Monal IM: 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 month. And chances are that some of your S2S connections are already failing today.

Some background

The Web-PKI is moving away from certificates having bot, the TLS Web Server Authentication and the TLS Web Client Authentication extended key usage enabled. Most CAs already stopped issuing certificates with t ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 26.03

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there is a change in the SQL schemas, please read below. There are no changes in configuration, API commands or hooks.

Contents:

• [Changes in SQL schemas](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#sql)
• [SASL channel binding changes](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#sasl)
• **[ChangeLog](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#ch ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: Poezio 0.16 Almost exactly one year since the last release, here is poezio 0.16.

Poezio is a terminal-based XMPP client which aims to replicate the feeling of terminal-based IRC clients such as irssi or weechat; to this end, poezio originally only supported multi-user chats and anonymous authentication.

Features

![A screenshot of poezio showing several test messages, with two of them moderated, one with a reason and the other without.](https://blog.mathieui.net/feeds/tag/images/po ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Fluux Messenger 0.14.0 - Full Room Control & Richer Contact Profiles

Fluux Messenger 0.14.0 is a major release. Fluux Messenger is growing fast. Thank you to everyone contributing, testing, and spreading the word!

This re ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 5.0.4 Release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.4 continues our effort to provide stable 5.0.x series releases whilst we finalize work on an upcoming 5.1.0 release. Please refer to the full changelog for more details.

You can obtain the new version of Openfire for your platform from it ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Messaging as Infrastructure, Not Just a Feature

The Backbone of Real-Time Digital Services

Most platforms treat messaging as something you add. A chat module bolted on after the core product ships. A notification layer wired in once users start asking for it. A support tool that earns its place once the team has bandwidth to integrate it.

That approach made sense when digital services were simpler, but it does not hold up today.

Modern platforms depend on ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.14 This release brings supports for three new XEPs, fixes one specific bug that was breaking poezio, and has a lot of internal improvements including typing hings and documentation.

Thanks to everyone involved for this release!

Removals

• The obsolete UnescapedJID class was removed.

Features

• New plugin: XEP-0462 (Pubsub Type Filtering)
• New plugin: XEP-0511 (Link Metadata)
• New plugin: [XEP ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Fluux Messenger 0.13.0 - Native TCP Connection & Complete EU Language Coverage

We&aposre excited to announce Fluux Messenger 0.13.0, featuring native TCP connections, complete European language coverage, and significant performance improvements.

Also, we recently passed the first 100 stars on GitHub. Thank you for your support and for believ ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.13.2 (and .1) Version 1.13.0 has shipped with a packaging bug that affects people trying to build wheels using setuptools. 1.13.1 is an attempt to fix that (made packaging from git work somehow), and 1.13.2 is the correct fix thanks to one single additional character.

There are no other changes, and pypi wheels are not affected because they are built in CI with uv.

Links

You can find the new release on codeberg, [pypi](h ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.13 This version fixes a regression in the previous release regarding joining rooms, improves compatibility with the new aiodns releases, and brings a number of other features and fixes.

Thanks to everyone involved (with new contributors) for this release!

Fixes

• A lot of deprecation warnings for current and future python versions
• A bug in the JID implementation where bool() would always be true, which would prevent joining rooms with the [XEP-0045](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045 ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect operators On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.

Certificate basics

First, a tiny bit of background on certificates. Certificate Authorities (CAs) such as Let’s Encrypt work by verify ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.15.0: Audio/Video Calls and Integrated Search Field Welcome Kaidan 0.15.0! This release adds experimental support for calls. In addition, it contains some very useful improvements and lots of fixes.

Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Entrust and NGI Zero Commons Fund with public money provided by the European Commission.

Audio/Video Calls

Kaidan has supported voice ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Introducing Fluux Messenger: A Modern XMPP Client Born from a Holiday Coding Session

It was mid-December 2025, just before the Christmas break. My favorite XMPP client had broken on the main branch I was using. Frustrated, rather than waiting for a fix, I decided I wa ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody at FOSDEM 2026 We’re looking forward to meeting new and familiar faces at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend!

Every February, thousands of developers (and users) of open-source and free (as in freedom) software gather in Brussels to discuss and celebrate our communities, and collaborate and share ideas and projects.

If you are attending, come and find us in the AW building, Level 1. We’ll be sharing the stand with other projects in the XMPP ecosystem ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: Your European Union XMPP Chat Provider! You can now easily find an XMPP provider based in the European Union (EU)! We have updated our filter options. Previously, you could filter for the server location of an XMPP provider. That filter now allows to select EU-only hosted services.

Try it out! Click the Filter list drop-down menu on the main page.

![The location-based filter allows to select the server location.](https://providers.xmpp.net/images/category-A_eu- ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.4 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch!

We encourage any deployments using 13.0.3 to upgrade, partly due to a bug that was introduced into UUID generation in that release. We’re not aware of any direct consequences of this bug, but it may cause compatibility problems with other software.

Although not strictly bug fixes, we sneaked in some configuration-related improvements to this rele ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.01

This release is the result of three months of development, implementing those new features, and fixing bugs.

Release Highlights:

• [Database Serialization](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#database)
• [Roster Invites and Invite-based Account Registration](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#invites)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no mandatory changes in ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: IgniteRealtime Heads to Brussels: XSF Summit & FOSDEM 2026 I am excited to share that members of the IgniteRealtime community will be heading to Brussels, Belgium, from January 29th to February 1st to take part in two important events for the open-source and real-time communications ecosystem: the annual XSF Summit and FOSDEM.

XSF Summit: Connecting the XMPP community

The XSF Summit, organized by th ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: 2026-01-13 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem On the 13th of January I was invited back to play for the Trolley Barn Contra Dance’s first dance of 2026. For the first time since I’ve been DJing for the Tuesday night dances at the Trolley Barn I was working with a caller (or “callers”, plural, in this case) other than my friend Valerie. I’ve heard Rob and Amanda call plenty of times and even spent some time with them at caller workshops, so we’re not exactly strangers, but I still ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: XMPP integration with n8n n8n is a platform for workflow automation. Let&aposs see how interface n8n workflows with an XMPP network. As an example on how to use XMPP to receive data from n8n, let&aposs build a simple workflow that publishes into a MUC room some information about each commit pushed to a GitHub repository.

Simple workflow to display Git commits in a MUC room

You can browse an ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Enabling Fluux.io WebPush on a PWA on iOS

As we previously described here, your Fluux.io service can send push notifications to your xmpp user&aposs browsers when they are offline. It includes Safari on iOS devices. But before enabling it your users need to add your Progressive Web App (PWA) on thei ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.3 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Happy new year! Our first release of 2026 is a minor release for our stable branch, with a range of tweaks, bug fixes and minor improvements for you.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• mod_storage_sql: Set configurable wait time for locked SQLite3 database
• net.server_event: Port TLS 1.3 channel binding method to libevent backend
• mod_roster: Add command for cleani ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.14.0: Advanced Media Sharing and Registration Provider Filtering Here comes Kaidan 0.14.0! It includes some great new features and fixes!

Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Entrust and NGI Zero Commons Fund with public money provided by the European Commission.

Advanced Media Sharing

It is now possible to select media to be shared while being offline. Once you are ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Snikket Server - December 2025 release Hello again! We’re rounding off the year with another small release of the Snikket 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.

Notable changes

Offline message compatibility

It was reported that Conversations 2.19.2 and later did not reliably receive offline messages after being offline for an extended period of time. This also affected the upcomin ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Monal Internals - Serializable Promise framework In this new series, I want to shine some light onto specific parts of Monal’s internals. It’s dedicated to programmers or people curious about how Monal works internally. If you want to give some feedback, feel free to send an email to thilo@monal-im.org

Other articles in this series:

• Monal Internals - Handlers framework
• [Monal Internals - XML Q ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 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 Cluste ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: XMPP at 39C3! The XMPP assembly for 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 (or previously Leipzig or 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 ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: 2025-12-09 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem On December 9th I returned to the Trolley Barn to DJ again for my friend Valerie Young. This time around my goal was to have a better mix of high energy and lower energy “groovy” tunes, and I wanted to be better prepared for tying in endings at any time, no matter how many times through the caller requested.

Prep

![A partial screenshot of the Mixxx user interface, specifically the deck region. The tune 'The Cliffs of Moher / Rec H ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2025

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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.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is th ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: SAFE for Elixir: Phoenix LiveView Erlang Solutions launched SAFE, a Security Audit for Erlang in the fall of 2023. We extended the analysis for Elixir in the spring of 2024 and now, SAFE officially supports Phoenix Liveview, which means a SAFE scan is now looking for vulnerabilities common in Phoenix web applications.

What is SAFE?

[SAFE](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/services/security-audit-for-erlang-and-elixir/#:~:text=SAFE%20is%20an%20audit%20procedure,Any%20security% ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: 2025 Annual Meeting and Voting Results 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](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#council) and [Board of Directors](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#board) have been held.

This year’s election meeting wa ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON

We hear this too often: “XMPP uses XML. It should use JSON—it’s more modern.”

The logic seems straightforward: JSON came later, so it must be better. But better for what, exactly?

JSON became successful because it’s the standard serialization format for JavaScript. That made it convenient for browser-based applications.

Does that m ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at FOSDEM 2026 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 the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions.

This year you can find the lounge at the regular place on the [K building’s 2nd floor]( ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: First release candidate of Smack 4.5 published The Smack developers are happy to announce the availability the first release candidate (RC) of Smack 4.5.0.

The upcoming Smack 4.5 release contains many bug fixes and improvements. 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.

Smac ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

Signal improved its protocol to prepare encrypted messaging for the quantum era.

They call the improvement “Triple Ratchet” (or SPQR = Signal Post-Quantum Ratchet).

[Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets\ \ We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

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 ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28 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 no ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat

Good news for anyone building messaging infrastructure in Europe: Denmark&aposs Council presidency is abandoning mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) proposal for now. The proposal was nickna ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: AI Bots Can't Use WhatsApp Anymore. So... Who Are They Going to Talk To?

Meta just closed the gates on AI chatbots. I think this is an early warning.

Starting January 15, 2026, [WhatsApp will ban all third-party general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18 ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Putting NTA 7532 to the Test (Literally) You might have seen the XMPP Standards Foundation’s open letter to NEN about NTA 7532, the Dutch effort to standardise secure healthcare chat. It’s a good read, and, as it happens, right up our street.

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 kno ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 25.10

Release Highlights:

• [Added more Ad-Hoc Commands from XEP-0133](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#adhoc)
• [Updated support for XEP-0317 Hats](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#hats)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no mandatory changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks.

Other contents:

• **[New option archive_muc_as_mucsub in mod_mam]( ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare. Here at Ignite Realtime, we’re excited to support this effort. Our projects, ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat 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 fost ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP related Workshop at the Linux Day Torino 2025 Nicolas Vial will host the [Quale sistema alternativo per il vostro cellulare?](https://linuxdaytorino.org/2025/#schedule) 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](https://play. ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.12 This version is out mostly to provide a stable version with compatibility with the newly released Python 3.14, there are nonetheless a few new things on top.

Thanks to all contributors for this release!

Fixes

• Bug in MUC self-ping ( XEP-0410) that would create a traceback in some uses
• Bug in SIMS ( XEP-0447) where all media would be marked as inline
• Python 3.14 breakage

Features

• Prono ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Coffeeneuring 2025 This year I haven’t blogged much at all, but it’s time for the 15th annual Coffeeneuring and who-knows-how-many-annual Biketober challenges so here we go! This post will be updated with each of my Coffeeneuring rides as the month goes on, and may (or may not) contain a few fun C+1 rides that count towards Biketober, but not for Coffeeneuring. ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox - "Chat Control" update

October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: 2025-09-30 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem The first time I DJed for a Contra Dance1 was at Inman Park’s famous Trolley Barn. At the time I was DJing in the way other social dances are normally DJed: I had a laptop, I played a song, everyone danced. No fancy mixing, or effects: the most technical thing I did was loop 32 bar sections of music to stretch it out until the caller was ready to end the dance.

This time around, returning to ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Two New Features for Clearer Testing We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing both stricter and easier to set up!

Impossible Tests Can Fail Runs

Some tests can’t be executed if the server lacks required features. Previously, these “impossible” tests were skipped, which could make a run look fully successful when it wasn’t. Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible t ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Adam Rack Meet Adam Rack, our new Business Development Manager.

Adam is all about building high-performing teams, driving innovation, and delivering solutions that make a difference.

In our latest chat, he talks about what excites him in this new chapter, his vision for growing our DACH presence, and why sustainability and community matter to him.

A big welcome to the team! Coul ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Why Europe's 'Chat Control' Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.13.0: Multi-Account Support and Secure Password Storage

Kaidan 0.13.0 is out now! And it comes with a bunch of shiny new features.

Most of the work has been ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 5.0.2 release! The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.2 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.

Notably, it addresses a recently identified security vulnerability, identifies as CVE-2025-59154. The issue allows for potential identity spoofing via unsafe Common Nam ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Lots More Options Since the last update, we’ve added a lot more options on how to run your tests. We’ve added a slew of new CI systems, this time focussing on freedom-respecting, open source CI systems for your open source projects.

Recent additions include Jenkins, Drone, Harness and Woodpecker.

This brings our 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!

Whether you’re building ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Spotify’s Direct Messaging Gambit

Last week, Spotify quietly launched direct messaging across its platform in selected areas, allowing users to share tracks and playlists through private conversations within the app. The feature was rolled out with mini ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.11 This new version includes a few new XEP plugins as well as fixes, notably for some leftover issues in our rust JID code, as well as one for a bug that caused issues in Home Assistant.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!

CI and build

Nicoco put in a lot of work in order to get all possible wheels built in CI. We now have manylinux and musl builds of everything doable within codeberg, published to the codeberg pypi repo, and published on pypi. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.4: Simplified and Unified MongooseIM is a scalable and efficient instant messaging server. With the latest release 6.4.0, it has become more powerful yet easier to use and maintain. Thanks to the internal unification of listeners and connection handling, the configuration is easier and more intuitive, while numerous new options are supported.

New features include support for TLS 1.3 with optional channel binding for improved security, single round-trip authent ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.2 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

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.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• mod_storage_internal: Fix queries with only start returning extra items
• mod_invites_register: Stric ... ⌘ Read more

Debian XMPP Team: XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News Debian 13 "Trixie" full freeze has started 2025-05-17, so this is a good time to take a look at some of the features, that this release will bring. Here we will focus on packages related to XMPP, a.k.a.\ Jabber.

XMPP is a universal communication protocol for instant messaging, push notifications, IoT, WebRTC, and social applications. It has existed sin ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.2.0 This release brings three new features: message retraction, blocking participants in group chats, and updated support for modern group chat avatars. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gajim 2.2 comes with support for retracting messages via XEP-0424: Message Retraction. This allow you to retract your messages, if you’ve mistakenly sent it to the wrong recipient or group chat. Please note that your counterpart needs to support ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Looking Forward to ElixirConf EU 2025 ElixirConf EU 2025 is only two weeks away! Soon, it will once again be time for the Elixir community from Europe and beyond to come together, connect, and learn from each other about Elixir and its ecosystem. There will be dozens of talks from speakers across the community, training opportunities, and more.

This year’s event is being held in Kraków, Poland from May 15-16, with optional training available o ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Erlang Solutions’ Blog round-up The tech world doesn’t slow down, and neither do we. From the power of big data in healthcare to keeping you up-to-date about fintech compliance, our latest blog posts explore the important topics shaping today’s digital world.

Whether you’re leading a business, building software, or just curious about the future of tech, check out what the Erlang Solutions team has been talking about.

Understanding Big Data in Healthcare

![](https://lh7-qw.goo ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03

With ejabberd 25.03, the Matrix gateway ( mod_matrix_gw) no ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.1 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

As is the tradition with software, here is our first patch release following shortly behind our major 13.0.0 release announced a few weeks ago. It fixes some important bugs that were discovered after the release.

Many thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped with testing the fixes for this release. We appreciate it!

For those of you on 0.12.x who haven’t upgraded yet, skip 13.0.0 and jump stra ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Enabling Tests Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain tests, but in essence, the bulk of tests would execute.

This behavior is generally preferable when testing an XMPP server implementation. A benefit of exclusion-based ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.2: Message Removal and Bubble Fixes Kaidan 0.12.2 fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Fix removing corrected message (melvo)
• Fix showing message bubble tail only for first message of sender (melvo)

Download

• Source code (.tar.xz) ( sig signed with [04EF ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.1: Voice Message and Password Change Fixes Kaidan 0.12.1 fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Do not highlight unpinned chats when pinned chat is moved (melvo)
• Fix deleting/sending voice messages (melvo)
• Fix crash during login (melvo)
• Fix opening chat again after going back to chat list on narrow window (melvo)
• Increase tool bar height to fix avatar not being recognizable (melvo)
• Fix width of sear ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation's open letter to Meta for true interop

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: Poezio 0.15 / 0.15.1 About three years since the last version, poezio 0.15 (and 0.15.1 to address a small packaging mishap, version numbers are cheap) was released yesterday!

Poezio is a terminal-based XMPP client which aims to replicate the feeling of terminal-based IRC clients such as irssi or weechat; to this end, poezio originally only supported multi-user chats.

Features

Not a lot this time around… Maybe next time?

• A new moderate plugin (for [XEP-0425](http://xmpp.org/ex ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.10 This new version does not have many new features, but it has quite a few breaking changes, which should not impact many people, as well as one important security fix.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!

Security

After working on TLS stuff, I noticed that we still allowed unencrypted SCRAM to be negociated, which is really not good. For packagers who only want this security fix, the commit fd66aef38d48b6474654cbe87464d7d416d6a5f3 should app ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.0 released! Welcome to a new major release of the Prosody XMPP server! While the 0.12 branch has served us well for a while now, this release brings a bunch of new features we’ve been busy polishing.

If you’re unfamiliar with Prosody, it’s an open-source project that implements XMPP, an open standard protocol for online communication. Prosody is widely used to power everything from small self-hosted messaging servers to worldwide real-time applications such as Jits ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.3 This release fixes some group chat issues and allows to store individual window sizes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.

Gajim 2.0.3 will store dimensions for each window, so it always remembers your preferred window size. Furthermore, this release fixes is ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Erik Schön In our final “Meet the Team” of 2024, we’d like to introduce you to Erik Schön, Managing Director at Erlang Solutions.

Erik shares his journey with Erlang, Elixir, and the BEAM ecosystem, from his work at Ericsson to joining Erlang Solutions in 2019. He also reflects on a key professional highlight in 2024 and looks ahead to his goals for 2025. Erik also reveals his festive traditions, including a Swedish-Japanese twist.

![](https://www.erlang-solutions.com ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.1 This is mostly a bugfix release over version 1.9.0.

The main fix is the rust JID implementation that would behave incorrectly when hashed if the JID contained non-ascii characters. This is an important issue as using a non-ascii JID was mostly broken, and interacting with one failed in interesting ways.

Fixes

• The previously mentioned JID hash issue
• Various edge cases in the roster code
• One edge case in the MUC ( [XEP-0045](https: ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.2 This release updates message moderation in group chats, improves handling of URIs, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.

Gajim 2.0.2 updates Gajim’s support for [XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0425.h ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.1 This release resolves an issue with Gajim’s preferences window and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gajim 2.0

A note for Windows users: At the time of writing, there are some issues with emoji rendering on Windows. That’s why there is no release of Gajim 2.0 for Windows yet. This issue should soon be resolved and we will post an update once Gajim 2.0 is released on Windows.

More Changes

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Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.0 It has not been too long since 1.8.6 and here we are with 1.9.0, which is kind of a major release (following the well-known pridever numbering scheme).

Long story short, there are at least two major changes warranting the new number (and plenty of other things, read on!):

• switching the cython jid implementation for a rust one, which will be faster and more correct
• removing the xmpp.process() method (planned since the 1.8.0 release)

Special thanks to nicoco ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Top 5 IoT Business Security Basics IoT is now a fundamental part of modern business. With more than 17 billion connected devices worldwide, IoT business security is more important than ever. A single breach can expose sensitive data, disrupt operations, and damage a company’s reputation.

To help safeguard your business, we’ll cover five essential IoT security basics: data encryption, strong password policies, regular security audits, employee awareness tr ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Highlights from CodeBEAM Lite London The inaugural CodeBEAM Lite London conference was held at CodeNode last month, featuring 10 talks, 80 attendees, and an Erlang Solutions booth. There, attendees had the chance to set a high score in a BEAM-based asteroid game created by ESL’s Hernan Rivas Acosta, and win an Atari replica.

Learning from and networking with experts across the BEAM world was an exciting opportunity. Here are the highlights from the talks at the event.

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Kaidan: Kaidan 0.11.0: Qt 6 Kaidan supports Qt 6 now! In addition, this release improves the user interface and fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Features:

• Highlight public XMPP provider titles while card is expanded (melvo)
• Round corners of cards and buttons (melvo)
• Add fading in/out hover effect to map previews (melvo)
• Collapse contact profiles by default if they have more than 3 entries (melvo)
• Show colored check mark for ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: DORA Compliance: What Fintech Businesses Need to Know The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is now in effect as of 17th January 2025, making compliance mandatory for fintech companies, financial institutions, and ICT providers across the UK and EU. With over 22,000 businesses impacted, DORA sets clear expectations for how firms must manage operational resilience and protect against cyber threats.

As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, regul ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Women in BEAM In this post, I will share the results of the Women in BEAM 2024 survey. But first, I would like to share my experience in the BEAM community to understand the motivation behind this initiative.

My journey

I’ve been working with Elixir since 2018, but my interest in it wasn’t driven by technical advantages—it was sparked by my experience at my first ElixirConf in Mexico.

Since 2017, I’ve been involved in initiatives supporting women in tech, frequently attending events t ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Digital Wallets Digital wallets, once considered futuristic, have now become essential tools for both consumers and businesses. But what are digital wallets, and why should you care about them? Customer expectations are changing. Many companies are turning to them to streamline transactions and enhance the customer experience

This guide unpacks the fundamentals of digital wallets, highlighting their benefits, market trends, and implications for businesses.

**W ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: How Big Tech Pulled Off the Billion-User Heist

For many years, I have heard countless justifications for keeping messaging systems closed. Many of us have tried to rationalize walled gardens for various reasons:

• Closed messaging systems supposedly enable faster progress, as there’s no need to collaborate on shared specifications or APIs. Y ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP Summit #27 and FOSDEM 2025 The XMPP Standards Foundation’s yearly Summit will be held on January 30 and 31st, in Brussels. The Summit is an annual two-day gathering where we discuss XMPP protocol development topics. It is a place for XMPP developers to meet each other, and make progress on current issues within the protocol and ecosystem.

Immediately following the Summit is FOSDEM. FOSDEM is a free e ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.8.6 - Codename ICE 2926 A bit less than a year since the latest version, there has been around 45 commits to include in this new release.

New things

Added initial support for:

• XEP-0264 (Jingle Content Thumbnails)
• XEP-0317 (Hats)
• XEP-0469 (Bookmarks pinning)
• XEP-0490 (Message Display Synchronization)

... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2024

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

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 thes ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.5 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Hope everyone has had a good 2024, and you’re looking forward to a better 2025!

We’re ending this year with a bugfix release for our stable 0.12 branch. This brings some general polish and a collection of fixes for various small issues people have reported in the past months.

A notable behaviour change in this release is that Prosody will no longer send delivery errors to people you have blocked. Inste ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.12

Here comes ejabberd 24.12, including a few improvements and bug fixes. This release comes a month and half after 24.10, with around 60 commits to the core repository alongside a few updates in dependencies.

Release Highlights:

• [XEP-0484: Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#484): Reduce the time it takes for authentication. This helps with a faster start for cl ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.10.1: Media Sharing and New Message Marker Fixes This release fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Fix displaying files of each message in appropriate message bubble (melvo)
• Fix sending fallback messages for clients not supporting XEP-0447: Stateless file sharing (melvo)
• Fix margins within message bubbles (melvo)
• Fix hiding hidden message part (melvo)
• Fix displaying marker for new messages (melvo)

... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Erik Schön In our final “Meet the Team” of 2024, we’d like to introduce you to Erik Schön, Managing Director at Erlang Solutions.

Erik shares his journey with Erlang, Elixir, and the BEAM ecosystem, from his work at Ericsson to joining Erlang Solutions in 2019. He also reflects on a key professional highlight in 2024 and looks ahead to his goals for 2025. Erik also reveals his festive traditions, including a Swedish-Japanese twist.

![](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/w ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Joanna Wrona In this edition of our “Meet the Team” series, we’d like to introduce you to Joanna Wrona, Business Unit Leader for the Kraków office at Erlang Solutions.

She discusses her role at ESL and her passion for empowering her team. She also gives us a glimpse into life in beautiful Kraków and what makes her journey so fulfilling.

About Joanna

**What is yo ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2024

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

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 thes ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2024

Welcome to Advent of Code 2024!

Like every year, I start the challenge with the best attitude and love of being an Elixir programmer. Although I know that at some point, I will go to the “what is this? I hate it” phase, unlike other years, this time, I am committed to finishing Advent of Code and, more importantly, sharing it with you.

I hope you enjoy this series of December posts, where we will discuss the approach for each exercise. ... ⌘ Read more

Madhur Garg: Jaipur The perfect 3 days Jaipur itinerary - Day 1: Panoramic Views and a Grand Evening Morning: Nahargarh Fort: Begin with stunning views of Jaipur city. Explore the fort's intricate architecture and serene ambiance. Gaitor Ki Chhatriyan: Visit these beautiful royal cenotaphs for a glimpse into Jaipur's regal history. Afternoon: Stop by Jal Mahal: Take 10-20 minutes to... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Florian, Dan and Dave Elected in the XSF! In an annual vote, not one, not two, but three Ignite Realtime community members have been selected into leadership positions of the XMPP Standards Foundation!

The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose [primary mission is to define open protocols](https://xmpp.org ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: MongooseIM 6.3 - Monitor with Prometheus, scale up with CockroachDB 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 ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols — Part 2, Matrix

In the first part of this blog post, I explained how the Matrix protocol works, contrasted its design philosophy with XMPP, and discussed why these differences lead to ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.9.1 release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.1 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

4.9.1 is a bugfix and maintenance release. Among its most important fixes is one for a memory leak that affected all recent versions of Openfire (but was likely noticeable on ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Why you should consider machine learning for business Adopting machine learning for business is necessary for companies that want to sharpen their competitive industries. With the global market for machine learning projected to reach an impressive [$210 billion by 2030](https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/03/01/2618668/0/en/Machine-Learning-ML-Market-Is-Expected-To-Reach-around-USD-209-91-Billion-by-2030-Grow-at-a-CAGR-Of-38-8-during-Forec ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.10

We’re excited to announce ejabberd 24.10, a major release packed with substantial improvements and support for important extensions specified by the XMPP Standard Foundation (XSF). This release represents three months of focused development, bringing around 100 commits to the core repository alongside key updates in dependencies. The improvements span enhanced security, streamlined connectivity, and new ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ProcessOne Unveils New Website We’re excited to announce the relaunch of our website, designed to better showcase our expertise in large-scale messaging solutions, highlighting our full spectrum of supported protocols—from XMPP to MQTT and Matrix. This reflects our core strength: delivering reliable messaging at scale.

The last major redesign was back in October 2017, so this update was long overdue. As we say farewell to the old design, here’s a screenshot of the previous version to commemorate ... ⌘ Read more

Jabber.org Notices: Server Migration On October 19th, we completed a migration of the service to a brand new server. Everything looks solid, but if you experience problems feel free to contact the administrator. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Client Case Studies with Erlang Solutions At Erlang Solutions, we’ve worked with diverse clients, solving business challenges and delivering impactful results. We would like to share just some of our top client case studies in this latest post with you.

Get a glimpse into how our leading technologies—Erlang, Elixir, MongooseIM, and more—combined with our expert team, have transformed the outcomes for major industry players.

**Transforming streaming with zero dow ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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’s beta phase started already a few weeks ago, but 4.5.0-beta5 is considered to be a good candidate to announce, as many smaller issues have been ironed out.

With Smack 4.5 we bumped the minimum Java version to 11. Furthermore Smack now requires a minimum And ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Coffeeneuring 2024 Every year in October I participate in Love To Ride’s (psst, sign up using that link so I can get some extra points when you do your first bike ride!) Biketober competition. The TL;DR is that for every day that you go for a ride, for every mile that you ride, and for every new rider that you invite you get points for your team. At the end of the month winners are announced and there are some fun prizes. It’s not about bi ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2024

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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 F ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging

Introduction to XMPP

XMPP, the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, is an Instant Messaging (IM) standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - the same organization that standardized Email (POP/IMAP/SMTP) and the World Wide Web (HTTP) protocols. XMPP evolved out of the early XML streaming technology developed by the XMPP Open Source community and is now the leading pro ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1 For over two decades, ProcessOne has been developing large-scale messaging platforms, powering some of the largest services in the world. Our mission is to build the best messaging back-ends imaginable–an exciting yet complex challenge.

We began with XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), but the need for interoperability and support for a variety of use cases led us to implemen ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.5 This release comes with many improvements for Gajim’s Microsoft Store version. Translations are now available for all distributions again. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gajim now detects if you installed it from the Microsoft Store. This allows Gajim to delegate updates to the Store rather than handling updates by itself. Detecting the install method also allowed us to apply a fix which prevented native notifications to work in Windows. Last but not least, viewing r ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: CertWatch As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire HTTP File Upload plugin v1.4.1 release! We have now released version 1.4.1 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!

This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.

This release brings two changes, both provided by community ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire plugin maintenance releases! The Ignite Realtime community is gearing up for a new release of Openfire. In preparation, we have been performing maintenance releases for many Openfire plugins.

These Openfire plugin releases have mostly non-functional changes, intended to make the plugin compatible with the upcoming 4.9.0 release of Openfire:

• Push Server 1.1.0
• [Use ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: How Generative AI is Transforming Healthcare Generative AI (Gen AI) has emerged as a transformative technology across the healthcare industry. It has the potential to vastly transform the clinical decision-making process and ultimately improve patient health outcomes.

The adoption of generative AI is now valued at over [$1.6 billion](https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/generative-ai-in-healthcare-market#:~:text=Generative%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20(AI)% ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Joanna Wrona In this edition of our “Meet the Team” series, we’d like to introduce you to Joanna Wrona, Business Unit Leader for the Kraków office at Erlang Solutions.

She discusses her role at ESL and her passion for empowering her team. She also gives us a glimpse into life in beautiful Kraków and what makes her journey so fulfilling.

About Joanna

**What is your ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Elixir processes and concurrency Welcome to the second chapter of the series “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey”. In the first chapter, we discussed the Erlang Virtual Machine, BEAM, and the characteristics Elixir inherits that allow us to develop concurrent and fault-tolerant systems.

In this post, we will dive into the Erlang concurrency model and the fundamental unit to achieve it: processes.

Processes in the BEAM

In Elixir, all the co ... ⌘ Read more

Daniel Pocock: ClueCon 2024 photos ClueCon has just finished. Here are some of my photos.

Monday, pizza night

Tuesday

![Anthony Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire](https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_35 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir Blog Round-Up Welcome to our first-ever Elixir blog round-up!

This is your guide to some of our most insightful articles on the Elixir programming language. Our experts have written several posts to further your knowledge, regardless of where you’re at in your Elixir journey.

So whether you’re a business leader looking to discover Elixir’s benefits, a seasoned developer looking for the latest Elixir updates, or just new to the language, we’ll have an article to keep you covered.

... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XSF signs Open Letter to the European Commission 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](https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Un ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2024

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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

... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.3 Gajim 1.9.3 fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

If you had issues starting Gajim from the Microsoft Store, Gajim 1.9.3 should fix these issues.

Thanks to our contributors @nicoco and @mesonium, Gajim received some improvements regarding message Displayed Markers and highlight colors. Furthermore, drag and drop for file transfers has b ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.2 Gajim 1.9.2 brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

For some versions now, Windows offers a native notification system, including a notification center for unread notifications, notification settings, etc. If you are running Windows 10 (specifically build 10240) or later versions, Gajim will now use these native notifications.

Thanks to our contributor [@nico ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

– **![🌐](https://s.w.org/im ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.07 Introducing ejabberd 24.07: Bugfix Release

This ejabberd 24.07 is mostly a bugfix release for the recent 24.06, and also includes a few improvements.

If you upgrade ejabberd from a previous release, please check the [WebAdmin Config Changes](https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-24-07/#webadmin-config).

A more detailed explanation ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Nico Gerpe Welcome to our first-ever “Meet the Team” series!  In this first edition, we’ll be shining the spotlight on Nico Gerpe, the Business Unit Lead for the Americas team at Erlang Solutions.

Nico discusses his role at Erlang Solutions, his latest explorations in the IoT and machine learning space and most importantly- fun Argentinian summer traditions!

About N ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.06 Introducing ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release!

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes 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.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.3 Release The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 4.8.3. This release contains an important fix for thread lock situation described with OF-2845. If you have noticed clients getting logged out or unable to connect with Openfire 4.8.1 or 4.8.2, please do try this release and report in the community forums if your issue is persisting.

T ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services I will comment on an interesting article from Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund breaking down the cost of running a large-scale messaging platform.

It estimates that the cost to operate Signal messaging will reach 50 million dollars per year in 2025.

![🔗](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f517.png ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.2 Release Openfire 4.8.2 has landed!

This release addresses a number of issues in the real time collaboration server created by the Ignite Realtime Community that aim to reduce bugs and increase stability and performance.

Interested in getting started? You can [download installers of Openfire here](https://igniterealtime.org/downloads/#op ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.06 Introducing ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release!

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes 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.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.06 Introducing ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release!

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes 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.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

– **![🌐](https://s.w.org/im ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.06 Introducing ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release!

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes 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.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Botz version 1.3.0 release We have just released version 1.3.0 of the Botz framework for Openfire (the real-time communications server provided by the Ignite Realtime community)!

The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots.

In this release, compatbility with Openfire 4.8.0 and later has been resolved. Thank you to Sheldon Robinson for helping us fix that!

Download the la ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire restAPI plugin version 1.11.0 release Earlier today, version 1.11.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire was released!

The REST API Plugin provides the ability to manage Openfire (the real-time communications server created by the Ignite Realtime community) by sending an REST/HTTP request to the server. This plugin’s functionality is useful for applications that need to administer Openfire outs ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.1 Gajim 1.9.1 introduces a menu button, adds improvements for Security Labels, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Since Gajim 1.9.0, you can toggle Gajim’s main menu bar by pressing Ctrl+M. In order to have a proper replacement for when the menu bar is hidden, we added a menu button to the top left, which contains all of the menu bar’s items.

If you are using Security Labels ( XEP-0258) with Gajim, you ca ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Exploring Key Trends in Digital Payments Digital payments are essential to the global economy and have seen rapid and significant changes in recent years.

Let’s take a look at the key trends of this change and some of the emerging digital trends are broadening the payments ecosystem. We’ll look at how payments work and the broader payments ecosystem.

The look into the digital payments landscape

Evolving customer expectations and technological advances are drivin ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: New fundraising campaign Our current development iPhone 8, which we bought in 2020, is getting on in years, is not able to run iOS 17 and the battery is broken.

So it’s that time again: we are launching a new fundraising campaign for 350 EUR to finance a new development iPhone capable of running iOS 17 and several upcoming iOS versions. Currently we are aiming for an iPhone 13.

You can view our donation options over here: [Donate](https://monal-im.org/support/#donate) ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Top 5 Tips to Ensure IoT Security for Your Business In an increasingly tech-driven world, the implementation of IoT for business is a given. According to the latest data, there are currently 17.08 billion connected IoT devices– and counting. A growing number of devices requires robust IoT security to maintain privacy, protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorised access to connected devices.

A si ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.0 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! Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

It took us quite some time, but now it’s here: Gajim 1.9 comes with a complete database overhaul, which enables new features such as Message Replies and Message Reactions.

Message Replies ( [XEP-0461: Message Repl ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 10 Unusual Blockchain Use Cases When Blockchain technology was first introduced with Bitcoin in 2009, no one could have foreseen its impact on the world or the unusual cases of blockchain that have emerged. Fast forward to now and Blockchain has become popular for its ability to ensure data integrity in transactions and smart contracts.

Thanks to its cost-effectiveness,  transparency, speed and top security, it has found its way into many industries, with blockchain spending exp ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 2/4 | Myths vs. Realities This is the second part of our ‘Making Sense of Blockchain’ blog post series – you can read part 1 on ‘6 Blockchain Principles’ here. This article is based on the original post by Dominic Perini here.

Join our FinTech mailing list for more gre ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Scaling up with MongooseIM 6.2.1 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 [MongooseI ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Instant Scalability with MongooseIM and CETS The main feature of the recently released MongooseIM 6.2.1 is the improved CETS in-memory storage backend which makes it much easier to scale up.

It is difficult to predict how much traffic your XMPP server will need to handle. Are you going to have thousands or millions of connected users? ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs

The ejabberd Docs website did just get a major rework: new content management system, reorganized navigation, improved markdown, and several improvements!

Brief documentation timeline

ejabberd started in November 2002 (see a timeline in the ejabberd turns 20 bl ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store We initially shared this news on our social media page, thinking this was a temporary issue. But we’ve had no response from Google for several days, and want to explain the situation in more detail.

Summary

We merged some changes from our upstream project, Conversations, and we submitted the new version to Google for review. Before responding, they removed the existing published ve ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2024

XMPP Newsletter Banner

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) prop ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Harrier 4.0 – New Capabilities Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.

You can find out more about Harrier here.

** ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: laberzentrale.de Listed since

Dec 31, 2023

 · Website: [unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)

Service

Cost: [unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)No legal notice available[Bus factor](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#bus-factor):

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown) Organization:

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)

Server

Server / Data

location:

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)[Professional hosting](https://prov ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: laberzentrale.de Listed since

Dec 31, 2023

 · Website: [unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)

Service

Cost: [unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)No legal notice available[Bus factor](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#bus-factor):

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown) Organization:

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)

Server

Server / Data

location:

[unknown](https://providers.xmpp.net/faq/#unknown)[Professional hosting](https://prov ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Server

Server Setup

We recently started to set up our own XMPP server to provide a support chat. Our goal was to automate as much as possible to reduce the maintenance effort to a minimum. While doing that, we also thought about how the experience is for XMPP newcomers to set up their own XMPP server.

There are many XMPP servers available. But only few projects focus on q ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: PionTurn plugin 1.0.0 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the PionTurn plugin.

This version brings in the new long-term authentication compatible with the TURN REST format, bringing security to the latest standard.

And it also brings in a new mechanism for resolving domain names, making it possible to run the Pionturn plugin in a dynamic IP environment without having to worry about updating the IP.

Last but not ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire inVerse plugin version 10.1.7.1 released! We have made available a new version of the inVerse plugin for Openfire! This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 10.1.7.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: gen_statem Unveiled

gen_statem and protocols

This blog post is a deep dive into some of the concepts discussed in my recent conference talk at FOSDEM. The presentation explored some basic theoretical concepts of Finite State Machines, and some special powers of Erlang’s gen_statem in the context of protocols and event-driven development, and building upon this insi ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: gen_statem Unveiled

gen_statem and protocols

This blog post is a deep dive into some of the concepts discussed in my recent conference talk at FOSDEM. The presentation explored some basic theoretical concepts of Finite State Machines, and some special powers of Erlang’s gen_statem in the context of protocols and event-driven development, and building upon this insi ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Matrix gateway setup with ejabberd As of version 24.02, ejabberd is shipped with a Matrix gateway and can participate in the Matrix\ \ federation. This means that an XMPP client can exchange messages with Matrix users or rooms.

Let’s see how to configure your ejabberd to enable this gateway.

Configuration in ejabberd

HTTPS listener

First, add an [HTTP h ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.1 Release The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 4.8.1. This release addresses a number of issues found with the major 4.8.0 release a few months back.

Interested in getting started? You can [download installers of Openfire here](https://igniterealtime.org/downloads/#openfire). Our documentation contains an [upgrade guide](https://download.igniterealtime ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.5 – New Capabilities

Overview

This release adds new functionality and features to Cobalt, our web based role and user provisioning tool. You can find out more about Cobalt here.

Multiple Cobalt Servers

This enhancement enables multiple Cobalt servers to be run against a single directory. There are two reasons for this.

1. In a distributed ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20 ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Erlang/OTP 19.3 discouraged

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will b ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), 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 automat ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.10 A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.

• Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

• Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id

• Many new options and features

  

A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:

Added support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

[XEP-0402 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What is Elixir?

What is Elixir: Exploring its Functional Programming Essence

In our latest post, we’ll be exploring Elixir, a robust programming language known for its concurrency and fault-tolerance capabilities. We’ll look at some of Elixir’s syntax, and core features, as well as the Elixir community some resources for beginners and enthusiasts alike.

The birth of Elixir

As the brainchild of José Valim, Elixir is rooted in Valim’s experiences with Ruby on Rails and Erlang. Elixi ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.8.5

Highlights

• Moving away from self-hosted gitlab (mathieui)
• Fix connection to Snikket instances (pep., mathieui)
• Performance fix for XEP-0115 queries
• New documentation listing projects using slixmpp (genghis)
• Bugfix and improvements (nicoco, mostly)

Details

• Gitlab migration: see the otherblogpost
• Fix connections to Snikket instances:

Snikket decided to forbid PLAIN authentication, which is good but exposed ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM On February 1st and 2nd, the 26th XMPP Summit will take place in Brussels. Immediately afterwards, the FOSDEM event will take place on the 3rd and 4th of February.

I’ll be attending both (although I won’t be present for the second day of FOSDEM). If you happen to be in Brussels, let me know! Maybe we can meet up!

1 post - 1 participant

[Read full topic](https://discourse.igniterealt ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Non-SASL Authentication Openfire plugin 1.1.0 released! We’ve just released version 1.1.0 of the Non-SASL Authentication plugin for Openfire! This release fixes a compatibility issue with Openfire 4.8.0.

The Non-SASL Authentication plugin provides an implementation for authentication with Jabber servers and services using the jabber:iq:auth namespace, as specified in XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication. ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Thoughts on a New Software Commons I use various legal and economic terms of art in this post, but I am neither a lawyer or an economist. They should be read in the way a layperson might read them, not as a serious legal or economic analysis or advice.

The State of the Art

I’ve long held that software being open source1 is necessary, but not sufficient. Using copyright and contract law to enshrine the freedom to use your software instead ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Creating the XMPP Network Graph At the risk of sounding like an unhinged fanboy: XMPP is pretty awesome!

I’ve been involved in one way or another with XMPP, the network protocol that is an open standard for messaging and presence, for the last two decades. Much of that revolves around development of Openfire, our XMPP-based real-time communications server.

TL;DR:

• I built a thing:[https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.i ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.4.0 released The HTTP File Upload plugin is a plugin for Openfire that allow users to easily share files (such as pictures) in a chat

A new release is now available for this plugin: version 1.4.0.

This release introduces a couple of interesting security improvements:

• an additional guard has been added that should prevent scripts embedded in data to be executed without the recipient’s approval
• It is now possible to configure a viru ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Presence Service plugin v1.7.2 release The Presence Service plugin is a plugin for Openfire. It provides a service that provides simple presence information over HTTP. It can be used to display an online status icon for a user or component on a web page or to poll for presence information from a web service.

A new release is now available for this plugin: version 1.7.2.

In this release, an incompatibility with the recently released Openfire 4.8.0 was fixed. Als ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 Released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.8.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

This is the first major release of Openfire in about two years, and that shows: 199 tickets have been closed against this release! As a fun fact: the oldest of these issues was raised in 2015, the youngest: three days ago. Some of the highlights in this relea ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 26 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 b ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Happy Birthday, Jabber! Today marks the 25th birthday of Jeremie Miller’s announcement of “a new project to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging” on Slashdot.

How have things progressed since then!

By far most of the projects that we maintain here in the IgniteRealtime.org community make direct use of the XMPP protocol, which is the name used for t ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at FOSDEM 2024 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](https://fosdem.o ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Fully Automated

Automate all the Things

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!

[ ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), 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 automat ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd

Time flies, and it’s hard to believe that ejabberd, our beloved open-source project, celebrated its 21st anniversary last November 16th! It’s a milestone that we’ve proudly highlighted over the years – remember the 4th, [10th](https://www.process-one.net/blog/close ... ⌘ Read more

Remko Tronçon: Uxn in WebAssembly While watching a Strange Loop talk on concatenative\ programming, I learned about Uxn, a small virtual machine that runs games, editors, drawing programs, … Uxn has been ported to various platforms, including classic consoles such as the Nintendo DS ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Dan is voted in the XSF's Council! Our very own @danc was voted into the XMPP Standards Foundation Council not to long ago!

The XMPP Standards 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 Messagin ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Red/Black – 2.1 New Capabilities

Overview

This release adds important new functionality and adds further device drivers to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems.  A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview.

![](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/red-black-bla ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2023 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!

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! Interes ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.5.0-alpha2 released We are happy to announce the release of the second alpha release of Smack’s upcoming 4.5 version.

This version fixes a nasty bug in Smack’s reactor, includes support for XMPP over WebSocket connections and much more. Even though Smack has a good test coverage, due its comprehensive unit test suite and integration test framework, we kindly ask you to test pre-releases and report feedback.

As always, [this Smack release is available via Maven C ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: More Openfire plugin maintenance releases! Following the initial batch of Openfire plugin releases that we did last week, another few have been made available!

Version 1.0.1 of the Spam Blacklist plugin was released. This plugin uses an external blocklist to reject traffic from specif ... ⌘ Read more

yaxim: Planned downtime + Happy 10th anniversary, yax.im! Our Android XMPP client yaxim was created in 2009. A decade later, we celebrated its round birthday. To make the user experience more straightforward, we launched the yax.im public XMPP service in November 2013, to become the default server in yaxim. Now, ten years later, it’s time to recap and to upgrade the hosting infrastructure.

Downti ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: External Service Discovery plugin 1.0.2 released! Version 1.0.2 of the External Service Discovery plugin has been released!

This Openfire plugin allows your users to use external STUN and TURN services, optionally making use of temporary credentials for those services. It often is a prerequisite for being able to set up audio or video calls with Openfire.

This version brings better compatibility with TURN services other than those implemented by CoTur ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), 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 automat ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire plugin maintenance release galore! After I performed a release of an Openfire plugin yesterday, @akrherz apparently had a ‘hold-my-beer’ moment, and apparently went through all of our plugins source repositories, creating maintenance releases for pretty much every one of them that had outstanding changes.

Wow!

As I do not believe we’re doing anyone a favor with 16 individual blog posts, I have com ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.2 released! Earlier today, we have have performed a maintenance release for the REST API plugin for Openfire. In this release, version 1.10.2, we have made a warning in documentation more visible. This is aimed at reducing confusion around installation with Openfire 4.7.5.

Also in this release a translation into Ukrainian, gracefully provided by community member Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr)!

Th ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 beta release! It is exciting to be able to announce the immediate availability of the beta release of Openfire 4.8.0!

It has been 667 days ago since we released the 4.7.0. That was the last time that a release was made from the same source code branch. And, that shows: we have closed almost 180 issues against this release! I’ll reserve the details for a blogpost on the 4.8.0 (non-beta) release, but some of the highlights are:

• We’ve dropped support for Jav ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Software is Political

Introduction

I recently attended the inaugural Free and Open Source Software Yearly ( FOSSY) conference where I gave a talk in the XMPP track. Though my talk was just a brief technical overview of the XMPP protocol, I also gave some quick ending remarks about why I think it’s the correct choice to use as a universal standardized chat protocol. The closing remarks were written ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.3 Just after the release of Gajim 1.8.2, we’re releasing Gajim 1.8.3 with improvements for the profile window, fail-safes for anonymous accounts, bug fixes for the account wizard, and several other fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Several issues with anonymous accounts should be resolved by improved account handling in general.

Gajim’s main window can now be closed by pressing the Esc key, if you enable closing windows via Esc in Gajim’s preferences.

What el ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2023 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!

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 m ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: M-Link 19.4 Limited Release M-Link 19.4 provides a very significant update and in particular provides the M-Link User Server product. It also provides M-Link MU Server, M-Link MU Gateway and M-Link Edge.   It does not provide M-Link IRC Gateway, which remains M-Link 17.0 only.

M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is provided ahead of the full M-Link 19.4 release. M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is fully supported by Isode for production deployment. There is one significant difference with a standard Isod ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.2 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. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gateways can (if offered by your server) bridge your XMPP chat to other chat networks. This could be WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or others, depending on the gateway service. This release improves support for data forms (service configuration), brings better avatars for gatewa ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: CertWatch As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.10 A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.

• Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

• Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id

• Many new options and features

  

A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:

Added support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

[XEP-0402 ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2023 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!

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.4 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

We’re relieved to announce this overdue maintenance release containing a number of bug fixes and also some improvements from the last few months.

Especially the prosodyctl check tool which gained some new diagnostic checks as well as handling of configuration option types the same way Prosody itself does.

A summary of changes in this release:

Minor changes

• core.certmanager: Update Mozilla TLS ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: CVE-2023-32315: Openfire vulnerability (update) A few months ago, we published details about an important security vulnerability in Openfire that is identified as CVE-2023-32315.

To summarize: Openfire’s administrative console (the Admin Console), a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environ ... ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity 0.14.0 Apologies for the late blog post. We have good news though! Two weeks ago we released Profanity 0.14.0!

13 people contributed to this release: Daniel Santos, @DebXWoody, @H3rnand3zzz, @ike08, @MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo, @mdosch, @pasis, @paulfertser, @shahab-vahedi, @sjaeckel, @techmetx11, @thexhr and @jubalh.

Also a big thanks to our sponsors: @mdosch, @LeSpocky, @jamesponddotco and one anonymous sponsor!

We introduced a new /privacy command which should make it easier to find all pri ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Jabber Browsing Openfire Plugin 1.0.1 released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Jabber Browsing plugin for Openfire.

This is a plugin for the Openfire Real-time Communications server. It provides an implementation for service discovery using the jabber:iq:browse namespace, as specified in XEP-0011: Jabber Browsing. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plug ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Agent Information plugin for Openfire release 1.0.1 The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Agent Information plugin for Openfire.

This plugin implements the XEP-0094 ‘Agent Information’ specification for service discovery using the jabber:iq:agents namespace. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plugin should only be used by people that seek backwards compatibility with very old and very specific IM ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire release 1.1.1 The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire.

This plugin allows you to automate TLS certificate management tasks. This is particularly helpful when your certificates are short-lived, like the ones issued by Let’s Encrypt.

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the [changelog] ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JmxWeb plugin for Openfire 0.9.1 release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the JmxWeb plugin for Openfire.

This plugin provides a web based platform for managing and monitoring Openfire via JMX

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and fixes one bug. More details are available in the changelog.

Your instance of Openf ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Search Openfire plugin 0.7.4 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Search plugin for Openfire.

This plugin adds features to Openfire that makes it easier for users to find each-other.

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the changelog

Your instance of Openfire should automatically ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: How IoT is Revolutionising Supply Chain Management As global supply chains continue to face significant disruptions, many businesses are turning to IoT to access greater visibility, reactivity, and streamlined operations.

Unforeseen geopolitical conflicts, economic pressures due to inflation and severe climate change events have all contributed to an uncertain and cost ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-PEP 2.0 – New Capabilities Icon-PEP is used to enable the use of IP applications over HF networks. Using STANAG 5066 Link Layer as an interface.

Listed below are the changes brought in with 2.0.

Web Management

A web interface is provided which includes:

• Full configuration of Icon-PEP
• TLS (HTTPS) access and configuration including bootstrap with self signed certificate and ide ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.4 – New Capabilities Cobalt proides a web interface for provisioning users and roles in an LDAP directory. It enables the easy deployment of XMPP, Email and Military Messaging systems.

Listed below are the changes brought in with 1.4.

HSM Support

Cobalt is Isode’s tool for managing PKCS#11 Hardware Security Modules (HSM) which may be used to provide improved server security by protecti ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-Topo 2.0 – New Capabilities Icon-Topo supports Mobile Unit (MU) mobility between HF Networks, enabling application communications over a wider area than can be achieved with a single ground station. It provides a way to schedule the movement from one HF network to another, ensuring that as an MU goes about its deployment the communications network is kept up and running.

The below ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: M-Guard 1.5 – New Capabilities M-Guard is an XML guard that is used at a network boundary to control traffic. An M-Guard instance is an application level data diode, with traffic flowing in one direction only. Commonly, M-Guard instances will be deployed in pairs, one controlling flow in each direction. The following is a list of the new capabilties introduced in version 1.5.

**M-Guard C ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire inVerse plugin v10.1.4-1 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate release of version “10.1.4 release 1” of the inVerse plugin for Openfire!

The inVerse plugin adds a Converse-based web client to Openfire ( Converse is a third party implementation). With this plugin, you’ll be able to set up a fully functional Converse-based chat clients with just a few mouse-clicks!

This update includes an ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Harrier 3.3 – New Capabilities Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.

![Harrier Inbox view (behind) showing Military Messaging security label and priority parameters; and Message view (in front).](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Harrier-M ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: M-Link 19.4 Limited Release M-Link 19.4 provides a very significant update and in particular provides the M-Link User Server product. It also provides M-Link MU Server, M-Link MU Gateway and M-Link Edge.   It does not provide M-Link IRC Gateway, which remains M-Link 17.0 only.

M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is provided ahead of the full M-Link 19.4 release. M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is fully supported by Isode for production deployment. There is one significant difference with a standard Isod ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Sign up for the RabbitMQ Summit Waiting List Mark your calendars! The Very Early Bird tickets for the RabbitMQ Summit are set to open on 15th June, 2023. In joining the waiting list, you will receive exclusive access to the conference’s best-priced tickets.

This is your chance to secure your spot at the RabbitMQ Summit at a discounted rate, allowing you to make the most of this incredible learning and networking ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.0 Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim’s core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP file upload, syntax highligh ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: CVE-2023-32315: Openfire Administration Console authentication bypass We’ve had an important security issue reported that affects all recent versions of Openfire. We’ve fixed it in the newly published 4.6.8 and 4.7.5 releases. We recommend people upgrade as soon as possible. More info, including mitigati ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.5 Release The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.5 release of Openfire!

This release primarily addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315, but also pulls in a number of improvements and bugfixes

You can find download artifacts [available here](https://ignit ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.8 Release The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.6.8 release of Openfire!

We have made available a new release of this older version to addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315.

We are aware that for some, the process of deploying a new major version of Openfire is not a trivial matter, as it may encompass a lot more than only pe ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Messaging Products Update – 19.0 Capabilities The below is a list of the new capabilities brought to our Messaging products for the 19.0 release. 19.0 adds a lot of extra functionality across the board for our messaging products, along with a complete rewrite of the codebase so that future releases and bug fixes can be developed more quickly. For the full release notes please check the individual product updates, available from the customer portal and evaluation sections of ou ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Directory Products Update – 19.0 Capabilities The below is a list of the new capabilities brought to our Directory products for the 19.0 release. 19.0 adds a lot of extra functionality across the board for our messaging products, along with a complete rewrite of the codebase so that future releases and bug fixes can be developed more quickly. For the full release notes please check the individual product updates, available from the customer portal and evaluation sections of ou ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.1: Handle more traffic, consume less resources MongooseIM is a highly customisable instant messaging backend, that can handle millions of messages per minute, exchanged between millions of users from thousands of dynamically configurable XMPP domains. With the new release 6.1.0 it becomes even more cost-efficient, flexible and robust thanks to the new arm64 [Docker containers](https://hub.docker. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0 It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.

This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Cra ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Red/Black 2.0 – New Capabilities This major release adds significant new functionality and improvements to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems.  A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview

Switch Device

Support added for Switch type devices, that can connect multiple devices and allow ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10 This 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.

This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.

There are no breaking changes in SQL schem ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0 It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.

This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Crawl ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Concord and Spring Road Linear Parks In my earlier review of Rose Garden and Jonquil public parks I mentioned the Mountain-to-River Trail (M2R), a mixed-use bicycle and walking trail that connects the two parks.

The two parks I’m going to review today are also connected by the M2R trail in addition to the [Concord Road Trail](https://blog.samwhited.com/cate ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable Systems with Erlang Building systems in the earlier days of the internet used to be pretty simple.

While the system was admittedly pretty limited, the demand to scale past one or two servers wasn’t particularly high. But upon entering the 21st century, we saw large companies (think Amazon, Starbucks, Yahoo) and many more find the need to scale not just a few servers, but thousands. Even tens of thousands. Suddenly, the ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Presentamos el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ ¿Quiere saber más sobre el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ? Arnaud Cogoluègnes, ingeniero de personal de VMware, desglosa todo lo que hay que saber en la Cumbre RabbitMQ de 2021.

En julio de 2021, se introdujeron streams a RabbitMQ, utilizando un nuevo protocolo extremadamente rápido que se puede utilizar junto con AMQP 0.9.1. Los [streams](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/rabbitmq-quorum-queues-explaine ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Botz version 1.2.0 release We have just released version 1.2.0 of the Botz framework for Openfire!

The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots.

In this release, a bug that prevented client sessions for bots from being created was fixed. Hat-tip to

Kris Iyer for working with us on a fix!

Download the latest version of the Botz framework from [its project page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/botz/ ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: M-Guard 1.4 New Capabilities M-Guard 1.4 is a platform support update release for M-Guard Console and M-Guard Appliance. M-Guard Appliance has been updated to use UEFI instead of BIOS for key system services.

Platform Support

The M-Guard Appliance now supports running on Netgate 6100 and 6100 MAX appliance systems.

M-Guard Appliance on Hyper-V now uses Generation 2 virtual machines.

M-Guard Appliance on VirtualBox now uses EFI.

Use of BIOS for booting is deprecated in favor of UEF ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload v1.2.2 released! We’ve just released version 1.2.2 of the HTTP File Upload plugin for Openfire. This release includes Ukrainian language support, thanks to Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr), as well as a few updated translations for Portuguese, Russian and English.

Grab it from the plugins page in your Openfire Admin Console, or download manually from the HTTP File Upload archive page, [here](https://www.igniterealtime.o ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Cheogram Android: Stickers One feature people ask about from time to time is stickers.  Now, “stickers” isn’t really a feature, nor is it even universally agreed what it means, but we’ve been working on some improvements to Cheogram Android (and the Cheogram service) to make some sticker workflows better, released today in 2.12.1-3.  This post will mostly talk about those changes and the technical implications; if you just want to see a demo of som ... ⌘ Read more

Debian XMPP Team: XMPP What's new in Debian 12 bookworm On Tue 13 July 2021 there was a blog post of new XMPP related software releases which have been uploaded to Debian 11 (bullseye). Today, we will inform you about updates for the upcoming Debian release bookworm.

A lot of new releases have been provided by the upstream projects. There were lot of changes to the XMPP clients like Dino, Gajim, ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 10.1.2-1 released! Earlier today, version 10.1.2 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 10.1.2!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alte ... ⌘ Read more

Profanity: New Profanity Old System Occasionally people visit our MUC asking how to run the latest profanity release on years old systems. For some distributions people maintain a backports project, so you can get it from there if available.

Here we want to describe another methods, using containers, more specifically distrobox.

What’s Distrobox?

It’s basically a tool that let’s you run another distribution on your system. It uses docker/podman to create containers that ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.3 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a bugfix release for our stable 0.12 series. Most notably, it fixes a regression for SQL users introduced in 0.12.2, and a separate long-standing compatibility issue with archive stores on certain MySQL/MariaDB versions.

It also fixes an issue with websockets discovered by the Jitsi team, some issues with our internal HTTP client API, and we’ve improved the accuracy of ‘prosodyctl check dns’ in ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.3 Release Features Cobalt 1.3 depends on M-Vault 19.0 or subsequent versions

M-Vault Management Supporties

• M-Vault Bootstrap.   Enables operation in conjunction with M-Vault 19.0 to support headless bootstrap.
• Managing users in M-Vault groups, such as Directory Server Administrators  and Messaging Configuration Read/Write.  This enables Cobalt to control user and operator rights to access M-Vault.
• AD/LDAP passthrough support
  • Allow users (per domain) to support mand ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey Read this post in Spanish.

Let’s talk about Elixir!

Elixir is a functional programming language created by José Valim to build concurrent and scalable systems. It is defined as:

“a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications”.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Its first version was released in 2012. Since then, n ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje ¡Hablemos de Elixir!

Elixir es un lenguaje de programación funcional creado por José Valim para construi sistemas concurrentes y escalables.

“a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications”.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Su primera versión fue liberada en 2012. Desde entonces, se le han agregado nuevas funcionalidades y mejoras hasta llegar a su [versión actual](https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2 ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.7.0 Gajim 1.7.0 is mostly a bug fixing release. Due to fundamental changes in the build system, we decided to jump from 1.6.x to 1.7 directly. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gajim’s build system had significant changes, which makes it necessary for package maintainers to change some things, as documented in the readme file.

More Changes

• Account creation: Don’t allow to add account twice
• File previews: Y ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Smyrna Parks: Rose Garden and Jonquil

Introduction

I live in a suburb of Atlanta called Smyrna 1. Though Smyrna has been ranked favorably compared to other towns in the U.S.2, it suffers from many of the same problems as other suburbs: wide, fast, roads that aren’t very pedestrian or bicycle (or even car) friendly and a lack of public transit make it [hard to get a ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Erlang/OTP 19.3 discouraged

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will b ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

Two 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.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Erlang/OTP 19.3 discouraged

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will be removed ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

Two 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.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Erlang/OTP 19.3 discouraged

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will be removed ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.6.1 Gajim 1.6.1 is mostly a bug fixing release, but it also brings some important improvements and adds more convenience. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

After we ported Gajim and python-nbxmpp to libsoup3, you might have noticed issues with file transfers. Now, python-nbxmpp 4.0.1 has been released, and it fixes an error which prevented transfers of files containing spaces in their file name.

Gajim s ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Use Any SOP Binary With SOP-Java and External-SOP The Stateless OpenPGP Protocol specification describes a shared, standardized command line interface for OpenPGP applications. There is a bunch of such binaries available already, among them PGPainless’ pgpainless-cli, Sequoia-PGP’s sqop, as well as ProtonMails [gosop](https://github.com/ProtonMa ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.6.0 For Gajim 1.6.0 we 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). We fixed emoji rendering on MacOS and we implemented many fixes under the hood. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

For all HTTP requests (e.g. file downloads, update checks, websocket connection, …) both Gajim and python-nbxmpp rely on libsoup. With Gajim 1.6.0, we ported to libsoup3. You shou ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12 series.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• util.stanza: Allow U+7F when constructing stazas
• net.unbound: Preserve built-in defaults and Prosodys settings for luaunbound (fixes#1763: luaunbound not read ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.1 Released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.1 version.

This release contains mostly fixes. macOS now uses the default FlatLaf LaF. The user can also choose the type of tabs “scroll” as in Spark 3.0.0 or “wrap” as in Spark 2.X. See screenshot below. And also for some users, Spark not saved history.

... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Notes on the F-Droid security warning Snikket Android users who installed the app via F-Droid may receive a warning from F-Droid telling them that the app has a vulnerability and that they “recommend uninstalling immediately”. First of all - don’t panic! This is a over-simplified generic warning that is scary, but the actual situation is not quite so scary and has an explanation. Here goes…

How F-Droid works

When an app is developed and ready for release, it must be compiled and built, to produce the fina ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022 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 ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Smack 4.4 if XMPPTCPConnection is used with StAX The fantastic folks behind Jitsi have discovered a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Smack ( JSA-2022-0002, [JSA-2022-0003](https://github.com/jitsi/security-advisories/blob/master/advisories/JSA-2022-00 ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.5.4 Gajim 1.5.4 comes with a reworked file transfer interface, better URL detection, message selection improvements, and many fixes under the hood. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gajim’s interface for sending files has been reworked, and should be much easier to use now. For each file you’re about to send, Gajim will generate a preview. This way, you can avoid sending the wrong file to somebody. Regardless of how you start a file transfer, be it drag and drop, pasting a ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2022 – Every Puzzle Solved in Erlang

Day 1

Christmas is getting closer and with that, the annual Advent of Code begins. For those who do not know, Advent of Code is a fun and inclusive event which provides a new programming puzzle every day. The fun is that these puzzles can be solved in any programming language and are accessible for varying levels of coding experience and skills. The real test is in your problem-solving. This year, we’ll be solving each of the problems in ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.2.0 released We have now released version 1.2.0 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!

This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.

This release primarily enhances functionality when running in an Openfire cluster. All changes can be reviewed in [the changelog for this release](https://www.igniterealtime. ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20 ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.0 Released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.0 version.

We decided to increase major version to 3.x to coincide with a complete UI refresh of Spark which was contributed by Amos. Now Spark uses only FlatLaf Look and Feel. We are very much grateful for his incredible work. Along that Pade Meetings plugin was added by [Dele](https://discourse.igniterealtime. ... ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Source Attachment and Wrap-Up

Recap

Stateless file sharing (sfs) is a generic file sharing message which, alongside metadata, sends a list of sources where the file can be retrieved from. It is generic in the sense, that sources can be from different kinds of file transfer methods. HTTP, Jingle and any other file transfers can be encapsulated with it. The big idea is that functionality can be implemented for all file transfer methods at once, thanks to ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Hazelcast plugin version 2.6.1 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of the Hazelcast plugin for Openfire! The Hazelcast plugin is what allows you to deploy Openfire as a clustered solution.

This release includes only one improvement, but that one can bring a significant performance improvement as compared to older versions ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.1 released! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of version 1.10.1 of the REST API plugin for Openfire!

This is a bugfix release, that will improve the endpoints that make modifications to MUC rooms.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https:// ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2022 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 t ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.5.3 Gajim 1.5.3 brings back a feature many of you missed: selecting and copying multiple messages. Emoji shortcodes have been improved and cover even more emojis now. Gajim also lets you mark workspaces as read, so you don’t have to go through all conversations. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Since we changed the way Gajim displays messages in Gajim 1.4, selecting multiple messages to copy them was not possible anymore. With Gajim 1.5.3 you can now select multiple messag ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10 This 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.

This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.

There are no breaking changes in SQL schem ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10 This ejabberd 22.10 release includes five months of work, over 120 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

This version bring support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.

There are no breaking changes in SQL schem ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Implementing Packet Sequence Validation using Pushdown Automata This is part 2 of a small series on verifying the validity of packet sequences using tools from theoretical computer science. Read part 1 here.

In the previous blog post I discussed how a formal grammar can be transformed into a pushdown automaton in order to check if a sequence of packets or token ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Everything you need to know about Phoenix Framework 1.7 It is an exciting time for the Elixir community. As you may have seen at ElixirConf or ElixirConf EU, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Elixir. Despite now being 10 years old, there is no slowdown in the number of exciting new features, frameworks, and improvements being made to the language.

One of the most exciting ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.5.2 Gajim 1.5.2 brings another performance boost, better emojis, improvements for group chat moderators, and many bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Generating performance profiles for Gajim revealed some bottlenecks in Gajim’s code. After fixing these, switching chats should now feel snappier than before.

Did you know that you can use shortcodes for typing emojis? Typing :+1 for example will ope ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2022 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 mor ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.0 released! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of version 1.10.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire!

This release will see the performance on lookups of MUC rooms based on case-insensitive room names, or non-existing rooms. This will be particularly notable in systems that hold many chat rooms.

Another feature that is added is that basic statistics on REST endpoint usage are now exposed. These can be viewed thro ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: Push Server! The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Push Server plugin for Openfire. This plugin is developed by the company Busoft Teknoloji A.Ş. It is inspired by Conversations Push Proxy and developed for Openfire.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the new plugin in the next few hours. Alternatively, you ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Using Pushdown Automata to verify Packet Sequences As a software developer, most of my work day is spent working practically by coding and hacking away. Recently though I stumbled across an interesting problem which required another, more theoretical approach;

An OpenPGP message contains of a sequence of packets. There are signatures, encrypted data packets and their accompanying encrypted session keys, compressed data and literal data, the latter being the packet ... ⌘ Read more

Maxime Buquet: Versioning I finally took time to setup a forge and some old drafts turned up. I am publishing one of them today as is even though it’s 4 years old (2018-08-07T13:27:43+01:00). I’m not as grumpy as I was at the time but I still think this applies.

Today I am grumpy at people’s expectation of a free software project, about versioning and releases. I am mostly concerned about applications rather than libraries in this article but I am sure some of this would apply to libraries as well.

Today we were discussing ab ... ⌘ Read more

Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP It's been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.

chatty_server

The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc. It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Encrypted Audio and Video Calls

Kaidan will receive a grant by NLnet for adding encrypted audio and video calls.

The calls will be end-to-end encrypted and authenticated via OMEMO. Furthermore, Kaidan will support small group calls. We strive for interoperability between Kaidan and other XMPP apps supporting calls. In order to achie ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Accessing Certificate Stores Currently, I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work is being funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet. ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire ThreadDump plugin 1.1.0 released Earlier today, we have released version 1.1.0 of the Openfire Thread Dump plugin. This plugin uses various evaluators to trigger the creation of a Java thread dump. These thread dumps provide valuable information that is typically used when analyzing issues within Openfire’s implementation.

In the new version of the plugin, two new evaluators have been added: one that looks at the usage pattern of Openfire’s TaskEngin ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan's End-to-End Encryption Trust Management We worked several months on Kaidan’s upcoming end-to-end encryption and trust management. Once Kaidan 0.9 is released, it will provide the latest OMEMO Encryption. But it will also make trust decisions in the background for you if it’s possible. Some trust decisions have to be made manually but there are many others Kaidan automates without decreasing your security. That is done by automatically sharing ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers and blabber.im

Easy Onboarding with Android Chat App

A new version of the Android XMPP chat app

blabber.im has been released. It provides an easy onboarding. Passwords are generated automatically and XMPP providers are suggested. Those suggestions are based on our curated list of XMPP providers.

More Apps Supporting X ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.1 released! Woopsie doodle! It turns out that a rather annoying bug was introduced in version 1.9.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire, that we released earlier today!

To avoid unnecessary issues, we’ve decided to follow up with an immediate new release that addresses this issue. ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.0 released! We have released version 1.9.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin! This version adds functionality and provides some bug fixes that relates to multi-user chat rooms.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/pl ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.3 released The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.7 Gajim 1.4.7 brings performance improvements, better file previews, and many bug fixes. Thanks for all your reports!

What’s New

Multiple issues with Gajim’s file preview have been fixed. If you want to disable file previews entirely, there is now a setting in Gajim’s preferences.

For people with many contacts in their contact list, this release will bring a significant performance improvement 🚀

Furthermore, notifications on Windows should not appear in the taskbar anymore.

Fixes ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.3 released! We recently release version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version extends the MUC search capability to include the natural name of the MUC (instead of just the name). It also updates a number of library dependencies.

The updated plugin should be available for download in your Openfire admin console already. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.ign ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Certify Keys with PGPainless Currently I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work will be funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet.nl ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Updates to the MIM Inbox in version 5.1

User interfaces in open protocols

When a messaging client starts, it typically presents the user with:

• an inbox
• a summary of chats (in chronological order)
• unread messages in their conversation
• a snippet of the most recent message in the conversation
• information on if a conversation is muted (and if so how long a conversation is muted for)
• other information that users may find useful on their welcome screen

Mongoos ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.

You can find [download artifacts](https://ign ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.6 Gajim 1.4.6 fixes some bugs with the status icon and notifications. Emoji short code detection has been improved.

Fixes and improvements

Several issues have been fixed in this release.

• Improved detection of emoji short codes
• Tray icon withlibappindicator has been fixed
• Groups are now preserved when changing a contact’s name
• Windows: Notifications shouldn’t appear in the taskbar anymore

Have a look at the [chan ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a bugfix release for the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!

This plugin adds support for sending push notifications to client software, as described in XEP-0357: “Push Notifications”.

[This update](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/0.9.1/pushnotificatio ... ⌘ Read more

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With gas prices as high as they are I recently decided to sell my Honda S2000, Vela. Though I normally say that there is never a reason to buy a new vehicle when a used one can be had that’s just as good, depreciates less, and is cheaper, I’ve decided to brake my own rule and ordere ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.6 released We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.6. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.6, check out Smack’s changelog

This release mostly consists of bug fixes, many of them reported by the Jitsi folks. I would like to thank especially Damian Minkov for detailed problem descriptions, for the fruitful collaboration and for various joint bug hunts whi ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.1 released! Earlier today, version 1.8.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version removes the need to authenticate for status endpoints, adds new endpoints for bulk modifications of affiliations on MUC rooms, as well as a healthy number of other bugfixes.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the pl ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Contract Programming an Elixir approach – Part 1 This series explores the concepts found in Contract Programming and adapts them to the Elixir language. Erlang and BEAM languages, in general, are surrounded by philosophies like “fail fast”, “defensive programming”, and “offensive programming”, and contract programming can be a nice addition. The series is also available on Github.

You will find a lot ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.4 Gajim 1.4.4 comes 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.

What’s New

After many emoji improvements in Gajim 1.4.3, this version comes with an emoji auto-complete while writing messages! As soon as you start typing a :, a popover will show you available emoji shortcodes, just like on Slack or Github 🎉

![Emoji auto-complete](ht ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.1 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

While the 0.12.0 release has been a huge success, inevitably people found some aspects that didn’t work quite as intended, or weren’t as polished as they ought to be. With the appreciation for the help from everyone reporting issues to us, we’re happy to now release our best version yet - 0.12.1 is here!

Notably, we made a couple of changes that improve compatibility with Jitsi Meet, we fixed some bugs ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.3 Gajim 1.4.3 comes with some exciting news: Native emoji rendering on Windows! Want to customize your workspaces? Why not use emojis as well? As always, lots of bugs have been fixed in this release.

What’s New

This release is all about emojis. Gajim is based on GTK, a multi-platform framework for graphical user interfaces (GUI). For rendering text, GTK relies on Pango and underlying, on Cairo. On Wind ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: WombatOAM & the machine learning library WombatOAM, the powerful operations, monitoring, and maintenance platform has a new machine learning library to assist with metric prediction. Learn about the main features, the algorithms used and how you can benefit from it together with WombatOAM’s new UI from Mohamed Ali Khechine, [Tamás Lengyel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tam%C3%A1s-lengyel-715b7 ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.2 As promised earlier, releasing new Gajim versions is now much easier! 🎉 Gajim 1.4.2 comes with better performance and an important bugfix. But there is more! After popular demand, we brought back the calendar for browsing history.

What’s New

Mainly it’s one bug we fixed in this release. We improved how Gajim manages chat messages it displays to you. Before this improvement, messages would sometimes only show after changing focus or resizing the window. This issue has been fixed.

Afte ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.1 Only a week after the release of Gajim 1.4.0, we’re happy to announce Gajim 1.4.1! 🎉 This release brings several fixes for issues you reported to us. Thanks for your feedback!

What’s New

In order to make it easier to reach us for help, we added a new menu item “Join Support Chat” under “Help”. Clicking it will directly join our support chat at gajim@conference.gajim.org.

While redesigning the message window, we moved message timestamps to the r ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Development News April 2022 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.

Changes in Gajim

For two and a half years I (wurstsalat) have been writing (and translating) Gajim’s monthly development news. Keeping this up on a monthly basis takes a lot of time and effort. Upcoming development news will ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part 2/2 In the second and final part of this article, we take a look at some of the important developments in how payments work using our fintech industry knowledge and experience working on some of the most performant fintech systems in the world such as Vocalink’s Instant Payments Solution (IPS).

In part 1 we looked at the rapid growth in e-commerce, demand for faster payments and consumer adoption of relativel ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part 1/2 Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value. Payments are a part of financial services that have undergone rapid and transformational change over recent years, and the Erlang Solutions team has been at the cutting-edge of many of these changes working on exciting cli ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Computing International Call Rates with a Trie A few months ago we launched International calling with JMP.  One of the big tasks leading up to this launch was computing the rate card: that is, how much calls to different destinations would cost per minute.  While there are many countries in the world, there are even more calling destinations.  Our main carrier partner for this feature lists no fewer than 59881 unique phone number prefixes in the rates they charge us.  This list is, quite frankly, incomprehen ... ⌘ Read more

Maxime Buquet: Updates from the Poezio ecosystem Releases have happened recently that revolve around Poezio, a TUI (Terminal UI) client for XMPP, including Poezio itself, its backend XMPP library Slixmpp, and also the poezio and slixmpp plugins for OMEMO.

Many bug fixes and improvements

![Poezio example screenshot](https://bouah.net/202 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19

Introduction:

Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.

In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 9.1.0-1 released! Earlier today, version 9.1.0 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 9.1.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternat ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.4.0-1 released! Earlier today, version 4.4.0 release 1 of the Openfire JSXC plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party JSXC client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 4.4.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Message of the Day (MotD) plugin version 1.2.3 released Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin dir ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.0 released! Earlier today, version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version adds a new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-arc ... ⌘ Read more

Maxime Buquet: Interoperability in a “Big Tech” world As an answer to the announce of the EU parliament to force some service providers to allow others to interact with them, that we call “interoperability”.

Interoperability

In theory, interoperability is a way to allow different networks to communicate together. And it’s great, it’s even important for ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This 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.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed explanation of those ... ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX) We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.

It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.

Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.

Ho ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: GoJara plugin for Openfire version 2.2.3 release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.

Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Al ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | March 2022

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Read on to discover what really matters for tech in fina ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!

What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.

Well, this is one of those adventurous ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.5 and 4.5.0-alpha1 released We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.5. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements.

For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.4, check out Smack’s changelog

The shortlog for the 4.4.5 release is

Florian Schmaus (21):
      Smack 4.4.5-SNAPSHOT
      [core] Remo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-4-5-and-4-5-0-alpha1-released/91437)

Monal IM: Insights into Monal Development

TLDR:

_Info: Monal will stop support for iOS 12, iOS 13 and macOS Catalina!

We are searching for a SwiftUI developer.

We need a new simplified website.

With better continuous funding, our push servers will move from the US to Europe.

We have a new support mail: info@monal-im.org_

Two years ago we decided to rewrite the Monal app almost entirely and improve it gradually in the process, instead of creating another XMPP Client for iOS and macOS. We suc ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Development News February 2022 February brought a unified Groupchat Details window, which offers all the configuration knobs you need. Also this month: less memory leaks and improved OMEMO QR codes.

Changes in Gajim

In April last year, we introduced Gajim’s new Contact Information window. This month, we took on group chats and their various windows and management pages, introducing a unified ‘Groupchat Details’ window. Groupchat De ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Why Bidirectional Gateways Matter A big part of the vision of Sopranica, and Cheogram in particular, is bidirectional gateways.  A bidirectional gateway is one that allows (at a minimum) any user of either protocol to contact any user of the other protocol without creating an account.  This is not possible with all protocols, but works well when both sides are federated.

Simple Example

Take for instance sip.cheogram.com, which is a bidirectional gateway between XMPP and SIP.  Any ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released! The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.

Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 released! Moments ago, we’ve released version 1.7.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version fixes changes to the API (notably the JSON representation of some entities) that inadvertently sneaked into the 1.7.0 release. The API in 1.7.0 should closely resemble that of releases prior to 1.7.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development

Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.

Dear Monal Community,

as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.

To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.

This would have ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022 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 sof ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways.... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.

A summary of changes in this release:

Minor changes

• util.xml: Break reference to help the GC (fixes[#1711](https://i ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: "For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 has been released! The Ignite Realtime Community is elated to be able to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.0!

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.

I’d like to explicitly thank the many people in the community that have supported this release: not only were a significant amount of code contributions provided, the feedback that we get in our [chatr ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King's ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what's more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other ("I'm a Capulet, not a Montague", "I'm a proletarian, not a bourgeois", etc.).... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.12 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a security release that addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in Prosody’s mod_websocket. For more information, refer to the 20220113 advisory.

A summary of changes in this release:

Security

• util.xml: Do not allow doctypes, comments or processing instructions

Download

As usual, download instructions for many platforms can be f ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: How to use Jabber from SMS The Soprani.ca project, and Cheogram in particular, is pretty big on bidirectional gateways.  The most popular Cheogram-hosted instance, so popular that it gets to own Jabber IDs on cheogram.com, is a bidirectional gateway to the telephone network.  How is it bidirectional?  Don’t you need a Jabber ID to use it?  Of course not!

Sending a Message

From any SMS-enabled device, add +12266669977, which is the gateway’s phone number.  Send the foll ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn't work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I'm working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process.... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.6 is released Openfire 4.5.6 has been released, that addresses an annoying issue that was affecting the earlier 4.5.5 release. We’ve updated the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1 for good measure.

The changelog denotes the two Jira issues closed by this release. You can find Openfire build artifacts available for download [here](https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/rel ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | January 2022

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Read on to discover what really matters fo ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.7 released (Log4j 2.17.1 only change) Openfire 4.6.7 has been released with only a single change to bump the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1. Whilst we do not believe Openfire to be vulnerable to the CVEs associated with the log4j 2.17.0 and 2.17.1 releases, we realize that many folks are running naive security scanners that are simply checking for bundled jar versions.

The [changelog](https://download.igniterealtime.org/open ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Monadnock Valley Press Annual Report 2021 Happy Public Domain Day!... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: PGPainless 1.0.0 Released! Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! After a series of release candidates, it is finally time to party! The OpenPGP library successfully underwent a security audit in late November and I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.

![](https://blog.jabberhead.tk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/francesco- ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I've provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain.... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #9: Musical Monadology In meditation #7 of this series, I took note of some similarities between the aesthetics of Aristotle and the music of Bach. Another intriguing influence might be the monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach's orbit: for instance, Bach's student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.11 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This release contains some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, along with a small batch of fixes for issues discovered since the last release.

This will likely be the last release of the 0.11 branch.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• net.server_epoll: Prioritize network events over timers to improve performance under heavy load
• mod_p ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: A Friend by Any Other Name It is said that when the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus died, he left behind thousands of friends. This was 2300 years before Facebook, so how could he have befriended so many people?... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.6 and 4.5.5 releases (Log4j-only changes) As we’re monitoring developments around the recent Log4j vulnerabilities, we’ve decided to provide another update for Openfire to pull in the latests available updates from Log4j.

Since the previous release, the Log4j team released a new version (2.16.0) of their library, that provides better protection against the original vulnera ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Aleksander Lisiecki’s prize-winning eArangoDB at SpawnFest 2021

What is SpawnFest?

It’s tempting to say that SpawnFest is an event that doesn’t need an introduction, but we’ll give it one anyway. SpawnFest is an annual remote hackathon, where teams have exactly one weekend (48 hours to be exact) to create the best BEAM-related application ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.5 released Although we’re preparing for the Openfire 4.7.0 release, the recently discovered vulnerability in the Apache Log4j utility prompted us to push an immediate release of Openfire to address that issue. This release, Openfire 4.6.5, is available now.

We urge you to update as soon as possible. If that’s not feasible, then we advise you to apply the documented workaround (in the form o ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This 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.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This 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.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This 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.

When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.

A more detailed expla ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 2/4 | Myths vs Realities This is the second part of our ‘Making Sense of Blockchain’ blog post series – you can read part 1 on ‘6 Blockchain Principles’ here.

Join our FinTech mailing list for more great content and industry and events news, sign up here >> ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 beta & Hazelcast plugin 2.6.0 releases! After a long few months full of hard work, we are happy to tell you that we are close to a 4.7.0 release for Openfire!

This next version of our real time communications server has received a lot of improvements and bug fixes.

A key area of the code that has received updates is the Multi-User Chat (MUC) impl ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2021 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!

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 to say thanks or help these projects!

[Read this Ne ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse plugin for Openfire version 9.0.0.1 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a an update to the inVerse plugin for Openfire, which makes the Converse.js web client available to your users.

This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.

Your Openfire instance should automatically display the ... ⌘ Read more

Jérôme Poisson: Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília » I'm proud to announce the release of Libervia 0.8 « La Cecília » (formerly known as « Salut à Toi »), after more than 2 years of development.

This version is a big milestone preparing the future of the project. Let's have an overview of some major changes.

Project Renaming

In the interest of simplicity, the project has been renamed to " Libervia " (with was formerly the name of the web frontend), and all official frontends have now a ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Development News November 2021 Annoyed of spam messages in public channels? Gajim just gained support for Message Moderation! Also this month: better message corrections and improved notifications.

Changes in Gajim

If you’re participating in public channels you might have witnessed spam from time to time. Someone comes along and pastes some URL about a promising business opportunity, or leaves an offending picture. Moderators can kick/ban spammers, but that does not remove those ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle's views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato's dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I've read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office.... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 1/4

INTRODUCTION

Blockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether it be banking,  government, fashion or logistics. The benefits of using blockchain are substantial – businesses can lower transaction costs, free up capital, speed up processes, and enhance security and trust. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies and developers are interested in working with the technology and leveraging its potential than ev ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: November 2021 server release We’re excited to introduce a new release of the Snikket server! The Snikket server is an easy-to-install server package that allows you to run your own private messaging service for family, friends and other small groups.

Since the previous server release, we’ve been focusing our work mainly on the Snikket apps, especially the first release of our iOS app. We’ve continued work on the server part of Snikket though, and we’re glad to share a range of new imp ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophy vs. Ideology Today I'd like to explore some implications of my recent series of posts about the nature of opinion; specifically, the dangers of ideology. (As a reminder, so far I've discussed holding fewer opinions, opinions about opinions, holding multiple opinions, opinions vs. truths, and opinions weak and strong.)... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.0 released I’m happy to be able to announce that we’ve released version 0.9.0 of the Push Notifications plugin for Openfire!

This version does not bring new functionality. It does fix a bug that older versions of this plugin had, when running on Openfire 4.6.4 or later.

For other release announcements and news follow us on Twitter

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Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #8: Two Quotes from Pablo Casals Here are two quotes from the great cellist Pablo Casals, who re-introduced the Bach Cello Suites to the world in the early twentieth century...... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Action required for SIP accounts, new inbound call features, and more! Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly https://jmp.chat update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: 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 num ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: There's No Such Thing as a Kudo It always warms my heart when we import a word directly from ancient Greek into English. Often they are are philosophical locutions, such eudaimonia and ataraxia. Yet at times more mundane terms make the leap; perhaps the most common one these days is kudos (e.g., "kudos to you on aceing that algebra test!"). Consistent with modern English usage, people tend to pronounce it "koo-doze" and think of it as a plural ("that algebra test was really hard so you deserve many kudos for ac ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: A Simple OpenPGP API In this post I want to share how easy it is to use OpenPGP using the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol (SOP).

I talked about the SOP specification and its purpose and benefits already in past blog posts. This time I want to give some in-depth examples of how the API can be used in your application.

There are SOP API implementations available in different languages like Java and Rust. They have in common, that they are based around the [State ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.3.3 This release features improved Ad-Hoc Commands and brings back spell checking. Gajim 1.3.3 includes many bug fixes and improvements. Thanks everyone for reporting issues!

What’s New

The Ad-Hoc Commands window has been ported to Gajim’s new Assistant. This unifies the look and feel with other actions using an Assistant and it also fixes some issues.

More Changes

New

• Profile: A NOTE entry has been added

Changes

• API JID for search.jab ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2021 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of September 2021.

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 to say thanks or help these projects!

Read this Newsletter via our RSS Feed!

Interested in suppor ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Development News September 2021 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.

Changes in Gajim

Since development on Gajim 1.4 started, a lot has changed under the hood. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 5 Erlang and Elixir Use Cases In FinTech 2/2 We talked in our recent blog post about some of the success stories of FinTechs and banks leveraging the Erlang, Elixir and the BEAM virtual machine – including Vocalink, Goldman Sachs and others. In this post let’s examine a further 5 interesting use cases spanning building a bank from scratch in Elixir to using the most deployed open sou ... ⌘ Read more

Jérôme Poisson: Libervia progress note 2021-W38 Hello,

it's time for a new progress note. The work is currently focused on ActivityPub Gateway, and progress has been done on pubsub cache search and the base component.

Pubsub Cache Full-Text Search

Next to the pubsub cache implementation, it was necessary to have a good way to search among items.

So far, Libervia was doing pubsub search using pubsub service's capabilities, and notably the [XEP-0431](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0 ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Opinions Weak and Strong Continuing a thread that I started to explore earlier this year, I'd like to take a closer look at the intensity of opinions. Here as almost everywhere, there is a continuum: we all have opinions we hold strongly and opinions we hold weakly. Not only do the specific contents of these buckets change over time, but in general the intensity of one's opinions can change over time, too. We're all familiar with the sophomoric young adult who has strong opinions about everything (yes, I resemb ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | September 2021

Subscribe to receive FinTech Matters and other great content, notifications of events and more to your inbox, we will only send you relevant, high-quality content and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Read on to discover what really matters for ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2021 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of August 2021.

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 to say thanks or help these projects!

Read this Newsletter via our RSS Feed!

Interested in supporting the Newsletter ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: 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, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App! Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it's been a while since you checked out JMP, here's a refresher: 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 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: FinTech 2021 State of Play While things have undoubtedly changed considerably for the financial services industry over the past 18 months, the ascendency of FinTech remains quite unabated, with global fintech investment reaching $98bn. In the UK, FinTech investment hit a new record of £18bn in the first half of 2021, placing it second only to the United States, impressi ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.

Here are the changes in this release:

• Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
• Fixed duplication ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #6: Further Instrumental Considerations Although the first five of Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello lie quite naturally on the bass (when tuned in fifths, that is!), the sixth suite in D major (BWV 1012) is a slightly different story because it was originally written for an instrument with five strings, not four. The exact identity of this instrument remains a mystery - some think it was written for a viola de spalla, others for a violoncello piccolo. Whatever the truth of the matter, p ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.

The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi ... ⌘ Read more

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Peter Saint-Andre: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today ⌘ http://stpeter.im/journal/1655.html

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 2.9.4 Released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/spark-2-9-4-released/89160

Ignite Realtime Blog: Client Control plugin 2.1.6 released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/client-control-plugin-2-1-6-released/89159

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Ignite Realtime Blog: First release candidate of Smack 4.4 published ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/first-release-candidate-of-smack-4-4-published/89131

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2020 ⌘ https://xmpp.org/2020/10/newsletter-10-october/

Peter Saint-Andre: Election Survival Guide ⌘ http://stpeter.im/journal/1653.html

Peter Saint-Andre: A Wider Palette ⌘ http://stpeter.im/journal/1652.html

Gajim: Development News October 2020 ⌘ https://gajim.org/post/2020-10-28-development-news-october/

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 2.9.3 Released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/spark-2-9-3-released/89016

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.0 is released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-6-0-is-released/88971