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: 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

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: Fluux Messenger 0.13.0 - Native TCP Connection & Complete EU Language Coverage

We&aposre excited to announce Fluux Messenger 0.13.0, featuring native TCP connections, complete European language coverage, and significant performance improvements.

Also, we recently passed the first 100 stars on GitHub. Thank you for your support and for believ ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Links

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

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody at FOSDEM 2026 We’re looking forward to meeting new and familiar faces at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend!

Every February, thousands of developers (and users) of open-source and free (as in freedom) software gather in Brussels to discuss and celebrate our communities, and collaborate and share ideas and projects.

If you are attending, come and find us in the AW building, Level 1. We’ll be sharing the stand with other projects in the XMPP ecosystem ... ⌘ 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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: IgniteRealtime Heads to Brussels: XSF Summit & FOSDEM 2026 I am excited to share that members of the IgniteRealtime community will be heading to Brussels, Belgium, from January 29th to February 1st to take part in two important events for the open-source and real-time communications ecosystem: the annual XSF Summit and FOSDEM.

XSF Summit: Connecting the XMPP community

The XSF Summit, organized by th ... ⌘ Read more

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

Sam Whited: 2026-01-13 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem On the 13th of January I was invited back to play for the Trolley Barn Contra Dance’s first dance of 2026. For the first time since I’ve been DJing for the Tuesday night dances at the Trolley Barn I was working with a caller (or “callers”, plural, in this case) other than my friend Valerie. I’ve heard Rob and Amanda call plenty of times and even spent some time with them at caller workshops, so we’re not exactly strangers, but I still ... ⌘ Read more

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

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.14.0: Advanced Media Sharing and Registration Provider Filtering Here comes Kaidan 0.14.0! It includes some great new features and 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.

Advanced Media Sharing

It is now possible to select media to be shared while being offline. Once you are ... ⌘ 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

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

Other articles in this series:

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

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Camjar Djoweini As we close out our “Meet the Team” series for 2025, we’re delighted to introduce Camjar Djoweini, Business Development Manager, Nordics, at Erlang Solutions. Camjar shares what drew him into his new role, the excitement of working within Trifork’s global ecosystem, and the ambitions driving him into 2026. He also reflects on his favourite winter traditions and the personal routines that help him stay energised and focused throughout the year.

![Camj ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON

We hear this too often: “XMPP uses XML. It should use JSON—it’s more modern.”

The logic seems straightforward: JSON came later, so it must be better. But better for what, exactly?

JSON became successful because it’s the standard serialization format for JavaScript. That made it convenient for browser-based applications.

Does that m ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at FOSDEM 2026 The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026!

Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you!

Realtime Lounge

The XMPP community invites you to the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions.

This year you can find the lounge at the regular place on the [K building’s 2nd floor]( ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: First release candidate of Smack 4.5 published The Smack developers are happy to announce the availability the first release candidate (RC) of Smack 4.5.0.

The upcoming Smack 4.5 release contains many bug fixes and improvements. Please consider testing this release candidate in your integration stages and report back any issues you may found. The more people are actively testing release candidates, the less issues will remain in the actual release.

Smac ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28 The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!

The XMPP Summit

The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). The event is no ... ⌘ 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

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

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.12 This version is out mostly to provide a stable version with compatibility with the newly released Python 3.14, there are nonetheless a few new things on top.

Thanks to all contributors for this release!

Fixes

• Bug in MUC self-ping ( XEP-0410) that would create a traceback in some uses
• Bug in SIMS ( XEP-0447) where all media would be marked as inline
• Python 3.14 breakage

Features

• Prono ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 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 proj ... ⌘ 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

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

XMPP Providers: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Providers Survey

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

Erlang Solutions: Supporting the BEAM Community with Free CI/CD Security Audits At Erlang Solutions, our support for the BEAM community is long-standing and built into everything we do. From contributing to open-source tools and sponsoring events to improving security and shaping ecosystem standards, we’re proud to play an active role in helping the BEAM ecosystem grow and thrive.

One way we’re putting that support into action is by offering free CI/CD-based security ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

ProcessOne: XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again After twenty-five years, XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is still here. Mature, proven, modular, and standardized, it may well be the most solid foundation available today to build the future of messaging.

And now, XMPP is more relevant than ever: its resurgence is driven by European digital sovereignty efforts, renewed focus on interoperabil ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 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 projects! Int ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2025

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

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

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

From the docs for Enum.reduce/3

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

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

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

Understanding Big Data in Healthcare

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

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

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

Dino: Dino 0.5 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 0.5 release improves the user experience around file transfers and includes two completely reworked dialogs.

Improved file sharing

The way file transfers are currently done in the XMPP ecosystem is limited in functionality a ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

XMPP Interop Testing: Enabling Tests Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain tests, but in essence, the bulk of tests would execute.

This behavior is generally preferable when testing an XMPP server implementation. A benefit of exclusion-based ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.1: 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

ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation's open letter to Meta for true interop

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: My Journey from Ruby to Elixir: Lessons from a Developer

Why I Looked Beyond Ruby

For years, Ruby was my go-to language for building everything from small prototypes to full-fledged production apps. I fell in love with its elegance and expressiveness and how Ruby on Rails could turn an idea into a working web app in record time. The community—with its focus on kindness and collaboration—only deepened my appreciation. In short, Ruby felt like home. ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Security

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

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Lorena Mireles Lorena Mireles is an influential force in the BEAM community, known for her work as an Elixir developer and as a dedicated member of the Code BEAM America programme committee. She’s been instrumental in fostering connections and shaping discussions that help drive the future of Elixir.

In this interview, Lorena opens up about her journey with Elixir, her role on the committee, and what makes the BEAM community so unique.

![Meet the team: Lorena Mirele ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

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

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help thes ... ⌘ Read more

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

Here’s an Elixir vs Haskell comparison.

Elixir vs Haskell: a comparison

Core philosophy and design goals

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

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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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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2024

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

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help thes ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2024

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

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help thes ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Florian, Dan and Dave Elected in the XSF! In an annual vote, not one, not two, but three Ignite Realtime community members have been selected into leadership positions of the XMPP Standards Foundation!

The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose [primary mission is to define open protocols](https://xmpp.org ... ⌘ 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: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols — Part 2, Matrix

In the first part of this blog post, I explained how the Matrix protocol works, contrasted its design philosophy with XMPP, and discussed why these differences lead to ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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: ejabberd 24.10

We’re excited to announce ejabberd 24.10, a major release packed with substantial improvements and support for important extensions specified by the XMPP Standard Foundation (XSF). This release represents three months of focused development, bringing around 100 commits to the core repository alongside key updates in dependencies. The improvements span enhanced security, streamlined connectivity, and new ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: Elixir Blog Round-Up Welcome to our first-ever Elixir blog round-up!

This is your guide to some of our most insightful articles on the Elixir programming language. Our experts have written several posts to further your knowledge, regardless of where you’re at in your Elixir journey.

So whether you’re a business leader looking to discover Elixir’s benefits, a seasoned developer looking for the latest Elixir updates, or just new to the language, we’ll have an article to keep you covered.

... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XSF signs Open Letter to the European Commission As currently many other organisations doing, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has decided to also sign the Open Letter to the European Commission.

The European Union must keep funding free software

Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by [OW2](https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Un ... ⌘ 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

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

What’s New

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.3 Release The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 4.8.3. This release contains an important fix for thread lock situation described with OF-2845. If you have noticed clients getting logged out or unable to connect with Openfire 4.8.1 or 4.8.2, please do try this release and report in the community forums if your issue is persisting.

T ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services I will comment on an interesting article from Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund breaking down the cost of running a large-scale messaging platform.

It estimates that the cost to operate Signal messaging will reach 50 million dollars per year in 2025.

![🔗](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f517.png ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire restAPI plugin version 1.11.0 release Earlier today, version 1.11.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire was released!

The REST API Plugin provides the ability to manage Openfire (the real-time communications server created by the Ignite Realtime community) by sending an REST/HTTP request to the server. This plugin’s functionality is useful for applications that need to administer Openfire outs ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

This new pl ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs The ejabberd Docs website did just get a major rework: new content management system, reorganized navigation, improved markdown, and several improvements!

Brief documentation timeline

ejabberd started in November 2002 (see a timeline in the ejabberd turns 20 blog post). And the first documentation was published in January 2003, using LaTeX, see [Ejabberd Installation and Op ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Thankfully, the vulne ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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: 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: Openfire inVerse plugin version 10.1.7.1 released! We have made available a new version of the inVerse plugin for Openfire! This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 10.1.7.

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

Erlang Solutions: gen_statem Unveiled

gen_statem and protocols

This blog post is a deep dive into some of the concepts discussed in my recent conference talk at FOSDEM. The presentation explored some basic theoretical concepts of Finite State Machines, and some special powers of Erlang’s gen_statem in the context of protocols and event-driven development, and building upon this insi ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: gen_statem Unveiled

gen_statem and protocols

This blog post is a deep dive into some of the concepts discussed in my recent conference talk at FOSDEM. The presentation explored some basic theoretical concepts of Finite State Machines, and some special powers of Erlang’s gen_statem in the context of protocols and event-driven development, and building upon this insi ... ⌘ Read more

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 turns 20 ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum ... ⌘ 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 23.10 A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.

• Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

• Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id

• Many new options and features

  

A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:

Added support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

[XEP-0402 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Why Elixir is the Programming Language You Should Learn in 2024 In this article, we’ll explain why learning Elixir is an ideal way to advance your growth as a developer in 2024. What factors should you consider when deciding to learn a new programming language?

Well, it typically depends on your project or career goals. Ideally, you’d want a language that:

• Is enjoyable and straightforward to use
• Can meet the needs of modern users
• Can offer ... ⌘ 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM On February 1st and 2nd, the 26th XMPP Summit will take place in Brussels. Immediately afterwards, the FOSDEM event will take place on the 3rd and 4th of February.

I’ll be attending both (although I won’t be present for the second day of FOSDEM). If you happen to be in Brussels, let me know! Maybe we can meet up!

1 post - 1 participant

[Read full topic](https://discourse.igniterealt ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Non-SASL Authentication Openfire plugin 1.1.0 released! We’ve just released version 1.1.0 of the Non-SASL Authentication plugin for Openfire! This release fixes a compatibility issue with Openfire 4.8.0.

The Non-SASL Authentication plugin provides an implementation for authentication with Jabber servers and services using the jabber:iq:auth namespace, as specified in XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication. ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Thoughts on a New Software Commons I use various legal and economic terms of art in this post, but I am neither a lawyer or an economist. They should be read in the way a layperson might read them, not as a serious legal or economic analysis or advice.

The State of the Art

I’ve long held that software being open source1 is necessary, but not sufficient. Using copyright and contract law to enshrine the freedom to use your software instead ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Creating the XMPP Network Graph At the risk of sounding like an unhinged fanboy: XMPP is pretty awesome!

I’ve been involved in one way or another with XMPP, the network protocol that is an open standard for messaging and presence, for the last two decades. Much of that revolves around development of Openfire, our XMPP-based real-time communications server.

TL;DR:

• I built a thing:[https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.i ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.4.0 released The HTTP File Upload plugin is a plugin for Openfire that allow users to easily share files (such as pictures) in a chat

A new release is now available for this plugin: version 1.4.0.

This release introduces a couple of interesting security improvements:

• an additional guard has been added that should prevent scripts embedded in data to be executed without the recipient’s approval
• It is now possible to configure a viru ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Presence Service plugin v1.7.2 release The Presence Service plugin is a plugin for Openfire. It provides a service that provides simple presence information over HTTP. It can be used to display an online status icon for a user or component on a web page or to poll for presence information from a web service.

A new release is now available for this plugin: version 1.7.2.

In this release, an incompatibility with the recently released Openfire 4.8.0 was fixed. Als ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 Released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.8.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

This is the first major release of Openfire in about two years, and that shows: 199 tickets have been closed against this release! As a fun fact: the oldest of these issues was raised in 2015, the youngest: three days ago. Some of the highlights in this relea ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Enhancing the Efficiency of Erlang and Elixir System Management: WombatOAM Now Accessible on AWS Marketplace WombatOAM, a well-established tool for operations and maintenance in both proprietary and open-source Erlang and Elixir systems, is here to simplify your monitoring and management tasks, allowing you to concentrate on your business logic while benefiting from decades of operational expertise in Erlang-based systems. It’s now access ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 26 The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 26th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium this year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2024. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote!

Time & Address

The venue will take place at the Thon Hotel EU including coffee break (from 08:30 o’clock) and lunch (12:00 to 14:00 o’clock) paid b ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Happy Birthday, Jabber! Today marks the 25th birthday of Jeremie Miller’s announcement of “a new project to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging” on Slashdot.

How have things progressed since then!

By far most of the projects that we maintain here in the IgniteRealtime.org community make direct use of the XMPP protocol, which is the name used for t ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at FOSDEM 2024 We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2024. Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!

Realtime Lounge

As usual, we will host the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, [beside the elevator](https://fosdem.o ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd

Time flies, and it’s hard to believe that ejabberd, our beloved open-source project, celebrated its 21st anniversary last November 16th! It’s a milestone that we’ve proudly highlighted over the years – remember the 4th, [10th](https://www.process-one.net/blog/close ... ⌘ Read more

Remko Tronçon: Uxn in WebAssembly While watching a Strange Loop talk on concatenative\ programming, I learned about Uxn, a small virtual machine that runs games, editors, drawing programs, … Uxn has been ported to various platforms, including classic consoles such as the Nintendo DS ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Dan is voted in the XSF's Council! Our very own @danc was voted into the XMPP Standards Foundation Council not to long ago!

The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messagin ... ⌘ Read more

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2023 and will be the last publication for 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interes ... ⌘ Read more

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: Reporting Account Affiliations I’m excited to announce a new Openfire plugin: the Reporting Account Affiliations Plugin!

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

To quote the specification:

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: External Service Discovery plugin 1.0.2 released! Version 1.0.2 of the External Service Discovery plugin has been released!

This Openfire plugin allows your users to use external STUN and TURN services, optionally making use of temporary credentials for those services. It often is a prerequisite for being able to set up audio or video calls with Openfire.

This version brings better compatibility with TURN services other than those implemented by CoTur ... ⌘ Read more

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

Erlang Solutions: The Future Trends of Sustainability in Programming Software

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.10 A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.

• Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

• Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id

• Many new options and features

  

A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:

Added support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks

[XEP-0402 ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Erlang Security Audit

Unlock the Power of Secure Erlang Code

Cybersecurity is a non-negotiable aspect of business. The need for robust protection extends to all aspects of your operations, including the security of your Erlang-based code.

At Erlang Solutions, we recognise the vital importance of safeguarding your code from potential vulnerabilities and security threats. We are thrilled to introduce our latest offering – the ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

T ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: CVE-2023-32315: Openfire vulnerability (update) A few months ago, we published details about an important security vulnerability in Openfire that is identified as CVE-2023-32315.

To summarize: Openfire’s administrative console (the Admin Console), a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environ ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Future-proofing legacy systems with Erlang Relying on outdated legacy systems often serves as the biggest hindrance to both innovation and optimisation for businesses today. Since many of these systems have been used for years, if not multiple decades, the significant costs involved with replacing a system entirely are rarely within budgets, particularly in today’s business climate.

But that doesn’t mean legacy systems should be left as is. Erlang is a resilient and p ... ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity 0.14.0 Apologies for the late blog post. We have good news though! Two weeks ago we released Profanity 0.14.0!

13 people contributed to this release: Daniel Santos, @DebXWoody, @H3rnand3zzz, @ike08, @MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo, @mdosch, @pasis, @paulfertser, @shahab-vahedi, @sjaeckel, @techmetx11, @thexhr and @jubalh.

Also a big thanks to our sponsors: @mdosch, @LeSpocky, @jamesponddotco and one anonymous sponsor!

We introduced a new /privacy command which should make it easier to find all pri ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

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

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

UI/UX

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

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: Jabber Browsing Openfire Plugin 1.0.1 released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Jabber Browsing plugin for Openfire.

This is a plugin for the Openfire Real-time Communications server. It provides an implementation for service discovery using the jabber:iq:browse namespace, as specified in XEP-0011: Jabber Browsing. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plug ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Agent Information plugin for Openfire release 1.0.1 The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Agent Information plugin for Openfire.

This plugin implements the XEP-0094 ‘Agent Information’ specification for service discovery using the jabber:iq:agents namespace. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plugin should only be used by people that seek backwards compatibility with very old and very specific IM ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire release 1.1.1 The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire.

This plugin allows you to automate TLS certificate management tasks. This is particularly helpful when your certificates are short-lived, like the ones issued by Let’s Encrypt.

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the [changelog] ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JmxWeb plugin for Openfire 0.9.1 release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the JmxWeb plugin for Openfire.

This plugin provides a web based platform for managing and monitoring Openfire via JMX

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and fixes one bug. More details are available in the changelog.

Your instance of Openf ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.2 released The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Push Notification plugin for Openfire.

This plugin enables clients to register for push notifications.

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

Yo ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Search Openfire plugin 0.7.4 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Search plugin for Openfire.

This plugin adds features to Openfire that makes it easier for users to find each-other.

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

Your instance of Openfire should automatically ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: How IoT is Revolutionising Supply Chain Management As global supply chains continue to face significant disruptions, many businesses are turning to IoT to access greater visibility, reactivity, and streamlined operations.

Unforeseen geopolitical conflicts, economic pressures due to inflation and severe climate change events have all contributed to an uncertain and cost ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-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

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

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate ... ⌘ Read more

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

Ef ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Presentamos el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ ¿Quiere saber más sobre el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ? Arnaud Cogoluègnes, ingeniero de personal de VMware, desglosa todo lo que hay que saber en la Cumbre RabbitMQ de 2021.

En julio de 2021, se introdujeron streams a RabbitMQ, utilizando un nuevo protocolo extremadamente rápido que se puede utilizar junto con AMQP 0.9.1. Los [streams](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/rabbitmq-quorum-queues-explaine ... ⌘ 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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023. Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere! Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.

It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!

[![image](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/uploads/default/origina ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Getting started with RabbitMQ: A beginner’s guide for your business RabbitMQ is one of the world’s most popular open-source message brokers. With its tens of thousands of users (and growing), its lightweight and easy-to-deploy nature makes it a worldwide success across small startups and large enterprises across the globe.

But how do you know if it’s best for your business?

Read on and get the rundown on the reliable messaging software that del ... ⌘ 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

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

XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

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

Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 10.1.2-1 released! Earlier today, version 10.1.2 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 10.1.2!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alte ... ⌘ 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

Profanity: New Profanity Old System Occasionally people visit our MUC asking how to run the latest profanity release on years old systems. For some distributions people maintain a backports project, so you can get it from there if available.

Here we want to describe another methods, using containers, more specifically distrobox.

What’s Distrobox?

It’s basically a tool that let’s you run another distribution on your system. It uses docker/podman to create containers that ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.3 Release Features Cobalt 1.3 depends on M-Vault 19.0 or subsequent versions

M-Vault Management Supporties

• M-Vault Bootstrap.   Enables operation in conjunction with M-Vault 19.0 to support headless bootstrap.
• Managing users in M-Vault groups, such as Directory Server Administrators  and Messaging Configuration Read/Write.  This enables Cobalt to control user and operator rights to access M-Vault.
• AD/LDAP passthrough support
  • Allow users (per domain) to support mand ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Reactions and Replies

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

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

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

Dear comra ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Snikket: Notes on the F-Droid security warning Snikket Android users who installed the app via F-Droid may receive a warning from F-Droid telling them that the app has a vulnerability and that they “recommend uninstalling immediately”. First of all - don’t panic! This is a over-simplified generic warning that is scary, but the actual situation is not quite so scary and has an explanation. Here goes…

How F-Droid works

When an app is developed and ready for release, it must be compiled and built, to produce the fina ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may ... ⌘ Read more

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: 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.2.0 released We have now released version 1.2.0 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!

This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.

This release primarily enhances functionality when running in an Openfire cluster. All changes can be reviewed in [the changelog for this release](https://www.igniterealtime. ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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

ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20 ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20 ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sums it all and that does not do justice to this critical piece of the Internet infr ... ⌘ 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: Hazelcast plugin version 2.6.1 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of the Hazelcast plugin for Openfire! The Hazelcast plugin is what allows you to deploy Openfire as a clustered solution.

This release includes only one improvement, but that one can bring a significant performance improvement as compared to older versions ... ⌘ 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

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

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at t ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: Push Server! The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Push Server plugin for Openfire. This plugin is developed by the company Busoft Teknoloji A.Ş. It is inspired by Conversations Push Proxy and developed for Openfire.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the new plugin in the next few hours. Alternatively, you ... ⌘ 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

Maxime Buquet: Versioning I finally took time to setup a forge and some old drafts turned up. I am publishing one of them today as is even though it’s 4 years old (2018-08-07T13:27:43+01:00). I’m not as grumpy as I was at the time but I still think this applies.

Today I am grumpy at people’s expectation of a free software project, about versioning and releases. I am mostly concerned about applications rather than libraries in this article but I am sure some of this would apply to libraries as well.

Today we were discussing ab ... ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Monal IM – project moved We recently started to migrate the App from Anu Pokharel‘s Apple account to Thilo Molitor‘s Apple account.

Aspart of this transition we also deployed some new push servers to not let an old retired developer pay for the infrastructure needed for Monal.

Coming along with this transition from the old developer team to the new one is our new clean website at https://monal-im.org/. From now on, this blog will not be used for Monal anymore.

**Many t ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire ThreadDump plugin 1.1.0 released Earlier today, we have released version 1.1.0 of the Openfire Thread Dump plugin. This plugin uses various evaluators to trigger the creation of a Java thread dump. These thread dumps provide valuable information that is typically used when analyzing issues within Openfire’s implementation.

In the new version of the plugin, two new evaluators have been added: one that looks at the usage pattern of Openfire’s TaskEngin ... ⌘ Read more

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

File Hashes

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.1 released! Woopsie doodle! It turns out that a rather annoying bug was introduced in version 1.9.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire, that we released earlier today!

To avoid unnecessary issues, we’ve decided to follow up with an immediate new release that addresses this issue. ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: 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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

Fixes ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

[![](https://nlnet.nl ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: 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

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

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

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

... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

Gajim: Development News April 2022 This month came with a lot of preparations for the release of Gajim 1.4 🚀 Gajim’s release pipeline has been improved in many ways, allowing us to make releases more frequently. Furthermore, April brought improvements for file previews on Windows.

Changes in Gajim

For two and a half years I (wurstsalat) have been writing (and translating) Gajim’s monthly development news. Keeping this up on a monthly basis takes a lot of time and effort. Upcoming development news will ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 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: 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

Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 9.1.0-1 released! Earlier today, version 9.1.0 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 9.1.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternat ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.4.0-1 released! Earlier today, version 4.4.0 release 1 of the Openfire JSXC plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party JSXC client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 4.4.0!

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Message of the Day (MotD) plugin version 1.2.3 released Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!

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

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

Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX) We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.

It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.

Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.

Ho ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: GoJara plugin for Openfire version 2.2.3 release The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.

Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Al ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Sam Whited: Joanna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 released! Moments ago, we’ve released version 1.7.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version fixes changes to the API (notably the JSON representation of some entities) that inadvertently sneaked into the 1.7.0 release. The API in 1.7.0 should closely resemble that of releases prior to 1.7.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development

Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.

Dear Monal Community,

as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.

To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.

This would have ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!

We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)

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 sof ... ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity on Pinephone Hi all,

So far, in my pinephone I used mainly GUI applications, because I was using a touch screen. Terminal applications are not user-friendly when it comes to one-handed operation.

I tested different distributions on my pinephone (mobian, manjaro, archarm), but usually most based on Phosh. In my opinion it is currently the best mobile graphics environment and stable as well.

In Phosh I tested few xmpp clients:

• the default application installed with Phosh is chat ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Server updates for ARM systems We have a couple of important announcements relevant to people running the Snikket server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi. Systems using ARM processors are increasingly popular for self-hosting due to their increased efficiency, lower cost and minimal energy consumption.

The Snikket January 2022 server release was an exciting release for us, but some users on ARM-based systems reported some difficulties upgrading to ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: "For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King's ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what's more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other ("I'm a Capulet, not a Montague", "I'm a proletarian, not a bourgeois", etc.).... ⌘ Read more

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

Sending a Message

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

Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn't work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I'm working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process.... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Paul Schaub: PGPainless 1.0.0 Released! Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! After a series of release candidates, it is finally time to party! The OpenPGP library successfully underwent a security audit in late November and I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.

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

Erlang Solutions: Dynamic XMPP domains in MongooseIM

Introduction

MongooseIM is a robust instant messaging server focused on scalability and performance. It makes use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), an open technology used mainly to develop instant messaging solutions. The protocol is highly extensible and has a very active community supporting it, which results in a variety of possible use cases, be it one-to-one text messaging, mobile group chat or collecti ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: A Friend by Any Other Name It is said that when the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus died, he left behind thousands of friends. This was 2300 years before Facebook, so how could he have befriended so many people?... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.6 and 4.5.5 releases (Log4j-only changes) As we’re monitoring developments around the recent Log4j vulnerabilities, we’ve decided to provide another update for Openfire to pull in the latests available updates from Log4j.

Since the previous release, the Log4j team released a new version (2.16.0) of their library, that provides better protection against the original vulnera ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2021 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of November 2021 - the last release for this year! After our editorial break we will be back in February 2022!

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!

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

This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.

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

Jérôme Poisson: Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília » I'm proud to announce the release of Libervia 0.8 « La Cecília » (formerly known as « Salut à Toi »), after more than 2 years of development.

This version is a big milestone preparing the future of the project. Let's have an overview of some major changes.

Project Renaming

In the interest of simplicity, the project has been renamed to " Libervia " (with was formerly the name of the web frontend), and all official frontends have now a ... ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Development News November 2021 Annoyed of spam messages in public channels? Gajim just gained support for Message Moderation! Also this month: better message corrections and improved notifications.

Changes in Gajim

If you’re participating in public channels you might have witnessed spam from time to time. Someone comes along and pastes some URL about a promising business opportunity, or leaves an offending picture. Moderators can kick/ban spammers, but that does not remove those ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 1/4

INTRODUCTION

Blockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether it be 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. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies and developers are interested in working with the technology and leveraging its potential than ev ... ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophy vs. Ideology Today I'd like to explore some implications of my recent series of posts about the nature of opinion; specifically, the dangers of ideology. (As a reminder, so far I've discussed holding fewer opinions, opinions about opinions, holding multiple opinions, opinions vs. truths, and opinions weak and strong.)... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.0 released I’m happy to be able to announce that we’ve released version 0.9.0 of the Push Notifications plugin for Openfire!

This version does not bring new functionality. It does fix a bug that older versions of this plugin had, when running on Openfire 4.6.4 or later.

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Peter Saint-Andre: There's No Such Thing as a Kudo It always warms my heart when we import a word directly from ancient Greek into English. Often they are are philosophical locutions, such eudaimonia and ataraxia. Yet at times more mundane terms make the leap; perhaps the most common one these days is kudos (e.g., "kudos to you on aceing that algebra test!"). Consistent with modern English usage, people tend to pronounce it "koo-doze" and think of it as a plural ("that algebra test was really hard so you deserve many kudos for ac ... ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: A Simple OpenPGP API In this post I want to share how easy it is to use OpenPGP using the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol (SOP).

I talked about the SOP specification and its purpose and benefits already in past blog posts. This time I want to give some in-depth examples of how the API can be used in your application.

There are SOP API implementations available in different languages like Java and Rust. They have in common, that they are based around the [State ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2021 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of September 2021.

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!

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Gajim: Development News September 2021 September brought many updates under the hood. With big changes coming up in Gajim 1.4, many parts of the code have to be touched. These changes remain mostly invisible for users, but make Gajim more robust. In some cases, this results in visible improvements as well: Both Add Contact and Start Chat windows are now detecting the type of chat behind an address.

Changes in Gajim

Since development on Gajim 1.4 started, a lot has changed under the hood. ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 5 Erlang and Elixir Use Cases In FinTech 2/2 We talked in our recent blog post about some of the success stories of FinTechs and banks leveraging the Erlang, Elixir and the BEAM virtual machine – including Vocalink, Goldman Sachs and others. In this post let’s examine a further 5 interesting use cases spanning building a bank from scratch in Elixir to using the most deployed open sou ... ⌘ Read more

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2021 Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of August 2021.

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!

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Snikket: Snikket iOS app now publicly released This is the announcement many people have been waiting for since the project began!

Opinions are often strong about which is the best mobile operating system. However, while it varies by region and demographic, wherever you are it’s very likely that you have Apple users in your life, even if you don’t use one yourself. We want to ensure that the platform you use (by choice or otherwise) is not a barrier to secure and decentralized communication wit ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Improving Snikket's usability in collaboration with Simply Secure One of the primary goals of the Snikket project is improving the usability of open communication software. We see usability as one of the major barriers to broader adoption of modern communication systems based on open standards and free, libre, open-source software. By removing this barrier, we open the door of secure and decentralized communication freedom to many vulnerable groups for which it was previously inaccessible or i ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.

The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi ... ⌘ Read more

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Gajim: Development News October 2020 ⌘ https://gajim.org/post/2020-10-28-development-news-october/

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.4 is released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-4-is-released/88896

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

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

Gajim: Development News August 2020 ⌘ https://gajim.org/post/2020-08-30-development-news-august/

Erlang Solutions: Applying Scrum to a system of fluid teams working on an open-source product ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/applying-scrum-to-a-system-of-fluid-teams-working-on-an-open-source-product.html

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.3 is Released ⌘ https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-3-is-released/88548

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