The XMPP Newsletter April 2025

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

XSF Membership

If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, submissions are open until May 18th, 2025, 00:00 UTC!.

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
• 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.

XMPP Articles

• XMPP Foundation Urges Meta to Allow Interoperability Under EU Rules by Markus Kasanmascheff for winbuzzer.com
• Monocles, the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat Web and Android clients, has started a crowdfunding campaign. The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from 03.28.2025 to 06.30.2025.
• Prav has taken its second major step towards forming a cooperative society in India. Their blog post “Finalising our bye-laws” details the process, including ways you can help out. This is an important step in Prav’s mission to implement community-driven decision making for their XMPP apps and services and give legal teeth to that structure.

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Cheogram has released version 2.17.10-1 for Android. This version introduces an initial implementation of Spaces (XEP-503), among other improvements, bugfixes and more!
• Conversations has released versions 2.18.0, 2.18.1 and 2.18.2 for Android. Notable changes include the ability to pick a custom backup location, a prominent backup restore option for Quicksy, and improved support for more kinds of URIs. The latter includes tel phone numbers, mailto email addresses, and more interestingly the web+ap scheme for ActivityPub proposed by Fedi Links.
• Dino has released version 0.5 featuring OMEMO encryption by default, improved file transfers, image preview and other file details before downloading, and two completely reworked dialogs. See the release blog post for all the details.
  • At the same time, Dino has also received funding from NLnet to begin development on a slew of new features. This includes message moderation in group chats, local message deletion, modern connection handling with FAST and SASL2, more formatting options with Message Markup, and more! Visit the project page for all the details.
• Gajim has released versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 with a new ‘Activity feed’ page, layout improvements for its ‘Start Chat’ dialog and support for ‘Message Display Synchronisation’ (XEP-0490) across group chats among other improvements and bugfixes. Head over to their News section for all the details.

• Kaidan has received NLnet funding for various improvement across the board, most notably multi-user chat and support for legacy OMEMO. The second point is significant because while Kaidan is using a newer version of the OMEMO end-to-end encryption protocol, other popular clients including Conversations, Monal, and Dino are still using an older version. Since the two are not compatible, this meant Kaidan users were unable to use OMEMO encryption with users of most other clients. By implementing the older spec as well, Kaidan will help bridge that gap.

• Monocles Chat 2.0.6 has been released for Android. This version brings initial support for file captions, the option to pin an unencrypted message to the top of a conversation, providers list support, and the option to register on your own XMPP server, among many other new features and improvements.

• Movim has released version 0.30 (code named “Encke”), the biggest Movim evolution in many years! This release brings multi-participant calls, reactions being displayed in the detailed message view, support for Unicode 15.1 with plenty of new emojis to use, and avatars that change when a contact adds to their Story.

• and following right on its heels, Movim also published its first bug-fix release: version 0.30.1, adding animated pictures support in the image proxy and a new Avatar and Banner Configuration Panel, as well as implementing (XEP-0392) Consistent Color Generation, among many other improvements and bugfixes. Make sure to check out the official announcements at the Movim Blog for all the details!
• Prose has released versions 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.9.0, 0.9.1 and 0.10.0 of its web frontend prose-web-app.

XMPP Servers

• MongooseIM has released version 6.3.3 of its Enterprise Instant Messaging Solution. This minor update includes various fixes and improvements. For more information, check out the documentation.
• ProcessOne has published ejabberd 25.04. This release brings an important security fix, several bug fixes and a new API command.
• Prosody IM is pleased to announce version 13.0.1, a new minor release from the latest stable branch. It fixes some important bugs that were discovered after the latest release. Read all the details on the release changelog. As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the download page for your convenience.
• The Prosody app for YunoHost has been updated to provide a bunch of supported XEPs by default, configured for all YunoHost users in just one click. YunoHost is a set of tools to easily manage your own selfhosted services, and while it used to come bundled with the Prosody fork Metronome by default, it has recently bundled its XMPP functionality into a separate “app” so that people can swap in any other XMPP server of their choice.

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• go-xmpp versions 0.2.13 and 0.2.14 has been released.
• libomemo-c version 0.5.1 has been released.
• prose-core-client versions 0.1.103, 0.1.104 and 0.1.105 have been released.
• python-nbxmpp versions 6.1.0 and 6.1.1 have been released.
• Slidge versions 0.2.9 (codenamed “Trixie <3”), 0.2.10, 0.2.11 and 0.2.12 have been released.
• Tinder version 2.1.0 has been released.
• Whack version 3.0.0 has been released.

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.

• No XEPs proposed this month.

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

• Version 1.1.3 of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management)
  • Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))
• Version 0.4.0 of XEP-0377 (Spam Reporting)
  • Add spam report processing opt-in.
  • Add Guus der Kinderen as co-author. (gdk)
• Version 1.0.1 of XEP-0421 (Occupant identifiers for semi-anonymous MUCs)
  • Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))
• Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0455 (Service Outage Status)
  • Remove all in-band event signaling. (mp)

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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