XMPP Newsletter December 2019

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Intro

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of November 2019.

Help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented.

Articles

Edivaldo Brito has written in Portugese "Como instalar o moderno cliente Jabber/XMPP Dino no Linux via Snap" ("How to install the modern Jabber/XMPP Dino client on Linux via Snap").

Last month, the XMPP newsletter has been translated by community members:

• French: Lettre d’information XMPP, 8 novembre 2019, sprints, IoT et le début de Twitter
• German: XMPP Newsletter, 08. November 2019, Sprints, IoT und die Anfänge von Twitter
• Spanish: XMPP Newsletter, 08 Nov 2019, Sprints, IoT, y los primeros Twitter

We encourage you all to contribute to this translation effort!

Software releases

Servers

The Ignite Realtime community has released:

• Openfire 4.4.4
• HTTP File Upload plugin 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
• inVerse Openfire plugin 5.0.5.1

ProcessOne has published bugfix release ejabberd 19.09.1.

Metronome IM v3.13.0 has been released, read the changelog.

Clients and applications

Movim 0.16 – Cesco has been released, with Drawing and content sharing, Attachments, Chat improvements, and Chats, chatrooms list improvements, and Search, plus more.

gajim.org features a new website. It is planned to publish a post about Gajim's development every month, starting with October and November.

Goffi has published his SàT progress note 2019-W48.

Conversations 2.6.0 has been released.

Converse.js 5.0.5 has been released.

Libraries

xmpp.js has been released in versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1.

Extensions and specifications

This month, nothing in Last Call, Proposed, Obsoleted.

New

Message Retraction

Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0424 (Message Retraction) has been released.

Abstract: This specification defines a method for indicating that a message should be retracted.

Changelog: Accepted by vote of Council on 2019-10-23. (XEP Editor (jcb))

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0424.html

Message Moderation

rsion 0.1.0 of XEP-0425 (Message Moderation) has been released.

Abstract: This specification defines a method for groupchat moderators to moderate messages.

Changelog: Accepted by vote of Council on 2019-10-16. (XEP Editor (jcb))

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0425.html

Updated

• Version 1.23.1 of XEP-0001 (XMPP Extension Protocols) has been released.
• Version 1.17.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe) has been released.
• Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0076 (Malicious Stanzas) has been released.
• Version 1.1.4 of XEP-0084 (User Avatar) has been released.
• Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0158 (CAPTCHA Forms) has been released.
• Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0423 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2020) has been released.
• Version 0.2 of XEP-0328 (JID Preparation and Validation Service) has been released.
• Version 0.3 of XEP-0372 (References) has been released.
• Version 0.7.0 of XEP-0392 (Consistent Color Generation) has been released.
• Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0393 (Message Styling) has been released.
• Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0410 (MUC Self-Ping (Schrödinger's Chat)) has been released.
• Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0420 (Stanza Content Encryption) has been released.

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.

Thanks to Nyco, Guus, Wurstsalat, MDosch, Neustradamus for their help in creating it!

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License

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