XMPP Newsletter January 2020

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Articles
Whatsapp, Matrix or XMPP (german) - The German Federal Ministry of the Interior is looking for a messenger for the federal authorities while the German Federal Police is experimenting with XMPP. They are using an Open Source Messenger "MOKA" based on XMPP (german).

Fabian Sauter known as COM8 (and developer of UWPX) has finalised his Bachelor Thesis on "Smart Building Control with XMPP for IoT". Congratulations! The development will be continued with the goal of an official XEP.

https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/12/13/pitfalls-for-omemo-implementations-part-1-inactive-devices/

Servers
https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-0-beta-release/86888

Clients and applications
Anu Pokharel the developer of Monal has made significant changes to its MUC implemenation which improves the situation for iOS and Mac users. Furthermore there has been many bug fixes. Must update for all users.

https://monal.im/blog/ios-4-2-final-beta/

https://monal.im/blog/mac-2-5-beta-2/

https://monal.im/blog/http-upload/

https://monal.im/blog/the-end-of-ios-9-support/

https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.4-and-siskin-5.4-released/

Movim 0.16.1 released https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/cdfc0a4c-3459-4d3b-8c15-08994810d54e

https://twitter.com/ProfanityIM/status/1207735919488438273

https://www.goffi.org/b/JLPTTHfRnqhxNozHjRz553/progress-note

Libraries
https://camaya.net/news/gloox-1-0-23-released/

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