XMPP Newsletter January 2020
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Happy new XMPP year!
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Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of December 2019.
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Articles
Whatsapp, Matrix or XMPP (german) - The German Federal Ministry of the Interior is looking for a messenger for the federal authorities while the German Federal Police is experimenting with XMPP. They are using an Open Source Messenger "MOKA" based on XMPP (german).
Fabian Sauter known as COM8 (and developer of UWPX) has finalised his Bachelor Thesis on "Smart Building Control with XMPP for IoT". Congratulations! The development will be continued with the goal of an official XEP.
Anoxinon e.V who intend to inform and improve the situation about privacy and free software as well run a XMPP Server are looking for new board members.
Paul Schaub has written two pieces:
- Pitfalls for OMEMO Implementations – Part 1: Inactive Devices
- Re: The Ecosystem is Moving as an answer to Moxie Marlinspike's talk at 36C3 (Moxie is the creator of Signal)
Alex Gnauck wrote about Simpler code in handlers using pattern matching in MatriX.
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Servers
The Ignite Realtime community has released:
Clients and applications
Anu Pokharel the developer of Monal has made significant changes to its MUC implemenation which improves the situation for iOS (4.1 and 4.2 and 4.2 final beta) and macOS (2.5 beta 1 2.5 beta 2) users. Furthermore there has been many bug fixes, including HTTP upload, and the end of iOS9 support.
Gajim has posted their Development News for December 2019: old message dialog system, compact tooltip when hovering a group chat in Gajim’s contact list, new assistant for password change and account removal, HTTP File Upload now work asynchronously with the ‘libsoup’ library, bug fixes, plugin updates, and changes in python-nbxmpp.
Tigase has released BeagleIM 3.4 and Siskin IM 5.4: BeagleIM 3.4 allows you to set MUC room avatar, simplifies MUC room settings, and bug fixes, while SiskinIM 5.4 adds support for setting MUC room avatar.
Movim 0.16.1 has been released.
Profanity 0.8.0 has been released with consistent color generated nicks (XEP-0392) and a trackbar so you see where you left off reading!
Goffi has published the SàT progress note 2019-W51.
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Thanks all!
This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.
Thanks to Alejandra, Sven, zzz for their help in creating it!
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