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[ Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ]
Full speed XMPP universe!


=== Intro (remove this)===
=== Intro (remove this)===


Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of January 2020.
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of January 2020, which has seen a lot of activity!


Help us sustain this as a community effort, which [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/News_and_Articles_for_the_next_XMPP_Newsletter process is fully documented].
Help us sustain this as a community effort, which [https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/News_and_Articles_for_the_next_XMPP_Newsletter process is fully documented].
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=== Articles ===
=== Articles ===


https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/07/1754-xmpp-prosody-ejabberd
Ingo Jürgensmann has written two interesting articles:


https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/18/1755-xmpp-fun-clients
* [https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/07/1754-xmpp-prosody-ejabberd XMPP - Prosody & Ejabberd]
* [https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/18/1755-xmpp-fun-clients XMPP - Fun with Clients]


https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-end-encryption-and-the-death-of-pgp/
David Wong wrote an insightful point by point piece: [https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-end-encryption-and-the-death-of-pgp/ A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP]


https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2020/01/18/1755-xmpp-fun-clients
This Twitter thread started by Thierry Stoehr shows [https://twitter.com/ThierryStoehr/status/1202978443048235009 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.


https://twitter.com/ThierryStoehr/status/1202978443048235009
Mike Kuketz started of a series about different messengers including XMPP: [https://www.kuketz-blog.de/die-verrueckte-welt-der-messenger-messenger-teil1/ Die verrückte Welt der Messenger – Messenger Teil1] (German).
 
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776


=== Videos ===
=== Videos ===
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=== Events ===
=== Events ===
As usual in this period of the year, the community of protocol makers united in the XMPP Summit. Two days of sharing and building the future of XMPP. This year has been productive, we covered various subjects such as:
# XMPP Shortage Audit
# Easy Passwordless Onboarding and Account Management
# Account Rich Presence in PEP
# MLS
# End-to-End Encryption Key Management
# Palaver IM Client
# Why Push Notifications are not good enough?
# MIX when?
# IM-NG
# commTeam ("Lightning talk")
# Inbox / Unread / Bind2
# XMPP as mandatory standard? (Lightning talk)
# Stickers
# XHTML-IM2 / Rich markup
vanitasvitae has written a huge live thread on Mastodon:
* [https://fosstodon.org/@vanitasvitae/103571845414141817 Day 1]
* [https://fosstodon.org/@vanitasvitae/103577121536634734 Day 2]
We will probably cover all these in more depth next month.


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


https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-0-is-released/87004
The Ignite Realtime community has announced a series of updates:


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 Hazelcast Openfire plugin 2.5.0]
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-5-0-is-released/87004 Openfire 4.5.0]
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/xml-debugger-openfire-plugin-1-7-3-released/87006 XML Debugger Openfire plugin 1.7.3]
* [https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/monitoring-openfire-plugin-2-0-0-released/87153 Monitoring Openfire plugin 2.0.0]


https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/hazelcast-openfire-plugin-2-5-0-released/86961
[https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.4-released/ Prosody 0.11.4] has been released.


https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.4-released/
Erlang Solutions has released [https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/releases/tag/3.6.0 MongooseIM 3.6.0] and [https://github.com/esl/MongoosePush/releases/tag/2.0.0 MongoosePush 2.0.0].


==== Clients and applications ====
==== Clients and applications ====


https://monal.im/blog/ios-mac-and-catalyst-builds/
The Dino team has announced [https://dino.im/blog/2020/01/dino-0.1-release/ version 0.1], with a "development process that started three years ago and already combined work of 30 contributors, including 4 summer of code students and multiple development sprints". The news has even been covered by [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22185693 Hacker News] and [https://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-de-dino-0-1 LinuxFr.org]
 
Tigase has released [https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.5-and-siskin-5.5-released/ BeagleIM 3.5 and SiskinIM 5.5], respectively for macOS and iOS.


https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-ui-fixes/
JC Brand has announced the release of [https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v6.0.0 Converse.js 6.0.0].


https://monal.im/blog/ios-10-and-11/
Georg Lukas has released  [http://yaxim.org/blog/2020/01/31/yaxim-0-dot-9-9-fosdem-edition/ yaxim 0.9.9 - FOSDEM Edition].


https://monal.im/blog/monal-ios-4-2-1-released/
In the latest newsletter, we wrongly announced the release of profanity 0.8.0 due to a misunderstanding. Please be aware that [https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.8.0 profanity 0.8.0 has been released] on the 3rd of February. Also, [https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/index.html a new blog has opened].


https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-and-ios-4-2-2/
Monal has seen [https://monal.im/2020/01/ a lot of news in January], among which Catalyst progress, iOS [https://monal.im/blog/monal-ios-4-2-1-released/ 4.2.1] and [https://monal.im/blog/catalyst-and-ios-4-2-2/ 4.2.2], and 4.2.3 releases to Testflight, [https://monal.im/blog/mam-and-rethinking-the-ui/ UI progress] in upcoming 4.3.


https://monal.im/blog/omemo-fixes-catalyst-and-france/
Please also follow progress:


https://monal.im/blog/omemo-is-broken-in-general-across-the-ecosystem/
* [https://gajim.org/post/2020-01-27-development-news-january/ Gajim development news January 2020]
* [https://www.goffi.org/b/66adNNNbFp84CWFzyvGpmK/progress-note SàT progress note 2020-W01]
* zatrox, jbb & melvo, from the Kaidan team, explain their upcoming [https://www.kaidan.im/2020/01/08/Easy-Registration/ streamlined registration process] in the next Kaidan 0.5.0.


https://monal.im/blog/mam-and-rethinking-the-ui/
==== Libraries ====


https://monal.im/blog/development-marches-on/
Remi Corniere has released [https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-4-0/ go-xmpp v0.4.0].


Tigase has just introduced [https://github.com/tigase/halcyon halcyon], a Kotlin multiplatform XMPP client library.


https://gajim.org/post/2020-01-27-development-news-january/
=== Other ===


https://www.goffi.org/b/66adNNNbFp84CWFzyvGpmK/progress-note
Mastodon is getting [https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776 support for XMPP URIs].


https://www.kaidan.im/2020/01/08/Easy-Registration/
The EU H2020 [https://www.cpswarm.eu/ CPSwarm] project has produced as one of its main outcome the [https://www.cpswarm.eu/index.php/cpswarm-workbench/ CPSwarm Workbench], a toolchain to model, optimize, simulate and deploy a swarm of Cyber Physical Systems. One of its opensource components [https://github.com/cpswarm released on Github], is the [https://github.com/cpswarm/SimulationOrchestrator/wiki/Simulation-and-Optimization-Environment Simulation and Optimization Environment], which is used to evaluate the performance of a swarm solution. This environment has a distributed architecture based on XMPP, allowing to execute in parallel simulations on simulators deployed on distributed machines.


https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v6.0.0
=== Services ===


https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/index.html
Tigase has upgraded their public servers [https://xmpp.cloud xmpp.cloud] with SASL-EXTERNAL for federation, and MUC avatars.


==== Libraries ====
Jonas Schäfer has described the [https://sotecware.net/first-update-on-searchjabbernetwork-in-2020.html first update on search.jabber.network in 2020].


https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-4-0/
=== GSoC ===


https://github.com/tigase/halcyon
=== Extensions and specifications ===


=== Other ===
==== Deferred ====
[https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9776 Mastodon is getting support for XMPP URIs]


=== Services ===
* XEP-0283 (Moved)
* XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
* XEP-0335 (JSON Containers)
* XEP-0357 (Push Notifications)
* XEP-0359 (Unique and Stable Stanza IDs)
* XEP-0367 (Message Attaching)
* XEP-0373 (OpenPGP for XMPP)
* XEP-0384 (OMEMO Encryption)
* XEP-0385 (Stateless Inline Media Sharing (SIMS))
* XEP-0391 (Jingle Encrypted Transports)
* XEP-0397 (Instant Stream Resumption)
* XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion)
* XEP-0399 (Client Key Support)
* XEP-0400 (Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP)
* XEP-0403 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Presence Support.)
* XEP-0404 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): JID Hidden Channels.)
* XEP-0406 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): MIX Administration)
* XEP-0407 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Miscellaneous Capabilities)
* XEP-0408 (Mediated Information eXchange (MIX): Co-existence with MUC)
* XEP-0409 (IM Routing-NG)
* XEP-0411 (Bookmarks Conversion)


https://twitter.com/tigase/status/1217498497185873920?s=03
==== Proposed ====


=== GSoC ===
Title: Inbox
Abstract: This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a list of ongoing conversations and their state.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/inbox.html


=== Extensions and specifications ===
Title: Full Text Search in MAM
Abstract: This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text searching.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fulltext.html


==== New ====
==== New ====
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0427 (MAM Fastening Collation) has been released.
Abstract:
This specification proposes a mechanism by which MAM results
containing fastenings can be collated effectively.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0427.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0428 (Fallback Indication) has been released.
Abstract:
This specification proposes a mechanism by which message bodies can be
marked as being purely for fallback purposes, and therefore to be
ignored by intermediaries and anything that understands the remainder
of the message.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0428.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption) has been released.
Abstract:
This document proposes the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG)
within the XSF devoted to the development of end-to-end encryption
within the context of XMPP.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0429.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM) has been released.
Abstract:
This specification proposes a field in the MAM form for full text
searching.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0431.html
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0430 (Inbox) has been released.
Abstract:
This specification proposes a mechanism by which clients can find a
list of ongoing conversations and their state.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0430.html


==== Updated ====
==== Updated ====
* Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0401 (Easy User Onboarding)
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0426 (Character counting in message bodies)
* Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0393 (Message Styling)
* Version 0.10.0 of XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload)
* Version 0.2.1 of XEP-0425 (Message Moderation)
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption)
* Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0431 (Full Text Search in MAM)
==== Obsoleted ====
Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0412 (XMPP Compliance Suites 2019)
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0412.html
==== Last Call ====
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on XEP-0363. The
Last Call was restarted after the Council election, because the previous
Council did not vote on the ongoing LC.
Title: HTTP File Upload
Abstract:
This specification defines a protocol to request permissions from
another entity to upload a file to a specific path on an HTTP server
and at the same time receive a URL from which that file can later be
downloaded again.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0363.html
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on
2020-01-28.
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on
XEP-0402.
Title: Bookmarks 2 (This Time it's Serious)
Abstract:
This specification defines a syntax and storage profile for keeping a
list of chatroom bookmarks on the server.
URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0402.html
This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on
2020-02-12.


=== Thanks all! ===
=== Thanks all! ===
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This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.
This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.


Thanks to xxx, yyy, zzz for their help in creating it!
Thanks to MDosch, Vanitasvitae, Wurstsalat, Neustradamus, Jwi  for their help in creating it!


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