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=== Newsletter subject/title ===
=== Everyone go for decentralization - no joke! 01 Apr 2020 ===


[ Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ]
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=== Intro ===
=== Intro ===


Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of April 2020.
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of February and March 2020.


Help us sustain this as a community effort, which [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/News_and_Articles_for_the_next_XMPP_Newsletter process is fully documented].
We had a big delay releasing and finalizing the February release of the XMPP Newsletter. So the decision was made to combine both into this version - apologies!
 
Anyway, we are always happy to contributors - just come along and talk to us in the [Comm-Team MUC xmpp:commteam@muc.xmpp.org?join] and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort, which [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/News_and_Articles_for_the_next_XMPP_Newsletter process is fully documented].


Subscribe by email:
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=== Articles ===
=== Articles ===


> Turns out Grindr uses #XMPP for their in-app chat. https://mastodon.xyz/@jcbrand/103757814572529323
A nice and short summary about XMPP - en [https://www.altaruru.com/que-es-xmpp/ español]!
 
Marvin Schirrmacher [https://medium.com/@schirrmacher/analyzing-whatsapp-calls-176a9e776213 analysed WhatsApp's VoIP protocol]. He extracted cryptographic keys and also showed that code obscurity does not finally protect against attackers. Further readings on GitHub [https://github.com/schirrmacher/files/blob/master/WhatsApp%20VoIP%20Protocol.pdf here], [https://github.com/schirrmacher/files/blob/master/WhatsApp here] and [https://github.com/schirrmacher/files/blob/master/WhatsAppCore here].
 
[https://www.behoerden-spiegel.de/2020/02/12/mobile-kommunikation-zeitgemaess-und-rechtskonform/ Mobile Kommunikation: zeitgemäß und rechtskonform] German article about mobile communication in authorities mentioning MOKA/XMPP.
 
Daniel Gultsch (iNPUTmice) [http://nitter.net/iNPUTmice/status/1228950491805167617#m published several posts] commenting on the situation on OMEMO initial vectors.
 
A discussion (Spanish) on Quey compared the [https://quey.org/@GatoOscuro/103685251805747041 performance of XMPP and Matrix]. Seems that XMPP outperforms easily!
 
Liz Flynn scheduled a [https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/history/ notification for IETF-107] for Messaging Layer Security (MLS). You can read the current architecture draft [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-architecture/ here].
 
After a recent [https://www.dw.com/en/whatsapp-security-flaw-over-60000-groups-still-accessible-online/a-52543414 secruity flaw in WhatsApp groups], the FSFE recommends XMPP as [https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.en.html decentral and open alternative amd solution]. The XSF tweeted about this already.
 
debxwoody has started to build a [https://xmpp-messenger.de/index.html place for German users of XMPP] including social media, mailing list, homepage and a blog. He is calling for supporters!
 
After the Prosody team [https://blog.prosody.im/introducing-snikket/ released Snikket], Alexander Gnauck explains how to run it on your [https://www.ag-software.net/2020/02/28/run-snikket-on-your-nas/ NAS].
 
Sam Whited wrote about the [https://blog.samwhited.com/2020/02/extensions-in-mellium/ Go XMPP library].
 
Turns out [Grindr uses #XMPP for their in-app chat https://mastodon.xyz/@jcbrand/103757814572529323]


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==== Newsletter translations ====
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Report from Sprints DU and BER
Report from Sprints DU and BER
https://hackmd.syndace.com/s/r1fNElZSL#


=== Software releases ===
=== Software releases ===
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==== Servers ====
==== Servers ====


https://blog.process-one.net/xmpp-notifer-v1-0-0/
ProcessOne released their [xmpp-notifer v1.0.0 https://blog.process-one.net/xmpp-notifer-v1-0-0/] which allows to send notification to XMPP.
 
https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-5-0/


==== Clients and applications ====
==== Clients and applications ====
https://monal.im/blog/new-mac-and-ios-betas-2/
https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.7-and-siskin-5.7-released/


==== Libraries ====
==== Libraries ====


=== Other ===
=== Other ===
https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/903


=== Services ===
=== Services ===


=== GSoC ===
=== GSoC ===
> Students Apply
> Deadline March 31, 2020 at 20:00
> Students can register and submit their applications to mentor organizations.
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/


=== Extensions and specifications ===
=== Extensions and specifications ===
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