The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 27, which is to take place
on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Following
the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2025, which takes place on February 1st & 2nd 2025. Find all the details in our Wiki.
Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps
organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to
participate. Spread the word within your circles!
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).
Monocles Chat 2.0 and 2.0.1
have been released. This is a big rebuild of Monocles Chat and it
brings in a huge list of new features, new options, performance
improvements, a big redesign on Material 3, integrated photo editor,
reduced battery consumption, support for Message Reactions (XEP-0444), many fixes and a lot more!
Cheogram has released version 2.17.2-1
for Android. This release brings initial link preview, improves
reactions, and adds a navigation drawer with account and tag filters
among many other improvements.
Convo version 0.1.0 has been released. Convo is a basic XMPP messaging client for KaiOS.
A basic XMPP messaging client for KaiOS
Mellium co-op has released Communique, version 0.0.1
of its instant messaging client with a terminal-based user interface.
This initial release features 1:1 and multi-user chat support, HTTP file
upload, ad-hoc commands, and chat history.
Communique: Initial release with features including 1:1 and multi-user chat support
XMPP Servers
ejabberd 24.10: The “Bidi” Stream Release
has been released. This is a major release packed with substantial
improvements and support for important extensions specified by the XMPP
Standard Foundation (XSF). The improvements span enhanced security and
streamlined connectivity—all designed to make ejabberd more powerful and
easier to use than ever.
XMPP Libraries & Tools
Ignite Realtime community:
Smack 4.5.0-beta5
released!. The Ignite Realtime developer community is happy to announce
that Smack 4.5 entered its beta phase. Smack is a XMPP client API
written in Java that is able to run on Java SE and Android. Smack 4.5
APIs is considered stable, however small adjustments are still possible
during the beta phase.
Slidge v0.2.0,
the XMPP (puppeteer) gateway library in python that makes writing
gateways to other chat networks (legacy modules) as frictionless as
possible has been released.
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.
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.
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.
Looking for job offers or want to hire a professional consultant for your XMPP project? Visit our XMPP job board.
Newsletter Contributors & Translations
This is a community effort, and we would like to thank
translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages are
welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with
some delay):
This XMPP Newsletter is produced collaboratively by the XMPP community. Each month’s newsletter issue is drafted in this simple pad. At the end of each month, the pad’s content is merged into the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC)
and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort. You have a
project and want to spread the news? Please consider sharing your news
or events here, and promote it to a large audience.
Tasks we do on a regular basis:
gathering news in the XMPP universe
short summaries of news and events
summary of the monthly communication on extensions (XEPs)
review of the newsletter draft
preparation of media images
translations
communication via media accounts
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