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.

Events

In March there will be two XMPP Sprints in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Feel free to join and support the community and their work!

At the beginning of this month, the FOSDEM was held in Brussels, Belgium.

• • Article on the XMPP Summit 24 (if possible)**

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

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

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/

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

Other

https://blog.prosody.im/introducing-snikket/

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