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Planning
October
- 2019-09-27 Fri: end of submission
- 2019-09-27 Fri: PR on GitHub
- 2019-10-01 Tue: newsletter publication, blog post, tweets
Newsletter subject/title
[ Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ]
- Prepare for FOSDEM, modern XMPP features, and more news
- FOSDEM 2020 Feb, modernization of XMPP, and more...
Intro
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter: October edition, covering the month of September.
Be kind, inform your friends and colleagues: forward this newsletter!
Articles
Ralph Meijer, chairman of the Board of Directors of the XSF, has written an introductory piece about "XMPP Message Attaching, Fastening, References" that are specifications in progress.
https://news.jabberfr.org/2019/09/lettre-dactualite-xmpp-du-3-septembre-2019/
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Basic_communication_guide_for_XMPP_techies
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Videos
Tutorials
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/
- https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/fastpath-service-plugin-4-4-4-released/86155
- https://twitter.com/MongooseIM/status/1176111308430815232
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
Libraries
Other
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
GSoC
Extensions and specifications
Last Call
New
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
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Friendly specs
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