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).

Software releases

Servers

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-0-is-released/87004

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/xml-debugger-openfire-plugin-1-7-3-released/87006

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/hazelcast-openfire-plugin-2-5-0-released/86961

https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/monitoring-openfire-plugin-2-0-0-released/87153

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

Extensions and specifications

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.

Thanks to xxx, yyy, zzz for their help in creating it!

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License

This newsletter is published under CC by-sa license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/