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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:

• Monal
  • Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
    • Blog post 1
• Prav.app
  • 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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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 .

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.

• 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

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.

• 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:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• Lemmy instance (unofficial)
• Reddit (unofficial)
• XMPP Facebook page (unofficial)

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 .

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages 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, 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

Help us to build the newsletter

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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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:

• Monal
  • Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
• Prav.app
  • Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)

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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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 .

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 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

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.

• 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:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• Lemmy instance (unofficial)
• Reddit (unofficial)
• XMPP Facebook page (unofficial)

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 .

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages 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, 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

Help us to build the newsletter

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 .

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 .

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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:

• Monal
  • Media Gallery (90 hours, easy)
• Prav.app
  • Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)

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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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 .

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 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

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.

• 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)

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• Lemmy instance (unofficial)
• Reddit (unofficial)
• XMPP Facebook page (unofficial)

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 .

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages 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, 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

Help us to build the newsletter

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 .

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The 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter!

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:

• Monal
  • Modern Onboarding (90 hours, easy)
  • Media Gallery (90 hours, easy)
  • MDM support (175 hours, easy)
  • SiriKit support (350 hours, medium)
• Dino
  • Inline link preview (175 hours, easy)
  • Rich message support (175 hours, easy)
• Prav.app
  • Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)

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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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:

• Designated gatekeepers must now comply with all obligations under the Digital Markets Act
• Interoperable Europe act: Council adopts new law for more efficient digital public services across the EU

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 .

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.

• 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

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.

• 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)

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

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

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

Help us to build the newsletter

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 .

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!

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 .

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:

• Monal
  • Modern Onboarding (90 hours, easy)
  • Media Gallery (90 hours, easy)
  • MDM support (175 hours, easy)
  • SiriKit support (350 hours, medium)
• Dino
  • Inline link preview (175 hours, easy)
  • Rich message support (175 hours, easy)
• Prav.app
  • Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)

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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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 .

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

• 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 can help improve 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.

Spread the news

Please share the news on other networks:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• Lemmy instance (unofficial)
• Reddit (unofficial)
• XMPP Facebook page (unofficial)

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 .

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

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

Help us to build the newsletter

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 .

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!

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 .

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:

• Mellium Co-op
• Prav iOS

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:
  • HTTP File Upload plugin 1.4.0 released
  • Presence Service plugin v1.7.2 release
  • Smack 4.5.0-alpha2 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.

• 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

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.

• 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:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• Lemmy instance (unofficial)
• Reddit (unofficial)
• XMPP Facebook page (unofficial)

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 .

Newsletter Contributors & Translations

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

Help us to build the newsletter

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 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 .

Sponsors

We would like to kindly thank the direct sponsors for the event which are so far Isode , Snikket and the two individuals of Alexander Gnauck and Edward Maurer. We appreciate their support so that we can keep the event open and accessible for everyone.

We are really excited seeing so many people already signing up. Looking forward to meeting all of you!

The XMPP Standards Foundation

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

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 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

Please share the news on other networks:

• Mastodon
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
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• Reddit (unofficial)