XMPP Newsletter

Here you can submit news items for inclusion in the next XMPP Newsletter (as managed by the CommTeam).

Contributors: What determines relevancy?

The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or XMPP-based software (clients, servers, libs).

Some exceptions might be made, for example for a release page showing a new release of some XMPP-based software.

However, marketing brochures (e.g. single-page marketing sites) for new products which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.

Make sure you read the Basic communication guide for XMPP techies

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Submissions for next newsletter

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Articles

• https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Basic_communication_guide_for_XMPP_techies
• https://ralphm.net/blog/2019/09/09/fastening
• Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Dino
• https://news.jabberfr.org/2019/09/lettre-dactualite-xmpp-du-3-septembre-2019/

Events

Summit 24 and FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

Software releases

Servers

• Réda Housni Alaoui is reviving the formerly dormant Vysper XMPP server https://github.com/apache/mina-vysper
• https://blog.xabber.com/xabber-server-v-0-9-alpha-is-released/

Clients

• https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.7.0
• http://monal.im/blog/xmppsignalbluetoothp2p-wifi-serverless-chat/
• https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.2
• https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.3
• https://blog.agayon.be/converse_xep_0070.html
• https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/releases/tag/2.5.8

Services

•  Updates for search.jabbercat.org:
  • Visual redesign
  • "Dummy avatars" using XEP-0392
  • Link to anonymous web chat if available
  • Avatars for white-listed MUCs
  • Software version pie chart

Extensions and specifications

Proposed

Message Fastening

Abstract: This specification defines a way for payloads on a message to be marked as being logically fastened to a previous message.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fasten.html

XMPP Compliance Suites 2020

Abstract: This document defines XMPP protocol compliance levels.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/cs-2020.html

Authorization Tokens

Abstract: This document defines an XMPP protocol extension for issuing authentication tokens to client applications and provides methods for managing сlient connections.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/auth-tokens.html