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# Stickers | # Stickers | ||
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vanitasvitae has written a huge live thread on Mastodon: | |||
* [https://fosstodon.org/@vanitasvitae/103571845414141817 Day 1] | |||
* [https://fosstodon.org/@vanitasvitae/103577121536634734 Day 2] | |||
We will probably cover all these in more depth next month. | We will probably cover all these in more depth next month. | ||
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Remi Corniere has released [https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-4-0/ go-xmpp v0.4.0]. | Remi Corniere has released [https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-4-0/ go-xmpp v0.4.0]. | ||
https://github.com/tigase/halcyon | Tigase has just introduced [https://github.com/tigase/halcyon halcyon], a Kotlin multiplatform XMPP client library. | ||
=== Other === | === Other === | ||
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Mastodon is getting [https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776 support for XMPP URIs]. | Mastodon is getting [https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776 support for XMPP URIs]. | ||
The EU H2020 [https://www.cpswarm.eu/ CPSwarm] project has produced as one of its main outcome the [https://www.cpswarm.eu/index.php/cpswarm-workbench/ CPSwarm Workbench], a toolchain to model, optimize, simulate and deploy a swarm of Cyber Physical Systems. One of its opensource components [https://github.com/cpswarm released on Github], is the [https://github.com/cpswarm/SimulationOrchestrator/wiki/Simulation-and-Optimization-Environment Simulation and Optimization Environment], which is used to evaluate the performance of a swarm solution. This environment has a distributed architecture based on XMPP, allowing to execute in parallel simulations on simulators deployed on distributed machines. | |||
https://www.cpswarm.eu/ | |||
=== Services === | === Services === | ||
https:// | Tigase has upgraded their public servers [https://xmpp.cloud xmpp.cloud] with SASL-EXTERNAL for federation, and MUC avatars. | ||
https://sotecware.net/first-update-on-searchjabbernetwork-in-2020.html | Jonas Schäfer has described the [https://sotecware.net/first-update-on-searchjabbernetwork-in-2020.html first update on search.jabber.network in 2020]. | ||
=== GSoC === | === GSoC === | ||
=== Extensions and specifications === | === Extensions and specifications === | ||
==== Deferred ==== | |||
* XEP-0283 (Moved) | |||
* XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management) | |||
* XEP-0335 (JSON Containers) | |||
* XEP-0357 (Push Notifications) | |||
* XEP-0359 (Unique and Stable Stanza IDs) | |||
* XEP-0367 (Message Attaching) | |||
* XEP-0373 (OpenPGP for XMPP) | |||
* XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption) | |||
* XEP-0385 (Stateless Inline Media Sharing (SIMS)) | |||
* XEP-0391 (Jingle Encrypted Transports) | |||
* XEP-0397 (Instant Stream Resumption) | |||
* XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion) | |||
* XEP-0399 (Client Key Support) | |||
* XEP-0400 (Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP) | |||
* XEP-0403 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Presence Support.) | |||
* XEP-0404 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): JID Hidden Channels.) | |||
* XEP-0406 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): MIX Administration) | |||
* XEP-0407 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Miscellaneous Capabilities) | |||
* XEP-0408 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Co-existence with MUC) | |||
* XEP-0409 (IM Routing-NG) | |||
* XEP-0411 (Bookmarks Conversion) | |||
==== Proposed ==== | |||
Title: Inbox | |||
Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a list of ongoing conversations and their state. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/inbox.html | |||
Title: Full Text Search in MAM | |||
Abstract: This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text searching. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fulltext.html | |||
==== New ==== | ==== New ==== | ||
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0427 (MAM Fastening Collation) has been released. | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification proposes a mechanism by which MAM results | |||
containing fastenings can be collated effectively. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0427.html | |||
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0428 (Fallback Indication) has been released. | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification proposes a mechanism by which message bodies can be | |||
marked as being purely for fallback purposes, and therefore to be | |||
ignored by intermediaries and anything that understands the remainder | |||
of the message. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0428.html | |||
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption) has been released. | |||
Abstract: | |||
This document proposes the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) | |||
within the XSF devoted to the development of end-to-end encryption | |||
within the context of XMPP. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0429.html | |||
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM) has been released. | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text | |||
searching. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0431.html | |||
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0430 (Inbox) has been released. | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a | |||
list of ongoing conversations and their state. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0430.html | |||
==== Updated ==== | ==== Updated ==== | ||
* Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0401 (Easy User Onboarding) | |||
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0426 (Character counting in message bodies) | |||
* Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0393 (Message Styling) | |||
* Version 0.10.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload) | |||
* Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0425 (Message Moderation) | |||
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption) | |||
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM) | |||
==== Obsoleted ==== | |||
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0412 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2019) | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0412.html | |||
==== Last Call ==== | |||
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on XEP-0363. The | |||
Last Call was restarted after the Council election, because the previous | |||
Council did not vote on the ongoing LC. | |||
Title: HTTP File Upload | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification defines a protocol to request permissions from | |||
another entity to upload a file to a specific path on an HTTP server | |||
and at the same time receive a URL from which that file can later be | |||
downloaded again. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0363.html | |||
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on | |||
2020-01-28. | |||
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on | |||
XEP-0402. | |||
Title: Bookmarks 2 (This Time it's Serious) | |||
Abstract: | |||
This specification defines a syntax and storage profile for keeping a | |||
list of chatroom bookmarks on the server. | |||
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0402.html | |||
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on | |||
2020-02-12. | |||
=== Thanks all! === | === Thanks all! === |
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Status:
- Links collection: DONE
- Newsletter: DONE
- Blog post: WIP, under review
- Social media
- Translations
Newsletter subject/title
Full speed XMPP universe!
Intro (remove this)
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of January 2020, which has seen a lot of activity!
Help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented.
Articles
Ingo Jürgensmann has written two interesting articles:
David Wong wrote an insightful point by point piece: A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP
This Twitter thread started by Thierry Stoehr shows various use cases of XMPP in Instant Messaging: healthcare, miltary, police and law enforcement, municipal services, intelligence agencies, in-games chat... Please "Like" and "Share", and even add the use cases you have seen in action.
Mike Kuketz started of a series about different messengers including XMPP: Die verrückte Welt der Messenger – Messenger Teil1 (German).
Videos
Tutorials
Events
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:
- XMPP Shortage Audit
- Easy Passwordless Onboarding and Account Management
- Account Rich Presence in PEP
- MLS
- End-to-End Encryption Key Management
- Palaver IM Client
- Why Push Notifications are not good enough?
- MIX when?
- IM-NG
- commTeam ("Lightning talk")
- Inbox / Unread / Bind2
- XMPP as mandatory standard? (Lightning talk)
- Stickers
- XHTML-IM2 / Rich markup
vanitasvitae has written a huge live thread on Mastodon:
We will probably cover all these in more depth next month.
Software releases
Servers
The Ignite Realtime community has announced a series of updates:
- Hazelcast Openfire plugin 2.5.0
- Openfire 4.5.0
- XML Debugger Openfire plugin 1.7.3
- Monitoring Openfire plugin 2.0.0
Prosody 0.11.4 has been released.
Erlang Solutions has released MongooseIM 3.6.0 and MongoosePush 2.0.0.
Clients and applications
The Dino team has announced version 0.1, with a "development process that started three years ago and already combined work of 30 contributors, including 4 summer of code students and multiple development sprints". The news has even been covered by Hacker News and LinuxFr.org
Tigase has released BeagleIM 3.5 and SiskinIM 5.5, respectively for macOS and iOS.
JC Brand has announced the release of Converse.js 6.0.0.
Georg Lukas has released yaxim 0.9.9 - FOSDEM Edition.
In the latest newsletter, we wrongly announced the release of profanity 0.8.0 due to a misunderstanding. Please be aware that profanity 0.8.0 has been released on the 3rd of February. Also, a new blog has opened.
Monal has seen a lot of news in January, among which Catalyst progress, iOS 4.2.1 and 4.2.2, and 4.2.3 releases to Testflight, UI progress in upcoming 4.3.
Please also follow progress:
- Gajim development news January 2020
- SàT progress note 2020-W01
- zatrox, jbb & melvo, from the Kaidan team, explain their upcoming streamlined registration process in the next Kaidan 0.5.0.
Libraries
Remi Corniere has released go-xmpp v0.4.0.
Tigase has just introduced halcyon, a Kotlin multiplatform XMPP client library.
Other
Mastodon is getting support for XMPP URIs.
The EU H2020 CPSwarm project has produced as one of its main outcome the CPSwarm Workbench, a toolchain to model, optimize, simulate and deploy a swarm of Cyber Physical Systems. One of its opensource components released on Github, is the Simulation and Optimization Environment, which is used to evaluate the performance of a swarm solution. This environment has a distributed architecture based on XMPP, allowing to execute in parallel simulations on simulators deployed on distributed machines.
Services
Tigase has upgraded their public servers xmpp.cloud with SASL-EXTERNAL for federation, and MUC avatars.
Jonas Schäfer has described the first update on search.jabber.network in 2020.
GSoC
Extensions and specifications
Deferred
- XEP-0283 (Moved)
- XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
- XEP-0335 (JSON Containers)
- XEP-0357 (Push Notifications)
- XEP-0359 (Unique and Stable Stanza IDs)
- XEP-0367 (Message Attaching)
- XEP-0373 (OpenPGP for XMPP)
- XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption)
- XEP-0385 (Stateless Inline Media Sharing (SIMS))
- XEP-0391 (Jingle Encrypted Transports)
- XEP-0397 (Instant Stream Resumption)
- XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion)
- XEP-0399 (Client Key Support)
- XEP-0400 (Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP)
- XEP-0403 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Presence Support.)
- XEP-0404 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): JID Hidden Channels.)
- XEP-0406 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): MIX Administration)
- XEP-0407 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Miscellaneous Capabilities)
- XEP-0408 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Co-existence with MUC)
- XEP-0409 (IM Routing-NG)
- XEP-0411 (Bookmarks Conversion)
Proposed
Title: Inbox Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a list of ongoing conversations and their state. URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/inbox.html
Title: Full Text Search in MAM Abstract: This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text searching. URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fulltext.html
New
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0427 (MAM Fastening Collation) has been released.
Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which MAM results containing fastenings can be collated effectively.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0427.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0428 (Fallback Indication) has been released.
Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which message bodies can be marked as being purely for fallback purposes, and therefore to be ignored by intermediaries and anything that understands the remainder of the message.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0428.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption) has been released.
Abstract: This document proposes the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the XSF devoted to the development of end-to-end encryption within the context of XMPP.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0429.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM) has been released.
Abstract: This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text searching.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0431.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0430 (Inbox) has been released.
Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a list of ongoing conversations and their state.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0430.html
Updated
- Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0401 (Easy User Onboarding)
- Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0426 (Character counting in message bodies)
- Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0393 (Message Styling)
- Version 0.10.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload)
- Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0425 (Message Moderation)
- Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption)
- Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM)
Obsoleted
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0412 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2019) URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0412.html
Last Call
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on XEP-0363. The Last Call was restarted after the Council election, because the previous Council did not vote on the ongoing LC.
Title: HTTP File Upload
Abstract: This specification defines a protocol to request permissions from another entity to upload a file to a specific path on an HTTP server and at the same time receive a URL from which that file can later be downloaded again.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0363.html
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2020-01-28.
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on XEP-0402.
Title: Bookmarks 2 (This Time it's Serious)
Abstract: This specification defines a syntax and storage profile for keeping a list of chatroom bookmarks on the server.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0402.html
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on 2020-02-12.
Thanks all!
This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.
Thanks to MDosch, Vanitasvitae, Wurstsalat, Neustradamus, Jwi for their help in creating it!
Please share the news on "social networks":
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/xmpp
- Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xmpp-standards-foundation/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jabber/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmpp/
License
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