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: 🚀 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here’s an Elixir vs Haskell comparison.

Elixir vs Haskell: a comparison

Core philosophy and design goals

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

Snikket: Snikket Server - September 2024 release We hope you’ve been having a good summer (at least if you’re up here in the northern hemisphere). Today we’re back with a new release of the self-hosted Snikket server software.

This software is what’s at the core of the Snikket project - a self-hostable “personal messaging server in a box”. If you wish for something like Messenger, WhatsApp or Signal, but not using their servers, Snikket is for you. Once deployed, you can create invitation links for family, f ... ⌘ 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

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

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: 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

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

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

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