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The XMPP Newsletter April 2026
Posted on May 5, 2026 | 13 minutes | | XMPP Communication Team and Contributors
In this issue: 2nd quarterly call for XSF members admissions. XMPP at FOSSY 2026. XMPP Sprint in Berlin. Two new NLnet grants. Experimenting with MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB Support in Openfire, bringing jabber.el back from the dead, Fluux Messenger 0.15 and beyond, Libervia progress notes, Matridge spaces with NLNet, and a lot more! Update your clients with aTalk, Fluux Messenger, Gajim, Monal, Monocles, Movim, Poezio and Profanity. Update your servers: ejabberd 26.04 and Prosody IM 13.0.5. Specifications update: six proposed XEP’s, two new XEP’s, and five updated ones! [Read More]
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