The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

XSF Announcements

XMPP at FOSDEM 2025

During February 1st and 2nd, the XSF was present at FOSDEM 25 in Brussels, Belgium. The XMPP community took part of the Realtime Lounge, a corner located on the 2nd floor of the K building, where several open source projects around Real Time Communication (RTC) can present themselves.

We are pleased to say that there was a lot of interaction at the XMPP booth! A rather large number of FOSDEM visitors had the opportunity to come say “Hi!”, meet, interact, talk and have interesting conversations with many of the developers of the most popular clients, servers, tools and libraries that power the whole XMPP ecosystem and bring it to life.

In addition to the activities that took place on the XMPP booth, Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) hosted a most interesting presentation in the Real Time Communication (RTC) room, titled: A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP.

And, of course .. we had the coolest swag, and plenty of stickers! ;)

XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects

The XSF offers fiscal hosting for XMPP projects. Please apply via Open Collective. For more information, see the announcement blog post. Current projects you can support:

• Mellium Co-op
• Bifrost bridge
• Prav iOS
• diasp.in

XMPP Events

• Berlin XMPP Meetup [DE / EN]: monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm local time.
• XMPP Italian happy hour [IT]: monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
• XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 23rd, Saturday, 24th, and Sunday, 25th of May 2025.

Videos

• A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP by Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) at FOSDEM 2025.

XMPP Articles

• ProcessOne
  • Join our community: Free Memberships now available: “We have no plans for paid memberships; our goal is simply to share updates about our projects and the XMPP ecosystem.”
• XMPP Summit 27 and FOSDEM 25 Report by mathieui.
• XMPP self-hosting tutorial: how to install and configure Prosody on a Hetzner cloud instance, provisioned and configured with Guix and the powerful guix deploy command. By Fabio Natali
• Installer son serveur XMPP avec Prosody by Codimp [FR]

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Conversations has released versions 2.17.10 and 2.17.12 for Android.
• Dino has released version 0.4.5.
• Gajim has released version 2.0.0 and it comes with a big upgrade. Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. Check out the official announcement for more information and have a look at the changelog for a complete list.
• Kaidan has released version 0.11.0 integrating Qt 6 support. In addition, this release improves the user interface and fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.
• Monocles Chat 2.0.5 has been released for Android. This version brings in several fixes.
• Movim has released version 0.29.2 with some important fixes and improvements. Head over to the Movim Blog for all the details.
• prose-web-app has released versions 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 of its Web implementation of the Prose app.

XMPP Servers

• MongooseIM has released version 6.3.2 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• prose-core-client version 0.1.100 has been released.
• python-nbxmpp version 6.0.0 has been released.
• QXmpp versions 1.10.0 and 1.10.1 have been released.
• Slidge versions 0.2.5, 0.2.6, 0.2.7 and 0.2.7.post1 have been released.
• Slixmpp version 1.9.0 has been released. You can read the release announcement for all the details.

Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its XEP series in addition to XMPP RFCs. Developers and other standards experts from around the world collaborate on these extensions, developing new specifications for emerging practices, and refining existing ways of doing things. Proposed by anybody, the particularly successful ones end up as Final or Active - depending on their type - while others are carefully archived as Deferred. This life cycle is described in XEP-0001, which contains the formal and canonical definitions for the types, states, and processes. Read more about the standards process. Communication around Standards and Extensions happens in the Standards Mailing List (online archive).

Proposed

The XEP development process starts by writing up an idea and submitting it to the XMPP Editor. Within two weeks, the Council decides whether to accept this proposal as an Experimental XEP.

• Server-side spaces
  • This document defines an XMPP protocol to cluster several groupchat rooms together.

New

• No new XEPs this month.

Deferred

If an experimental XEP is not updated for more than twelve months, it will be moved off Experimental to Deferred. If there is another update, it will put the XEP back onto Experimental.

• No XEPs deferred this month.

Updated

• No XEPs updated this month.

Last Call

Last calls are issued once everyone seems satisfied with the current XEP status. After the Council decides whether the XEP seems ready, the XMPP Editor issues a Last Call for comments. The feedback gathered during the Last Call can help improve the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Stable.

• No Last Call this month.

Stable

• No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

• No XEPs deprecated this month.

Rejected

• No XEPs rejected this month.

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