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[https://camaya.net/news/gloox-1-0-23-released/ gloox 1.0.23 released] as a maintenance version.


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[ Friendly, human introduction for the month (remove this mention before publishing) ]

Happy new XMPP year!

Intro (remove this)

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of December 2019.

Contribute to the community effort, which process is fully documented.

Articles

Whatsapp, Matrix or XMPP (german) - The German Federal Ministry of the Interior is looking for a messenger for the federal authorities while the German Federal Police is experimenting with XMPP. They are using an Open Source Messenger "MOKA" based on XMPP (german).

Fabian Sauter known as COM8 (and developer of UWPX) has finalised his Bachelor Thesis on "Smart Building Control with XMPP for IoT". Congratulations! The development will be continued with the goal of an official XEP.

Anoxinon e.V who intend to inform and improve the situation about privacy and free software as well run a XMPP Server are looking for new board members.

Paul Schaub has written two pieces:

Alex Gnauck wrote about Simpler code in handlers using pattern matching in MatriX.

Videos

Tutorials

Events

Software releases

Servers

The Ignite Realtime community has released:

Clients and applications

Anu Pokharel the developer of Monal has made significant changes to its MUC implemenation which improves the situation for iOS (4.1 and 4.2 and 4.2 final beta) and macOS (2.5 beta 1 2.5 beta 2) users. Furthermore there has been many bug fixes, including HTTP upload, and the end of iOS9 support.

Gajim has posted their Development News for December 2019: old message dialog system, compact tooltip when hovering a group chat in Gajim’s contact list, new assistant for password change and account removal, HTTP File Upload now work asynchronously with the ‘libsoup’ library, bug fixes, plugin updates, and changes in python-nbxmpp.

Tigase has released BeagleIM 3.4 and Siskin IM 5.4: BeagleIM 3.4 allows you to set MUC room avatar, simplifies MUC room settings, and bug fixes, while SiskinIM 5.4 adds support for setting MUC room avatar.

Movim 0.16.1 has been released: you can now share posts to your connected chatrooms, communities layout were redesigned, all the messages that you sent in the one to one discussions can now be edited, the videoconferencing feature was heavily refactored, and the bug fixes.

Profanity 0.8.0 has been released with consistent color generated nicks (XEP-0392) and a trackbar so you see where you left off reading!

Goffi has published the SàT progress note 2019-W51: infinite scroll is now implemented in Cagou, Kivy community extensions used by SàT are now installable like any other Python dependency, e2e encryption with OMEMO, and more.

Libraries

gloox 1.0.23 released as a maintenance version.

Other

Services

GSoC

Extensions and specifications

New

Updated

Thanks all!

This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the community.

Thanks to Alejandra, Sven, 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/