XMPP Newsletter

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Here you can submit news items for inclusion in the next XMPP Newsletter (as managed by the CommTeam).


What determines relevancy?

The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or XMPP-based software (clients, servers, libs).

Some exceptions might be made, for example for a release page showing a new release of some XMPP-based software.

However, marketing brochures (e.g. single-page marketing sites) for new products which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.

Submissions

Jeff Becker has released a tutorial, "New life for XMPP. Build your own decentralized messenger!", using Prosody and Pidgin. https://i2p.rocks/blog/new-life-for-xmpp-build-your-own-decentralized-messenger.html

Peter Waher has published his book on XMPP and IoT: "Mastering Internet of Things" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mastering-internet-things-peter-waher-1/

Software releases

Servers

Less than a month after Metronome IM 3.8, the versions 3.8.1, 3.8.2, and 3.8.8 have followed, bringing small improvements such as MAM, SIFT, avatars and GDPR.: https://metronome.im/

Erlang Solutions has released MongooseIM 2.2, subtitled "The Global Server", as it brings authentication with certificates (XEP-0178: Best Practices for Use of SASL EXTERNAL with Certificates), stable Global Distribution (GD) that connects multiple servers/clusters worldwide under the same domain name, a Jingle/SIP proxy, and many more goodies. https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/mongooseim-2-2-the-global-server.html

Clients

Less than a month after the symbolic version 1.0.0, Gajim 1.0.1 has been published, improving MAM support adding image preview in file chooser dialog, and many smaller fixes and improvements. https://gajim.org/

ChatSecure iOS releases v4.3.0, which is able to catch up on discussions that happened while it was offline (#MAM) and supports #OMEMO encryption https://twitter.com/MarcelWaldvogel/status/983730120379781120

Libraries

Smack 4.2.4 has been released, adding support for XEP-0394: Message Markup, XEP-0382: Spoiler messages, XEP-0372: References, XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation, and bringing even more fixes and improvements. https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-2-4-released/81404