on XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-14 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-10-28.
Last Call for comments on XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
- This Last Call begins on 2025-10-20 and shall end at the close of business on 2025-11-03.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

XMPP Public channels

New rooms and public channels are created on a daily basis on the XMPP network. So, if you are on the lookout for new and exciting public channels to join, make sure to check out the Public Channel Search Engine to find out groups or communities that share your interests!

If you want to list all the channels, you can find them here.
If you are interested on something in particular, look by tag!
If you only want to list rooms in a particular language just add lang:xx in the search box, like in this example for the Spanish language. Just make sure to replace es by your desired language (like lang:fr, lang:de, lang:pt and so on).

Spread the news

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Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

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Contributors:
- To this issue: emus, cal0pteryx, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Ludovic Bocquet, XSF iTeam
Translations:
- French: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
- German: Millesimus
- Italian: nicola
- Portuguese: Paulo

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

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XMPP Summit 28

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!

The XMPP Summit

The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). The event is not a typical conference - aside from small and short lightning talks, there are no long presentations.

Who participates at the Summit?

The participants, where everyone is welcome, are sitting at a round table to discuss and active participation is encouraged. Similar to an unconference at the beginning all participants can suggest topics and others can indicate via votes whether or not they are interested in that topic.

Afterwards a rough order of topics is established that will be followed in moderation with the participants.

How does the Summit work?

If you have ever followed a thread on the standards mailing list or taken part in a discussion on the public XSF channel you should be familiar with this - just in person. The different topics are broken up by short breaks that are great for networking and getting to know other XMPP developers. Still, if you cannot participate, we will also provide an online way of joining the discussion.

Agreeing on a common strategy or even establishing a rough priority for certain features in our decentral and interoperable technology and protocol can be hard. In-person events do a lot in getting us on the same page and as an XMPP developer (e.g. client, server, gateway) we strongly encourage you to come to the summit. (In short: To get the most out of the summit you should have a background in reading (and maybe even writing) XEPs).

If you are simply an enthusiastic user or admin we regularly have booths at various conferences (FOSDEM, CLT, FrOSCon, …) that are a great opportunity to meet us, too. Either way, everyone is welcome to participate!

If we’ve caught your attention, we will then hopefully see you at the XMPP Summit 28. Read on!

Info, Time & Address

The event will take place at the Huis van het Nederlands Brussel. There will be a coffee break (from 09:00 o’clock) and lunch (13:00 to 14:00 o’clock). Coffee, tea and water will be served.

Date: Thursday 29th - Friday 30th, January 2026
Time: 09:00 - 17:00 o’clock (CET) (both days)
Venue: Huis van het Nederlands Brussel
Address: Philippe de Champagnestraat 23, 1000 Brussels
Cost: Free (registration required)
Capacity: 25 participants
Hybrid participation: Yes
Map: Openstreetmap

Furthermore, the XSF will have its Summit Dinner on Thursday night, which is paid for all participating XSF members. Non-members are warmly invited to join, however at their own expense.

Participation

We are limited to 25 places, so please register by Wednesday, 14th January 2026!

Please note that, although we welcome everyone to join (free of cost), you must announce your attendance beforehand. If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 28. To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter and update your details or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Contact us using the communication channels listed below. If you sign-up, don’t forget accomodation and your travel bookings. If your plans change, please remove your name from the list.

Please also consider signing up if you plan to:

present in the Lightning talks or Show-and-Tell
participate remotely

Communication

To ensure you receive all the relevant information, updates and announcements about the event, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailing list and joined the Summit chatroom (Webview).

Spread the word! Feel free to use our communication channels (see page footer).

Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Supporting the development of the Dutch NTA 7532 standard with lessons from international practice

Who We Are and Why This Matters

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes and advances open standards for real-time communication and collaboration. The XSF oversees the development of extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and fosters an open, secure, and decentralized ecosystem for messaging technologies across the Internet.

In healthcare, chat and messaging have become essential for coordination between doctors, nurses, general practitioners, and patients. Yet many existing tools are consumer-grade, not designed to meet healthcare’s strict requirements for privacy, auditability, and compliance.

The Netherlands is taking major steps to address this gap through the upcoming NTA 7532 technical specification for healthcare chat, part of the broader NEN 7516 framework on secure communication. This initiative has strong potential to align national practice with international standards - if built on proven, open technologies.

What Is XMPP - in Simple Terms

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is an open standard for secure messaging that allows different chat systems to talk to each other. You can think of it as email for chat: anyone can host their own service, and as long as both sides follow the same rules, messages flow securely and reliably between organizations.

Because XMPP is built on core Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, it works hand-in-hand with the technologies that power the Internet itself: like TLS for encryption, SASL for authentication, and DNS for service discovery. This means XMPP isn’t just compatible - it’s part of the Internet’s DNA.

XMPP is already used by government, defense, and healthcare networks in several countries, proving that open protocols can deliver high-assurance, privacy-compliant communication at scale.

A Quick Example from Healthcare

Imagine a nurse in a hospital who needs to consult a specialist in another organization about a patient’s medication plan. With a secure XMPP-based chat system following the NTA 7532 standard:

The nurse can send a message from her hospital’s system.
The specialist receives it instantly on their organization’s system.
Both systems verify each other’s identity, encrypt the message, and log it for audit purposes.
No one needs to use consumer apps or insecure messaging.

This is the type of trusted, interoperable communication the Dutch healthcare system aims to achieve, and where XMPP offers a proven foundation.

Security and Interoperability in Healthcare Messaging, A Context for XMPP

Instant messaging has become an essential tool in healthcare, supporting communication among professionals and between care providers and patients. However, clear and consistent security and interoperability standards are still lacking. Without these, users often rely on generic consumer platforms that do not meet healthcare’s privacy, compliance, and auditability requirements.

The Netherlands is taking important steps to address this challenge. A security framework for healthcare messaging already exists in the form of NTA 7516, which is now being revised and elevated to NEN 7516. This will serve as the overarching functional standard, supported by two technical specifications: one for email (NTA 7531) and one for chat (NTA 7532).

NTA 7532 will define essential areas such as encryption, authentication, user transparency, archiving, and audit logging. These standards are being developed collaboratively by healthcare organizations, IT vendors, and the Ministry of Health, with a public consultation and pilot implementations to follow.

XMPP as a Foundation for Secure and Interoperable Chat

Many of the goals described in the Dutch NTA 7532 standard align closely with what the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) already provides.

From its very beginning, XMPP was designed for federation, meaning that independent systems (for example, different hospitals or care providers) can exchange messages securely, just like email servers do today. This makes XMPP a natural fit for a national healthcare messaging standard that needs security, interoperability, and local control.

How XMPP Supports NTA 7532 Objectives

XMPP offers a modular, standards-based foundation where essential capabilities such as authentication, encryption, message delivery, and federation are already well-defined. This allows healthcare chat systems to meet functional and security requirements without reinventing the underlying technology.

Purpose	What It Means in Practice	XMPP / Internet Standard
Base protocol	All message exchange between chat service providers uses the XMPP protocol to ensure interoperability.	RFC 6120, RFC 6121, RFC 7590, RFC 7622
Addressing and federation	Users and organizations are identified in a globally unique format (`user@organization.tld`), supporting secure cross-domain communication.	RFC 7622
Server discovery	Systems automatically locate other trusted servers using DNS SRV records.	RFC 2782, RFC 6120
Sender verification	The authenticity of servers is validated through DNSSEC and DANE, combined with TLS certificates.	RFC 4033 (DNSSEC), RFC 6698 (DANE)
Transport encryption	All traffic between servers and clients is encrypted with modern TLS (1.2 or 1.3).	RFC 5246, RFC 8446, RFC 7590
Data-at-rest encryption	Stored messages are encrypted using AES with a 256-bit key to protect message history and attachments.	AES-256
Delivery confirmation	Servers confirm successful receipt of each message, ensuring reliability and auditability.	XEP-0184 (Message Delivery Receipts)
Attachments	Files or images are exchanged through secure HTTPS links protected by TLS.	XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload), RFC 2818 (HTTPS)
Digital signatures	Messages or metadata can be digitally signed to verify integrity and origin.	ETSI TS 101 903 (XAdES)
Group chat	Multi-user conversations across organizations, with invitation and moderation capabilities.	XEP-0045, XEP-0249, XEP-0410
Message correction / retraction	Users can edit or withdraw sent messages where supported.	XEP-0308, XEP-0424, XEP-0425
Read receipts	Participants can indicate that a message has been read.	XEP-0085 (Chat State Notifications)
Publishing contact info and avatars	Professionals can share verified contact details and profile images.	XEP-0054 (vCard-temp), XEP-0084 (User Avatar)
Interoperability and registry model	Each organization can operate its own trusted service provider, discoverable through DNS, enabling secure federation between systems.	Core XMPP federation and DNS-based trust mechanisms
Confidentiality and access labeling	Messages can carry structured confidentiality labels (as recommended by FHIR) to indicate sensitivity levels, access restrictions, or handling rules.	XEP-0258 (Security Labels in XMPP)

Note: End-to-end encryption (e.g., OMEMO or OpenPGP) is possible within XMPP but may be applied selectively, as healthcare messaging often requires auditable storage and controlled access for compliance.

This mapping illustrates how an open, extensible protocol can meet functional and security goals while allowing national specifications such as NTA 7532 to define which features and policies are mandatory for certified systems.

Why This Matters for Healthcare

Using XMPP doesn’t mean reinventing the wheel. Instead, NTA 7532 can build on mature, international standards, simply defining which XMPP features and policies are required for certified systems.

This approach ensures:

Predictable interoperability: Different vendors’ systems can communicate reliably.
Security by design: Proven encryption and authentication methods are reused, not re-created.
Vendor independence: Hospitals and care providers can choose any compliant system without losing connectivity.

In short, XMPP already provides the technical foundation. NTA 7532 defines the rules of engagement for Dutch healthcare, ensuring all participants use it safely and consistently.

Interoperability and Vendor Independence

One of the biggest strengths of XMPP is its federated and open architecture. In simple terms, this means every healthcare organization, whether a hospital, general practice, or mental health provider, can run its own chat system, while still communicating securely with others. Messages flow across organizational boundaries just as emails do, but with modern security controls and fine-grained authentication.

How This Helps Healthcare Providers

In practice, this means:

A hospital’s internal chat server can communicate securely with a general practitioner’s system, even if each uses a different vendor.
Authentication can rely on digital certificates or other trusted credentials, so both sides know who they’re talking to.
Each organization keeps control over its own infrastructure and data, meeting national privacy requirements.

This design directly supports the core goals of NTA 7532 (interoperability, traceability, and security) without forcing all parties onto one platform or vendor.

The Role of a Shared Profile

To make interoperability truly seamless, participating systems must agree on how they use XMPP’s many features. That’s where NTA 7532 comes in: it can define a shared national profile, specifying which XMPP extensions and settings are mandatory, recommended, or optional.

Such a profile ensures:

Predictable behavior between implementations
Reliable message delivery across systems
Verified compliance through testing and certification

Vendor Independence and Open Innovation

Because XMPP is open, royalty-free, and supported by dozens of implementations, no single company controls it. Any vendor can build or extend XMPP-based products, whether open-source or commercial, while still remaining compatible with others. This enables true vendor independence: healthcare organizations can switch suppliers or integrate new tools without losing interoperability.

Existing compliance and interoperability test suites for XMPP further support this independence, helping vendors validate that their systems behave consistently and securely.

In short, XMPP provides not just a technical foundation but also a healthy market ecosystem: one that fosters collaboration, innovation, and long-term sustainability in healthcare communication.

Alignment with International and European Practice

Across the world, governments and public institutions are choosing open, standards-based messaging protocols to support secure, interoperable communication, especially in sectors where trust and reliability are critical.

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has already proven itself in these environments. It underpins communication systems for organizations such as the U.S. Department of Defense, NATO, and several European government and public-safety networks. Within the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) employs XMPP-compatible systems for messaging and notifications.

These real-world deployments demonstrate that XMPP can deliver:

High assurance - meeting strict security and auditability requirements
Operational resilience - functioning across multiple infrastructures and jurisdictions
Scalability - supporting large networks with millions of users

A Natural Fit with European Priorities

The open nature of XMPP aligns closely with European digital policy objectives, particularly around:

Digital sovereignty - reducing dependency on proprietary or non-European technology providers.
Open standards and interoperability - ensuring systems from different vendors or sectors can work together.
Transparency and trust - through openly developed, publicly available specifications.

By basing healthcare chat interoperability on XMPP, the Netherlands not only meets its national goals for security and compliance, but also contributes to Europe’s broader vision of an open and connected digital ecosystem.

Learning from International Practice

Adopting and aligning with internationally proven standards like XMPP offers clear advantages:

Dutch implementers can reuse tested building blocks instead of designing everything from scratch.
The national profile defined in NTA 7532 can stay compatible with international healthcare or government messaging systems.
Future collaboration, whether with European neighbors or global health initiatives, becomes far simpler.

In short, the Netherlands has the opportunity to lead by example, demonstrating how open standards can support secure, sovereign, and future-proof communication in healthcare.

Collaboration Opportunities

The development of NTA 7532 is more than a technical exercise: it’s a chance to shape the future of secure, interoperable communication in Dutch healthcare.

To make this a lasting success, collaboration between the Dutch standards community and the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will be essential. The XSF works transparently and welcomes cooperation with all. By engaging directly with the XSF, Dutch experts and healthcare stakeholders can ensure that NTA 7532 remains aligned with international best practice while addressing national needs.

We invite the NTA 7532 working group and stakeholders to engage directly with the us!

Areas for Collaboration

Here are some concrete ways to work together:

Share healthcare use cases and requirements with XSF technical groups, ensuring that future protocol extensions reflect real-world healthcare needs.
Participate in joint workshops or liaison roles, creating a two-way channel between the Dutch NEN/NTA community and XSF developers.
Run pilot implementations that test interoperability between systems, contributing results back to both Dutch and international standardization efforts.
Collaborate on testing and certification, leveraging existing XMPP validation tools to support NTA 7532 compliance.

Such collaboration would ensure that the technical realization of NTA 7532 remains future-proof, internationally aligned, and interoperable by design.

How to Get Involved

The XSF welcomes contributions from anyone interested in secure, standards-based communication. There are several easy ways to engage:

Visit our website: https://xmpp.org
Join our discussion list: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards
Chat with us: https://xmpp.org/community/chat/
Contact us directly: https://xmpp.org/contact/

Participation is open, free, and designed to lower barriers for new contributors.

Together, we can ensure that Dutch healthcare messaging (and by extension, European healthcare communication) is secure, interoperable, and sustainable for years to come.

Conclusion

The Dutch NTA 7532 initiative marks a pivotal step toward trusted, interoperable digital communication in healthcare. By defining a clear, open, and verifiable framework for secure chat, the Netherlands is setting a benchmark for how national standards can align with international innovation.

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) provides a ready-made foundation for this effort:

It is mature and battle-tested in demanding environments.
It is open and royalty-free, fostering vendor independence and innovation.
It is flexible and extensible, ready to adapt to evolving clinical and regulatory needs.

By working closely with the XMPP Standards Foundation and the wider international community, the NTA 7532 working group can ensure that its standard remains technically sound, future-proof, and globally compatible.

In short: XMPP supports the secure, interoperable communication that Dutch healthcare needs today, and lays the groundwork for the trusted systems of tomorrow.

XMPP related Workshop at the Linux Day Torino 2025

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nicolas Vial will host the Quale sistema alternativo per il vostro cellulare? talk with a workshop that will demonstrate how to install and use XMPP for free from F-DROID, but will also give away free QR codes for Monocles Chat from Google Play. The talk will center around LineageOS, with a strong focus on XMPP as an IM solution.

Linux Day Torino 2025 will take place this next Saturday, October 25th, at the Arsenale della Pace, Piazza Borgo Dora, Torino, Italia. The event will be free, open to everyone and no prior registration will be required.

Linux Day Torino would like to invite you, your friends, colleagues and families to join the event and hopes to see you there!

Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2025
Location: Arsenale della Pace, Piazza Borgo Dora, Torino, Italia.
Time: 2 p.m. at MISC CLASSROOM

The XMPP Newsletter September 2025

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2025.

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

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XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before November 23th, 2025, 00:00 UTC.

XSF Board and Council Elections 2025

The XMPP Standards Foundation is calling for individuals to compose the Board of Directors and members to serve on the XMPP Council for the 2025/2026 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 2nd, 2025, 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.

Videos and Talks

XMPP Tutorials DE by eversten.net.
- Conversations (XMPP) - Verbindungsproblem nach Update beheben. [DE]
- Quicksy - Der einfachste Einstieg in XMPP (iOS-Version). [DE]
UnifiedPush: a lecture by Daniel Gultsch at the Datenspuren 2025. [DE]

XMPP Articles

ProcessOne
- Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children by Mickaël Rémond for the ProcessOne Blog.
XMPP Interop Testing
- Lots More Options!: A slew of new CI systems have been added. This time the target was freedom-respecting, open source CI systems for your open source projects ( including Jenkins, Drone, Harness and Woodpecker ). This brings the total number of CI systems in which you can run XMPP interop tests up to a whopping ELEVEN, plus anywhere else you can run containers. If there’s a CI system that you’re using and you’d like to see supported, or if it’s already supported but you’re struggling, please join their MUC, or open an issue on GitHub. By Dan Caseley for the XMPP Interop Testing Blog.
- Two New Features for Clearer Testing: Has released version 1.7.1 of all of its test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing both stricter and easier to set up! Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible tests as failures, ensuring that a green run really means every configured test executed and passed. You can now choose from three provisioning methods:
  - Admin Account using XEP-0133 (Service Administration) to create test accounts.
  - Explicit Test Accounts you configure up front.
  - In-Band Registration via XEP-0077 (In-Band Registration). Pick the approach that fits your setup best. There is documentation available for you to review the finer details!
Libervia CLI tips: Did you know that Liverbia has a CLI that you can use to do nearly everything with? Well, that’s right, and Goffi, its author, has been steadily publishing a series of Mastodon toots to help you make the most out of it! Share files, publish blog posts, send encrypted messages, make audio/video calls, encrypt a pubsub node, automate tasks with ad-hoc commands, etc; everything from the comfort of your terminal!
FastCGI Authorizer implementing XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP) XMPP confirmation by PulkoMandy for pulkomandy.tk Git repositories. [FR]
Montando un WhatsApp gateway desde XMPP con Slidge by z3r0 via SMOLNET PORTAL. [ES]
Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server by Holger for codedge.
Install Slidgram in NetBSD by Eugene for Dragon’s notes.
XMPP Brasil celebrates its first anniversary providing free accounts for the Brasilian community and its new status as a Category Provider A by XMPP Providers. [PT]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-2 for Android. A bugfix release that addresses issues with registration and discovery (fixes options to block) on Snikket instances, fix more insets on latest Android, and scrolling ‘Manage Accounts’ with many accounts, among other things. Make sure to check out the changelog for all the details.
Conversations has released version 2.19.5 for Android, with improved error message for servers that do not support TLS 1.3 and fixed issues with device rotation among many other fixes and improvements. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Convo XMPP client for KaiOS has released version 0.2.0 codenamed “Eyes Only” with support for OMEMO powered end-to-end encryption! This is the first time XMPP with OMEMO is available on a button phone. You can find all the announcements on the release page.

Convo 0.2.0: Support for end-to-end encryption with OMEMO.

Gajim has released versions 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release brings reorganized account settings, a brand new shortcuts manager, more contact info, video previews, performance improvements, and many bugfixes. The latest update fixes some issues with video previews and preview generation as well as some issues around loading icons. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details. Thank you for all your contributions!

Gajim 2.3.5 bundles preferences and account settings!

Kaidan has released version 0.13.0 of its user-friendly and modern chat app for XMPP. This new release brings support for using multiple accounts simultaneously, enable/disable accounts, message forwarding, apply consistent criteria for all message correction, secure passwords storage, try all providers on connection error during automatic registration and many other new features and bugfixes! You can find a detailed list of new features, bugfixes and notes in the changelog.

Kaidan 0.13.0: Multi-Account support with enable/disable toggle switch.

Monocles has released versions 2.0.14 and 2.0.15 of its chat client for Android. This updates bring in the ability to pin images and files to the top of the chat window, support for geo URI in pinned messages and reply previews, enable video preview for pinned messages and show audio file icon for pinned audio messages among other ‘pinning related’ improvements. They also allow replies to yourself, sending replies with OMEMO and jump to message on tap on reply with new scroll to reply, among many other features and a lot of fixes. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Psi+ has released version 1.5.2117 portable of its development branch of the Psi, the cross-platform XMPP client designed for experienced users.
Renga XMPP client for Haiku has released version 1.28, with some improvements to MUC support, and an implementation of XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP) for HTTP authentication using XMPP. You can read all the details about this release on the latest news about it.
xmpp-web has released version 0.10.7 of its lightweight web chat client for XMPP server.
XOWS has released version 0.9.9c of its XMPP Over WebSocket web client, with refactored avatar fetch routines, some browser DOM refresh optimizations, fixes to account registration process crash and MUC occupant that may be duplicated.

XMPP Servers

The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Openfire 5.0.2! This release addresses a recently identified security vulnerability (CVE-2025-59154). The issue allowed for potential identity spoofing via unsafe Common Name attribute parsing. Please read the full security advisory for more information. This release also improves the SystemD-based scripts, removing a few annoyances introduced in Openfire 5.0.1. Please refer to the full changelog for more details.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp version 6.3.1 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp version 1.11.2 has been released. Full the details on the changelog.
Slidge versions 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 have been released. Migration from the 0.2 series is not supported, the slidge home dir has to be deleted and users have to register again. New features and improvements were introduced, mainly: support for (optional) reaction fallbacks (for older XMPP clients not supporting reactions), a lot of gateway-wide settings have been moved to user-specific settings, check the “preferences” command (adhoc or chatbot-style) and support for pronouns in VCards. You can check the intermediate changelogs from 0.2.12 to 0.3.0 for the full list of changes.
- slidge-whatsapp, the WhatsApp to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and whatsmeow, versions 0.3.0beta and 0.3.0 have been released.
- sleamdge, the Steam to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and steamio, version 0.3.0 has been released.
- matteridge, the Mattermost to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and mattermost-api-reference-client, version 0.3.0 has been released.
- slidcord, the Discord to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and discord.py-self, version 0.3.0, has been released.
- matridge, the Matrix to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and nio, versions 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 have been released.
- slidgram, the Telegram to XMPP gateway based on Slidge and Pyrofork, version 0.3.0, has been released.
Slixmpp version 1.11.0 has been released. You can read the official release announcement for all the details.
xmpp-dns versions 0.5.2 and 0.5.3 have been released. Full details on the changelog.
xmpp-fastcgi-authorizer, a FastCGI Authorizer implementing XEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP) to allow logging in to websites using an XMPP account, versions 0.1 and 0.2 have been released.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Pubsub Node Bookmark
- This specification defines a bookmark element pointing to a Pubsub node.

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 0.3.1 of XEP-0317 (Hats)
- Typos, completed some examples and paragraph clarifications thanks to badlop feedback. (tj)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0503 (Server-side spaces)
- Rewrite using pubsub semantics. (nc)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

XMPP Public channels

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The XMPP Newsletter August 2025

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

Videos

XMPP Tutorials DE by eversten.net.

XMPP Articles

NLnet: New wave of projects to create digital commons
- ejabberd Great Invitations: One of the biggest hurdles for XMPP in terms of widespread adoption compared to single vendor solutions is a somewhat more complicated onboarding process. The goal of this project is to make this process as seamless as possible by simplifying the onboarding process - a single link is enough to guide a potential future participant - and implement it for ejabberd.
- Convo XMPP client: The primary goal of this project is to develop Convo into a fully functional app that forms a viable messaging solution for KaiOS users, and publish it on the official KaiOS Store, replace the UI with a better one based on the solid-telekram project, ensure compliance with the basic XMPP Core and IM Compliance Suites (defined in XEP-0479), as well as expose end-to-end encryption (OMEMO v0.3) functionality. Visit the project page for all the details!
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats from XMPP Providers Blog. Here the project does a review on their survey results from feedback of listed XMPP Operators and explains more about the purpose of the project.
Wait, did Movim just unlock the global search feature in its chat messages? from the official Movim blog.
XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News. Take a look at some of the features, that Debian 13 Trixie will bring on packages related to XMPP, a.k.a. Jabber.
Jabbers.one The server has been migrated to the hosting provider Netcup. A public monitoring status page is now available at: https://xmpp-status.fluxxer.de. Also a Grafana statistic site is now available at https://stats.jabbers.one.
jabjab.de XMPP server celebrates 20 years of existence! [DE]
MongooseIM 6.4: Simplified and Unified by Pawel Chrzaszcz for Erlang Solutions.
O protocolo mais perfeito dos imperfeitos by isadora. An overview of the benefits of XMPP, including tips on how to introduce it to new people who may not be interested in the technical details. [PT_BR]
Cambios en mi red de la mano de XMPP by Gabriel Viso Carrera for gvisoc.com. [EN]
Wondering what Monocles has in store for their next version? Besides of the array of assorted enhancements and fixes that Monocles includes in every new release, the upcoming version will include support for XEP-0118 (User Tune), enabling its users to optionally share with their contacts the music they are currently listening to. This feature enhances social interaction by allowing users to discover new music, share their tastes, and connect over shared interests, fostering a more engaging and collaborative experience within the app. Check out the original announcement! A big thank you to the developer who contributed to this feature!

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.19.0-1 for Android. Make sure to check out the changelog for all the details.
Conversations has released versions 2.19.3 and 2.19.4 for Android. This version brings improved performance for large public channels, a new ’empty chats’ page instead of redirect to ’new chat’ screen, and requires TLS 1.3 for all connections with a setting to opt out, among other fixes and improvements. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Converse.js has released version 12.0.0 of its open-source web-based XMPP chat client, with various improvements and bugfixes. Several behind-the-scenes changes include OMEMO related fixes, using rspack instead of webpack, releasing an ESM build of the “headless” library version, and using an updated provider list from providers.xmpp.net for in-band registration. Head over to the release page for the full changelog!
Gajim has released version 2.3.4 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release supports time zones in profiles, adds drag and drop improvements, enables displaying long messages inline, and fixes many smaller issues. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details. Thank you for all your contributions!
Monal has released version 6.4.13 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released version 2.0.13 of its chat client for Android, featuring a load of improvements like a refactored message retraction and moderation (retracted messages disappear on both sides now, the same for retracted files), a message bubble redesign, show images in full quality, a new option to import own stickers and GIFs, among many other features and a lot of fixes. Make sure to take a look at the changelog for all the details!
Profanity has released version 0.15.1 of its popular console based client for XMPP. You can read all the details about this release on the changelog.
Prose has released versions 0.12.0 and 0.12.1 of its web frontend prose-app-web! You can read all the details in the release announcement.
Psi+ has released version 1.5.2109 to 1.5.2114 installer of its development branch of the Psi XMPP client.
XOWS has released versions 0.9.9 and 0.9.9b of its XMPP Over WebSocket web client, with numerous bug fixes and some new features.

XOWS 0.9.9.b: Automatic embedding of images, video and audio.

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.08. This release includes the support for Hydra rooms in the Matrix gateway, which fixes high severity protocol vulnerabilities, a fixed and tested to work ACME in Erlang/OTP 28.0.2, and brings in a new mod_providers to serve XMPP Providers file among many other features and improvements! Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes, new features, fixes and improvements!

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp version 0.2.17 has been released.
go-sendxmpp version 0.15.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
python-nbxmpp version 6.3.0 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
QXmpp versions 1.11.0 and 1.11.1 have been released. Full the details on the changelog.
xmpppy version 0.7.2 has been released. Full details on the changelog.
xmpp-dns version 0.5.1 has been released. Full details on the changelog.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 1.2.3 of XEP-0167 (Jingle RTP Sessions)
- Make ‘ssrc’ attribute ‘xs:unsignedInt’ (32-bit) instead of ‘xs:string’ to match RFC3550. (lnj)
Version 1.6.3 of XEP-0198 (Stream Management)
- Remove leftover <optional/> and <required/> children in <sm/> element. (egp)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0317 (Hats)
- Add hat creation and destruction flows; add hue optional parameter; add chatroom presence hats broadcast; complete disco#info; clarify how the service should broadcast updated hats; typos; standardize the form fields; (tj)
Version 1.0.4 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Schema should use all instead of sequence (dg)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0455 (Service Outage Status)
- Remove leftover pubsub references, add accessibility considerations. (mp)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu)
- Translators: nicola
Portuguese: xmpp.org
- Translators: Paulo
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

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short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
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MongooseIM 6.4 - Simplified and Unified

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MongooseIM is a scalable and efficient instant messaging server. It implements the open, proven, extensible and constantly evolving XMPP protocol, which is an excellent choice when it comes to instant messaging. To communicate with other XMPP entities, the server uses three main types of interfaces, listed in the table below.

XMPP Interface	Purpose	Connection type	Reworked in version
C2S (client-to-server)	Accept connections from XMPP clients	inbound	6.1.0 – 6.4.0
S2S (server-to-server)	Federate with other XMPP servers	inbound/outbound	6.4.0
Component	Accept connections from external components	inbound	6.4.0

The C2S interface was reworked and improved already in version 6.1.0 (see the blog post), making it more modern, organised and extensible. In the most recent version 6.4.0, this trend is continued by reworking the S2S and component interfaces while unifying the whole connection handling logic.

Simplified, unified and more complete

Connection accepting and handling was simplified and unified in multiple ways, allowing the addition of new features along the way. All connections are now accepted by ranch, a state-of-the-art socket acceptor pool for Erlang. Modern gen_statem behaviour is then used to handle open connections using state machines. These changes allowed for improved handling of various corner cases, removing unexpected limitations and mishandled error conditions. There is also improved separation of concerns, resulting in easier extensibility and configurability.

Another unified and improved system aspect is the TLS encryption. The legacy fast_tls library is now fully replaced with the Erlang implementation, resulting in much more straightforward configuration and implementation without a drop in performance (as evidenced by rigorous load tests). This change made it possible to fill in some gaps in functionality, such as the support for channel binding as required for TLS 1.3 (see RFC 9266 for details). Additionally, TLS is now supported for component connections. Moreover, CA certificates can be provided by the OS, reducing the need for manual certificate provisioning. As a result of these changes, your MongooseIM installation will be more secure and robust.

All these changes are reflected in the TOML configuration file. When compared with the previous version of MongooseIM, there are the numerous improvements such as the following:

Components can benefit from TLS connections.
S2S options are separate for the incoming (listen.s2s) and outgoing (s2s.outgoing) connections. Common options are placed directly in the s2s section (e.g. default_policy).
Traffic shapers are configured the same way for all types of connections, and are always referenced by their names.
S2S outgoing connections can have traffic shaping enabled.
All TLS options follow the same pattern throughout the configuration file. This also affects multiple options that were omitted from this example for simplicity.

Another improved layer is the instrumentation. Most changes affect XMPP traffic events. For example, there used to be an event called c2s_element_in, emitted when an XML element is received on a C2S connection. A separate event called c2s_xmpp_element_size_in was emitted to measure element size. Now, there is one event called xmpp_element_in - and it covers measurements from both previous events. Event names are now more concise, making them easier to remember and reason about. This was possible due to the use of labels like connection_type and host_type. Additionally, event coverage got improved, e.g. xmpp_element_in now covers S2S and component connections as well. Also, the events are emitted more consistently. For incoming data, there is always one event emitted as soon as an XML element (most often a stanza) is parsed. For outgoing data, there is always one event emitted just before sending an XML element out. As a result, the metrics are consistent with actual network traffic. For more information, see the documentation on metrics. Our blog post about release 6.3.0 can also give you more details about the instrumentation layer and its integration with Prometheus.

SASL 2, Bind 2, FAST

Over the past few releases, we have been implementing extensions speeding up the XMPP stream negotiation and authentication:

XEP-0388: Extensible SASL Profile (SASL2) allows a client to authenticate, resume its session and more in one round-trip.
XEP-0386: Bind 2 allows a client to bind the resource and enable selected extensions (SM, carbons, CSI) as part of SASL2.
XEP-0484: FAST allows a client to authenticate with a token as a part of SASL2. According to the specification, this is a token-based method for streamlining authentication in XMPP, enabling fully authenticated stream establishment within a single round-trip.

FAST features supported in MongooseIM

In version 6.4, additional advanced features of FAST are supported. One of them is token rotation: the server invalidates tokens after a configurable period, and provides a new token on reconnection if the current one is close to expiry (this period is also configurable). Additionally, a client can request immediate token invalidation – with or without requesting a new one. Another addition is the support for 0-RTT (zero round-trip time) data in TLS 1.3 (see RFC 8446, section 2.3). The FAST token can be provided by the client during a subsequent handshake after reconnection, meaning that there is no additional round-trip needed after the handshake – hence the name “0-RTT”. A different extension is the tls-exporter channel binding in TLS 1.3 (see RFC 9266 for details) – it can be used with FAST, resulting in the channel binding data being passed with the FAST token, increasing the security. Note that currently it cannot be used with 0-RTT data. See the documentation for mod_fast_auth_token and the Hashed Token SASL Mechanism specification for more information.

What’s next?

You can read more about MongooseIM 6.4 in the detailed blog post. You can also find more information in the release notes. Don’t hesitate to visit our product page, try it online and contact us if you are considering using it in your business.

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The XMPP Newsletter July 2025

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or helping these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before August 17th, 2025 00:00 UTC.

XMPP at FrOSCon 20

On August 16th & 17th, 2025, the FrOSCon will hold its 20th anniversary edition™. It will take place at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany, and the XMPP community will be part of it!

While you are there, you may be interested in what is going on at the Devrooms.

The Gemeinsamer DevRoom von Gentoo e.V. und TroLUG will take place at Room C125, where Gentoo e.V. and TroLUG will offer a rich and varied 2-day program on various topics, including the Gentoo and Debian distributions and free software for smartphones. XMPP will play a special role. Short presentations, demos and workshops will encourage visitors to join in. There will also be plenty of time for spontaneous topics and social interaction. (Shh! Don’t tell anyone! … but you can take a look at all the nitty gritty details in here)

And, of course: make sure to come by the XMPP booth and say hi!. We promise there will be stickers. ;)

Videos

XMPP Articles

Empowering Digita:l Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform by guus.
ProcessOne
- XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again by Mickaël Rémond .
XMPP Interop Testing
- MOAR TESTS!: Ever heard of XMPP Interop Testing? It’s this cool project that helps make sure different XMPP servers can all work together smoothly. They have just released version 1.6.0 of all their test runners! The biggest chunk of work has gone into tests that verify parts of the basic XMPP protocol, notably for testing functionality that involves roster management (as specified in section 2 of RFC 6121) and for server rules for processing XML stanzas (section 8 of RFC 6121). Please get in touch if you have any ideas for improvement, or other feedback. They’d love to hear from you!
JoinJabber now has a Governance document based on the Cooperative Development Guidelines governance template. It aims to be the authoritative document on what JoinJabber wants to do, how they are doing it, an overview of their structure (in few words; there is going to be a separate document to define it fully), and the RFC process for changes.
Configure the Prosody XMPP-server for free communication on the network from exception.net.ua. [UA]
Launch of the XMPP / Fediverse Bridge! by BarbaPulpe. [DE] [ES] [FR] [IT] [NL] [PT]
Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized, a short and concise summary of the speak hosted by Elena “of Valhalla” Grandi at the DebConf25 for people who prefer reading text. [IT] [ES]
XMPP Home Automation Demonstration Machine from Rainer’s Hilfeseiten [DE].
Guia rápido e fácil para novos usuários de XMPP, a Brazilian Portuguese translation and adaptation of contrapunctus’ ‘The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP’, by Isadora Ribeiro for the DEV Community. [PT_BR]
Introducing XOWS: a Javascript XMPP web client that makes use of the WebSocket protocol. A first Beta release, which is more or less an advanced Alpha, is already available for download.
Join the XMPP-IT Community: Your Help Matters!. The XMPP-IT community is launching a call for active collaboration — no need to be an expert, and it’s not paid work, just shared participation. From translations to testing software, writing wiki content or contributing code, there’s room for everyone. [IT]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.19.0, 2.19.1 and 2.19.2 for Android, adding support for moderated message retraction in public channels (XEP-0425), showing ‘Last seen’ prominently in chat title (when enabled), and various bug fixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Gajim has released version 2.3.3 of its free and fully featured chat app for XMPP. This release comes with many fixes for Windows and it brings some styling improvements, better performance and bugfixes. You can take a look at the changelog for all the details. Thank you for all your contributions!
Monal has released version 6.4.12 for iOS and macOS.
Monocles has released version 2.0.12 of its chat client for Android, featuring improvements and fixes. Take a look at the changelog for all the details.
Movim has released version 0.31 (code named “Kameny”). This release comes loaded with new features ranging from the NLNet funded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing (and the first steps to SFU integration) to global chatroom search (XEP-0433), URL resolver worker, pronouns support in the profile (in compliance with RFC vCard4), quick switch between 1:1 chats and chatrooms and the ability to move the actions list in the ‘Contact’ or ‘Chatroom’ panel, among many other news!

Movim 0.31 (Kameny): Simultaneous webcam and screen sharing!

XOWS 0.9.8, a lightweight and modern XMPP over WebSocket Web client, has been released.

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.07. This release focuses on integration in a wider federated network, with support for spam fighting features, improved Matrix gateway, native support for PubSub Server Information to have your server count as part of the wider XMPP network (e.g. register your server on XMPP Network Graph), new modules, features, improvements and bugfixes. Make sure to read the changelog for all the details and a complete list of changes!
Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change. The Prosody Team has been working on some changes on the Debian/Ubuntu package repository. If you use this repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates smoothly. Please follow the instructions described in the article. If you have any questions about this change, the Prosody Team is always happy to help and answer them on their community chat!
WebRTC based audio and video in Openfire 2025 by Dele_Olajide1.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

slidge-whatsapp, the XMPP-to-WhatsApp gateway based on Slidge, version 0.2.7 has been released.
peertube-plugin-livechat version 14.0.1 has been released.
xmpp-ap-bridge versions 0.7.0, 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 have been released.
xmpp-dns version 0.5.0 Beta 1 has been released.
go-sendxmpp version 0.15.0 Beta 1 has been released.
ignite realtime community: XEP-0483: HTTP Online Meetings by Dele_Olajide1.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0504 (Data Policy)
- Accepted as Experimental by Council vote on 2025-06-08 (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0505 (Data Forms File Input Element)
- Accepted as Experimental by Council vote on 2025-07-08 (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 1.10.0 of XEP-0080 (User Location)
- Added <regioncode/> element. (jp)
Version 1.2.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload)
- Add optional upload purpose when requesting slots (dg)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Portuguese: xmpp.org
- Translators: Paulo
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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The XMPP Newsletter June 2025

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2025.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply before August 17th, 2025 00:00 UTC.

XMPP Events

DebConf25: The 26th Debian Conference in Brest, France, from July 14th to 19th 2025, will feature:
- Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized by Elena Grandi. A short talk (20 minutes) that will take place at the Grand amphi room on Monday, July 14th at 18:00 hours.
- Jabber/XMPP BoF session, hosted by Martin. A BoF (Birds of a Feather) meeting (45 minutes) that will take place at ‘Room: B03-035’ on monday July 14th at 14:00 hours.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM UTC+2 (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Videos

Comunicación Libre, Segura y Descentralizada: Taller abierto de XMPP by Gnuxero for the Club de Software Libre. [ES]

XMPP Articles

Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 1 by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 2 - OMEMO by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
Introducción a XMPP - Capítulo 3 - Grupos by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
Mensajería segura y abierta mediante CONVERSATIONS Xmpp on alt43.es. [ES]
Recuperando a soberania e a privacidade da sua comunicação pessoal e corporativa by Isadora Ribeiro. [PT_BR]
Mitigating MITMs in XMPP by Amolith for the JMP Blog.
Setting up Slidge Gateway with Openfire for use with Whatsapp, Matrix and Telegram by surfbum for the Ignite Realtime Community.
Per-application passwords in Tigase from the Tigase Posts.
Join the XMPP-IT Community: Your Help Matters! The XMPP-IT community is launching a call for active collaboration — no need to be an expert, and it’s not paid work, just shared participation. From translations to testing software, writing wiki content or contributing code, there’s room for everyone. [IT]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.17.10-2 for Android.
Converse.js has released version 11.0.1 of its open-source and web-based XMPP chat client. The desktop version can be downloaded from here. Make sure to check out the release link for all the details!
Gajim has released version 2.3.0 (2.3.1 and 2.3.2) with a fresh new look featuring Adwaita, adding new features, improvements, quite a few changes and bug fixes. Head over to their news section for more information. And don’t forget to read the changelog for all the details!

Gajim’s 2.3.0 sleek fresh new look featuring Adwaita

Libervia has received NLnet funding to ‘Implement serverless (with RELOAD) and reduce metadata exposure’ (Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP). This project will reduce metadata exposure and enable decentralized, serverless communication. Work will focus on end-to-end encryption specs for roster (contact list) information. These changes will be implemented in the Libervia ecosystem through Tor integration, which will help anonymize connections and reduce IP tracking. A second focus area is advancing serverless communication by implementing the RELOAD protocol XEP-0415 and leveraging end-to-end authentication via XEP-0416 and XEP-0417. This project will strengthen XMPP and Libervia’s privacy and availability, enabling their use in environments where servers may be unavailable or inaccessible.
Monocles has released versions 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10 and 2.0.11 of its chat client for Android, featuring many new functions and fixes.
Prose has released versions 0.10.2 and 0.11.0 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

The Ignite Realtime community is thrilled to announce the release of the latest versions of their popular open-source XMPP server. Openfire 5.0.0 just came out, immediately followed by Openfire 5.0.1 which should be its drop-in replacement. The new releases come packed with a host of new features, improvements, and bug fixes that enhance its performance, security, and usability. You can download Openfire 5.0.1 straight from the website and read the documentation to get started. Don’t forget to check out the changelog for a list of all the changes that have been made!
MongooseIM has released version 6.4.0 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution. This release brings new features, changes, various fixes and improvements. For more information, make sure to check out the changelog and the documentation.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp versions 0.2.15 and 0.2.16 have been released.
peertube-plugin-livechat versions 13.0.0 and 14.0.0 have been released.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Data Policy
- This document specifies metadata on how an entity handles its data (encryption, data retention, etc).
Data Forms File Input Element
- This specification defines an element which can be used with data forms to let users upload one or more files.

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 0.1.4 of XEP-0284 (Shared XML Editing)
- Fix the registrar section.
- Format the glossary better.
- Add missing <state/> wrappers in examples.
- Write an XML Schema. (egp)
Version 0.9.0 of XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption)
- Device labels must be signed
- Allow empty device list in XML schema
- Reworded security consideration that could be interpreted as forbidding trust mechanisms like BTBV/TOFU
- Added section about dealing with lack of presence subscription
- Removed reference to omemo-session-healing (th)
Version 1.0.3 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Add missing minOccurs=‘0’ to additional-data in <continue/> in XML schema. (lnj)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
- Fixed references to XEP identifier. (gdk)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0498 (Pubsub File Sharing)
- Fix wrong shortname and add tags. (jp)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Portuguese: xmpp.org
- Translators: Paulo
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

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The XMPP Newsletter May 2025

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2025.

XMPP Events

XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
The XMPP Sprint in Berlin took place during the 23rd-25th of May 2025. Developers from Germany, France & the United Kingdom representing Conversations, Dino, ejabberd, Kaidan, LiveDashboard, Macaw, Monal, Renga, and Prose gathered to make it happen! The sprint was sponsored by the XSF, Ammonit Measurement GmbH, and Wikimedia e.V..

A still from the XMPP Sprint in Berlin, May 2025

Videos

Goffi, from Libervia, published a short progress overview of the new web frontend design on the Libervia video channel.

Talks

On Friday, May 16, Vril hosted the Workshop di XMPP e Free Software all’AntiBiennale di Venezia (a workshop on XMPP and free software) at Cabasego, in Venice, Italy. The whole workshop lasted around one and a half hours and the slides are freely available for you to check out. The event took place in a most beautiful house, incredibly located in the center of Venice, inhabited by people who are always willing to leave their door open to Venice’s underground communities. [IT]

XMPP Articles

El gran lío de la mensajería instantánea by Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz. [ES]
Monocles, the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat Web and Android clients, started a crowdfunding campaign. The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from March 28 to June 30.
XMPP is now featured on the list of the ‘Delightful Lists’.
Towards a Password-Mukt XMPP for some thoughts and fantasies by Badri (Hippo) on how passwordless XMPP login could be achieved, either via an out-of-band mechanism or by authorizing from an already logged-in client.
XMPP packages coming with Debian 13 as the freeze toward next stable Debian (13 or Trixie) has been engaged, an overview of the XMPP clients, servers and librairies coming with it is provided in this article from the Debian XMPP Team.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Converse.js has released version 11.0.0 of its open-source and web-based XMPP chat client. The Desktop version can be downloaded from here. This release comes packed full of bugfixes, changes and new features. Way too many to list in here. Make sure to check out the release link for all the details!

Converse 11

Gajim has released version 2.2.0. This release brings three new features: message retraction (via XEP-0424: Message Retraction), blocking participants in group chats, and updated support for modern group chat avatars (via XEP-0486: MUC Avatars), among many other improvements and bugfixes. Head over to their news section or check the changelog for all the details.
Monal has released version 6.4.11 for iOS an macOS.
Monocles Chat 2.0.7 for Android, has been released. This version brings fixes for lagging, pinned status message, I2P and more.
Prose has released versions 0.10.1 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

Prosody IM is pleased to announce version 13.0.2. This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well. Read all the details on the release changelog. As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Pade plugin version 1.8.4 for Openfire has been released.
peertube-plugin-livechat version 12.0.4 has been released.
python-nbxmpp version 6.2.0 has been released.
strophejs version 3.1.1 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
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The XMPP Newsletter April 2025

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2025.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, submissions are open until May 18th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

XMPP Articles

XMPP Foundation Urges Meta to Allow Interoperability Under EU Rules by Markus Kasanmascheff for winbuzzer.com
Monocles, the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat Web and Android clients, has started a crowdfunding campaign. The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from 03.28.2025 to 06.30.2025.
Prav has taken its second major step towards forming a cooperative society in India. Their blog post “Finalising our bye-laws” details the process, including ways you can help out. This is an important step in Prav’s mission to implement community-driven decision making for their XMPP apps and services and give legal teeth to that structure.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.17.10-1 for Android. This version introduces an initial implementation of Spaces (XEP-503), among other improvements, bugfixes and more!
Conversations has released versions 2.18.0, 2.18.1 and 2.18.2 for Android. Notable changes include the ability to pick a custom backup location, a prominent backup restore option for Quicksy, and improved support for more kinds of URIs. The latter includes tel phone numbers, mailto email addresses, and more interestingly the web+ap scheme for ActivityPub proposed by Fedi Links.
Dino has released version 0.5 featuring OMEMO encryption by default, improved file transfers, image preview and other file details before downloading, and two completely reworked dialogs. See the release blog post for all the details.
- At the same time, Dino has also received funding from NLnet to begin development on a slew of new features. This includes message moderation in group chats, local message deletion, modern connection handling with FAST and SASL2, more formatting options with Message Markup, and more! Visit the project page for all the details.
Gajim has released versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 with a new ‘Activity feed’ page, layout improvements for its ‘Start Chat’ dialog and support for ‘Message Display Synchronisation’ (XEP-0490) across group chats among other improvements and bugfixes. Head over to their News section for all the details.

Activity feed in Gajim 2.1

Account and status selection in Gajim 2.1

Kaidan has received NLnet funding for various improvement across the board, most notably multi-user chat and support for legacy OMEMO. The second point is significant because while Kaidan is using a newer version of the OMEMO end-to-end encryption protocol, other popular clients including Conversations, Monal, and Dino are still using an older version. Since the two are not compatible, this meant Kaidan users were unable to use OMEMO encryption with users of most other clients. By implementing the older spec as well, Kaidan will help bridge that gap.
Monocles Chat 2.0.6 has been released for Android. This version brings initial support for file captions, the option to pin an unencrypted message to the top of a conversation, providers list support, and the option to register on your own XMPP server, among many other new features and improvements.

Monocles Chat 2.0.6: Initial captions to files and pin message to the top

Monocles Chat 2.0.6: Register on your own XMPP server or pick one from the providers list

Movim has released version 0.30 (code named “Encke”), the biggest Movim evolution in many years! This release brings multi-participant calls, reactions being displayed in the detailed message view, support for Unicode 15.1 with plenty of new emojis to use, and avatars that change when a contact adds to their Story.

Movim 0.30 (Encke): Multi Participant Calls. Bob Cat looking disgruntled by the presence of the ‘Hooman’ on the lower right of the screen!

Movim 0.30 (Encke): Meow OwO bedazzled by the looks of Multi Participant Calls on his mobile device!

and following right on its heels, Movim also published its first bug-fix release: version 0.30.1, adding animated pictures support in the image proxy and a new Avatar and Banner Configuration Panel, as well as implementing (XEP-0392) Consistent Color Generation, among many other improvements and bugfixes. Make sure to check out the official announcements at the Movim Blog for all the details!

Movim 0.30.1: Avatar and banner configuration panel

Prose has released versions 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.9.0, 0.9.1 and 0.10.0 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

MongooseIM has released version 6.3.3 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution. This minor update includes various fixes and improvements. For more information, check out the documentation.
ProcessOne has published ejabberd 25.04. This release brings an important security fix, several bug fixes and a new API command.
Prosody IM is pleased to announce version 13.0.1, a new minor release from the latest stable branch. It fixes some important bugs that were discovered after the latest release. Read all the details on the release changelog. As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.
The Prosody app for YunoHost has been updated to provide a bunch of supported XEPs by default, configured for all YunoHost users in just one click. YunoHost is a set of tools to easily manage your own selfhosted services, and while it used to come bundled with the Prosody fork Metronome by default, it has recently bundled its XMPP functionality into a separate “app” so that people can swap in any other XMPP server of their choice.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp versions 0.2.13 and 0.2.14 has been released.
libomemo-c version 0.5.1 has been released.
prose-core-client versions 0.1.103, 0.1.104 and 0.1.105 have been released.
python-nbxmpp versions 6.1.0 and 6.1.1 have been released.
Slidge versions 0.2.9 (codenamed “Trixie <3”), 0.2.10, 0.2.11 and 0.2.12 have been released.
Tinder version 2.1.0 has been released.
Whack version 3.0.0 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 1.1.3 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0377 (Spam Reporting)
- Add spam report processing opt-in.
- Add Guus der Kinderen as co-author. (gdk)
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0421 (Occupant identifiers for semi-anonymous MUCs)
- Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0455 (Service Outage Status)
- Remove all in-band event signaling. (mp)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus
Português (BR): xmpp.org
- Translators: Paulo

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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The XMPP Newsletter March 2025

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 2025.

XSF Announcements

The XMPP Standards Foundation published an Open Letter to urge Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging interoperability. It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until May 18th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Track at FOSSY: Call for proposals is open until April 28th 2025! Once again this year, the soprani.ca project is pleased to announce its annual offer for funding to the potential attendees who may be struggling with financial limitations, especially to those who would like to give an XMPP related talk. Please, join us at discuss@conference.soprani.ca, and don’t hesitate to ask for more information.
Berlin XMPP Meetup [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

Talks

SASL-HT (The Hashed Token SASL Mechanism) was presented by Florian Schmaus at the 122nd meeting of the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF). A recording is available on YouTube and the slides are available at the IETF 122 website. If adopted, this draft will become a “Request For Comments” (RFC) that will help standardize fast XMPP client reauthentication methods such as the one specified by XEP-0397. The draft will be discussed further on the IETF Kitten working Group mailing list.

XMPP Articles

Installer son serveur XMPP avec Prosody by Codimp has been updated to reflect the changes introduced by the latest Prosody 13.0.0 release [FR]
Kaidan 0.12.0: User Interface Polishing and Account Migration Fixes by melvo for Kaidan IM.
It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen! by guus for the Ignite Realtime News.
Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation’s open letter to Meta for true interop by ProcessOne.
Monocles, the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat Web and Android clients, started a crowdfunding campaign. The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from 03.28.2025 to 06.30.2025.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Gajim has released versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 with improvements and bug fixes. Head over to their News section for all the details.
Kaidan has released versions 0.12.0, 0.12.1 and 0.12.2. These versions bring user interface polishing, account migration fixes, voice message and password change fixes, message removal and bubble fixes, along with more bugfixes. Check the changelog for each respective version here, here and here for all the details.
Poezio has released versions 0.15.0 and 0.15.1 of their console XMPP client. Detailed information available on the release announcement.
Profanity has released version 0.15.0 of their console based XMPP client. After more than a year and a half in the making, this release packages a large list of new features, improvements, bug fixes and more. You can find a detailed list of changes for this release on their changelog.
prose-web-app has released versions 0.6.2 and 0.7.0 of its Web implementation of the Prose app.

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne is pleased to announce the release of ejabberd 25.03: a big release with new features and many improvements, as it comes three months and 180 commits after ejabberd 24.12.
Prosody IM is pleased to announce the release of version 13.0.0, the new major release of the Prosody XMPP server. This release brings a wide range of improvements that make Prosody more secure, performant, and easier to manage than ever before. Read about all the details on the release changelog. As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp versions 0.2.11 and 0.2.12 have been released.
libstrophe version 0.14.0 has been released.
peertube-plugin-livechat version 12.0.3 has been released.
pelican-pubsub has been released. This is a plugin for the Pelican publishing system that implements support for Atom Over XMPP, through XMPP pubsub, enabling direct interaction (like publishing or adding comments) with Libervia and Movim users via XMPP.
prose-core-client versions 0.1.101 and 0.1.102 have been released.
python-nbxmpp versions 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 have been released.
QXmpp versions 1.10.2 and 1.10.3 have been released.
Slidge version 0.2.8 has been released.
Slixmpp versions 1.9.1 and 1.10.0 have been released. You can read the respective release announcements here and here for all the details.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0503 (Server-side spaces).
- Promoted to Experimental (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

No XEPs updated this month.

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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Open Letter to Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability with XMPP

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a little over a year since Meta announced their proposal for third-parties to achieve messaging interoperability with WhatsApp, with Facebook Messenger following half a year later. Not for everyone, and only because these services were designated as Gate Keepers under the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the EU. So only in the EU, and then with many strings attached. In that time, a lot has been written. Element/Matrix have put in efforts to work with Meta to get some interoperability going. Unfortunately, the reference offers don’t provide what we would call true interoperability, and given that virtually nobody has taken up Meta on this offer, their proposal just falls short across the board.

Over at the IETF, the More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) working group is working on mechanisms for interoperability. While several of our members are involved with MIMI and working on the implementation of the related MLS protocol for end-to-end encryption, we believe it is time to have true interoperability using a well-tested and widely implemented set of standards: XMPP.

To that end, we today publish an Open Letter to Meta. A call to action, urging Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging interoperability. For a more in-depth reasoning, we also provide a detailed technical briefing.

We are ready. Let’s make it happen.

The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2025.

XSF Announcements

XMPP at FOSDEM 2025

During February 1st and 2nd, the XSF was present at FOSDEM 25 in Brussels, Belgium. The XMPP community took part of the Realtime Lounge, a corner located on the 2nd floor of the K building, where several open source projects around Real Time Communication (RTC) can present themselves.

In addition to the activities that took place on the XMPP booth, Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) hosted a most interesting presentation in the Real Time Communication (RTC) room, titled: A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP.

And, of course .. we had the coolest swag, and plenty of stickers! ;)

XMPP stand at FOSDEM 2025!

Be Real!

High quality XMPP hoodies and zipped cardigans!

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

Videos

A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP by Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) at FOSDEM 2025.

XMPP Articles

ProcessOne
- Join our community: Free Memberships now available: “We have no plans for paid memberships; our goal is simply to share updates about our projects and the XMPP ecosystem.”
XMPP Summit 27 and FOSDEM 25 Report by mathieui.
XMPP self-hosting tutorial: how to install and configure Prosody on a Hetzner cloud instance, provisioned and configured with Guix and the powerful guix deploy command. By Fabio Natali
Installer son serveur XMPP avec Prosody by Codimp [FR]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.17.10 and 2.17.12 for Android.
Dino has released version 0.4.5.
Gajim has released version 2.0.0 and it comes with a big upgrade. Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. Check out the official announcement for more information and have a look at the changelog for a complete list.
Kaidan has released version 0.11.0 integrating Qt 6 support. In addition, this release improves the user interface and fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.
Monocles Chat 2.0.5 has been released for Android. This version brings in several fixes.
Movim has released version 0.29.2 with some important fixes and improvements. Head over to the Movim Blog for all the details.
prose-web-app has released versions 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 of its Web implementation of the Prose app.

Gajim 2.0: Chat window

Gajim 2.0: Mention a participant by typing @nickname

XMPP Servers

MongooseIM has released version 6.3.2 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

prose-core-client version 0.1.100 has been released.
python-nbxmpp version 6.0.0 has been released.
QXmpp versions 1.10.0 and 1.10.1 have been released.
Slidge versions 0.2.5, 0.2.6, 0.2.7 and 0.2.7.post1 have been released.
Slixmpp version 1.9.0 has been released. You can read the release announcement for all the details.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Server-side spaces
- This document defines an XMPP protocol to cluster several groupchat rooms together.

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

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

Spread the news

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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XMPP Summit 27 Report

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Summit 27 - January 2025

For this year’s XMPP Summit 27, real time communication enthusiasts gathered in Brussels (Belgium, EU) to discuss a wide range of XMPP topics.

Topics included:

GC3 (a new group chat protocol)
HTTP Upload retention
Service Discovery updates
User account configuration
Spam reporting
OMEMO device management
MIMI/MLS (encryption)
IMNG
MUC Push
Updates from the Editor
Talks about XMPP and the EU, about reducing pre-connection roundtrips, and about experimenting with remote control of (Galene) video conferences

A detailed report can be found at mathieui’s blog.

The XMPP Newsletter January 2025

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of January 2025.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until February 16th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

XMPP Summit 27

The XSF held its 27th XMPP Summit on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). During this two-day gathering, we discussed XMPP protocol development topics and kept making progress on current issues within the protocol and ecosystem. We would like to thank everyone that took part of the Summit for their continuous commitment and contribution to the XSF and all the XMPP related projects!

The XSF would like to extend a special thank you to those who made the Summit possible:

Daniel Gultsch for his time and resources to help organizing the event.
Alexander Gnauck and Dave Cridland for sponsoring the XSF Dinner.
Ralph Meijer for his time and dedicated work on streaming/swag/booking dinner.
Edwin Mons for the dinner form.
Kevin Smith for leading the Summit and moderating the speakers.
Alex Palaistras for keeping up a record on the pad with all the topics and the feedback during the entire Summit.
Isode for sponsoring the XMPP Summit again.

Welcome to the 27th XMPP Summit!

You can find a summary of the main topics discussed over the course of the Summit here.

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
PravConf 2025: PravConf 2025 is the first edition of the annual gathering of the Prav community, and it will be held on March 1, 2025, at the Model Engineering College, in Kochi. Feel free to Join the group to learn more!
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

Talks

XMPP Articles

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.17.8 and 2.17.9 for Android.
Monal has released version 6.4.9 and 6.4.10 for iOS an macOS.
Monocles Chat 2.0.4 has been released for Android. This version brings in several fixes.
Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-4 for Android.
Movim 0.29 and 0.29.1 have been released. Movim 0.29 (code named “Rankin”) is the first XMPP client that implements “Stories” (XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories)), a very nice way to share content with your contacts and allow them to react easily by chat. It also introduces “Briefs”, a simpler way to create a short publication that only consists of a text and some medias on your profile or in your Communities. Version 0.29.1 comes with a more polished and improved “Stories” feature, database fixes as well as some preparatory work for the PHP 8.4 version. To learn more about this releases, head over to the Movim Blog.

Movim 0.29 (Rankin) introducing Stories!

Movim 0.29 (Rankin) introducing Briefs!

XMPP Servers

MongooseIM has released version 6.3.1 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Slixmpp version 1.8.6 has been released (release announcement)
Slidge versions v0.2.3, v0.2.3.post1 and 0.24 have been released.
QXmpp versions 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 have been released.
go-xmpp version 0.2.10 has been released.
go-sendxmpp version 0.14.1 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

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.

GRE Formatter: MIME
- This GRE Formatter uses Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to format payload.
GRE Encrypter: OpenPGP
- This GRE Encrypter uses OpenPGP to encrypt payload.
Gateway Relayed Encryption
- This specification describes a mechanism for end-to-end encryption with gateways that is compatible with third-party networks.

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 0.4.2 of XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
- Use a XEP-0425 /me command in the fallback body
- State that a tombstone’s <retracted/> element’s ‘id’ attribute should match the retraction message’s ‘id’.
- Specify XEP-0359 as a dependency and require that the stanza ‘id’ be used instead of the origin-id.
- Update the “Security Considerations” to mention the risk of non-unique message IDs. (jcb)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
- Use better value delimiter (tm)

Last Call

Last Call for comments on XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens).
- This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-27

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0421 (Occupant identifiers for semi-anonymous MUCs)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2025-01-14. (XEP Editor(dg))

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
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- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

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XMPP at FOSDEM 2025

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2025. Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!

Realtime Lounge

As usual, we will host the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator (map below). Come and say Hi! Yes, we got stickers :-)

Map of the K building level 2

Talks

There will be a presentation in the Real Time Communications (RTC) track:

Jérôme Poisson (Goffi):
- A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP: “Nowadays, most services provide APIs with their own formats, and sometimes multiple versions, which may change over time. But there is a universal API, with an excellent track record of stability and backward compatibility: XMPP!. In this talk, I’ll show how XMPP can be more than just an Instant Messaging protocol, and how it can be an extremely powerful tool to access almost anything, from third-party networks (IM, microblogging, etc.) to file sharing, automation (IoT), and more. “. The presentation will take place on Saturday, February 1st 2025, on the Real Time Communications (RTC) track, room K.3.601, starting at 18:25 and ending at 18:40 hs.

XMPP Summit 27

Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also hold its 27th XMPP summit. This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and exchange within the developer community. We’ll be reporting live from the event and also from FOSDEM.

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The XMPP Newsletter December 2024

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 2024.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until February 16th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

XMPP Summit 27 & FOSDEM 2025

The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 27, which is to take place on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2025, which takes place on February 1st & 2nd 2025. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XMPP at FOSDEM 2025

Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) presentation at FOSDEM 2025:
- A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP: “Nowadays, most services provide APIs with their own formats, and sometimes multiple versions, which may change over time. But there is a universal API, with an excellent track record of stability and backward compatibility: XMPP!. In this talk, I’ll show how XMPP can be more than just an Instant Messaging protocol, and how it can be an extremely powerful tool to access almost anything, from third-party networks (IM, microblogging, etc.) to file sharing, automation (IoT), and more. “. The presentation will take place on Saturday, February 1st 2025, on the Real Time Communications (RTC) track, room K.3.601, starting at 18:25 and ending at 18:40 hs.

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
PravConf 2025: PravConf 2025 is the first edition of the annual gathering of the Prav community, and it will be held on March 1, 2025, at the Model Engineering College, in Kochi. Feel free to Join the group to learn more!

Talks

Podcast: NGI0: Next Generation Internet
- “Technology is not neutral” - Libervia: “It is important to be able to communicate freely”, says Jérôme Poisson a.k.a. @Goffi@mastodon.social. He is the main developer of Libervia, a communication ecosystem based on XMPP. The open standard is mostly associated with chat but Libervia offers many more features such as blogs, fora, calendars and file & photo sharing. It has gateways to other open protocols like ActivityPub and email.

XMPP Articles

Setting up XMPP (Prosody) on Debian Bookworm: A howto on setting up and running Prosody XMPP server on Debian 12, Bookworm.
Atom Over XMPP For New Readers: XMPP as a syndication platform for news readers and all other software.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Psi+ 1.5.2069 installer has been released.
Conversations has released versions 2.17.5, 2.17.6 and 2.17.7 for Android.
Monal has released versions 6.4.7 and 6.4.8 for iOS an macOS.
Monocles Chat 2.0.3 has been released for Android. This version brings fixes, extensions, UI improvements and more.
Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-3 for Android. Now you can use direct share, hide media, extensions, and more.
Kaidan has released version 0.10.0 with so many features that just can’t be summarized in one sentence! There is a complete list of changes on the changelog section and a technical overview of all currently supported features for you to check out! Version 0.10.1 was released a few days later with some bugfixes.

Kaidan IM 0.10 horizontal view screenshot

XMPP Servers

ProcessOne announces ejabberd 24.12: The “evacuate_kindly” release: Including a few improvements and bug fixes, this release comes a month and half after version 24.10, with around 60 commits to the core repository alongside a few updates in dependencies.
Prosody IM is pleased to announce the release of version 0.12.5, a new minor release of the 0.12 stable branch. As usual, you can consult the changelog for this release, and the download instructions for many platforms on their download page.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

QXmpp version 1.9.2 has been released.
go-xmpp versions 0.2.8 and 0.2.9 have been released.
go-sendxmpp versions 0.13.0 and 0.14.0 have been released.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories).
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0502 (MUC Activity Indicator).
- Promoted to Experimental (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 0.2.0 of XEP-0480 (SASL Upgrade Tasks).
- Fix SCRAM upgrade description and XML schema. (tm)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0500 (MUC Slow Mode).
- Include first feedbacks (jl)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0501 (Pubsub Stories).
- Add pubsub#item_expire in the node configuration (tj)

Last Call

Last Call for comments on XEP-0421 (Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs).
- This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-06
Last Call for comments on XEP-0424 (Message Retraction).
- This Last Call shall end at the close of business on 2025-01-06

Stable

No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEPs rejected this month.

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- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

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The XMPP Newsletter November 2024

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2024.

XSF Announcements

XMPP Summit 27 & FOSDEM 2025

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

XMPP Articles

ProcessOne
- Docker: set up ejabberd and keep it updated automagically with Watchtower
Erlang Solution
- MongooseIM 6.3: Prometheus, CockroachDB and more
XMPP: the forgotten gem of Instant Messaging. A well thoughtout exploration on XMPP, why hasn’t it reached widespread adoption, why it remains relevant, and how it might be the best option for those seeking a flexible, secure, and open-source messaging tool.
The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP
XMPP For Browsers: An idea for developing browser software with XMPP PubSub.
Facile guida per chattare con XMPP [IT]: An easy guide on how to chat using XMPP (also available in English)

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Conversations has released versions 2.17.3 and 2.17.4 for Android.
Monocles Chat 2.0.2 has been released. This version brings MiniDNS, settings export, fixes and more!.
Monal has released version 6.4.6 for iOS an macOS.
Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-2 for Android. This release brings a chat requests feature to hide possible SPAM, with an option to report all. Additionally, it comes with several improvements and bugfixes. Also worth noting, since this last November, Cheogram is once again available for download from the Google Play Store!

Cheogram 2.17.2-2 navigation drawer with account and tag filters and SPAM control, featuring the option report all.

XMPP Servers

Openfire 4.9.1 and 4.9.2 have been released. Version 4.9.1 is a bugfix and maintenance release, whereas version 4.9.2 is a bugfix release. You can read the full changelog for more details.
MongooseIM version 6.3.0 has been released. The main highlight is the complete instrumentation rework, allowing integration with Prometheus. Additionally, CockroachDB has been added to the list of supported databases for increased scalability. See the release notes for more information.
The (non-official) Prosody app for Yunohost has now reached a beta maturity opening it for everybody to test. This variant aims at providing better XMPP support for Yunohost users. In comparison to official Metronome and Prosody apps, this app enables A/V calls working out of the box. An optional import of rosters, MUCs, and bookmarks from Metronome is also provided. As a reminder, Yunohost is a server distribution based on Debian, which makes it easy to host a lot of services (apps) by yourself. Till the last major release (version 12), Metronome was integrated in the core installation, allowing a lot of people to discover XMPP easier (though with some limitations).

XMPP Libraries & Tools

go-xmpp versions 0.2.5, 0.2.6 and 0.2.7 have been released.
go-sendxmpp versions 0.12.0 and 0.12.1 have been released.
QXmpp versions 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have been released.
Slidge versions v0.2.1 and v0.2.2 have been released, bringing quite a few bugfixes.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs Proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0496 (Pubsub Node Relationships)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0497 (Pubsub Extended Subscriptions)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0498 (Pubsub File Sharing)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0499 (Pubsub Extended Discovery)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0500 (MUC Slow Mode)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 1.0.1 of XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization)
- Fix some examples, and their indentation.
- Add the XML Schema. (egp)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-11-05. (XEP Editor (dg)

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
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summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
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2024 Annual Meeting and Voting Results

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 21st, 2024 and voting results can be found in the XSF Wiki.

The 2024/2025 term will be formed by the following members:

XMPP Council
- Dan Caseley
- Daniel Gultsch
- Jérôme Poisson
- Stephen Paul Weber
- Marvin Wißfeld
Board of Directors
- Edward Maurer
- Ralph Meijer
- Florian Schmaus
- Dave Cridland
- Arne-Bruen Vogelsang

Please congratulate them if you run across any of those listed here, but also please help us make this another great year for the XSF.

MongooseIM 6.3 - Monitor with Prometheus, scale up with CockroachDB

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

MongooseIM is a scalable, efficient, high-performance instant messaging server. At Erlang Solutions, we believe that it is essential to use the right tool for the job, and this is why the server implements the proven, open, and extensible XMPP protocol, which was designed for instant messaging from the beginnning. Thanks to the inherent flexibility of XMPP, MongooseIM is very versatile and has a variety of applications. Being specified in RFC and XEP documents, the protocol ensures compatibility with other software as well, including multiple clients and libraries. Similarly to the protocol, we have chosen the Erlang programming language, because it was designed with the intention of handling large numbers of parallel connections - which is the exact case in a messaging server.

With each new version, we introduce new features and improvements. For example, version 6.2.0 introduced our new CETS in-memory storage, making setup and autoscaling in cloud environments easier than before (see the blog post for details). The latest release 6.3.0 is no exception. The main highlight is the complete instrumentation rework, allowing seamless integration with modern monitoring solutions like Prometheus. Additionally, we have added CockroachDB to the list of supported databases, so you can now let this highly scalable database grow with your applications while avoiding being locked into your cloud provider.

Observability and instrumentation

In software engineering, observability is the ability to gather data from a running system in order to figure out what is going inside: is it working as expected? Does it have any issues? How much load is it handling, and could it do more? There are many ways to improve the observability of a system, and one of the most important is instrumentation. Just like adding extra measuring equipment to a physical system, this means adding extra code to the software. It allows the system administrator to observe the internal state of the system. This comes with a price. There is more work for the developers, increased complexity, and potential performance degradation caused by the collection and processing of additional data.

However, the benefits usually outweigh the costs, and the ability to inspect the system is often a critical requirement. It is also worth noting that the metrics and events gathered by instrumentation can be used for further automation, e.g. for autoscaling or sending alarms to the administrator.

Instrumentation in MongooseIM

Even before our latest release of MongooseIM, there have been multiple means to observe its behaviour:

Metrics provide numerical values of measured system properties. The values change over time, and the metric can present current value, sum from a sliding window, or a statistic (histogram) of values from a given time period. Prior to version 6.3, MongooseIM used to store such metrics with the help of the exometer library. To view the metrics, one had to configure an Exometer exporter, which would periodically send the metrics to an external service using the Graphite protocol. Because of the protocol, the metrics would be exported to Graphite or InfluxDB version 1. One could also query a limited subset of metrics using our GraphQL API (or the legacy REST API) or with the command line interface. Alternatively, metrics could be retrieved from the Erlang shell of a running MongooseIM node.

Logs are another type of instrumentation present in the code. They inform about events occurring in the system and since version 4, they are events with extensible map-like structure and can be formatted e.g. as plain text or JSON. Subsequently, they can be shown in the console or stored in files. You can also set up a log management system like the Elastic (ELK) Stack or Splunk – see the documentation for more details.

Prior to version 6.3.0, the instrumented code needed to separately call the log and metric API. Updating a metric and logging an event required two distinct function calls. Moreover, if there were multiple metrics (e.g. execution time and total number of calls), there would be multiple function calls required. The main issue of this solution was however the hardcoding of Exometer as the metric library and the limitation of the Graphite protocol used to push the metrics to external services.

Instrumentation rework in MongooseIM 6.3

The lack of support for the modern and widespread Prometheus protocol was one of the main reasons for the complete rework of instrumentation in version 6.3, which is summarised in the following diagram:

The most noticeable difference is that in the instrumented code, there is just one event emitted. Such an event is identified by its name and a key-value map of labels and contains measurements (with optional metadata) organised in a key-value map. Each event has to be registered before its instances are emitted with particular measurements. The point of this preliminary step is not only to ensure that all events are handled but also to provide additional information about the event, e.g. the measurement keys that will be used to update metrics. Emitted events are then handled by configurable handlers. Currently, there are three such handlers. Exometer and Logger work similarly as before, but there is a new Prometheus handler as well, which stores the metrics internally in a format compatible with Prometheus and exposes them over an HTTP API. This means that any external service can now scrape the metrics using the Prometheus protocol. The primary case would be to use Prometheus for metrics collection, and a graphical tool like Grafana for display. If you however prefer InfluxDB version 2, you can easily configure a scraper, which would periodically put new data into InfluxDB.

Apart from supporting the Prometheus protocol, additional benefits of the new solution include easier configuration, extensibility, and the ability to add more handlers in the future. You can also have multiple handlers enabled simultaneously, allowing you to gradually change your metric backend from Exometer to Prometheus. Conversely, you can also disable all instrumentation, which was not possible prior to version 6.3. Although it might make little sense at first glance, because it can render the system a black box, it can be useful to gain extra performance in some cases, e.g. if the external metrics like CPU usage are enough, in case of an isolated embedded system, or if resources are very limited.

There are more options possible, and you can find them in the documentation. You can also find more details and examples of instrumentation in the detailed blog post.

CockroachDB – a database that scales with MongooseIM

MongooseIM works best when paired with a relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL, enabling easy cluster node discovery with CETS and persistent storage for users’ accounts, archived messages and other kinds of data. Although such databases are not horizontally scalable out of the box, you can use managed solutions like Amazon Aurora, AlloyDB or Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. The downsides are the possible vendor lock-in and the fact that you cannot host and manage the DB yourself. With version 6.3 however, the possibilities are extended to CockroachDB. This PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database can be used either as a provider-independent cloud-based solution or as an internally hosted cluster. You can instantly set it up in your local environment and take advantage of the horizontal scalability of both MongooseIM and CockroachDB. If you want to learn how to deploy both MongooseIM and CockroachDB in Kubernetes, see the documentation for CockroachDB and the Helm chart for MongooseIM, together with our recent blog post about setting up an auto-scalable cluster. If you are interested in having an auto-scalable solution deployed for you, please consider our MongooseIM Autoscaler.

What’s next?

You can read more about MongooseIM 6.3 in the detailed blog post. We also recommend visiting our product page to see the possible options of support and the services we offer. You can also try the server out at trymongoose.im.

Read about Erlang Solutions as sponsor of the XSF.

The XMPP Newsletter October 2024

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2024.

XSF Announcements

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!.

XMPP Summit 27 & FOSDEM 2025

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

XMPP Articles

XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging. A detailed introduction to the XMPP protocol, goals, core concepts and features by the Ignite Realtime Community.
ProcessOne:
- Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1.
- WebPush support on your fluux.io instance.
XMPP Interop Testing: Incoming: Improvements!.
Introducing Honeybee: Calling via XMPP an XMPP client for calling using the Snikket SDK. The program is called Honeybee and it is currently in pre-alpha.
Prav - A Free Software Challenger To WhatsApp. A Free Software messaging service using the open XMPP protocol. Prav aims to make the experience as user-friendly as well-known messaging apps.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Monocles Chat 2.0 and 2.0.1 have been released. This is a big rebuild of Monocles Chat and it brings in a huge list of new features, new options, performance improvements, a big redesign on Material 3, integrated photo editor, reduced battery consumption, support for Message Reactions (XEP-0444), many fixes and a lot more!
Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-1 for Android. This release brings initial link preview, improves reactions, and adds a navigation drawer with account and tag filters among many other improvements.
JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon
Monal IM has released version 6.4.5 for iOS an macOS.
Psi+ 1.5.2057 installer and Psi+ 1.5.2066 portable has been released.
Conversations has released versions 2.17.0, 2.17.1 and 2.17.2 for Android. This version adds support for Message Reactions (XEP-0444).
Convo version 0.1.0 has been released. Convo is a basic XMPP messaging client for KaiOS.

A basic XMPP messaging client for KaiOS

Mellium co-op has released Communique, version 0.0.1 of its instant messaging client with a terminal-based user interface. This initial release features 1:1 and multi-user chat support, HTTP file upload, ad-hoc commands, and chat history.

Communique: Initial release with features including 1:1 and multi-user chat support

XMPP Servers

ejabberd 24.10: The “Bidi” Stream Release has been released. This is a major release packed with substantial improvements and support for important extensions specified by the XMPP Standard Foundation (XSF). The improvements span enhanced security and streamlined connectivity—all designed to make ejabberd more powerful and easier to use than ever.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Ignite Realtime community:
- Smack 4.5.0-beta5 released!. The Ignite Realtime developer community is happy to announce that Smack 4.5 entered its beta phase. Smack is a XMPP client API written in Java that is able to run on Java SE and Android. Smack 4.5 APIs is considered stable, however small adjustments are still possible during the beta phase.
go-xmpp versions 0.2.2, 0.2.3 and 0.2.4 have been released.
go-sendxmpp versions 0.11.3 and 0.11.4 have been released.
Slidge v0.2.0, the XMPP (puppeteer) gateway library in python that makes writing gateways to other chat networks (legacy modules) as frictionless as possible has been released.
Join Jabber added two new entries to their growing list of XMPP integration tutorials: Forgejo and Sharkey!
QXmpp versions 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 have been released.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0495 (Happy Eyeballs)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 1.6.2 of XEP-0198 (Stream Management)
- Clarify server enabling stream management without requested resume functionality. (gk)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0394 (Message Markup)
- Add support for strong emphasis, declaring language on code blocks and making lists ordered. (lmw)
Version 0.1.3 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
- Clarifications and wording
- Better references for WebXDC spec (spw)

Last Call

XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization

Stable

No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

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- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

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XMPP Summit 27

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 27th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium next year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2025. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote!

The Summit

The XMPP Summit is a two day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). The event is not a conference and besides small and short lightning talks there are no long presentations. The participants, where everyone is welcome, are sitting at a round table to discuss and active participation is encouraged. Similar to an unconference at the beginning all participants can suggest topics and others can indicate via votes whether or not they are interested in that topic. Afterwards a rough order of topics is established that will be followed in moderation with the participants.

If you have ever followed a thread on the standards mailing list or participated in a discussion on the public XSF channel you should be familiar with this, now only in person. The different topics are broken up by short breaks that are great for networking and getting to know other XMPP developers. Still, if you cannot participate, we will also provide an online way of joining the discussion.

Agreeing on a common strategy or even establishing a rough priority for certain features in our decentral and interoperable technology and protocol can be hard. In-person events do a lot in getting us on the same page and as an XMPP developer (e.g. client, server, gateway) we strongly encourage you to come to the summit. (Info: To get the most out of the summit you should have a background in reading (and maybe even writing) XEPs). If you are simply an enthusiastic user or admin we regularly have booths at various conferences (FOSDEM, CLT, FrOSCon, …) that are a great opportunity to meet us, too.

If we gained your attention, we will then hopefully see you at the XMPP Summit 27. Read on!

Time & Address

The venue will take place at the Thon Hotel EU including coffee break (from 09:00 o’clock) and lunch (13:00 to 14:00 o’clock) paid by the XSF in the hotel restaurant.

Date: Thursday 30th - Friday 31st, January 2025 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 o’clock (CET) (both days)

Thon Hotel EU
Room: Germany
Wetstraat / Rue de la Loi 75
1040 Brussels
Openstreetmap

Furthermore, the XSF will have its Summit Dinner on Thursday night which is paid for all participating XSF members. Everyone else is of course invited to participate, however at their own expense. Please reach out if you are participating as a non-member (see list below).

Participation

So that we can make final arrangements with the hotel, you must register before Wednesday 15th January 2025!

Please note that, although we welcome everyone to join, you must announce your attendance beforehand, as the venue is not publicly accessible. If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 27. To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter and update your details or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach out via communication below listed. When you sign-up please book the accomodation and your travel. Please also unsign if you will not attend anymore.

Please also consider signing up if you plan to:

present in the Lightning talks or Show-and-Tell
remote participate

Communication

To ensure you receive all the relevant information, updates and announcements about the event, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailing list and the Summit chatroom (Webview).

Spread the word also via our communication channels such as Mastodon and Twitter.

The XMPP Newsletter September 2024

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2024.

XSF Announcements

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!.

The XMPP Standards Foundation is also calling for XSF Board 2024 and XSF Council 2024. Be involved in the XMPP Standards Foundation organisation decisions as well as on our specifications we publish. If you are interested in running for Board or Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to one or both of the following sections until November 3rd, 2024, 00:00 UTC. Note: XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

Monal
- Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
  - Blog post 1
  - Blog post 2

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Videos

Detailed and comprehensive introduction to Rivista XJP: the XMPP PubSub Content Management System.

XMPP Articles

XMPP Interop Testing: Containers
List of projects that got worked on in September’s XMPP Sprint in Worcester, UK!.
Monal Internals - XML Query Language: This new article shines some light onto specific parts of Monal’s internals. It is dedicated to programmers or people curious about how Monal works internally.
The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP: Why XMPP matters.
Straight from The Dandelion Hub: Installation of an XMPP-based messenger using Movim as frontend and Prosody as backend on Linux Debian 12 – A tutorial.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Cheogram has released version 2.15.3-4 for Android.
Conversations has released version 2.16.7 for Android.
Psi+ 1.5.2041 installer has been released.
Gajim 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 have been released. These releases come with integrated support for the XMPP Providers project. Furthermore, there is now support for “Hats” (XEP-0317), which allow you to assign roles to group chat participants, i.e. “Support”, “Expert” or really anything you like to assign. Last but not least, Gajim’s Microsoft Store release has been improved in many ways. You can check the changelog for more details.
Movim 0.28 has been released. This new version (code named “Tempel”) brings a “Freshly redesigned Search panel, improved account gateways and administration features, databases fixes and a new call flow and conference lobby” among many other fixes and improvements.

Movim 0.28 (Tempel) Introducing the new call flow and conference lobby

XMPP Servers

Snikket is pleased to announce a new stable release of the Snikket server stable.20240904 software. For an introduction to the new changes, check out the release announcement blog post.
Openfire 4.9.0 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! You can read the full changelog for more details.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Ignite Realtime community:

Hazelcast plugin for Openfire version 3.0.0 has been released, adding clustering support to Openfire. It is based on the Hazelcast platform. This release brings a major upgrade of the platform. It migrates from version 3.12.5 to 5.3.7. Please read the upgrade instructions carefully for this one.
HTTP File Upload plugin for Openfire version 1.4.1 has been released. This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload.
nbxmpp 5.0.4 comes with a fix for MUC passwords and further bug fixes.
go-sendxmpp 0.11.2 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

Happy Eyeballs

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0493 (OAuth Client Login)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0494 (Client Access Management)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 2.13.2 of XEP-0004 (Data Forms)
- Add section on empty and absent values. (gk)
Version 1.35.1 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- Add explicit error definition when non-owners attempt to use owner-specific functionality. (gk)
Version 1.3.1 of XEP-0133 (Service Administration)
- Fixed typo in example for Get User Last Login Time (dc)
Version 0.4.2 of XEP-0264 (Jingle Content Thumbnails)
- Restrict ‘width’ and ‘height’ to the 0..65535 range, instead of being unbounded integers. This is in accordance to XEP-0084 and XEP-0221 for instance. (egp)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0272 (Multiparty Jingle (Muji))
- Send Jingle IQs to real JID
- Define how to use with XEP-0482
- Adjust namespace (lmw)
Version 1.1.2 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Fix JID and affiliation of the first two witches in the MUC example.
- Fix duplicated ‘id’ in MUC example.
- Fix indentation in examples. (egp)
Version 0.3.1 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
- Fix typos
- Adapt attack-model section to new simplified protocol (tm)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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The XMPP Newsletter August 2024

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2024.

XSF Announcements

The XSF has signed an Open Letter to the European Commission. As currently many other organizations doing, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has decided to also sign the Open Letter to the European Commission.

The XMPP Standards Foundation is also calling for XSF Board 2024 and XSF Council 2024. Get involved with the XMPP Standards Foundation organisation decisions as well as with the specifications we publish. If you are interested in running for Board or Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to one or both of the following sections until November 3rd, 2024, 00:00 UTC. Note: Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

Monal
- Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
  - Blog post 1
  - Blog post 2

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (DE / EN): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time
XMPP Sprint in Worcester, UK: From Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd of September 2024.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Videos

Blasta: An introduction to the XMPP-based Annotation System. (06:38)

XMPP Articles

XMPP Protocol - Introduction to XMPP: An introductory article and concicse overview of the XMPP Protocol and its most prominent features by André Machado. This article is also available for reading in [Portuguese] and [Spanish], too.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Monal 6.4.2, 6.4.3 and version 6.4.4 have been released.
Psi+ 1.5.2040 portable has been released.
Quicksy, the spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client, now has iOS version based on Monal and its available for iPhone and iPad! (announcement on Mastodon).
Monocles Chat 1.7.11 for F-Droid has been released, and its packing a huge list of fixes, corrections, updates, improvements and changes!.
Movim 0.27 and a small bugfix 0.27.1 has been released with a large number of changes, new features and fixes.

Movim 0.27 introducing the floating, chat-integrated, and full-screen modes

XMPP Servers

Yunohost, a (non-official) Prosody host package aiming at providing better XMPP support has been drafted and available for tests. As a reminder, Yunohost is a server distribution based on Debian, which makes easy to host by yourself a lot of services (apps). Nearing the release of its version 12, till the version 11 the XMPP server Metronome was integrated in the core installation, allowing a lot of people to discover XMPP easier (though with some limitations).

XMPP Libraries & Tools

QXmpp 1.8.1 has been released.
Blasta (mirror) is a federated bookmarking system based on XMPP, which allows you to share the collection of bookmarks (aka “social bookmarking”) stored on your own XMPP account, not only among your own software, devices and machines, but also with other people.

Blasta browse

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs Proposed this month.

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 1.2.0 of XEP-0402 (PEP Native Bookmarks)
- Encourage clients to immediately leave the room if they receive a bookmark notification with autojoin set to false (mye)
Version 1.0.2 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Fix various invalid examples.
- Fix the XML Schema to match examples. (egp)
Version 1.35.0 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- Remove references to using resourceparts when banning users.
- Explicitly disallow Ban List modifications that clash with ‘Banning a User’ conditions.
- Status code purpose no longer hints that recipient is the affected user
- Improved ‘Service Removes Non-Member’ example.
- Clarify usage of presence stanzas when removing a non-member from a members-only room.
- Replace inappropriate RFC 2119 key word usage in §9.7.
- Presence sent to occupants of a destroyed room includes a <destroy/> element.
- Explicitly use bare JIDs when operating on affiliations.
- Allow non-owners to retrieve owner and admin lists in non-anonymous rooms.
- Members should be allowed to retrieve the member list only in non-anonymous rooms. (gk)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0478 (Stream Limits Advertisement)
- Add the XML Schema.
- Clarify that both children can be optional.
- Fix indentation and one typo. (egp)
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
- Add an XML Schema. (egp)
Version 1.3.0 of XEP-0054 (vcard-temp)
- Updated error cases to be compatible with . (gk)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
German: xmpp.org
- Translators: Millesimus

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
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The XSF signs Open Letter to the European Commission

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As currently many other organisations doing, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has decided to also sign the Open Letter to the European Commission.

The European Union must keep funding free software

Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2.

If you want to sign the letter, please publish the letter on your website and complete the table below.

Open Letter to the European Commission

Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NGI0 Commons Fund). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.

NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure, as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a European infrastructure. Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organisations.

Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:

“Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe” ;
“A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life” ;
“A structured ecosystem of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet commons”.

In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.

NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application, operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.

Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as “widening countries” ¹, currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.

While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can’t afford this renunciation. Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.

This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole.

In this perspective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.

Statement by the XMPP Standards Foundation

The XMPP Standards Foundation supports this initiative as well as the statements made. In the past, many XMPP projects have been funded by NGI programmes to enhance realtime infrastructure using established XMPP standards. These funds significantly helped drive innovation in a community with two decades of history in the European digital landscape.

These are some of the funded projects:

About the XMPP Standards Foundation

The XMPP Standards Foundation (also known as the XSF and formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are : Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, The Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands. ↩︎

The XMPP Newsletter July 2024

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2024.

XSF Announcements

If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until August 18th, 2024!.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

Monal
- Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
  - Blog post 1
  - Blog post 2
Prav.app
- INFO: Unfortunately, the mid-term evaluation has not been passed and the project has been stopped
- Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)
  - Blog post 1

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Sprint in Worcester, UK: September, 21st - 22nd 2024 — The Hive, Worcester
XMPP Track at FOSSY: August 1-4th 2024 — Portland State University
Berlin XMPP Meetup[DE / EN]: Monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: Monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

XMPP Articles

Rivista is a new publishing system which creates a dynamic journal site from XMPP PubSub nodes; Rivista is compatible with Atom/RSS news readers and HTML browsers as one.
A blogpost from Haiku-OS on the XMPP Sprint Berlin July 2024. Find also July’s XMPP Sprint in Berlin list of projects that got worked on!
JMP.chat: Calls from SIP and a potential new SIM plan
ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Rivista 0.1 has been released.
Psi+ 1.5.2033 portable has been released.
Psi+ 1.5.2029 through 1.5 2038 installer have been released.
Gajim 1.9.2 has been released and comes with an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, plus usability improvements. Also, Gajim 1.9.3 has been released, which fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements.
Monal 6.4.1 has been released with quite a few fixes and updated translations. ATTENTION, this is the last release that will support macOS 11 + 12 and the last release that will support iOS 14 + 15. Furthermore, Monal IM got selected in another funding round by the EU’s NGI via the NLnet Foundation NGI0 Entrust Fund to work on some important features. Namely: Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal’s internals. You can find out more on the Monal IM Blog post.
Movim 0.26 has been released. Featuring Custom Emojis, Codeblock support in messages, better handling of spam messages, updated message moderation and retraction and also some bug fixes. Movim is also happy to announce that it was selected by the NLnet Foundation to receive funds through the NGI0 Core to work on a large set of exciting features around video-conferencing on the platform, including one-to-many audio and video calls. Some more specifics and technical blogs posts will be published soon.

Movim 0.26 with custom emojis

XMPP Servers

openfire 4.8.2 and 4.8.3 have been released.
ejabberd 24.07 has been released.
- Publication of an ejabberd extauth script for OIDC password grant flow

XMPP Libraries & Tools

nbxmpp 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 have been released.
QXmpp 1.7.1 (with improved OMEMO support) and 1.8.0 (with support for SRV records, Bind 2, FAST, XMPP URIs and account migration to another server) have been released.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs Proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0492 (Chat notification settings)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 0.1.1 of XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens)
- Link to latest draft version (09) of the HT SASL mechanism. (lnj)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens)
- Added an XML Schema.
- Fixed text where ‘count’ was assumed to be an element, not an attribute.
- Fixed indentation in a few examples. (egp)
Version 0.4.2 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Add an XML schema.
- Mention that this specification does add a new namespace that should go to the registrar.
- Fix indentation, typos, misuse of '' vs. </> for elements, etc. (egp)
Version 0.1.2 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
- Suggest what to use for selfAddr
- Add acknowledgements (spw)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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The XMPP Newsletter June 2024

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2024.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Track at FOSSY: August 1-4th 2024 — Portland State University
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th of July 2024.
Berlin XMPP Meetup[DE / EN]: Monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: Monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

XMPP Videos

Debian and XMPP in Wind and Solar Measurement talk at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024.

XMPP Articles

Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Psi+ 1.5.1947 through 1.5.2012 installer and Psi+ 1.5.1979 through 1.5.2000 portable have been released.
Gajim 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have been released. Half a year after the last release, Gajim 1.9.0 is finally here. This release brings long awaited support for message replies and message reactions. Message Moderation has been improved as well. Say hello to voice messages!
Gajim message reactions
Monal 6.4.0 has been released for iOS an macOS, with quite an impressive list of improvements. Monal was also running a fundraising campaign.
Movim 0.25 “Nagata” and 0.25.1 small bugfix have been released.

XMPP Servers

Tigase XMPP Server 8.4.0 was released - Most notable features are support for Portable Import/Export Format (XEP-0227), ability to configure users with push devices to show as away, ability to moderate MUCs and support for xmppbl.org.
ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release! - With four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.
ejabberd WebAdmin interface

XMPP Libraries & Tools

nbxmpp 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 have been released, which bring support for XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization), XEP-0317 (Hats), XEP-0424 (Message Retraction) and updates XEP-0425 (Message Moderation) to its latest version.
Ignite Realtime Community:
- Botz framework for Openfire 1.3.0 has been released. The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots. In this release, compatibility with Openfire 4.8.0 and later has been resolved. Thank you to Sheldon Robinson for helping us fix that!
- Openfire restAPI plugin version 1.11.0 release
KaikOut: A moderation bot for the XMPP communication network.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

Chat notification settings
- This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to synchronise per-chat notification settings across different clients.
WebXDC
- This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to communicate WebXDC widgets and their state updates.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 0.2.0 of XEP-0421 (Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs)
- Make explicit that one can’t just hash the real JID.
- Expand security considerations.
- Add schema.
- Fix some examples captions and casing (mw)
Version 1.1.1 of XEP-0153 (vCard-Based Avatars)
- XEP-0054 says “Email addresses MUST be contained in a <USERID> element”. (egp)
Version 1.2.2 of XEP-0107 (User Mood)
- Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

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The XMPP Newsletter May 2024

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2024.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and will kick-off with coding now:

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Track at FOSSY: Call for proposals ends June 14th!
XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th of July 2024.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

XMPP Videos

Debian and XMPP in Wind and Solar Measurement talk at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024.

XMPP Articles

In the JMP Newsletter they discuss new upcoming SMS routes, a future XMPP to RCS gateway option, and the Cheogram Android 2.15.3-1 release.
Aaron P. MacSween announced webxdc evolve. Besides other it has also been ported to the XMPP-based Cheogram service.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

Psi+ 1.5.1844 through 1.5 1930 portable have been released.
Psi+ 1.5.1834 through 1.5 1937 installer have been released.

XMPP Servers

Scaling up with MongooseIM 6.2.1.
XMPP Web is a third-party webclient that is available as plugin for Openfire!

XMPP Web as Openfire plugin

XMPP Libraries & Tools

Initial public announcement of Slixfeed News Bot.

Slixfeed News Bot

QXmpp 1.6.1 (with fixed OMEMO group chat support) and 1.7.0 (with MIX, SASL2 and updated SFS for compatibility with deployed protocols) have been released.
go-xmpp 0.2.1.
go-sendxmpp 0.11.0.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEP was proposed this month.

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 2.5.0 of XEP-0030 (Service Discovery)
- Add note about some entities not advertising the feature. (pep)
Version 1.34.6 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
- Remove contradicting keyword on sending subject in §7.2.2. (pep)

Last Call

XEP-0421: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs
XEP-0440: SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-30. (XEP Editor (dg))

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

No XEP rejected this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: [xmpp.org/categories/newsletter/]
- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

Scaling up with MongooseIM 6.2.1

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

MongooseIM is a scalable, extensible and efficient real-time messaging server that allows organisations to build cost-effective communication solutions. Built on the XMPP server, MongooseIM is specifically designed for businesses facing the challenge of large deployments, where real-time communication and user experience are critical. The main feature of the recently released MongooseIM 6.2.1 is the improved CETS in-memory storage backend, which simplifies and enhances its scalability.

It is difficult to predict how much traffic your XMPP server will need to handle. This is why MongooseIM offers several means of scalability. Firstly, even one machine can handle millions of connected users, provided that it is powerful enough. However, one machine is not recommended for fault tolerance reasons, because every time it needs to be shut down for maintenance, upgrade or because of any issues, your service would experience downtime. As a result, it is recommended to have a cluster of connected MongooseIM nodes, which communicate efficiently over the Erlang Distribution protocol. Having at least three nodes in the cluster allows you to perform a rolling upgrade, where each node is stopped, upgraded, and then restarted before moving to the next node, maintaining fault tolerance. During such an upgrade, you can increase hardware capabilities of each node, scaling the system vertically. Horizontal scaling is even easier, because you only need to add new nodes to the already deployed cluster.

Mnesia

Mnesia is a built-in Erlang Database that allows sharing both persistent and in-memory data between clustered nodes. It is a great option at the start of your journey, because it resides on the local disk of each cluster node and does not need to be started as a separate component. However, when you are heading towards a real application, a few issues with Mnesia become apparent:

Consistency issues, which tend to show up quite frequently when scaling or upgrading the cluster. Resolving them requires Erlang knowledge, which should not be the case for a general-purpose XMPP server.
A persistent volume for schema and data is required on each node. Such volumes can be difficult and costly to maintain, seriously impacting the possibilities for automatic scaling.
Unlike relational databases, Mnesia is not designed for storing huge amounts of data, which can lead to performance issues.

First and foremost, it is highly recommended not to store any persistent data in Mnesia, and MongooseIM can be configured to store such data in a relational database instead. However, up to version 6.1.0, MongooseIM would still need Mnesia to store in-memory data shared between the cluster nodes. For example, a shared table of user sessions is necessary for message routing between users connected to different cluster nodes. The problem is that even without persistent tables, Mnesia still needs to keep its schema on disk, and the first two issues listed above would not be eliminated.

Introducing CETS

Introduced in version 6.2.0 and further refined in version 6.2.1, CETS (Cluster ETS) is a lightweight replication layer for in-memory ETS tables that requires no persistent data. Instead, it relies on a discovery mechanism to connect and synchronise with other cluster nodes. When starting up, each node registers itself in a relational database, which you should use anyway to keep all your persistent data.

Getting rid of Mnesia removes a lot of important obstacles. For example, if you are using Kubernetes, MongooseIM no longer requires any persistent volume claims (PVC’s), which could be costly, can get out of sync, and require additional management. Furthermore, with CETS you can easily set up horizontal autoscaling for your installation.

See it in action

If you want quickly set up a working autoscaled MIM cluster using Helm, see the detailed blog post. For more information, consult the documentation, GitHub or the product page. You can try MongooseIM online as well.

Read about Erlang Solution as sponsor of the XSF.

The XMPP Newsletter April 2024

Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2024.

XSF Announcements

If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until 19th May 2024!.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and are in the community bonding phase now:

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th of July 2024.
XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Articles

Monal:
- iOS app banned from Chinese Appstore
- Partial security audit for Monal iOS client: Radically Open Security (ROS) performed a security audit of some parts of Monal.
Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store (problem already resolved)

Software News

Clients and Applications

Monal 6.3.0 has been released, which brings support for XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction and XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization.
Movim 0.24 “#Mueller” and a 0.24.1 bugfix have been released.
Psi+ 1.5.1747 through 1.5.1816 installer and Psi+ 1.5.1768 through 1.5.1819 portable have been released. Now with Qt6 instead of Qt5.

Servers

MongooseIM 6.2.1 has been released. Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0313 Message Archive Management is now supported. The improved CETS in-memory storage backend allows you to easily deploy, manage and scale your MongooseIM installation in the cloud without the burden of persistent volumes.
ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs

Libraries & Tools

Smack 4.4.8 has been released
Slidge v0.1.0 Slidge is an XMPP (puppeteer) gateway library in python. It makes writing gateways to other chat networks (legacy modules) as frictionless as possible.
go-xmpp 0.2.0.
go-sendxmpp 0.10.0.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEP was proposed this month.

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 0.7.0 of XEP-0333 (Displayed Markers)
- Change title to “Displayed Markers”
- Bring back Service Discovery feature (dg)
Version 0.4.1 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Recommend the usage of tls-exporter over tls-server-end-point (fs)
Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0444 (Message Reactions)
- fix grammar and spelling (wb)
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Fixed typos (md)

Last Call

XEP-0398: User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-02. (XEP Editor (dg))
Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-02. (XEP Editor (dg))
Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0333 (Displayed Markers)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-17. (XEP Editor (dg))
Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0334 (Message Processing Hints)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-17 (XEP Editor (dg))

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

XEP-0360: Nonzas (are not Stanzas)

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English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter March 2024

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP Newsletter Banner

This is the 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter since it started in February 2019. We think it is worth to celebrate this achievement and say thanks to all the contributors as well as all our readers! Back at the Summit in Brussels, JC Brand, Nicolas Vérité (Nyco) and Severino Ferrer (S0ul) proposed and initiated the XMPP Newsletter. Since then almost every month there has been a release full of news from the XMPP universe. Hence, we are looking forward to the next releases and invite you to participate in this community effort! We would love to see more contributors as well as more translations of the XMPP Newsletter. Read more about how to help below.

That being said, welcome to the 50th edition of the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 2024.

XSF Announcements

Welcome to our reapplicants and new members in Q1 2024! If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as member, please apply now.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! Currently XMPP project mentors are reviewing the proposals. GSoC project ideas from XMPP-related projects are:

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Talks

Last November the Linux Inlaws Podcast hosted Edward and Matt from the XSF Board 2024. The episode has been published recently and can be accessed via archive.org.

Articles

Axel Reimer published an XMPP app decision table. It compares typical instant messaging features of popular XMPP apps and might be a guideline for new users who want to try an XMPP app. The table is available in English and German.

You can now ask all your questions about XMPP Providers in the new support chat. That chat is hosted on an own XMPP server which is set up with the new XMPP Providers Server project. It is a simple, Ansible-based all-in-one server setup that can be used for your own XMPP server as well.

Snikket Hosting is now publicly available! The launch is about providing new ways to get started with Snikket, not replacing the options that are already available. If you are already self-hosting Snikket, or planning to, nothing is changing for you. Though please do donate to support the project, even a little helps!

European Union news:

Software News

Clients and Applications

The JMP newsletter introduces the JMP eSIM Adapter, allowing users to use eSIMs from any provider in any device. It explains how to download and write eSIMs to the adapter, including using an open source Android app or PC/SC reader. Cheogram Android also receives an update with new features and a visual refresh. There’s a clarification on contact integration, with Google now requiring the app claim to upload the contacts even though it does not.
Converse 10.1.7 with StropheJS fix for XEP-0474: SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection.
Psi+ 1.5.1716 through 1.5.1669 have been released.

Servers

Openfire has been released in version 4.8.1.
- Openfire inVerse plugin version 10.1.7.1 has been released.
- Openfire PionTurn plugin 1.0.0 has been released! It creates a TURN/STUN server for Openfire.

Libraries & Tools

A new release of go-xmpp 0.1.4.
A new release of go-sendxmpp 0.9.0.
overpush: A self-hosted, drop-in replacement for Pushover, that uses XMPP as delivery method. It offers the same API for submitting messages, so that existing setups (e.g. Grafana) can continue working and only require changing the API URL. Release article.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

Message Displayed Synchronization
- This specification allows multiple clients of the same user to synchronize the displayed state of their chats.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0485 (PubSub Server Information)
- Promoted to Experimental. (dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0486 (MUC Avatars)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0487 (Host Meta 2 - One Method To Rule Them All)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0488 (MUC Token Invite)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0489 (Reporting Account Affiliations)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization)
- Promoted to Experimental (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 1.25.0 of XEP-0001 (XMPP Extension Protocols)
- Add note that editorial changes do not affect Deferred state (XEP Editor: dg)
Version 1.26.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Add examples for publishing item without ID (melvo)
Version 1.1.1 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Add XEP-0136 to superseded specifications (gdk)
Version 0.5.0 and 0.6.0 of XEP-0333 (Displayed Markers (was: Chat Markers))
- Remove <received/> to not replicate functionality.
- Remove <acknowledged/> because it was not implemented in the last 10 years and apparently is not needed.
- Remove Disco feature. Opting in via <markable/> is enough (dg)
- Add Business Rule about opportunistic Displayed Markers in 1:1 chats (dg)
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0334 (Message Processing Hints)
- Incorporate last call feedback from 2017.
- Differences between this specification and XEP-0079 have been clarified.
- A note about handling of hints found in error stanzas has been added. (mw)
Version 0.4.1 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Add missing elements to XML Schema
- Add missing XMPP Registrar Considerations (dg)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion)
- Add text to explain that both and are valid implementations.
- Add Security Considerations for both variants (dg)
Version 0.4.1 of XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
- Fix schema.
- Add missing for attribute in fallback element (Example 4). (nc)
Version of XEP-0425 (Moderated Message Retraction)
- Remove the dependency on XEP-0422 Message Fastening
- Rename to ‘Moderated Message Retraction’ and focus only on the retraction use-case
- Ensure compatibility with clients that only implement XEP-0424
- Clarify the purpose of the <reason/> element
Version 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 of XEP-0447 (Stateless file sharing)
- Describe how to use for multiple files, with body text, without any source in original message and compatibility with various current deployed protocols. (lmw)
- Fix example for multiple files. (lmw)

Last Call

XEP-0333: Displayed Markers (was: Chat Markers)
XEP-0334: Message Processing Hints
XEP-0360: Nonzas (are not Stanzas)
XEP-0386: Bind 2
XEP-0388: Extensible SASL Profile
XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0392 (Consistent Color Generation)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-03-27. (XEP Editor (dg))

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

XEP-0360: Nonzas (are not Stanzas)

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter February 2024

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2024. Many thanks to all our readers and all Newsletter contributors!

XSF Announcements

Welcome to our reapplicants and new members in Q1 2024! If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation, please apply now.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! If you are interested, please reach out! The GSoC project ideas from XMPP-related organisations are:

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Articles

We are happy to announce the launch of the XMPP-IT community’s PeerTube instance, a dedicated platform for sharing and discovering videos about the XMPP protocol and its applications. Members of the XMPP community are encouraged to contribute by creating and sharing their own videos. Whether it’s tutorials, project showcases, or discussions on XMPP topics, your contributions are welcome.

JMP turned 7 years old! Congratulations! Read also about mobile-friendly gateway to any SIP provider.

SIP via XMPP

Software News

Clients and Applications

monocles chat is available on Google Play. It comes with many updates like a working commands view and better support for WebXDC apps, but also an initial modern integration of stickers.

Servers

ejabberd 24.02 has been released, and it comes with support for TLS 1.3 and advanced SASL2 protocols. This release brings performance enhancements with Bind 2 for faster connection times, which is especially crucial for mobile network users. Support for XEP-0424: Message Retraction allows users to manage their message history and remove something they posted by mistake.

Libraries & Tools

GitLab XMPP Bot, an XMPP bot that sends messages based on GitLab hooks had its 1.0.0 release. This bot is based on python-nbxmpp and it is active in Gajim’s support chat.
go-xmpp 0.1.0 has been released.
python-nbxmpp 4.5.4 has been released, which fixes some issues around subject changes and date parsing.
Slixfeed is a news bot offered as client and service component; it can handle multiple chats simultaneously and also display media inline, which, in addition of it being intended primarily for private chats, makes it exceptionally useful for groupchats where visual contents are essential.
StropheJS 2.0.0 has been released.
xmpp-rs has gained a Code of Conduct and a CONTRIBUTING guide. Feel free to come and say hi!

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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

No last call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter December 2023 & January 2024

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 2023 & January 2024. After a winter break we are back - a wonderful happy new year 2024 still! Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

Happy Birthday, Jabber!

On 4th January 2024 the announcement of Jeremie Miller turns 25 and with it what would become the initiation, development and propagation of XMPP until today!

Join the endeavor for the next 25 years!

Happy Birthday!

XSF Membership

If you are interest to join the XMPP Standards Foundation, please apply now.

XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM 2024

The XSF is holding the 26th XMPP Summit, which is to take place on February 1st & 2nd 2024 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also present at FOSDEM 2024, which takes place on February 3rd & 4th 2024. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been applying as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again. If you are interested, please reach out!

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

XMPP Events

1st - 2nd February 2024: XMPP Summit 26
3rd - 4th February 2024: XMPP at FOSDEM 2024
1st February 2024: “XMPP advanced” at TroLUG [DE]: The TroLUG meets on every first Thursday at 19:00 local time online. This time we explore XMPP tools together in the online workshop “XMPP advanced”. How can I write scripts sending XMPP messages from your weather station? Join us and let’s solve trivial and advanced questions together.
14th February 2024: Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote) [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
16th May 2024: XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Talks

XMPP Italian Happy Hour Podcast [IT]: Dive into the world of XMPP with the Italian Happy Hour podcast, a monthly event derived from recorded video sessions. Each episode is dedicated to the XMPP protocol, offering insights and discussions from enthusiasts and professionals within the community. Whether you’re commuting, working out, or simply seeking to listen to interesting conversation, this podcast delivers the essence of Italian XMPP gatherings directly to your ears. Tune in at XMPP Italian Happy Hour Podcast or subscribe to the RSS feed to never miss an episode. Fediverse: @xmpphappyhour@open.audio.
RFC 9420 or how to scale end-to-end encryption with Messaging Layer Security (MLS)

Articles

Happy Birthday ejabberd: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd
OpenPGP published a book
Creating the XMPP Network Graph: Visualizing decentralization with XMPP
XMPP Network Graph
XMPP Providers Fully Automated: During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers.
ProcessOne on Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
Easily accessible (anonymous) Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms
JMP:
- JMP Data Plan
- SMS Censorship
Instalar un servidor privado de mensajería instantánea (XMPP) [ES]

Software News

Clients and Applications

Movim 0.23, codename Kojima is finally out.

Servers

MongooseIM 6.2.0 has been released. XEP-0386 and XEP-0388 are now supported. The blog post shows how to use the helm chart to quickly set up a multi-node cluster connected to RDBMS without the need for persistent volumes thanks to CETS.
ignite realtime community:
- Openfire 4.8.0 Released!
- Dan is voted in the XSF’s Council!
Snikket Server - January 2024 release

Libraries & Tools

libstrophe 0.13.0 has been updated
slixmpp has been published in version 1.8.5
ignite realtime community:

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

PubSub Server Information
- This document defines a data format whereby basic information of an XMPP domain can be expressed and exposed over pub-sub.
Host Meta 2 - One Method To Rule Them All
- This document defines an XMPP Extension Protocol for extending XEP-0156 by modifying the JSON Web Host Metadata Link format to support discovering all possible XMPP connection methods, for c2s and s2s

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens)
- This specification defines a token-based method to streamline authentication in XMPP, allowing fully authenticated stream establishment within a single round-trip. Promoted to Experimental. (XEP Editor: kis)
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0483 (HTTP Online Meetings)
- This specification defines a protocol extension to request URLs from an external HTTP entity usable to initiate and invite participants to an online meeting. Promoted to Experimental. (XEP Editor: kis)

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0483 (HTTP Online Meetings)
- Use XEP-0482 to send the meeting link to another party (do)
0.3.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
- Rework all explanations explaining why this specification is needed
- Simplify protocol (tm)
Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct)
- Address Last Call feedback; complete a copy edit and apply clarifications in several places. Changed status to Active per Board vote on 2024-01-05. (psa)
Version 1.1.4 of XEP-0402 (PEP Native Bookmarks)
- Recommend setting pubsub#max_items to ‘max’ instead of some arbitrary large number (egp)
Version 1.6.1 of XEP-0198 (Stream Management)
- Clarify SASL2 and BIND2 interaction. (tm)

Last Call

No last call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

XMPP Summit 26

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 26th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium this year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2024. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote!

Time & Address

The venue will take place at the Thon Hotel EU including coffee break (from 08:30 o’clock) and lunch (12:00 to 14:00 o’clock) paid by the XSF in the hotel restaurant.

Date: Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd February 2024 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 o’clock (CET) (both days)

Thon Hotel EU
Room: FRANCE
Wetstraat / Rue de la Loi 75
1040 Brussels
Openstreetmap

Furthermore, the XSF will have its dinner Thursday night which is paid for XSF members. Everyone else is of course invited to participate, however at their own expense. Please reach out if you are participating as a non-member (see list below).

Participation

So that we can make final arrangements with the hotel, you must register before Monday 15th January 2024!

Please note that, although we welcome everyone to join, you must announce your attendance beforehand, as the venue is not publicly accessible. If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 26. To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter and update your details or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach out in the XSF public chatroom. When you sign-up please book the accomodation and your travel. Please also unsign if you will not attend anymore.

Please also consider signing up if you plan to:

present in the Lightning talks or Show-and-Tell
remote participate

Communication

To ensure you receive all the relevant information, updates and announcements about the event, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailing list and the Summit chatroom.

Spread the word also via our communication channels such as Mastodon and Twitter.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2024

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2024. Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!

Realtime Lounge

Map of the K building level 2

Talks

There are talks in the Real Time Communications devroom that relate to XMPP. These are so far:

Bridging Open Protocols: XMPP and ActivityPub Gateway via Libervia. In this session, we’ll explore the architecture of this gateway, detailing how it facilitates communication between XMPP and ActivityPub. We’ll delve into the intricacies of protocol mapping and discuss how Libervia integrates features such as microblogging, reactions, likes/favorites, mentions, and calendar events across these platforms.

Talk in Python devroom:

How I’ve Built a Web Frontend for a Federated Communication Tool with Brython: This talk discusses the application of Brython, a Python implementation in JavaScript, in developing the web frontend for Libervia, a multi-frontend XMPP client.

XMPP Summit 26

Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also hold its 26th XMPP summit. This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and exchange within the developer community. We’ll be reporting live from the event and also from FOSDEM.

Spread the word

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The XMPP Newsletter November 2023

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2023 and will be the last publication for 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcments

New XSF Board and Council

The XSF members have voted for a new XSF Board and XSF Council. Congratulations to the new Board members Nicola Fabiano, Edward Maurer, Ralph Meijer, Peter Saint-Andre and Matthew Wild. And congratulations to the new Council members Travis Burtrum, Dan Caseley, Daniel Gultsch, Stephen Paul Weber and Marvin Wissfeld.

Please welcome the members to their new or continuing role!

XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM 2024

The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 26, which is to take place on February 1st & 2nd 2024 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2024, which takes place on February 3rd & 4th 2024. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2023 again, and manages two successful slots for XMPP Contributors. Find the projects for “Windows Support for Dino” and “Implement group chats in Moxxy”.

We are planning to participate the next year. The time to reach out to the XMPP community is now :-)

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Mellium Co-op

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Talks

XMPP Italian Happy Hour Podcast: Dive into the world of XMPP with the Italian Happy Hour podcast, a monthly event derived from recorded video sessions. Each episode is dedicated to the XMPP protocol, offering insights and discussions from enthusiasts and professionals within the community. Whether you’re commuting, working out, or simply seeking to listen to interesting conversation, this podcast delivers the essence of Italian XMPP gatherings directly to your ears. Tune in at XMPP Italian Happy Hour Podcast or subscribe to the RSS feed to never miss an episode. Find the link to podcast and the link to RSS feed to subscribe the podcast. Plus, join the conversation and keep up with updates by following the podcast page in the Fediverse: @xmpphappyhour@open.audio. The podcast is in Italian but but there may be contributions in English.

Articles

Automating the automatable: During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers. Automating this process reduces manual work significantly (for example, checking websites by hand, verifying information, listing sources, etc.) and helps to sustain the team’s efforts. Automation also enables the project to be up to date - every day! A suite of tools has been developed since, providing the ability to query properties via XMPP and through the web. All of these tools are working together in a GitLab pipeline, which runs every night to keep the data up to date.
Planned downtime + Happy 10th anniversary, yax.im! by Georg Lukas, discussing about the last ten years evolution of yaxim and what’s next.
Automatic schema update in ejabberd by Jérôme Sautret: Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an external relational database, you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automatically. This articles discuss about this feature.
Software is Political by SamWhited: adapted from closing remarks of an XMPP talk at FOSSY, this article discuss about why SamWhited thinks to use as a universal standardized chat protocol is the correct choice.
The Power of Green Coding: Erlang and Elixir Leading the Charge by Simon El Nahas: In the era of the green revolution, Erlang and Elixir languages are helping industries reduce server consumption and minimise environmental impact. Here are some industry examples demonstrating this.
Italian XMPP-IT Community - they have a website now: www.xmpp-it.net, a group chat: xmpp-it@conference.xmpp-it.net, they also have a Git to share, create and develop software, configurations and documents concerning the XMPP protocol: git.xmpp-it.net, and finally created a wiki for documentation in Italian: wiki.xmpp-it.net. There is a first translated guide in Snikket.

Software News

Clients and Applications

Gajim 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 have been released. These releases come with improvements for the profile window, fail-safes for anonymous accounts, usability improvements, and several fixes.
Psi+ 1.5.1653 has been released.
Libervia has received new funding from NLnet/NGI0 for the development of an email-XMPP gateway. This project will enable the conversion of email messages to XMPP and vice versa, including the transformation of mailing lists into pubsub-based forums. Enhancements in Libervia will include UI/UX improvements, end-to-end encryption, and advanced handling of attachments. More details on the project are available here.
monocles chat 1.7.7.5 has been released and got several fixes and improvements like the re-implementation of stickers or a DNSSEC and DANE check shown in the interface. Also an option to enforce DANE and further improvements in the latest Beta 1.7.8.

Servers

Openfire 4.8.0 Beta with a lot of security improvements…
Openfire plugin maintenance release galore!
New Openfire plugin: Reporting Account Affiliations
More Openfire plugin maintenance releases!
External Service Discovery plugin 1.0.2 released!
REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.2 released!

Libraries & Tools

nbxmpp 4.5.1, 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 have been released and come with bug fixes.
Smack 4.4.7 has been released

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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

Community Code of Conduct
- This document describes the XMPP Standard Foundation’s Code of Conduct. This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2023-11-30.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter October 2023

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcments

CertWatch

Recently, an XMPP service was targeted by a so-called machine-in-the-middle attack (MitM). To reduce the risk of such attacks in the future, an early stage service called CertWatch has been published by our community. This service is created and kindly provided by Stephen P. Weber (singpolyma). Find more details below.

CertWatch Logo

XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM 2024

XMPP Vision & Strategic Workshop

Join the upcoming XMPP Vision & Strategic Workshop to discuss and understand our community better! We also asking ask for your input on different topics with focus on the future of our federated network and technology. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, 14th November 2023, 6:00 - 9:00 pm UTC. This event will take place online and will be held in English (details to follow). Everyone is welcome - please spread the word! If you have questions please write us in the XSF chat.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as a hosting organisation at GSoC 2023, receiving two slots for XMPP Contributors.

On Dino:

On Moxxy:

The first blog post, detailing the plan to implement basic group chat functionality.
The second blog post, describing the plans to bring a basic implementation of XEP-0045 into Moxxy’s XMPP library moxxmpp.
The third blog post, sketching the frontend implementation plan.
The fourth blog post, concluding with Moxxy’s completed MUC support.

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Mellium Co-op

XMPP Events

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
JabberFR and Libre en Communs will be present at the Capitole du Libre conference in Toulouse, France, on November 18-19th.

Videos

Ok, but what is XMPP? - an easy to follow introduction to XMPP.

Articles

XMPP—the Universal Technology for Instant Messaging
Attack on an XMPP Server and and a new tool called CertWatch: Recently, the XMPP service at jabber.ru was targeted by a so-called machine-in-the-middle attack (MitM). To reduce the risk of such attacks in the future, an early stage service called CertWatch has been published by our community. This service is created and kindly provided by Stephen P. Weber (singpolyma).
- Many articles have been published around this incident. Three blog posts on the topic are presented here:
- Other media representation:

In other news:

EuGH-Gutachterin: Deutschland darf Encrochat-Daten aus Frankreich beziehen [DE]

Software News

Clients and Applications

Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways, improved group chats, an easy way to change the font size, and many small fixes.
After several months of hard work Monal 6.0 was finally released. This version comes with new artwork by Ann-Sophie Zwahlen, support for Audio-Calls funded by EU’s NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation and many, many other improvements and bugfixes. The full list of changes can be found in this blog post.
monocles chat 1.7.5 to 1.7.7 have been released. monocles chat 1.7.5 is now available on F-Droid, while 1.7.7 is only available on Codeberg yet. These releases come with many design improvements to meet modern messaging clients. There are also many new settings, like custom backgrounds, the often requested option to switch between round and square avatars (in 1.7.7), and the introduction of Material Design 3. Stay tuned for a final release 1.8 in November!
Conversations 2.12.12 has been released, which brings support for Private DNS (DNS over TLS), a themed launcher icon, and a fix for a rare permission issue when sharing files on Android 11+.
Cheogram 2.12.8-3 has been released, coming with bugfixes and calling stability improvements.

Servers

ejabberd 23.10 has been published and brings support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks, XEP-0421: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs, and includes many bugfixes.
isode announced their M-Link 19.4 Limited Release

Libraries & Tools

As mentioned above, the CertWatch service has been published.
nbxmpp 4.4.0 and 4.5.0 have been released, which bring support for XEP-0440: SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability and include some bugfixes.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

Communicate & Ask to AI
- This document defines a protocol for asking questions to an artificial intelligence or requesting it to make predictions.
HTTP Online Meetings
- This specification defines a protocol extension to request URLs from an external HTTP entity usable to initiate and invite participants to an online meeting.

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 0.3.1 of XEP-0377 (Spam Reporting)
- Add XML Schema. (egp)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
- Remove the dependency on XEP-0422 Message Fastening.
- Use ‘id’ attribute on ‘retracted’ element instead of a child element.
- Clarify business rules regarding which ‘id’ to use to refer to the retracted message. (jcb)
Version 0.3 of XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct)
- Address substantive feedback from JC Brand; add Peter Saint-Andre as co-author to help address future feedback. (psa)

Last Call

Community Code of Conduct
- This document describes the XMPP Standard Foundation’s Code of Conduct. This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2023-11-30.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter September 2023

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 and receive two slots for XMPP Contributors!

On Dino:

On Moxxy:

The first blog post, detailing the plan to implement basic group chat functionality.
The second blog post, describing the plans to bring a basic implementation of XEP-0045 into Moxxy’s XMPP library moxxmpp.
The third blog post, sketching the frontend implementation plan.
The fourth blog post, concluding with Moxxy’s completed MUC support.

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Mellium Co-op

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
TroLUG XMPP Workshop The TroLUG organizes the second workshop on XMPP in German language on 2023-09-07. It takes place as audio conference via BBB. All nice people are invited to join the workshop.
The GSoC Organisation Administrator will participate this year’s Google Mentor Summit in Sunnyvale!

Videos

There has been an XMPP track at FOSSY2023 with many talks:

XMPP Connectivity & Security is an introduction about XMPP connectivity XEPs like XEP-0368 (Direct TLS), XEP-0467 (QUIC), XEP-0468 (WebSocket S2s) and the internals of xmpp-proxy, a forward+reverse proxy, and others.
XMPP Introduction and Overview is a brief history and introduction to the XMPP protocol for people with small background in programming.
My XMPP Past, Present, and Future is a point-of-view journey through the evolution of the XMPP ecosystem from 2004. It explains how it was affected by major events such as the decline of traditional IM services, the beginning of the smartphone era and new chat services, and more.
Building open standards-based ecosystems is a talk about how XMPP as both a community and a protocol adapted to change, and the role that the XSF played in its continuity, but also a general discussion about sustainability of open ecosystems and open networks.

Articles

JMP Newsletter: Summer in Review. JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Share one number with multiple people.
State of Snikket 2023: Funding. This post in the series is covering financial topics of the project.

Software news

Clients and applications

Moxxy 0.5.0 has been released. This release brings improved notifications, image picking, and translations. Initial work on groupchats has been started, thanks to the Google Summer of Code 2023.

Moxxy Group Chat (MUC) Demo

Servers

Prosody 0.12.4 has been released.

Libraries & Tools

XMPP Account Exporter received an update, which brings many layout improvements and support for exporting bookmarks.
Ejabberd auth script for Lemmy, to bring secure chat to the users of your federated Reddit alternative. This extends a collection of Fediverse integrations on JoinJabber.org.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 update this month.

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Jonas Stein, Kris “poVoq”, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter August 2023

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 and receive two slots for XMPP Contributors!

On Dino:

On Moxxy:

The first blog post, detailing the plan to implement basic group chat functionality.
The second blog post, describing the plans to bring a basic implementation of XEP-0045 into Moxxy’s XMPP library moxxmpp.
The third blog post, sketching the frontend implementation plan.
The fourth blog post, concluding with Moxxy’s completed MUC support.

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
TroLUG XMPP Workshop The TroLUG organizes the second workshop on XMPP in German language on 2023-09-07. It takes place as audio conference via BBB. All nice people are invited to join the workshop.

Videos

There has been an XMPP track at FOSSY2023 with many talks:

XMPP Connectivity & Security is an introduction about XMPP connectivity XEPs like XEP-0368 (Direct TLS), XEP-0467 (QUIC), XEP-0468 (WebSocket S2s) and the internals of xmpp-proxy, a forward+reverse proxy, and others.
XMPP Introduction and Overview is a brief history and introduction to the XMPP protocol for people with small background in programming.
My XMPP Past, Present, and Future is a point-of-view journey through the evolution of the XMPP ecosystem from 2004. It explains how it was affected by major events such as the decline of traditional IM services, the beginning of the smartphone era and new chat services, and more.
Building open standards-based ecosystems is a talk about how XMPP as both a community and a protocol adapted to change, and the role that the XSF played in its continuity, but also a general discussion about sustainability of open ecosystems and open networks.

Articles

No articles this month.

Software news

Clients and applications

Converse 10.1.6 has been published. It fixes two graphical bugs.
Gajim 1.8.1 is available with many bugfixes. Note that Gajim’s OMEMO plugin was integrated into Gajim’s core with Gajim 1.8.0. You don’t need the plugin anymore.
monocles chat 1.7.3 is available on f-droid with some fixes and many new features from Cheogram.
Profanity 0.14.0 has been released.
State of Snikket 2023: The Apps.

Snikket - Chat that is simple, secure, and private

Servers

Metronome IM 4.0.3 has been released.

Libraries & Tools

libstrophe 0.12.3 has been released.
python-nbxmpp 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 have been released and come with bug fixes.
XMPP Providers got a new web bot and an XMPP bot keeping several provider properties up-to-date.

XMPP Providers - Which XMPP provider suits you best? It’s your choice.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

MUC Token Invite
- This specification provides a way to generate tokens to invite users to a MUC room.

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 0.2.1 of XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct)
- Add anchors to every section, for easier linking. Also fix a typo. (egp)
Version 0.4.1 of XEP-0333 (Chat Markers)
- Changed discovery example to use client JIDs. (gdk)
Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0459 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2022)
- Replace deprecated XEP-0411 with XEP-0402 in Advanced Group Chat. (egp)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Jonas Stein, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 and receive two slots for XMPP Contributors!

On Dino:

On Moxxy:

The first blog post, detailing the plan to implement basic group chat functionality.
The second blog post, describing the plans to bring a basic implementation of XEP-0045 into Moxxy’s XMPP library moxxmpp.
The third blog post, sketching the frontend implementation plan.

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Talks

Une messagerie instantanée qui respecte vos libertés ?[FR]: Through a brief history of the web, in order to depict its current centralization and its problems, Adrien Bourmault, member of the XMPP Standards Foundation, will introduce you to the problems problems posed by non-free instant messaging, based on centralized applications and services. He will also explore the solutions offered by decentralization and free software with XMPP. See the video below.

Videos

Libervia: the Universal Communication Ecosystem

Articles

A new place for poezio and slixmpp.
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023: Post-Sprint Summary
OpenPGP & PGPainless
- [Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – Knitting a Net](
- PGPainless meets the Web-of-Trust
Two thoughts on killing decentralized networks:
- How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
- A thread on this article by MattJ
XMPP - Teil 2 - XMPP etwas genauer [DE]

Software news

Clients and applications

JMP is launched and out of Beta
Cheogram Android version 2.12.1-6 adds per-account colours, per-account quiet hours, thumb hash previews of un-downloaded files, and more.
Libervia progress note 2023-W22 on A/V Implementation, ActivityPub Gateway and more.
Dino 0.4.3 has been released.
Movim 0.22.2 is out.

Servers

The ejabberd mod_s3_upload module gained support for the use of a separate download host. This allows clients to download media content from a statically hosted S3 bucket. Initially, this feature was proposed to allow ejabberd to integrate with Garage, an open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.

Libraries & Tools

New website and xmpp.rs version 0.4 release: After more than 3 and a half years since the last release (version 0.3 in septembre 2019), xmpp-rs developers are happy to announce xmpp-rs version 0.4.0. If you don’t know about xmpp-rs, those are Rust crates for interoperable and federated instant messaging and other social networking applications.
omemo_dart released version 0.5.0, which finally allows Moxxy to establish stable OMEMO:2 sessions between two Moxxy clients.
Openfire inVerse plugin v10.1.4-1 has been released
A feature-rich Matrix to XMPP puppeteering gateway, based on slidge and nio.
From the ignite realtime community:

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

Reporting Account Affiliations
- This specification documents a way for an XMPP server to report to other entities the relationship it has with a user on its domain.

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0317 (Hats)
- Select a syntax for hats. (mw)
Version 0.1.2 of XEP-0453 (DOAP usage in XMPP)
- Fix XMLNS typo (spw)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

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Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023: Post-Sprint Summary

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Elbe-Sprint 2023: Post-Sprint Summary

In June the Elbe-Sprint 2023 took place in Hamburg and it was a great first experience after all the pandemic in the past years for many participants. In this blog post we want to summarize progress we’ve made during the sprint.

First of all, many thanks to the CCCHH and their members for offering the opportunity and their space in Hamburg-Altona. It was a great location and it served the purpose well.

We met on Thursday night for dinner and got some delicious pizza and Italian food. We had a short welcoming round and exchange on XMPP topics followed immediately. Afterwards, we met at a small park area. Accidentially, there was a small festival called “Altonale - Festival of the cultural Future” and welcoming open seating options on the grass ground. As the festival title says, it was organised around discussing future topics - the perfect place to kick of the XMPP Elbe Sprint!

Developers at the location where the Elbe-Sprint takes place

Then, on Friday we kicked off at 10:00 am in the morning with a short presentation of what everyone plans to work on. The developers and topics present allocated around ANIS update, Conversations 3.0 and lttrs, Dino, PGPainless and XMPP Providers. The night we spent at a Kurdish & Turkish restaurant at the city and finished nearby the river Elbe enjoying the scenery.

Developers trying to find the right node :-)

Moving on after a first good day we continued working on Saturday. After the lunch break we had three presentations: One on ANIS update, then an XMPP introduction talk so anyone who is interested can join and ask about it, and finally a status update on PGPainless. The night we spent in an Indian restaurant in the famous St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg as a little highlight. As in many other countries, the idea of sharing the food served seemed to be the best choice for the knowledge, the XMPP protocol and the technology we are developing and last but not least how we work together.

Developers sharing knowlege & dinner in an India restaurant

After the final dinner, we went out for a walk and took a boat drive along the river Elbe and watched the sunset and scenery together. We finished with another round of drinks at the Festival where we started:

How do we want to build our (communication) future?

Developers happy enjoying a boat ride on a Elbe ferry

At Sunday we concluded the Elbe-Sprint after a pre-lunch working phase and a small closing ceremony where everybody summarized what they have been working on and what they achieved during the sprint.

Developers proceeding with their final cherry-picking :-)

As you read, we were not only focusing on work, we also spent a decent amount of time doing social events and personal exchange on XMPP but also many things of life around. That is what many seem to enjoy a lot during sprints, too.

Developers being served with stickers & melons :-)

See you at the next sprint hopefully,
Eddie — The organizer

The XMPP Newsletter May 2023

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

If you are interested to become an XSF member you can apply during Q3 2023 soon.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 and receive two slots for XMPP Contributors!

The GSoC contributor for Moxxy published his first blog post, detailing the plan to implement basic groupchat functionality.

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
FOSSY will have an XMPP track at their conference this summer from July 13-16th 2023
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).

Talks

The developer behind Libervia has scheduled a couple of informative talks in Paris for June. These presentations will delve into various aspects of the Libervia project and XMPP. The first talk is a 20-minute session in English, taking place at 15:00 on Thursday, June 15 at OW2. The second talk will be a more in-depth 60-minute discussion in French, scheduled for 17:30 on Friday, June 16 at Pas Sage En Seine. These sessions provide a great opportunity to gain insights into the Libervia project and to interact with its developer.

Articles

The German governmental competion authorthy has publish a study on video and messaging services [DE] where the XSF and also several XMPP projects provided statements. Read the summary [DE] or the full document [DE].

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.8.0 has been released and it comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. The chat menu has been rearranged and some quick buttons have been added for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes.

Gajim’s chat banner in a group chat

Kaidan 0.9 and 0.9.1 have been released! It adds support for OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management (ATM), XMPP Providers, Message Reactions and much more.

Kaidan’s chat view

Exciting developments are on the horizon for Libervia. Thanks to a grant from NLnet through the NGI Assure Fund, work on the implementation of A/V calls with Jingle across several frontends is underway. This new feature aims to support both one-on-one and multi-party calls, with plans to even add remote desktop control capabilities. Additionally, the ActivityPub Gateway is currently being stabilised, which will further enhance the functionality of Libervia. For a full rundown of these updates and more, check out the latest progress note on Goffi’s blog.
JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Jabber-side reactions are now translated where possible into the tapback pseudo-syntax. Read more in the JMP blog. Cheogram Android 2.12.1-6 features per-account colours and quiet hours, thumbhash previews for images, and many bug fixes.

Servers

MongooseIM 6.1.0 has been released.
The Openfire XMPP server had two new releases: Openfire 4.6.8 (old stable) and Openfire 4.7.5 (stable). Furthermore a CVE on Openfire Administration Console authentication bypass has been submitted.

Libraries & Tools

omemo-dr, a new OMEMO crypto library is available. omemo-dr is a fork of python-axolotl, which is the crypto library used for OMEMO encryption in Gajim. In preparation for future changes (e.g. the next OMEMO version), Gajim developers forked this library.
python-nbxmpp 4.3.0 and 4.3.1 have been released and bring several bug fixes regarding OMEMO and HTTP handling.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0480 (SASL Upgrade Tasks)
- This specification provides a way to upgrade to newer SASL mechanisms using SASL2 tasks.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0482 (Call Invites)
- This document defines how to invite someone to a call and how to respond to the invite.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0481 (Content Types in Messages)
- This specification describes a generic method whereby content in messages can be tagged as having a specific Internet Content Type. It also provides a method for sending the same content using different content types, as a fall-back mechanism when communicating between clients having different content type support.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0478 (Stream Limits Advertisement)
- This specification defines a way for an XMPP entity to announce the limits it will enforce for data received on a stream.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0479 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2023)
- This document defines XMPP application categories for different use cases (Core, Web, IM, and Mobile), and specifies the required XEPs that client and server software needs to implement for compliance with the use cases.

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 1.25.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Add data model informational text in Implementation Notes.
- Provide a way for a PubSub service to tell a client when a node is full.
- Clarify behaviour and current usage of the ‘pubsub#itemreply’ option.
- Fix spec approver
Version 1.1.1 of XEP-0223 (Persistent Storage of Private Data via PubSub)
- Add notes about checking event origin (in reaction to CVE-2023-28686). (ka)
Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Clarify archive metadata response in the case of an empty archive.
- Clarify query response in the case of no matching results. (mw)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

A Call For Experience - like a Last Call, is an explicit call for comments, but in this case it’s mostly directed at people who’ve implemented, and ideally deployed, the specification. The Council then votes to move it to Final.

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

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Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicola
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter April 2023

Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

xmpp.org got a new software section! Looking for XMPP software, i.e. clients, servers, libraries, components, and tools? Check out xmpp.org’s new software section, which lets you filter software by your own criteria. Looking for a client which works on Android and supports audio/video calls? Looking for a library that supports XEP-0461: Message Replies? Just apply the filter and see what you get!

xmpp.org’s new software section

If you are interested to become an XSF member you can apply during this quarter until May 21th, 2023, 00:00 UTC.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023!

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. We’re open for applications via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
FOSSY will have an XMPP track at their conference this summer. Please submit talk proposals by May 14th. The track organizers offer financial support for presenters, if needed.
XMPP Italian happy hour: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, starting May 16th and then every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM. Online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming.

XMPP Sprints

Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023: Thursday, 22-06-2023 18:00 CEST — Sunday, 25-06-2023 12:00 CEST.
This summer, XMPP developers are holding a development sprint in Hamburg, Germany.

XMPP Videos

Axel Reimer published German video tutorials in his blog eversten.net.
- One video [DE] explains some main aspects of XMPP.
- A series of four videos [DE] explains how iOS users can start using XMPP by installing and configuring the messenger app Monal.

Articles

A draft of the EU chat-control has been published for download at Netzpolitik.org.. Those are comment by
- Netzpolitik.org [DE]
- Patrick Beyer (politician) [DE]
Axel Reimer introduced a new German website called xmpp24.de [DE]. This website focuses on helping new XMPP users who want to start using XMPP on their Android or iOS devices. It explains one onboarding flow (as a video tutorial) per operating system.
The JMP April Newsletter talks about several developments, including a new MMS stack in testing, integration with the Quicksy directory, the ability to create Snikket instances from inside a Cheogram Android onboarding flow, and an experimental WebXDC prototype.

Cheogram onboarding view

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.7.3 has been released. This release enables you to mute notifications for specific contacts and brings some improvements and bug fixes.

Servers

ejabberd 23.04 has been released. This a big new release with many changes including support XEP-0425 (Message moderation), Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms and several SQL improvements.

Libraries & Tools

QXmpp 1.5.4 and QXmpp 1.5.5 have been released! They fix some important bugs.
Web Console Chat has been released. This is an installation guide and a collection of patches to make sure existing XMPP console clients are safe enough before serving them to the web with ttyd for your web-chat service.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0472 (Pubsub Social Feed)
- Change the pubsub#type to be consistent with other XEPs
- Add a Discovery section (tj)
Version 0.4.1 of XEP-0356 (Privileged Entity)
- Fixed some typos (gh/@bodqhrohro)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0428 (Fallback Indication)
- Add ‘for’ attribute such that entities can discover what the fallback is for.
- Allow to specify that only one of or is meant as a fallback.
- Allow to specify the part of respective text that is meant as fallback where applicable.
- Don’t use encryption example, which should use XEP-0380 instead. (lmw)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Bump namespace
- Add reference to and
- Update security considerations and business rules
- Clarify <continue/> and tasks
- Add expansion point to inline stream resumption and BIND2 (and possibly others)
- Add optional <user-agent/> element
- Move from Deferred to Experimental (tm)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
- Various changes, made in parallel with working client and server implementation experience, and SASL2 updates.
- More tightly define the integration with XEP-0388 and several session feature XEPs: XEP-0198, XEP-0280, XEP-0352.
- Replace the custom latest-id element with the new metadata element from XEP-0313, which also provides richer information.
- Drop unread tracking, as this is a deep topic not directly related to resource binding. Instead the details of integration with other extensions have been better defined and demonstrated, to allow such functionality when it is fully defined and exists.
- Adjust proposed namespace on aesthetic grounds and consistency with SASL2’s approach. As this protocol may become part of the new preferred connection flow for a long time to come, it makes no sense to include the redundant and potentially confusing ‘2’ when there is no conflict without it. Similarly, the ‘.0’ has been dropped from the XEP’s title, as it isn’t really a version number.
- Allow the client some influence over the resulting resource identifier, and define a standard format for these combined identifiers.
- Specify that servers should terminate old sessions from a client when it binds a new resource. (mw)
Version 0.7.0 of XEP-0359 (Unique and Stable Stanza IDs)
- Add security consideration regarding spoofability and reference example (fs)
Version 0.12.0 of XEP-0292 (vCard4 Over XMPP)
- Remove raw-IQ mode and specifies the reuse of PEP (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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg

A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!

We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange and projects. Many thanks to the Chaos Computer Club Hansestadt Hamburg (CCCHH) for offering their space!

The sprint will be all around XMPP and offer the opportunity to meet, present, discuss, but also work on your projects and implementations. Of course, the event is open to general newcomers, XMPP users and any interested party. If you’re planning to attend, signing up would help us organise things.

Info

Date & Time

Thursday, 22-06-2023 18:00 CEST — Sunday, 25-06-2023 12:00 CEST

Location

CCC Hansestadt Hamburg e.V.
Zeiseweg 9
Viktoria-Kaserne, mittlerer Osten, 1. OG, Raum 2 (mid east building area, 1st floor (= first level above the ground), room 2)
22765 Hamburg

Organisational & Attendance

If you plan to join us, please add yourself to the list of participants. Adding yourself to the list will help us organise everything - thanks! If you don’t have a wiki account, please reach out via chat (see below).

Chat & Communication

It’s recommended to join the chat and say hello if you are interested: XMPP Chat & WebChat Feel free to share via Mastodon or Twitter!

Looking forward to meet you,

— The organiser, Eddie

The XMPP Newsletter March 2023

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

xmpp.org got a new software section! Looking for XMPP software, i.e. clients, servers, libraries, components, and tools? Check out xmpp.org’s new software section, which lets you filter software by your own criteria. Looking for a client which works on Android and supports audio/video calls? Looking for a library that supports XEP-0461: Message Replies? Just apply the filter and see what you get!

xmpp.org’s new software section

If you are interested to become an XSF member you can apply during this quarter until May 21th, 2023, 00:00 UTC.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 !

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

Debian package maintainers give a summary of XMPP packages that will be available in the next Debian stable release (Debian 12 “Bookworm”).
Cheogram Android introduces Stickers.
IgniteRealtime: Translations everywhere!
Carl Schwan writes on the Digital Market Act workshop in Brussels
Digital Market Act workshop in Brussels
The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users. End-to-end encryption is an increasingly important security feature in Internet applications. It keeps users’ information safe even if the cloud service they’re using has been breached.

Software news

Clients and applications

Cheogram Android 2.12.1-4 has been released with support for sending message replies and reactions, swipe to reply, “note to self” contact, viewing vcard4 profiles, and occasional MUC pings.
Gajim 1.7.2 has been released. This release brings many bug fixes and some useful improvements. Gajim now allows you to delete messages from your local chat history (in case of nasty spam messages). Furthermore, detection of WAV audio files has been improved and you can now click the waveform to skip to a specific timestamp within a voice message.
monocles chat 1.6.3 received support for message moderation (XEP-0425) and will get some new features of Cheogram Android as well.
Movim 0.21 “Whipple” has been released, and it comes with a ton of new features. Message Replies, Web Push, voice messages, new emojis, and much more.
SiskinIM 7.3.3 and BeagleIM 5.3.4 from Tigase have been released.
Spark 3.0.2 from Ignite Realtime has been released.

Movim supports replies

Servers

Metronome IM 4.0.2 brings some bug fixes.

Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 have been released, which fix some bugs with python-nbxmpp’s HTTP library.
QXmpp 1.5.1 and QXmpp 1.5.2 have been released in February and QXmpp 1.5.3 in March! They fix some important bugs.
xmppbl.org provides a Real-Time Block List (RTBL) service for XMPP.
XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of the MatriX vNext XMPP library.

From the ignite realtime community:

Openfire MUC Real-Time Block List plugin 1.1.0 has been released.
Openfire EXI plugin is work in progress.
Botz 1.2.0 has been released.
Openfire HTTP File Upload plugin 1.2.2 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0444 (Message Reactions)
- Add emoji rejection mechanism. (NC)
Version 0.7.0 of XEP-0359 (Unique and Stable Stanza IDs)
- Add security consideration regarding spoofability and reference example (fs)
Version 0.12.0 of XEP-0292 (vCard4 Over XMPP)
- Removes raw-IQ mode and specifies the reuse of PEP (spw)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0388 (Extensible SASL Profile)
- Bump namespace
- Add reference to XEP-0440 and RFC 5802
- Update security considerations and business rules
- Clarify <continue/> and tasks
- Add expansion point to inline stream resumption and BIND2 (and possibly others)
- Add optional <user-agent/> element
- Move from Deferred to Experimental
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0386 (Bind 2)
- Various changes, made in parallel with working client and server implementation experience, and SASL2 updates.
- More tightly define the integration with XEP-0388 and several session feature XEPs: XEP-0198, XEP-0280, XEP-0352.
- Replace the custom latest-id element with the new metadata element from XEP-0313, which also provides richer information.
- Drop unread tracking, as this is a deep topic not directly related to resource binding. Instead the details of integration with other extensions have been better defined and demonstrated, to allow such functionality when it is fully defined and exists.
- Adjust proposed namespace on aesthetic grounds and consistency with SASL2’s approach. As this protocol may become part of the new preferred connection flow for a long time to come, it makes no sense to include the redundant and potentially confusing ‘2’ when there is no conflict without it. Similarly, the ‘.0’ has been dropped from the XEP’s title, as it isn’t really a version number.
- Allow the client some influence over the resulting resource identifier, and define a standard format for these combined identifiers.
- Specify that servers should terminate old sessions from a client when it binds a new resource.
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0428 (Fallback Indication)
- Add ‘for’ attribute such that entities can discover what the fallback is for.
- Allow to specify that only one of <subject> or <body is meant as a fallback.
- Allow to specify the part of respective text that is meant as fallback where applicable.
- Don’t use encryption example, which should use XEP-0380 instead.

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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

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This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, Arne, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, XSF iTeam
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter February 2023

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

xmpp.org got a new software section! Looking for XMPP software, i.e. clients, servers, libraries, components, and tools? Check out xmpp.org’s new software section, which lets you filter software by your own criteria. Looking for a client which works on Android and supports audio/video calls? Looking for a library that supports XEP-0461: Message Replies? Just apply the filter and see what you get!

xmpp.org’s new software section

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the GSoC 2023 !

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

XMPP Videos

Cheogram offers a new PeerTube channel for videos about new features in their XMPP client and gateways. Also available on YouTube.

Articles

nicfab wrote an article about the Digital Service Act: EU Commission Questions and Answers on identification and counting of active recipients of the service under the DSA.
Digital Markets Act: the second stakeholders’ workshop on the interoperability organized by the EU Commission an article by nicfab about the recent DMA stakeholder workshop on “Interoperability between messaging services”
New Profanity Old System by jubalh: This blog explains how to run latest profanity releases on years old systems properly.
The JMP newsletter covering February 2023 has been published. As well as a post about technical implemetation for stickers in Cheogram Android.

Software news

Clients and applications

Converse 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 have been released, which both fix some bugs. Converse is a web based XMPP/Jabber chat client.
Dino 0.4.0 ‘Ilulissat’ and 0.4.1 have been released. The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. Dino also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and makes use of libadwaita now.

Dino 0.4 now supports Message Replies and Message Reactions

Gajim 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 have been released. These releases bring improved KeepassXC integration, better defaults for group chats created with ejabberd, and some important bug fixes.
Psi+ 1.5.1645 and 1.5.1646 have been released.

Servers

Prosody 0.12.3 has been released.
Openfire inVerse plugin 10.1.2 has been released.
A new plugin for Openfire, the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin has been released. It allows to moderate chat rooms, especially for federated services.
Cobalt 1.3 has been released.

Libraries & Tools

nbxmpp 4.2.0 has been released, which brings support for XEP-0461 Message Replies and a profile for SASLprep.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, Zash
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!

Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP projects that signed up with their ideas for this year.

XMPP Projects at Google Summer of Code 2023

Projects which signed up are:

Dino: Ideas by the Dino team
Monal: Ideas by the Monal team
Moxxy: Ideas by the Moxxy team
If you are capable and have the necessary skills in general you can propose you own topic. Please bear in mind that this requires extended efforts.

Designated Web Page

We have further details and advertisement material on our designated web page presented in various languages.

Checkout our media channels!

Looking forward

–The XSF Organisation Admin

The XMPP Newsletter December 2022 & January 2023

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 2022 & January 2023. This is the first release after a well-deserved winter break! Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

XSF Announcements

If you are interested in becoming an XSF member, the listings are open until 19th February 2023.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

We are considering to participate the Google Summer of Code 2023! If you are interested start reading here.

XMPP Events

XMPP Summit 25 and at FOSDEM 2023
XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

XMPP Talks

XMPP - End of the year 2022 talk
Interoperable Chat, Dutch Healthcare and the Digital Services Act Winfried shares the many challenges faced while working on a standard for interoperable chat in healthcare that’s compatible with the EU’s new regulations.
P10K: getting 10000 participants into a Jitsi meeting, Saúl from the Jitsi team reveals their interesting journey to reach 10000 participants in an XMPP-powered Jitsi video conference.
Modernizing Authentication and Authorization in XMPP: Matthew Wild, founder of the Prosody and Snikket projects, explains why it’s time for us to look beyond passwords for authentication.

Articles

A stress test of PeerTube streaming server [FR] including a live chat based on XMPP (Prosody) was performed. It helped to identify a number of possible optimizations in the Peertube live chat plugin. Read the plugin author’s post for more details.

Peertube with XMPP-based live chat

Jabber.org, the original XMPP instant messaging service was migrated to the Prosody IM server on the weekend of January 14-15th. Full history: jabberd -> ejabberd -> Isode M-Link -> Prosody IM

An article about “Tokenization of sustainable real estate in Smart Cities : Monetization as basis for construction, authorization and carbon neutralization in CPS” (using techniques based on XMPP) was presented on IECON2022 and got published recently.

JMP’s December Newsletter talks about their new co-op structure, an important security fix in the Cheogram Android app, and a review of the highlights of 2022. JMP’s January Newsletter mentions another new release including a new XMPP Threaded Chat UI and new payment options for the service. Last but not least: Writing a Chat Client from Scratch in Ruby.

Snikket informs about the F-Droid security warnings and their Security update. The issues has been solved already.

vanitasvitae writes about PGPainless: Use Any SOP Binary With SOP-Java and External-SOP

nicfab writes about the new EU NIS 2 directive: does it apply to anyone who provides free online digital services?

Software news

Clients and applications

BeagleIM 5.3.2, 5.3.3 and SiskinIM 7.3.1, 7.3.2 have been released with an option to block whole domains and a number of bugfixes. And brand new logos and icons.

Conversation 2.11.0 to 2.12.1 have been released! They implement Extensible SASL Profile, Bind 2.0 + Channel Binding and Fast for faster reconnects. Furthermore the ability to switch from audio call to video call, to delete your own avatar and a notification for missed calls has been added. Since version 2.12.0 it now also integrates an UnifiedPush Distributor to facilitate push messages to other UnifiedPush enabled apps like Tusky and Fedilab. Users can use the developer provided UP server or ask their server admins to host an UP server as an universal XMPP transport component or load the new Prosody module. As announced in the November 2022 newsletter version 3.0 got funded, hence development has started already, you can keep an eye on its pace in the new c3 code branch.

Gajim 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 have been released. For Gajim 1.6, developers ported Gajim’s and python-nbxmpp’s underlying HTTP library to libsoup3. Also, audio previews now look nicer and allow for more control (playback speed, jumping). Emoji rendering on MacOS has been repaired and many fixes have been implemented under the hood.

Libervia has been granted a NLnet NGI Assure Fund for implementation of Audio/Video Calls.

Moxxy 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 have been released. These two releases bring stickers, reactions, voice message recording and various improvements and fixes to the UI and XMPP code.

From the ignite realtime community:

Spark 3.0.1 Released
Spark 3.0.1
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in Smack 4.4 has been fixed
The Ignite Realtime community now offers a Mastodon service
The community started a call for help with translating Spark and Openfire

Servers

ejabberd 23.01 has been released. Almost three months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features. A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers. Supported XEPs are now automatically gathered from source code documentation in order to provide a DOAP file for further processing on xmpp.org/servers/ejabberd.

Prosody 0.12.2 and Prosody 0.11.14 have been released. The 0.12 release brings bug fixes and improvements.

Tigase XMPP Server 8.3 has been released. It includes Tigase MEET - Tigase’s take at SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) group video-calls, support for XEP-0440 SASL Channel Binding Type Capability as well as initial, preview support for SASL2 and Bind2 and lots of usual fixes.

Libraries & Tools

omemo_dart is a Dart library to help developers of Dart/Flutter XMPP clients to implement OMEMO in its newest version - currently 0.8.3. It has been released in version 0.4.2.

python-nbxmpp 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 have been released. These versions bring support for Message Reactions (XEP-0444) and port the library to libsoup3.

A new tool for server operators and developers has arrived: nbxmpp-client lets you check and test various XMPP connection methods (and proxy configurations) while having an eye on the protocol’s XML stream. Version 2.0.0 has just been released and comes with a fresh design (Gtk4+libadwaita).

Slidge 0.1.0 RC1 has been released. Slidge is a collection of XMPP gateway components that lets you use your favorite XMPP client(s) to chat with other, non-XMPP and/or non-federated chat networks (i.e. WhatsApp, Facebook, Mattermost, Signal, Skype, Steam, Telegram).

Daniel Gultsch’s compliance.conversations.im will be discontinued. This online compliance checker allowed server administrators and users to identify the XEPs/features supported by a provider, and it also allowed to check XEP support over time. This service helped users to check whether they are creating a future-proof account with a provider. Due to difficulties in maintaining the software, the service will be shut down in the near future.

QXmpp 1.5 has been released! The Qt-/C++-based XMPP library supports OMEMO 2, Stanza Content Encryption and Automatic Trust Management now. Much more data than with the old OMEMO versions can be end-to-end encrypted. For example, files including thumbnails are shared encrypted via Stateless File Sharing. Furthermore, Message Reactions is supported and QXmpp’s PubSub implementation is almost feature-complete.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs.

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.

XMPP Compliance Suites 2023
- This document defines XMPP application categories for different use cases (Core, Web, IM, and Mobile), and specifies the required XEPs that client and server software needs to implement for compliance with the use cases.
Stream Limits Advertisement
- This specification defines a way for an XMPP entity to announce the limits it will enforce for data received on a stream.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0477 (Pubsub Targeted Encryption)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-11-30. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0476 (Pubsub Signing: OpenPGP Profile)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-11-30. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0475 (Pubsub Signing)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-11-30. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0471 (Events)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-09-28. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-10-19. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0473 (OpenPGP for XMPP Pubsub)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-10-19. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0472 (PubSub Social Feed)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-10-19. (XEP Editor (jsc))

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0474 (SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection)
- Add description of attack model
- Add section defining IETF interaction (tm)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0461 (Message Replies)
- Fix example character counting. Add disco feature. Relax the ’to’ attribute constraints. (nc)
Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0444 (Message Reactions)
- Add the XML Schema (egp)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0426 (Character counting in message bodies)
- Added section about subsequences. (lmw)
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0353 (Jingle Message Initiation)
- Recommend usage of UUID v4 for id attributes. (tm)

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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: Alexander “PapaTutuWawa”, emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, Zash
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: notes.nicfab.eu
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

XMPP at FOSDEM 2023

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person this year. Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!

Realtime Lounge

As usual, we will have the Realtime Lounge set up, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. ~~Note that this year we will be in a slightly different location to usual - on the ground floor of the K building.~~

Update: We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator (map below). Come and say hi!

Map of the K building level 2

Talks

There will also be multiple talks in the Real Time Communications devroom that relate to XMPP. These are all on Sunday afternoon:

Interoperable Chat, Dutch Healthcare and the Digital Services Act Winfried shares the many challenges faced while working on a standard for interopable chat in healthcare that’s compatible with the EU’s new regulations.
P10K: getting 10000 participants into a Jitsi meeting
Saúl from the Jitsi team will reveal their interesting journey to reach 10000 participants in an XMPP-powered Jitsi video conference.
Modernizing Authentication and Authorization in XMPP Matthew, founder of the Prosody and Snikket projects, explains why it’s time for us to look beyond passwords for authentication.

XMPP Summit

Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also hold its 25th XMPP summit. This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and the XMPP roadmap. We’ll be reporting live from the event, and we’ll post a review here on the blog after FOSDEM.

The XMPP Newsletter November 2022

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, Zash
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: nicfab.it
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the fourth quarter 2022 has ended. Voting results will be announced on Dec 13th.

Google Summer of Code 2022

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2022

The Google Summer of Code 2022 has finished! The two new contributors Patiga and PawBud worked on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment. Read the final collection blog posts:

Patiga works on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
PawBud works towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

All outstanding Google Summer of Code articles are now complete and have been published. See above ^

From the JMP blog, an article about building an XMPP client from scratch, including worked examples of implementing many XEPs. Read also their Newsletter: New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance

ejabberd turns 20! Congratulations and many thanks to all who contributed to this great project!

ejabberd turns 20

IT-Business writes about the most important internet protocols - XMPP is part of it [DE]!

Read about how Libervia bridges XMPP and ActivityPub as the gateway developed by Goffi (thanks to a NLnet/NGI0 grant) hit alpha state. Also announced is OMEMO:2 support, for messages, files, file transfers via Jingle and all Pubsub related features.

Software news

Clients and applications

Conversations 3.0 has been announced and is being supported by the NLnet foundation

Gajim 1.5.4 has been released, and it comes with a reworked file transfer interface, better URL detection, message selection improvements, and many fixes under the hood.

New Gajim file transfer interface

Spark 3.0.0 has been released with a new look and includes the Pade Meetings plugin for audio and video calls via Jitsi Meet.

Servers

Openfire 4.7.4 has been released, and it includes enhancements to cluster-specific implementation of Multi-User Chat functionality, improved websocket handling and improved statistics. Furthermore from the ignite realtime community:

As mentioned in the October 2022 Newsletter more info on the SASL2 related work starts to appear. The Prosody server developers talk about Bringing FASTer authentication to Prosody and XMPP and how “tokens” are the answer.

Libraries & Tools

python-omemo 1.0.2 has been released with support for the new SCE-based OMEMO. Interesting enough the Libervia progress above is based on this work.

And OMEMO news in the Go corner too, Mellium to receive grant for end-to-end encryption from the NGI Assure Fund.

Extensions and specifications

xmpp.org features a page about XMPP RFCs as well.

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.

PubSub Social Feed
- This specification defines a way of publishing social content over XMPP.
SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection
- This specification provides a way to secure the SASL and SASL2 handshakes against method and channel-binding downgrades.
OpenPGP for XMPP Pubsub
- Specifies an OpenPGP for XMPP (XEP-0373) profile for the pubsub use case.

New

No new XEP 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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter October 2022

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
- General contributors: emus, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), wurstsalat, Zash
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
- Translators: Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, Ppjet6
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
- Translators: Jeybe, wh0nix
Italian: nicfab.it
- Translators: nicfab
Spanish: xmpp.org
- Translators: daimonduff, TheCoffeMaker

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the fourth quarter 2022 is currently open. If you are interested in becoming a XSF member then you can apply for membership. Please submit by November 27, 2022.

Google Summer of Code 2022

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2022

The Google Summer of Code 2022 has finished! The two new contributors Patiga and PawBud worked on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment. Read the final collection blog posts:

Patiga works on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
PawBud works towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
Capitole du Libre: Members of the “JabberFR” and “Libre en Communs” associations will be present in Toulouse on the 19-20th of November

Articles

ejabberd has added Matrix protocol support bringing their experience of scaling XMPP and MQTT to this new messaging avenue. At first a subset of the protocol will be implemented, acting like a bridge between protocols. Bussiness customers will get a taste of it first and later it will come to the Community Edition.

The JMP Newsletter details a big new release of the Cheogram Android client with features including XHTML-IM, Bits of Binary, a form of message retraction, contact tagging, and more. They also talk about an XMPP channel integration they have built for the Chatwoot support software, and offer to let community projects use their instance to try it out. This month they also wrote an article about SMS Account Verification and how it affects the ecosystem.

PGPainless: Implementing Packet Sequence Validation using Pushdown Automata

A new automated testing technique was recently adopted to help the Prosody developers during their daily development work: Mutation Testing in Prosody

Modernization of the authentication protocol is ongoing around the community, keyword “SASL”. Multiple hints of the work have been seen in the last two newsletters, in libs, XEPs updates and funding news. It spans multiple clients, multiple platforms and at least one server. Thilo Molitor, the Monal developer, blogged about the current broken state, the ideal properties of the system and the solutions being worked on. It’s a 30 minutes long read but will sure come handy as more news of the SASL implementations will start to appear from the other involved projects.

Software news

Clients and applications

Converse has released version 10.0.0 with a lot of polishing and an updated feature set.

Dino 0.3.1 has been released, which is a maintenance release for libsoup3 support and bug fixes.

Gajim 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 have been released. These releases bring another performance boost, better emojis, selection of multiple messages, and many bug fixes.

Gajim emoji shortcodes

Profanity 0.13.1 is out with improved plugins management.

Psi+ 1.5.1641 (2022-09-24) has been released.

Monal 5.3.3 has been live in the AppStore for a while now, and even if it does not yet bring the SASL improvements mentioned above or the much awaited audio and video calls capabilities funded last month, it does feature several fixes for registrations, screenshots sharing and read markers.

aTalk has been released with an almost monthly cadence. Each new version brings more polish, like location/map views, calls, libraries updates and keeping up to date on the newer Android requirements. It’s biggest adoption impediment unfortunately still stays and stems from an outdated UI that precedes Android 5 Material UI.

Servers

ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

Jackal 0.62.3 is out bringing 3 fixes for storage/archive and s2s stanzas.

Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp 3.2.4 and 3.2.5 have been released, bringing bug fixes and internal improvements.

Extensions and specifications

xmpp.org features a page about XMPP RFCs as well.

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.

PubSub Social Feed
- This specification defines a way of publishing social content over XMPP.
SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection
- This specification provides a way to secure the SASL and SASL2 handshakes against method and channel-binding downgrades.
OpenPGP for XMPP Pubsub
- Specifies an OpenPGP for XMPP (XEP-0373) profile for the pubsub use case.

New

No new XEP 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 help improving 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 XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, Gooya, Holger, IM, Ludovic Bocquet, martin, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicfab, Pierre Jarillon, Sam Whited, TheCoffeMaker, wh0nix, vanitasvitae, wurstsalat, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter September 2022

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the fourth quarter 2022 is currently open. If you are interested in becoming a XSF member then you can apply for membership. Please submit by November 27, 2022.
The XSF Board and Council application period for the next year is currently open. If you are interested in running for the XSF Board or XSF Council then you can apply here. Please submit by November 6, 2022. Remind that XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.
Security advisory: libexpat before 2.4.9 is vulnerable to CVE-2022-40674, make sure to update, if you depend on it.

Google Summer of Code 2022

The Google Summer of Code 2022 finished! The two new contributors Patiga and PawBud were working on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment. Read their all their blog posts, too. Thanks everyone for participation!

Patiga worked on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
PawBud worked towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
Capitole du Libre: Members of the “JabberFR” and “Libre en Communs” associations will be present in Toulouse on the 19-20th of November

Articles

Congrats to the Monal developers for the new NLnet Funding that will cover privacy enhancements for the push servers, an explorative audio and video calls implementation, UI updates for MUC and Contact views, and SASL updates.

Paul Schaub wrote a blog post focused on the technical details of how to check the validity of nested packet sequences using pushdown automata. This technique will be used in a partial rework of PGPainless to validate OpenPGP messages. Earlier this month another post on “Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Accessing Certificate Stores” has been published, too.

jmp.chat brought voicemail changes and opt-in Jabber ID discoverability to their service, along with an updated Android app and new custom F-Droid repos for both stable and pre-release versions. Furthermore, they wrote about “Privacy and Threat Modelling” in general.

Arnaud wrote about updates on the chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP.

Anoxinon.media published their blogpost XMPP - Teil 1 - Messaging mal anders [DE].

Software news

Clients and applications

Maintenance release of Beagle IM 5.3.1 that fixes sending OMEMO encrypted files and entering password-protected MUC. Besides, Tigase launched a new, simpler website tigase.org that makes it easier to access open-source projects created by Tigase.

Gajim 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 have been released. These releases come with a significant performance boost. Pinned chats can be ordered via drag and drop, message corrections have been improved, and many bugs have been fixed.

An OMEMO 2 implementation has just been merged to Libervia, coming with Stanza Content Encryption (XEP-0420) support, thanks to the great work of Syndace, author or python-omemo (which has been updated in the process). One of the major benefits is that other Stanza elements can now be encrypted too, not only the body. OX (XEP-0373/XEP-0374) should follow soon, exciting times!

While Monal development is going forward, see the funding news above, and they deployed new Push servers as announced in the July 2022 XMPP Newsletter, users of old Monal versions would need to update, so if you or your contacts didn’t already the developers urge you to do it now.

Missed in the August 2022 XMPP Newsletter was a release of UWPX, the XMPP client for UWP (Windows 10) devices. While version v.0.43.0.0 has only a fixup it’s unfortunately also the Final Update as the developer is stepping away from the project. Maintainers to follow-up are welcome to reach out!

Kaidan, a user-friendly and modern chat app for every device, will receive a grant by NLnet for adding encrypted audio and video calls. Congratulations!

Servers

Jackal v0.62.0 is out bringing XEP-0313 Message Archive Management support and several enhancements.

Metronome IM 4.0 has been released. This version introduces Lua 5.3 support, a revamped shared API for group chats stanza archiving, MIX Core/PAM experimental support, Message Moderation support and support for containerization.

Profanity 0.13.0 has been released.

Libraries & Tools

python-nbxmpp 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 have been released, adding a stringprep implementation and improvements for detecting broken TCP connections.

The first beta of Slidge (XMPP bridges) is out!: Slidge, supporting Signal, Telegram, Discord, Steam, Mattermost, Facebook and Skype. Currently only direct messages are supported, but development is going further. Find the article in English and French.

Work on XMPP ⇔ ActivityPub gateway (supported by a NLnel funding) has been achieved. The gateway supports features such as following/followers, favourite/like (or “noticed” in XMPP terms, reactions (compatible with Pleroma), mentions, sharing/reboost and lastly events (compatible with Mobilizon). It has been tested with Mastodon, Pleroma and Mobilizon. It’s still considered alpha quality, a blog post should follow soon to explain in more details.

Ignite Realtime Community:

REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.0 has been released
New Openfire plugin: Push Server

Extensions and specifications

xmpp.org features a page about XMPP RFCs as well.

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.

Events
- This specification describes how to handle calendar events with XMPP

New

No new XEP 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 0.4.0 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Make sasl-channel-binding element a top level stream feature (dg)

Last Call

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEP moved to stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, emus, goffi, Jeybe, Licaon_Kter, martin, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicfab, Ppjet6, vanitasvitae, wurstsalat, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter August 2022

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the fourth quarter 2022 is currently open. If you are interested in becoming a XSF member then you can apply for membership. Please submit by November 27, 2022.

Google Summer of Code 2022

The Google Summer of Code 2022 has lifted off and coding started a while ago! The two new contributors Patiga and PawBud who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment. Read their first blog posts, too.

Patiga works on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
PawBud works towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

Prosody’s team announces a rework of their permission system in context of modernizing XMPP authentication and authorization.

Eversten.net published two articles:

JMP newsletter announces a new major release of the Cheogram Android client, with support for ad-hoc command UI and more, as well as a new multi-account billing feature. They also have an article showcasing the command UI in pictures.

Anoxinon Media published “XMPP - Teil 1 - Messaging mal anders” [DE]. It is about XMPP - an alternative that stands out from the mass.

Kaidan, the XMPP client for every device, released a post about its end-to-end encryption trust management

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for August 2022 outlines development for the past month including support for HTTP Upload, RFC 9266, various internal testing changes, and a call for feedback!

Easy Onboarding with Android Chat App blabber.im via XMPP Providers! Passwords are generated automatically and XMPP providers are suggested. Those suggestions are based on the curated list of XMPP Providers project.

Software news

Clients and applications

Conversations 2.10.9 and 2.10.10 have finally been released for both Google Play Store and F-Droid. Many people were eagerly waiting for a new Conversations build on F-Droid as there were some issues regarding the usage of WebRTC libraries, for Audio/Video calls. F-Droid users were still on the 2.10.2.1+fcr build but now, after 5 months of waiting, they are using the latest version. These releases improve interactions with Bluetooth output devices so be sure to grant the permission as needed. A note for jmp.chat users, the F-Droid version uses an incompatible WebRTC library, so it’s better to switch to the Cheogram app (a fork from the jmp.chat developers) at the moment. The Play Store version does not have this issue.

Moxxyv2 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3 have been released. A new XMPP client for the Android community is featured in this month’s newsletter; it is currently only in the alpha stage. However, the future of the project appears to be pretty promising, and we are pleased to have another XMPP project join the community! The initial version (0.2.0) was made available on July 29th, and the second version (0.2.1) was made available on August 14th. This project is the successor of moxxyv1, which was written in React Native and abandoned due to various technical issues.

Psi+ 1.5.1639 (2022-08-17) has been released.

Tigase released BeagleIM 5.3 (macOS) and SiskimIM7.3 (iOS) which contain changes and stability improvements. Note that SiskinIM will need at least iOS 13 from now on.

Servers

Openfire 4.7.3 has been released, which brings many bug fixes, especially for BOSH.

Libraries

libstrophe 0.12.2 has been released.

Mellium XMPP 0.21.3 has been released.

python-nbxmpp 3.2.0 and 3.2.1 have been released, which bring support for Extensible SASL Profile (XEP-0388) and bug fixes.

Tigase Martin 3.2.1 has been released.

From the ignite realtime community:

REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 has been released to fix several bugs.
Openfire ThreadDump plugin 1.1.0 has been released and add two new evaluators for the TaskEngine and statistics from the database connection pool.

Extensions and specifications

xmpp.org features a page about XMPP RFCs as well.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0469 (Bookmark Pinning)
- This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to allow users to pin PEP Native Bookmarks.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0470 (Pubsub Attachments)
- This specification provides a way to attach elements to a pubsub item.

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0447 (Stateless file sharing)
- Add disposition attribute to signal when inlining is desired. (lmw)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0470 (Pubsub Attachments)
- Update reactions to be similar to Message Reactions (XEP-0444)
- Namespace bump (jp)
Version 1.1 of XEP-0231 (Bits of Binary)
- Mention where to get textual names of hash functions. (ssw)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Make implementation of tls-server-end-point a MUST for servers. (tm)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0446 (File metadata element)
- Use height/width instead of dimensions (lmw)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0448 (Encryption for stateless file sharing)
- Replace the ProtoXEP reference with a reference to the published XEP.
- Add urn:xmpp:ciphers:aes-256-cbc-pkcs7:0 (same as used in XEP-0384) (lmw)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0215 (External Service Discovery)
- Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2022-08-03. (XEP Editor (jsc))

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

Google Summer of Code 2022 at XSF: Converse.js - Mid Term Evaluation Update

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a month since I wrote my last blog. For those of you who have been following my blogs, thanks a lot for taking the time to read them. In this blog, I will give the updates post mid-term evaluation and the challenges that I have been facing and how I overcame some of them.

The Mid-Term Evaluation

For those of you who don’t know much about GSoC, a mid-term evaluation was scheduled, where as a contributor you have to fill out a form which had some questions related to your experience with your mentor and the organization administrator so far and the project itself. It barely took me 5-10 minutes to complete the form so there’s that.

Project Updates & Challenges Faced

I have been working on the jingle message retraction feature and the jingle chat history feature. Let me explain:

If you have gone through XEP-0353, you might be knowing about the retraction feature. If not, then the below two diagrams are my best attempts to explain it, and to be honest it is pretty simple.

Ok, now, let me show you another diagram which took me around 2 weeks to visualize:

This is what confused me the most and took a lot of my time. If you look at the way I have written my code (and I won’t link it, since I believe that the link might break in the future due to the constant changes in the codebase that are yet to come):

    // Responder's Side Parser
    function parseJingleMessage(stanza, attrs) {
    const jingle_propose_type = getJingleProposeType(stanza);
    return { ...attrs, ...{ 'jingle_propose': jingle_propose_type, 'jingle_retraction_id': getJingleRetractionID(stanza), 'template_hook': (attrs['template_hook']) ? 'getJingleTemplate' : undefined, 'jingle_status': attrs['jingle_status'] }
    }
    }

    // Initiator's Side
    function retractCall(context) {
    const initiator_message = context.model.messages.findWhere({ 'media': 'audio' });
    const propose_id = initiator_message.attributes.propose_id;
    const message_id = u.getUniqueId();
        api.send(
            $msg({
            'from': _converse.bare_jid,
            'to': context.jid,
            'type': 'chat',
            id: message_id
            }).c('retract', { 'xmlns': Strophe.NS.JINGLEMESSAGE, 'id': propose_id })
            .c('reason', { 'xmlns': Strophe.NS.JINGLE })
            .c('cancel', {}).up()
            .t('Retracted').up().up()
            .c('store', { 'xmlns': Strophe.NS.HINTS })
        });
        const attrs = {
            'from': _converse.bare_jid,
            'to': context.jid,
            'type': 'chat',
            'jingle_retraction_id': propose_id, 
            'msg_id': message_id,
            'jingle_status': context.model.get('jingle_status'),
            'template_hook': 'getJingleTemplate'
        }
        context.model.messages.create(attrs);
    }

I borrowed this code from a single file called “utils.js” which as the name suggests contains all the miscellaneous functions of a plugin that are needed for it to function. It doesn’t take much thinking to realize how big the problem becomes once the codebase is large enough. I must say it’s thanks to my mentor, I was able to differentiate the two sides, and i am now able to move on. Though, I still get confused but fortunately, I feel like its becoming more infrequent.

Ohh, and by the way, the create function creates an instance of the message model, and if you didn’t understand this statement, I highly recommend going through the backbone.js documentation.

So, lessons to learn:

Comment or possibly document your code from day one.
Don’t keep random variable names.
Speak up to your mentor!! Period. I can assure you a lot of JC’s time could have been saved had I spoken up about my thought process sooner.

Ahemmm….. let’s move on now.

Message Chat History Rendering for Jingle

Now, when you get a missed call, you usually get a timestamp. It is no different in a jingle call, but I do need to have a discussion regarding it’s actual implementation with JC. The actual message content should be pretty straightforward and if you want to see how I implemented/am implementing it, I will straight up point towards JC’s explanation of it.

Non-Technical Corner of this blog

Hmmmm enough about the project, now for some unnecessary life updates. I will be leaving for my master’s program in a week’s time. My schedule is packed with various things right now. Going to a new country on your own is scary for the first time, especially when you know that there is no one who can help you there but GSoC seems like a perfect distraction from the nervousness. JC seems to be doing fine, speaking of whom, did I mention he took a hiatus last week? I really hope he enjoyed his time off. There were nights in the last week, which made me wonder if I did actually stress him out or something, but I am pretty sure I am just overthinking it. I value his patience out of all things and I am not joking when I say he has a lot of it. I mean, if I as a mentor would meet another PawBud, I would have probably quit by now and to be honest, that’s one of the million reasons why I am not a mentor right now. I feel so embarrassed about the little things JC has to repeat every time because I was distracted or too lazy to note them down. I hate inconsistency and love to be direct about things, so if you have made it this far, I would like to say that there is a good chance that this project might end with the implementation of XEP-0353 given my slow pace.

I do know that there are many people who are expecting this feature to be implemented, but yeah it is what it is. JC has somehow motivated me, to do what I do perfectly and I couldn’t agree more. Let’s see what the future holds now, I am giving it everything, and I will try to implement it as much as I can effectively.

Thanks for reading my blog.

Regards, PawBud

The XMPP Newsletter July 2022

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the third quarter 2022 is currently open. If you are interested in becoming a XSF member then you can apply for membership. Please submit by August 25, 2022.

Google Summer of Code 2022

Patiga works on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
- Stateless File Sharing GSoC project
- Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
PawBud works towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.
- On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
- ConverseJS: An in-depth view into my GSoC'22 project!

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

There are some articles and thoughts on the European Digital Markets Act:

The site “Chat standard (XMPP)” with lots of information is available in English now at freie-messenger.de

Axel from eversten.net published an XMPP Push Notification Test for iOS covering latest Monal, Siskin IM and Snikket versions on different server implementations. A good 15 minutes read for both iOS users and their multi-platforms contacts alike.

JMP now delivers transcribed voicemail in many common languages, not just English. The voicemail system has also been updated to source names from more modern XMPP profiles including vCard4 and PEP Nickname.

MoongoseIM 5.1 was released as announced, as announced in the June 2022 Newsletter. In addition to the previously mentioned features, this brought improvements to the Inbox feature. You can now read more about the new Inbox settings and scalability improvements in this article.

Software news

Clients and applications

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for July 2022 has been published! Important updates this month include an implementation of the new RFC 9266 and a new tool for finding documentation related issues in Go projects. In addition, Mellium has moved to Codeberg! The repositories can now be found at codeberg.org/mellium and the announcement post can be found on Lemmy or Open Collective.

Conversations 2.10.8, a Jabber/XMPP client for Android, has been released.

Gajim 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 have been released. These releases bring performance improvements, better file previews, and fix some bugs with the status icon and notifications. Emoji short code detection has been improved as well.

Monal version 5.2.0 has been released by the Monal development team! This release’s highlights are the new (private) push servers in Europe and the US, display of transferred files in app’s documents directory, and several fixes regarding encryption (OMEMO), QR code scanning, and onboarding. Besides, Monal also features a new webpage.

Psi+ 11.5.1634 (2022-07-11) has been released.

Servers

eturnal 1.10.0, a STUN / TURN standalone server, has been released.

Openfire version 4.7.2 is out, stabilizing and fixing bugs, notably improving BOSH connections under load.

Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 was released with only one, but an important fix.

Version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin is out too, extending MUC search and updating dependencies.

Libraries

libstrophe 0.12.1, a lightweight XMPP client library written in C, has been released.

nbxmpp 3.1.1 has been released. This version comes with performance improvements and bug fixes.

The XMPP webhooks component has been updated to support more webhooks out of the box. Effectively, this component replaces proprietary tools such as Slack with a better option based on open code and open protocols, fully under control of its users. It now has:

Richer messages for GitLab events (labels, time spent, etc.)
Support for Stripe events, including optional (but recommended) signature verification.
Support for SMS to URL Forwarder, a simple but effective SMS forwarder application for Android. This is handy for those with a second or third phone and it’s also used to showcase some of the new features.
Integration with Nextcloud via Flow Webhooks.

Paul Schaub wrote a short blog post about their recent progress towards adding Web-of-Trust support to PGPainless. With release 1.3.2, the OpenPGP library got support for creating signatures on third-party certificates, which will help users to build their trust network.

xmpp-dns, a tool to check XMPP SRV records, was released in version 0.3.0, bringing support for DNS over TLS (DoT) and for setting a custom DNS server.

Extensions and specifications

xmpp.org features a page about XMPP RFCs as well.

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.

Bookmark Pinning
- This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to allow users to pin PEP Native Bookmarks.
Pubsub Attachments
- This specification provides a way to attach elements to a pubsub item.

New

WebSocket S2S
- This specification defines a procedure to make s2s XMPP connections over WebSocket.
XMPP over QUIC
- This specification defines a procedure to make both c2s and s2s XMPP connections over the QUIC protocol instead of TCP+TLS.

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

External Service Discovery
- This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for discovering services external to the XMPP network.

Stable

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

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Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, Holger, IM, Ludovic Bocquet, martin, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicfab, Pierre Jarillon, Sam Whited, TheCoffeMaker, wh0nix, vanitasvitae, wurstsalat, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter June 2022

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF membership application period for the third quarter 2022 is currently open. If you are interested in becoming a XSF member then you can apply for membership.

Google Summer of Code 2022

Patiga works on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors are fiaxh and Marvin W..
- Stateless File Sharing GSoC project
- Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
PawBud works towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors are JC Brand and vanitasvitae.
- On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)

Feel free to spread the word via Mastodon or Twitter. More details in our designated page at xmpp.org.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

JMP News: Command UI and better transcriptions coming soon.

Nicola Fabiano wrote the article To be «IM apps addicted» or not to be, that is the question. Choose to be free: Snikket, the system messaging based on XMPP protocol highlighting XMPP as his best solution and Snikket as his choice. In another article he states his reasons to avoid WhatsApp, also considering the European Commission’s actions: Persisting with Whatsapp use: how to persevere unknowingly. The whys of our «No».

Paul Schaub wrote a piece on PGPainless: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story.

Prosody devs got funded by EU’s NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation to modernize XMPP authentication and authorization so users can secure their sessions with MFA (multi-factor authentication) and have peace of mind with per session controls.

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.4.3, 1.4.4, and 1.4.5 have been released: Gajim’s new versions come with many improvements: emoji auto-complete, automatic theme switching when your desktop switches from light to dark in the evening, a completely reworked Gajim remote interface, and many bug fixes.

Servers

MongooseIM’s new release 5.1 comes with a configuration rework.

Jackal 0.61.0 has been released.

ProcessOne announced ejabberd .deb and .rpm repositories for amd64 and arm64 systems.

Prosody 0.12.1 has been released, and it comes with improved compatibility with Jitsi Meet plus bug fixes for its newly-extended XEP-0227 support.

From the ignite realtime community:

Smack version 4.4.6 has been released.
Openfire REST API plugin has been released in version 1.8.1.

Libraries

No news this month.

Extensions and specifications

By the way, xmpp.org features a new page about XMPP RFCs.

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.

WebSocket S2S
- This specification defines a procedure to make s2s XMPP connections over WebSocket.
XMPP over QUIC
- This specification defines a procedure to make both c2s and s2s XMPP connections over the QUIC protocol instead of TCP+TLS.

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

External Service Discovery
- This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for discovering services external to the XMPP network.

Stable

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, guusdk, Holger, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicfab, TheCoffeMaker, wh0nix, wurstsalat, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

ConverseJS: An in-depth view into my GSoC'22 project!

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog, I will discuss my GSoC project, and post an update about the work done since the GSoC contribution period started. Ok, so I would like to split the whole project in two phases, with the first GSoC evaluation (29th July) as being the divider. Since it’s only been three weeks, I will only write about the first phase of the project.

About my project

Expected Hours: 175 Hrs(Medium Project)
- Adding support for Audio/Video Communication via Jingle.
- Deliverables / Expected Results:
  - The goal is to create a Converse plugin that adds the ability to make one-on-one audio/video calls from Converse
  - The audio/video calls must be compatible with other XMPP clients such as Conversations.

Jingle protocol works something like this:

In short it signals WebRTC to start/end or modify the status of a session.

Proposed Plan

The first phase, as it stands, will consist of the UI implementation, it’s associated tests and implementaion of XEP 0353. I genuinely thought that I would be done with the UI implementation till now, but choosing a UI can be surprisingly tough. Given the deadline, I want to make sure that I complete the implementation of the project in time, so for now we (me & my mentor JC) decided to implement a decent looking UI that would be enough to cover all the edge cases and functionality of the project.

UI

Here is a screenshot which shows the current UI.

Do mind the spacing between the Call Initiated text and the End Call button. The call can simply be ended after clicking either the end call button or the call button in the toolbar. Having said that, I presented Discord’s UI to my mentor and he seemed to like it.

Although, we plan to build something much more simpler for converse, it’s good to have a long term vision for this feature.

Tests

As on this date of writing this blog, I am working on integrating XEP 0353. The XEP makes it easier to keep track of my progress since it splits the feature into sections.

You can track my progress through this Pull Request

On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!

Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. Kindly note that these thoughts are my own. Once again you are free to contact me through my email if you have anything to say, I would be happy to hear your thoughts.

On-Boarding Experience with XSF & Community Bonding Period

Well, I must say, this is unlike any technical internship that you will experience. The level of attention and support that you will get from the organization admins and your project mentors from day 1 is genuinely surprising. I mean, I started having weekly calls with my mentor before the coding period even began, and I am still quite thankful that my mentor(s) spent their time to guide me. Believe it or not, as soon as the results were announced and I saw my name, my first reaction was “oops, well this is bad”. I wasn’t ready for it! Meeting JC (my primary mentor) definitely helped me a lot during the community bonding period. Turns out not everyone does feel the same (thanks to Patiga, I knew about this). Still, from my past experience in internships, I do believe that self-doubt is something that our present-day society profits from, and it is something that one can’t afford if one wants to improve.

I wanted to spend as much time with the source code as I could but my university exams did not allow me to do so. I managed to work on some minor issues though, but I still feel that I need to put in as much work as I can. As of writing this blog, it’s the second week of GSoC. I have to work on designing and implementing a UI for the jingle call modal and will hopefully be done with that and the tests, by the end of this week.

Why Choose GSoC & specifically XSF?

Ok, this is an interesting one, I still remember the special treatment I received from the whole community once the GSoC results were announced. I think Eddie instantly shared the results with the community through the XSF GSoC group chat, Twitter and a couple of other XSF social media pages. I genuinely feel pampered by the overwhelming support of the community, but I am so proud that I chose GSoC over a usual company internship.

I took a course on software engineering during my sophomore year, and until now I have never ever seen/experienced its concepts being implemented. In Converse, I learned more about the applications of test-driven software development in 2 weeks than I ever did during my whole semester. Turns out, that practising a technique is actually the best way to learn it. The fact that my mentor takes out his time which he could very easily spend on developing Converse, just to guide me through the smallest of obstructions, is what really makes this whole thing special. No manager or supervisor in any company is going to give you this kind of attention! Period.

There is this book called Zucked by Roger McNamee. For those of you who haven’t read it here is a gist:- Roger was one of the initial investors of Facebook and a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg. Throughout the book, he explains how Facebook turned into an evil giant, and how the guilt he feels that he could not stop Zuckerberg and Facebook from pivoting to its present-day state. My hate for social media giants like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, started after I graduated from Secondary School, this was because I started watching a lot of technology-related youtube channels and understood how toxic these social media giants actually are and how they exploit human psychology by giving instant gratification, and blah blah blah. I must say, I was infuriated and disgusted that all this time, I was just a product of these social media giants.

That mentality has grown stronger over the years and yes, I am not on any social media except Reddit, which I occasionally use to text my friends. Hence, XSF was a no-brainer for me, plus I wanted to learn Javascript well, so I only submitted one proposal, which was for Converse.

This was a personal and a non-technical blog post. To be honest, I am still figuring out how to write blogs, as this is my first blog post. I think I will start writing more technical and project-related blog posts after this.

Acknowledgement

In conclusion, I would like to thank my Mentors (JC & Vanitas), Eddie (XSF GSoC Admin), Patiga (Co-contributor for XSF) and the whole XSF community for putting their trust in me. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Zerefwayne & Yash Rathore for guiding me in the journey leading up to me getting selected as a contributor for XSF. I look forward to learning from all of you henceforth the GSoC period is finished.

For those of you who could not make it to GSoC with any organization including XSF

Remember, open source is not GSoC. I would honestly still contribute to various organizations, had I not gotten selected to GSoC, because it’s fun! Imagine writing code that is used by potentially millions of users daily. All those late-night hotfixes and mistakes that you do, do become good memories and of course, you get to learn a lot. The open source community is so friendly, that I have yet to see organizations that have core contributors who do not support newcomers.

GSoC should be a side goal in my opinion. If you get selected, that’s good for you. If you don’t get selected, you haven’t lost anything, you simply gain knowledge and contributions.

The XMPP Newsletter May 2022

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

English (original): xmpp.org
French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! Welcome the two new contributors Patiga and PawBud who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment!
- Patiga will work on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors will be fiaxh and Marvin W. - many thanks to both of you!
- PawBud will work towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors will be JC Brand and vanitasvitae - many thanks to both of you, too!
Feel free to spread the word via Mastodon or Twitter. More details in our designated page at xmpp.org.
The current XSF member voting period is ongoing. If you are an XSF member, please take your chance to vote. If your are interest to apply visit our related page.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

Bifrost bridge fork at aria-net.org implemented offline messages support for matrix rooms accessed via the bridge XMPP users connecting to Matrix rooms via Bifrost bridge did not get offline messages, because group chat (MUC) history support was not implemented in the XMPP server implementation of the bridge (based on xmpp-js). Thanks to great work done by Maranda, we can now have history and also message history (MAM) support for Matrix to XMPP bridged rooms. See this post for complete instructions to use this feature.

The JMP Newsletter announces a new release of the Cheogram Android client, SMS-only phone number ports, deeper integration with Snikket, and a new project for social instance hosting.

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3 have been released! After more than a year of development, it’s finally time to announce the release of Gajim 1.4! Gajim 1.4 series comes with a completely redesigned message window and conversation management. Workspaces allow you to organize your chats to keep matters separate where needed. These changes were only possible by touching a lot of Gajim’s code base, and we appreciate all the feedback we got from you.

Psi+ portable 11.5.1627 (2022-05-21) and Psi+ installer 11.5.1629 (2022-05-31) have been released.

Go-sendxmpp 0.5.0 with Ox (OpenPGP for XMPP) improvements has been released, followed by a bugfix release 0.5.1.

The Soprani.ca project has released a small tool hosted on their Cheogram infrastructure to easily compute an equivalent Matrix ID for your Jabber ID via known bridges.

Servers

ejabberd 22.05 has been released. This version includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.

mod_opt_type(bosh_service_url) ->
    econf:either(auto, econf:binary());
mod_opt_type(websocket_url) ->
    econf:either(auto, econf:binary());
mod_opt_type(conversejs_resources) ->
    econf:either(undefined, econf:directory());
mod_opt_type(conversejs_options) ->
    econf:map(econf:binary(), econf:either(econf:binary(), econf:int()));
mod_opt_type(conversejs_script) ->
    econf:binary();
mod_opt_type(conversejs_css) ->
    econf:binary();
mod_opt_type(default_domain) ->
    econf:binary().

mod_options(_) ->
    [{bosh_service_url, auto},
     {websocket_url, auto},
     {default_domain, <<"@HOST@">>},
     {conversejs_resources, undefined},
     {conversejs_options, []},
     {conversejs_script, auto},
     {conversejs_css, auto}].

Jackal 0.60.0 has been released.

Libraries

python-nbxmpp versions 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 have been released, bringing support for Message Moderation, Bookmarks extensions, and many bug fixes.

Extensions and specifications

By the way, xmpp.org features a new page about XMPP RFCs.

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0465 (Pubsub Public Subscriptions)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-04-13. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0466 (Ephemeral Messages)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-05-03. (XEP Editor (jsc))

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 0.3 of XEP-0365 (Server to Server communication over STANAG 5066 ARQ)
- Make use of SLEP Streaming service, which was not available for 0.1. This provides a better service mapping than direct use of 5066 and provides compression. (sek)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

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This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, daimonduff, emus, Holger, Ludovic Bocquet, Licaon_Kter, Martin, mathieui, MattJ, nicfab, Pirate Praveen, Ppjet6, Sam Whited, singpolyma, TheCoffeMaker, wurstsalat, Ysabeau, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our designated web-page for the Google Summer of Code 2022 accordingly.

The XMPP projects at Google Summer of Code 2022

So, please welcome Patiga and PawBud as new contributors! It is really great that you chose XMPP for your coding adventure!

Patiga will work on more flexible file transfers in Dino. Mentors will be fiaxh and Marvin W. - many thanks to both of you!
- Resource-wise, messenger applications tend to be on the lightweight side of the spectrum. This drastically changes when file transfers are added to the equation. File transfers can arbitrarily increase resource-usage, both on network and data storage aspects. To alleviate this issue, stateless file sharing empowers the user to make informed decisions on which files to download. Deliverables:
  - Unified handling of HTTP and Jingle (peer-to-peer) file transfers
  - Enable sending metadata alongside files
  - Thumbnail previews for images
PawBud will work towards adding support for A/V communication via Jingle in ConverseJS. Mentors will be JC Brand and vanitasvitae - many thanks to both of you, too!
- The idea is to add support for Audio & Video communication through the Jingle protocol. The goal is to create a Converse plugin that adds the ability to make one-on-one audio/video calls from Converse. The audio/video calls will be compatible with other XMPP clients.

Feel free to spread the word via Mastodon or Twitter.

Resources

Google’s website
XSF wiki
Reach us via web chat or review your “Getting started with XMPP” page and reach us via our public chat.

Checkout our media channels, too!

Looking forward!

–The XSF Organisation Admin

The XMPP Newsletter April 2022

Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF has been accepted as hosting organization at Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC).
XMPP Newsletter via mail: We migrated to our own server for a mailing list in order to move away from Tinyletter. It is a read-only list on which, once you subscribe to it, you will receive the XMPP Newsletter on a monthly basis. We moved away from Tinyletter due to privacy concerns.
By the way, have you checked our nice XMPP RFC page? :-)

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

XMPP Community Projects

A new community space for XMPP related projects and individuals has been created in the Fediverse! Join us on our new Lemmy instance and chat about all XMPP things!

Are you looking for an XMPP provider that suits you? There is a new website based on the data of XMPP Providers. XMPP Providers has a curated list of providers and tools for filtering and creating badges for them. The machine-readable list of providers can be integrated in XMPP clients to simplify the registration. You can help by improving your website (as a provider), by automating the manual tasks (as a developer), and by adding new providers to the list (as an interested contributor). Read the first blog post!

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Talks

Thilo Molitor presented their new even more privacy friendly push design in Monal at the Berlin XMPP Meetup!

Articles

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for April 2022 has been released and can be found over on Open Collective.

Maxime “pep.” Buquet wrote some thoughts regarding “Deal on Digital Markets Act: EU rules to ensure fair competition and more choice for users” in his Interoperability in a “Big Tech” world article. In a later article he describes part of his threat model, detailing how XMPP comes into play and proposing ways it could be improved.

German “Freie Messenger” shares some thoughts on interoperability and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). They also offer a comparison of “XMPP/Matrix”

Software news

Clients and applications

BeagleIM 5.2 and SiskinIM 7.2 just got released with fixes for OMEMO encrypted message in MUC channels, MUC participants disappearing randomly, and issues with VoIP call sending an incorrect payload during call negotiation.

converse.js published version 9.1.0. It comes with a new dark theme, several improvements for encryption (OMEMO), an improved stanza timeout, font icons, updated translations, and enhancements of the IndexedDB. Find more in the release notes.

Gajim Development News: This month came with a lot of preparations for the release of Gajim 1.4 🚀 Gajim’s release pipeline has been improved in many ways, allowing us to make releases more frequently. Furthermore, April brought improvements for file previews on Windows.

Go-sendxmpp version v0.4.0 with experimental Ox (OpenPGP for XMPP) support has been released.

JMP offers international call rates based on a computing trie. There are also new commands and team members.

Monal 5.1 has been released. This release brings OMEMO support in private group chats, communication notifications on iOS 15, and many improvements.

PravApp project is a plan to get a lot of people from India to invest small amounts to run an interoperable XMPP-based messaging service that is easier to join and discover contacts, similar to the Quicksy app. Prav will be Free Software, which respects users’ freedom. The service will be backed by a cooperative society in India to ensure democratic decision making in which users can take part as well. Users will control the privacy policy of the service.

Psi+ 1.5.1619 (2022-04-09) has been released.

Poezio 0.14 has been released alongside with multiple backend libraries. This new release brings in lots of bug fixes and small improvements. Big changes are coming, read more in the article.

Profanity 0.12.1 has been released, which brings some bug fixes.

UWPX ships two small pre-release updates concering a critical fix for a crash that occurs when trying to render an invalid user avatar and issues with the Windows Store builds. Besides that it also got a minor UI update this month.

Servers

Ignite Realtime Community:

Version 9.1.0 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin has been released, which enables deployment of the third-party Converse client 37 in Openfire.
Version 4.4.0 release 1 of the Openfire JSXC plugin has been released, which enables deployment the third-party JSXC client 13 in Openfire.
Version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin has been released, and it ships with German translations for the admin console
Version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin has been released, which adds new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status.

Libraries

slixmpp 1.8.2 has been released. It fixes RFC3920 sessions, improves certificate errors handling, and adds a plugin for XEP-0454 (OMEMO media sharing).

The mellium.im/xmpp library v0.21.2 has been released! Highlights include support for PEP Native Bookmarks, and entity capabilities. For more information, see the release announcement.

Extensions and specifications

By the way, xmpp.org features a new page about XMPP RFCs.

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.

Pubsub Public Subscriptions
- This specification provides a way to make subscriptions to a node public
Ephemeral Messages
- This specification encourages a shift in privacy settings wrt. logging policies.

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 0.4 of XEP-0356 (Privileged Entity)
- Add “iq” privilege (necessary to implement XEPs such as Pubsub Account Management (XEP-0376)).
- Roster pushes are now transmitted to privileged entity with “roster” permission of “get” or “both”. This can be disabled.
- Reformulate to specify than only initial stanza and “unavailable” stanzas are transmitted with “presence” pemission.
- Namespace bump. (jp)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, Ludovic Bocquet, Licaon_Kter, mathieui, MattJ, nicfab, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Sam Whited, singpolyma, TheCoffeMaker, wurstsalat, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter March 2022

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org

XSF Announcements

The XSF has been accepted as hosting organization at Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as a project in general, please add your ideas and reach out to us. The contributor application period has begun already, so be quick!
XMPP Newsletter via mail: We migrated to our own mail-list server and stopped using Tinyletter. Its read-only and you will receive the XMPP Newsletter on a monthly basis. It also eliminates the privacy concerns with Tinyletter.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

The Profanity devs posted a quick guide on how to use OpenPGP for XMPP (OX).

JMP’s Newsletter announces a new client for Android (based on Conversations) that has a focus on improving UX for users of standards-compliant gateways.

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for March 2022 has been released! This release includes changes to the sidebar in the Communiqué TUI client and improvements to various packages in the main mellium.im/xmpp module.

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim development news: March brings a new issue reporting system and many performance improvements for both Gajim and python-nbxmpp. Gajim’s OMEMO plugin comes with some improvements as well. Last but not least, there has been a security issue in python-nbxmpp, which has been fixed in version 2.0.6.

Openfire Pàdé 1.5.7 and 1.6.3 and Openfire Pàdé 1.6.2 have been released.

Profanity 0.12.0 has been released, with in-band account registration and user mood support, new theme, improved OX user experience (as the article above shows) and a slew of fixes and polished features.

Psi+ 1.5.1615 and Psi+ 1.5.1618 have been released.

Conversations 2.10.5 is out, bringing better call reconnections after network switches, showing caller JID and account JID in incoming call screen, adapting the file storage locations per the new Android 11 requirements and a security fix affecting file downloads. Note that the F-Droid version lags behind, due to unrelated issues, but 2.10.2.1 is out and includes only the security fix. Also announced was that accounts on conversations.im are free from now on.

Servers

Jackal 0.58.0 has been released and added the BoltDB repository type.

After three years of development Prosody 0.12.0 has been released. The update covers XMPP Compliance, mobile and connectivity optimizations, updated HTTP file sharing, improved audio/video calling support, Direct TLS and many more - congratulations!

Tigase XMPP Server 8.2.0 has been released! Biggest feature is the support for MIX protocol, which offers better group chat experience, especially on mobile devices. Group chat (MUC) was not left be and received a lot of fixes as well. In addition we improved server-to-server connectivity, added option to store certificates in the repository (really helpful in cluster deployments) and more!

The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release 2.2.3 of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.

Libraries

slixmpp version 1.8.1 has been released, fixing a compatibility issue with the python standard library due to the defusedxml introduction in the 1.8.0 release.

python-nbxmpp versions 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 have been released, fixing a security issue in resolving websocket URIs.

Smack 4.4.5 and 4.5.0-alpha1 has been released.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0462 (PubSub Type Filtering)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-02-09.
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0463 (MUC Affiliations Versioning)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2022-02-16.

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 1.6.0 of XEP-0115 (Entity Capabilities)
- Mention preimage attacks explicitly (ssw)
Version 1.4.0 of XEP-0156 (Discovering Alternative XMPP Connection Methods)
- Remove DNS _xmppconnect method due to security vulnerability. (tjb)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Obsoleted

XEP-0008 (IQ-Based Avatars)
- Obsoleted due to two superseding specifications (egp)
XEP-0038 (Icon Styles)
- Obsolete due to the omnipresence of Unicode emoji, as well as Bits of Binary stickers. (egp)
XEP-0051 (Connection Transfer)
- Obsolete because this feature has been merged into XMPP core, see RFC6120 section 4.9.3.19, which describes the <see-other-host/> stream error. (egp)
XEP-0138 (Stream Compression)
- Obsolete due to security vulnerability. (tjb)
XEP-0229 (Stream Compression with LZW)
- Obsolete due to security vulnerability. (tjb)

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Here you can subscribe via email. It is read-only and only the Newsletter will be send to you on a monthly basis.

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, Ludovic Bocquet, Licaon_Kter, MattJ, nicfab, Sam Whited, singpolyma, TheCoffeMaker, wurstsalat, Ysabeau, Zash for their support and help in creation, review, translation and deployment. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter February 2022

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

French: jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
German: xmpp.org/de/blog and anoxinon.de
Italian: nicfab.it
Spanish: xmpp.org/es/blog

XSF Announcements

The XSF is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as a project in general, please add your ideas and reach out to us.
All XSF members are called to vote in the currently on-going member applications.

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects:

Events

XMPP Office Hours: available on our YouTube channel
Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month

Articles

JMP.chat describes in their blog why gateways, and especially bidirectional gateways, with XMPP and other protocols, are so useful. Their Newsletter also announces the launch of worldwide calling and completion of their rebrand.

Erik Bärwaldt, from the German “Linux Magazin” evaluated instant messengers including Conversations for XMPP [DE].
Mellium Dev Communiqué: This month saw the release of several new packages including integration testing for Slixmpp, support for PEP Native Bookmarks, better support for various cryptographic hashes, and support for entity capabilities.

Software news

Clients and applications

Dino 0.3 has been released: Video calls and conferences - encrypted and peer-to-peer. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!

Gajim development news: February brought a unified group chat details window, which offers all the configuration knobs you need. Also this month: less memory leaks and improved OMEMO QR codes.

Monal had a successful funding campaign for a build server, which will significantly reduce build time. Further insights into Monal development: Monal will drop support for iOS 12 and 13, and for macOS Catalina. Monal’s team is searching for a SwiftUI developer, and they need help with building a new and simplified website.

Big news from Movim: Movim 0.20 “Skiff” has been released, which features OMEMO support, GUI improvements, and better group chat management.

Psi+ 1.5.1605 has been released with OMEMO fixes.

Poezio 0.13.2 has been released, this version only fixes the compatibility with the newly released slixmpp 1.8.0, but a much more interesting release is to come soon.

Profanity developers wrote a blog post on how to run their client on Pinephones.

Tigase released BeagleIM 5.1 and SiskinIM 7.1 featuring improved OMEMO support.

Servers

Jackal 0.57.0, an XMPP server written in Go has been released.

Openfire announces the release of Openfire 4.7.1: Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencing troubles with users getting booted from group chat rooms. Furthermore, Openfire Pàdé 1.6.1 has been released. REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 hase been released, too.

Snikket published an important update for users of their server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi boards.

Tigase XMPP Server 8.2.0 has been released.

Libraries

Mellium Co-op has released v0.21.0 and v0.21.1 of the melium.im/xmpp library for Go! Highlights for this release include basic support for PubSub and PEP as well as In-Band Bytestreams. More information can be found in the release announcement. Version 0.21.1 fixes a security issue that was discovered in the websocket package and should be preferred when updating. For more information see CVE-2022-24968.

Slixmpp 1.8.0 has been released, which adds compatibility with python 3.10, as well as a lot of improvements related to typing and async under the hood.

Tigase had several releases for their products: Halcyon 0.0.17, JaXMPP 3.5.0, Tigase Swift 3.1.0, and Tigase Swift-OMEMO 2.1.0.

Extensions and specifications

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.

PubSub Type Filtering
- This specification provides a way to filter PubSub nodes in a disco query.
MUC Affiliations Versioning
- This specification provides a way to reduce the amount of queries necessary to stay up-to-date with affiliations in a MUC room.

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 2.13.0 of XEP-0004 (Data Forms)
- Add incomplete submission form handling (melvo)
Version 1.24.1 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Add hint for processing incomplete submission forms (melvo)
Version 1.24.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Advertise support for publishing items
- Replace ‘allow’ with ‘allows’ (melvo)
Version 1.23.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Clarify (redefine) pubsub#type field. (edhelas, pep)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Spread the news!

Please share the news on other networks:

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Therefore, we would like to thank Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, cpm, daimonduff, emus, Ludovic Bocquet, Licaon_Kter, marevalo, mathieui, MattJ, nicfab, patasca, seveso, Sam Whited, singpolyma, TheCoffeMaker, wurstsalat,xdelatour, Ysabeau for their support and help in creation, review and translation. Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

Each months’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news or events here, and promote it to a large audience.

Tasks we do on a regular basis:

gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!

We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects!

Read this Newsletter via our RSS Feed!

Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

Other than that — enjoy reading!

Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

The French translation appears at jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
The German translation appears at anoxinon.de
The Italian translation appears at NicFab.it
The Spanish translation appears the same way as the English orginial, simply select Spanish in the top bar

Many thanks to the translators and their work! This is a great help to spread the news! Please join them in their work or start over with any another language!

XSF Announcements

The XSF is planning to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as a project in general, please add your ideas and reach out to us!

Blog and newsletter pages at xmpp.org/blog now support multiple languages. We are happy for volunteers to support translating!

XSF fiscal hosting projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects now! Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post.

Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel!

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Videos

Thilo Molitor (developer of Monal) held a talk [DE] about Monal’s development.

XMPP Office Hours: Fabian Sauter presented his adventures in developing an XMPP Client for Windows (Universal Windows Platform (UWP)) in December.

XMPP has been mentioned in a German public TV [DE] show in the context of data protection.

Articles

JMP.chat released two blog posts. The first details a feature of the Soprani.ca project’s Cheogram system that allows SMS users to contact (or call!) any XMPP address. Their Newsletter also announces a partnership with Snikket for hosting, as well as a preview of worldwide calling rates as they prepare to launch that feature soon.

There are several articles to the topic “messenger” at the German site from “Freie Messenger” with a focus on alternatives to WhatsApp, E2EE, interoperability, security/pseudosecurity. Help is welcome, translating the articles to your native language.

OMEMO was finally integrated in Movim after 6 long years of discussions. In this article Timothée, Movim developer, explains the general OMEMO architecture, the difficulties encountered while working on the integration in Movim and how they overcame them.

As the previously announced collaboration between Snikket and Simply Secure ended its first project, they interviewed the project’s founder, Matthew Wild, about Snikket’s origins and his experience managing open-source projects. Read the interview: On Getting Things Done: A Conversation with Matthew Wild from Snikket.

Mellium Co-op has published their Year in Review for 2021 and the Dev Communiqué for December 2021 and January 2022.

MongooseIM writes about Dynamic XMPP Domains in their solutions

Andrew Lewman trials various messaging protocols over a congested network, and makes a discovery about XMPP performance in such situations.

Ravi Dwivedi demonstrates that “freedom and privacy can be convenient too” in their short introduction to the Quicksy Android client

The German Linux Magazin has been testing free instant messaging clients for Linux in their latest printout and, alongside other messengers, reviewed the Gajim desktop client.

An analysis of the dangers of misconfigured XMPP servers in this piece about XMPP server security by Bishop Fox.

vanitasvitae published an article celebrating the 1.0.0 release of PGPainless. PGPainless is a Java library that aims to make using OpenPGP as easy as possible. The project was started in 2018 as a by-product of a Google Summer of Code project of the XMPP Standards Foundation!

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim development news: Work on Gajim 1.4 is making big steps forward! After nine months of developing Gajim’s new main window, the code was finally ready to be merged into the master branch. This enables automatic builds of nightly versions for Linux and Windows.

monocles chat (a fork of Conversations and Blabber.im) will get OTR support in the next release. The client also only allows connections to XMPP servers with up to date SSL configurations and does not offer fallback SSL connections to avoid data leaks. Nevertheless it is compatible with every current XMPP account.

Libervia 0.8 “La Cecília” (formerly known as “Salut à Toi”) has been released with a complete OMEMO encrytion finalization for group chats, a new default theme, an easy to use invitation system, a non-standard (XMPP) list feature, photo albums and many technical changes.

A new stable release of SiskinIM 7.0.1 has been published which includes sending unencrypted messages in single chats with default encryption for OMEMO and presenting automatic file download size limit.

Servers

Openfire 4.7.0 has been released (having their Beta released before). This release is the first non-patch release in more than a year, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes. Highlights of this release include extensively improved clustering support, particularly around Multi-User Chat functionality, which should benefit high-volume environments. Previously also Openfire 4.5.5, Openfire 4.6.5 and Openfire 4.6.6 have been released.

Prosody 0.11.13 has been released. Since December, new Prosody releases brought some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, a security fix that addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in Prosody’s mod_websocket, and a fix for a memory leak. Previously Prosody 0.11.11 and Prosody 0.11.12 were released, too.

ejabberd 21.12 has been released. The new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes: PubSub improvements, new mod_conversejs, and support for MUC Hats (XEP-0317).

Jackal, an XMPP server written in Go, had version 0.56.0 released.

Snikket announced their January 2022 server release, this includes a security fix announced earlier in January. The primary new feature in this release is account import/export functionality, the final part of the XMPP account portability project funded by NGI DAPSI.

Libraries

A new XMPP component has been published and could use some feedback. The component implements a webhook transport that lets users (the person hosting the component and anyone they choose to allow) create HTTP endpoints to receive events on and translate those to XMPP messages. Webhook payloads are processed by middleware and the XMPP notifications are template-based and written in EJS. It currently comes with GitLab and plain Git integrations as well as a crude and untested Slack middleware, but it also understands plain text and PNG, JPEG and PDF content, which is sent to subscribers as attachments via HTTP File Upload (XEP-0363). Find the main repository (no production quality yet) and there is also a demo server available for casual testing.

Extensions and specifications

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.

Compatibility Fallbacks
- This document defines a way to indicate that a specific part of the body only serves as fallback and which specification the fallback is for.
Call Invites
- This document defines how to invite someone to a call and how to respond to the invite.
PubSub Namespaces
- This extension defines a new PubSub node attribute to specify the type of payload.
Message Replies
- This document defines a way to indicate that a message is a reply to a previous message.

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 1.1.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload)
- Filename size in bytes.
- Headers MUST be included in the PUT request.
- Headers considered opaque.
- Servers may want to sign headers, in security implications.
- Allow header case insensitivity, multiple times the same header, and preserve the order in the HTTP request. (egp, mb)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0353 (Jingle Message Initiation)
- Rework whole spec, namespace bump
- Add new <finish/> message
- Add dependency on XEP-0280, XEP-0313 and XEP-0334
- Add <reason/> to some messages (tm)
Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0459 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2022)
- Replace deprecated XEP-0411 with XEP-0402 in Advanced Group Chat (egp)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0380 (Explicit Message Encryption)
- Add new OMEMO namespaces: ‘urn:xmpp:omemo:1’ for OMEMO versions since 0.4.0, and ‘urn:xmpp:omemo:2’ for OMEMO versions since 0.8.0 (melvo)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

Last Call for comments on XEP-0424 (Message Retraction)
Last Call for comments on XEP-0425 (Message Moderation)

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

No XEPs advanced to Stable this month.

Deprecated

XEP-0256 (Last Activity in Presence)

Obsoleted

XEP-0443 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2021)

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community.

Therefore many thanks to Adrien Bourmault (neox), Anoxinon e.V., arne, emus, Goffi, IM, Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, MattJ, mdosch, NicFab, Sam Whited, TheCoffeMaker, vanitasvitae, wurstsalat3000 for their support and help in creation, review and translation!

Many thanks to all contributors and their continuous support!

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Tasks we do on a regular basis are for example:

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The XMPP Newsletter November 2021

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of November 2021 - the last release for this year! After our editorial break we will be back in February 2022!

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Other than that — enjoy reading!

Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

The French translation appears at jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
The German translation appears at anoxinon.de
The Italian translation appears at NicFab.it

Many thanks to the translators and their work! This is a great help to spread the news! Please join them in their work or start over with any another language!

XSF Announcements

The XSF members have to elected their new XSF Board and XSF Council! Congratulations to everyone!
The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects now! Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post.
- Moreover, the XSF has accepted its first project to the fiscal hosting program! A big welcome to the MAM Plugin for XMPP.js (note that this is unaffiliated with the upstream xmpp.js project)! They will be working on adding MAM support to xmpp.js with the eventual goal of adding it to the Matrix Bifrost bridge, allowing XMPP users to fetch history from their favorite Matrix channels. You can donate to the effort here.
The XSF is planning to participate the Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as project in general please add your ideas and reach out to us!
Blog and newsletter pages at xmpp.org/blog now support multiple languages. We are happy for volunteers to support translating!

Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel!

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Videos

Sam Whited gave a talk for the XMPP Office Hours about the XSF’s new fiscal hosting service!

Guest talk at Berlin XMPP Meetup: Diving deep into Briar at the XMPP Meetup Berlin

Articles

PeerTube Live Chat is using XMPP: Give your instance’s audience the ability to chat during live streams!

Using XMPP instead of ActivityPub? Well, openEngiadina decided to do so!

Missed for the September ‘21 newsletter, Nicholas A. Ferrell has written about their transition to XMPP for SMS communication via jmp.chat.

Nicola Fabiano is back with another article about why they chose XMPP, and more specifically hosting Snikket to have control over personal information. Article also available in Italian

Take Back Our Tech has started a series of articles (and companion video podcasts) about “XMPP: A Comeback Story”. First one is called A 20 Year Old Messaging Protocol For Robust, Private and Decentralized Communications and covers the ’ecosystem’ of apps and servers with a quick starting guide. The second one continues with Making Anonymous Phone Calls & Texts With JMP.Chat.

Niklas of gnulinux.ch asks (in German) “Is the free software community losing its values?”, wondering how come participation in free software discussions can no longer take place without using non-free software. Read the full article to find out why this matters and what solution exists already.

The jmp.chat blog had two small updates, a guide on How to Subscribe Using Movim and an update about the official ways to communicate with the community and about the upcoming app (with dialer integration).

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim Development News: Annoyed of spam messages in public channels? Gajim just gained support for Message Moderation. Also this month: better message corrections and improved notifications.

xmpp-dns was released in version 0.2.2, a minor update that added the possibility to fall back on testing default ports if no XMPP SRV records are provided by the server.

UWPX was released in version 0.38.0.0. This release updates the OMEMO implementation from 0.7.0 (2020-09-05) to 0.8.1 (2021-10-07) and includes a bunch of OMEMO related bug fixes.

SiskinIM version 7.0 was released. It’s a major release with support for XEP-0333 Chat Markers, location sharing and improved UI/UX, fetching history, cache handling and push improvements alongside number of bugfixes.

BeagleIM version 5.0 was released. It’s a major release with support for XEP-0333 Chat Markers, screen, voice-messages and location sharing, improved UI/UX, fetching history and much more.

Libervia (formerly “Salut à Toi”) 0.8 “La Cecília” has been released. Libervia is a multi-frontends client with social features such as blogging, photo albums, events organisation, etc. This release is a big milestone, preparing the field to make Libervia a great fit for family and friends focused social networks.

A new major version of Converse.js is out after three months of development, version 9.0.0 brings compressed avatars, new media render settings and a lot of bugfixes. Admins should read the release notes and update their deployments.

The new Converse.js version also got updated in the inVerse plugin version 9.0.0.1 for the Openfire server, and should appear in the instance updates list.

Servers

The new Snikket server update comes with improvements for the user interaction on iOS, an increased file sharing limit, resource monitoring and better account management!

MongooseIM 5.0 was released on 7th October! What’s new? Dynamic XMPP domains, improved documentation, multiple bug fixes and more. Virtual hosting XMPP domains was already possible with MongooseIM, but dynamic domains make it possible to add new domains without restarting the server - and to add a lot of them! Load tests with up to 100k users have shown that now there’s practically no difference between all the users connecting to a single domain and all of them connecting to 100k domains - that is one domain per user - yes, it’s that flexible!

Libraries

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for November2021 has been released! This month work mostly focused on the carbons package and on creating a re-usable test suite that other libraries can import to test message styling.

Openfire Smack publish version 4.4.4 as patch level release!

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0459 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2022)
- Rename Advanced Server and Advanced Client to Server and Client
- Add XEP-0455 to Future Development section (sp)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0459 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2022)
- Advance to Stable as per Council Vote from 2021-11-03. (XEP Editor (jsc))
Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Advance to Stable as per Council Vote from 2021-10-27. (XEP Editor (jsc))

Deprecated

No XEP deprecated this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community.

Therefore many thanks to xdelatour, wurstsalat3000, seveso, palm123, Nicola Fabiano, mdosch, MattJ, Licaon_Kter, Goffi, erszcz, emus, Benoît Sibaud, Anoxinon e.V., Adrien Bourmault (neox) for their support and help in creation, review and translation!

Many thanks to all contributors this year and their continuous support!

Spread the news!

Please share the news via other networks:

Find and place job offers in the XMPP job board.

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Tasks we do on a regular basis are for example:

Aggregation of news in the XMPP universe
Short formulation of news and events
Summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEP)
Review of the newsletter draft
Preparation for media images
Translations: especially German, French, Italian and Spanish

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter October 2021

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of October 2021.

Read this Newsletter via our RSS Feed!

Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

Other than that — enjoy reading!

Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

The French translation appears at jabberfr.org and linuxfr.org
The German translation appears at anoxinon.de
The Italian translation appears at NicFab.it

Many thanks to the translators and their work! This is a great help to spread the news! Please join them in their work or start over with another language!

XSF Announcements

The XSF members have to elect the upcoming XSF Board and Council soon. If you are interested in running for XSF Board (business related) or XSF Council (technical related) for the 2021—2022 term, please create an appropriate Wiki page by November 7th, 2021 and link it from here
The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects now! Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post.
- Moreover, the XSF has accepted its first project to the fiscal hosting program! A big welcome to the MAM Plugin for XMPP.js (note that this is unaffiliated with the upstream xmpp.js project)! They will be working on adding MAM support to xmpp.js with the eventual goal of adding it to the Matrix Bifrost bridge, allowing XMPP users to fetch history from their favorite Matrix channels. You can donate to the effort here.
The XSF is planning to participate the Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as project in general please add your ideas and reach out to us!
Blog and newsletter pages at xmpp.org/blog now support multiple languages. We are happy for volunteers to support translating!

Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel!

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Videos

Sam Whited gave a talk for the XMPP Office Hours about the XSF’s new fiscal hosting service!

Guest talk at Berlin XMPP Meetup: Diving deep into Briar at the XMPP Meetup Berlin

Articles

After being featured in the September 2021 newletter with a Movim & Element web client comparison, Ade Malsasa Akbar is back with a short tutorial on how to use Audio and Video calls in these clients.

Have you heard about Bad XMPP? Well, it is actually good - you can test your clients and servers against a set of intentionally badly configured XMPP services. Happy debugging!

The jmp.chat service blog announced some changes to the SIP inbound calling feature, so users are advised to configure it via the new interactive bot. On the iOS side Snikket is now the recommended app as some helpful functions (like calling tones) got sponsored.

Aria Network wrote a follow-up blog post on UX improvements such as avatars of the Bifrost bridge to Matrix. The previous article was “Conversion of communities to spaces, new Bifrost features”.

Software news

Clients and applications

Following last month’s Conversations and Quicksy releases of 2.10.0, a 2.10.1 point release comes with a new internal library for video compression, which allows more devices to send smaller files. Conversations will now be included in Android backups (be it Seedvault or Google’s) but only if encrypted. Furthermore, there have been address book fixes so contact addresses are picked up easier. Finally there have been fixes for notifications, which allow to start downloads properly and send MUC PMs to the right contact.

Gajim 1.3.3 has been released. This release features improved Ad-Hoc Commands and brings back spell checking. Gajim 1.3.3 includes many bug fixes and improvements. Also this month: two years of Gajim Development News! In October, Gajim’s event system received significant changes. These changes lead to improvements in notifications mainly, but also made it possible to display Jingle File Transfers directly in the chat view. Another nice addition: search filters which help narrow down your search.

Version 2.10.2 of the Snikket Android app has been released! The main highlight of this release is the new dialpad which allows you to navigate automated call systems when using a Jingle to PSTN bridge.

New beta versions of Beagle IM and Siskin IM have been released for MacOS and iOS with support for location sharing.

Servers

The Openfire plugin for Push Notification got a small bug fix, so server admins are advised to update to the new 0.9.0 version.

Libraries

Development on mellium.im/xmpp (an XMPP library in Go) has been slower than usual this month. We’ve primarily been focused on rolling out basic pubsub, PEP, and PEP Native Bookmarks support and the basics are already merged into the main branch. For more information, see the latest Dev Communiqué.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 0.8.0 of XEP-0392 (Consistent Color Generation)
- Remove Color Vision Deficiency correction algorithms and substitute them with a better recommendation. (jsc)
Version 0.5 of XEP-0355 (Namespace Delegation)
- delegation of Remaining Discovery Infos
- delegation of Bare JID Disco Items
- Security Consideration about disco requests
- namespace bump
- typos (jp)
Version 0.8.0 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- Update groupchat-messages-in-user-archive advice, introducing fields and disco features to make behaviour explicit in future implementations, in light of Last Call feedback. (ks)
Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0450 (Automatic Trust Management (ATM))
- Update to XEP-0434 version 0.6.0 and XEP-0384 version 0.8.0
- Use Base64-encoded key identifiers in examples
- Update TM’s namespace to urn:xmpp:tm:1
- Update OMEMO’s namespace to urn:xmpp:omemo:2 (melvo)
Version 0.6.0 of XEP-0434 (Trust Messages (TM))
- Specify key identifier encoding, improve glossary and update to XEP-0384 version 0.8.0
- Specify usage of Base64 encoding for key identifiers within trust messages
- Specify usage of Base16 encoding for key identifiers within Trust Message URIs
- Use Base64-encoded key identifiers in examples
- Add ‘hash value’ as example of key identifier
- Update OMEMO’s namespace to urn:xmpp:omemo:2
- Update namespace to urn:xmpp:tm:1 (melvo)
Version 0.5.0 of XEP-0401 (Ad-hoc Account Invitation Generation)
- Factor out XEP-0445 (gl)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

XEP-0379 Pre-Authenticated Roster Subscription
XEP-0401 Ad-hoc Account Invitation Generation
XEP-0445 Pre-Authenticated In-Band Registration

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0280 (Message Carbons)
- Advance to Stable as per Council Vote from 2021-09-29. Unbelievable. (jsc (XEP Editor))

Deprecated

Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0411 (Bookmarks Conversion)
- Deprecated by vote of Council on 2020-10-06. (XEP Editor (jsc))

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community.

Therefore many thanks to Adrien Bourmault (neox), Anoxinon e.V., Benoît Sibaud, emus, Julien Jorge, Licaon_Kter, MattJ, mdosch, Nicola Fabiano, seveso, Sam Whited, SouL, wojtek, wurstsalat3000, Ysabeau for their support and help in creation, review and translation!

Spread the news!

Please share the news via other networks:

Find and place job offers in the XMPP job board.

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

Also check out our RSS Feed!

Tasks we do on a regular basis are for example:

Aggregation of news in the XMPP universe
Short formulation of news and events
Summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEP)
Review of the newsletter draft
Preparation for media images
Translations: especially German, French, Italian and Spanish

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

The XMPP Newsletter September 2021

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of September 2021.

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Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects now! Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post.

The XSF is planning to participate the Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC). If you are interested in participating as a student, mentor or as project in general please add your ideas and reach out to us!

Furthermore, the xmpp.org website received an update. It’s now built using Hugo (instead of Pelican) which reduces maintenance effort significantly. The new website is based on Bootstrap 5, and has been developed with simplicity in mind. We also made sure to make contributions as easy as possible. Building the website locally requires a minimum of dependencies, and is possible via Docker and Vagrant as well.

Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel!

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Articles

OpenPGP for XMPP (OX) is slowly getting client implementations. In a German blog post, DebXWoody walks us step by step through the process of enabling OX and using it in Profanity.

The Libervia ActivityPub Gateway work continues, with a report about Full-Text Search for PubSub cache and an early, but functional, ActivityPub XMPP Component.

Matthew Wild has published a web utility for exploring XEP-0392 “Consistent Color Generation”. This XEP advises clients on how to colourize a user’s contacts (e.g. their nicknames or default avatars) for easier visual identification. The XEP describes a standard algorithm that aims to provide a distinctive colour for any contact, with considerations for colour vision deficiencies, and allowing all of a user’s clients to display the same colour for a given contact. Check out the XEP-0392 colour explorer and the Modern XMPP colour guidance.

Ever wanted a web clients comparison between XMPP and Matrix? You’re in luck as Ade Malsasa Akbar has written a simple overview of two group chat messengers from the decentralization family, Element of Matrix and Movim of XMPP. This is a discussion of usability from an end user perspective without talking about technology stuff like security or protocols.

Software news

Clients and applications

Dino v0.2.2 has been released. This version is a maintenance release and includes bug fixes.

UWPX v.0.35.1.0 and v.0.36.0.0 have been released. v.0.35.1.0 finally added push support with the push server developed by COM8. v.0.36.0.0 of UWPX fixes a bunch of bugs and updated the UI to WinUI 2.7. Besides that, a new OMEMO status indicator got introduced which should help you check if your contacts support the latest OMEMO standard.

XMPP-DNS, a tool to look up XMPP SRV records and test connectivity, had its initial release of v0.1.0. The release was directly followed by v0.2.0, bringing support for the XMPPS-server SRV records and a small bugfix release v0.2.1.

Gajim development news: September brought many updates under the hood. With big changes coming up in Gajim 1.4, many parts of the code have to be touched. These changes remain mostly invisible for users, but make Gajim more robust. In some cases, this results in visible improvements as well: Both Add Contact and Start Chat windows are now detecting the type of chat behind an address.

Go-sendxmpp, one of various alternatives to the original sendxmpp, released versions v0.1.0 and v0.1.1.

Conversations and Quicksy got version 2.10.0 out this month, with a short changelog: black bars on video calls (so you know when “you’re holding it wrong”), search performance improvements and a new setting to block app screenshots. Under the hood there was more: two bugs fixed for file attachments (specially for users with a lot of media files), touching the titlebar will open chat details and nested quotes (not yet the default, but you can “copy” and then “paste as quote” to use them).

Converse is going forward after a lot of development. Version 8 of this JavaScript XMPP chat client that runs in your browser was released. JC Brand’s blog post covers the visible changes (message styling, OMEMO encrypted files, URL previews) but also the internal changes (IndexDB by default, web components). 8.0.1 followed shortly with bug fixes to the polished product.

Profanity 0.11.1 has been released improving upon themes, notifications and OMEMO handling.

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for September has been published. It includes minor updates to the Communiqué TUI client as well as the mellium.im/xmpp library. Full details in Dev Communiqué for September 2021 on their Open Collective page.

Servers

No news on XMPP servers have reached us this month. :-(

Libraries

Mellium has released v0.20.0 of their Go XMPP library. The release announcement can be found on Open Collective. Some of the bigger features include group chat (MUC), chat history (MAM), and ad-hoc command support!

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

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 0.8.0 of XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption)
- Update to XEP-0420 version 0.4.0 and adjust namespace
- Replace SCE’s old ‘content’ element by its new ’envelope’ element
- Replace SCE’s old ‘payload’ element by its new ‘content’ element
- Update SCE’s namespace to ‘urn:xmpp:sce:1’
- Update namespace to ‘urn:xmpp:omemo:2’ (melvo)
Version 0.14.0 of XEP-0280 (Message Carbons)
- Incorporate LC feedback: Remove requirement to remove “private” elements (and add interop note), completely reword mobile considerations to fit modern reality. (gl)
Version 1.1 of XEP-0227 (Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers)
- Discourage use of ‘password’, provide a way to include SCRAM credentials, PEP nodes and message archives. (mw)
Version 1.22.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Remove exception for last item when purging a node: all items must be removed. (jp)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

XEP-0459 XMPP Compliance Suites 2022

Stable (formerly known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

No Stable this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community.

Therefore many thanks to Adrien Bourmault (neox), Benoît Sibaud, emus, palm123, Licaon_Kter, MattJ, mdosch, nicola, seveso, Sam Whited, SouL, wurstsalat3000, Ysabeau for their support and help in creation, review and translation!

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The XSF as a Fiscal Host

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Managing funds is easy when you’re a large project owned by an incorporated entity with accountants at your disposal, or when you’re a small project run by one person who accepts and uses all donations. When you’re in between, however, it can be difficult to handle. If you’re a project with a few regular contributors but no bank account, who handles the money? For many projects the answer is a fiscal host.

Fiscal hosts accept donations on behalf of a smaller organization and then earmark the donations for that smaller groups use. This way the larger organization handles taxes and accounting and the smaller group doesn’t have to incorporate or pay lots of money for accountants.

Many fiscal hosts exist for software projects, some focused on particular areas of the software world that they want to see developed. Many general software focused hosts such as the Software Freedom Conservancy and the Open Source Collective have requirements that put them out of the reach of most small XMPP related projects. Until now no fiscal host has existed specifically to nurture and grow new XMPP related projects.

Today the XSF is announcing that it will change this by acting as a fiscal host for XMPP related projects. A new organization has been created on Open Collective and will be using their platform to accept donations on behalf of hosted projects. Funds are currently handled in USD (since the XSF is based in the U.S.) but projects from all over the world are welcome to apply! We can’t wait to see what small XMPP projects are able to do once they are given the tools they need to raise money under the umbrella of a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization like the XSF!

The new terms of fiscal sponsorship can be found on the website, and you can apply for sponsorship by creating a collective for your project on Open Collective, then navigating to the XMPP organization and clicking “Apply”. This will present you with a form where you can enter the required information:

For more information about fiscal hosts, see the Open Collective Fiscal Hosts FAQ.

If you run an XMPP related open source project or organization and think you could benefit from a fiscal host to help you manage and distribute funds, consider applying!

The XMPP Newsletter August 2021

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel!

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote): Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Articles

What is project XPORTA? As announced in the April ‘21 newsletter, the Data Portability and Services Incubator at NGI is sponsoring the XMPP Account Portability project named XPORTA. This month they host an interview with Matthew Wild about how this project came into existence.

The “have your own TelCo based on XMPP” service jmp.chat has a new blog, with a twist, now based on Libervia so based on XMPP, with all the nice blog features that you want (like RSS) and even subscriptions via XMPP (with compatible clients like Movim or Libervia). The post announcing the new blog also covers the new registration flow and billing system. But the previous post is the real jewel, called Adventures in WebRTC: Making Phone Calls from XMPP. It details the journey through WebRTC debugging, multiple clients, NAT, ICE and all monitored through Wireshark. Get a hot or cold beverage to go with this about 70 minutes long read.

In the previous newsletter we mentioned that Debian Linux 11 will soon be launched with updated XMPP software, as this happened in the meantime, server admins are already updating or even setting up new deployments. Such as Nelson from Luxembourg, who published a blog post about setting up a server with ejabberd on Debian 11 Bullseye.

While the Snikket iOS client app was just released, read more below, the behind the scenes development continues. In the latest blog post, Matthew Wild announces that the expert folk at Simply Secure will be performing a usability audit of the current app, as well as conducting usability testing thanks to funding from the OTF’s Usability Lab. The analysis will help to improve the UX of the iOS app and Snikket as a whole.

Missed in last month’s issue, the folks at cometchat have blogged about XMPP’s history, working architecture, stanzas and features in general in Everything About XMPP - Extensible Messaging & Presence Protocol. If you want a quick technical overview (or need one to show others what XMPP is all about) this ~15 minutes read can bring one up to speed.

“Spaces” are the new XMPP frontier to be explored, and you’d get a glimpse of them in Gajim client news below, but the work is pretty elaborate and ongoing with many people involved. Renga’s (an XMPP client for Haiku) developer pulkomandy has blogged Some random thoughts about XMPP spaces thinking about use cases (family, business, communities) and user interfaces.

Any Turkish speakers reading the newsletter? We don’t have a translation yet, but Ged has just published an in-depth blog post about XMPP titled Hangi “Chat” Programı?. In about 40 minutes it takes the reader through the story of the protocol, tells about apps, servers, comparisons with popular apps and privacy.

The March `21 newsletter brought the news that JSXC (the Javascript XMPP Client) got funding to work on group chat calls. This month they report on the work done and explain the current progress that can even be tested.

Finally, how does FaceTime work? They interestingly use the same port (5223) as XMPP does…

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces. The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, they explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Libervia progress note 2021-W31 is out with information about Docker integration, the translation portal and the first 0.8.0 beta. It also has plenty of details about the work done on the ActivityPub Gateway project (grant announced in the April ‘21 newsletter) with SQL, DBus, PubSub and with new and updated XEPs.

Communiqué is a new XMPP client from the Mellium Co-op team. It was announced this month and presented at the XMPP Office Hours (unfortunately recording did not work out). The source code can be found in the repository.

Monal 5.0.1 is now available for both iOS and macOS bringing mostly corrections and more polish over the previously major release.

JSXC Openfire plugin gets a 4.3.1-1 release, with mostly bug fixes and improvements from the JSXC project.

After so many months of waiting the Snikket iOS app is now publicly released. Snikket server admins can add the app to the invitations pages to have Apple users easily find it. If you are not running Snikket you can still use the app (you can use credentials directly) but do read the blog post to know what you need to add to your Prosody instance (invitations modules) or what limitations you might experience using any other server software.

Servers

Prosody 0.11.10 has been released with a fix for CVE-2021-37601 and some minor changes. Prosody developers recommend server admins to upgrade in order to fix the remote information disclosure issue.

Libraries

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for August includes updates to the Mellium XMPP library as well as the new Communiqué instant messaging client. The biggest updates this month are MAM and ad-hoc commands support! You can read more here.

Extensions and specifications

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 XEPs proposed this month.

New

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0460 (Pubsub Caching Hints)
- Accepted by vote of Council on 2021-07-21. (XEP Editor (jsc))

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 1.21.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)
- Revert change from version 1.15.5 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (pep)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0214 (File Repository and Sharing)
- Revert change from version 0.2.1 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (rm)
Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0248 (PubSub Collection Nodes)
- Revert change from version 0.2.1 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (rm)
Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0283 (Moved)
- Re-write the flow with a more focused approach. (mw)
Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption)
- Add discussion venue after creation by the Infrastructure Team. (mw)
Version 1.24.0 of XEP-0001 (XMPP Extension Protocols)
- Change “Draft” to “Stable”. (ssw)

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 help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

No Last Call this month.

Stable (formely known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename ‘Draft’ to ‘Stable’. Read more about it here.

No Stable this month.

Call for Experience

No Call for Experience this month.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community.

Therefore many thanks to Adrien Bourmault (neox), Anoxinon e.V. community, anubis, Benoît Sibaud, emus, Sam, Licaon_Kter, nicola, seveso, SouL, wurstsalat3000, Ysabeau for their support and help in creation, review and translation!

Spread the news!

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Find and place job offers in the XMPP job board.

Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter

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Tasks which need to be done on a regular basis are for example:

Aggregation of news in the XMPP universe
Short formulation of news and events
Summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEP)
Review of the newsletter draft
Preparation for media images
Translations: especially German and Spanish

License

This newsletter is published under CC BY-SA license.

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