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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
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.
https://github.com/tigase/halcyon
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
https://twitter.com/tigase/status/1217498497185873920?s=03
https://sotecware.net/first-update-on-searchjabbernetwork-in-2020.html
GSoC
Extensions and specifications
New
Updated
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
This newsletter is published under CC by-sa license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/