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Contributors: 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.

Make sure you read the Basic communication guide for XMPP techies

Newsletter editors: TODO/checklist
For the newsletter editors:


 * 1) Collect links in this wiki page, read and validate content
 * 2) Copywriting so it is readable by humans
 * 3) Add images
 * 4) Add clear CTA
 * 5) Subject line and preview text
 * 6) PR on website git repo for blog post (Markdown, Pelican), and peer review
 * 7) Analytics from latest newsletter in spreadsheet
 * 8) Newsletter via Tinyletter
 * 9) Twitter scheduling: text, image, hashtags, link, timestamp
 * 10) Empty this page, keep structure

Planning
October
 * 2019-09-27 Fri: end of submission
 * 2019-09-27 Fri: PR on GitHub
 * 2019-10-01 Tue: newsletter publication, blog post, tweets

Newsletter subject/title
[ Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ]


 * Prepare for FOSDEM, modern XMPP features, and more news
 * FOSDEM 2020 Feb, modernization of XMPP, and more...

Intro
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter: October edition, covering the month of September.

Be kind, inform your friends and colleagues: forward this newsletter!

Articles

 * https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Basic_communication_guide_for_XMPP_techies
 * https://ralphm.net/blog/2019/09/09/fastening
 * Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Dino
 * https://news.jabberfr.org/2019/09/lettre-dactualite-xmpp-du-3-septembre-2019/

Events
Summit 24 and FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

Servers

 * Réda Housni Alaoui is reviving the formerly dormant Vysper XMPP server https://github.com/apache/mina-vysper
 * https://blog.xabber.com/xabber-server-v-0-9-alpha-is-released/
 * https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/fastpath-service-plugin-4-4-4-released/86155
 * https://twitter.com/MongooseIM/status/1176111308430815232

Clients

 * https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.7.0
 * http://monal.im/blog/xmppsignalbluetoothp2p-wifi-serverless-chat/
 * https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.2
 * https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.3
 * https://blog.agayon.be/converse_xep_0070.html
 * https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/releases/tag/2.5.8

Services

 * Updates for search.jabbercat.org:
 * Visual redesign
 * "Dummy avatars" using XEP-0392
 * Link to anonymous web chat if available
 * Avatars for white-listed MUCs
 * Software version pie chart

Proposed
Message Fastening

Abstract: This specification defines a way for payloads on a message to be marked as being logically fastened to a previous message.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fasten.html

XMPP Compliance Suites 2020

Abstract: This document defines XMPP protocol compliance levels.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/cs-2020.html

Authorization Tokens

Abstract: This document defines an XMPP protocol extension for issuing authentication tokens to client applications and provides methods for managing сlient connections.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/auth-tokens.html

Thx and CTA, Call To Action (remove this mention before publishing)
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License
This newsletter is published under CC by-sa license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/