XMPP Newsletter

Here you can submit news items for inclusion in the next XMPP Newsletter (as managed by the CommTeam).

What determines relevancy?
The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or XMPP-based software (clients, servers, libs).

Some exceptions might be made, for example for a release page showing a new release of some XMPP-based software.

However, marketing brochures (e.g. single-page marketing sites) for new products which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.

Submissions
Jeff Becker has released a tutorial, "New life for XMPP. Build your own decentralized messenger!", using Prosody and Pidgin. https://i2p.rocks/blog/new-life-for-xmpp-build-your-own-decentralized-messenger.html

Peter Waher has published his book on XMPP and IoT: "Mastering Internet of Things" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mastering-internet-things-peter-waher-1/

Erlang Solutions has run a webinar on MongooseIM: "How to build a leading medical messaging app? What are the benefits of migrating from a closed solution to open-sourced #XMPP?" https://twitter.com/MongooseIM/status/984020853628207104

The Jabber Spam Fighting Manifesto has seen an update, "Freedom and Anonymity on XMPP" https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto/blob/master/Freedom-and-Anonymity.md

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) releases and IoT draft standards focussing on security. Tigase analyses this and gives hints and constructively criticises the document. https://tigase.net/article/nist-releases-iot-draft-standards


 * XMPP videos:
 * XMPP Tutorial : The Friendly Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YhMOFS04kA
 * XMPP Android Chat App Tutorial Step by step https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BheBPoBR_5s
 * XMPP WhatsAp like Android Chat App With Smack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-XjxcBXOk
 * [1] XMPP Core Explained : Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gZSd_oW1g
 * [2] XMPP Core Explained : XMPP Architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeS8BwwM-M&t=1s

Servers
Less than a month after Metronome IM 3.8, the versions 3.8.1, 3.8.2, and 3.8.8 have followed, bringing small improvements such as MAM, SIFT, avatars and GDPR.: https://metronome.im/

Erlang Solutions has released MongooseIM 2.2, subtitled "The Global Server", as it brings authentication with certificates (XEP-0178: Best Practices for Use of SASL EXTERNAL with Certificates), stable Global Distribution (GD) that connects multiple servers/clusters worldwide under the same domain name, a Jingle/SIP proxy, and many more goodies. https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/mongooseim-2-2-the-global-server.html

Clients
Less than a month after the symbolic version 1.0.0, Gajim 1.0.1 has been published, improving MAM support adding image preview in file chooser dialog, and many smaller fixes and improvements. Later, the version 1.0.2 correctly reloads Plugins, saves history export with utf8 encoding, doesnt allow plain BOSH by default, and fixes many bugs. https://gajim.org/

ChatSecure iOS releases v4.3.0, which is able to catch up on discussions that happened while it was offline (#MAM) and supports #OMEMO encryption https://twitter.com/MarcelWaldvogel/status/983730120379781120

In its on-going concise blog posts series, Monal IM follows up on MAM development, as well as announces a future implementation of XEP-0184: Message Delivery Receipt in Monal IM https://monal.im/blog/message-delivery-receipts/

Libraries
Smack 4.2.4 has been released, adding support for XEP-0394: Message Markup, XEP-0382: Spoiler messages, XEP-0372: References, XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation, and bringing even more fixes and improvements. https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-2-4-released/81404

MatriX vNext is available in version 2.0, it is a cross platform XMPP SDK for the full .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono https://www.ag-software.net/2018/04/30/matrix-vnext-2-0-released/