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== What determines relevancy? ==
== Contributors: What determines relevancy? ==


The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or
The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or
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which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.
which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.


== Submissions ==
Make sure you read the [[Basic communication guide for XMPP techies]]
 
== Newsletter editors: TODO/checklist ==
 
For the newsletter editors:
 
# Collect links in this wiki page, read and validate content
# Copywriting so it is readable by humans
# Add images
# Add clear CTA
# Subject line and preview text
# PR on website git repo for blog post (Markdown, Pelican), and peer review
# Analytics from latest newsletter in spreadsheet
# Newsletter via Tinyletter
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== Submissions for next newsletter==
 
=== Newsletter subject ===
 
=== Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ===
 
Be kind, inform your friends and colleagues: forward this newsletter!


=== Articles ===
=== Articles ===


Marek Foss, of ProcessOne, details the story on how they have [https://blog.process-one.net/uniting-global-football-fans-with-an-xmpp-geocluster/ deployed an XMPP geocluster] for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil
* https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Basic_communication_guide_for_XMPP_techies
 
* https://ralphm.net/blog/2019/09/09/fastening
Cyril Brulebois wrote a short piece on [https://mraw.org/blog/2019/08/17/Sending_HTML_messages_with_Net_XMPP/ Sending HTML messages with Net::XMPP] (Perl).
* [https://gultsch.de/dino_multiple.html Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Dino]
* https://news.jabberfr.org/2019/09/lettre-dactualite-xmpp-du-3-septembre-2019/


=== Videos ===
=== Videos ===
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=== Events ===
=== Events ===


Maxime “pep.” Buquet reports on the [https://bouah.net/2019/07/new-sprint-new-goodies/ XMPP sprint in Lyon] in July held at Wisolv's offices: DOAP - Description Of A Project, Reactions, Occupant-id, and more.
Summit 24 and FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium


The next [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_September_Stockholm XMPP sprint in Stockholm] will be held on September 28th and 29th, in the Nacka Municipality.
=== Software releases ===
         
==== Servers ====


* Réda Housni Alaoui is reviving the formerly dormant Vysper XMPP server https://github.com/apache/mina-vysper
* https://blog.xabber.com/xabber-server-v-0-9-alpha-is-released/
* https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/fastpath-service-plugin-4-4-4-released/86155


https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Camp2019
==== Clients ====


https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Meetups/Bavaria
* https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.7.0
* http://monal.im/blog/xmppsignalbluetoothp2p-wifi-serverless-chat/
* https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.2
* https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.3
* https://blog.agayon.be/converse_xep_0070.html
* https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/releases/tag/2.5.8


=== Extensions and specifications ===
==== Libraries ====
 
=== Other ===
 
=== Services ===
 
* Updates for search.jabbercat.org:
** Visual redesign
** "Dummy avatars" using XEP-0392
** Link to anonymous web chat if available
** Avatars for white-listed MUCs
** [https://search.jabbercat.org/stats#software Software version pie chart]


=== Software releases ===
=== GSoC ===
         
==== Servers ====


[https://github.com/horazont/prometheus-xmpp-blackbox-exporter Prometheus XMPP Blackbox Exporter] (Apache license 2.0) allows you to probe XMPP services and export metrics from the probes to Prometheus.
=== Extensions and specifications ===


The igniterealtime community has announced multiple releases:
==== Last Call ====


* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-4-1-release/85857 Openfire 4.4.1]
==== New ====
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/monitoring-service-1-8-0-and-inverse-4-2-0-1-plugins-released/85601 Monitoring Service 1.8.0 and inVerse 4.2.0.1 plugins]
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-4-0-alpha2-released/85670 Smack 4.4.0-alpha2]
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/thread-dump-1-0-0-plugin-released/85794 Thread Dump 1.0.0 plugin]


Antonino Siena has announced [https://gitlab.com/nifker/xmpp-http-upload xmpp-http-upload], a lightweight and efficient http upload server for XMPP (MIT license).
==== Proposed ====


Mickaël Rémond has announced [https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-19-08/ ejabberd 19.08], with JSON Web Token, configuration validator, improved scalability, and more.
Message Fastening


Jérôme "Goffi" Poisson has announced [https://www.goffi.org/b/XL5aGAa6wymUt4mAhnzGpm/pubsub-been-released SàT PubSub 0.3.0], a server independent PEP/PubSub XMPP service, which aims to be complete and universal.
Abstract:
This specification defines a way for payloads on a message to be marked as being logically fastened to a previous message.


==== Clients ====
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fasten.html


Kaidan [https://www.kaidan.im/2019/07/08/kaidan-0.4.0/ 0.4.0] and [https://www.kaidan.im//2019/07/16/kaidan-0.4.1/ 0.4.1] have been released, and is available to download on Linux, Windows, and macOS (and experimental Android and Ubuntu Touch).


Jérôme "Goffi" Poisson writes regular [https://www.goffi.org/b/Gjm7Z5AUt4xh8gciV6wWSe/progress-note SàT progress notes].
XMPP Compliance Suites 2020


[https://www.xabber.com/android/ Xabber Android 2.6.4 (634)] has been released on Google Play, with improved message archive synchronization, improved startup speed, support of references in messages (files, forwards, markup (bold, italic, etc), mentions, quotes), image compression setting, visual changes, and more.
Abstract:
This document defines XMPP protocol compliance levels.


https://www.goffi.org/b/N29CuUQS4U4TK36JFuTQ5Q/salut-commune
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/cs-2020.html


https://nl.movim.eu/?post/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/fd1921c6-219f-477b-a4be-ebb25e4cccc5


https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.0
Authorization Tokens


https://tigase.net/blog-entry/beagleim-32-and-siskin-im-52-released
Abstract:
This document defines an XMPP protocol extension for issuing authentication tokens to client applications and provides methods for managing сlient connections.


==== Libraries ====
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/auth-tokens.html


StanzaJS (formely known as Stanza.io) has been released in version 12 beta.
==== Obsoleted ====
https://twitter.com/lancestout/status/1149743328323227648?s=03


https://github.com/strophe/strophejs/releases/tag/v1.3.4
==== Updated ====


=== Other ===
==== Friendly specs ====


https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/announcing-the-xmpp-strings-testframework/85954
=== Thx and CTA, Call To Action (remove this mention before publishing) ===


=== Services ===
Thanks to Daniel and Jwi for aggregating the news!


https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1250600/xmpp-sunset
=== License ===


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