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

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Viktoria Laufer Intro

In this edition of our Meet the Team series, we’d like to introduce Viktoria, Project Manager at Erlang Solutions.

She shares what it’s like to work across complex, multilingual projects, reflects on the highlights of her role so far, and gives a glimpse into the experiences that have shaped her journey.

What does your role as Project Manager at Erla ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2026

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2026.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: ​​Expert Insights from Our Latest Webinars The Erlang Solutions team has been creating webinars that share knowledge, spark ideas, and celebrate the BEAM community. Each one offers a chance to explore new tools, hear fresh perspectives, and learn from the people building scalable and reliable systems every day.

If you haven’t tuned in yet, here’s a look at some of our recent sessions, full of practical insights and new thinking shaping the future of the BEAM.

**SAF ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: ElixirConf US 2025: Highlights from My First ElixirConf Joining conferences is one of the best perks of working as a Developer at Erlang Solutions. Despite having attended multiple Code BEAM conferences in Europe, ElixirConf US 2025 was my first. The conference had 3 tracks, filled with talks from 45+ speakers and 400+ attendees, both in-person and virtual.

ElixirConf is one of the great occasions to connect with other Elixir ent ... ⌘ 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

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

XMPP Interop Testing: MOAR TESTS! Ever heard of XMPP Interop Testing? It’s this cool project that helps make sure different XMPP servers can all work together smoothly. Our XMPP Interop Testing project provides a suite of automated tests that can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines to verify the compliance and interoperability of XMPP server implementations.

Late last year, we reported that we had secured funding graciously provided by NLnet that allowed us to massively build out t ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Empowering Digital Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform In today’s interconnected world, digital sovereignty has become increasingly important for individuals and organizations seeking to maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and technologies. Openfire, an open-source, real-time collaboration (RTC) server that uses the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mitigating MITMs in XMPP In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mitigating MITMs in XMPP In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Reduce, Reuse… Refactor: Clearer Elixir with the Enum Module

“When an operation cannot be expressed by any of the functions in the Enum module, developers will most likely resort to reduce/3.”

From the docs for Enum.reduce/3

In many Elixir applications, I find Enum.reduce is used frequently. Enum.reduce can do anything, but that doesn’t mean it should. In many cases, other Enum functions are more readable, practically as fast, and easier ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: New releases for Tinder and Whack! The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce releases for two of its projects! Both are for XMPP-libraries that we produce.

Tinder is a Java based XMPP library, providing an implementation for XMPP stanzas and components. Tinder’s origins lie in code that’s shared between our Openfire and Whack implementations. The implementation that’s provided in Tinder hasn’t been written aga ... ⌘ 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: ejabberd 25.03

Release Highlights:

• [Matrix Gateway Gets Room Support](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#matrix)
• [Multiple Simultaneous Password Types](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#auth)
• [Execute API Commands Using XMPP Client](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#adhoc)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, please check the [changes in SQL schemas](https://www.process-one ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen When I explain to others what I do for a living, I often ask why it is that we are not surprised that one can use a Gmail account to send an email to someone who uses an Outlook account, yet many people fully accept that you can’t send a message to someone using WhatsApp from a Telegram account. We’re not surprised that we can use our phone to set up a call with someone who uses a differe ... ⌘ 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: 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2025.

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: Elixir vs Haskell: What’s the Difference? Elixir and Haskell are two very powerful, very popular programming languages. However, each has its strengths and weaknesses. Whilst they are similar in a few ways, it’s their differences that make them more suitable for certain tasks.

Here’s an Elixir vs Haskell comparison.

Elixir vs Haskell: a comparison

Core philosophy and design goals

Starting at a top-level view of both languages, the first difference we see is ... ⌘ 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

... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.0 Gajim 2.0 is here and it comes with a big upgrade 🎉 Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. Additionally, this release brings improved image previews, better tools for fighting spam, and much more. All of these changes were only possible by touching a lot of Gajim’s code base, and we appreciate all the feedback we got from you.

What’s New

Toolkit Upgrade

Switching Gajim’s major ver ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.3: Prometheus, CockroachDB and more MongooseIM is a scalable, efficient, high-performance instant messaging server using the proven, open, and extensible XMPP protocol. With each new version, we introduce new features and improvements. For example, version 6.2.0 introduced our new CETS in-memory storage, making setup and autoscaling in cloud environments easier than before (see the blog post for ... ⌘ 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

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

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li ... ⌘ 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

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 Hazelcast plugin version 3.0.0 Earlier today, we blogged about a boatload of Openfire plugins for which we made available maintenance releases.

Apart from that, we’ve also made a more notable release: that of the Hazelcast plugin for Openfire.

The Hazelcast plugin for Openfire adds clust ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2024

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

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with ... ⌘ 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

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

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

ProcessOne: Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix In the world of real-time communication, two prominent protocols often come into discussion: XMPP and Matrix. Both protocols aim to provide robust and secure messaging solutions, but they differ in architecture, features, and community adoption. This article delves into the key differences and similarities between XMPP and Matrix to help you understand which might be better suited for your needs.

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix In the world of real-time communication, two prominent protocols often come into discussion: XMPP and Matrix. Both protocols aim to provide robust and secure messaging solutions, but they differ in architecture, features, and community adoption. This article delves into the key differences and similarities between XMPP and Matrix to help you understand which might be better suited for your needs.

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix In the world of real-time communication, two prominent protocols often come into discussion: XMPP and Matrix. Both protocols aim to provide robust and secure messaging solutions, but they differ in architecture, features, and community adoption. This article delves into the key differences and similarities between XMPP and Matrix to help you understand which might be better suited for your needs.

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix In the world of real-time communication, two prominent protocols often come into discussion: XMPP and Matrix. Both protocols aim to provide robust and secure messaging solutions, but they differ in architecture, features, and community adoption. This article delves into the key differences and similarities between XMPP and Matrix to help you understand which might be better suited for your needs.

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: XMPP Web! We are excited to be able to announce the immediate availability of a new plugin for Openfire: XMPP Web!

This new plugin for the real-time communications server provided by the Ignite Realtime community allows you to install the third-party webclient named ‘ XMPP Web’ in mere seconds! By installing this new plugin, the web client is immediately ready for use.

This new pl ... ⌘ 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

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 blog post). And the first documentation was published in January 2003, using LaTeX, see [Ejabberd Installation and Op ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.8 released We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.8, our XMPP-client library for JVMs and Android. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.8, check out Smack’s changelog

Smack 4.4.8 contains mostly small fixes. However, we fixed one nasty bug in Smack’s reactor causing an, potentially endless, busy loop. Smack’s new connection infrastrucutre makes heavy use of the reactor, tha ... ⌘ 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

Snikket: Security notice: Snikket not affected by CVE-2024-3094 A security vulnerability was intentionally added to a widely used open-source project known as ‘xz’. This project is packaged in many operating systems, and a lot of software depends upon it. The vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CVE-2024-3094.

Systems with the vulnerable package may allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system via SSH, if your system’s SSH server was linked to the affected packages.

Thankfully, the vulne ... ⌘ Read more

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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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2024 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2024. Many thanks to all our readers and all Newsletter contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newslette ... ⌘ 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: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li ... ⌘ 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 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ 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

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

Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2024 In the fast-paced world of financial tech, staying on top isn’t just about seeing ahead—it’s also about committing to evolving strategies. For CTOs leading the charge, we’re taking a closer look at the 5 key things they should focus on in 2024, building on what we talked about in 2023.

If you caught our last piece, you’ll ... ⌘ 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

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li ... ⌘ 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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Holidays 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, one app; Free as in Freedom; Share one num ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2023 Hello! I’m Piotr from Erlang Solutions Poland and I have the pleasure of saving Christmas this year with the power of Erlang for you!

This is the second time we participate in the amazing event called the Advent of Code. Last year’s edition was solved by my colleague Aleksander and as far as I know – many of you enjoyed following his efforts. I hope you’ll like my tale of helping S ... ⌘ 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: New Openfire plugin: Reporting Account Affiliations I’m excited to announce a new Openfire plugin: the Reporting Account Affiliations Plugin!

This plugin implements a new prototype XMPP extension of the same name.

To quote the specification:

In practice, a server may not trust all accounts equally. For example, if a server offers anonymous access or open registration, it ... ⌘ 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

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

Erlang Solutions: The Future Trends of Sustainability in Programming Software

As sustainable programming practices continue to become the norm across the software development industry, we take a look at the future sustainability trends all businesses should be aware of.

Future sustainability changes are now impacting almost every sector worldwide, and both the wider tech sector and programming as a profession aren’t exempt from this trend. As everyone continues to ... ⌘ 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

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: MongooseIM Health-Check

Optimise Your Current Deployment with a MongooseIM Health Check

MongooseIM plays a key role in today’s evolving digital landscape. For businesses, it ensures seamless communication within your organisation or application. However, like any other system, it requires regular check-ups to maintain peak performance.

Enter the MongooseIM Health Check from our team at Erlang Solutions – your ticket to a more efficient messaging environment.

**What is a Mo ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Our experts at Code BEAM Europe 2023 The biggest Erlang and Elixir Conference is coming to Berlin in October!

Are you ready for a deep dive into the world of Erlang and Elixir? Mark your calendars, because Code BEAM Europe 2023 is just around the corner.

With a lineup of industry pioneers and thought leaders, Code BEAM Europe 2023 promises to be a hub of knowledge sharing, innovation, and networking.

Erlang Solutions’ experts are working har ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.

We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.

T ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Summer in Review 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, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sh ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 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 ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 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 te ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: The Apps As promised in our introduction to the series, welcome to the first of our ‘State of Snikket’ update posts! This installment features all the app development news you could wish for.

So what’s new in the world of Snikket apps?

UI/UX

If you’ve been following Snikket development for a while, you might remember that we were receiving UX advice on making our apps easier and more fun to use, thanks to the team at ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023 This is our first blog post for quite a while, and the last few have all been technical updates of various kinds about the Snikket software. In fact it’s been almost two years since the last post that gave a general progress update on the Snikket project itself, so let’s fix that!

You’ll be pleased to hear that Snikket is very much alive, and although there hasn’t been much of a show to see here, a bunch of stuff has been going on backstage.

We plan to catch you up with our progres ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023: Post-Sprint Summary

Elbe-Sprint 2023: Post-Sprint Summary

In June the Elbe-Sprint 2023 took place in Hamburg and it was a great first experience after all the pandemic in the past years for many participants. In this blog post we want to summarize progress we’ve made during the sprint.

First of all, many thanks to the CCCHH and their members for offerin ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: PGPainless meets the Web-of-Trust We are very proud to announce the release of PGPainless-WOT, an implementation of the OpenPGP Web of Trust specification using PGPainless.

The release is available on the Maven Central repository.

The work on this project begun a bit over a year ago as an [NLnet project which recei ... ⌘ 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: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.2 released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Push Notification plugin for Openfire.

This plugin enables clients to register for push notifications.

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

Yo ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Candy plugin for Openfire 2.2.0 Release 4 now available! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Openfire plugin for Candy.

Candy is a third-party chat client. The Openfire plugin makes deploying it a one-click affair!

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and updates dependencies on third-party libraries. More details are available in the [changelog](ht ... ⌘ 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

Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – Knitting a Net There are two obvious operations your OpenPGP implementation needs to be capable of performing if you want to build a Web-of-Trust. First you need to be able to sign other users public keys (certificates), and second, you need to be able to verify those certifications.

The first is certainly the easier of the two tasks. In order to sign another users certificate, you simply take your own s ... ⌘ 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

JMP: JMP is Launched and Out of Beta JMP has been in beta for over six years, and today we are finally launching! With feedback and testing from thousands of users, our team has made improvements to billing, phone network compatibility, and also helped develop the Cheogram Android app which provides a smooth onboarding process, good Android integration, and phone-like UX for users of that platform. There is still a long road ahead of us, but with so much behind us we’re comfortable saying JMP is ready for la ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Call for Speakers at the RabbitMQ Summit Are you a user, operator, developer, engineer, or simply someone with interesting user stories to tell about RabbitMQ? If so, we have some exciting news for you! The RabbitMQ Summit 2023 is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to invite you to submit your talks for this highly anticipated event.

The RabbitMQ Summit brings together a vibrant, diverse community of enthusiasts from all corne ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 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 [at the ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Here’s why you should consider investing in RabbitMQ during a recession Europe and the US are leading the way in the forecasted recession for 2023, due to persistently high inflation and increasing interest rates. With minimal projected GDP growth, modern technologies can play a crucial role in reducing the impact of economic downturns.

As caution looms, it can be tempting to reign in on your investment. Your initial thought is to balance t ... ⌘ 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

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.9: End-to-End Encryption & XMPP Providers

It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management and support of XMPP Providers! Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero PET and NGI Assure with [public ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Jabber ID Discovery, New Referral Codes 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, one app; Free ... ⌘ 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 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04 This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

• Many SQL database improvements
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023

Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_

A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!

We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year.  One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience.  So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2023 The fintech industry is a major disruptor. Each year, it impacts how consumers interact with financial companies and brings new and innovative means to meet ever-growing customer expectations and occupy market space.

As a business owner or executive in this space, you have no choice but to stay on top of your game to increase efficiency.

In simpler terms, if your business doesn’t scale, it could fail.

That mig ... ⌘ Read more

Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library. XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.

Why changing the name?

It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati ... ⌘ Read more

Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library. XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.

Why changing the name?

It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Developing Openfire Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.

Ef ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Se explican las colas de Quorum de RabbitMQ: lo que necesita saber. Este tipo de cola es importante cuando RabbitMQ se usa en una instalación de clúster. Descubre más en este blog.

Introducción a las Colas de Quorum

En RabbitMQ 3.8.0, una de las nuevas características más significativas fue la introducción de las Colas de Quorum. La Cola de Quorum es un nuevo tipo de cola que se espera que reemplace ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 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? Rea ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!

Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP ... ⌘ 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: Newsletter: JMP is 6! Leaving beta this year! And FOSSY 🙂️ 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, one ... ⌘ 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

Dino: Dino 0.4 Release Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

Reactions and Replies

Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji. They ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Places to Go This is a love letter to many places, among them:

• Triple Step Studios,
• Smyrna, and Cobb County public libraries and parks,
• Sopo Bicycle Co-op and the Austin Yellow Bike Project,
• and AtlantaCritical Mass.

Dear comra ... ⌘ 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

Isode: Icon-5066 3.0 – New Capabilities We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

ALE Management

This major new feature enables management of ALE conf ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Threads, Thumbnails, XMR, ETH 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, one app; Free as in Freedom; Shar ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire! We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.

I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.

If you’re interested, please sign up to [Ignite Realtime localizati ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community! Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!

![Mastodon logo](https:/ ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Pair Programming As a junior software developer, finding the right tools and techniques to help you learn a new language or technology can make a huge difference. While spending the last few months learning Erlang and Elixir, one of the techniques that I have found really helpful is pair programming.

I will be breaking down the concept of pair programming and my experiences with it so far, including the benefits and different ways of utilizing this programming style.

**What is pair progra ... ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Client Apps

Our XMPP Chat Apps philosophy

Web based, JavaScript, React and so on app are great… for developers.

We do care about users and we understand that the only way to provide users with great experience is through native apps.

Therefore we have put a lot of effort and dedication to develop native client for each platform separately. Each of our apps is tailored for the best experience and native feeling. Plus they are optimized for each platform, so they are lightweight but also powerful and take ... ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Server

Tigase XMPP Server is Java based software

Tigase XMPP Server is a standalone application written in Java. It is not a “web server” system. It runs independently from any other software. In most cases all it needs to run is Java Virtual Machine (JVM). For extended functionality it may require a few external libraries for the most part it is all in-house developed software.

Java based but still very efficient

Java is known and infamous for it’s high resource requirements and slowness. This unfor ... ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Libraries

Our software philosophy

Actually nothing new and nothing surprising here. We want to have as much of a reusable code as possible. And this reusable code should have a simple but powerful API to be useful for quickly creating software.

That’s it.

And this is how we design and develop our XMPP libraries. Check them out.

Documentation to all our projects is available online and sample codes? Take a look at our XMPP Chat apps which are open source too. ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase Instant Communication, Presence and Messaging

What is “Instant Communication”

First things first. What is this all about?

We say this is “Instant communication” or “Near real-time communication” and indeed, this is about communicating, talking, sending messages, sending other information, documents. Instant or real-time means, whatever you send, is sent right away, it is also delivered right away.

Would the receiving person get it right away too? Well, it depends, if the person is online, it ... ⌘ 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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Mid Term Evaluation Updates It’s been a month since I wrote my last blog. For those of you who have been following my blogs, thanks a lot for taking the time to read them. In this blog, I will give the updates post mid-term evaluation and the challenges that I have been facing and how I overcame some of them.

The Mid-Term Evaluation

For those of you who don’t know much about GSoC, a mid-term evaluat ... ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Base implementation The last few weeks were quite busy for me, but there was also a lot of progress. I’m happy to say that the base of stateless file sharing is implemented and working. Let’s explore some of the more interesting topics.

File Hashes

File hashes have some practical applications, such as file validation and duplication detection. As such, they are part of the [metadata element](https://xmpp.org/extensio ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05 A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.

• Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
• New installers and container
• Support Erlang/OTP 25

When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and rebar3 binaries require Erlang/OTP 22 or higher, and make rel uses different paths. There are no break ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

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

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

Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no? People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have you.

Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept telling th ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Joanna

Sipping my tea, I think back and remember Joanna:
Quietness isn't the same for me now.

You came to America, wondering what you'd find:
Atlanta in a forest of broken dreams,
A people in turmoil, and no one seems to know why.
Communities falter before they've begun.

A lawnmower hums and I wake from my reverie.
I'd forgotten, about your America.

Driving to the North, far away from the city.
You looked for meaning in every farm passing by.
I bought you peanuts and gave you a tour of the mountains.

We d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.samwhited.com/2022/03/joanna/)

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 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 a ... ⌘ 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

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

Dino: Dino 0.3 Release Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.

The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!

Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

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: 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

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

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

1 post - 1 participant ? ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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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