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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 26.03

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

Contents:

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

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

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

Features

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

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Viktoria Laufer Intro

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

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

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

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

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

This re ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Messaging as Infrastructure, Not Just a Feature

The Backbone of Real-Time Digital Services

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

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

Modern platforms depend on ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.14 This release brings supports for three new XEPs, fixes one specific bug that was breaking poezio, and has a lot of internal improvements including typing hings and documentation.

Thanks to everyone involved for this release!

Removals

• The obsolete UnescapedJID class was removed.

Features

• New plugin: XEP-0462 (Pubsub Type Filtering)
• New plugin: XEP-0511 (Link Metadata)
• New plugin: [XEP ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

In reality, most of it is set much earlier.

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2026

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is th ... ⌘ Read more

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

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.02

Contents:

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

ChangeLog

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

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

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

Links

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter January 2025

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

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Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the r ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Fixes

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

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

Certificate basics

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

JMP: Newsletter: Referral Event! Hi everyone

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

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

Sam Whited: Contra Vorbis Tags

Introduction

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

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

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

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

Audio/Video Calls

Kaidan has supported voice ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch!

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 26.01

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

Release Highlights:

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

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

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

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

Simple workflow to display Git commits in a MUC room

You can browse an ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

ProcessOne: Enabling Fluux.io WebPush on a PWA on iOS

As we previously described here, your Fluux.io service can send push notifications to your xmpp user&aposs browsers when they are offline. It includes Safari on iOS devices. But before enabling it your users need to add your Progressive Web App (PWA) on thei ... ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.3 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Happy new year! Our first release of 2026 is a minor release for our stable branch, with a range of tweaks, bug fixes and minor improvements for you.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• mod_storage_sql: Set configurable wait time for locked SQLite3 database
• net.server_event: Port TLS 1.3 channel binding method to libevent backend
• mod_roster: Add command for cleani ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Cheogram App Options Hi everyone!

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

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

Snikket: Snikket Server - December 2025 release Hello again! We’re rounding off the year with another small release of the Snikket server software. The main purpose of this release is to fix a couple of small bugs which were discovered and reported after the previous release was announced.

Notable changes

Offline message compatibility

It was reported that Conversations 2.19.2 and later did not reliably receive offline messages after being offline for an extended period of time. This also affected the upcomin ... ⌘ Read more

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (previously Leipzig and Berlin).

We will have a space inside the [Critical Decentralization Cluste ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: XMPP at 39C3! The XMPP assembly for 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (or previously Leipzig or Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year, which will provide a friendly space for discussions and exchanges on technology and politics with ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: 2025-12-09 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem On December 9th I returned to the Trolley Barn to DJ again for my friend Valerie Young. This time around my goal was to have a better mix of high energy and lower energy “groovy” tunes, and I wanted to be better prepared for tying in endings at any time, no matter how many times through the caller requested.

Prep

![A partial screenshot of the Mixxx user interface, specifically the deck region. The tune 'The Cliffs of Moher / Rec H ... ⌘ 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2025

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is th ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: SAFE for Elixir: Phoenix LiveView Erlang Solutions launched SAFE, a Security Audit for Erlang in the fall of 2023. We extended the analysis for Elixir in the spring of 2024 and now, SAFE officially supports Phoenix Liveview, which means a SAFE scan is now looking for vulnerabilities common in Phoenix web applications.

What is SAFE?

[SAFE](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/services/security-audit-for-erlang-and-elixir/#:~:text=SAFE%20is%20an%20audit%20procedure,Any%20security% ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: 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

ProcessOne: On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the result of voluntary work ... ⌘ 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

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

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

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

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

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

**SAF ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Putting NTA 7532 to the Test (Literally) You might have seen the XMPP Standards Foundation’s open letter to NEN about NTA 7532, the Dutch effort to standardise secure healthcare chat. It’s a good read, and, as it happens, right up our street.

If you’re building a chat system that has to actually talk to someone else’s chat system (and keep doctors happy while doing it), you’ll kno ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 25.10

Release Highlights:

• [Added more Ad-Hoc Commands from XEP-0133](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#adhoc)
• [Updated support for XEP-0317 Hats](https://www.process-one.net/blog/rss/#hats)

If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no mandatory changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks.

Other contents:

• **[New option archive_muc_as_mucsub in mod_mam]( ... ⌘ Read more

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

Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

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

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

Who We Are and Why This Matters

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

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

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

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

High-spe ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

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

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

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

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

Impossible Tests Can Fail Runs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.11 This new version includes a few new XEP plugins as well as fixes, notably for some leftover issues in our rust JID code, as well as one for a bug that caused issues in Home Assistant.

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

CI and build

Nicoco put in a lot of work in order to get all possible wheels built in CI. We now have manylinux and musl builds of everything doable within codeberg, published to the codeberg pypi repo, and published on pypi. ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 25.08

Release Highlights:

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

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

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

XMPP InterfacePurposeConnection typeReworked in v ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Sam Whited: Notes I’ve recently been using the Mixxx software for DJs. This page includes some personal notes on my own use cases, what’s good, what’s bad, etc. It is not really made for general consumption, but is thrown up here anyways. It will be a bit rambling and/or ranty at times, most likely.

Let’s get my overall impressions of the software out of the way up front: it’s absolutely great and I recommend it over the commercial alternatives for DJs of all stripes (except maybe Radio DJs, it’s not really for ... ⌘ 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

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

New repository instructions

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.07

Release Highlights:

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

• **Spam filter ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.2 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well.

A summary of changes in this release:

Fixes and improvements

• mod_storage_internal: Fix queries with only start returning extra items
• mod_invites_register: Stric ... ⌘ Read more

Debian XMPP Team: XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News Debian 13 "Trixie" full freeze has started 2025-05-17, so this is a good time to take a look at some of the features, that this release will bring. Here we will focus on packages related to XMPP, a.k.a.\ Jabber.

XMPP is a universal communication protocol for instant messaging, push notifications, IoT, WebRTC, and social applications. It has existed sin ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

Erlang Solutions: Common MVP mistakes: How to build smart without overbuilding A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is your first real signal to the market, your team, and your investors that you’re solving the right problem in the right way. While it’s often mentioned alongside terms like Proof-of-Concept (PoC), prototype, or pilot, an MVP plays a distinct role: validating real value with real users.

Avoiding common missteps early sets the stage for faster itera ... ⌘ 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

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ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.04

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

Release Highlights:

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

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

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

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2025

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.1 released We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

As is the tradition with software, here is our first patch release following shortly behind our major 13.0.0 release announced a few weeks ago. It fixes some important bugs that were discovered after the release.

Many thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped with testing the fixes for this release. We appreciate it!

For those of you on 0.12.x who haven’t upgraded yet, skip 13.0.0 and jump stra ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

The basics of Elixir language

In this sec ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.2: Message Removal and Bubble Fixes Kaidan 0.12.2 fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Fix removing corrected message (melvo)
• Fix showing message bubble tail only for first message of sender (melvo)

Download

• Source code (.tar.xz) ( sig signed with [04EF ... ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.1: Voice Message and Password Change Fixes Kaidan 0.12.1 fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Do not highlight unpinned chats when pinned chat is moved (melvo)
• Fix deleting/sending voice messages (melvo)
• Fix crash during login (melvo)
• Fix opening chat again after going back to chat list on narrow window (melvo)
• Increase tool bar height to fix avatar not being recognizable (melvo)
• Fix width of sear ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.03

Release Highlights:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Features

Not a lot this time around… Maybe next time?

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

Erlang Solutions: 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

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

What’s New

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here’s an Elixir vs Haskell comparison.

Elixir vs Haskell: a comparison

Core philosophy and design goals

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

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

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

Fixes

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

What’s New

Gajim 2.0

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

More Changes

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

What’s New

Toolkit Upgrade

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

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

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

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

Special thanks to nicoco ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Changelog

Features:

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

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

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

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

Why Sign Up?

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

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

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

Glossary

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

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

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

My journey

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

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

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

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

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

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

**W ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

ProcessOne: Fluux multiple Subscriptions/Services Fluux is our ejabberd Business Edition cloud service. With a subscription, we deploy, manage, update and scale an instance of our most scalable messaging server. Up to now, if you wanted to deploy several services, you had to create another account with a different email. Starting today, you can manage and pay for different servers from a single Fluux account.

Here is how to use that feature. On Fluux dashboard main page after the list of your se ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: test The post test appeared first on Erlang Solutions. ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.8.6 - Codename ICE 2926 A bit less than a year since the latest version, there has been around 45 commits to include in this new release.

New things

Added initial support for:

• XEP-0264 (Jingle Content Thumbnails)
• XEP-0317 (Hats)
• XEP-0469 (Bookmarks pinning)
• XEP-0490 (Message Display Synchronization)

... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.12

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

Release Highlights:

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

JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon Hi everyone!

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update Hi everyone!

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

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

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

Changelog

Bugfixes:

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

... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Joanna Wrona In this edition of our “Meet the Team” series, we’d like to introduce you to Joanna Wrona, Business Unit Leader for the Kraków office at Erlang Solutions.

She discusses her role at ESL and her passion for empowering her team. She also gives us a glimpse into life in beautiful Kraków and what makes her journey so fulfilling.

About Joanna

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

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

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

Prosodical Thoughts: New server, new sponsor It shouldn’t surprise you, but here we have an obsession for self-hosting. We fought off many requests to migrate our hosting to Github (even before it was cool to hate Github - Prosody and Github were both founded in the same year!).

As a result, we self-host our XMPP service (of course), our website, our code repos, our issue tracker, package repository and our CI and build system.

This is not always easy - our project has always been a rather informal collaboration of in ... ⌘ 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

JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon Hi everyone!

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

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

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

ProcessOne: 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: Implementing Phoenix LiveView: From Concept to Production When I began working with Phoenix LiveView, the project evolved from a simple backend service into a powerful, UI-driven customer service tool. A basic Phoenix app for storing user data quickly became a core part of our client’s workflow.

In this post, I’ll take you through a project that grew from its original purpose- from a service fo ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Jabber.org Notices: Server Migration On October 19th, we completed a migration of the service to a brand new server. Everything looks solid, but if you experience problems feel free to contact the administrator. ⌘ 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

Sam Whited: Coffeeneuring 2024 Every year in October I participate in Love To Ride’s (psst, sign up using that link so I can get some extra points when you do your first bike ride!) Biketober competition. The TL;DR is that for every day that you go for a ride, for every mile that you ride, and for every new rider that you invite you get points for your team. At the end of the month winners are announced and there are some fun prizes. It’s not about bi ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2024

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

XSF Announcements

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!.

The [XMPP Standards F ... ⌘ Read more

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

In this post, I’ll ... ⌘ Read more

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

Introduction to XMPP

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

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more! Hi everyone!

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun) Hi everyone!

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Erlang Concurrency: Evolving for Performance Some languages are born performant, and later on tackle concurrency. Others are born concurrently and later build on performance. C or Rust system’s programming are examples of the former, Erlang’s Concurrency is an example of the latter.

A mistake in concurrency can essentially let all hell loose, incurring incredibly hard-to-track bugs and even security vulnerabilities, and a mistake in performance can leave a product tr ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.9.0 release! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire HTTP File Upload plugin v1.4.1 release! We have now released version 1.4.1 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!

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

This release brings two changes, both provided by community ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

The Hazelcast plugin for Openfire adds clust ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch! Hi everyone!

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch! Hi everyone!

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

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

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: Meet the team: Joanna Wrona In this edition of our “Meet the Team” series, we’d like to introduce you to Joanna Wrona, Business Unit Leader for the Kraków office at Erlang Solutions.

She discusses her role at ESL and her passion for empowering her team. She also gives us a glimpse into life in beautiful Kraków and what makes her journey so fulfilling.

About Joanna

**What is your ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Processes in the BEAM

In Elixir, all the co ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Without use of constructs, you will unravel few mysteries.

Without knowledge of mysteries, your constructs will fail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, pizza night

Tuesday

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

Erlang Solutions: 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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2024

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

XSF Announcements

If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until August 18th, 2024!.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

... ⌘ Read more

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

JMP: Newsletter: Calls from SIP; Potential New SIM Plan Hi everyone!

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

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

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.07 Introducing ejabberd 24.07: Bugfix Release

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

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

A more detailed explanation ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

About N ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

T ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2024

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

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Brief summary

• *Webadmin rework ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

Download the la ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

The look into the digital payments landscape

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

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

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

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

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

A si ... ⌘ Read more

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

What’s New

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

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

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

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

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

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

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

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

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

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

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

What is XMPP?

Overview

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 2/4 | Myths vs. Realities This is the second part of our ‘Making Sense of Blockchain’ blog post series – you can read part 1 on ‘6 Blockchain Principles’ here. This article is based on the original post by Dominic Perini here.

Join our FinTech mailing list for more gre ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more! Hi everyone!

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Protected: The Golden Age of Data Transformation in Healthcare This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring technical debt

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs

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

Brief documentation timeline

ejabberd started in November 2002 (see a timeline in the ejabberd turns 20 bl ... ⌘ Read more

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

Brief documentation timeline

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

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

**Digital Assets: ... ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store We initially shared this news on our social media page, thinking this was a temporary issue. But we’ve had no response from Google for several days, and want to explain the situation in more detail.

Summary

We merged some changes from our upstream project, Conversations, and we submitted the new version to Google for review. Before responding, they removed the existing published ve ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Blockchain and business needs

Building a robust and s ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2024

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The 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter!

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: A Guide to RabbitMQ Looking to learn more about the basics of RabbitMQ? This powerful message broker plays a key role in modern, distributed systems.

This post will break down its fundamentals and highlight its importance in the world of modern, distributed systems.

An introduction to RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ emerged from the need to create a scalable, robust messaging system that was able to handle high volumes of communications between applications, all while maintaining both data and p ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Harrier 4.0 – New Capabilities Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.

You can find out more about Harrier here.

** ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Thankfully, the vulne ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Vocalink and Erlang

For: Ultra-reliable transaction delivery

[Vo ... ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Server

Server Setup

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: PionTurn plugin 1.0.0 released! The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the PionTurn plugin.

This version brings in the new long-term authentication compatible with the TURN REST format, bringing security to the latest standard.

And it also brings in a new mechanism for resolving domain names, making it possible to run the Pionturn plugin in a dynamic IP environment without having to worry about updating the IP.

Last but not ... ⌘ Read more

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

This blog pos ... ⌘ Read more

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

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun) Hi everyone!

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

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

ProcessOne: Matrix gateway setup with ejabberd As of version 24.02, ejabberd is shipped with a Matrix gateway and can participate in the Matrix\ \ federation. This means that an XMPP client can exchange messages with Matrix users or rooms.

Let’s see how to configure your ejabberd to enable this gateway.

Configuration in ejabberd

HTTPS listener

First, add an [HTTP h ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.1 Release The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 4.8.1. This release addresses a number of issues found with the major 4.8.0 release a few months back.

Interested in getting started? You can [download installers of Openfire here](https://igniterealtime.org/downloads/#openfire). Our documentation contains an [upgrade guide](https://download.igniterealtime ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.5 – New Capabilities

Overview

This release adds new functionality and features to Cobalt, our web based role and user provisioning tool. You can find out more about Cobalt here.

Multiple Cobalt Servers

This enhancement enables multiple Cobalt servers to be run against a single directory. There are two reasons for this.

1. In a distributed ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

Almost three months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features.

A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Erlang/OTP 19.3 discouraged

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will b ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: What is Elixir?

What is Elixir: Exploring its Functional Programming Essence

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

The birth of Elixir

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

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

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

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

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

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.8.5

Highlights

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

Details

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: JMP Data Plan Hi everyone!

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

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

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

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

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

Time & Address

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

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

How have things progressed since then!

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

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

Realtime Lounge

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

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

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

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Fully Automated

Automate all the Things

During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers. Automating this process reduces manual work significantly (for example, checking websites by hand, verifying information, listing sources, etc.) and helps to sustain the team’s efforts. Automation also enables the project to be up to date – every day!

[ ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.

ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.

Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.

The second ma ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isode: Red/Black – 2.1 New Capabilities

Overview

This release adds important new functionality and adds further device drivers to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems.  A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview.

![](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/red-black-bla ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Holidays Hi everyone!

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

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

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

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

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.5.0-alpha2 released We are happy to announce the release of the second alpha release of Smack’s upcoming 4.5 version.

This version fixes a nasty bug in Smack’s reactor, includes support for XMPP over WebSocket connections and much more. Even though Smack has a good test coverage, due its comprehensive unit test suite and integration test framework, we kindly ask you to test pre-releases and report feedback.

As always, [this Smack release is available via Maven C ... ⌘ Read more

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

Models

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

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

This is the second time we participate in the amazing event called the Advent of Code. Last year’s edition was solved by my colleague Aleksander and as far as I know – many of you enjoyed following his efforts. I hope you’ll like my tale of helping S ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: More Openfire plugin maintenance releases! Following the initial batch of Openfire plugin releases that we did last week, another few have been made available!

Version 1.0.1 of the Spam Blacklist plugin was released. This plugin uses an external blocklist to reject traffic from specif ... ⌘ Read more

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

Downti ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

To quote the specification:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an [external relational database](https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/database/#relational-databases), you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire plugin maintenance release galore! After I performed a release of an Openfire plugin yesterday, @akrherz apparently had a ‘hold-my-beer’ moment, and apparently went through all of our plugins source repositories, creating maintenance releases for pretty much every one of them that had outstanding changes.

Wow!

As I do not believe we’re doing anyone a favor with 16 individual blog posts, I have com ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.2 released! Earlier today, we have have performed a maintenance release for the REST API plugin for Openfire. In this release, version 1.10.2, we have made a warning in documentation more visible. This is aimed at reducing confusion around installation with Openfire 4.7.5.

Also in this release a translation into Ukrainian, gracefully provided by community member Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr)!

Th ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 beta release! It is exciting to be able to announce the immediate availability of the beta release of Openfire 4.8.0!

It has been 667 days ago since we released the 4.7.0. That was the last time that a release was made from the same source code branch. And, that shows: we have closed almost 180 issues against this release! I’ll reserve the details for a blogpost on the 4.8.0 (non-beta) release, but some of the highlights are:

• We’ve dropped support for Jav ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Software is Political

Introduction

I recently attended the inaugural Free and Open Source Software Yearly ( FOSSY) conference where I gave a talk in the XMPP track. Though my talk was just a brief technical overview of the XMPP protocol, I also gave some quick ending remarks about why I think it’s the correct choice to use as a universal standardized chat protocol. The closing remarks were written ... ⌘ Read more

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

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.3 Just after the release of Gajim 1.8.2, we’re releasing Gajim 1.8.3 with improvements for the profile window, fail-safes for anonymous accounts, bug fixes for the account wizard, and several other fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Several issues with anonymous accounts should be resolved by improved account handling in general.

Gajim’s main window can now be closed by pressing the Esc key, if you enable closing windows via Esc in Gajim’s preferences.

What el ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: The Future Trends of Sustainability in Programming Software

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

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

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.2 Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways, improved group chats, an easy way to change the font size, and many small fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

What’s New

Gateways can (if offered by your server) bridge your XMPP chat to other chat networks. This could be WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or others, depending on the gateway service. This release improves support for data forms (service configuration), brings better avatars for gatewa ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world before tryMongooseIM

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

You do some res ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

Erlang Solutions: 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

JMP: Newsletter: Summer in Review Hi everyone!

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Diversity & Inclusion at CodeBEAM Europe

Our Pledge to Diversity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A summary of changes in this release:

Minor changes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elbe-Sprint 2023: Post-Sprint Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

The release is available on the Maven Central repository.

The work on this project begun a bit over a year ago as an [NLnet project which recei ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your instance of Openf ... ⌘ Read more

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

This plugin enables clients to register for push notifications.

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

Yo ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isode: Icon-PEP 2.0 – New Capabilities Icon-PEP is used to enable the use of IP applications over HF networks. Using STANAG 5066 Link Layer as an interface.

Listed below are the changes brought in with 2.0.

Web Management

A web interface is provided which includes:

• Full configuration of Icon-PEP
• TLS (HTTPS) access and configuration including bootstrap with self signed certificate and ide ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Cobalt 1.4 – New Capabilities Cobalt proides a web interface for provisioning users and roles in an LDAP directory. It enables the easy deployment of XMPP, Email and Military Messaging systems.

Listed below are the changes brought in with 1.4.

HSM Support

Cobalt is Isode’s tool for managing PKCS#11 Hardware Security Modules (HSM) which may be used to provide improved server security by protecti ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-Topo 2.0 – New Capabilities Icon-Topo supports Mobile Unit (MU) mobility between HF Networks, enabling application communications over a wider area than can be achieved with a single ground station. It provides a way to schedule the movement from one HF network to another, ensuring that as an MU goes about its deployment the communications network is kept up and running.

The below ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: M-Guard 1.5 – New Capabilities M-Guard is an XML guard that is used at a network boundary to control traffic. An M-Guard instance is an application level data diode, with traffic flowing in one direction only. Commonly, M-Guard instances will be deployed in pairs, one controlling flow in each direction. The following is a list of the new capabilties introduced in version 1.5.

**M-Guard C ... ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Effortlessly Extract Data from Websites with Crawly YML

The workflow

So in our ideal world scenario, it should work in the following way:

1. Pull Crawly Docker image from DockerHub.
2. Create a simple configuration file.
3. Start it!
4. Create a spider via the YML interface.

The detailed documentation and the example can be found on HexDocs here: [https://hexdocs.pm/crawly/spiders\_in\_yml.html#content](https://hexdocs.pm/crawly/spiders_in_yml.html#c ... ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: Finding a new home for poezio and slixmpp After more than a decade of starting the Poezio project, and more than half after starting the slixmpp fork or SleekXMPP, louiz’ does not have any day-to-day involvement in them.

Nonetheless, he has provided us with the space to host repositories and bug trackers (redmine at first, then gitlab), done the required sysadmin work every time it was needed, and has also paid ever ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This update includes an ... ⌘ Read more

Isode: Harrier 3.3 – New Capabilities Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.

![Harrier Inbox view (behind) showing Military Messaging security label and priority parameters; and Message view (in front).](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Harrier-M ... ⌘ Read more

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

Part A: Current Context and Challenges

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Unleashing the Power of SNMP: Exposing Your Embedded Elixir/Erlang (Nerves, GRiSP) Apps to the World Did you know that Erlang/OTP ships with built-in SNMP  (Simple Network Management Protocol) support? Using SNMP is a great way to integrate your Elixir or Erlang application into an industrial environment. This will be of particular interest for those working with embedded ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

It’s been four years since I participated in my first Google Summer of\ Code. I’m hrxi, a mathematics student from Germany. I got accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code program with the XMPP software\ foundation as the mentoring organisation. I chose the extended\ timeline, so I am going to work on [ ... ⌘ Read more

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

Erlang Solutions: Sign up for the RabbitMQ Summit Waiting List Mark your calendars! The Very Early Bird tickets for the RabbitMQ Summit are set to open on 15th June, 2023. In joining the waiting list, you will receive exclusive access to the conference’s best-priced tickets.

This is your chance to secure your spot at the RabbitMQ Summit at a discounted rate, allowing you to make the most of this incredible learning and networking ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

• Concurrentes
• Tolerantes a fallos
• Escalables y
• Distribuidos

En esta nota explicaremos qué ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

• Concurrent
• Fault-tolerant
• Scalable and
• Distributed

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

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

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

• Concurrentes
• Tolerantes a fallos
• Escalables
• Distribuidos

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

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

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

• Concurrent
• Fault-tolerant
• Scalable
• Distributed

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

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

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

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

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Jabber ID Discovery, New Referral Codes Hi everyone!

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

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

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

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

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

Switch Device

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

A more detailed explanatio ... ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023

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

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

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

Sam Whited: Concord and Spring Road Linear Parks In my earlier review of Rose Garden and Jonquil public parks I mentioned the Mountain-to-River Trail (M2R), a mixed-use bicycle and walking trail that connects the two parks.

The two parks I’m going to review today are also connected by the M2R trail in addition to the [Concord Road Trail](https://blog.samwhited.com/cate ... ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Erlang Solutions: Captura de datos con Postgres y Elixir La captura de datos es el proceso de identificar y capturar cambios de datos en la base de datos.

Con captura de datos, los cambios en los datos pueden ser rastreados casi en tiempo real, y esa información puede ser utilizada para apoyar una variedad de casos de uso, incluyendo auditoría, replicación y sincronización.

Un buen ejemplo de un caso de uso para captura de datos es considerar una aplicación que inserta un registro en la b ... ⌘ Read more