Mathieu Pasquet: XMPP Summit 27 and FOSDEM 25 Report Here is an account of my trip to FOSDEM & XMPP Summit this year. Note: for privacy reasons on the broader internet, I am keeping names out of my description of the events, but my goal here is not to diminish anyone’s merit.

Glossary

I use a bit of acronyms and jargon in this article because it talks about technical things, so I will define them here:

• XMPP: eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, the internet standard for instant messaging and much more. ... ⌘ 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

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.

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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: Smack 4.4.7 released We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.7. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.7, check out Smack’s changelog

As with the last release, 4.4,6, parts of the release where driven by feedback from the Jitsi folks.

Due to SMACK-927, we had to change the behavior of a certain kind of incoming stanzas listeners, namely the ones added with `XMPPCo ... ⌘ 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

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

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: Spark 3.0.2 Released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 3.0.2

The release contains bug fixes and updates two plugins Translator and Roar.

Many Spark translations are incomplete. Please help us translate Spark

Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

We encourage users and developers to get invo ... ⌘ 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.

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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

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

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

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

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