The XMPP Newsletter June 2024

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2024.

XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024

The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:

• Monal
  • Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)
    • Blog post 1
• Prav.app
  • Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)
    • Blog post 1

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
• Prav iOS

XMPP Events

• XMPP Track at FOSSY: August 1-4th 2024 — Portland State University
• XMPP Sprint in Berlin: On Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th of July 2024.
• Berlin XMPP Meetup[DE / EN]: Monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
• 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 Videos

Debian and XMPP in Wind and Solar Measurement talk at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024.

XMPP Articles

• Understanding messaging protocols: XMPP and Matrix

XMPP Software News

XMPP Clients and Applications

• Psi+ 1.5.1947 through 1.5.2012 installer and Psi+ 1.5.1979 through 1.5.2000 portable have been released.

• Gajim 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have been released. Half a year after the last release, Gajim 1.9.0 is finally here. This release brings long awaited support for message replies and message reactions. Message Moderation has been improved as well. Say hello to voice messages!

  

• Monal 6.4.0 has been released for iOS an macOS, with quite an impressive list of improvements. Monal was also running a fundraising campaign.

• Movim 0.25 “Nagata” and 0.25.1 small bugfix have been released.

XMPP Servers

• Tigase XMPP Server 8.4.0 was released - Most notable features are support for Portable Import/Export Format (XEP-0227), ability to configure users with push devices to show as away, ability to moderate MUCs and support for xmppbl.org.
• ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release! - With four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

  

XMPP Libraries & Tools

• nbxmpp 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 have been released, which bring support for XEP-0490 (Message Displayed Synchronization), XEP-0317 (Hats), XEP-0424 (Message Retraction) and updates XEP-0425 (Message Moderation) to its latest version.
• Ignite Realtime Community:
  • Botz framework for Openfire 1.3.0 has been released. The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots. In this release, compatibility with Openfire 4.8.0 and later has been resolved. Thank you to Sheldon Robinson for helping us fix that!
  • Openfire restAPI plugin version 1.11.0 release
• KaikOut: A moderation bot for the XMPP communication network.

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.

• Chat notification settings
  • This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to synchronise per-chat notification settings across different clients.
• WebXDC
  • This document defines an XMPP protocol extension to communicate WebXDC widgets and their state updates.

New

• Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
  • Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)

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 0.2.0 of XEP-0421 (Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs)
  • Make explicit that one can’t just hash the real JID.
  • Expand security considerations.
  • Add schema.
  • Fix some examples captions and casing (mw)
• Version 1.1.1 of XEP-0153 (vCard-Based Avatars)
  • XEP-0054 says “Email addresses MUST be contained in a <USERID> element”. (egp)
• Version 1.2.2 of XEP-0107 (User Mood)
  • Fixed typo (XEP Editor (dg))

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 XEP moved to Stable this month.

Deprecated

• No XEP deprecated this month.

Rejected

• No XEP rejected this month.

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