XMPP Newsletter March 2020

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Intro

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

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Articles

https://www.altaruru.com/que-es-xmpp/

https://medium.com/@schirrmacher/analyzing-whatsapp-calls-176a9e776213

Mobile Kommunikation: zeitgemäß und rechtskonform German article about mobile communication in authorities mentioning MOKA/XMPP.

Events

At the beginning of this month, the FOSDEM was held in Brussels, Belgium.

• • Article on the XMPP Summit 24 (if possible)**

Software releases

Servers

https://github.com/ortuman/jackal/releases/tag/v0.8.2

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-1-is-released/87183

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/improving-push-notifications-with-mongooseim.html

https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/releases/tag/3.6.1 https://github.com/esl/MongoosePush/releases/tag/2.0.1

Clients and applications

Conversations 2.7.0 Beta has switched OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/commit/d6ae9d8d14cca2afb0ddc7a66c68bcb89a64ab3b + https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/commit/d73cb08ec687355866df62ace0cd48fd63ccb4d5

Psi OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/psi-im/plugins/commit/d39789cb986644bcc4c34ca55a20b50357ae342a

Profanity OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/commit/0089fbcf0a7bf3ba92fa2ba657c5e7d70e395ed7

Gajim OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim-plugins/commit/25cba9eea702336e82f75faf829873987c72dd33

https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/releases/tag/v5.0.1

Movim 0.17 – Catalina https://nl.movim.eu/?post/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/87633da7-3963-4923-aabc-54ac5f6ad1d8

https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.8.0 https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/release-080/ https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.8.1

https://monal.im/blog/ios-4-3-beta-in-testing/ https://monal.im/blog/sending-encrypted-images/ https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-looks-more-like-a-mac-app/ https://monal.im/blog/new-mac-and-ios-builds/ https://monal.im/blog/monal-4-3-is-coming-out-in-about-a-week-even-in-france/ https://monal.im/blog/new-builds-again/ https://monal.im/blog/mac-and-ips-improving-error-handling/ https://monal.im/blog/expect-to-see-4-3-this-week/

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/pade-1-6-0-released/87226

Libraries

https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2020/02/17/smack-some-more-busy-nights-and-12-bytes-of-iv/

Smack OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/pull/365

Python OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/Syndace/python-omemo/commit/45e56db33581c86c7e156115b7714bc32b6e154a

Other

https://blog.prosody.im/introducing-snikket/

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