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

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

Sam Whited: Contra Vorbis Tags

Introduction

This document defines common Vorbis comments related to Contra, Square and other traditional called folk dances. Their use is also recommended (and identical) in other specifications that re-use Vorbis comments such as [OGG/Opus Tag Definitions](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7845#section ... ⌘ Read more

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

Other articles in this series:

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

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

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

Impossible Tests Can Fail Runs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: (e)SIM nicknames, Cheogram Android updates, and Cheogram iOS alpha Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update! (it’s been 7 months since the last one 😨)

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: Y ... ⌘ 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

XMPP Providers: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Providers Survey

In May 2025, we ran a small survey to gather feedback from XMPP server operators. Our main concerns were XMPP Provider’s service and the project itself. First of all, we would like to thank almost 60 people who participated in this survey. While the XMPP Providers project currently lists a little more than 70 providers, this is a good turnout. At this point we can already tell that the gen ... ⌘ 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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.07

Release Highlights:

This release focus on integration in a wider federated network, with support for spam fighting features, better compliance with Matrix network and native support for PubSub Server Information to have your server count as part of the wider XMPP network (for example, you can register your server on XMPP Network Graph).

• **Spam filter ... ⌘ 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

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

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

Understanding Big Data in Healthcare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glossary

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

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

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

My journey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: BEAM – Erlang’s Virtual Machine Welcome to the first chapter of the “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey” series. In my previous post, I discussed my journey with the programming language.

In this chapter, we will discuss the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM.

To understand why the Elixir programming language is so powerful and reliable, we must understand its foundations, which means talking about Erlang.

Elixir runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine and inherits many o ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Erlang’s virtual machine, the BEAM Welcome to the first chapter of the “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey” series. In my previous post, I discussed my journey with the programming language.

In this chapter, we will discuss the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM.

To understand why the Elixir programming language is so powerful and reliable, we must understand its foundations, which means talking about Erlang.

Elixir runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine and inherits ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Erlang’s virtual machine, the BEAM Welcome to the first chapter of the “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey” series. In my previous post, I discussed my personal journey with the programming language.

In this chapter, we will discuss the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM.

To understand why the Elixir programming language is so powerful and reliable, we must understand its foundations, which means talking about Erlang.

Elixir runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine and ... ⌘ Read more

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

Changelog

Bugfixes:

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

... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.5.0-beta5 released The Ignite Realtime developer community is happy to announce that Smack 4.5 entered its beta phase. Smack is a XMPP client API written in Java that is able to run on Java SE and Android. Smack’s beta phase started already a few weeks ago, but 4.5.0-beta5 is considered to be a good candidate to announce, as many smaller issues have been ironed out.

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

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

Introduction to XMPP

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

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey Welcome to the series “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey”, dedicated to those who want to learn more about this programming language and its advantages.

If you still don’t have much experience in the world of programming, Elixir can be a great option to get started in functional programming, and if you have already experimented with other programming languages, not only will it be easier for you, but I am sure that you will find ... ⌘ 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

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

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

Processes in the BEAM

In Elixir, all the co ... ⌘ Read more

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

Monday, pizza night

Tuesday

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.07 Introducing ejabberd 24.07: Bugfix Release

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

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

A more detailed explanation ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

About N ... ⌘ Read more

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

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2024

XMPP Newsletter Banner

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

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

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

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

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

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Download the la ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

A si ... ⌘ Read more

Remko Tronçon: Packaging Swift apps for Alpine Linux While trying to build my Age Apple Secure Enclave plugin, a small Swift CLI app, on Alpine Linux, I found out that Swift isn’t able to create musl binaries. This means none of the pre-built Linux binaries (nor the Swift compiler) work on Alpine. The assumption that Linux implies glibc apparently runs deep into the Swift internals, so although some work i ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 7 Key Blockchain Principles for Business Welcome to the final instalment of our Blockchain series. Here, we are taking a look at the seven fundamental principles that make blockchain: Immutability, decentralisation

‘workable’ consensus, distribution and resilience, transactional automation (including ‘smart contracts’), transparency and trust, and links to the external world.

For business leaders, understanding these core principles is crucial in harnessing the potenti ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 7 years old — thanks to our awesome community! Hi everyone!

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

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Downti ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Entendiendo procesos y concurrencia Bienvenidos al segundo capítulo de la serie “ Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje” .

En el primer capítulo hablamos sobre la máquina virtual de Erlang, la BEAM, y las características que Elixir aprovecha de ella para desarrollar sistemas que son:

• Concurrentes
• Tolerantes a fallos
• Escalables y
• Distribuidos

En esta nota explicaremos qué ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Elixir processes and concurrency Welcome to the second chapter of the “Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey” series.

In the first chapter, we talk about the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM, and the characteristics that Elixir takes advantage of to develop systems that are:

• Concurrent
• Fault-tolerant
• Scalable and
• Distributed

In this note, I’ll explain ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Entendiendo procesos y concurrencia Bienvenidos al segundo capítulo de la serie “ Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje” .

En el primer capítulo hablamos sobre la máquina virtual de Erlang, la BEAM, y las características que Elixir aprovecha de ella para desarrollar sistemas que son:

• Concurrentes
• Tolerantes a fallos
• Escalables
• Distribuidos

En esta nota explicaremos qué si ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Elixir processes and concurrency Welcome to the second chapter of the “Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey” series.

In the first chapter, we talk about the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM, and the characteristics that Elixir takes advantage of to develop systems that are:

• Concurrent
• Fault-tolerant
• Scalable
• Distributed

In this note, I’ll explain wha ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Many Spark translations are incomplete. Please help us translate Spark

Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: New: Openfire MUC Real-Time Block List plugin! A new plugin has been made available for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol. We have named this new plugin the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin.

This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains. From experience, the XMPP community has learned that bad actors tend to spam a wid ... ⌘ Read more

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

Let’s talk about Elixir!

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

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

https://elixir-lang.org/

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

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

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

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

https://elixir-lang.org/

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

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

What’s New

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

More Changes

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

Gajim: Gajim 1.6.0 For Gajim 1.6.0 we ported Gajim’s and python-nbxmpp’s underlying HTTP library to libsoup3. Also, audio previews now look nicer and allow for more control (playback speed, jumping). We fixed emoji rendering on MacOS and we implemented many fixes under the hood. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

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

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

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

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

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

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

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

... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.4 release The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.4 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 enhancements to cluster-specific implementation of Multi-User Chat functionality, improved websocket handling and improv ... ⌘ Read more

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

One of the most exciting ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)

Storing sfs sources in a database

Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database. In this case, we are in a unique position: Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial. For now, we only ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers and blabber.im

Easy Onboarding with Android Chat App

A new version of the Android XMPP chat app

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

More Apps Supporting X ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

Fixes ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

[![](https://nlnet.nl ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Fixes and improvements

Several issues have been fixed in this release.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Sirius NameSiriusDesignationα CMaMake/modelHonda CB1100StyleNaked bikeEngine1140cc air-cooled inline fourTiresMetzeler Roadtec Z8 Interact Tires 110/80-18; 140/70-18

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Modern Software Engineering Principles for Fintechs by Daniel Pilon at SumUp Daniel Pilon is a Software Engineering Manager at SumUp. Since 2007 he has worked across several industries before arriving in the fintech space. He has experience in many programming languages, such as C#, Java and JavaScript but since discovering Elixir and the power of functional programming a few years ago, he hasn’t looked back.

Right now he is building SumUp Bank, a complete digital banking solution ... ⌘ 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

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

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | March 2022

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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)

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

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

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

This release is the first non-patch release in more than a year, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes.

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

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

Sending a Message

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | January 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is SpawnFest?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | September 2021

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Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

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

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

Here are the changes in this release:

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

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.7 released ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.7-released/

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Monitoring plugin version 2.1.0 has been released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-monitoring-plugin-version-2-1-0-has-been-released/88746

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin to help reduce spam! ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/new-openfire-plugin-to-help-reduce-spam/88730

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 2.9.2 Released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/spark-2-9-2-released/88674

Jérôme Poisson: SàT progress note 2020-W31 ⌘ https://www.goffi.org/b/n9nzn3ySF7Lv4pYBpTqYtP/progress-note

Jérôme Poisson: SàT progress note 2020-W31 ⌘ https://www.goffi.org/b/n9nzn3ySF7Lv4pYBpTqYtP/progress-note

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC web client now available as a plugin for Openfire! ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/jsxc-web-client-now-available-as-a-plugin-for-openfire/88467

Monal IM: Final betas for 4.7 out ⌘ https://monal.im/blog/final-betas-for-4-7-out/

Aditya Borikar: Chapter 9: Bug Fixation ⌘ https://adiaholic.github.io/gsoc2020/2020/07/19/Chapter-9-Fixing-Bugs.html

Maxime Buquet: Coup de pouce vélo et données personnelles ⌘ https://bouah.net/2020/07/coup-de-pouce-velo-donnees-personnelles/

Maxime Buquet: What about design? ⌘ https://bouah.net/2020/07/what-about-design/

Aditya Borikar: Chapter 8: Reworking FSM ⌘ https://adiaholic.github.io/gsoc2020/2020/07/12/Chapter-8-Reworking-FSM.html

Gajim: Gajim 1.2.1 ⌘ https://gajim.org/post/2020-07-08-gajim-1.2.1-released/

Aditya Borikar: Chapter 7: The Bigger Picture ⌘ https://adiaholic.github.io/gsoc2020/2020/07/06/Chapter-7-The-Bigger-Picture.html

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP works - 1 July 2020 ⌘ https://xmpp.org/2020/07/newsletter-01-july/