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| == What determines relevancy? == | | == To contributors, editors, reviewers, translators == |
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| | === Live discussion === |
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| | === What determines relevancy? === |
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| The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or | | The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or |
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| == Submissions ==
| | Make sure you read the [[Basic communication guide for XMPP techies]] |
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| === Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ===
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| Welcome to the September edition of the XMPP Newsletter!
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| Loads of news for these two months of July and August: two events in Lyon and Stockholm, new tools, new server releases (Openfire, ejabberd), lots of client releases (Kaidan, Salut à Toi, Xabber Android, Movim, Converse, Beagle IM and Siskin IM).
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| We experiment a section about XEP, or specifications.
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| The XMPP/Jabber community is alive and kicking!
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| === Articles ===
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| Marek Foss of ProcessOne, details the story on how they have [https://blog.process-one.net/uniting-global-football-fans-with-an-xmpp-geocluster/ deployed an XMPP geocluster] for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
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| Cyril Brulebois wrote a short piece on [https://mraw.org/blog/2019/08/17/Sending_HTML_messages_with_Net_XMPP/ Sending HTML messages with Net::XMPP] (Perl).
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| Georg Lukas posted an article about the [https://yaxim.org/blog/2019/08/23/happy-birthday/ 10 years of yaxim].
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| === Videos ===
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| === Tutorials ===
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| === Events ===
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| Maxime “pep.” Buquet reports on the [https://bouah.net/2019/07/new-sprint-new-goodies/ XMPP sprint in Lyon] in July held at Wisolv's offices: DOAP - Description Of A Project, Reactions, Occupant-id, and more.
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| The next [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_September_Stockholm XMPP sprint in Stockholm] will be held on September 28th and 29th, in the Nacka Municipality.
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| A few [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Camp2019 XMPP hackers met in Ziegeleipark, Mildenberg, Germany] in August, for the Chaos Communication Camp 2019, an open-air hacker camp and party that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
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| The regular meetups in Bavaria is held every third Monday every month. Next will [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Meetups/Bavaria take place 2019-09-16].
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| === Software releases ===
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| ==== Servers ====
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| [https://github.com/horazont/prometheus-xmpp-blackbox-exporter Prometheus XMPP Blackbox Exporter] (Apache license 2.0) allows you to probe XMPP services and export metrics from the probes to Prometheus.
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| The igniterealtime community has announced multiple releases:
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| * [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-4-1-release/85857 Openfire 4.4.1]
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| * [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/monitoring-service-1-8-0-and-inverse-4-2-0-1-plugins-released/85601 Monitoring Service 1.8.0 and inVerse 4.2.0.1 plugins]
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| * [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-4-0-alpha2-released/85670 Smack 4.4.0-alpha2]
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| * [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/thread-dump-1-0-0-plugin-released/85794 Thread Dump 1.0.0 plugin]
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| Antonino Siena has announced [https://gitlab.com/nifker/xmpp-http-upload xmpp-http-upload], a lightweight and efficient http upload server for XMPP (MIT license).
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| Mickaël Rémond has announced [https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-19-08/ ejabberd 19.08], with JSON Web Token, configuration validator, improved scalability, and more.
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| Jérôme "Goffi" Poisson has announced [https://www.goffi.org/b/XL5aGAa6wymUt4mAhnzGpm/pubsub-been-released SàT PubSub 0.3.0], a server independent PEP/PubSub XMPP service, which aims to be complete and universal.
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| ==== Clients ====
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| Kaidan [https://www.kaidan.im/2019/07/08/kaidan-0.4.0/ 0.4.0] and [https://www.kaidan.im//2019/07/16/kaidan-0.4.1/ 0.4.1] have been released, and is available to download on Linux, Windows, and macOS (and experimental Android and Ubuntu Touch).
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| Jérôme "Goffi" Poisson has released [https://www.goffi.org/b/N29CuUQS4U4TK36JFuTQ5Q/salut-commune Salut à Toi v0.7 « La Commune »] with tons of changes (and writes regular [https://www.goffi.org/b/Gjm7Z5AUt4xh8gciV6wWSe/progress-note SàT progress notes]).
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| [https://www.xabber.com/android/ Xabber Android 2.6.4 (634)] has been released on Google Play, with improved message archive synchronization, improved startup speed, support of references in messages (files, forwards, markup (bold, italic, etc), mentions, quotes), image compression setting, visual changes, and more.
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| Timothée Jaussoin has released [https://nl.movim.eu/?post/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/fd1921c6-219f-477b-a4be-ebb25e4cccc5 Movim 0.15 – Donati], with reactions, publication sharing, and more.
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| JC Brand has released Converse, the web based XMPP/Jabber chat client, in versions [https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.0 5.0.0] and [https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.1 5.0.1], with lots of improvements.
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| Wojciech Kapcia has announced two versions of [https://tigase.net/blog-entry/beagleim-32-and-siskin-im-52-released Beagle IM from macOS and Siskin IM for iOS].
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| ==== Libraries ====
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| Lance "legastero" Stout has released [https://stanzajs.org StanzaJS] (formely known as Stanza.io), the JS XMPP library with a JSON API, in multiple versions 12.x.
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| JC Brand has released the [https://github.com/strophe/strophejs/releases/tag/v1.3.4 strophejs libray in version 1.3.4].
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| Florian "Flow" Schmaus has [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/announcing-the-xmpp-strings-testframework/85954 announced the extension of the jXMPP library] by a testframework for “XMPP-Strings”.
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| === Other ===
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| === Services ===
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| Arc Games has [https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1250600/xmpp-sunset announced an XMPP sunset]: "As of September 19th, 2019, Star Trek Online will no longer be supporting connection to our internal chat system via an XMPP client."
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| === GSoC ===
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| === Extensions and specifications ===
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| This section is new and experimental: please let us know what you think.
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| We start with the XEPs in "LAST CALL", since these are the highest priority in terms of feedback.
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| We move on to the new XEPs so you can learn of their existence, and then the obsoleted ones so you phase them out.
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| We finally finish with the updates.
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| On more section: the friendly specifications.
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| ==== Last Call ====
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| ===== XEP-0353: Jingle Message Initiation =====
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| Title: Jingle Message Initiation
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| This specification provides a way for the initiator of a Jingle session to propose sending an invitation in an XMPP message stanza, thus taking advantage of message delivery semantics instead of sending IQ stanzas to all of the responder's online resources or choosing a particular online resource.
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| URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0353.html
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| This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2019-08-13.
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| ===== XEP-0300: Use of Cryptographic Hash Functions in XMPP =====
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| Title: Use of Cryptographic Hash Functions in XMPP
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| Abstract:
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| This document provides a common wire format for the transport of cryptographic hash function references and hash function values in XMPP protocol extensions.
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| URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0300.html
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| This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2019-08-13.
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| ==== New ====
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| ===== XEP-0421: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs =====
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| Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0421 (Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs) has been released.
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| Abstract:
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| This specification defines a method that allows clients to identify a MUC participant across reconnects and renames. It thus prevents impersonification of anonymous users.
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| Changelog:
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| Accepted by vote of Council on 2019-07-17. (XEP Editor (jsc))
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| URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0421.html
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| ===== XEP-0420: Stanza Content Encryption =====
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| Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0420 (Stanza Content Encryption) has been released.
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| Abstract:
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| The Stanza Content Encryption (SCE) protocol is intended as a way to allow clients to securely exchange arbitrary extension elements using different end-to-end encryption schemes.
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| Changelog:
| | === Process === |
| Accepted by vote of Council on 2019-06-26. (XEP Editor (jsc))
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| URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0420.html
| | # Link collection: duration 1 month |
| | #* Read and validate the content |
| | #* Include the reporters credits! |
| | #* Check that it's not duplicate, and in the correct section |
| | # Copywrite so each content is readable by humans: duration 1 week |
| | #* Add links |
| | #* Add images |
| | #* Add CTAs |
| | #* Carefully craft the subject/title line, and the preview text (first lines that are sometimes previewed on email UAs) |
| | #* Include the copywriters credits! |
| | # PR on website git repo for blog post (Markdown, Pelican): duration the week-end before posting |
| | #* Include Pelican header: date, time, file name |
| | #* Translate Mediawiki syntax to Github's Markdown: https://sinnwerkstatt.github.io/MediaWiki-to-Markdown-Javascript-Converter/ |
| | #* Need at least 2 or 3 peer reviews |
| | #* Include the reviewers credits! |
| | # Sending the newsletter: on D-day |
| | ## Copy-paste Newsletter on Tinyletter |
| | ## Test it (peer review is not yet done) |
| | ## Send it |
| | # Blog post: PR merge and deploy on website git repo on D-day |
| | # Social media posts |
| | #* text |
| | #* image |
| | #* hashtags |
| | #* link |
| | # Metrics/analytics in CommTeam MUC |
| | #* Twitter monthly metrics |
| | #* Newsletter analytics |
| | # Propose schedule for next issue |
| | # Translations: after D-day |
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| ==== Obsoleted ==== | | === Planning === |
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| ===== XEP-0387: XMPP Compliance Suites 2018 =====
| | [[XMPP Newsletter Round-Up 2020]] |
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| Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0387 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2018) has been released.
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| Abstract:
| | * 2020-02-24 Mon: copywriting starts |
| This document defines XMPP protocol compliance levels.
| | * 2020-02-28 Thu: end of link submission, PR on GitHub (during XMPP Summit) |
| | * 2020-03-03 Tue: newsletter publication, blog post, promotion tweets |
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| Changelog:
| | === Current newsletter === |
| Move to Draft as per Council vote on 2018-01-24. (XEP Editor (jwi))
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| URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0387.html
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| ==== Updated ====
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter template]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter August 2020]] (next) |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter July 2020]] |
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| * Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0414 (Cryptographic Hash Function Recommendations for XMPP) has been released.
| | === Past newsletters === |
| * Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0368 (SRV records for XMPP over TLS) has been released.
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| * Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0380 (Explicit Message Encryption) has been released.
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| * Version 1.4.0 of XEP-0184 (Message Delivery Receipts) has been released.
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| ==== Friendly specs ====
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter November 2019]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter December 2019]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter January 2020]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter February 2020]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter March 2020]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter April 2020]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter May 2020]] |
| | * [[XMPP Newsletter June 2020]] |
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| This one may be of interest to this community; it's in Last Call at the IETF currently: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-sni-encryption/
| | === Translations === |
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| === CTA, Call To Action (remove this mention before publishing) ===
| | * [[German translations|German translations]] |
| | * [[French translations|French translations]] |
| | * [[Spanish translations|Spanish translations]] |
| | * [[Polish translations|Polish translations]] |
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