XMPP Newsletter February 2020

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Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of January 2020.

Help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented.

Articles

As usual in this period of the year, the community of protocol makers united in the XMPP Summit. Two days of sharing and building the future of XMPP. This year has been productive, we covered various subjects such as:

1. XMPP Shortage Audit
2. Easy Passwordless Onboarding and Account Management
3. Account Rich Presence in PEP
4. MLS
5. End-to-End Encryption Key Management
6. Palaver IM Client
7. Why Push Notifications are not good enough?
8. MIX when?
9. IM-NG
10. commTeam ("Lightning talk")
11. Inbox / Unread / Bind2
12. XMPP as mandatory standard? (Lightning talk)
13. Stickers
14. XHTML-IM2 / Rich markup

We will probably cover all these in more depth next month.

Ingo Jürgensmann has written two interesting articles:

• XMPP - Prosody & Ejabberd
• XMPP - Fun with Clients

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-end-encryption-and-the-death-of-pgp/

https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/18/1755-xmpp-fun-clients

https://twitter.com/ThierryStoehr/status/1202978443048235009

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776

Die verrückte Welt der Messenger – Messenger Teil1 (german) - Start of a series about different messengers (including XMPP).

Software releases

Servers

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-0-is-released/87004

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/xml-debugger-openfire-plugin-1-7-3-released/87006

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/hazelcast-openfire-plugin-2-5-0-released/86961

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/monitoring-openfire-plugin-2-0-0-released/87153

https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.4-released/

https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/releases/tag/3.6.0

https://github.com/esl/MongoosePush/releases/tag/2.0.0

Clients and applications

https://monal.im/blog/ios-mac-and-catalyst-builds/

https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-ui-fixes/

https://monal.im/blog/ios-10-and-11/

https://monal.im/blog/monal-ios-4-2-1-released/

https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-and-ios-4-2-2/

https://monal.im/blog/omemo-fixes-catalyst-and-france/

https://monal.im/blog/omemo-is-broken-in-general-across-the-ecosystem/

https://monal.im/blog/mam-and-rethinking-the-ui/

https://monal.im/blog/development-marches-on/

https://dino.im/blog/2020/01/dino-0.1-release/

https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.5-and-siskin-5.5-released/

https://gajim.org/post/2020-01-27-development-news-january/

https://www.goffi.org/b/66adNNNbFp84CWFzyvGpmK/progress-note

https://www.kaidan.im/2020/01/08/Easy-Registration/

https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v6.0.0

https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/index.html

https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.5-and-siskin-5.5-released/

http://yaxim.org/blog/2020/01/31/yaxim-0-dot-9-9-fosdem-edition/

Libraries

https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-4-0/

https://github.com/tigase/halcyon

Other

Mastodon is getting support for XMPP URIs

https://www.cpswarm.eu/

Services

https://twitter.com/tigase/status/1217498497185873920?s=03

https://sotecware.net/first-update-on-searchjabbernetwork-in-2020.html

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.

Thanks to xxx, yyy, zzz for their help in creating it!

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