Erlang Solutions: What Breaks First in Real-Time Messaging? Real-time messaging sits at the centre of many modern digital products. From live chat and streaming reactions to betting platforms and collaborative tools, users expect communication to feel immediate and consistent.

When pressure builds, the system doesn’t typically collapse. It starts to drift. Messages arrive slightly late, ordering becomes inconsistent, and the platform feels less reliable. That drift is often the fir ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Fluux Messenger 0.15: Search, Themes, Polls, and a Whole Lot More

We have shipped Fluux Messenger 0.15, and it is packed with major advancements. After the excitement of the FOSDEM launch, the team put their heads down on three things users were asking for most: the ability to find past messages, a messenger that looks and feels different from Discord, and richer ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Experimenting with MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB Support in Openfire I have recently started experimenting with adding support for three additional databases in Openfire: MariaDB, Firebird and CockroachDB.

This work is still exploratory. Before committing to this direction, I would like to get a better understanding of whether this is actually valuable to the Openfire community.

I have prepared initial pull requests for each ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2026

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 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 the result o ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Upgrade ejabberd on Debian NOW Chances might be that you are running a Debian based ejabberd server. Unfortunately push for all your Monal users on that server will break in less than 2 month. And chances are that some of your S2S connections are already failing today.

Some background

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

Erlang Solutions: Avoiding Platform Lock-In in Regulated Environments Platform lock-in is often discussed as a commercial issue. Organisations adopt infrastructure that works well initially and later realise that moving away from those services becomes expensive or operationally disruptive.

For platforms that run continuously under heavy demand, the consequences appear somewhere else first. They appear in architecture.

Infrastructure choices influence how systems scale, h ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 26.03

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

Contents:

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

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

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

Features

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

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

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

This re ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Messaging as Infrastructure, Not Just a Feature

The Backbone of Real-Time Digital Services

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

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

Modern platforms depend on ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What Breaks First in Real-Time Messaging? Real-time messaging sits at the centre of many modern digital products. From live chat and streaming reactions to betting platforms and collaborative tools, users expect communication to feel immediate and consistent.

When pressure builds, the system doesn’t typically collapse. It starts to drift. Messages arrive slightly late, ordering becomes inconsistent, and the platform feels less reliable. That drift is often the first ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Reliability is a Product Decision Reliability is often treated as something that can be improved once a system is live. When things break, the focus shifts to monitoring, incident response, and recovery, with the belief that resilience can be strengthened over time as scale reveals weaknesses.

In reality, most of it is set much earlier.

Long before a system faces sustained demand, its underlying design has already shaped how it will respond under pressure. Choices about servi ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Google Wants to Control Your Device Today we join with other organizations in signing the open letter to Google about their plans to require all Android app developers to register centrally with Google in order to distribute applications outside the Google Play Store.  You should go read the letter, it is quite well done. We want to talk a little bit additionally about why sideloading (aka installing apps on your own device, or “directly installing” as th ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.02

Contents:

• [ChangeLog](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#changelog)
• [Acknowledgments](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#ack)
• [Improvements in ejabberd Business Edition](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#ebe)
• [ejabberd 26.02 download & feedback](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#download)

ChangeLog

• Fixes issue with adding hats data in presences send by group c ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Links

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

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

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

Fixes

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

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

Certificate basics

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

JMP: Newsletter: Referral Event! 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 o ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP listed as Alternative Chat at DI.DAY Initiative The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ ( DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Besides other services, XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and XMPP Community members have created so-called switch recipes: [Digital Independence Day](https://imday.de ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Audio/Video Calls

Kaidan has supported voice ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch!

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

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

Snikket: A new look for Snikket Android We’re sharing a sneak peek at the visual design of the upcoming release of Snikket’s Android app - what we’ve changed, why, and how we got here. The new app will be released on 25th January 2026. To learn more about using Snikket for your communication, check our homepage.

The foundational principles of good user interface design never really change. People should be able to easily find common actions, text should be clear and legi ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.01

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

Release Highlights:

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

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

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration is now available. This release focuses on easier integration with your applications while continuing to deliver a scalable and reliable XMPP-based messaging server.

For such integration, you can use the Admin or User GraphQL API. Another example is the interacti ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: The Always-On Economy: Fintech as Critical Infrastructure ​​We are living in an economy that rarely sleeps. Payments clear late at night. Payroll runs in the background. Businesses expect every digital touchpoint to work when they need it.

Most people do not think about this shift. They assume the systems behind it will hold.

That assumption carries weight.

Fintechs, including small and mid-sized ones, now sit inside the basic infrastructure of how mon ... ⌘ Read more

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

Simple workflow to display Git commits in a MUC room

You can browse an ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: XMPP and metadata I had the pleasure of giving a talk on "XMPP and Metadata" during the last Chaos Communication Congress, in the Critical Decentralization Cluster area. It was my first public presentation in a very long while (also in english), so the talk went okay-ish at best. The end of the year was also hectic and I did not manage to prepare or rehearse as much as I would have liked to.

This blog post will be a longer, more complete version of the talk. You can nonetheless find the talk slides ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Reflecting on 2025 🎄 A Year of Growth, Collaboration & Community As the year draws to a close and the holiday season surrounds us with warmth and joy, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what an incredible journey 2025 has been for the Ignite Realtime community.

This year we’ve seen so much activity, innovation, and collective effort across our projects and forums. From major releases to exciting technical explorations, the contributio ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Cheogram App Options 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; ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: From Prototype to Production: Scaling Fintech for SMEs The moment a fintech product shifts from prototype to production is often when the cracks appear. Tiny shortcuts. Half-formed assumptions. Decisions made because “we’ll fix it later.” They all return, and they return quickly.

At first, everything looks fine. The demo works. Early users onboard without trouble. In turn, confidence builds. Then real volume arrives with real expectations, and the product t ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: 2025 Annual Meeting and Voting Results Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members. Additionally, elections for both [XMPP Council](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#council) and [Board of Directors](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#board) have been held.

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

ProcessOne: On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat Supporting the development of the Dutch NTA 7532 standard with lessons from international practice

Who We Are and Why This Matters

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes and advances open standards for real-time communication and collaboration. The XSF oversees the development of extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and fost ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP related Workshop at the Linux Day Torino 2025 Nicolas Vial will host the [Quale sistema alternativo per il vostro cellulare?](https://linuxdaytorino.org/2025/#schedule) talk with a workshop that will demonstrate how to install and use XMPP for free from F-DROID, but will also give away free QR codes for Monocles Chat from [Google Play](https://play. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.

High-spe ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

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

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

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

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

Impossible Tests Can Fail Runs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent additions include Jenkins, Drone, Harness and Woodpecker.

This brings our total number of CI systems in which you can run XMPP interop tests up to a whopping ELEVEN, plus anywhere else you can run containers!

Whether you’re building ... ⌘ Read more

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

Erlang Solutions: Healthcare Blog Round-Up Healthcare is moving quickly, and technology is playing a big part in that shift. The way information is collected, the way patients are cared for, and the way hospitals run are all changing.

Over the past year, our team has written about some of the most important trends shaping the future of healthcare. In this round-up, we bring together three of those articles: remote patient monitoring, big data, and generative AI.

Maybe you have been following along, or ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 25.08

Release Highlights:

This release includes the support for Hydra rooms in our Matrix gateway, which fixes high severity protocol vulnerabilities.

• [Improvements in Matrix gateway](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#matrix)
• [Fixed ACME in Erlang/OTP 28.0.2](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#acme)
• **[New mod_providers to serve XMPP Providers file](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/ ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: MongooseIM 6.4 - Simplified and Unified MongooseIM is a scalable and efficient instant messaging server. It implements the open, proven, extensible and constantly evolving XMPP protocol, which is an excellent choice when it comes to instant messaging. To communicate with other XMPP entities, the server uses three main types of interfaces, listed in the table below.

XMPP InterfacePurposeConnection typeReworked in v ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository. If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates smoothly.

New repository instructions

The ‘apt’ utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list file, [that method is changing](ht ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What is Remote Patient Monitoring? Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is changing how care is delivered. By tracking health data through connected devices outside traditional settings, it helps clinicians act sooner, reduce readmissions, and focus resources where they’re most needed. With rising NHS pressures and growing demand for digital care, RPM is becoming central to how both public and private providers support long-term conditions, recovery, and hospital-at-home mod ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Avoiding Common Startup Tech Mistakes When you’re moving quickly in a startup, taking shortcuts in your tech stack is tempting. A quick workaround here, a temporary fix there, with plans to tidy it all up later. But later can easily turn into never.

Those early decisions, however small they seem, have a habit of sticking around. Over time, they slow you down, create technical debt, and make it harder to scale.

This blog looks at how to avoid common startup tech mistakes b ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: The Importance of Digital Wallet Security Digital wallets have transformed how people pay and how businesses get paid. With more consumers choosing contactless and mobile transactions, offering these payment options is part of staying relevant.

That’s why your business needs to understand digital wallet security– how it works, where the risks lie, and what it takes to protect customer data and payment information.

In this guide, we’ll walk through how digital wall ... ⌘ Read more

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

Understanding Big Data in Healthcare

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ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.04

Just a few weeks after previous release, ejabberd 25.04 is published with an important security fix, several bug fixes and a new API command.

Release Highlights:

• [Fix handling multiple occupant-id](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#occupantid)
• [Kick_users API command](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#kickusers)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no change ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir for Business: 5 Ways It Transforms Your Processes Elixir is a lightweight, high-performance programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine. It’s known for its simple syntax and efficient use of digital resources. But how does this translate to business benefits?

Elixir is already powering companies like Discord and Pinterest. It helps businesses reduce costs, improve process efficiency, and speed up time to market.

Here are five reasons why Elixi ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of March 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 these project ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Elixir Tutorials Elixir is a functional language that combines modern syntax, broad metaprogramming capabilities and the power of BEAM – Erlang Virtual Machine. It has a vast community which is constantly growing due to its resilient concurrency model and programmer-friendly approach. Our tutorials are focused on showcasing language capabilities and helping any newcomer gain enough knowledge to start actively utilising Elixir in their projects.

The basics of Elixir language

In this sec ... ⌘ 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

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

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

Features

Not a lot this time around… Maybe next time?

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

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

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

Security

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixes

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

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

What’s New

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Big Data in Healthcare Healthcare generates large amounts of data every day. From patient records and medical scans to treatment plans and clinical trials. This information, known as big data, has the potential to improve patient care, improve efficiency, and drive innovation. But many organisations are still figuring out how to use it effectively.

With AI-driven analytics, wearable technology, and real-time monitoring, healthcare providers, insurers, and phar ... ⌘ Read more

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

What’s New

Gajim 2.0

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

More Changes

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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

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

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

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

Special thanks to nicoco ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Changelog

Features:

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

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

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

ProcessOne: Join our community: Free Memberships now available We’re excited to announce a new way to connect with our community at Process-One. As of today, we’ve enabled free memberships on our site, giving you even more ways to stay updated, interact, and engage with our content.

Why Sign Up?

By becoming a member, you get access to specific benefits, including:

• The ability to engage with our content in new ways, such as commenting on posts, participating in discussions like ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: 5 Reasons to Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir Businesses can’t afford sluggish, unresponsive systems, especially when dealing with high volumes of concurrent requests. Slow applications lead to lost revenue, frustrated users, and missed opportunities. This is where Elixir comes in.

Purpose-built for scalability and concurrency, Elixir runs on the battle-tested Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM), a technology trusted to powe ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

**W ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.12

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

Release Highlights:

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

JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon 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 a ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update 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 ... ⌘ Read more

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

Changelog

Bugfixes:

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

... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2024

Welcome to Advent of Code 2024!

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing and contrasting the BEAM and JVM virtual machines The success of any programming language in theErlang ecosystem can be apportioned into three tightly coupled components. They are the semantics of the Erlang programming language, (on top of which other languages are implemented), the OTP libraries and middleware (used to architect scalable and resilient concurrent systems) and **t ... ⌘ 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

ProcessOne: Docker: set up ejabberd and keep it updated automagically with Watchtower This blog post will guide you through the process of setting up an ejabberd Community Server using Docker and Docker Compose, and will also introduce Watchtower for automatic updates. This approach ensures that your configuration remains secure and up to date.

Furthermore, we will examine the potential risks associated with automatic updates and suggest Diun as an alternative tool for notification-based up ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon 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 ... ⌘ Read more

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

ProcessOne: 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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Why Open Source Technologies is a Smart Choice for Fintech Businesses Traditionally, the fintech industry relied on proprietary software, with usage and distribution restricted by paid licences. Fintech open-source technologies were distrusted due to security concerns over visible code in complex systems.

But fast-forward to today and financial institutions, including neobanks like Revolut and Monzo, have embraced open source solutions. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance If you’re an Elixir, Gleam, or Erlang developer, you’ve probably heard about the capabilities of the BEAM virtual machine, such as concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance. Fault tolerance was one of the biggest concerns of Tandem Computers. They created their Tandem Non-Stop architecture for high availability in their systems, which included ATMs and mainframes.

In this post, I’ll ... ⌘ Read more

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

Introduction to XMPP

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

JMP: SMS Censorship Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mobile-friendly Gateway to any SIP Provider We have for a long time supported the public Cheogram SIP instance, which allows easy interaction between the federated Jabber network and the federated SIP network. When it comes to connecting to the phone network via a SIP provider, however, very few of these providers choose to interact with the federated SIP network at all. It has always been possible to work around this with a self-hosted PBX, b ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more! 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; ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun) 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 i ... ⌘ 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 4.9.0 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

As compared to the previous non-patch release, this one is a bit smaller. This mostly is a maintenance release, and includes some preparations (deprecations, mainly) for a f ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch! 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; ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch! 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; ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Erlang Solutions announces latest business win with Razoyo to meet growing demand Erlang Solutions, a global technology and consultancy service provider, is pleased to announce its latest customer win with Razoyo, a leading e-commerce consultancy and software development agency.

Razoyo needed urgent support and additional team members to handle sudden increa ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: 5 Ways MongooseIM Provides Scalable and Future-Proof Messaging CTOs with instant messaging requirements are facing a challenge. Whether they are looking to improve an existing instant messaging system or implement one for the first time, they need a messaging solution that can scale to meet growing demands. It must also integrate with existing systems and remain future-proof against technological changes. It sounds like a lot to ask for, but traditi ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Luddism in Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot Series

Without use of constructs, you will unravel few mysteries.

Without knowledge of mysteries, your constructs will fail.

Find the strength to pursue both, for these are our prayers.

And to that end, welcome comfort, for without it, you cannot stay strong.

Becky Chambers has always been known for her political science fiction. Whether it’s criticisms of the overly-bureaucratic and often classist, but ultimately well-mea ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: The Diversity & Inclusion Programme: Our Pledge As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, the minds behind it must come from diverse backgrounds. Different viewpoints lead to better solutions, ensuring that the tech we create addresses the needs of a global audience.

At Erlang Solutions, we believe that a diverse workforce is a catalyst for creativity and progress. By sponsoring the Diversity & Inclusion Programme for [Code BEAM events](https://codebeameurope ... ⌘ Read more

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

Monday, pizza night

Tuesday

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

Erlang Solutions: Erlang Solutions wins business with BoardClic in a new era of collaboration Erlang Solutions, a world-leading provider of software development and consultancy services, is pleased to announce its latest customer win with BoardClic, the leading platform for digital board performance reviews.

Following a successful Elixir code and architecture review, Erlang Solutions has been appointed to deliver advanced Elixir development for BoardCli ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Calls from SIP; Potential New SIM Plan 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 ... ⌘ 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: 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

Erlang Solutions: The Strategic Advantage of Outsourcing with Erlang and Elixir We’re in the midst of some rapid technological changes (AI, IoT, machine learning etc) and businesses are facing new obstacles. There is now a demand to balance company time and budgets amid all day-to-day responsibilities. Because of this, outsourcing services have become a strategic move for many.

Let’s look into how Erlang and Elixir programming languages help with business outsourcing ... ⌘ 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 24.02 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

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

Erlang Solutions: Let Your Database Update You with EctoWatch Elixir allows application developers to create very parallel and very complex systems. Tools like Phoenix PubSub and LiveView thrive on this property of the language, making it very easy to develop functionality that requires continuous updates to users and clients.

But one thing that has often frustrated me is how to cleanly design an application to respond to database record updates.

A typical pattern that I’ve used is t ... ⌘ Read more

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

The look into the digital payments landscape

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

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

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

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

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

A si ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.9.0 Half a year after the last release, Gajim 1.9.0 is finally here. 🎉 This release brings long awaited support for message replies and message reactions. Message Moderation has been improved as well. Say hello to voice messages! Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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: 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Scaling up with MongooseIM 6.2.1 MongooseIM is a scalable, extensible and efficient real-time messaging server that allows organisations to build cost-effective communication solutions. Built on the XMPP server, MongooseIM is specifically designed for businesses facing the challenge of large deployments, where real-time communication and user experience are critical. The main feature of the recently released [MongooseI ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Balancing Innovation and Technical Debt Let’s explore the delicate balance between innovation and technical debt.

We will look into actionable strategies for managing debt effectively while optimising our infrastructure for resilience and agility.

Balancing acts and trade-offs

I was having this conversation with a close acquaintance not long ago. He’s setting up his new startup, filling a market gap he’s found, rushed before the gap closes in. It’s a common starting ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more! 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; ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Comparing Elixir vs Java After many years of active development using various languages, in the past months, I started learning Elixir. I got attracted to the language after I heard and read nice things about it and the BEAM VM, but – to support my decision about investing time to learn a new language – I tried to find a comparison between Elixir and various other languages I already knew.

What I found was pretty disappointing. In most of these comparisons, Elixir performed much worse ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: A Comprehsive Guide to Ruby v Elixir Deciding what programming language is best for your long-term business strategy is a difficult decision. If you’re tossing the coin between Ruby and Elixir, or considering making a shift from one to the other, you probably have a lot of questions about both languages.

So let’s compare these widely popular and dynamic languages: Elixir and Ruby. We’ll explore the advantages and disadvantages of each language, as well as their optimal use ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Naming your Daemons Within Unix systems, a daemon is a long-running background process which does not directly interact with users. Many similar processes exist within a BEAM application. At times it makes sense to name them, allowing sending messages without requiring the knowledge of their process identifier (aka PID). There are several benefits to naming processes, these include:

1. Organised processes: using a descriptive and meaningful name organises the processes in the system. It cla ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Technical debt and HR – what do they have in common? At first glance, it may sound absurd. Here we have technical debt, a purely engineering problem, as technical as it can get, and another area, HR, dealing with psychology and emotions, put into one sentence. Is it possible that they are closely related? Let’s take it apart and see.

Exploring technical debt

What is technical debt, anyway? A tongue-in-cheek definition is that it is code written by someo ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive| Meaning of Ownership Welcome to part three of our ‘Making Sense of Blockchain’ blog post series. Here we’ll explore how our attitudes to ownership are changing and how this relates to the value we attach to digital assets in the blockchain space. You can check out ‘Innovating with Erlang and Elixir’ here if you missed part two of the series.

**Digital Assets: ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive | Innovating with Erlang and Elixir We’re back with the latest in our Blockchain series, where we explore in-depth In our first post, we explored the Six Key Principles of Blockchain.

In our latest post, we’re making the case for using Erlang,Elixir and the BEAMVM to power your blockchain project.

Blockchain and business needs

Building a robust and s ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2024

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The 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter!

This is the 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter since it started in February 2019. We think it is worth to celebrate this achievement and say thanks to all the contributors as well as all our readers! Back at the Summit in Brussels, JC Brand, Nicolas Vérité (Nyco) and Severino Ferrer (S0ul) prop ... ⌘ 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

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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ Read more

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Erlang Solutions: 5 Erlang and Elixir use cases in FinTech Erlang, Elixir and other programming languages running on the BEAM virtual machine are powering some of the world’s biggest and most productive financial services systems.

In this post, we’ll be examining five (of many) use cases, showcasing the power and versatility of these languages and how they’re actively revolutionising the financial services sector.

Vocalink and Erlang

For: Ultra-reliable transaction delivery

[Vo ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Server

Server Setup

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Guess Less with Erlang Doctor BEAM languages, such as Erlang and Elixir, offer a powerful tracing mechanism, and Erlang Doctor is built on top of it. It stores function calls and messages in an ETS table, which lowers the impact on the traced system, and enables querying and analysis of the collected traces. Being simple, always available and easy to use, it encourages you to pragmatically investigate system logic rather than guess about the reason for its behaviour.

This blog pos ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Guess Less with Erlang Doctor BEAM languages, such as Erlang and Elixir, offer a powerful tracing mechanism, and Erlang Doctor is built on top of it. It stores function calls and messages in an ETS table, which lowers the impact on the traced system, and enables querying and analysis of the collected traces. Being simple, always available and easy to use, it encourages you to pragmatically investigate system logic rather than guess about the reason for its behaviour.

This blog pos ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun) 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 i ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Harnessing your tech stack for a competitive Fintech advantage Modern financial services must be based on a solid technical foundation to deliver the user experiences and business reliability needed for commercial success.

The role of the underlying technology is critical in enabling this success in fintech in building customer trust- guaranteeing operational resilience and optimal availability of fintech systems and creating exceptional user experience in the develo ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive | 6 Principles Blockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether banking,  government, fashion or logistics. The benefits of using blockchain are substantial. Businesses can lower transaction costs, free up capital, speed up processes, and enhance security and trust.

We’re mapping out the six key principles for blockchain integration success, so businesses can navigate the challenges and opportunities this disruptive tec ... ⌘ 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ 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 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ 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 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ 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.

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mobile-friendly Gateway to any SIP Provider We have for a long time supported the public Cheogram SIP instance, which allows easy interaction between the federated Jabber network and the federated SIP network. When it comes to connecting to the phone network via a SIP provider, however, very few of these providers choose to interact with the federated SIP network at all. It has always been possible to work around this with a self-hosted PBX, b ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mobile-friendly Gateway to any SIP Provider We have for a long time supported the public Cheogram SIP instance, which allows easy interaction between the federated Jabber network and the federated SIP network. When it comes to connecting to the phone network via a SIP provider, however, very few of these providers choose to interact with the federated SIP network at all. It has always been possible to work around this with a self-hosted PBX, b ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What is Elixir?

What is Elixir: Exploring its Functional Programming Essence

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

The birth of Elixir

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

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

Erlang Solutions: A Match Made in Heaven – Transactional Systems and Erlang/Elixir In the context of transactional systems, having a single process to manage each user interaction means any issues with one process remains contained and does not affect the rest, therefore, the system keeps running smoothly. This approach prevents the unfortunate situation where a solitary user’s problem could otherwise impact the entire platform, thereby preserving user trust and system integrity amid surges ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.8.5

Highlights

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

Details

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

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

Erlang Solutions: What Is the Fastest Programming Language? Making the Case for Elixir In the realm of technology, speed isn’t merely a single factor; it’s a constant way of life. Developers frequently find themselves needing to rethink solutions overnight, underscoring the importance of being able to swiftly modify code. This agility has become indispensable in modern development, especially when evaluating the fastest programming language.

Because of this, finding the right language is a recurring ... ⌘ 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

Georg Lukas: Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms The goal of this post is to make an easily accessible (anonymous) webchat for any chatrooms hosted on a prosody XMPP server, using the web client converse.js.

Motivation and prerequisites

There are two use cases:

1. Have an easily accessible default support room for users having trouble with the server or their accounts.

2. Have a working "Join using browser" button on [search.jabber.network ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: JMP Data Plan 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 ... ⌘ 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

JMP: SMS Censorship Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Censorship Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.2: Easy to set up, use and manage MongooseIM, which is our scalable, flexible and cost-efficient instant messaging server, is now easier to use than ever before. The latest release 6.2 introduces a completely new CETS in-memory storage backend, letting you easily deploy it with modern cloud infrastructure solutions such as Kubernetes. The XMPP extensions are also updated, which means that we support new features of the XMPP protocol.

The new version of MongooseIM is very easy to tr ... ⌘ 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

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: Reimplementing Technical Debt with State Machines In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, mastering the art of managing complexity is a skill every developer and manager alike aspires to attain. One powerful tool that often remains in the shadows, yet holds the key to simplifying intricate systems, is the humble state machine. Let’s get started.

Models

State machines can be seen as models that represent system behaviour. Much like a flowchart on steroids, these ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

Erlang Solutions: The Power of Green Coding: Erlang and Elixir Leading the Charge In the era of the green revolution, industries across the board are gravitating towards sustainable solutions. The software realm is no exception, striving for efficient code that optimises resource utilisation. This not only conserves energy but also minimises the environmental impact of server farms and data centres. Leading the charge in this green coding initiative are Erlang and Elixir.

These two languages, both runn ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: 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

Erlang Solutions: The Power of Green Coding: Erlang and Elixir Leading the Charge In the era of the green revolution, industries across the board are gravitating towards sustainable solutions. The software realm is no exception, striving for efficient code that optimizes resource utilisation. This not only conserves energy but also minimises the environmental impact of server farms and data centers. Leading the charge in this green coding initiative are Erlang and Elixir.

These two languages, both runn ... ⌘ Read more

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

Snikket: On the jabber.ru MITM attack This post is about a recent security incident on a public XMPP service, which provides jabber.ru and xmpp.ru. We have received a few questions from Snikket users about whether they should be concerned about the security of their own servers (Snikket also uses XMPP).

The good news is that Snikket was not affected by this incident - this was a targeted attack against the jabber.ru/xmpp.ru service specifically. Later in the post we’ll share more information about what we’ve done, and ... ⌘ 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

Sam Whited: Co-Op Ideas This is a list of co-ops I’d like to start one day and where (if applicable).

Physical Businesses

DIY Bike Kitchen (Cobb County, GA)There is a DIY bike shop, Sopo Bike Co-op in Atlanta, but Cobb has historically been very transit-averse and it’s hard to get into Atlanta by bike if you need to get it worked on. Having something local to Cobb could encourage biking and start to change attitudes to biking on the local city councils and among the county commissioners.Traditional bik ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: tryMongooseIM: MongooseIM is now easier than ever! Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to check the capabilities of MongooseIM, but you were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of configuration of the service itself, or how to deploy it easily?

The world before tryMongooseIM

Imagine you are working on a project and one of the tasks is to evaluate XMPP servers.

You do some res ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Type-checking Erlang and Elixir The BEAM community couldn’t be more varied when it comes to opinions about static type systems. For some they’re the most desired feature of other functional languages which we miss. Others shun them and choose our ecosystem exactly because, and not despite the fact that it doesn’t force the perceived overhead of types. Some others still worry whether static types could be successfully applied on the Erlang virtual machine at all.

Over the years, ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Introducing Wardley Mapping to Your Business Strategy Since it’s creation in 2005, Wardley Mapping has been embraced by UK government institutions and companies worldwide. This is thanks to its unique ability to factor both value and change into the strategising process. It’s a powerful, fascinating tool that far more organisations across the world should be implementing today to make key choices for their future growth.

Ahead of my wider Wardley Mapping st ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Smart Sensors with Erlang and AtomVM: Smart cities, smart houses and manufacturing monitoring For our first article on IoT developments at Erlang Solutions, our goal is to delve into the use of Erlang on microcontrollers, highlighting and exposing its capabilities to run efficiently on smaller devices. For our inaugural article, we have chosen to address a pressing issue faced by numerous sectors- including healthcare, r ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Diversity & Inclusion at CodeBEAM Europe

Our Pledge to Diversity

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it’s crucial that the minds behind it come from diverse backgrounds. Different viewpoints lead to more comprehensive solutions, ensuring that the tech we create addresses the needs of a global audience.

At Erlang Solutions, we believe that a diverse workforce is a catalyst for creativity and progress. By sponsoring the Diversity & Inclusion Pr ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Pay down technical debt to modernise your technology estate Imagine this scenario. Your CEO tells you the organisation needs a complete tech overhaul, then gives you a blank cheque and free rein. He tells you to sweep away the old and usher in the new. “No shortcuts, no compromise!” he cries. “Start from scratch and make it perfect!”

And then you wake up. As we all know, this scenario is pure fantasy. Instead, IT leaders are faced with a constant st ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

A summary of changes in this release:

Minor changes

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

Erlang Solutions: What businesses should consider when adopting AI and machine learning AI is everywhere. The chatter about chatbots has crossed from the technology press to the front pages of national newspapers. Worried workers in a wide range of industries are asking if AI will take their jobs.

Away from the headlines, organisations of all sizes are getting on with the task of working out what AI can do for them. It will almost certainly do something. One survey pu ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: 5 ways Elixir programming can improve business performance Elixir is a simple, lightweight programming language that is built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. It offers straightforward syntax, impressive performance and a raft of powerful features. It uses your digital resources in the most efficient way.

This is all very well, but what does that mean in practice? Aside from impressing your web development team, what can Elixir do for your business?

In this ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain in Sustainable Programming The benefits of blockchain implementation across multiple sectors are well-documented, but how can this decentralised solution be used to achieve more sustainable programming?

As the effects of the ongoing climate crisis continue to impact weather patterns and living conditions across the planet, we must continue to make every aspect of our lives, from transport and energy usage to all of our technology, greener and more sustain ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Ship RabbitMQ logs to Elasticsearch RabbitMQ is a popular message broker that facilitates the exchange of data between applications. However, as with any system, it’s important to have visibility into the logs generated by RabbitMQ to identify issues and ensure smooth operation. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process of shipping RabbitMQ logs to Elasticsearch, a distributed search and analytics engine. By centralising and analysing RabbitMQ logs with Elasticsea ... ⌘ 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: 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

Erlang Solutions: Optimización para lograr concurrencia: comparación y contraste de las máquinas virtuales BEAM y JVM En esta nota exploraremos los aspectos internos de la máquina virtual BEAM o VM por sus siglas en inglés (Virtual Machine). Y haremos una comparación con la máquina virtual de Java, la JVM.

El éxito de cualquier lenguaje de programación en el ecosistema Erlang puede ser repartido a tres componentes estrechamente ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: How to Manage Your RabbitMQ Logs: Tips and Best Practices RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker software that allows you to build distributed systems and implement message-based architectures. It’s a reliable and scalable messaging system that enables efficient communication between different parts of your application. However, managing RabbitMQ logs can be a challenging task, especially when it’s deployed on a large cluster. In this article, we’ll ta ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: The business value behind green coding Most large businesses – and many smaller ones – now have a sustainability strategy. Measuring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact has been transformed from a fringe activity into a fundamental differentiator.

That’s partly because organisations want to do the right thing – climate change affects everyone, after all – and also because sustainability makes sound business sense.

B2C businesses are dealing with increasingl ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

This update includes an ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: IoT Complexity Made Simple with the Versatility of Erlang and Elixir

Part A: Current Context and Challenges

The world is on the brink of a transformative industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0. This fourth industrial revolution is revolutionising our lives, work, and interactions on an unprecedented scale. The convergence of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled highly sophisticated and interconnected systems. The ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( ... ⌘ Read more

hrxi: Windows support for Dino Hello, I’m back!

It’s been four years since I participated in my first Google Summer of\ Code. I’m hrxi, a mathematics student from Germany. I got accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code program with the XMPP software\ foundation as the mentoring organisation. I chose the extended\ timeline, so I am going to work on [ ... ⌘ 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: How ChatGPT improved my Elixir code. Some hacks are included. I have been working as an Elixir developer for quite some time and recently came across the ChatGPT model. I want to share some of my experience interacting with it.

During my leisure hours, I am developing an open-source Elixir initiative, Crawly, that facilitates the extraction of structured data from the internet.

Here I want to demonstrate how ... ⌘ 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Switch Device

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10 This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Optimización para lograr concurrencia: comparación y contraste de las máquinas virtuales BEAM y JVM En esta nota exploraremos los aspectos internos de la máquina virtual BEAM o VM por sus siglas en inglés (Virtual Machine). Y haremos una comparación con la máquina virtual de Java, la JVM.

El éxito de cualquier lenguaje de programación en el ecosistema Erlang puede ser repartido a tres componentes estrechamente ac ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: You’ve been curious about LiveView, but you haven’t gotten into it As a backend developer, I’ve spent most of my programming career away from frontend development. Whether it’s React/Elm for the web or Swift/Kotlin for mobile, these are fields of knowledge that fall outside of what I usually work with.

Nonetheless, I always wanted to have a tool at my disposal for building rich frontends. While the web seemed like the platform with the lowest bar ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

Kris Iyer for working with us on a fix!

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

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

Platform Support

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

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

M-Guard Appliance on VirtualBox now uses EFI.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Building a Remote Control Car from Scratch Using Elixir

Introduction

Elixir is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive full stack languages available, offering battle-tested reliability and fault-tolerance on the backend. This is thanks to its origins in Erlang, the BEAM VM and OTP, powerful and agile frontend development thanks to LiveView and the ability to write to hardware with Nerves (not to mention the exciting developments happening in the mac ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022 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; Sha ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022 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; Sha ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0 MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an ... ⌘ 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

Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.

With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.

A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has ... ⌘ 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

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

What’s New

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

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

Day 1

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

Erlang Solutions: RabbitMQ – An Amazing Message Broker In cloud architectures (or microservices), applications are broken down into smaller independent blocks that can be quickly developed, deployed, and maintained. Imagine you have a cloud architecture that has many services and many requests per second, you have to make sure that no requests are lost and your web service is always ready to receive new requests instead of locked by processing the previous request and must ensure that the servi ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Writing a Chat Client from Scratch There are a lot of things that go into building a chat system, such as client, server, and protocol.  Even for only making a client there are lots of areas of focus, such as user experience, features, and performance.  To keep this post a manageable size, we will just be building a client and will use an existing server and protocol (accessing Jabber network services using the XMPP protocol).  We’ll make a practical GUI so we can test things, but not spend too much time on p ... ⌘ 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

Prosodical Thoughts: Bringing FASTer authentication to Prosody and XMPP As our work continues on modernizing XMPP authentication, we have some more new milestones to share with you. Until now our work has mostly been focused on internal Prosody improvements, such as the new roles\ and permissions framework. Now we are starting to extend our work to the actual client-to-server protocol in XMPP.

Prosody and [Snikket](https://snik ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Monitoring Service plugin 2.4.0 release Earlier today, we have released version 2.4.0 of the Openfire Monitoring Service plugin. This plugin adds both statistics, as well as message archiving functionality to Openfire.

In this release, compatibility with future versions of Openfire is added. A bug that affects MSSQL users has been fixed, and the dreaded “Unable to save XML properties” error message has been resolved. A few other minor tweaks h ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Recap

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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

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

JMP: Newsletter: New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance 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

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

What’s New

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10 This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Learning functional and concurrent programming concepts with Elixir If you are early in the process of learning Elixir or considering learning it in the future, you may have wondered a few things.  What is the experience like? How easy is it to pick up functional and concurrent programming concepts when coming from a background in languages which lack those features? Which aspects of the ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Mutation Testing in Prosody This is a post about a new automated testing technique we have recently adopted to help us during our daily development work on Prosody. It’s probably most interesting to developers, but anyone technically-inclined should be able to follow along!

If you’re unfamiliar with our project, it’s an open-source real-time messaging server, built around the XMPP protocol. It’s used by many organizations and self-hosting hobbyists, and also powers applications such as [Snikke ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-in Jabber ID Discoverability 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 number ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs.  The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them.  Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs.  The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them.  Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

chatty_server

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

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Async, Metadata with Thumbnails and some UI

Async

Asynchronous programming is a neat tool, until you work with a foreign project in a foreign language using it. As a messenger, Dino uses lots of asynchronous code, not always though. Usually my progress wasn’t interfered by such instances, but sometimes I had to work around it.

Async in Vala

No surprises here. Functions are annotated with async, and yield expressions that are asyn ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Encrypted Audio and Video Calls

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

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

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

[![](https://nlnet. ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: New Employee, Command UI, JMP SIM Card, Multi-account Billing 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 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: How Can Technology Answer the Questions Still Unanswered in FinTech? Leaders in the fintech industry joined us to discuss how technology can answer the remaining questions in fintech. They explored key technologies shaping the sector that could also have an impact on society as a whole. Join our panel moderated by Andrew Vorster (Innovation Catalyst) featuring Jacky Uys (Mambu ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Multilingual Transcriptions and Better Voicemail Greetings 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 numb ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

[![](https://nlnet.nl ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Updates to the MIM Inbox in version 5.1

User interfaces in open protocols

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

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

Mongoos ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Fixes and improvements

Several issues have been fixed in this release.

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

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

Dino: Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps Hey, this is my first development update! As some of you might already know from my last blog post, my Google Summer of Code project is implementing Stateless File Sharing for Dino. This is my first XMPP project and as such, I had to learn very basic things about it. In my blog posts I’ll try to document the things I learned, with the idea that it might help someone else in the future. I won’t refrain from explaining terms you might take for gran ... ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Command UI and Better Transcriptions Coming Soon 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 a ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Fintech From Your Choice of Tech Stack In our recent white paper ‘Technology Trends in Financial Services 2022’, we explained the importance of software engineering for gaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the start of the year, a lot has occurred on a macro level strengthening our belief that modern financial services must be based on a solid technical foundation to deliver the user experiences and business rel ... ⌘ Read more

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

You will find a lot ... ⌘ Read more

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 reba ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Modernizing XMPP authentication and authorization We’re excited to announce that we have received funding, from the EU’s NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation, to work on some important enhancements to Prosody and XMPP. Our work will be focusing on XMPP authentication and authorization, and bringing it up to date with current and emerging best practices.

What kind of changes are we talking about? Well, there are a few aspects we are planning to work on. Let’s start with “authent ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story Reproducibility is an important tool to empower users. Why would a user care about that? Let me elaborate.

For a piece of software to be reproducible means that everyone with access to the software’s source code is able to build the binary form of it (e.g. the executable that gets distributed). What’s the matter? Isn’t that true for any project with accessible source code? Not at all. Reproducibility means that the r ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.4 Gajim 1.4.4 comes with many improvements: emoji auto-complete, automatic theme switching when your desktop switches from light to dark in the evening, a completely reworked Gajim remote interface, and many bug fixes.

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Togethr, SMS-only Ports, Snikket Hosting 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 22.05 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 reba ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

What’s New

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

Afte ... ⌘ Read more

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

What’s New

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

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

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

JMP: Togethr: Soprani.ca Social Last week we launched a sister product from the same team that brings you JMP: Togethr.  Why are we launching a second product?  Why now?  What does this have to do with the mission of JMP in particular, or the Sopranica project in general?

Togethr is a managed hosting platform for small Fediverse instances.  It is powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, PeerTube, and so many others.  While there are sev ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!

https://nlnet.nl/assure/

The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an e ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Newsletter: New Staff, New Commands 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; ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.

This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage ... ⌘ Read more

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

Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19

Introduction:

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

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

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

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

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

Interoperability

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12 This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Cheogram Android Release, Matrix Alpha 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

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: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022 Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.

While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | March 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The shortlog for the 4.4.5 release is

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

Erlang Solutions: Is Elixir the Right Choice for Hypergrowth Startups We always love to see and share stories that so perfectly capture the benefits of using Elixir. Today, we’ll be taking a look at an example that captures why Elixir is the perfect technology for startups that are anticipating fast growth, including how choosing Elixir allows your development team to focus on improving the product.

![](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/walnut-logo.pn ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Insights into Monal Development

TLDR:

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

We are searching for a SwiftUI developer.

We need a new simplified website.

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

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

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

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

Changes in Gajim

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

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

Simple Example

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

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 4/4 | Innovating with Erlang and Elixir

Why do companies use Erlang & Elixir for their blockchain solutions?

Building a robust and scalable blockchain presents a number of challenges that a research and development team typically needs to address. Often the ambitious goals to drive decentralised consensus and governance require unconventional approaches to achieve extra performance and reliability.

Improved Transa ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com ... ⌘ 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