XMPP Newsletter March 2020
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Intro
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of February 2020 (release in March 2020).
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Articles
https://www.altaruru.com/que-es-xmpp/
https://medium.com/@schirrmacher/analyzing-whatsapp-calls-176a9e776213
Mobile Kommunikation: zeitgemäß und rechtskonform German article about mobile communication in authorities mentioning MOKA/XMPP.
https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2020/02/17/smack-some-more-busy-nights-and-12-bytes-of-iv/
https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2020/02/25/how-to-implement-a-xep-for-smack/
http://nitter.net/iNPUTmice/status/1228950491805167617#m
https://quey.org/@GatoOscuro/103685251805747041
MLS https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.en.html https://mobile.twitter.com/fsfe/status/1233350360565264384 RT https://mobile.twitter.com/fsfe/status/1233350360565264384 Security scandal around #WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised messengers and digital sovereignty https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.en.html @fsfe @xmpp #XMPP #decentalization https://post.lurk.org/@pep/103736689790093261
I started to build a place for German users. Social Media, Mailingliste, Homepage, Blog. But it's just me 🤷♂️ https://xmpp-messenger.de 😂
https://www.ag-software.net/2020/02/28/run-snikket-on-your-nas/
https://blog.samwhited.com/2020/02/extensions-in-mellium/
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Events
In March there will be two XMPP Sprints in Düsseldorf and Berlin.
Feel free to join and support the community and their work!
On 1-2 February, FOSDEM, was held in Brussels, Belgium. As usual the XMPP community coordinated the Real-Time Lounge, a corner where several open source projects around Real Time Communication can present themselves. At the XMPP booth there were lots of nice conversations with FOSDEM visitors. The easy onboarding of Snikket was one of the eye catchers at the booth. In the Real Time developers room thee was a talk about the modularity of the XMPP protocol by Winfried Tilanus.
As usual, before FOSDEM a part of the XMPP community gathered for XMPP summit 24. Over the course of two days many aspects of the XMPP protocol were discussed, including onboarding, 'rich presence', several aspects of encryption, MIX, Bind/SASL, Stickers and rich markup. The attendants regarded this summit as very productive and many of the discussions already resulted in proposed protocol extensions and patches to existing extensions.
Software releases
Servers
https://github.com/ortuman/jackal/releases/tag/v0.8.2
https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-1-is-released/87183
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/improving-push-notifications-with-mongooseim.html
https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/releases/tag/3.6.1 https://github.com/esl/MongoosePush/releases/tag/2.0.1
https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/rest-api-openfire-plugin-1-4-0-released/87286
Clients and applications
https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.6-and-siskin-5.6-released/
https://www.goffi.org/b/HsWxUHzXdvsH7Syrx8f6Ne/progress-note
Conversations has switched OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/commit/d6ae9d8d14cca2afb0ddc7a66c68bcb89a64ab3b + https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/commit/d73cb08ec687355866df62ace0cd48fd63ccb4d5 https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/releases/tag/2.7.0
Psi OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/psi-im/plugins/commit/d39789cb986644bcc4c34ca55a20b50357ae342a
Profanity OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/commit/0089fbcf0a7bf3ba92fa2ba657c5e7d70e395ed7
Gajim OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim-plugins/commit/25cba9eea702336e82f75faf829873987c72dd33
https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/releases/tag/v5.0.1
Movim 0.17 – Catalina https://nl.movim.eu/?post/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/87633da7-3963-4923-aabc-54ac5f6ad1d8
Pix-Art Messenger will remove its OTR legacy code by mid of 2020. Experts on any future OTRv4 implementation are invited to contribute new code.
https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.8.0 https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/release-080/ https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.8.1
https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/lmc/
Gajim Development News February 2020: Redesigned invites, color improvements and a new Flatpak Nightly
Refactored Monal on Catalyst (CS did it too) with fixes and UI changes, but limits it to iOS 12 and 13, when released it will come back to the France store too, pushed IV to... See nitter link
https://monal.im/blog/mac-catalyst-delayed-in-the-appstore-its-blocking-the-keychain/ https://monal.im/blog/removing-google-talk/ https://monal.im/blog/new-mac-and-ios-beta-bre-updated/ https://monal.im/blog/xmpp-is-weird/ https://monal.im/blog/monal-ios-is-available-in-france/ https://monal.im/blog/expect-to-see-4-3-this-week/ https://monal.im/blog/mac-and-ips-improving-error-handling/ https://monal.im/blog/new-builds-again/ https://monal.im/blog/monal-4-3-is-coming-out-in-about-a-week-even-in-france/ https://monal.im/blog/new-mac-and-ios-builds/ https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-looks-more-like-a-mac-app/ https://monal.im/blog/sending-encrypted-images/ https://monal.im/blog/ios-4-3-beta-in-testing/
https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/pade-1-6-0-released/87226
Libraries
https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2020/02/17/smack-some-more-busy-nights-and-12-bytes-of-iv/
Smack OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/1051cd2640616385f80997cad51bf7411e8e04cc
Python OMEMO IV 16 byte to 12 byte: https://github.com/Syndace/python-omemo/commit/45e56db33581c86c7e156115b7714bc32b6e154a
https://godoc.org/mellium.im/xmpp
Other
https://blog.prosody.im/introducing-snikket/
https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-end-encryption-and-the-death-of-pgp/
https://hund.linuxkompis.se/2020/02/13/hur-du-kommer-igang-med-xmpp-pa-android.html
Services
https://twitter.com/jabberpl/status/1231030107273355265
https://twitter.com/jabberpl/status/1231032793968279553
GSoC
Extensions and specifications
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