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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 FOSDEM In the beginning of February was the annual FOSDEM19 conference in Brussels which was well attended by XMPP enthusiasts and where 5 different talks related to XMPP were held. The videos for the FOSDEM presentations have been released: XMPP Beyond Instant Messaging In this talk Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) shows how XMPP can be used to build non-IM applications, such as a blog engine, file sharing, a code forge, a universal remote controller and even a decentralized web framework on top of XMPP.[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 week in Brussels we held the UI/UX Sprint, the 23rd XMPP Summit and over the weekend many XMPP developers and enthusiasts will attend FOSDEM19. Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter Subscribe News The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is applying as Google Summer of Code organization and open source projects are invited to submit project ideas.[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]

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]