The XMPP Blog

We are happy to announce that the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is applying as Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization. Open source projects are now able to add their XMPP-related project ideas to the XMPP GSoC Project Ideas wiki page Interested parties are also invited to join us at gsoc@muc.xmpp.org. Feel free to stop by, ask questions and to discuss your project idea. We welcome everyone, not only those new to GSoC and consider participating. [Read More]

Happy 2019 and welcome to the XMPP newsletter. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News Today is Jabber’s 20th anniversary! Jabber would later be standardized and renamed to XMPP. If you’d like a trip down memory lane, have a look at this 2001 Linux Magazine interview with Jeremie Miller or the original Slashdot release announcement by him on 4 January 1999. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News In the Netherlands a commercial chat service based on XMPP and a modified version of the open-source Xabber client for Android was compromised when the Dutch police gained access to the server and implemented a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on encrypted conversations that used Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 23th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday January 31st and Friday February 1st 2019. These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2019. The XSF invites you all to attend, and discuss all things XMPP! If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 23 (to edit the page, you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. It is also available in French. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. In this newsletter you will find information about an XMPP sprint happening this month in Germany, an article about XMPP use cases, many software releases and much more. News The Berlin XMPP meetup was held, where Holger Weiß continued his series about the perfect XMPP server setup. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. It is also available in French. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News Paul Schaub penned some thoughts on the future of OMEMO where he discusses some of its current drawbacks and proposes futher improvements. After nearly two years of running a Matrix server, Disroot have explained why they chose to refocus on XMPP instead. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. This month’s newsletter is a bit thinner than usual, no doubt due to the summer holidays in the northern hemisphere. News Maxime “pep.” Buquet has written a great report on the progress made at the recent XMPP sprint held at the Collabora offices in Cambridge. [Read More]

Welcome to the latest edition of the XMPP newsletter! If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News Slack has acquired HipChat’s (and Stride’s) intellectual property from Atlassian. HipChat was a proprietary service based on non-federated XMPP. Prosody has added various PEP improvements which will be included in a future 0.11 release. The Java XMPP library Smack now has OpenPGP support. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News Decentralized code forge, based on XMPP Github has been acquired by Microsoft, prompting some FOSS developers with long memories to reconsider whether they still want to host their projects there. The Salut à Toi project is working on a decentralized and federated solution for issues and merge requests, based on XMPP, and Jérôme Poisson explains in this article their motivation for doing this work. [Read More]

Welcome to another edition of the XMPP newsletter. News The next release of Salut à Toi will include file sharing. Sharing files directly between two users has been possible before, but now it’s possible to share a file hierarchy, or in other words one or several directories. To share with someone, just use their XMPP address (JID). Christopher Muclumbus is a new project to publicly list XMPP chat rooms. It provides a web interface with full-text search for room names, descriptions and addresses. [Read More]