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

Ingo Jürgensmann has written two interesting articles:

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

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.

Mastodon now supports XMPP URIs.

Mike Kuketz started of a series about different messengers including XMPP: Die verrückte Welt der Messenger – Messenger Teil1 (German).

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:

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.

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

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!

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